 What's A Cake?
Been watching the Food Network challanges, on and off, and I've got a question. Just what is a cake? I'm serious.
I do not come from a baking tradition, and think of a cake as something made of flour, sugar, liquid, eggs, flavorings, all of which gets covered (sometimes) with icing.
Then I watch those artists at work. They are incredible, each and every one of them; combining as they do the skills of baker, sugar worker, sculpter, painter, and engineer. I admire them. I really and truly do.
However, when you start to analyze their creations, and back away the candies, and spun-blown-molded sugar, and fondant, and non-edible support structures, well----I would call what they do confections.
So, I'm back to the basic question: Just how is "cake" defined?? |