Cake Spring!!!
To all of you out there who love to bake cakes, you know exactly what i mean when i say a cake spring is what we need to confirm, that the time, efforts and patience put into making that cake batter has finally paid off. Baking is an art not everyone can muster, and only the true heroes are able to understand the reactions between every ingredient with each other. Only a few can give so much of love, attention and care to those ingredients and only then do we get a perfect cake spring. The art comes from life, but unlike humans and emotions its easier to understand a Millard Reaction, or an M- Fall of a Cake. Why the Gluten doesn't react the way it did earlier? why did the melted butter make so much of a difference in the texture of the cake? Now, i understand why Chefs have their personal lives so hectic, cz if i were there i would rather spend my time nurturing the yeast and knowing that it would not disappoint me rather than having to place my bets on a human and be...