The History of Baking

Kayla Cobb
Mr. Jenkins
Honors English 11
April 3, 2009
The Way Baking Has Changed
Summary:
A video on you tube.com demonstrated a way to decorate a wedding cake with icing. The women in the video was from the UK. At first she introduced herself and shows what the finished product will look like. She started out with a cake already baked. She rolled out “sausage shaped” pieces of what sounded like “mossy palm” to place on the bottom of the cake to cover the cracks. Then she placed a layer of the same substance to prepare the cake for the icing decorations. Before placing the layer carefully she put jam on the cake so the “mossy palm” can slide a little to be placed in the right place. After that she rolls out some roll out icing and places that on the top of the cake as well.
Response:
This you tube video shows how baking has changed altogether. In the past baked goods were not so much as an art as they are today. The baker in the video decorated the cake with hearts ribbon and more decorative things. In the past a cake would have just been baked and that be all that was done to it. Now it is not quite a cake to most people until it has been decorated with icing and other decorations. In the past cakes and other baked goods may have been decorated in some way but not nearly to the extent that it is seen today. There were extravagant cakes but it seems more of a trend now than before.

Citation:
“Icing a Wedding Cake”. Cake Baker. Cakebaker.co.uk Youtube. 8 October 2007. 8 October 2007