About Mark Floerke

Mark is a bakery application scientist and accomplished pastry chef. He began his 45 year career with an apprenticeship in Germany as a pastry chef, and went on to work for retail bakeries, restaurants, resorts, and commercial commissaries. Mark has experience with product development and ingredient research, and has mentored future professionals as a baking instructor. He is a part of BAKERpedia’s BAKERin program and is the BAKED in Science Podcast Host.
13 03, 2023

Sugar Substitutes in Rusk Dough

Our bakery forums keep growing, and the conversations keep flowing! So, we’re back with another hot topic from our commercial baking community page, Baking Industry Professionals. This month, it’s rusk! While this may be a British term for twice-baked bread, this baked good certainly isn’t limited to the United Kingdom. Rusk can be found [...]

17 02, 2023

Flaking Out with Sfogliatelle

As bakers, keeping tabs on buzzworthy baked goods is always good for business. Not just for innovation’s sake but also to get an idea of the types of products consumers are looking for. Since our commercial baking community page, Baking Industry Professionals, is always discussing bakery trends, we thought we would choose a hot [...]

5 12, 2022

Pak Perfect Non-Sticky Glaze

Want to hear something a-glaze-ing? Food manufacturers producing donuts finally have a solution for an overly sticky glaze that can make the packing process messy. During the Baking Expo in Las Vegas, I spoke to Allison Hornev, Director of Core Portfolio and Innovation, and Roja Ergan, Director of R&D Wet Ingredients, at Dawn Foods [...]

15 11, 2022

Clean Label Fermentation

Today’s consumers want healthier products that are simple to understand and use more familiar ingredients. Consequently, clean label is a growing trend in the baking industry and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. During the Baking Expo in September, I caught up with E.B. Russell, Business Development Manager, and Gideon Butler-Smith, Technical Service [...]

31 10, 2022

London Calling with AB Mauri

I know I’m not the first to say that baking is an art and that, alongside the creation of delicious baked goods, it can also ignite the imagination. At this year’s Baking Expo, one of the booths where bakers really got carried away (in a good way) by their imagination was AB Mauri’s London [...]

18 10, 2022

Baking with Organic Oats

If you are debating which grains to add to your healthy baked goods, I t-oat-ally recommend you give oats a try! At IBIE in Las Vegas last month, I sat down with Pat Shannon, Business Development at Grain Millers, Inc. to find out how their oat and grain-based solutions offer bakers a variety of [...]

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