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Make Your Celebrations Healthy and Happy With a Cake

December 16th, 2015

Your celebration is incomplete, if you don’t bring a delicious cake. It could be a birthday, marriage, Christmas, anniversary or any other occasion, cake always welcomes you warmly. If you ever rejected a slice of cake, then undoubtedly, that’s a crime..!! Sounds funny..? The advantages fetched by them will let you accept this. Once you get to know about these facts, you will never ever reject a cake again.

  • Antioxidants: Cakes made from chocolate are great anti oxidants. If the oxidation process is not hindered in our body, then our organs are at risk. These cakes aid the production of nitric acid, which is essential for the arteries to get relaxed. This, in turn, results in reduced pressure and improved flow of blood.
  • Energy: Carbohydrates fetch the required energy for our body. Cakes are the rich sources of carbohydrates and their consumption helps in better functioning of our body activities. If you want to gain instant energy, then it is recommended to have the intake of glucose rich foods. Cakes contain appreciable amounts of glucose in them.
  • Improved digestion: Fruits like apples, pineapples and berries are commonly used in the baking of cakes. Such cakes form good sources of fibre and their consumption can avoid constipation, easing the digestion process. Not to forget, cakes made from fruits are heart friendly.
  • Builds your body: While carbohydrates help you to fetch the required energy for your body, proteins help you to grow the muscle mass and build your body. Include the cakes made from eggs and milk in your diet to have a high protein intake. Milk is also a rich source of calcium, which helps you to strengthen your skeletal system.
  • Feel relaxed: Studies suggest that cakes can improve the mental health of a person and makes them feel happier. They release chemicals in our body, which can ease of the tension. So, next time, when you feel nervous or tensed, have a piece of cake. That can make you feel better.
  • Low sugar content: Did you give up eating cakes just because you have diabetes..? You don’t have to worry anymore. Of late, low sugar cakes have evolved which are highly beneficial for diabetic patients.
  • Lose your weight: You heard it right..! Cakes can help you to lose your weight. However, the timing of intake plays a dominant role in this context. To achieve satisfactory results, have a slice of cake for your breakfast every day. This calorie rich breakfast brings back diet in your control by killing your hunger. This should be great news for you, if you are a victim of obesity.
  • Strengthens immune system: The immune system of our body helps us in fighting diseases. The cakes, especially baked from fruits can strengthen the immunity in our body.  

Cakes don’t just make your celebrations happy, but also healthy. Before you look out for the ways of cake delivery, make sure that you bring in the perfect cake, which can justify the occasion. Get to know more about the types and decorative aspects of the cake.

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Baking starter kit every new baker needs!

December 14th, 2015

Are you planning to start a cake delivery business or are you starting to learn baking? If yes, then you must read this article! Since we love baking and eating cakes, we decided to list down some items every new baker needs to know about. Not just this, but we are also listing down some starting tips you must follow to get the perfect cakes! So keep on reading to know what your baking starter kit requires…

Equipment you need: –

1. Baking tins – If you want to learn or start baking properly, then you need tons of different shapes and sizes of baking tins. You must also invest in ramekins, cupcake moulds, baking tray and few other diverse tins required for making cakes or mini cakes.

2. Baking paper/parchment paper – This is an essential item that you always should have handy in the baking area of your kitchen. You can always use baking paper to line the cake tins if you want to avoid using butter.

3. Measuring cups – If you don’t have measuring cups, then go to the market right away and buy them. You cannot bake without the measuring cups. You can buy them in sets and they are everything you will ever need for baking. They are used to measure correctly how much ingredient is needed in the certain cake.

4. Measuring spoons – Like the measuring cups, spoons too are essential. You need to get the right measurement of the baking soda, baking powder, vanilla essence, etc. ingredients. You don’t want to mess up these little things.

There are several other things you require other than these but start purchasing these few items first.

Expert tips to ace baking: –

  1. Measure the ingredients properly – Yes, measuring the ingredients is vital when you are baking. You cannot put anything randomly. You don’t want to end up messing up the cake. This is why measuring cups and spoons are important.
  2. Follow a good recipe – Don’t just pick a recipe from the internet to make a cake. If you want the cake to be perfect then pick a trusted recipe from the internet. Try finding a cake which a big chef has written down on their website or in a magazine. They have years of experience in the field and cannot guide anyone wrong.
  3. Don’t use cold eggs – Don’t just remove the eggs from the fridge and directly use them. Make sure you bring it to room temperature before you use the eggs. If you want to avoid eggs then find a close alternative to it. Don’t just skip the egg because you want to; try finding something that plays the role of the eggs in the recipe.
  4. Use proper equipment – Don’t use random containers or spoons to bake the cake. Invest a little and buy the tools you require to make the cake. You don’t need to buy tons of tins if you are not starting a business. But make sure you have the essential tools.

This guide is everything you need for baking a cake.

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Why do we cut cake on birthdays?

December 9th, 2015

What is the first thing that comes to one’s mind when we mention about cakes? Of course, it is birthday. This is the word that has been related to cakes and is going hand in hand for a long, long time. We cannot actually imagine birthday occasions without a cake. Isn’t it? It feels incomplete when you do not cut a cake on your birthday. So, we cannot ignore cakes on this particular occasion. In fact, one cannot deny the extreme happiness they get by cutting a birthday cake on their special day. They cannot ignore the fact that cutting a cake along with friends and family makes them feel special. It makes you feel that though you grow old, you grow to the good.

Birthday cakes have come a long way…

Yes, it really has come a long way. One can even trace the presence of birthday cakes in ancient Greece and Rome. At that time, celebrating a birthday was not a day to day usual event. People at that time used to celebrate an emperor’s birthday or a temple’s birthday. It was used to be a grand event only. At that time, birthday cakes were prepared with honey, grated cheese, flour and olive oil. Some people have a different story to tell though. They believe that in Germany only Jesus birthday was celebrated by making sweet dough, which was shaped like a baby Jesus in shabby clothes. From this concept, birthday cakes took birth. Later, people started to celebrate the birth of every child on earth by cutting a cake on their special day.

Myth goes on…

There are some typical yet amazing stories that revolve around birthday cakes. In 19th century England, funny things were put into the cake dough like coins and thimbles. After the cake cutting ceremony, when the pieces were distributed, it was seen who got the coin and who got the thimble. The one who the coin would become rich and the other who received a thimble would never marry. Now, these facts are fun which people love to believe when they are having a blast together. Nothing much truth lies into it.

Birthday Flames

When you cut a cake on your birthday, you never forget to blow the candle first and make a wish. Do you? Well, this also has a story within. In ancient times, people used to pray on flames in an open fire. They believed that the smoke carried their wishes up to the God. Now people say that if one can blow all the candles together in one breath, then all their wishes will come true.

Whether you are going to bake a birthday cake or opt for cake delivery, the choices that lie before you are innumerable. The flavours that are available are plenty. One can add more decorations with whipped creams, fruits and other chocolate toys to their birthday cakes to make it look more special. Birthdays are special and so are the birthday cakes.

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Cake baking errors which will put all your efforts in drain

December 7th, 2015

If you thought that you can just Google the recipe of a cake, bring the ingredients and bake it perfectly at one go; you are mistaken. Baking is an art, which only a selected people have been able to master. You can bake a simply round cake but for an extraordinary one, you need to be an expert. However, whether you are an amateur baker or an experienced one, to err is human and almost everyone makes certain mistakes which baking a cake. To know what they are, read on.

When you don’t meticulously follow every single step – Sometimes we tend to skip a few steps thinking they are obvious and thus add our own. If you are an amateur, following every instruction is very important.

When your kitchen doesn’t have adequate measuring tools – Some of us simply assume the quantity of ingredients, which is one of the biggest mistakes you can make while baking a cake. But what you assume and what is actually required in the cake is never the same no matter how accurate you are. It is always safe to use proper measure ingredients to not make any mistakes when it comes to the amount of the ingredient.

Being an alien to the operations of your oven – Not all kitchens have the same type of oven and the ones they show on cookery shows are almost always different from the one you have in your kitchen. And some of us are not even aware of what our entire oven can do for us. Before you bake, make sure you are well versed with your oven.

You do not sieve flour – Always sieve flour using only dry ingredients like baking powder. Baking powder gives the flour much air and airy flour is best for baking cake.

Overbeating the mixture is a big no – This is one of the main reasons why cakes get spoilt. Always mix with light hand. Overbeating can ruin your mixture and in turn the texture of the cake.

Settling the main ingredients at the bottom – When you settle ingredients such as chocolate or fruits or dry fruits below, always coat them with flour otherwise they will sink.

Even up the cake – Before you put the cake in the oven, see that it is levelled properly so that after it is baked the cake looks tidy.

Again and again opening oven door – It is understandable and also justified that you are too eager to see the how your cake is turning out. But this is another reason you are spoiling the cake. Do not open the door since the temperature will drop and the entire texture will get spoilt.

When you use the wrong substitutes – If the ingredient is sugar powder, just sugar powder and not sugar crystals. There is a big difference between the two. If they say cream, use cream and not milkmaid. If you do not have the ingredient, it is better to go and get it rather than using an improper substitute.

But anyway, most people do not want to take the effort of baking at home and prefer the easy way of cake delivery instead.

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Cake: A journey till date

December 5th, 2015

We all know that there are innumerable recipes and flavours of cakes available these days. But what we eat today as a cake was not the same in ancient world. It was just a sweet bread formation with added honey. Since then cake has come a long way. As history evolved to modern times, cake has also evolved from just bread and honey.

History speaks

Most of the people say that a proper cake was first baked in Europe in the early 17th century. Due to advancement of technology, invention of oven had happened and we got our first baked cake. But the extra components that were added to the recipe were sugar, dry fruits and flours. Much later toppings over a cake were introduced. At that time, it was made with hot melted egg white.

Cake means…

Have you ever thought what really the word cake means? Well, the answer is here. It is said that cakes were mandatory in all religious ceremonies, which were performed in Italy. People out there used to think that this preparation should be round and circle because it symbolizes the cyclic pattern of nature like sun and moon. As it was round, they named it cake. Some other people say that cakes are round and it has nothing to do with nature. The type of yeast bread, which was previously used to make cakes, was round in shape. That is the cause that we are still following it.

Serves all purpose

In modern times, we do not need a reason to bake or buy a cake and enjoy it. Be it a birthday or a wedding or an anniversary or just a gathering, it is simply incomplete without a cake. Nowadays, there are no ends in varieties that are available. Flavours are also too many to choose from. We can choose from different flavours like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, mango, coffee or anything else. In fact, we also have a plethora of choices when we look at the type of cakes that are made today. One can choose a plain cake or a plum cake or a Dundee cake or a fruit cake or a pastry— anything. But what may be the occasion, we follow the ancient rituals. That is why we cut the cake before serving to the guests. This is the only thing that has remained permanent from history.

Your favourite dessert

Baking a cake is not a very hard thing to do. One gets the main ingredients like eggs, white flour, sugar syrup and butter easily. Creams and flavours are also available. One can also add whipped cream or fresh fruits after baking a cake. It serves the purpose of dessert in any family occasion. But if you go for cake delivery then also you can browse through various sites and search for the varieties that are available.

Cake is a source of happiness. Share it with your near and dear ones. This will make you happy.

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