How To Bake A Cake

             Baking a cake was not always as easy as opening a box and adding milk. Believe it or not people used to have baked cakes from hand, and some even still do it today but that is usually inside a bakery or in a restaurant. Most people don't even know about the many thousands of cakes that actually exist in the world today. We are not limited to the usual chocolate, vanilla, and confetti flavored that Betty Crocker offers in the local super markets. With a little bit of looking, any person can find a cake that they will absolutely fall in love with and also will not take much time or effort to create. All cakes are made basically the same with the exception of a few extra steps and, of course, a few different ingredients.
             If you look into the average persons pantry what will you find? Sugar, flour, baking powder or soda, milk, and eggs? Well you don't really need much more than that to bake the average cake. Other things you might need consist of vanilla extract or spices to give the cake of your choice a certain flavor or texture you desire. All of these ingredients do have a purpose though; to make a batter. Batter is what a cake starts out as before it is baked into a cake. Sugar has several jobs in a cake and it is not just to make the cake sweet. Not only will sugar make a cake sweet, it also acts as a leavener and a source of color in white cakes. Flour is a binding agent as well as a leavener. A leavener is incorporated into a cake to help it rise, without these, you would have a droopy mass of funny flavored pancakes instead of cakes. In cakes that consist of very little leaveners,
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             baking powder or baking soda is used as a leavener to assist the other ingredients in raising the batter into a cake during the baking process. Milk is also a staple ingredient because in most cases it is the onl...

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