I have a video to show you. It is about the physics of baking. Today the video is about a baker who is going to be telling us how to make a yellow birthday cake but telling us the science behind it while making it! exciting right?! :)
I will be writing down the science behind making a yellow birthday cake!
Here is the video:
When you are making a birthday cake you add, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, buttermilk, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. You add room-temperature butter first of course. The reason why you have to have room temperature butter is that after you put the butter next comes the sugar. Now Sugar is actually crystals that need to be able to dig like a shovel into the butter and make little air pockets. And if you have too cold and hard butter, the sugar can't dig into the butter because it would be too hard to be able to. The reason why you want the sugar to make air pockets is that when you put the batter in the oven, those air pockets expand and make the cake rise and be nice and fluffy. And that is because of the heat of the oven. And so do the baking powder and baking soda. But the sugar has a little part to make the cake nice and fluffy and have a nice texture to it! The rest of the ingredients make the cake nice and delicious! In the video, she actually only talked about the sugar and the butter, but I hope you did learn something about the butter because I sure did! It was actually super interesting of what sugar and butter do to each other!
Also, I am going to be having a series of my " Science Behind Baking! " blog posts! Well, hopefully! :)