Cake

Effects

Overview

Cake is a sugary round shaped substance. The main psychoactive constituent in cake is cakecadine (known colloquially as C-AKE, Caky or Cokoo) which is a novel synthetic depressant belonging to the substituted wheat class. PW

Cake is a baker's confectionery made by combining flour with a liquid, a fat or both, and usually with a leavening agent. Cakes are usually baked, but can be griddled. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.[1] WP⚠ Part of this sentence could not be copied from the source. Open the source to read it in full.

The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil, or shortening), and a leavening agent (such as baking soda or baking powder). Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, preserved or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and flavor extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions possible. Cakes can also be flavored with fruit preserves, nuts, or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream, or syrups), covered with icing or frosting, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.[2] WP

Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur of cooks may bake a cake. WP

History

History

The oldest cakes were essentially breads with sweet ingredients added. The ancient Greek πλακοῦς, which was derived from the word for, πλακόεις, was baked using flour mixed with eggs, milk, nuts, and honey. The Greeks invented using beer as a leavener. In ancient Rome, the basic bread dough was sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like baked good. The name for cake became placenta, which was derived from the Greek term. A placenta was baked on a pastry base or inside a pastry case.[6–9] WP⚠ Part of this sentence could not be copied from the source. Open the source to read it in full.

Early 14th century cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious differences between a "cake" and "bread" were the round, flat shape of the cakes and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. Cakes became fashionable in the United States in the 1920s, as women entered the labor force leaving little time to prepare multiple dishes for dessert.[7][8][10] WP

Cake mixes

During the Great Depression, there was a surplus of molasses and the need to provide easily made food to millions of economically depressed people in the United States. One company patented a cake-bread mix to deal with this economic situation and thereby established the first line of cake in a box. In doing so, cake, as it is known today, became a mass-produced good rather than a home- or bakery-made specialty.[11] WP

Later, during the post-war boom, other American companies (notably General Mills) developed this idea further, marketing cake mix on the principle of convenience, especially to housewives. When sales dropped heavily in the 1950s, marketers discovered that baking cakes, once a task at which housewives could exercise skill and creativity, had become dispiriting. This was a period in American ideological history when women, retired from the war-time labor force, were confined to the domestic sphere while still exposed to the blossoming consumerism in the US. This inspired psychologist Ernest Dichter to find a solution to the cake mix problem in the frosting. Since making the cake was so simple, housewives and other in-home cake makers could expend their creative energy on cake decorating inspired by, among other things, photographs in magazines of elaborately decorated cakes.[12][13] WP

Legal status

• Cake is almost illegal in all countries of the world. However there is one exception: PW
• Republic of Molossia - Cake is legal to buy, sell, or possess in the Republic of Molossia.[14] PW

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References

1. Other Dictionary of Food Science and Technology. 2009
2. Other Cake Filling Types. 2022
3. Other Why one cake is never enough
4. Other http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2017/02/23/sugar-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease/
5. Other https://www.alz.org/national/documents/latino_brochure_diabetes.pdf
6. Other Ayto, John. An A-Z of food and drink. 2002
7. Other Castella, Krystina. A world of cake: 150 recipes for sweet traditions from cultures near and far. 2010
8. Other Ayto, John. An A–Z of food and drink. 2002
9. Other whatscookingamerica.net. June 2016
10. Other Lovegren, Sylvia. Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads. 1995
11. Other Park, Michael. A History of the Cake Mix, the Invention That Redefined 'Baking'. 2013
12. Journal / agency Catalano, Christina. Shaping the American Woman: Feminism and Advertising in the 1950s. Constructing the Past. 2002
13. Other Something Eggstra. 31 January 2008
14. Other http://www.molossia.org/welcomemessage.html

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