Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
And it’s the right time nearing the end of July. This recipe is from PastrySampler.com: Vanilla Ice Cream 1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk 2 c cream 1 c cold water 1 T vanilla Mix all ingredients together and freeze in ice cream maker according …
National Penuche Day! Celebrate by making some today, and sharing the sweet with someone. PastrySampler.com has all the details on this caramel-version of decadent fudge, with lots of recipes to try, and a description of what it actually is (also, all the various names it …
From JellyBelly.com: ‘It’s five o’clock somwhere.’ Rounding out their line (of magarita, pina colada and stawberry daiquiri flavored jelly beans), Jelly Belly will also have mojito, peach bellini and pomegranate cosmo flavors for their Cocktail Classics jelly bean line.
The winner of The Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America that was announced by Dessert Professional, will be decided on July 7th at ICE in New York. For those who can’t make it to the event, watch it ‘live’ on Dessert Professional, or get updates …
OK – this sound interesting. Wished your daily vitamins tasted like dark chocolate, or wished you could eat a piece of dark chocolate on a regular basis? UK based Health Rack has a new product to try. Their Choco Vit supplements contain dark chocolate and freeze …
After two samples from the Danville, VA Nestle facility tested positive for e. coli, they have suspended production and will begin to implement the new ingredient of heat treated flour (and begin production again) around the end of January. The new cookie dough will be …
From ‘Baking Buyer’ – notes/highlights from the 2009 American Retail Bakery Exposition in Charlotte, NC and “Cake Trends” workshop during the ARBE show. From there I read about Jennifer Atwood Ruiz using a Cricut machine to cut gum paste shapes and lettering. It also apparently works with …
Haven’t been to Portland in a long, long, long time, but a long, long, long time ago I used to love the Coffee People coffee. I know Diedrichs has it now and Coffee People coffee can still be purchasedhttp://www.coffeepeople.com/t-about.aspx but was it the name or …
Upon doing research for coffee, I found out what civet coffee was: coffee made from the droppings of an animal know as the ‘civet’, a cat with a fox-like face. The beans are whole when the exit the body, are cleaned and then processed for …
In case you were not able to attend the live webcasts, here are the cliff notes from two of my favorite presentations: cake decorating trends and the gelati 101 presentation. The pictures were from the downloadable slides from the show. Here is the link to …
Back in May I wrote about Red Band Flour and that it was being discontinued.The original blog is here. In response to the dismay in everyone’s voice from comments and emails, I contacted a person who I knew could give me more information and hopefully …
Clabber Girl (brand of baking powder) is joining with Innophos Inc to make InnoveFree Baking Powder. This baking powder is aluminum free AND sodium free. Here is a pdf file about the new product from the manufacturer directly.http://www.innophos.com/__documents/I-6%20InnovaFree%20LR.pdf
Article regarding event showcasing themes, cakes, etc for weddings in the Phillipines. Sept. 5-6. If you are only interested in the cake part, apparently Pastry Chefs will be on hand also. Link to PhilStar.com, The Philippine Star for the Filipino Global Community: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=501460&publicationSubCategoryId=83
The Great American Cookie Company will debut its Apple Harvest Cookie on 31 August. Perfect for fall and all those school lunch boxes?? Here is their facebook page on the cookie, along with close-up pics on the cookie itself.:http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=124715252491&ref=mf
Nestle Toll House has resumed production and delivery of their refrigerated cookie doughs, that was shelved due to an outbreak of food borne illnesses. Here is their official press release:http://www.verybestbaking.com/products/tollhouse/dough/recall-08182009.pdf How will know if you are buying the new or old stuff? The new packaging …
From Gourmetgiftbaskets.com, a new world record. What did it take to break the record? A cupcake that weighed in at a hefty 1,224 lbs. using 4,890 lbs. worth of ingredients. Read more from their site, including pictures and videos of the event:http://www.gourmetgiftbaskets.com/Guinness-World-Record-Cupcake.asp All proceeds from …