So according to Merriam Webster bread is: a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal
And cake is: A: a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened B: a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)
And yet some people don’t think that cake is bread.
What’s your opinion?
Cake does not encapsulate and is therefore toast.
vaguely threatening gesture You’re toast, cake.
Wrong. Cake is a frosting sandwich.
As a former bakery owner: No, not at all. Cakes are made with loose batters, ideally with very little gluten. Breads are made with doughs, ideally with a bunch of gluten. Of course there are some formulas that might blur the lines a bit, but in general if you’re quite literally pouring the batter into a mold or pan of some sort rather than placing it inside, it’s a cake. Or a muffin. Or a cupcake.
Should also be noted that cakes are usually leavened chemically rather than with yeast. You don’t usually allow a cake batter to rise like you do with a bread dough.
Are pumpkin/banana/zucchini breads still bread in this definition?
From my experience, no. They’re made from batters and poured into a loaf pan, causing the iconic shape. If you frosted them they’d be a cake like any other.
My argument: Bread is leavened and whose basic mixture is flour or meal. (Usually baked, but so are most cakes so I’ll leave this as moot.)
If a cake can meet those requirements, Yes, it would be a bread.
Otherwise, it would be a breadlike food. In the cake definition it uses a “breadlike food” probably due to to the latter half of the statement “often unleavened”. This would lead me to presume that most cakes, while breadlike, do not meet the requirements. It’d be more reasonable to make a statement on the majority (breadlike) than minority (Bread).
Cake is just uppity bread. Acting all fancy and getting dressed up for special occasions. You changed, bro.
Not bread. Cake doesn’t use yeast (leavened basically means using yeast). Bread does.
Cake uses eggs, bread doesn’t.
Cake is expensive to buy or make. Bread isn’t as bad.
I think we clearly know it’s not bread. Back me up here someone. I’m the person being referred to in the OP btw.
Cake doesn’t use yeast (leavened basically means using yeast).
some cakes do use yeast, and something like baking powder is a leavening agent
Cake uses eggs, bread doesn’t.
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Cake is expensive to buy or make. Bread isn’t as bad.
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Cake was bread historically
I think all other dough-based dishes derive from bread really, since I believe it’s the most basis dough recipe ye can make…
Nowadays, my definition of modern cake = bread + defined-sweetness + fluffiness and softness
My proof that cake was bread; look at pound cake, one of modern cake’s forerunners, and tell me no one thought and baked it, thinking “how about bread, but more deluxe?”
You don’t need cake. You do knead bread.
These comments could be part of an episode of Qi.
it’s a doctrinal difference
also you could possibly look at something like gluten formation, but i suspect there’s a gluteny cake out there as well as a glutenless bread
