What is the difference between pastry and cake

Western pastry is the abbreviation of Western-style pastry, is a class of pastry introduced from abroad. The main ingredients of pastry are flour, sugar, butter, milk, vanilla powder, shredded coconut and so on. Due to the high fat and protein content of pastry, sweet flavor but not greasy mouth, and beautiful style, so in recent years the sales volume has increased year by year. Western-style pastry is mainly divided into small snacks, cakes, shortening, mixed pastry and gas ancient five categories.

So the cake is one of the pastry, and occupies a major position.

A good pastry chef is skilled in German, French, English, Russian and other pastry. For example, wax ears, sandy cookies, dulce de leche, squeezed flowers, butter, jam morsels, black and white faces, iced puff pastry, marzipan, coconut rings, koshi chiku, granulated sugar chiku, and a variety of cakes.

And the cake maker only needs to learn to make green cake, flower cake, fruit cake, and sun cake ok!

It can be said that a good pastry chef can also be a good cake maker, while a good cake maker is not necessarily a good pastry chef. However, in recent years, pastry began to take the country by storm, in small cities in the main consumption of pastry or cake, so even if you only know how to do cake, as long as the heart of the business, you can also open a successful pastry store.