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If You Get More Than 7/10 On This Vocabulary Test, You're A Baking Expert

It'd take a pretty ~smart cookie~ to get them all right.

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Jasmin Nahar
Jasmin Nahar
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    Eclairs
    Eclairs
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    Croissants
    Croissants
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    Mille feiulle
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    Mille feiulle
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    Pate a Choux is another way of saying choux pastry, which is what eclairs are made from.

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    To pierce it
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    To trim the edges of dough going over the edge of the tin
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    To cool it in the fridge before cooking
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    It involves piercing the dough, to avoid pie crust puffing up because of steam when you bake it.

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    Cake
    Cake
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    Cookies
    Cookies
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    Churros
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    Churros
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    The two-stage method is a way of making cakes. It involves adding about three-quarters of the liquid, as well as all the fat, to your dry ingredients and adding in the remaining liquid in stages.

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    Icing made with icing sugar and butter
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    Icing made with icing sugar and water
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    Icing made with icing sugar and egg whites
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    Royal icing uses egg whites.

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    Fudge cake
    Fudge cake
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    Muffins
    Muffins
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    Brownies
    Brownies
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    Muffins, and many other quick breads, can get "tunnelling", which is when big air pockets or tunnels form on the inside.

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    Fruit compote
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    Syrup
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    Meringue
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    A savarin is a cake that is soaked in a liqueur-flavoured syrup.

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    Eggs
    Eggs
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    Milk
    Milk
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    Fat
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    Fat
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    "Cutting in" involves mixing fat, such as butter, with dry ingredients.

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    Warming it in the oven before slicing finely and molding into curls
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    Melting and then cooling it in a particular way
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    Incorporating it with cream to use as a filling
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    It involves heating up chocolate to break down the crystals in it, and then cooling it to improve its consistency and appearance.

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    Pistachio
    Pistachio
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    Hazelnut
    Hazelnut
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    Almond
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    Almond
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    Frangipane is an almond filling.

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    Rolling and folding layers of dough and fat
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    Brushing sheets of dough with olive oil and layering them on top of one another
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    Rubbing butter into flour before adding water
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    Laminated dough involves rolling and folding layers of dough and fat. An example of a laminated dough would be croissants.

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