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Cake Making

Baking · Level 4  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Elizabeth Ngugi

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What Cake Making covers

Baking Level 4 learners make cakes four ways in Cake Making: rubbed in, creamed, whisked and all-in-one. Each method starts with hygiene practices, protective equipment and the right ingredients, then moves to assembling and weighing, the mixing procedure, baking and the common faults in that type of cake. Rubbed in cakes add ways of testing a baked cake for readiness, and rubbed in and whisked cakes cover presenting the finished cake. Every method ends with packaging and storage. The skills are used in a bakery kitchen, a café or a home-based cake business.

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Careers after Cake Making

Cake Making prepares you for the cake section of a bakery, where batches are weighed, mixed, baked and packed to a recipe, and for selling cakes of your own.

  • Bakery production sections in Nairobi - you weigh ingredients, mix rubbed in, creamed, whisked and all-in-one batters, bake them and test each cake for readiness, working for a wage.
  • Café and tearoom kitchens in Nyeri - you bake and present cakes for the display counter and catch faults such as those listed for creamed and whisked cakes before a customer sees them.
  • Hotel kitchens in Mombasa - you prepare cakes to a set recipe under hygiene and protective equipment rules and present whisked cakes for service.
  • Supermarket in-store bakeries in Eldoret - you package and store finished cakes so they stay in good condition for sale.
  • Home-based cake businesses in Kisii - you take orders for tea cakes and celebration cakes, bake and package them, and earn from each sale.

Each role rests on the habits this unit practises: clean work, accurate weighing and following the recipe.

Chapters

1
Prepare rubbed in cakes
19 topics
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2
Prepare creamed cakes
13 topics
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3
Prepare whisked cakes
12 topics
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4
Prepare all-in-one cakes
10 topics
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What Cake Making covers: 37 main topics in 4 chapters

1. Prepare rubbed in cakes

  1. 1.1 Definition of Terms
  2. 1.2 PPEs and Their Uses
  3. 1.3 Hygiene Practices
  4. 1.4 Ingredients
  5. 1.5 Equipment Used in Cake Making
  6. 1.6 Assembling and Weighing of Ingredients
  7. 1.7 Types of Rubbed In Cakes
  8. 1.8 Rubbing In Procedure
  9. 1.9 Baking of Rubbed In Cakes
  10. 1.10 Ways of Testing for Readiness of a Baked Cake
  11. 1.11 Faults in Rubbed In Cakes
  12. 1.12 Presenting Rubbing In Cakes
  13. 1.13 Packaging and Storage

2. Prepare creamed cakes

  1. 2.1 Hygiene Practices
  2. 2.2 Identification of Ingredients for Creamed Cakes
  3. 2.3 Assembling and Weighing of Ingredients
  4. 2.4 Types of Creamed Cakes
  5. 2.5 Creaming Procedure
  6. 2.6 Baking of Creamed Cakes
  7. 2.7 Faults in Creamed Cakes
  8. 2.8 Packaging and Storage

3. Prepare whisked cakes

  1. 3.1 Hygiene Practices
  2. 3.2 Identification of Ingredients for Whisked Cakes
  3. 3.3 Assembling and Weighing of Ingredients
  4. 3.4 Types of Whisked Cakes
  5. 3.5 Whisking Procedure
  6. 3.6 Baking of Whisked Cakes
  7. 3.7 Faults in Whisked Cakes
  8. 3.8 Presenting Whisked Cakes
  9. 3.9 Packaging and Storage

4. Prepare all-in-one cakes

  1. 4.1 Hygiene Practices
  2. 4.2 Identification of Ingredients for All-In-One Cakes
  3. 4.3 Assembling and Weighing of Ingredients
  4. 4.4 Types of All-In-One Cakes
  5. 4.5 All-In-One Method for Preparing Cakes
  6. 4.6 Faults in All-In-One Cakes
  7. 4.7 Packaging and Storage

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 56 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself 160 Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions 88 Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation 36 What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations 23 Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards 789 Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator 4 On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios 40 Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income 36 Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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