Exam 13: Cakes and Icings

Carrot cake is a

Simple or American buttercream is mixed with the _______attachment.

The goal of mixing a cake batter is to

Fudge icing, a thick chocolate, sugar and butter mixture, is often used to both fill and coat American-style layer cakes.

When too much flour or too little liquid is used in a cake batter, the cake may burst or crack during baking.

Creamed fat cakes are leavened with air whipped into the fat during mixing as well as by the addition of chemical leavening.

Foam icing is also known as

Why should the oven door be kept closed the entire time that a soufflé bakes?

Cakes coated with rolled fondant can be decorated with Royal icing or buttercream after the fondant dries.

Coating the edges of an iced cake with chopped nuts or cake crumbs,______ ________, is a simple and effective cake-decorating technique.

Once fondant has been heated to 120ºF, it can be poured over a cake to give the cake an opaque, even appearance.

_______icing has a thin crust and a moist interior.

High fat cakes can be refrigerated to preserve freshness for up to 3 months, then filled and frosted as needed.

When shortening is substituted for butter in a creaming method cake, additional liquid must be added to the formula.

When a cake shrinks after baking, this is a sign that

Compare a classically prepared Bavarian, chiffon, mousse and soufflé. How are they similar? How are they different?

A two-stage mixing method is used to prepare______ ______ cakes, which are cakes made from a liquid batter with a high percentage of sugar.

When making a genoise batter, eggs are whipped with sugar until they fall in thick waves from the beater, called the______ ______ .

Which of the following ingredients act as tougheners in cake batter?

A decorative lined pattern can be applied to the sides and top of an iced cake using a_______ _______or______ knife.