Having a sweet tooth is one of the most common problems in the world. Whether it is indulging in a festival delight dessert, a surprise birthday party, an anniversary, or a promotion, any celebration demands the most famous and likeable dessert, popularly known as cakes!
The increasing popularity of cakes has been a delightful trend in recent years, captivating both the casual sweet tooth and the connoisseur. This surge can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the rise of social media platforms that showcase stunning cake designs and innovative Flavours.
Bakeries and home bakers alike have embraced creative trends, producing cakes that are not only delicious but also visually stunning like butter cake, pound cake, gold leaf cake, red velvet and many more. We have managed to highlight a few tips and tricks for upcoming home bakers in this article.
Do’s and Don’ts of Baking
Follow the five-step ingredients baking rules. Incorporating five ingredients in crafting cakes and desserts is more than enough to get the fluffiest and most delicious sweet friend. Don’t use additional and unwanted components in baking and focus on locally sourced and procured ingredients.
Healthy Baking Ingredients
Healthy baking is a trend now and one of the biggest undesired products in the market is sugar.
People often avoid it and the best alternatives of sugar can be raw sugar, jaggery, and coconut sugar. Flour can be replaced with millet of different kinds. This is also called guilt-free baking and is a healthier alternative. One can bake mouth-watering healthy cakes and desserts with almond flour, ragi, bajra and, Amaranth flour as well to keep your taste buds and heart happy and smiling.
Alternatives of artificial colours
Artificial colours are extremely unhealthy and can cause dangerous health issues. To give a beautiful tint and colour to your dessert you can opt for naturally extracted colours. You can use jaggery as it can give the brown colour you are looking for, beetroot can give shades of red and pink and other naturally extracted colours can work the same.
Use seasonal food items
It is imperative to incorporate seasonal food items in baking. Fruits such as strawberries, mangoes, bananas, and berries can be used in crafting special cake items to give a unique twist to these delights.
My family was a very big foodie and so was I. Travelling instigated my passion towards food and desserts caught my eye there. To bake a good and healthy cake it is important to aim towards freshly produced and sourced local ingredients, rid of all chemical compounds. She also stressed the importance of the fewer products used the better the outcome. If a cake or any baked good has more than five ingredients, there is a better chance for it to be unhealthy.
Vriti Gulati, Leading Baker
