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Advanced Baking Terms

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1. A thick - white foam made of whipped egg whites and sugar.






2. Eclair paste.






3. A rich egg bread - often made as a braided loaf.






4. Italian ice cream






5. A type of sweet yeast bread with fruit.






6. Pulled sugar that is made into thin-walled - hollow shapes by being blown up like a balloon.






7. A dough high in fat - sugar - and/or eggs.






8. (1) A yeast-type dough made with a sponge or starter that has fermented so long that it has become very sour or acidic. (2) A bread made with such a dough.






9. A light confection - icing - or filling made of meringue and gelatin (or other stabilizers).






10. A light cake made by the chiffon method.






11. The weight of the total contents of a can or package.






12. An icing made of butter and/or shortening blended with confectioners' sugar or sugar syrup and sometimes other ingredients.






13. Prefix in the metric system meaning 'one-tenth.'






14. The dry powder that remains after cocoa butter is pressed out of chocolate liquor.






15. A syrup consisting of sucrose and water in varying proportions.






16. The colored outer portion of the peel of citrus fruits.






17. A small - dry - finger-shaped sponge cake or cookie.






18. A type of cake made of meringue (egg whites and sugar) and flour.






19. Prefix in the metric system meaning 'one-thousandth.'






20. (1) A dessert made of a ring of cream puffs set on a short dough base and filled with a type of pastry cream. (2) The cream used to fill this dessert - made of pastry cream and whipped egg whites.






21. To sprinkle thoroughly with sugar or another dry powder.






22. A light - cold dessert made of gelatin - whipped cream - and custard sauce or fruit.






23. Boiled sugar made into long - thin threads by dipping wires into the sugar syrup and waving them so that the sugar falls off in fine streams.






24. A form of icing made of confectioners' sugar and egg whites; used for decorating.






25. A fruit or vegetable puree - used as a sauce.






26. To partly mix two colors of cake batter or icing so that the colors are in decorative swirls.






27. A coarse - crystalline frozen dessert made of water - sugar - and fruit juice or another flavoring.






28. Cocoa that has been processed with an alkali to reduce its acidity.






29. Sucrose that is ground to a fine powder and mixed with a little cornstarch to prevent caking.

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30. A crisp cookie made of butter - sugar - and flour.






31. (1) A cold dessert made of Bavarian cream or other cream in a special mold - usually lined with ladyfingers or other sponge products. (2) A hot dessert made of cooked fruit and baked in a special mold lined with strips of bread.






32. (1) A type of sundae served in a tall - thin glass. (2) A still-frozen dessert made of egg yolks - syrup - and heavy cream.






33. Unsweetened chocolate - consisting of cocoa solids and cocoa butter.






34. Prefix in the metric system meaning 'one thousand.'






35. A chocolate cake made with a high percentage of baking soda - which gives the cake a reddish color.

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36. Sugar that is boiled to the hard-crack stage - allowed to harden slightly - then pulled or stretched until it develops a pearly sheen.






37. A delicate cake or pastry small enough to be eaten in one or two bites.






38. French word for 'cake.'






39. An Italian dessert or sauce made of whipped eggs yolks and Marsala wine.






40. The process of beating fat and sugar together to blend them uniformly and to incorporate air.






41. A sponge cake made with a batter containing melted butter.






42. A thick custard sauce containing eggs and starch.






43. A cookie made of eggs (usually whites) and almond paste or coconut






44. A sugar paste used for decorative work - Which becomes very hard when dry.






45. (1) A type of dough that is stretched until paper-thin. (2) A baked item consisting of a filling rolled up in a sheet of strudel dough or phyllo dough.






46. Fruit cooked in a sugar syrup.






47. The metric system of temperature measurement - with 0






48. A flavored sugar syrup used to flavor and moisten cakes and other desserts.






49. (1) An English pudding made of milk - sugar - and cornstarch. (2) A French dessert made of milk - cream - almonds - and gelatin.






50. A sponge cake or other yellow cake filled with pastry cream and topped with chocolate fondant or confectioners' sugar.