CAKE is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit. Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are literally millions of cake recipes (some are bread-like and some rich and elaborate) and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been so perfected and simplified that even the amateur cook may easily become an expert baker.
However all this information has absolutely nothing to do with CAKE in this instance, but useful nonetheless we think.
CAKE is a contemporary, forward thinking and edgy indie label which is an imprint of one of the worlds most successful and enduring independent jazz labels, CANDID.
For more information please visit our artist’s myspace pages at http://www.myspace.com/neilcowleytrio and http://www.myspace.com/thisistheblessing or you can always drop us a line direct to [email protected].
We are currently spending our weekends selling cakes to pay for the website which is being built so for now we must all struggle though on myspace.
So be our friend, leave us a comment, drop us a line, pop in for tea or do all of the above BUT make sure you take a good listen to our music. Its really good.
