It’s hard to find fault with donuts. Sure, they’re made with fried dough, but customers love indulgent, decadent, unique, trending desserts. So donuts are a hot bakery item. In fact, did you know that 64% of Americans eat donuts at least once a month? One of the most popular and iconic bakery items, cake donuts [...]
CBD Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies A chocolate and hazelnut cookie with a frosting filling, that includes 30mg of CBD per cookie. Cook time: 12 mins Shelf life: 30 days Yield: 10 cookies Ingredients In grams (weighed) Cookie: All purpose flour: 75 g Hazelnut flour: 75 g Baking powder: 4.5 g [...]
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Allulose What is Allulose? Allulose is a novel reduced-calorie sweetener for the food and beverage industry. It is a ketohexose monosaccharide with the scientific name D-ribo-hexulose, or just D-psicose. It is about 70% as sweet as sucrose. It provides only 10% as many calories as sucrose (0.4 calories per gram).1,2 [...]
Alpha-cyclodextrin Also known as alpha-dextrin (α-CD) or alpha-cycloamylose What is Alpha-cyclodextrin? Alpha-cyclodextrin has emulsifying and stabilizing properties. It can also eliminate undesirable compounds. In the food industry, alpha dextrins are used for: Stabilizing oil-in-water emulsions Controlling the solubility and dispersibility of un-mixable liquids Masking odors and unwanted flavors Stabilizing and protecting compounds [...]
High fiber is one of the hottest topics in the baking industry. Partly because of its challenging, yet highly-functional and nutritious role, and partly because of the FDA’s recent work on defining it better. In June, new guidelines were announced on what can be labeled as “dietary fiber.” To help explain what this means [...]
Along with trends from the last few years, the demand for natural and organic products is growing. And it’s not going away anytime soon. So now is the time to jump on the train. But before you do, it's important to know what’s involved in the process. Going Organic When it comes to labeling [...]
Cheesecake Also known as tarta de queso What is Cheesecake? Cheesecake is a unique type of cake that is made with a custard type filling as the batter and a cookie or short dough as the base or side crust. The custard is typically made with sweetened cheese curds, eggs, milk, sugar, [...]
Sugar Also Known as Sucrose What is Sugar? Sugars are nutritive carbohydrates used by the baking industry to add sweetness, flavor, fermentable solids. They perform key functions in doughs and batters that improve the overall quality of the finished products. Sugar has traditionally meant table sugar or sucrose. The U.S. definition of [...]
Sweeteners What are Sweeteners? Sweeteners are carbohydrates are characterized by their sweet taste. The most common ones in baking are mono and disaccharides. These ingredients are essential components of baked goods. They are added to yeast-leavened products, as well as to chemically-leavened sweet goods like batter cakes and cookies. Although, then they [...]
