The focus of the book is to provide classic, foolproof recipes on baking cakes, pastries, cupcakes, bread, cookies, brownie, doughnuts, tarts and macroons.
These baking recipes are designed for beginners and home chefs who are interested to learn new recipes or make perfect goodies!
A cake flour gives the structure, eggs bind the ingredients, baking powder and baking soda make it rise, fats like butter and oil make it less chewy, and sugar sweetens and keeps it moist.
Function of each ingredient: Baking soda and powder make baked goods rise. It is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, normally using baking oven. The most common baked item is bread, cakes but many other types of foods are baked. Heat is gradually transferred “from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their center. When production was industrialized, baking was automated by machines in large factories. The art of baking remains a fundamental skill and is important for nutrition, as baked goods, especially breads, are a common and important food, both from an economic and cultural point of view.
Culinary lesson: It is one of the first lessons in culinary school is any slight changes in a recipe, too much baking powder, over-mixing a batter – can make the difference between a moist cupcake and a hockey puck.
5 important reasons that baking is good for mental health
- It is meditative
- It stimulates the senses
- Nourishing activities feel good
- It is creative
- It always makes other people happy
