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Cakes: A Festival Cliche'
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by: IanKleine
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Cakes are considered to be the epitome and the culmination of all things pastry and nice. Cakes are soft, sweet and quite nice to look at it is almost a shame to eat it. They are made up of the highest and finest quality flour, the prime of the crop, the most irresistible of basic ingredients known to man. You could say that cakes represent all that is good about food (except diabetes but let's not talk about that).
Traditionally, a cake is a type of food that is usually of the bread-oriented, and sweet and baked (though right now, there are cakes which can be cooked without the use of heat). The basic cake ingredients are usually some sort of flour (wheat, potato, depending on the gluten content which determines the quality of the cake), sweetener, binder (eggs and the like), fats, liquids and some sort of leavening agent. Though this is for the normal proper cake, there are other cake forms that are either incomplete, or have made substitutions but over all; a cake is a cake.
So what cake would be nice for doing a run inside a festival? Well, the first thing you'd have to do is assess the conditions and the environment of the venue. If you are staying in an open field, which is quite hot and humid, enough said. Bring an ice-box cake along, to contrast the burning sensation and to entice hungry and hot customers. Add a bit of mint to give that cool refreshing feeling too. Vice versa, bring freshly baked cake for cold seasons, brushed with chocolate that warms the soul (and your heart too). Served with bitter cocoa, it is for the win!
Cakes can directly affect the mood of a person, and it can also be used to tantalize people into buying more. A sour cake, for example, improves the appetite of whoever eats it. Perhaps serving one would coax them into splurging on some sugar. Or opt for artificial sweeteners, to cater to diabetics and those that are watching out for the bulge.
Cakes are actually a good business to start with. You get your time needed, you have the opportunity to make new network connections and you get to make some nice friends as it is. You get your reputation as the cake man or the cake woman, but the idea is completely relative. You may need a lot of capital, but men need food, and cakes are certainly food for the gods.
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