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Basic cake
recipe - long shelf life cake
Ingredients:
Sugar - 25.8%
Wheat flour
- 23%
Water - 15%
Eggs - 15%
Oil - 15%
PentaMix (5201)
- 5%
Potassium
sorbate - 0.24% (subject to your local regulations)
Flavorings
- as required
Instructions:
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Heat the oven
to 170°C.
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Dissolve the Potassium
Sorbate in the water and pour into the mixer bowl.
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Add the eggs,
the oil, the water, the glycerol, the sugar and the flavorings to the mixer
and mix thoroughly, until the sugar is dissolved.
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Add the remaining
ingredients.
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Mix for 1 minute.
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Wait 2-5 minutes.
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Mix again for
2 minutes.
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Pour a 2 cm layer
into the trays.
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Baking time: muffin
trays: 25-30 min, English cake trays: 40-50 min, large trays: 50-75 min.
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Chill well before
packing.
Remarks:
For vanilla
cakes:
Add 0.15%
Vanilla Cake Flavor (item: 5222).
For chocolate
cakes:
Add 2.5% dark
cocoa (replacing equally the sugar and the flour) and 0.3% Chocolate Cake
Flavor (item: 5232).
The following
supplements may be added prior backing, in a ratio
of about 10%
of the total batter: chocolate chips, nuts, candied fruits,
dried fruit
pieces (e.g.: apple, raisins, apricot, strawberry), poppy.
Basic Cake
- Pricing Estimation
| Ingredient |
Percentage |
EUR/Kg (approx.) |
Contribution
to 1 Kg batter (EUR) |
| Sugar |
25.8% |
0.50 |
0.129 |
| Wheat flour |
23% |
0.30 |
0.069 |
| Water |
15% |
0.00 |
0.000 |
| Eggs |
15% |
1.20 |
0.180 |
| Oil |
15% |
0.60 |
0.090 |
| PentaMix (5201) |
5% |
5.50 |
0.275 |
| Glycerol |
1% |
1.50 |
0.015 |
| Potassium
sorbate |
0.24% |
5.50 |
0.013 |
| Total approx.
cost per 1 Kg. batter: EUR 0.77 |
| Total approx.
cost per 1 Kg. baked cake: EUR 0.81 |
Remarks:
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Pricing calculation
of ingredients, without additional manufacturing and packaging costs.
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Rough approximation
only. The valid prices of the ingredients must be assured by the
manufacturers. The calculation is for a basic white cake, without
flavorings.
Disclaimer:
Any recipe, advice or technological assistance related to the implementation
of the PentaMix is given by Pentaor-Foodram or its representatives as a
gratuitous general advice for further trials to be done by the bakery.
There is no guarantee to the shelf life period of the final cakes.
It is the responsibility of the manufacturer to ensure the conformity of
the products to the laws, regulations and patents in force in the countries
where they may be implemented.
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