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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Dive into a world of amazing cakes and cafes, where look and taste combine in the hope of tempting customers to part with their cash for sweet treats.
Explore how our tastes and habits are changing when it comes to buying and eating cakes and puddings – and find out why social media is now crucial to the baking and dessert café industry.
Presenter / producer: Emb Hashmi Image: Forever Rose cafe; Credit: Ebraheem Al Samadi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Business Daily. I want to talk about one of my favorite things in the world. |
| 0:11.3 | Cake. Cover it in a crumb coat and then pipe all the colors on. Now, am I good enough at macarons to be experimenting with them? Absolutely not. |
| 0:18.6 | Here's how to make mini chocolate chip cookies in just 10 minutes. |
| 0:21.6 | Whist together, melted butter, light brown shrew... |
| 0:23.6 | Roll into a croissant formation and cover an egg wash, dash in the oven, pull them apart and just look at the choco goodness. |
| 0:28.6 | When I was growing up in Birmingham, in the UK, buying cake meant going down to the local high street, |
| 0:35.6 | choosing something, maybe a vanilla slice or a lovely |
| 0:39.1 | gullab jaman. Recently, however, I've noticed more cakes and bakeries in my local area and on my |
| 0:46.3 | social media feeds and they have elevated cake to a whole new level. The pistachio, a very trending flavor, filled with chantilly cream and |
| 0:57.7 | pistachio variegato, pistachio outside and a crispy sabblet on top. It's absolutely crucial now to make |
| 1:05.6 | sure cakes look amazing and the setting they served in is often just as important. |
| 1:13.0 | On every table you see the food because the food is the only thing that has the light, the |
| 1:16.5 | colour. So we have like this famous huge macaron that's chocolate macarone with raspberries. |
| 1:21.9 | It takes charge on the table because it's the only thing that's with colour. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm M Hashmi. Welcome to the world of picture perfect cakes |
| 1:28.8 | and cafes. Let's start with a little history lesson. Where did cake actually come from? Jessica |
| 1:38.7 | Reid is a cafe historian based in the US. Historians generally agree that cake originated in the U.S. |
| 1:49.6 | Historians generally agree that cake originated in the ancient world as bread-like dough sweetened with honey. |
| 1:51.1 | The word cake shows up in the Middle Ages and was derived from the old Norseword, |
| 1:54.9 | caca, spelled KakaK-A-K-A. |
| 1:57.3 | Cakes, as we know them today, came about beginning in the mid-17th century with advancements in oven |
| 2:02.2 | technology and the availability of sugar. Later developments such as baking soda and powder, |
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