Y10 GCSE Food Section A

The Design Question

Worth almost ¼ of your marks!

2. Decorated cakes Existing Products…

Methods of decoration:Spatula FondantShape decoratingPipingButtercreamCandyColour icing

Revise ways of decorating home made cakes vs Manufacturing in larger scales in factories vs bakeries

Your section A exam question:

Manufacturers want to create a new range of decorated cakes for cafes and restaurants offering luxury afternoon teas.

You MUST annotate your two design ideas to:• show the creative use of different• cake making methods• decorative techniques and finishes• natural flavours and colours.

1.Stages of making using production plans2. Quality control in food3. Traffic light system on food packaging4. Uses of salt in cooking -/+5. Eat well plate 6.Uses of fats in cooking7. Diet nutrition – e.g. teenager diet, elderly diet, diabetic diet8. Bacteria in food9. preserving food10.Fair trade, food miles and organic foods.

Top tips for answering exam questions: -

- Watch the time – you should aim to take about 1 minute per mark. Some early questions will take less time than this and some later questions will take you longer.

- Plan your longer answers – read the question carefully and think about the key points you will make. Check answers at the end – you should keep moving through the questions and not let yourself get stuck on one. If you are really unsure of an answer or cannot give an answer, then you can come back to that question at the end.

- Read back your long answers – make sure you view the whole answer if you are checking back to that question at the end.

Section B What to revise in general