Food trivia
Name a baking ingredient
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a baking ingredient”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 210 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Flour
- Sugar
- Butter
- Egg
- Milk
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Vanilla
- Salt
- Yeast
- Cinnamon
- Chocolate
The next answers people reach for
These 62 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Plain flour
- Self-raising flour
- Bread flour
- Cake flour
- Wholemeal flour
- Brown sugar
- Icing sugar
- Caster sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Cocoa powder
- Cream
- Buttermilk
- Sour cream
- Cream cheese
- Honey
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Golden syrup
- Cornstarch
- Nutmeg
- Ginger
- Allspice
- Cloves
- Raisins
- Sultanas
- Currants
- Walnuts
- Pecans
- Almonds
- Almond extract
- Dark chocolate
- Margarine
- Shortening
- Lard
- Oats
- Desiccated coconut
- Lemon zest
- Lemon juice
- Orange zest
- Apples
- Bananas
- Pumpkin puree
- Cream of tartar
- Gelatin
- Food colouring
- Sprinkles
- Marzipan
- Fondant
- Condensed milk
- Evaporated milk
- Yoghurt
- Water
- Oil
- Egg yolk
- Egg white
- Instant yeast
- Sourdough starter
- Peanut butter
- Jam
- Marshmallows
- Mixed peel
- Glace cherries
How deep does “Name a baking ingredient” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsFlour · Sugar · Butter
- Below the Surface62 answers · 25 ptsPlain flour · Self-raising flour · Bread flour …
- The Deep88 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss47 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 88 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, X and Z. The Abyss has 47 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 210 answers in total, 117 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Egg”. Longest: “Sodium acid pyrophosphate”.
- C, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 47 answers can be typed more than one way: “Hundreds and thousands” counts as Sprinkles.
How to go deeper
- Start with C: 36 of the answers begin with it.
- Flour, Sugar and Butter are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a baking ingredient”?
- The usual first answers are Flour, Sugar, Butter, Egg and Milk. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a baking ingredient”?
- 210 in all: 12 on The Tip, 62 Below the Surface, 88 in The Deep, 47 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a baking ingredient” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Egg” and the longest is “Sodium acid pyrophosphate”.
- How hard is “Name a baking ingredient”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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