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Baking and cakes quiz
Twelve questions on classic bakes. We describe or show a cake, and you have to say which one it is. Eight questions are pictures, so no peeking in the recipe book.
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- 1. Which cake is this?
- A. Victoria sponge (answer)
- B. Battenberg
- C. Madeira cake
- D. Coffee and walnut cake
A Victoria sponge is two sponge layers with jam and buttercream (or whipped cream), dusted with icing sugar. Traditionally named for Queen Victoria, who enjoyed a slice with her afternoon tea. - 2. Which cake is this?
- A. Swiss roll
- B. Battenberg (answer)
- C. Sachertorte
- D. Streusel cake
A Battenberg hides a four-square checkerboard of pink and yellow sponge inside a marzipan wrap. It was created for the 1884 wedding of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg. - 3. Which cake is this?
- A. Lemon drizzle cake (answer)
- B. Madeira cake
- C. Gingerbread loaf
- D. Pound cake
The lemon drizzle is a loaf or round cake poked all over and soaked in a sharp lemon sugar syrup while still warm, giving that glistening, crackled top. - 4. Which cake is this?
- A. Devil's food cake
- B. Sachertorte
- C. Black Forest gateau (answer)
- D. Yule log
Black Forest gateau layers chocolate sponge with whipped cream and cherries, and gets coated in chocolate shavings. It is named after the Black Forest region of Germany and its cherry liqueur, kirsch. - 5. Which cake is this?
- A. Carrot cake (answer)
- B. Banana bread
- C. Spiced apple cake
- D. Sticky toffee pudding
Carrot cake is a moist spiced sponge with grated carrot and often walnuts, and the classic topping is cream cheese frosting. The carrots mostly melt into sweetness rather than tasting vegetabley. - 6. Which cake is this?
- A. Raspberry ripple cake
- B. Red velvet cake (answer)
- C. Cherry chip cake
- D. Strawberry sponge
Red velvet gets its deep crimson crumb (historically from cocoa plus a little food colouring) and is always paired with a tangy cream cheese or ermine frosting. - 7. What are these?
- A. Whoopie pies
- B. Macarons (answer)
- C. Melting moments
- D. Viennese whirls
Macarons are two smooth almond meringue shells with ruffled 'feet' sandwiching a filling. They are a French patisserie classic and a notorious Bake Off technical challenge. - 8. Which cake is this?
- A. Coffee and walnut cake (answer)
- B. Mocha layer cake
- C. Malt loaf
- D. Parkin
Coffee and walnut cake pairs coffee-flavoured sponge and buttercream with walnut halves on top. It was the very first technical challenge on The Great British Bake Off. - 9. We describe the cake, you name it: a thin light sponge, spread with jam, rolled up tightly and dusted with icing sugar. What is it?
- A. Swiss roll (answer)
- B. Baked Alaska
- C. Profiterole stack
- D. Charlotte royale
A Swiss roll is baked in a shallow tray, rolled while still warm (sometimes with a damp tea towel) and unrolled to fill once cool. - 10. A classic Victoria sponge is weighed by 'equal weights' of which four ingredients?
- A. Flour, butter, sugar and eggs (answer)
- B. Flour, butter, sugar and milk
- C. Flour, butter, eggs and cream
- D. Flour, sugar, eggs and baking powder
You weigh the eggs, then use the same weight of butter, sugar and flour. That is why recipes say a '4oz' or '6-egg' Victoria sponge. - 11. The Great British Bake Off first aired in 2010. Which judge has appeared in every series?
- A. Prue Leith
- B. Mary Berry
- C. Paul Hollywood (answer)
- D. Dame Nancy Silverton
Paul Hollywood has judged every series since 2010. Mary Berry left after the 2016 move to Channel 4, and Prue Leith joined in 2017. - 12. A Swedish princess cake (prinsesstårta), a famous Bake Off technical challenge, is traditionally covered in which colour of marzipan?
- A. Pink
- B. White
- C. Green (answer)
- D. Blue
The classic prinsesstårta is domed and wrapped in green marzipan with a pink marzipan rose on top. It is filled with pastry cream, jam and whipped cream.
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