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National Cupcake Week set to kick off
Fairy cakes are old news – the future is cupcakes! Craft bakeries, cafés and high street retailers across the country are joining forces to celebrate the UK’s first-ever National Cupcake Week, from September 14th-19th. National Cupcake Week is being served up by British Baker to celebrate the growing popularity of the cupcake and to help the industry to market its products.
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Cupcake dissenter
Since National Cupcake Week was launched by British Baker earlier this year, we’ve found it hard to suppress our fawning over this inaugural celebration, filliped as we are by the gushing support we’ve received from bakers up and down the country. So just to show we’re not cupcake evangelists, Stop ...
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Double D shows synergy with owner
Double D Food Engineering has expanded its technical centre near Edinburgh to accommodate the Frigoscandia range of spiral freezers, chillers and provers.Industrial bakers will now be able to trial complete in-line baking and cooling/freezing systems with the integration of Double D’s continuous ovens and Frigoscandia’s high-throughput self-stacking freezing and chilling ...
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Delice goes for gluten-free
Delice de France has produced gluten-free muffins and bread that carry the Coeliac Society Crossed Grain Symbol.The products are made in a bakery that only produces gluten-free food and are individually wrapped to ensure freshness and prevent cross-contamination with gluten products.The large frozen muffins are packed in boxes of 24, ...
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Drive for Monster Munch
Walkers has launched a new promotion to highlight the success of its Monster Munch relaunch. It will be running a retro T-shirts promotion across its Mega Monster Munch range, enabling customers to get their hands on Monster Munch character T-shirts.Consumers need to collect three bags of the crisps and send ...
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Hey, good looking
Now that the main wedding cake season has come to an end, it’s a great time to think of new ways to boost sales before the festive period gets into full swing. Appealing to your customers’ indulgent side is key to boosting sales of baked goods in a recession.The UK ...
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Ted takes up leading role at Rich UK
The former head of Rich’s North Ame-rican Food-service Divi-sion, Ted Rich (right), has been named as the new MD of Rich UK, and will be relocating from the US to England with his family later this month.Rich UK’s former MD George Thomopoulos has moved across to take up a new ...
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In the market for... macadamias
Prices of Ludlow’s Peter Cook delivers a delicious Rye-Wheat, Macadamia and Sultana Bread for the third and final part of our special macadamia bread recipes, devised by three UK artisan bakers in association with The South African Growers’ Association (see British Baker, 14 August pg 19 and 28 August, pg ...
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Mouthing off
"The inspiration for the sandwich came from my own student days it was survival food back then. I realised that, every now and then, I was getting a hankering for one and guessed I wasn’t alone. Nothing makes us feel better in difficult times than comfort food"Tesco product ...
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Pepsi in Nokia promotion
Britvic and PepsiCo have launched a new initiative with Nokia in order to build on Pepsi and Nokia’s credentials in music, aiming to engage and reward their customers and consumers.The on-pack promotion will give consumers of Pepsi the chance to win a Nokia 5800 Comes With Music handset every 10 ...
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Open to the public
Evolution is forever calling on the past to look at ways to improve for the future, but in some areas of bakery and café retail design, what the more distant past offered is seemingly now a good enough solution.Product display has evolved in the same way as mainstream fashion ...
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The right perspective
On 28 July 2009, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) launched a consultation on its draft recommendations on saturated fat and added sugar reductions, and on portion size availability for biscuits, cakes, pastries and chocolate confectionery. The consultation addresses three different elements of the Saturated Fat and Energy Intake Programme: encouraging ...
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Reporting in
Julian HuntDirector of communications, Food and Drink FederationThe theatre next to our offices in London’s Covent Garden is currently home to the hit stage show Oliver. Music lovers among you will remember the iconic moment in this show, when the eponymous star stands up in front of Mr Bumble and ...
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Cupcake classesSquires Kitchen will be holding cupcake master classes for each day of the BBC Good Food Show in London, from 13-15 November. Mark Tilling, a renowned chocolatier, will be demonstrating how to decorate three different cupcakes: Chocolate Butterfly Cupcake; Fruit Fondant Iced Cupcake with Flower Decoration; and Christmas Cupcake ...
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Scrumptious DiscipleBaker Paul Bradford, of Truly Scrumptious Designer Cakes in West Lothian, Scotland, has been made a Disciple Escoffier after impressing chefs from across the world with a series of classes in Monte Carlo, reported the Sunday Mail. He was invited to Monte Carlo after creating a 12-tier cake for ...
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Hairy Bikers to judge Manx bake-offBBC’s Hairy Bikers will judge The Great Manx Bake-Off at the Isle of Man Food and Drink Festival on 26 September, where cake makers will use Manx ingredients to raise money for the Eve Appeal Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund.Sobo to SelfridgesChocolate and cookie company Sobo ...
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Lantmännen dealLantmännen Unibake UK, which operates a bakery with seven bakery lines, has signed a temperature-controlled warehousing contract with Norbert Dentressangle. The third-party logistics company will provide a daily collection service from its manufacturing site in Milton Keynes, as well as supplying 15,000 pallet spaces in its cold store in ...
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Turbo tots
Here’s how to bake a "delicious and low-fat alternative to a regular cake" that would be "a great cake for a kids’ birthday party", according to one US website. That is, assuming you don’t mind the prospect and possible legal fallout of peddling this psychedelic cake to a ...
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Warburtons’ winter warmer
Warburtons is reintroducing its limited-edition Winter Fruit Loaf for the festive season.First launched in 2003, the traditional recipe loaf includes orange and lemon fruit pieces, as well as cinnamon, sultanas, currants and spices.Sarah Miskell, category director at Warburtons, said: "Fruit loaves offer customers a healthier tea-time treat, showing strong value ...
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Working wheat
On a sunny day in the first week in August, British Baker went to visit a farm in West Sussex, one of the many to supply Warburtons with wheat, to find out more about the seed-to-crumb process.Bignor Farm is tucked away in a picturesque setting at the foot of the ...