1. Syrups, Icings and Sauces
Chapter 13
Syrups, Icings and Sauces
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2. Sugar Syrups Sugar is a key ingredient in the bakeshop.
It can be incorporated in its dry form or when liquefied into a syrup.
Sugar syrups take two forms:
Simple syrups, mixtures of sugar and water
Cooked syrups, made of melted sugar cooked until it reaches a specific temperature
The syrup’s density is dictated by the purpose.
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3. Sugar Syrups
Simple, or moistening or dessert, syrups moisten cakes, make sauces, sorbets and beverages.
Concentrated cooked sugar syrups are used for meringue, buttercream, candy and caramel.
Here the sugar is cooked to far higher temperatures than simple syrups.
Water is added at the beginning and evaporates during boiling.
The less water in the final solution, the harder the syrup.
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4. Stages of Cooked Sugar On Baking © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
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5. Icings
Or frostings, are sweet decorative coatings used as filling between layers or, as coating over the top and sides of the cake.
There are several types:
Buttercream
Foam
Fudge
Fondant
Glaze
Royal icing
Ganache
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7. Icings On Baking © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
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8. Dessert Sauces
Provide moisture, flavor, texture and enhance presentation.
Vanilla custard, the principal dessert sauce, is made with milk and cream.
Other dessert sauces include:
Fruit
Caramel
Butter
Wine
Chocolate
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9. Convenience Products Icings, glazing and toppings are available.
Icings are often exceedingly sweet and overpowered by artificial flavors and chemical preservatives.
The products save time and have consistent results but are more costly than scratch products.
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