subject: Halal Cakes: Following Halal In Terms Of Ingredients And Procedure [print this page] The Islamic religion decrees that some ingredients are not clean for the body. These ingredients are called haram, or forbidden. On the contrary, there are ingredients which are good for eating, and these are called halal. Examples of haram substances include pork, blood, and any kind of animal meat where the animal was slaughtered rather savagely and not in the name of Allah, meat from dead animals, alcohol, and food where the name of Allah was not noted during cooking and prior to consuming.
Islam worshippers are also big eaters, and for their cravings, halal eateries offer foods that are certified haram-free and that have been cooked employing halal functions. This implies, that the dish does not carry even the smallest haram ingredient, and that all the meat ingredients on the dish have come from beasts which were killed fleetly while mentioning Allah so as not to let the beast suffer long. Aside from not having blood, pork, and all of the substances explicitly distinguished as haram, the cooking utensils used for halal foods are not blended with those that are not halal.
We normally think that halal foods are just limited to main courses, but there are also halal cakes. These cakes have zero alcohol substance, because alcohol is a forbidden substance. Many bakers use a jot of alcohol to give the cake a fantastic flavour. Commonly the alcohol functions as an emulsifier. In fact, there are rhum cakes, obviously with rhum, cakes made with brandy, food for the gods, dark chocolate cakes that are sometimes blended with red wine to make that sharp feel, aroma, and taste of decadence.
Halal cakes do not have even a drop of alcohol at all. To attain the same savour, the alcohol is replaced with apple juice, or alcohol-free vanilla extract. Another remarkable thing to remember is the usage of solid fat in many baking needs. Halal cakes make sure that solid fats, which are sourced from animal fats including pig, are not part of the ingredients. As alternate for solid fats, there are fruit-based fat substitutes that work well with chocolate cakes.
Some baking components, like shortenings, may also derive from haram ingredients. To make particular halal cakes are indeed, and without uncertainty, free from haram components, even the shortening can be substituted with apple sauce, pureed prunes and apple butter when making pies.
