Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Experiment 1- Angelic Cake


AHMAD AZRI BIN ZAINAL

KJC 0850095

MUHAMMAD FAHMI BIN ABDUL LATIFF

KJC 0870322

MUHAMAD AMMAR BIN BAHARON

KJC0870326

Introduction

In the first experiment, our group have given a task to varying the cream of tartar in the instructional recipe of Angle Cake. We just need to follow as the basic formula of the angle cake but in the amount of ingredient and different of procedure. As the result, we can see in the table of result according to the different procedure with comment from other group from their experiment.

Instructional Recipe – Part A ( No cream of Tartar)

Angle Cake

Ingredient

Sugar 10g

Cake Flour 15g

Egg whites 41g

Sugar 32g

Salt 0.1g

Procedure

1. Prepared the mise en place.

2. sift the flour and weight 10g sugar together and a set aside.


3. beat the egg whites together to the foamy stage with using the electric mixer.

4. beating on the fastest mixer setting while gradually adding 32g sugar. Beat the whites until the peaks just bend over.

5. Sift ¼ of the flour-sugar mixture over whites. Fold in gently with 10 strokes using a rubber spatula.Sift the second ¼ of the flour-sugar mixtures over the whites and fold in gently with 10 strokes, followed by the same process for the for the third addition.

6. Lastly sift the final ¼ of the flour-sugar mixture over the foam and fold 20 strokes to completely blend the mixture (making a total of 50 folding strokes with the rubber spatula).Gently push the batter in the baking pan. Finish all of the cakes being baked in one oven before placing them all in the oven at the same time.

7. Baked the cake in the oven in the 350 F (177 C) over 30 minutes.

Instructional Recipe – Part B (Double cream of Tartar)

Angle Cake

Ingredient

Sugar 10g

Cake Flour 15g

Egg whites 41g

Sugar 32g

Cream of Tartar 0.6g x 2 = 1.2g

Salt 0.1g

Procedure

1. Prepared the mise en place.

2. sift the flour and weight 10g sugar together and a set aside.

3. beat the egg whites together to the foamy stage with using the electric mixer.

4. Then, add double cream of tartar in the first part of the experiment.

5. beating on the fastest mixer setting while gradually adding 32g sugar. Beat the whites until the peaks just bend over.

6. Sift ¼ of the flour-sugar mixture over whites. Fold in gently with 10 strokes using a rubber spatula.Sift the second ¼ of the flour-sugar mixtures over the whites and fold in gently with 10 strokes, followed by the same process for the for the third addition.

7. Lastly sift the final ¼ of the flour-sugar mixture over the foam and fold 20 strokes to completely blend the mixture (making a total of 50 folding strokes with the rubber spatula).Gently push the batter in the baking pan. Finish all of the cakes being baked in one oven before placing them all in the oven at the same time.

8. Baked the cake in the oven in the 350 F (177 C) over 30 minutes.

Treatment

Baking Time

Volume

Exterior

Texture of Crumb

Tenderness

(#chews)

Comments

Color

Shape

1. Folding

a. 20x

14 min

Less

Brown

Flat

Bad

Stick together

Bad

b. 50x

15 min

Maintain

Brown

Small crack

Bad

Stick together

Recommended

c. 80x

16 min

More

Dark Brown

Over crack

Very soft

Very soft

Just Nice

2.Beating

a. Under

20 min

Maintain

Light Brown

Just nice

Soft

Not so chew

Recommended

b. Over

20 min

Less

Pale Brown

Shrinking

Soft

Soft

Not really good

3. Cream of Tartar

a.None

30 min

Maintain

Light Brown

Crack

Too soft

Easy to chew

Sweet as Cotton Candy

b. 2x

30 min

Maintain

Golden Brown

Well Baked

Not too soft

Smooth chew & melt in mouth

Sweet as Bahulu

4. Flour

a. All purpose

15 min

Maintain

Brown

Lots of air hole

Just good & nice

Tender

Sweet salted

b. 66% cake

15 min

Flat

Light

Fine

Sticky

Sticky

Fine

c. 133% cake

15 min

Maintain

Light

Fine

Sticky

Soft

Fine

d. Cornstarch

15 min

Maintain

Over cooked

Very Fomy

Sticky

Oversoft & Sticky

Not Enough Taste

5. Sugar

a. 80% sugar

25 min

Overflow

Brown

Over fine

Fine

Chew

Sweet

b. 120% sugar

25 min

Less

Normal

Fine

Sticky

Chew

Recommended

c. 162% sugar

25 min

Maintain

Light Brown

Very bad

Sticky

Sticky

Sweets

Conclusion

Cream of tartar is important to stabilize the white eggs and sugar to became the meringue .

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