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    Fat For Fairy Cakes

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    Fats play a key role in many food products and dishes. They are used in products like mayonnaise, salad dressings, spreads, chocolate, ice cream, and pastry to provide flavor, texture, and structure. In cooking and baking at home, fats can be used for frying foods, sautéing, and adding moisture and tenderness to baked goods. Consumer trends have increased options for vegan and free-from recipes that substitute oils for butter or other animal fats.

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    Fats play a key role in many food products and dishes. They are used in products like mayonnaise, salad dressings, spreads, chocolate, ice cream, and pastry to provide flavor, texture, and structure. In cooking and baking at home, fats can be used for frying foods, sautéing, and adding moisture and tenderness to baked goods. Consumer trends have increased options for vegan and free-from recipes that substitute oils for butter or other animal fats.

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    Fats play a key role in many food products and dishes. They are used in products like mayonnaise, salad dressings, spreads, chocolate, ice cream, and pastry to provide flavor, texture, and structure. In cooking and baking at home, fats can be used for frying foods, sautéing, and adding moisture and tenderness to baked goods. Consumer trends have increased options for vegan and free-from recipes that substitute oils for butter or other animal fats.

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    Fat for fairy cakes: The role of fat in food

    products
    Fats are used by the food industry in the manufacture of a wide variety of food products, as well as in our
    own kitchens. This factsheet will look at some of the common foods that fat plays a key role in, as well as
    some of the ways we use fats in cooking at home.
    Mayonnaise and salad
    Chocolate
    dressings
    Chocolate confectionery
    These are oil-in-water
    contains cocoa butter, a
    emulsions, typically made with
    Spreadable fats naturally occurring fat found in
    vegetable (rapeseed) oil. Lower
    These can be made from either the cocoa bean. Cocoa butter is
    fat mayonnaise will use less oil,
    vegetable or animal fats, but the primarily made of three fatty
    around 25% compared to the
    overall percentage of fat in acids in varying amounts
    regular version (around 80%).
    different types (e.g. butter, low fat depending on country of origin,
    spreads, margarine) is regulated. which affects its solid fat
    For example, the legal definition of content and melting properties.
    butter is the product with a milk fat Premium chocolate has a higher
    content of not less than 80% but use of cocoa butter and lower
    less than 90%, a maximum water use of vegetable fats.
    content of 16% and a maximum dry
    Fried foods
    non-fat milk material content (e.g.
    Deep frying foods such as
    milk proteins, of 2%).
    snack foods (e.g. potato
    crisps), chips, battered or
    breaded fish and bakery
    goods (e.g. doughnuts) gives Pastry
    a characteristic flavour, Fat is added to dough to help
    crisp texture and golden separate the layers of gluten and
    appearance. The oil used Ice cream starch when making flaky or puff
    must be stable to withstand Fat is an essential ingredient in ice pastry. Traditionally, butter is
    high temperatures and cream, providing flavour, a firmer used but other types of fat, such
    prevent a reduction in and more stable structure, and a as modified vegetable oils, are
    quality. Heating oils to very creamier and thicker taste. being used in the manufacture of
    high temperatures can Premium ice creams tend to have ready-made puff pastry, allowing
    produce trans fats. a higher milk fat content. them to be suitable for vegan
    consumers.

    Fats are also used in baking and Cooking with fats at home Oils can be used in deep frying,
    cooking at home, for example to add sautéing and pan frying as an efficient
    texture when baking a cake or making heat-transfer medium. Oils with a high
    shortcrust pastry and biscuits, or for smoke point (e.g. sunflower, rapeseed,
    adding flavour to foods during cooking. olive, peanut) are more stable and
    Consumer trends for veganism/free- suitable for deep frying – the smoke
    from have seen more recipes available point is the temperature at which the
    for baked goods that do not use butter oil starts to give off smoke, a sign it is
    but for example use oil, creating a starting to break down.
    denser texture.

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