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A type of a sponge cake roll is a swiss roll or commonly known as jelly roll. This is a very thin cake made of sugar, flour and eggs. All of these are mixed together and baked in a sheet pan, which is a baking tray, shallow and rectangular in shape. Once the cake is ready and is baked fully it is carefully removed from the pan. Butter cream and jam is spread on the cake. The cake is then rolled and is cut neatly into a number of circular pieces. These slices are then ready to be served. The swiss roll cake originated in Central Europe and not in Switzerland as the name indicates. It is traditional for the Hungarians, Austrians and the Germans.

Another type of a dessert cake is the bundt cake. It is pronounced as bunt cake as the “d” is silent. It is assumed that the bundt cake may have originated from the famous german cake Gugelhupf because both have the common ring shape.

Lately special and unique cake flour has been discovered. This cake flour has very high gluten to starch ratio. This soecial flour is made soft, very low molecular weight protein wheat which is very fine textured. Cake flour helps in making cakes which have less dense texture and are lighter and fluffier. This cake flour is strongly bleached and is anyday better than other flours as this provides better quality cakes. It is therefore mandatory or preferred in cakes like angel food cake, where the cakes need to have very light texture and needs to be very soft. Cake’s texture can also be manipulated by adding certain additives like baking powder, corn starch etc.

Other flours which are normally used for other purposes also can be made to make light textured and light weight cakes by addition of the above mentioned additives. But in recipes where the cakes need to be firm and where dense texture is required the normal flour is particularly specified. A less sweet version of almond paste also known as marzipan is used for decorating the cakes. Fondant icing also commonly known as the sugar paste along with butter cream is used as the icing for covering and decorating the cakes. Another important part of decoration of a cake that cannot be ignored is the decoration using flowers. Wired sugar flowers also popularly known as floral sugar craft are used for beautifying the cakes. These flowers definitely add to the beauty of the otherwise very delicious and yummy cake.

Madeira cakes also very famous and popular as fatless sponge cakes or whisked cakes use marzipan or sugar paste as icing for decorating the cake. The finishing of the cake is done with borders which are piped. These borders are made of sugar paste or royal icing. A message is then written on the cake for your dear one with pipings. Hand made fondant flowers, piped flowers, crystallised flowers or fruits, wired sugar flowers, marzipan fruits and flowers of grapes and violets are used to decorate the cake.