Birthday Cake Kitchen

Cake Essentials

1. 100 Which sweet baked treat often comes in layers with frosting? Response: Cake 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. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”
2. 200 Which dry ingredient is the base of a cake? Response: flour 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. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”
3. 300 Cake batter combines its dry base with a fat, with what else, or with both? Response: a liquid 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. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”
4. 400 Which usual ingredient helps lighten the mixture? Response: leavening agent 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. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”
5. 500 Cakes are usually baked. How else can they be cooked? Response: griddled 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. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”
6. 600 What is the sweet food made mainly from sugar or chocolate called? Response: Candy Candy, also known as sweets, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. Source: Wikipedia, “Candy”
7. 700 Which flavoring comes from the cured pods of an orchid? Response: Vanilla Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from the seed pods of the flat-leaved Mexican and Central American vanilla (V. planifolia). Source: Wikipedia, “Vanilla”

Oven Work

1. 100 Which way of cooking uses dry heat, usually in an oven? Response: Baking Baking is a method of preparing food or clay that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most commonly baked food is bread. Source: Wikipedia, “Baking”
2. 200 This dry-heat cooking method usually happens inside what? Response: oven Baking is a method of preparing food or clay that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most commonly baked food is bread. Source: Wikipedia, “Baking”
3. 300 What is the most commonly baked food? Response: bread Baking is a method of preparing food or clay that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most commonly baked food is bread. Source: Wikipedia, “Baking”
4. 400 What do we call a professional who makes baked goods? Response: baker A person who prepares baked goods as a profession is called a baker. Source: Wikipedia, “Baking”
5. 500 Dry oven heat gives baked goods what kind of outside and what kind of inside? Response: a firm dry crust and a softer center As heat travels through, it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods and more with a firm dry crust and a softer center. Source: Wikipedia, “Baking”
6. 600 Which ingredient makes dough rise? Response: Yeast Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ethanol. Source: Wikipedia, “Baker's yeast”

Leavening

1. 100 What is another two-word name for a leavening agent? Response: raising agent In cooking, a leavening agent () or raising agent, also called a leaven () or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture. Source: Wikipedia, “Leavening agent”
2. 200 Which two mixtures can be lightened and softened by the agent? Response: doughs and batters In cooking, a leavening agent () or raising agent, also called a leaven () or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture. Source: Wikipedia, “Leavening agent”
3. 300 Which hands-on action works air into a dough? Response: kneading An alternative or supplement to leavening agents is mechanical action by which air is incorporated (i.e. kneading). Source: Wikipedia, “Leavening agent”
4. 400 Name the gas often produced during leavening. Response: carbon dioxide The gas produced is often carbon dioxide, or occasionally hydrogen. Source: Wikipedia, “Leavening agent”
5. 500 After starch gelatinizes and sets, what structures remain in the mixture? Response: gas bubbles The starch then gelatinizes and sets, leaving gas bubbles that remain. Source: Wikipedia, “Leavening agent”
6. 600 Which crop has kernels that burst open when heated? Response: Corn Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. Source: Wikipedia, “Popcorn”

Serving Calculations

1. 100 Split 30 cake squares equally among 6 tables. How many reach each table? Response: 5 Worked out from the numbers in the clue.
2. 200 Remove 9 cupcakes from a tray of 28. How many remain? Response: 19 Worked out from the numbers in the clue.
3. 300 Combine three plates holding 7, 8, and 9 slices. What is the total? Response: 24 Worked out from the numbers in the clue.
4. 400 Share 42 strawberries equally across 7 cakes. How many top each cake? Response: 6 Worked out from the numbers in the clue.
5. 500 Compare trays of 16 and 11 cookies. What is the difference? Response: 5 cookies Worked out from the numbers in the clue.
6. 600 Which sweet substance do bees produce from flower nectar? Response: Honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Source: Wikipedia, “Honey”

Final round: Ceremonial Food

Cake is often served at weddings, anniversaries and this yearly celebration. Response: birthdays Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. Source: Wikipedia, “Cake”