Cake Decorating: Basics of How to Bake a Cake

Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds -- wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating.

So, when baking a cake, it's good to know what basic ingredients you need. If you have a recipe, the main ingredients should be flour, sugar, eggs, milk, and then, of course, the butter or the oil. The eggs in the cake provide the structure. They're emulsifiers in the recipe. They bond the liquid ingredients with the dry ingredients; and form the structure of the strength of the cake. Also, in that group are the flours. The flour also provide strength. Usually, cake with cake flour is a more delicate cake, more fluffy; whereas, a cake with all purpose flour will have a cake texture that's more course, more tight. And then milk in the ingredients will moisten up the cake and kind of loosen the batter, get it flowing. And the fat is where moisture comes in, whether you have oil or butter. If you have butter your recipe probably calls for the creaming method; where you cream the butter and the sugar together. And you would want to do that for at least five minutes, so that the butter and sugar create air pockets inside.

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[anastasiaw2008]

Thanks for the explanation. It helped immensely

[carfrapittman]

what is a good recipe for a cake to be carved.

[SharenLee24]

Talk too much

[sushmacheema151065]

she spoke rubbish , whole of the video

[mselizabethtorkelson]

You didn't say what to put in the pans or how much to fill it with batter.. thanks

[partymaker6517]

i love how you do it