Cake manufacturing is another form of popular bakery . Its different from biscuit and bread as its has more soft crumbs and is prepared from batter rather from dough.
Cake making process :
Mixing : All ingredients are mixed in mixer to form a batter Major ingredient for cake are flour, fat , sugar , egg , emusilfier , leavening agent , preservatives and other additives like colors, fruit cuts, nuts,chocolate ,milk and other flavours.
This batter is then place in cake moulds of different shape and sizes and are place in baking oven . The Most popular oven is contray oven . Baked cake slab is then taken out of moulds and then passed on to lad slicer . These bar are again passed on to cake slicer for packing . These slices are then packed in horizontal flow wrap machine .Various packing materials are used for packaging .
Different packing are available .
single slice pack
double slice pack
sliced bar
cake bar
Varieties available are
fruit cut cake
milk cake
orange cake
chocolate cake
cup cakes
Rum cakes
PLANT AND MACHINERY FOR CAKE PLANTS
1.Vertical Mixer
2.Pollins Mixers
Hobart Mixers
2. Contray ovens
3. Cake slab slicers and slicing machines
4. Horizontal flow wrap machine .
Cake has to be produced in very hygienic conditions as because its very prone for microbial infestation , equipments used for creating hygienic conditions are
Ozoniser , Insecticutors, Air curtains , Pvc strips and chemicals like pot . permangnate for hand washing , Aprons are must with face mask and hair covers .
General shelf life for cakes varies from country to country but for sliced cakes its three month.
