A chiffon cake is a very light cake made with vegetable oil , eggs , sugar , flour , baking powder , and flavorings.
4-464: [REDACTED] Look up chiffon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chiffon may refer to: Chiffon cake , a light, fluffy cake Chiffon (fabric) , a type of fabric Chiffon margarine , a butter substitute Chiffonade , a French term for the cutting of herbs or leafy green vegetables into long, thin strips The Chiffons , girl group of
8-680: A tube pan or layered with fillings and icings . In the original recipe, the cake tin is not lined or greased, which enables the cake batter to stick to side of the pan, giving the cake better leverage to rise, as well as support in the cooling process when the cake is turned upside down to keep air bubbles stable. The high oil and egg content create a very moist cake that does not tend to harden or dry out as traditional butter cakes might. This makes it better-suited than many cakes to fill or frost with ingredients that need to be refrigerated or frozen, such as pastry cream or ice cream . The lack of butter, however, means that chiffon cakes lack much of
12-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chiffon cake Chiffon cakes (as well as angel food , sponge , and other foam cakes ) achieve a fluffy texture by having egg whites beaten separately until stiff and then folded into the cake batter before baking. Its aeration properties rely on both the quality of the meringue and the chemical leaveners such as baking powder . Chiffon cake can be baked in
16-555: The 1960s Chiffon, a character in the musical Little Shop of Horrors and the film , named after the girl group Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chiffon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chiffon&oldid=1250195956 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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