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Looking for Something Sweet and Salty? Sea Salt Caramel Gelato on the Market

Looking for Something Sweet and Salty? Sea Salt Caramel Gelato on the Market

Sea Salt Caramel Gelato. Source: BakingBuyer.com I just saw this. New from Talenti Gelato e Sorbetto – Sea Salt Caramel Gelato coming to a store near you. It is a gelato with a caramel base and chocolate covered sea salt caramel truffles. They are the same makers of Hill …read more

Cinco de Mayo Dessert: Churros

Cinco de Mayo Dessert: Churros

What are churros? It’s a cookie that can be found on both Mexican and Spanish menus. It is made from a lightly sweetened choux-style paste, and they can be made from extra pâte a choux. Use a pastry bag and a star tip to pipe them out. …read more

Need a Pastry or Baking Book? New Listings

Need a Pastry or Baking Book? New Listings

Our listing of baking books, cake decorating books, cookie, candy, and confectionery books, are now going up on Bonanza.com. Visit our booth for the lastest, more to come in the coming days.

Pastry Sampler’s Booth

Online Auction – Bundt & Loaf Cake Production Facilities

Online Auction – Bundt & Loaf Cake Production Facilities

One is located in Salt Lake City, UT, and two are in Birmingham, AL, this auction is for the complete production line for full scale bundt and loaf cake production facilities, which each can handle 600-900 loafs per hour, or 1500 lbs/hour. This is an online auction that starts …read more

Creating a Pearl Border Using a Bead Maker

Creating a Pearl Border Using a Bead Maker

Pearl beads for borders are beautiful on both fondant covered and buttercream frosted cakes. Creating them is simple using the various silicone bead making tools that are now available to cake decorators. Choices in beads include classic round styles, oval, faceted, or rose-shaped beads. The …read more

Who is the Cake Decorator for Prince William and Catherine Middleton?

Who is the Cake Decorator for Prince William and Catherine Middleton?

The person commissioned to do the wedding cake for wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton is Fiona Cairns of Leicestershire. The wedding will take place on April 29, 2011. The wedding cake for the couple will be a traditional fruitcake, while the groom’s cake will be chocolate biscuit cake made by McVities.

Cake Decorating Pastry Tips

Cake Decorating Pastry Tips

Pastry tips are now all sold in their ‘family’ packs, just like always, but the individual tips will now be by special order. If there is a particular tip you need without needing a large individual order, send me an email and I’ll see if …read more

Barry Callebaut Opens US Plant

Barry Callebaut Opens US Plant

From Barry Callebaut, the recognizable chocolate company has opened a pilot plant in Eddystone, PA, for research and development purposes. It will be a scaled-down version of an actual cocoa factory so it can produce new items for testing that can be recreated easily in …read more

Upcoming Bakery Equipment Auctions

Upcoming Bakery Equipment Auctions

Food & Restaurant Equipment
Prime Equipment and Auction Company
Begins April 21, 2011 at 2:00pm Central, and ends same day 6:00 pm Central.

“The World’s Largest Bake Sale” Hosted by Sandra Lee

“The World’s Largest Bake Sale” Hosted by Sandra Lee

In New York on March 29? If you are, and around Vanderbilt Hall, East side between 11:30am-7pm, then stop by The World’s Largest Bake Sale. The World’s Largest Bake Sale is a fundraiser, which the host Sandra Lee, hopes to raise $50,000 to benefit The Food Bank of …read more