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Eileen Barton- If I Knew You Were Coming I’d have Baked a Cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1wEVPqFFCg Game Face- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTs6nrcsjRw Pat a Cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGg6UGZsKw8

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1. were a part of strange rituals million years ago. They Celtic celebrated a festival called the Beltane festival. During this festival, they lit bonfires atop a hill and will roll down round cakes from the hill. If the cake doesn’t break, they believe it will bring good fortune. 2. The ‘cakewalk’ dance originated in African American communities in the Southern United States and was originally a competition in graceful walking, with cake awarded as a prize 3. Cakes have been made for superstitious reasons. A ‘’, in various parts of , is made on All Souls’ Day and kept for good luck. 4. The famous saying, ‘let them eat cake’, was attributed to Marie Antoinette upon learning that her people had no bread.

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Cake decorating courses @ Wirral Metropolitan College: · ABC Award Cake Decoration (1 year partime) - This course covers a wide range of skills and has been devised to stand alone or as an addition to a general catering course. ◦Coating and decorating cakes with royal icing ◦Coating and decorating cakes with sugar paste ◦Coating and decorating small cakes and with a variety of coatings ◦Modelling with and sugarpaste · Introduction to - This ten week College certificated course covers a range of skills at introductory level. ◦Modelling skills ◦Covering skills ◦Using various pastes ◦Flower making

Cake in different cultures: Poland Mazurek • Shortcrust tart baked at Easter- Mazurek is a simple traditional Polish cake baked for Easter. It can be generally described in English language as a shortcrust tart.

Faworki aka chrust • - Polish faworki also appears under names such as chrust or jaworki. It is a traditional Polish delicacy made from a sweet crisp cake in a shape of a bow. Most oftentimes faworki is eaten on the last Thursday of the carnival (the so-called tlusty czwartek what means fatty Thursday) and before Ash Wednesday

Japan Bibingka • is a type of from the Philippines traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. Bibingka is a traditional Philippine Christmas food. It is usually eaten along with puto bumbong right after the Simbang Gabi ('Midnight mass', the Filipino version of Misa de Gallo).[2] They are sold outside of churches during Christmas season.

USA Muffins • A type of semi-sweet cake or quick bread that is baked in portions appropriate for one person. They are similar to cupcakes, although they are usually less sweet and lack icing.

Red velvet cake • A cake with either a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It's traditionally prepared as a topped with cream cheese or cooked roux icing. When foods were rationed during World War II, bakers used boiled beet juices to enhance the color of their cakes. Beets are found in some recipes, where they also serve to retain moisture.

China • Ttraditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiujie). The festival is for lunar worship and moon watching, when are regarded as an indispensable delicacy. Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four most important Chinese festivals.

History The 1st cake § According to the food historians, the modern cakes were first baked in Europe sometimes in the mid 17th century. The ancient Egyptians were the first culture to show evidence of advanced baking skills. The first cake was very different from what we eat today. They were more bread-like and sweetened with honey. § There was no distinction between bread and cake for quite a while, although fancy sweet breads were made with a variety of grains and added ingredients, like dried fruits, seeds and wine, and were specifically served as sweet treats. These early cakes were flat and dense, a baked dessert that was very different from what we associate with the term cake today. § The Romans probably perfected the practice of adding yeast as a leavening agent to cake, and later the Italians in the 16th century developed the art of leavening without yeast by adding whipped eggs to batter. Both methods created a lighter cake but were time-consuming and could be tricky. By the mid-1800s, the introduction of bicarbonate of soda and baking powder made it easier to bake an airy cake quickly and consistently http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/first-cake.htm

English culture -> British (a lot more cakes available) Regions and cakes Lancaster: An is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky with , sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Each year during the passing centuries a Service was held at the church to celebrate its construction. This became known as the “Eccles Wakes” and was followed by a fair where food and drink could be purchased in abundance, including the ever popular Eccles Cake There are lots of stories about this popular English cake, which is composed of alternating coloured slabs of Genoese enclosed in an overcoat of paste. In cross section it looks like a child's drawing of a window, which no doubt is the reason why it is known in my part of Northern England as 'Chapel Window Cake'. The most commonly told tale about the cake relates to its alleged origin. It is said to have been created to celebrate the 1884 wedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg to Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria.

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Scones got their start as a Scottish quick bread. Originally made with oats and griddle-baked, today’s version is more often made with flour and baked in the oven. became popular and an essential part of the fashionable ritual of taking in England when Anna, the Duchess of Bedford (1788 – 1861), one late afternoon, ordered the servants to bring tea and some sweet breads, which included scones. She was so delighted by this, that she ordered it every afternoon and what now has become an English tradition is the “Afternoon Tea Time”.

Celebrations The has been an integral part of the birthday celebrations in western European countries since the middle of the 19th century, which extended to Western culture.[1] Certain rituals and traditions, such as singing of birthday songs, associated with birthday cakes are common to many Western cultures. The Western tradition of adding lit candles to the top of a birthday cake originates in 18th- century Germany. However, the intertwining of cakes and birthday celebrations stretch back to the Ancient Romans. The development of the birthday cake has followed the development of culinary and advancement. While throughout most of Western history, these elaborate cakes in general were the privilege of the wealthy, birthday cakes are nowadays common to most Western birthday celebrations. Around the world many variations on the birthday cake, or rather the birthday pastry or sweets, exist. Double-click to enter text Candles For the Ancient Greeks, putting candles on a cake was a special way to pay tribute to the Greek moon goddess, Artemis. They baked round cakes to symbolize the moon. Candles were added to represent the reflected moonlight.

Candles on cakes became a popular tradition long ago in Germany, too. For religious reasons, Germans would place a large candle in the center of a cake to symbolize “the light of life.” Worlds largest Birthday Cake So during the early hours of the morning on May 15, 2005, eight semi-trucks from North Carolina drove into the loading zone at Cashman Center hauling 30,000 half-sheet cakes and nearly 40,000 pounds of frosting. Volunteers were already gathering nearby to start the process of unloading, unpacking, stacking, and ultimately frosting. Over the next 14 hours, more than 1,000 volunteers built a whopping 130,000-pound pastry from ingredients donated by Sara Lee. They worked under the direction of Sara Lee Executive Chef Brian Averna and the watchful eye of Sara Lee Foods President John Flood. Las Vegas' birthday cake is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records replacing a record set in Fort Wayne, Ala. The Vegas cake outweighed the Alabama confection by 128,360 pounds.

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The Christmas Cake as we know it today comes from two customs which became one around 1870 in Victorian England. Originally there was a porridge, the origins of which go back to the beginnings of Christianity. Then there was a fine cake made with the finest milled wheatflour, this was baked only in the Great Houses, as not many people had ovens back in the 14th century. THE ARRIVAL OF THE CHRISTMAS CAKE The confectioners who made the cakes were left with boxes full of figurines and models for Twelfth Cakes, and also had lost revenue by the banning of the feast. So they began to bake a and decorate it with snowy scenes, or even flower gardens and Italian romantic ruins. These they sold not for the 5th January, but for December Christmas parties. And it was thus that we developed the Christmas cake.

Videos Celebrations Merry Berry how to make Christmas Cake- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ow9oLYEHRc Christmas Cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCGOB1AJlo Princess Birthday cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx7inOE_vMA Children blowing out candles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Snvt031vA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnq62l0SRw 100th birthday blowing out candles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbJW2hoH48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIfeKLJaLE

Children making cakes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XH91UrJBUs

Culture cakes French http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDn_j5RZh4

Indian birthday cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP4LM80nO3U

Polish cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705uh1OnSTY Russian cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7lYx5euThk Jamaican Christmas cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXLSmJKnnc Greek cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIsVwsX5fYc