Web-quest for Baking Chiffon Cake

                Most of the Filipino people love to eat cakes, be it the simple ones or the sophisticated ones. Baking cakes can also be a great hobby for some or a good business to start with for others.In this regards, this web-quest is designed to equip the students with "know how skills", specifically in baking chiffon cake. This activity makes them familiarize with the basic tools, ingredients and procedures in baking a chiffon cake.

            Furthermore, students will be able to apply their learned skills to bake cakes that are much more complicated than baking chiffon cake. Also, in this activity students creativity will be test in making creative packaging for their baked chiffon cakes. Making  creative packaging, essential to marketability of a product, helps the students enhance their entrepreneurial skills and imaginative mind. 

          The class will be divided into groups. Each group,composed of 5 members, are to bake a chiffon cake and make a creative packaging for the final product.

       In this group activity, the tools and place will be provided. However, the ingredients  will not be provided. Members of the group shall take part in the baking of chiffon cake. After the baking process is done, students shall make a creative packaging for the final output to make it saleable. 

1. They will be guided by the following websites in baking chiffon cakes

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chiffon-cake/

http://kitchentigress.blogspot.com/2014/01/cake-dos-donts.html

2. They may watch videos from the internet to look for tips and techniques in baking chiffon cake

3.

ngredients :

• 2-1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup oil (vegetable oil or corn oil)
• 7 egg yolks, at room temperature
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3/4 cup cold water
• 7 egg whites, at room temperature
• 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
• 3/4 cup sugar

Cooking Procedures :

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.  Prepare 10-inch ungreased tube pan.
2. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
3. Make a well at the center and add oil, egg yolks, water and vanilla.  Beat until smooth and no lumps occur.  Set aside.
4. Using a stand mixer or electric hand mixer, beat egg whites until frothy.  Add the cream of tartar.  Continue to beat on high until soft peaks begin to form.  Add sugar very gradually and continuously beating until meringue is glossy and stiff.
5. Gently fold the egg yolk mixture into the meringue until well blended, ensuring that you scrap the bottom of the bowl as you fold.
6. Pour into prepared ungreased tube pan.
7. Bake until golden and middle springs back when touched for about 45 minutes.
8. Invert onto the neck of a bottle.
9. Cool completely upside down.

4. After the recipe is given, each group will now execute the cooking procedure stated in the recipe.

5. After the baking of the chiffon cake, the final output will be put into the created packaging by them

The final output will be evaluated based on the following criteria

          CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!   

          Now that you are done with the activity, you can now make use of  your knowledge and skills in baking chiffon cakes in exploring and baking other cakes, be it simple or sophisticated ones. All yo have to do is to practice and most importantly enjoy baking.

         This web-quest is created by Ma. Lourdes C. Guisic a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at University of Nueva Caceres as an in partial fulfillment of the requirements in her Educational Teachnology Class.