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 [...]
Whether as a topping on pie, stand alone cookies or a decadent layer in cake, meringue is a bakery classic. There's plenty of room to get creative with this dessert in your bakery. A few options are: Cream or chiffon pie Sponge, foam, or chocolate velvet cake Parisian macarons Italian (boiled) meringue Marshmallow How do [...]
Boston Cream Pie What is Boston Cream Pie? Boston cream pie is not a pie at all but a sponge cake (or other yellow batter cake) filled with a pastry cream and topped with a freshly cooled chocolate ganache for enrobing.1 A traditional Boston cream pie has 3 main components: Vanilla batter [...]
Pumpkin Pie Ingredients Crust 2 sticks Soft butter (8 oz) 2 C All purpose flour 1 tbsp Honey ¼ tsp Salt 1 tsp Vanilla 2 tbsp Milk Pumpkin Filling 1 Can Pumpkin (15 oz) ¾ C Granulated sugar ½ tsp salt 2 Eggs 1 Can Evaporated milk (12 oz) 1 [...]
Commercial Baking Formulations
As gluten-free products fill the market, so do gluten-free flours that can hold up in commercially baked goods. Different sources offer different benefits and challenges for bakers, so it’s nice to find a gluten-free option that provides additional benefits for its niche—like how sweet rice flour can also improve low fat and fat free snack [...]
Meringue What is Meringue? A meringue is made by whipping egg whites with sugar into a stiff foam or frothy mixture. Usually, a small amount of acid is added to improve volume, stability and color. It can also be made with hot sugar syrup and other stabilizing agents, mainly hydrocolloids. Meringue is [...]
Pie A pie uses pastry dough and is filled with sweet or savory fillings. Pies can either be baked or fried. Pie making always begins with the crust. The pastry dough used for pie making is mainly made with flour, fat and salt. Most commonly, pies are made using shortcrust pastry dough. This [...]
