Not the Common kind - Torte

If i ask you about types of cake, what will come first in your mind? CHEESE CAKE!!! Based on my observation, when people think of types of cake, it must be cheese cake. Why not others like butter cake, cupcake, chiffon cake, sponge cake, or fruit cake? Maybe, cheese cakes always rich enough to give satisfaction. Actually, there are a lot of different types of cakes.  Let's don't talk about the popular cake like cheese cake or sponge cake or fruit cake or cupcake.  Let's talk about something you can barely see in Malaysia. TORTE Torte...

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Decorations

Cake decorating started at the mid 19th century in French. The most traditional way is used the piping bag and piped the whipping cream on top of the cake. ~Whipping CREAM~ These days, we are still using whipping cream as the decoration as everyone can see in our bakery. Piping needs a long time of practice in order to make it perfect.  Whipping cream is less sweeter and very fattening (i guess most of us didn't eat the whip cream right?) Ingredients: Whipping cream and egg The bad thing about whipping cream is,...

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Pick me up

Italian elegant dessert - Tiramisu. When you first taste the Tiramisu, the feeling can be described as  An interesting journey of taste. Scents of the Espresso and wine pass through your nerve every time you breath. The very first layer covered by a thin layer of bitter-cocoa powder. Follow by the soft and smooth creamy mascarpone cheese with crispy Savoiardi biscuit (known as "ladyfingers") The sponge cake fully absorbed Espresso and  Tia maria (the best alcohol for Tiramisu). Rich but not too much. From...

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History

Cakes can be categorized as sweet baked dessert or patisserie. Modern cakes are what we normally have today. The combination for cakes are basically flour, eggs, sugar, butter or oil, water or milk, nuts, purees, dried or fruits (flavouring) and yeast or baking powder (leaving agent). Compared to the olden cakes, the shape was similar with a bread-like. People used to see cakes as a fried breads or cheesecakes with a shape of a disk-like. Back in historical time, unlike the cakes that we eat today, it was very different. The...

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