1/12/2012 If I am making cake and use flour, sugar, and eggs, why does the cake have different properties than each of the ingredients that went into it?

The cake will have different properties than the ingredients because when you mix them, they mix together to look like something else. When you bake it, they heat up which causes a chemical change. It makes it puffs up and is safe to eat. If you eat the cake that hasn't been baked yet, you can get poisoned. When it is baked, it kills that poisonous stuff inside of it, and makes it edible. That is why the cake is different looking than the ingredients itself.