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Misfortunes in Baking Trivia Quiz

It's a new apprentice baker's first day at the bakery. Unfortunately, he is having problems on the new job. Fill in the blanks to reveal just how poorly his first (and last) day on the job went.

by Joepetz. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Joepetz

Time
4 mins

Type

Quiz #
419,502

Updated
Apr 02 25

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
12 / 15

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The local bakery has hired an apprentice baker. Unfortunately, this new baker is inexperienced and struggles to create the correct pastries. He tried to start out simple with an eclair, since he knew an eclair was a pastry filled with . However, when the recipe mentioned , the dough used to make eclairs, the baker gave up and moved on.

He then tried Napoleons or , but the baker could not stack the layers without breaking them nor could he stack the cream puffs into a . The apprentice did a fine job baking king cake except he forgot to put the plastic inside so angry costumers returned them. In addition, he burned a batch of palmiers also called .

The head baker decided to reassign the apprentice to a task where baking wasn't required. His first task was to fill cannoli with the cream made from but he broke most of the shells. He made a mess putting the frosting on the Boston cream donuts. He mistakenly covered a Battenberg cake with icing instead of and put blueberry filling instead of cherry in the .

The problems continued. The new baker sat on the meringue for the and soaked the for the tiramisu in tea instead of coffee. That was the final straw for the head baker who fired the apprentice. However, on the way out, the apprentice swiped all three milks for the and an entire tray of Italian waffle cookies called . In the opinion of the head baker, it was a small price to pay to never have to deal with his apprentice again.

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[black forest cake] [Baby Jesus] [chocolate] [ricotta cheese] [tres leches cake] [marzipan] [choux] [croquembouche] [ladyfingers] [puff pastry] [mille-feuille] [pavlova] [elephant ears] [custard] [pizzelle]

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer:

Eclairs are a common French pastry made from choux dough, which is delicate and airy, and filled with a custard before being topped with chocolate and often a sugar flower.

A napoleon or a mille-feuille is a layered French pastry made from puff pastry dough and pastry cream. A croquembouche is a stacked and decorative display of cream puffs. Croquembouches are notoriously difficult to create since the cream puffs are often difficult to stack. A king cake is typically served around Christmastime or Mardi Gras and is a large cake with a plastic Baby Jesus hidden somewhere within the cake. According to tradition, whoever finds the Baby Jesus has to buy the following year's cake. Palmiers are a type of pastry made from puff pastry dough. They are also called elephant's ears, pig's ears and palm leaves because of their shape.

Cannoli are Italian pastries made from a shell of fried pastry dough and filled with a ricotta-based cream that also contains chocolate chips or chopped dried fruit. Boston cream donuts are based on Boston Cream pie. They are filled with pastry cream and topped with a chocolate icing. A Battenberg cake is a British sponge cake filled with jam and covered in marzipan. The inside looks like a checkerboard with yellow and pink squares. Black forest cake is a German cake filled with Black Forest cherries, cherry kirsch liquor and chocolate.

A pavlova is meringue dessert often topped with fruit. The outside is hard and crunchy, but the inside is light and fluffy. Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made from coffee-soaked ladyfinger cookies, mascarpone cheese, egg yolks and cocoa powder. Tres leches cake is a Latin American cake made from three milks: whole milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk to make the cake rich in flavor. Pizzelle are thin, waffle-like cookies from Italy that are flavored in many different ways with anise and vanilla being the most common.

Source: Author Joepetz

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