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Cake Mixing Techniques
There are several common cake mixing techniques. List of cake mixing techniques High-fat methods ;Creaming (cooking)#Blending, Creaming: Also called the ''conventional method''. It is a common method and typical for butter cakes and similar high-fat cakes. This depends upon a solid but malleable, or "plastic" fat, such as butter or vegetable shortening. The fat and sugar are Creaming (cooking)#Blending, creamed together until well-blended and light in color. Eggs are beaten in until the mixture is fluffy. After that, dry ingredients are stirred in, alternating with any remaining liquid ingredients. Leaveners such as baking powder are commonly used. The flour is added late, which reduces the chance of developing the gluten and producing a tough cake. ;Reverse creaming: Also called the ''paste method'', and related to Betty Crocker Cookbook, Betty Crocker's ''double-quick method'' from the 1950s. Solid fat and dry ingredients are beaten together until well-blended. Then l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creaming (cooking)
Creaming is used to refer to several different culinary processes. In baking, it is the blending of ingredients with a softened form of a solid fat. When a dish is described as being "creamed", it may mean that it has been Poaching (cooking), poached in milk, cream or a similar liquid. "Creaming" can also refer to the separation of cream from milk. Blending Creaming, in this sense, is the technique of softening solid fat, like shortening or butter, into a smooth mass and then blending it with other ingredients. The technique is most often used in making buttercream, cake batter (cooking), batter or cookie dough. The dry ingredients are mixed or beaten with the softened fat until it becomes light and fluffy and increased in volume, due to the incorporation of tiny air bubbles. These air bubbles, locked into the semi-solid fat, remain in the final batter and expand as the item is baked, serving as a form of leavening agent. Poaching Creamed food, in cooking, denotes food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
