Cakes are a sweet baked food made from dough or batter that usually contains flour, sugar, and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent. There are different basic types of cakes including batter cakes with fats, sponge cakes without fats, and chiffon cakes which contain liquids and fats making them richer resembling sponge cakes. Cakes also come in different forms such as layer cakes baked in shallow pans, loaf cakes baked in loaf pans and sliced, sheet cakes baked in a large shallow pan and cut into pieces, and cupcakes baked in muffin pans lined with paper cups.

1. Baking
Cakes

2. Cakes
• a sweet baked food made from
a dough or thick batter usually
containing flour and sugar and
often shortening eggs and a
raising agent.

3. Basic types of Cake
1.Batter Cakes
- cakes with fats

4. Example of Batter cakes

5. 2. Sponge Cakes
- cakes without fats.

6. Example of Sponge cakes

7. 3. Chiffon Cakes
-resembles the sponge
cake in appearance and
texture but it contains liquids
fats, so it is richer.

8. Example of Chiffon cakes

9. Forms of Cakes
1.Layer Cakes
-shallow pans.

10. Example of Layer cakes

11. 2.Loaf Cakes
- loaf pans. The cakes is
cooled, frosted & sliced for
individual servings.

12. Example of Loaf Cakes

13. 3. Sheet Cakes
- large shallow pan. The
cake can be cut into individual
servings and frosted or rolled
with spread like jelly and
produce a jelly roll.

14. Example of Sheet Cakes

15. 4. Cup Cakes
- the cake batter is poured
into muffin pans lined with
paper cups.

16. Example of Cup Cakes