Dough
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Dough is a malleable, sometimes elastic paste most commonly made from flour or meal. Dough is typically made by mixing flour with a small amount of water or other liquid, and sometimes includes yeast,
Freshly mixed dough in the bowl of a stand mixer
A statue of a servant kneading dough, from Egypt, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2494–2345 BCE
A laminated dough prepared to make a flaky South Asian flatbread known as paratha
Yeast bread dough after kneading, before rising
Cake
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Cake is a baker's confectionery made by combining flour with a liquid, a fat or both, and usually with a leavening agent. Cakes are usually baked, but can be griddled. In their oldest forms, cakes wer
Dough
…Making and shaping dough begins the preparation of a wide variety of foodstuffs, particularly breads and bread-based items, but also including biscuits, cakes, cookies, dumplings, flatbreads, noodles, pasta, pastry, pizza, scones and similar items. There is no formal definition of what makes dough, though…
A layer cake made of pound cake, jam, and frosting.
Baking of Flat Cakes by the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1650
Chocolate cake mix in plastic packets
Butter cake with powdered sugar