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Desserts bolster frozen category
Desserts have shown stronger growth than many frozen cate-gories during the recession, as they are seen as better value for money.A YouGov SixthSense report into the frozen foods market found that one in four consumers had eaten a frozen fruit pie or crumble in the last month and that hot ...
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Book Review
Who You Callin’ Cupcake? Michelle and Vinny GarciaIt has been a long time coming, but we finally have our first punk-inspired bakery book, from Chicago’s Bleeding Heart Bakery, a self-proclaimed specialist in "odd and unique flavours".Setting out to create "cupcake anarchy", the closest the authors come to cupcake shockery is ...
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UK team for SIGEP Bread Cup selected
The members of the UK team that will be representing the nation in the SIGEP Bread Cup, in Rimini, Italy next January can now be confirmed. The four-strong team will be captained by David Mizon, of Pin Point Training & Consultancy, who won the Artistic Bread Centrepiece and Cake classes ...
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Bread in the headlines
Tom Herbert is a fifth-generation baker and director of Hobbs House Bakery, a multi-award-winning craft bakery, based in GloucestershireThe media attention spotlight has hovered over our world of baking and bread lately. And boy how bright it has shone. After a harsh winter, renewal in the Hobbs House camp came ...
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Traditionals with a twist MADEIRA CAKE by Fiona Burrell
Madeira Cake is traditionally flavoured with lemon zest and juice and is decorated with candied citrus peel. It does not originate from Madeira, but was served to accompany Madeira wine, which was popular in the 19th century. In texture it is similar to a pound cake. Large pieces of sliced ...
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Scottish cake maker set to diversify
Linlithgow-based designer cake business Truly Scrumptious is to open a Cupcake Café Bar alongside its newly opened Cake Decorating School later this month.The cake-decorating classes, run by Paul Bradford, joint partner of Truly Scrumptious, will be tailored to the students’ needs, and the School will offer seasonal courses, involving making ...
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Report The effect of peanuts on cholesterol and heart health
Researchers from California and Spain have concluded that regular peanut consumption improves cholesterol levels and contributes to heart health, following data collated from 25 nut consumption trials across seven countries.A total of 583 men and women took part in the trials, which revealed that people with higher levels of ’bad’ ...
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Independents slammed for selling ’clone food’
Many independent sandwich shops and cafés would go out of business if they were obliged to serve food that was healthy, fair, and green, according to a damning new report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF).An Inconvenient Sandwich: the Throwaway Economics of Takeaway Food criticises small outlets for selling ...
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Scullions comes to the rescue for Fords
Helen Gregory Scullions Wholesale Bakery, a subsidiary of the McGhee Group, has bought fellow Scottish firm Fords Bakery out of administration, saving 87 jobs. However, the East Lothian firm’s nine shops have closed, with the loss of 41 staff, and another 26 have been made redundant from the bakery in Prestonpans.
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NICE conflicts with FSA over sat fats
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) position as the nation’s nutritional guardian appears to be slipping as fellow government quango the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) publishes conflicting advice on saturated fats.FSA guidelines published earlier this year called for a 10% reduction in saturated fat in plain cakes ...
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Cornish pasties make progress on PGI status
Cornish pasties could be granted PGI status within seven months, after the case was published in the Official European Union Journal. If no objections are raised from other EU member states (outside the UK) in the next seven months, it will mean that only Cornish pasties made in Cornwall to ...
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CSM’s frosting reception
CSM has launched a new range of Craigmillar Frostings for topping or filling cakes. The firm said the frostings range is suited to American-style products, such as cupcakes, brownies and whoopie pies.The frostings contain natural flavours and are available in vanilla, chocolate and caramel varieties. They come in 10kg pails.By ...
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Cupcake innovations
A week is a long time in cupcakes. Two weeks, an age. Here are our top cupcake trends spotted in the build-up to National Cupcake Week and our UK Cupcake-off competition (deadline 16 July).1. That perennial poser ’coffee and doughnut or coffee and cupcake’ is rendered redundant by the coffee ...
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Hayden’s expands plant in Devizes
Hayden’s Bakeries has opened bigger premises in Devizes, with the aim of creating 150 new jobs over the next three years. The firm, a division of The Real Good Food Company, makes bakery, patisserie and chilled dessert products for retailers including Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. It has added 30,000sq ...
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Muntons doubles malted flake output
Consumer demand for healthier breads has led malted ingredients supplier Muntons to double output at its flake manufacturing site. The firm is now capable of supplying more than 10,000 tonnes of malted flakes per year.Muntons said: "Much of the increase is consumer-driven, with people looking for healthier and more interesting ...
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European Parliament plays down label fears
The European Parliament (EP) has been forced to quell fears that bakery businesses would be banned from denoting the number of products on multi-packs, after a proposal for the continuation of selling by number was rejected by MEPs in a recent vote.Politicans voted against the inclusion of a provision in ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Raisins: California has significantly increased exports this season from a reduced total crop. The development of the new crop in Turkey is not quite as good as earlier reports suggested. Given Turkey’s major loss of raisin business to California this season, weather permitting at harvest, it is highly likely that ...
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Reporting in Drowning in a sea of nothings
Alan StuartPresident, Scottish BakersWhen I was a young lad in the 1950s, a million of anything seemed almost inconceivable. A really rich person was literally a millionaire and I struggled to comprehend anything beyond that. Today, we bandy billions and even trillions around and therein lies the nub of it. ...
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Honeytop places faith in tortilla production
Honeytop has more than doubled capacity at its bakery and claims to have the world’s largest and fastest tortilla line.The Dunstable-based family firm, which also manufactures naans, flatbreads, pancakes and crumpets, has seen demand soar for its tortillas, prompting it to ramp up production at its site in Woodside Industrial ...
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Street fight
Civic-minded residents in the London suburb of Pinner were slightly miffed when Starbucks opened in the high street. But they were fuming when it transpired the coffee giant did not have the proper planning permission.Despite this, Starbucks won a planning appeal against Harrow Council in May and has continued to ...