1.4 Cake Making and Decoration

• Requirements used in cake making and decoration: ingredients, tools and equipment
• Raising agents used in cake making: chemical and mechanical methods
• Methods of cake making: creaming, rubbing-in, whisking and melting
• Cake decoration techniques: buttercream, royal icing, glace icing, fondant and sprinkles
• Common faults in cake making and decoration, their causes and remedies
• Emerging trends in cake making and decoration

• explain requirements used in cake making and decoration
• describe raising agents used in cake making
• make cakes using different methods
• decorate cakes using different techniques
• examine common faults in cake making and decoration
• embrace cake making and decoration using different methods

“How are cakes baked and decorated?”

“Why is incorporation of air important in cake making?”

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1. Cake making and decoration
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Introduce cake making and decoration and the two key inquiry questions.
2. Ingredients and their functions
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   Explain the main cake ingredients and the function of each.
3. Tools and equipment
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   Identify the tools and equipment used in cake making and decoration.
4. Raising agents in cake making
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Describe the raising agents used in cake making.
5. Chemical raising agents
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain how chemical raising agents make a cake rise.
6. Mechanical raising agents: air and steam
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain how air and steam raise a cake.
7. Why incorporating air matters
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain why air is important in cake making.
8. The creaming method
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Make a cake using the creaming method.
9. The rubbing-in method
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Make cakes using the rubbing-in method.
10. The whisking method
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Make cakes using the whisking method.
11. The melting method
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Make cakes using the melting method.
12. Baking, testing and cooling
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Bake a cake correctly and test when it is ready.
13. Buttercream and glace icing
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Decorate a cake with buttercream and glace icing.
14. Royal icing, fondant and sprinkles
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Decorate a cake with royal icing, fondant and sprinkles.
15. Common faults, causes and remedies
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Examine common faults in cake making and decoration and how to remedy them.