Cake Gel is mainly used by the cake manufacturer in making cakes. It is a cake improver, comprised of emulsifiers and humectants, which greatly improves volume through increased aeration and provides a more uniform crumb structure. It also improves the softness of a cake.
Additionally, cake gel increases stability and reduces variances that may be caused due to changing flour quantity and changing process parameters.
If you are looking forward to starting a low-cost small home-based manufacturing business in the food industry, cake gel is a product you can consider. a small
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What is Cake Gel?
Cake gels are semi-liquid made up of water, emulsifiers, solvents, and sugar. Raw materials like vegetable oil, G.M.S., Xanthenes gum, Satiric Acid, etc are basic ingredients. It is a stable (at room temperature) gel-like product.
The cake gel-making project requires a mixing machine, heating equipment, packing machine for manufacturing the product. This helps in improving the cake quality after baking. The product is in high demand in the domestic market and also worldwide.
In the cake gel-making business, one needs to concentrate on optimizing process flow, delivering market-relevant innovations, shortening market response times, and attaining higher success rates with development projects.
Things to consider while Making Cake Gel
While making cake gel, you need to consider the following;
- Choice of emulsifier
- Raw material properties
- Recipe (ingredient ratio)
- Blending technology
- Processing time
- Temperature control
- Equipment
By understanding and controlling these parameters, you can produce a cake gel with the desired shelf-life and functionality.
While making cake gel, you will need to aim to create a uniform distribution of right-sized, stabilized air bubbles or ‘holes’ throughout the cake. And to achieve this, you will need to create a system that keeps emulsifiers in α-formed crystals as long as possible.
This type of cake gel will continue to work its magic at every stage of the production process, and its softening effects will last for many months.
Cost of Cake Gel Making Manufacturing Unit
Here is a sample cost estimate of running a 550 Kg Cake Gel/Day:
| Plant capacity: 550 Kgs Cake Gel/Day | Plant & Machinery: Rupees 7 Lakhs |
| Working capital: Rupees 20 Lakhs | T.C.I: Rupees 28 Lakhs |
| Return: 53.00% | Break-even: 37.00%. |
The actual cost of the cake gel-making project may deviate from a change of any of the assumptions. You can modify the Cake Gel project capacity and project cost as per your requirement.