Cakes is for joy

 by: Vialyn Felipe

“Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake and people remember. It is all about memories” –Buddy Valastro

                Cakes is one of the desserts that we serve every occasion we celebrate. It is one food we can’t say no because like chocolates, it is sweet and many people loves to eat. It comes in different flavors, sizes, colors, weight and layers. It is a bread-like food that is bake. Some are affordable and some are expensive especially those that came from good branded names.

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                Cake is a combination of sugar, flour, eggs, butter or oil with some varieties that requires liquid and leavening ingredients like yeast and baking powder. The fruits, nuts, dried or candied fruits are often added to enhance flavor and taste. Cakes are often filled with fruit preserves and dessert sauces. Cakes are often served particularly during weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are different flavors which kids like. Not only kids but also the adults especially those who have sweet tooth. There are different varieties of cakes:  yeast cakes, cheese cakes, sponge cakes, butter cakes and many more.

                Cakes are serve depending on what occasion is being celebrate. When the occasion is a birthday party, the common themes are the cartoon characters which kids like. There are their favorite heroes and anime characters.  When wedding, cakes are often designed to the theme the couple wants. Usually, there are small figurines on the top of the wedding cakes that symbolize the newly wedded couples. At holidays, like Christmas day or New Year, the cakes are serve with different colors and with greetings like “Happy New Year and Merry Christmas”.

These cakes come in different shapes. The common shapes are: cake balls, bundt cakes, layer cakes, cup cakes, sheet cakes and many more. Cakes are decorated with icing or frosting that comes in different colors and also toppings like sprinkles which are also known as “jimmies”. In United States, cakes are usually made from powdered sugar icing. There are also various tools that are needed in baking the cakes and decorating them to make it look delicious and more presentable.

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During Christmas and Birthdays, my family and I serve cake for the celebration. My parents buy cake at the cake store according to the celebration we are going to celebrate. This could symbolize a happy celebration with my family and sometimes with my relatives. This is also memories that we made with our loved ones.  When there are birthday parties in our neighbors, they also have cake as the center piece of their tables. These cakes are divided to the family and visitors. According to Swiss theory, “A birthday-cake must have lighted candles arranged around it, one candle for each year of life. Before the cake is eaten, the person whose birthday it is should blow out the candles one after another”. It means that each candle in the cake symbolizes on how many years the person who celebrates his birthday is.

There are many options you can have to somewhat avoid disease. There are healthy cakes that are made up of vegetables. One is the pumpkin cake which has pumpkins as the major ingredient. Next is the yellow tomato cake. The others are the: courgette cake with lemon curd, black bean brownies, coconut sweet potato cheesecake, rainbow fruit and vegetable cake, pumpkin cupcakes and the carrot cake. There are many healthy vegetable cakes but I can’t enumerate it one by one.

People, who have sweet tooth, don’t get contented on sweet goodies they eat until there are more. We all know that many people love sweet. But, base on the saying: one is enough, two is too much and three is a poison to kill a person. This simply say that everything that we eat must be just enough for us because going beyond our limitations may harm us. I am only saying that we must be contented when we are already full and not seek for more foods and eat. Talking of threats to our health, diabetes is the common disease and one reason is the too much intake of sugar from the foods we eat.  So we must be conscious and we must take care of our health so that we will not regret at the end.