Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
There’s still time to register for the ISM – The Future of Sweets event. It is labeled as the world’s leading trade fair for the confectionery industry. ISM 2012 will be held in Cologne at the Cologne Exhibition Center, which will be a central location …read more
Luo Han Guo – Monk fruitSource: Wikimedia Commons through a creative commons license. Monk fruit, or ‘luo han guo’ is up to 100 to 300 times sweeter than sugar. It is well known and used in China, and has been used as a sugar substitute there …read more
Sweet Fried Rice – Is there such a thing? There is if you find it on the Sandy Candy Factory Site. Their Sweet Fried Rice includes candy rice, candy eggs, candy peas and candy carrots. All inside a fun Chinese Take-out box. Haven’t tried it but am hooked on fun-ness alone.
Sandy Candy Factory: Sweet Fried Rice.
Fondarific is a brand of flavored fondant, with such flavors as chocolate, wedding white buttercream, tutti-frutti, melon and grape. The have 13 flavors in all. I tasted a sample from a local gourmet show and liked it (buttercream flavor), but the real test came in …read more
Fried beer – just what we were all waiting for. Oh, but you have to be 21 and over to try it though. It is being showcased at the Texas state fair on Sept. 26th, and will be served at two concession stands – at …read more
Baking Buyer – Videos from different bakers/pastry professional chefs, sharing tips, trends and techniques.
For those of you who have never used feuilles de brick or phyllo dough before, I found Marmiton.org’s comparison does a great job of explaining it. http://www.marmiton.org/Magazine/Tendances-Gourmandes_brick-filo_1.aspx The whole site is in French, and if you cannot read French, then use Google’s translate bar, it’ll give …read more
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 …read more
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
From the Sweentener Users Association, a group who represents companies that use sugar and sweeteners in their business, there is a fear that we will run out of sugar by the end of the next fiscal year 9-30-2010 if more import quotas are allowed to …read more