5.1.5 Topic Quiz Cake Decorating

Match the ingredients with the corresponding type of frosting.

• egg whites, powdered sugar, and an acid

• buttercream frosting

• butter, powdered sugar, and flavors

• cream cheese frosting

• chocolate and heavy cream

• ganache

• cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, an

• royal icing

What is fondant?

• a type of bread dough made from buttercream, sugar, and flavorings used for pies and tarts

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  a type of frosting used in pies and pastries that is made from fruits, sugar, and other ingredients

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  a sugar dough cake decoration used to cover cakes and add a polished finish to desserts

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  a type of frosting made from mixing butter and powdered sugar with water

Match the dish to the type of filling.

• cannoli

• cream filling

• baklava

• fruit filling

• apple pie

• nut filling

• quiche

• savory filling

Which tool cannot be used to help level a cake?

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  Bench scraper

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  Serrated knife

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  Cake leveler

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  Cake Turntable

Match the technique with the name.

• Crumb Coat

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• Star tip swirl

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• Flooding

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Match the overall style of cake decorating with its picture.

• Piping work

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• Spatula painting

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• Mirror glaze cake

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• Hyper realistic cake

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Sort the following tasks in the correct order when making buttercream and filling a piping bag.

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  (Optional Step) If tinting it a color, add it now and mix it until it's well incorporated.

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  Fit your pastry bag with a coupler or a piping tip, and fold over the top edge of the pastry bag while holding it in one hand.

• Use a rubber spatula to scrape buttercream into the pastry bag, and use the edge of your hand holding the bag to help wipe off excess buttercream.

• Beat together room temperature butter with powdered sugar, add vanilla extract, and finish making the buttercream to the right consistency.

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  Twist the bag at the top, remove any air bubbles, and pipe as desired onto a cake or cupcakes.

Explain what a crumb coat is, and why is it important to "crumb coat & chill" during the process of cake decorating.

Imagine you were making a cake for your best friend's birthday. Describe in detail how you would decorate the cake. Please include the following in your answer:

• what flavor the cake is (vanilla, chocolate, carrot cake, etc)

• what the overall style of the cake will look like (color scheme, theme, fondant work, buttercream, piping work, marble glaze, etc...)

• and how you will decorate it

You can start your response with, "The cake I will make will have the overall style of ______________"

Choose one aspect of using piping techniques you learned about and explain it.

Here are some examples of things you can pick from to explain in this question:

• how to fill a piping bag

• how to use different decorating tips to make different effects

• how to combine colors of frosting in the same bag

Sentence Starter: You can reply by typing, "The piping technique I will explain is _________________".