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Cake History

When a modern eater visualies cake, what will first come to mind is perhaps a puffy golden Victoria sponge, or a flourless chocolate cake like a giant truffle. Yet these are of relatively recent date.

The heritage Victoria sponge depends on a series of innovations not available to earlier bakers, and the chocolate torte depends on chocolate, only occasionally used in baking before the First World War.

What are now designated 'cakes' are products of the eighteenth century's idea that beaten eggs can leaven through trapped air, and of the nineteenth century's equally momentous discovery of non-yeast raising agents - baking powder, but first ammonia, cream of tartar, and soda. The only cake still in wide circulation that bears a superficial resemblance to the great cake of the Middle Ages is the fruit cake made for ceremonial occasions, weddings and Christmas and birthdays.

The first reference to the 'traditional' English fruit cake is from seventeenth-century vegetarian Thomas Tryon:

'Observe the composition of Cakes, which are frequently eaten ... In them there are commonly Flour, Butter, Eggs, Milk, Fruit, Spice, Sugar, Sack, Rose-Water and Sweet-Meats, as Citron, or the like." Such great cakes were seasonal, part of a church calendar of festivity.

Cakes now linked with specific locales were once calendrically indexed and associated with the feasts of particular saints or with holy days, especially Christmas and Easter. Most of us still think of cake as festive, but the festivities involved are the secular ones of birthday and wedding. These still retain a trace of cakes association with the sacred, an association that caused problems for Protestants when they abandoned the idea of physical worship as uncomfortably pagan. Thomas Cranmer had, after all, condemned the Catholics and their 'cakey god' the Eucharist in an anti-sacramental outburst. There were many saint-related cakes for Puritans to fear and despise. Madling cakes (containing mutton suet, four and yeast) probably commemorated the feast of Mary Magdalene in late July.

They represented the jar of precious spices with which Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus: two layers of the cake were separated by a layer of currants so that none can be seen till the Cake is broke?

A madling cake might eventually have become a Madeleine, the very cake whose taste led Proust back to a moment of childhood. Cake is often seen as offering a window to a more stable past. But they were also a way of making holiness delicious. Before the Reformation, you ate religion in the form of cakes, and reformers never quite succeeded in breaking the pattern.

Source ~ ‘English Food’ by Diane Purkiss

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Why didn't I know about this???

Chocolates With the Most Heavy Metals

The following products were found to contain the most heavy metals (% of MADL):1

Perugina 85% Premium Dark Chocolate: 1 oz contains 539% lead, 68% cadmium

Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar: 1 oz contains 67% lead, 31% cadmium

Hu Dark Chocolate Gems: 1 tbsp contains 121% lead, 20% cadmium

Droste Cacao Powder: 1 tbsp contains 324% lead, 41% cadmium

Great Value (Walmart) Milk Chocolate Flavor Hot Cocoa Mix: 3 tbsp contains 345% lead, 13% cadmium

Ghirardelli Premium Brownie Mix Double Chocolate: 1 box contains 108% lead, 37% cadmium

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Mix: 1 package contains 218% lead, 77% cadmium

Heavy Metals Found in Chocolate: Study Sheds Light on Lead, Cadmium in Some Products

By Cathy Cassata

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Updated on November 14, 2023

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Brewing the perfect social media campaign during Macmillan`s Coffee Morning

Did you participate in the Macmillan Coffee Morning?

Chances are you did. We definitely did - any type of reason for cake, and we exist. Yet our involvement in the coffee morning didn't end offline. This year, we were provided the chance to take coffee and also cake online also for national charity, Making A Distinction Locally (MADL).

What we did

We decided to run a competitors on MADL's social feeds in line with the Macmillan Coffee Early morning, distributing an interfere with of Heritage goodies (from Nisa's own-label array) to three fortunate champions in the 3 weeks preceding it. Why Heritage? Well, every Heritage product brings a MADL contribution, so just getting a jar of coffee or a packet of custard lotions can help straight support your regional community.

It likewise gave an added philanthropic edge to the reward - a hinder to celebrate the Macmillan Coffee Early morning packed with goodies that automatically provide to tiny charities across the country! (Goodies greatly including cake, coffee and biscuits, could we include. There was no drawback.)

With a wonderful giveaway tucked under our belt, we set to promoting it by creating conversation with our fans, leaping on Twitter hashtags and also takes care of popular in the charity industry and also targeting those interested in Macmillan's Coffee Morning.

How did it go?

We had a cappucino success with the perfect mix of growth and also engagement.

Throughout September, MADL was the leading charity in its landscape (when as compared to its leading rivals), achieving:

37.8% more social target market growth

12.9% more social task than all its competitors

392.7% more social involvement compared to all its competitors

On a much more personal range, as well - in simply assessing MADL's very own development and also performance throughout the year - the competitors had a massive impact, accomplishing:

144.8% increase in MADL's social target market dimension (with over 2,000 followers acquired across systems),

139,691 individuals reached through the competition posts,

11,325 engagements on the competitors posts.

Those huge numbers for a social project with a large, philanthropic heart. Simply goes to show that people like to get included with a deserving cause.

Want all eyes on you, also? Drop us a note at hello@extreme-creations.co.uk or (0) 1423 396959 as well as we'll speak about your social media aspirations.

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By Kek Couture in Turkey 

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Mladman Cakes, Bulgaria 

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