Baking Cake: A Guide to Product Development Cake is one of the most popular desserts in the world. With a whole range of flavors, sizes, and types, the texture can range from light and airy to dense and moist. The current cake market is valued at USD 42.94 billion as of 2019 and [...]
The clean label trend is way past just the “healthy” foods. Customers want their indulgent treats to be natural as well. So how do you make a clean label cake with a simple label that isn’t going to let down people’s expectations? It starts with taking things out. Like all other clean label products, you’ll be removing [...]
One of the biggest dilemmas to come out of the clean label trend is what to do with cakes. While organic or natural sweeteners, colors and flavors may be slightly easier to bake with, it’s harder to bake without: Bleached flour Bromated flour Aluminum-based phosphates These ingredients are key for high ratio cakes, giving layered cakes higher [...]
Clean Label Cake What is a Clean Label Cake? A clean label cake is labeled with fewer, recognizable ingredients. So, alternatives must be found for artificial preservatives, flavors, colors, or sweeteners when making these cakes.1 Types of cakes that have been commercialized as clean label include: Batter-based cakes like layer, chocolate, Devil’s Food, [...]
