Cake Recipe

Cakes are a food group that is often sweet and cooked by baking. Cakes are made from a variety of flours, a sweetening ingredient (most often sugar), a binding ingredient (eggs are preferred, although gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians), fat ingredients (commonly butter, margarine, or shortening, sometimes a fruit purée such as applesauce is used instead to avoid using fat), a liquid ingredient (commonly milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening ingredient (for example yeast and/or a baking powder), quite often cakes lack these agents and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise.