BR 2-15 Making a Cake

    I read "Making a Cake", so I will tell you about story of the book. Is making a cake like making a work of art? Or is making a cake science? Some people think making a cake is art. But some people think that making a cake is science. A lot of work goes into making a cake a work of art. The person who makes the cake has to have the right ingredients to make the cake taste good. The ingredients have to be mixed in the right way and cooked at the right temperature. These things make the cake the cake look and taste good. Cooking a cake is a good way to look at chemical change. Chemical changes happen when you mix different ingredients together to make something new. Melt chocolate to make icing for a cake is a physical change. First, the chocolate is hard. Then the chocolate is heated. The heat melts the chocolate, and it goes runny. When the runny chocolate goes on the cake, to hard chocolate again. The best cakes are part science and part art. It is the chemical and physical changes that make the ingredients into a cake. But it is the art of the cook that makes the cake look and taste good.

Fast Forward text by Carmel Reilly. First published in 2007

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