Black Forest is a patisserie with a difference, offering a variety of light, moist and heavenly cakes and pastries along with a wide range of baked items like breads, snacks, cookies, and other tidbits. We make Character cakes, 3D and Fondant cakes, Cakes as photo, Cakes for Weddings, Anniversary, Corporate Events, for that matter any occasion that you wish to make special!
We make sure that you feel welcome when you walk in our store. Our wide range of products will spoil you for choice as you will not only find regular cakes and pastries but also a great selection flavours you may not have known exist. On display are also an array of breads, tea time cakes, snacks, and cookies.
A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with icing, or frosting, and toppings such as sprinkles,
which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States
and "hundreds and thousands" in the United Kingdom. Frosting is usually
made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or
cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing. Commercial bakeries tend to use lard
for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles. This
makes the icing light and spreadable. Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof. Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food coloring.
In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available
to the public. These include several specialized sprinkles and even
methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.
Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags
or syringes, and various piping tips. To use a piping bag or syringe, a
piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler. The bag
or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored.
Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can
make many different designs. Basic decorating tips include open star,
closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and
specialty tips.
Royal icing, marzipan
(or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing (also
known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to
create decorations. Floral sugarcraft
or wired sugar flowers are an important part of cake decoration. Cakes
for special occasions, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich
fruit cakes or occasionally Madeira cakes,
that are covered with marzipan and iced using royal icing or
sugar-paste. They are finished with piped borders (made with royal
icing) and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers,
hand-formed fondant flowers, marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or
crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets.
SPECIAL PUROSE CAKE
Cakes may be classified according to the occasion for which they are intended. For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava (a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo
meal) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they
are intended to accompany. The cutting of a wedding cake constitutes a
social ceremony in some cultures. The Ancient Roman marriage ritual of confarreatio originated in the sharing of a cake.
Particular types of cake may be associated with particular festivals, such as stollen or chocolate log (at Christmas), babka and simnel cake (at Easter), or mooncake. There has been a long tradition of decorating an iced cake at Christmas time; other cakes associated with Christmas include chocolate log and mince pies.
The term "cake" has a long history. The word itself is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse word "kaka".[6]
Although clear examples of the difference between cake and bread are easy to find, the precise classification has always been elusive.[7] For example, banana bread may be properly considered either a quick bread or a cake.
The Greeks invented beer as a leavener, frying fritters in olive oil, and cheesecakes using goat's milk.[8] In ancient Rome, basic bread dough was sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like baked good.[7] Latin poet Ovid refers to the birthday of him and his brother with party and cake in his first book of exile, Tristia.[9]
Early cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious
differences between a "cake" and "bread" were the round, flat shape of
the cakes, and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while
cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process.[7]
Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain.
A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with icing, or frosting, and toppings such as sprinkles,
which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States
and "hundreds and thousands" in the United Kingdom. Frosting is usually
made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or
cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing. Commercial bakeries tend to use lard
for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles. This
makes the icing light and spreadable. Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof. Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food coloring.
In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available
to the public. These include several specialized sprinkles and even
methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.
Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags
or syringes, and various piping tips. To use a piping bag or syringe, a
piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler. The bag
or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored.
Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can
make many different designs. Basic decorating tips include open star,
closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and
specialty tips.
Royal icing, marzipan
(or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing (also
known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to
create decorations. Floral sugarcraft
or wired sugar flowers are an important part of cake decoration. Cakes
for special occasions, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich
fruit cakes or occasionally Madeira cakes,
that are covered with marzipan and iced using royal icing or
sugar-paste. They are finished with piped borders (made with royal
icing) and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers,
hand-formed fondant flowers, marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or
crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets. WHITE FOREST CAKE ! Cake and Receipe !
