Learn a simple vanilla cake recipe! There are many good tips for baking in this video.
The cake-making industry is filled with many talented bakers. More recently, competitions and social media posts have been based around making and presenting hyper-realistic cakes. Many times, people are tricked into believing that a cake is something else, such as a cheeseburger, a soccer ball, or a statue. Baker and cake artist Jenny Chambers, for example, creates incredible illusion cakes.
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Making Connections
Text-to-Self
Do you like cake? If so, what is your favorite kind?
Text-to-Text
Have you read any other books about food from around the world? What did you learn from those books that was not in this one?
Text-to-World
What are some other ways, besides dessert, that countries and cultures from around the world are special and different from one another?