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The cakes having butter as the main and most important ingredient are known as butter cakes. In America, butter cakes are very famous and popular. Butter cakes have been originated from pound cakes which are famous in United Kingdom. These cakes were prepared in ancient times using traditional methods. They used equal amounts of flour, sugar, butter and eggs as their ingredients to prepare a rich and heavy cake. The 19th century came with the invention and discovery of leavening agents which were natural as well as synthetically prepared and baking powder.

Cakes can be described or categorised on the basis of their different physical forms. Cakes can vary in sizes according to the number of people they are catering. They can be very small catering just to one person or they can be as big as wedding cake catering to hundred’s of people in a social gathering.

Cakes are of different flavors and varities. They can be classified into different categories or groups depending on the ingrdients used to make the cake and the cooking techniques used.

One of the oldest types of cakes are the yeast cakes. They are almost like yeast breads. That is their similarity is very high. These are considered to be very traditional and include pastries of babka and stollen for example.

The form of food that is present in practically all happy and joyful occasions are cakes. Cakes are a part of birthday parties, weddings anniversaries and are a part of the dessert circle as well. There is always a social ceremony associated when a wedding cake is cut in most of the cultures. For instance, a famous marriage ritual in Ancient Rome got originated by the sharing and cutting of a cake. The name of the ritual is Confarreatio. One of the most famous cakes is a type of sponge cake which is made by the Jewish, sometimes along with the matzo meal.

A type of a sponge cake roll is a swiss roll or commonly known as jelly roll. This is a very thin cake made of sugar, flour and eggs. All of these are mixed together and baked in a sheet pan, which is a baking tray, shallow and rectangular in shape. Once the cake is ready and is baked fully it is carefully removed from the pan. Butter cream and jam is spread on the cake. The cake is then rolled and is cut neatly into a number of circular pieces.