Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream or syrups), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.
Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur of cooks may bake a cake.
Mango Upside-Down Cake
Mango Upside-Down Cake is a treat that will quickly become a family and entertaining favorite! This recipe is a twist on the classic upside-down cake recipe, with mangoes replacing pineapples.
Ingredients
1 ripe large mango, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch slices
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ITALIAN CREAM CAKE
INGREDIENTS
Cake:
E1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
5 large eggs, separated and at room temperature
4 oz unsalted butter plus 1/4 teaspoon salt (omit salt if using salted)
1/2 cup shortening (3.5 oz)
2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
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This 2-Ingredient Ice Cream Bread Is Everything You Need In Life
WOW. Just wow. This is the kinda cake you wanna eat.
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Ice Cream Bread
Here’s what you will need:
For bread:
* 1 pint (2 cups) melted ice cream (you can use any ice cream, but low-fat &...