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 [...]
+ SUBSCRIBE & NEVER MISS AN EPISODE A sixth-generation master baker, competitor and jury member for international baking competitions, business owner, consultant, professor, and most recently, author—Jimmy Griffin has just about done it all in his baking career. He got his start working from a young age in his 125-year-old family bakery [...]
When people think of pastries, they usually imagine rich, buttery, and sometimes flaky baked goods. Although, as the vegetarian and vegan bakery trends expand, food manufacturers are beginning to offer more plant-based solutions for these bakery products. IBIE is less than a week away, and I am really looking forward to seeing what sweet [...]
The new bakery technology that is coming out nowadays never ceases to amaze me. If you enjoy seeing the newest technology, you’ll find plenty showcased at IBIE! After all, to enhance the texture and taste of products, the production process has to be precise. This is especially true with artisan goods. So, I am looking [...]
+ SUBSCRIBE & NEVER MISS AN EPISODE Bakers have a special knack of seeing opportunities instead of risks. It’s a gift that allows food to make an impact on the world, even if it just starts by helping one person. In this episode, your BAKED in Science host Mark Floerke interviews 81-year-old [...]
Sugar is one of the absolutely essential bakery ingredients for just about any baked good. First and foremost, it adds that flavor all us sweet tooths love. Yet it is so much more than just a sweetener with many key uses in baked goods. Sugar functions in baking as: Food for yeast: during fermentation to [...]
There's nothing quite like a well-baked croissant: the airy texture, the subtle flavors, the melt-in-your-mouth layers...delicious! However, as any pastry chef will tell you, croissant production must be done just right, especially when you're producing them on a high speed line. What’s the secret to a beautifully flaky croissant? Two things key things are happening: Lamination: a folding [...]
Fondant What is Fondant? Fondant is a glossy hard icing or topping used for covering and decorating cakes and pastries. Technically, fondant is a partially-crystalline confectionery product made of small sucrose crystals in a saturated sugar syrup.1 Hardness of fondant is determined by its water content with typical range from 10 - [...]
Cinnamon Roll Also known as cinnamon bun, cinnamon swirl, cinnamon snail What is a Cinnamon Roll? A cinnamon roll is a sweet baked dough filled with a cinnamon-sugar filling. Made with a rich dough leavened with yeast, their characteristic form is due to rolling a dough sheet containing sweetened cinnamon filling.1 Common [...]
Dough Lamination Also known as dough sheeting and dough folding What is Dough Lamination? Dough Lamination refers to the process of creating multiple, separate layers of dough and fat when making pastry. Under the lamination concept, the dough is wrapped around the fat, and then rolled out and folded over on itself [...]
