A birthday is considered as a very special occasion in someone’s life. Everybody wants to celebrate their birthday in a somewhat special way and it is completely impossible without a cake. Cake and birthday are complementary to each other. So, a delicious and lavish cake is everyone’s desire in order to celebrate a birthday party.

There are various birthday cakes by post uk options are available over the internet. Just you have to choose your desired cake. If you are unable to decide it by yourself, then don’t need to worry. With the following list, you can choose your favorite cake considering the taste and health preferences.

Basically, cakes are divided into the following two categories (based on their fat content):

1. Butter or Oil Cakes: These types of cakes are also regarded as creamed cakes. These cakes are made with butter, margarine, or vegetable shorting. These cakes are quite tender and moist. In butter or oil cakes, ingredients are usually mixed with a special method, known as creaming method. In this particular method, butter and sugar are beaten altogether. After that, different other ingredients are mixed with the prepared mixture. These cakes are very light. Moist and tender crumb are two crucial characteristics of a well-prepared butter cake.

Under the above category, two popular cakes are as follows:

• Pound cakes: It is believed that this type of cake preparation is associated with one pound of each ingredient like flour, eggs, butter, and sugar. All these ingredients make the particular cake tender, though its texture should be denser. These cakes are generally served plain that is associated with icing or little glaze.
• Butter (and Oil) Layer Cakes: These types of cakes are usually lighter compared to the pound cakes (traditional). They are featured with sweet and moist flavor.

2. Sponge and Foam cakes: These types of cakes are involved with a rich amount of eggs than the flour when the batter is made. Sponge and Foam cakes are divided into further three categories:

• Cakes with no fat in any form: These types of cakes are divided into two categories:

1. Angel Cakes: These types of cakes are very spongy and light. They are not involved with any fat; instead of it they use softer wheat as a main ingredient. These cakes use only egg white and no egg yolks.
2. Dacquoises: Such types of cakes are involved with the almond meringue layers and these layers are involved with cream and apricots. These types of cakes taste best if they are served chilled. The particular cake requires various ingredients, such as almond (in powdered form), egg whites, caster sugar, dried apricots, cream of tartar, granulated sugar, double cream, lemon zest, and water.

• Cakes whose only fat is egg yolk: Sponge cakes are an example of these types of cakes. They are similar to the angel cakes, but there is a difference also, Sponge cakes are prepared with whole eggs that are not the case with the angel cakes.
• Cakes which contain oil or fat in addition to egg yolks: These cakes are divided into two groups:

1. Chiffon cakes: It is somewhat similar to a sponge cake and oil cake. But, chiffon cakes are associated with oil that is not the case in the sponge cakes.
2. Genoises: It can be considered somewhat similar to a sponge cake, but compared to a sponge cake, Genoises are less sweet.

Now, you can easily choose your favorite cake for the birthday party and for the delivery, you can search online for cakes delivered uk. Enjoy your favorite cake with your family members and friends.

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