All British Baker articles in September 2011 – Page 6
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Christmas on the run
With customers having to work right up to Christmas there are huge opportunities for bakers and retailers to provide full-size or miniature ’to-go’ products for the busy consumer who either does not have time to make their own or wants an impulsive treat.Christmas cake and pudding, for example, which need ...
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Caught in the Web
National Cupcake Week special From the US comes crunkcakes: cupcakes with nearly a full one-ounce shot of spirits... http://on.fb.me/oM8glEAnother single cupcake holder hits the market, for that everyday elevenses cupcake hit... http://bit.ly/pkKh81Telecoms mergers and acquisitions are now brokered with dodgy cupcake backhanders! That’s the power of cupcakes... http://on.ft.com/nUXcZv
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Gore cake(s)
Two retch-inducing cakes for the price of one this week: the first, an anatomically correct marzipan sheep’s head from Austrian sculptor Helga Petrau-Heinzel; the second, what looks like the leftovers of Hannibal Lector’s lunch, from the jarringly sweet-named Buttercream Bakery in Brighton. (Shudder.)Source: cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com
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Celebration Cake Maker of the Year
Terry Tang Owner Terry Tang Designer CakesWavertree, Liverpool Tang’s has been in business for 12 years, after the former builder decided to turn his home kitchen hobby into a career. Four people work in the shop, producing up to 40 cakes a week; seven flavours are on offer, including fruit, ...
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Cake campaign trail
For those non-bread confectionery bakers who think they’ve dodged the hail of bullets from Real Bread Campaign’s team of anti-plant bread snipers, think again. The Campaign for Real Cake was launched at Speciality & Fine Food Fair in September, which rails against "highly processed, mass-produced, chemistry set cakes".The barometer of ...
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Robert Ditty takes top title at this year’s BIA
Robert Ditty walked off with the accolade of Baker of the Year at the 24th Baking Industry Awards this week, in the Vandemoortele-sponsored category.This year’s Brazilian carnival- themed event, at Park Lane Hilton, was hosted by well-known TV presenter Richard Madeley. In his after-dinner speech he said that, of all ...
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NewsWelsh bar firm to extend contract manufacturing
Denbighshire bakery bar manufacturer Wholebake Ltd plans to invest in the contract manufacturing side of its business following a management buy-out of the firm earlier this summer.
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Town Mill Bakery looks to the future
Despite the closure of its Tudor Arcade shop this week, Town Mill Bakery is looking to the future with the opening of a new shop in Plymouth in October and plans for additional bakeries.
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Bakery Supplier of the Year
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients (UK) Milton Keynes Unifine is an international manufacturer of value-added ingredients for the baking and food industries the essentials to create patisserie, sweet pasty and cake products. In July, the parent company was purchased by Dawn Foods, bringing "better offerings for customers" says managing director ...
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In-store Bakery of the Year
Morrisons Wincheap, Canterbury Bakery manager Colin Hopper has baking in his blood he is the seventh generation of the family behind Hoppers Farmhouse Bakeries. Rather than go to work in the family business, however, he joined Safeway, aged 17, and has been with the firm, now owned by Morrisons, ever ...
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Baker of the Year
Robert Ditty Director Ditty’s Home BakeryCastledawson "I hope the judges enjoyed what they saw, heard and ate," says Robert Ditty. "And that they saw how much of myself I put into my business and how much I try to pay back the industry and my community for the support I ...
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Industry hits back at CASH bread salt claims
Bakers have rubbished claims made in a new report by Consensus Action on Salt (CASH) that one in four bread loaves contain as much salt per slice as a packet of crisps. Fresh breads were highlighted as the worst offenders in the research, with Paul (UK), Le Pain Quotidien, Greggs ...
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The Craft Business Award
B arbakan Delicatessen Chorlton-cum-Hardy When managing director Stefan Najduch bought Barbakan, it was a single shop with a small wholesale arm, producing around 10 lines of quality Polish breads. Now, Barbakan is still a single shop business, but the bakery is three times its original size and the shop seats ...
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The Customer Focus Award
Monty’s Bakehouse Godstone, Surrey Monty’s Bakehouse is a supplier of premium, ’bake-in-pack’ snacks, including wraps, subs, slices and muffins, mainly to airlines. The firm was started in 2004 and now turns over £4.5m, employing 16 staff. To provide the best possible service to major client Air Canada and in what ...
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The Innovation Award
Bachmanns Chocolate Christmas Pudding BachmannsThames Ditton, Surrey Greg Cadoni, head chef/director has been with Bachmanns for just under five years and oversees all production at the Continental patisserie. His Chocolate Christmas Pudding is not a chocolate-flavoured version of the traditional dessert, but a "cartoon-style" take on a Christmas pudding, moulded ...
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It’s all in the mixer
I t could be said that the smaller bakery revolves around its mixer, dire pun though that is. Apart from the oven, the mixer is probably the piece of equipment most vital to day-to-day production. Strange, then, that it is a piece of equipment that the modern age has passed ...
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Green agenda
When it comes to refrigeration for the high street baker or retail food-to-go operator, there is one word that is at the tip of everyone’s tongues and that is ’sustainability’.With energy prices seemingly stuck in a continual ascent, operators need their refrigeration to be more efficient in terms of ...
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Brits’ love affair with pies still going strong
Research from Mintel suggests there are some indulgences the British public is not willing to give up, even during an economic downturn, namely pies and pasties. Mintel’s 2010 Life of Pie report showed that over 84% of people had eaten a pie in the previous 12 months, providing strong optimism ...
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In-store action
While in-store bakeries are seeing sweet success from pastries and confectionery, bread continues to be a drag on the category, losing sales to wrapped bread. This is all the more baffling when consumers claim to value freshness as one of their top purchasing decisions.Lantmännen Unibake/Bakehouse, conducted in-depth research into current ...
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