cake

250px|thumb|right|Layer cake Cake is a baker's confectionery usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. 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 desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

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Cake is a baked confectionery made primarily from flour, sugar, and other ingredients that evolved from early bread modifications. It now encompasses a wide variety of preparations ranging from simple to elaborate, often sharing characteristics with other desserts like pastries and custards.

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Nutrition · Open Food Facts

Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 11,323 products

eNutri-Score

4NOVA · Ultra-processed food

Energy: 376 kcal
Fat: 14.8 g
— of which saturates: 6 g
Carbohydrates: 57 g
— of which sugars: 32.4 g
Fibre: 2 g
Protein: 4.9 g
Salt: 1.31 g

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Unicode character: 🎂
Commons category: Cakes
Commons gallery: Cake
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000063
Wikidata usage instructions: Instances of this class are actual cakes. Cake types are subclasses.
hashtag: cake

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Contents

History
Cake mixes
Varieties
Butter cake
Sponge cake
Chocolate cake
Coffee cake
Flourless cake
Layer cakes
One-egg cake
Comparison with bread
Special-purpose cakes
Shapes
Flour
Cooking
Cake decorating
Food safety
See also
References
External links

The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil, or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts, or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream, or syrups), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.