Essay On Birthday Cake

Introduction

Safety, health, hygiene and nutrition are the basic provision for children both at home and in childcare centers especially due to the long hours the child stays in, hence eating healthily and being physically active is important for children. The children nutrition and lifestyle greatly impact every aspect of their wellbeing, growth and development throughout their life. Provision of appropriate and adequate nutritional values to children in relation to their age groups is crucial as to foster requirement for their healthy growth and for body maintenance so as to reduce health risks or illnesses.

Selected Food of Critique : Specialty Cakes

Celebration of child’s birthday is a significant event to every parent, it is especially meaningful to first time parents or to the first-born child in the family. Most of the children will celebrate their birthday in the childcare center he or she attends with their classmates as this is the place they spend mostly of their time. Hence birthday cake becomes a necessity for this

Ingredients of Fondant

Fondant is made mainly of sugar, supersaturating water and corn syrup. Fondant with added gelatin and/or glycerine is pliable as it can be kneaded and molded into all sorts of shapes and the use of various food colored dyes are then added for decorating these cakes.

Effects on Specialty cakes

Negative Effects

Colored Food dyes: Customized specialty cakes require the use of edible colorful food dyes to make and form all shapes and sizes for decorations. Research has shown that artificial food dyes colors blue, green, red and yellow are made from coal tar or petroleum and was related to illnesses like allergies, asthma, hyperactivity in kids, and even cancer. (Healthy Child Org,