SLC21W2// Classic vanilla and chocolate cakes .

Hello @everyone accept special greetings from this end of globe 🌎,To precise Cameroon .Today is another another week2 for me to participate in this teaching team contest lesson .As a lover of cakes,I will always try to practice various recipes I come cross.Every day is a learning process for me .

Last week we were opportune to learned about the basic concepts of pastry .Today we have “classic vanilla and chocolate cakes to share our experiences after the lesson given on this topic .Making it more pratical as chefs of pastry lovers.

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I will be answering the following guided questions given with some pratical answers.My pratical part will dwell more on vanilla cake .I hope you all will find pleasure reading through my post below 👇🏼.

Have you ever made any of these classic pastries at home .Tell is your experience?

I earlier mentioned in my introduction am a lover of pastries.Meaning I always devote my free time to learned pastries and give try by my own self . I will say I have both chocolates and vanilla cake at home.We might differ in mixture but I think all the ingredients given inthe teaching course are thesame .

My first time trying chocolate cake was abit crazy . I don’t know wether it’s because of batter was too light .Immediately I put it inthe oven it’s took like two hours to get dry and course I could understand what was the problem.When my chocolate was ready I discovered it’s has sink in the middle .Not because I opened the oven before to check as always insteaded 35minute is good to check your cake .All these I respect 35mintes for opening of the oven and 180 c degrees for setting temperature.

.Later, I discoverd I over use the ingredients more than quantity of flour supposed to be used . The chocolate cake was not nice until the second second that it came out nice .After working with quantity and measurements supposed to used .

As for vanilla cake my first attempt it came out very well without any major challenges .The texture was nice very smooth,airy and sponge.

Make one of the two cakes presented (Detail I grident and step by step.

My explanation will dwell most on vanilla as stated in the question above.We should chose one . I would focus on explaining the the ingridents need and the step by step to make a classic vanilla cake .

Ingredients

for vanilla cake

• 150 grams of butter
• 250grams of sugar
• 3large eggs (clear and York)
• 250grams of flour
• 1 tea spoon of baking powder
• 250ml tin peak milk
• 250 grams all purpose flour
• 25grams of vegetable oil
  *Half teaspoon of Ntugmeg

Steps involved in making vanilla cake

Step1

Sieve your flour ,add your baking powder and mixed the ingredients together to incorporate well.

Step2

Put your sugar, oil and butter in one deep pan or bowl and mixed it well . You can use your whisk ,Machine mixer or hand mixer .Cream all these ingridents and make it intergrate without any noticeable looms .

Step3

Add in your vanilla flavor, egg York one at a time inside the cream sugar and butter .

Step3

Mixed it well and add in your milk and sieved flour with mixed baking powder inside to mixed well..As for me I used my machine mixer to mix these ingredients together.Lastely add your egg white and mixed well for the mixture to have a good consistency texture.

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Step4

Grease your baking pan with abit of butter then spreed your all purpose flour .As you are baking it should not stick .

Step5

Set your oven and allow it to heat for about 5minutes .Regulate the temperature to 180c for baking and check your cake after 35minutes .Reason being that if you early check it .it can sink and will get ready well .Also remember to use toothpick insert in the middle to know if the cake is ready .If the toothpick comes out dry it means your cake is ready . Here is my vanilla cake ready .

Now you can consumed your cake either with yogurt, Juice etc .

Do you have any tips for making perfect cakes share them.

There are alots of tips to come out with a good perfect cake

Firstly,Taking recipes in consideration ,Most at times people use ingredients focused on what they have at the moment and not what the recipe demand to be use .For a perfect cake you most avoid using what you have as ingredients and use the right measurements and quantity of ingredients.

Secondly, the tips we need to follow is have a good room temperature for your working room should be colder than the baking place room Atleast 18 C .Where every you store your ingredients matters it should be a hot place .This because it does not give you a good texture .

Thirdly .You need to be conscious and a good timer .Any single mistake you make during mixture can give you a different thing than what you expected.Also be conscious of time when you insert your cake in the oven or else it will get burnt .Make sure you check your cake after 35 minutes of being in the oven to avoid the batter to sinking .Set your oven at 180 degrees for baking temperature.

Fourthly,Do not consider your ingridents are not dirty .It May look physically clean but if you use microscope you will see dirt inside . Always sieved all your dry ingredients.

Lastly ,Using parchment paper is very important.It’s makes looks need and your cake can never stick when you use parchment paper in a good designed cake pan .

I have come to the end of my discussion.I would end here by inviting @crismenia @josepha and @eliany to participate in this teaching lesson contest.