It’s pumpkin time
Los Angeles-based Bougie Bakes has launched its vary of seasonal allergen-friendly pumpkin bakes, obtainable to the tip of November.
The seasonal assortment consists of mushy, chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies; and Pumpkin Pecan Blondie Bites. Each objects are gluten-, dairy- and sugar-free and have an RRP of $35.
The bakery’s Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte Cookies are made with actual espresso powder, whereas the Vegan Pumpkin Pecan Mini Muffins are full of all the autumn flavour with out the pointless sugars and components (each with an RRP of $35).
The pumpkin bakes are additionally obtainable in bundles: Pumpkin Szn Bundle contains 16 Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and 16 Pumpkin Pecan Blondie Bites ($65); the Vegan Pumpkin Szn Bundle comprises 16 Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte Cookies and 16 Vegan Pumpkin Pecan Mini Muffins ($65); and the Pumpkin Spice The whole lot Bundle ($120) together with 64 treats of every little thing pumpkin the corporate bakes.
“You may’t be within the baked items trade and never have a pumpkin line,” mentioned Ryan and Meghan Quinn, the husband-and-wife co-founders of Bougie Bakes.
“We’re so excited to have created a better-for-you, scrumptious choice that can make anyone need to placed on a flannel, mild a candle and embrace every little thing fall has to supply.”
The bakes are packed in 100% recyclable trays and wrapped in cellulose derived from wooden pulp. Bougie Bakes additionally makes use of water activated tape made with recycled paper, guaranteeing the complete bundle is 100% sustainable.
Out there on-line from the producer.
Upping the ante
The Edinburgh Butter Firm has launched a brand new buttermilk that can assist bakers add that further layer of zing to their bakes from pastry to scones and pancakes.
Famend for its vary of cultured butters, the producer provides stay tradition to native cream (farmed simply seven miles away from its web site in Ratho). After fermentation, the ensuing easy, shiny crème fraiche is churned and formed into butter. The buttermilk left on the finish of the method comes straight from the churn with no preservatives, components or thickeners. With a consistency much like milk, it provides a top quality, pure end to dishes.
“We’ve actually loved the method of creating our butters with cooks and have discovered an growing variety of them requesting our buttermilk,” mentioned Hilary Sinclair, co-founder and manufacturing director of The Edinburgh Butter Firm.
“It’s a pure product that comes immediately from the churning course of so doesn’t have any components or preservatives. I believe cooks have revered the integrity of this and we’ve seen sensible leads to every little thing from pastry to marinades.”
The buttermilk is offered in 500ml, 2 litre and 5 litre pack sizes and is distributed throughout the UK.
Sincere bread
Jason’s Sourdough has expanded The Nice White Straight Up lineup.
Launching each on-line and in 270 Tesco shops across the UK, the vary consists of The Nice White and Very good Sprouted Grains to which master-baker and MD Jason Geary has added his personal take. The sprouted spelt grains are soaked within the sourdough tradition earlier than being added to the ultimate dough, which then goes via a 24-hour fermentation course of. The sprouted grains give bursts of flavour and texture, alongside their related well being advantages, akin to higher digestion and better dietary content material and worth.
The 2 ‘Straight Up Sourdoughs’ are pre-sliced and conventional in artisanal half boule form, with an extended life and a yeast-free manufacturing, making them gentler on digestion than customary bread. As with all Jason’s Sourdough merchandise, there isn’t any added sugar, preservatives or components. The packaging delivers the genuine craft bakery expertise with a clear movie to indicate the loaves, and a re-sealable label.
“We’re completely delighted to be launching in Tesco this September, constructing on our distribution in M&S, ASDA and Ocado,” mentioned Geary.
“The brand new Sprouted Grains loaf has been created with innovation on the forefront, to convey new bursts of flavour to our sourdough vary, with high quality substances as our high precedence. We will’t wait to share it with our loyal and new prospects alike.”
The Nice White and Very good Sprouted Grains Straight Up Sourdough vary (450g) can be found in Tesco and on-line for an RRP of £1.80.
Eat like no person is watching
Mrs Crimble’s – the gluten-free bakery model owned by Ecotone UK – has launched an autumnal marketing campaign to encourage customers to take a calming second and ‘eat like no person is watching’.
focused and customers excited by flexitarian and gluten-free meals.
The #NoFilter digital activation – set to achieve over 6.5m social media customers – highlights the producer’s core vary alongside its latest improvements in vegan bakery, together with the Deeply Dipply Choc Macaroons rolled out in Sainsbury’s and the Vegan Oat Bakes with chocolate in Tesco.
The digital exercise will run till the 31 October, and targets shoppers excited by flexitarian and gluten-free meals.
“Because the summer time months draw to an finish and the times get shorter, Mrs Crimble’s is there for the shoppers seeking to chill out at residence and take pleasure in a great-tasting deal with,” mentioned Vicky Hazel, Mrs Crimble’s model controller at Ecotone UK.
“Digital campaigns have been extremely efficient for the model and we’re assured this funding will hold Mrs Crimble’s front-of-mind throughout a key gross sales interval for cake.”
Mrs Crimble’s is a supporter of Fareshare UK, a British charity targeted on combating starvation and meals waste by redistributing surplus meals to frontline charities.
Glad birthday!
To have a good time its 10th anniversary, Yasso has added a Birthday Cake variant to its lineup of frozen Greek yoghurt bars.
“When Yasso launched in 2011, we noticed a white area to ship nice tasting desserts with very good nutritionals and high quality substances throughout the frozen aisle and we’re proud and grateful, to nonetheless be right here progressing that mission ahead,” mentioned Drew Harrington, Yasso co-founder.
“We needed our latest flavour to commemorate Yasso’s 10th birthday and be symbolic of the milestone itself – an superior celebration of scrumptious enjoyable.”
Yasso has not too long ago entered the highest 5 novelty dessert manufacturers within the US and landed the spot because the #2 quickest rising better-for-you snacking model, in line with IRI knowledge. In line with co-founder Amanda Klane, a lot of this success will be credited to the corporate’s core mindset of at all times striving to enhance buyer satisfaction.
“Whereas the mission behind Yasso has remained the identical over the previous 10 years, the merchandise and branding have developed to offer shoppers the most effective expertise attainable. We’ve continued to enhance formulation, expanded classes and have created a option to give again to our group via our Sport On! Basis.”
The Birthday Cake bar – the 12th core bar flavour – is crammed with rainbow sprinkles and chunks of cake dough, however nonetheless meets Yasso’s dietary requirements with solely 90 energy per bar, 5g of protein and no synthetic substances.
The Birthday Cake variant is offered for buy on-line and at choose Goal places in October.
To honour the launch, Yasso is making a $10,000 donation to The Birthday Celebration Challenge, which is able to present birthday items to over 300 kids experiencing homelessness.
Indulging in all-things cake
Bells of Lazonby is debuting its first plant-based ‘mini bites’ vary in 400 Sainsbury’s retailers throughout the UK underneath the We Love Cake model.
We Love Cake is understood for its nostalgic nod to the ‘Better of British’ desserts. Equally, the most recent SKUs – obtainable in 156g/110g resealable tubs – pays homage to 2 of the nation’s favorite tray bakes, together with Crunch ‘n’ Crisp toffee mini bites and Choc-a-block chocolate-topped flapjack mini bites.
“Mini bites are big innovation for We Love Cake as they permit us to problem not solely in bakery, however in sharing and snacking events,” mentioned Josh Boydell-Smith, head of brand name and advertising at We Love Cake.
“This new vary is one other alternative to challenges perceptions round free-from bakery and permits us to go after the mainstream, confectionary shopper searching for sharers that work for everybody on the desk. Scrumptious truffles for all dietary necessities.”
Made in Lazonby on the sting of the Lake District, Cumbria; all We Love Cake merchandise are baked in small batches by expert bakers and hand completed. The bakery strives to keep up freshness with out shedding its small batch high quality. Its vary of gluten-free truffles are registered with Coeliac UK and Vegan Society.
The plant-based bakes can be found instore from September, on an introductory deal of RRP £2.
The true deal
Former occasions bakery model Maria Nata has diversified into the retail and foodservice sectors with the launch of a spread of Pasteis de Nata. Hailing from Portugal, Pasteis de Nata are one of many nation’s hottest delicacies and are liked all through the world.
Equipped frozen prepared for baking, Maria Nata’s choices are available in three choices: Basic, Mini and Vegan Natas – aimed toward retailers, bakeries and catering retailers throughout the UK which might be searching for recent and co-effective bakes.
“Pasteis de Natas have gotten more and more widespread within the UK, however folks now count on one thing genuine that tastes identical to those they’ve tried in Portugal,” mentioned Antonio Carmona e Costa, director of Maria Nata.
“These Natas are the true deal. They’re made by Portuguese cooks, utilizing pure substances and conventional strategies; they fill the necessity for a high quality product that’s competitively priced and accessible to everybody – with vegan choices additionally obtainable. Plus, as a result of they’re frozen they assist scale back waste and permit companies to successfully handle inventory ranges. In addition they require no coaching to bake, however promise a scrumptious and constant product each bake.”
Maria Nata initially launched in 2019 with the intention of serving Natas at occasions and meals festivals, however when the pandemic hit the UK it added a wholesale enterprise unit to broaden its enterprise proposal.
“We’ve needed to make a number of adjustments to our enterprise mannequin and adapt to the adjustments led to by the pandemic. We really feel bakeries, unbiased retailers and occasional outlets are the proper audience for our merchandise and sit up for constructing our record of retailers over the autumn and winter,” added Carmona e Costa.
“There’s nobody else providing Natas like these within the UK and we’re hoping to construct our base of shoppers to make sure that prospects can discover these scrumptious merchandise in bakeries all through the UK. There’s over 5,000 unbiased bakeries within the UK so the scope is big. We consider that Natas can have an identical story to Pizza – a standard product that spreads around the globe.”
Clear, easy and healthful
Eurostar Commodities has launched a brand new vary of gluten-free clear label tortilla flours for manufacturing, retail and residential use for the creation of tortillas, tacos and wraps.
The clear label flours are comprised of 100% pure substances together with starch, flour (rice, pea, maize), buckwheat flakes and vegetable fibre. They’re gluten-free, vegan, excessive in fibre and allergen free – with no components or preservatives – and produced in an allergen-free manufacturing unit in Yorkshire with 100% recyclable packaging.
The flour provides a workable dough and produces mushy and versatile flatbreads that scent, really feel, and style identical to the true factor.
Merchandise can be found in two varieties: White and Brown in sizes 1.5kg, 3kg, or circumstances of 8×1.5kg & 4x3kg.
“We recognise that there’s a big alternative to create a more healthy flour for making wraps and tortilla,” mentioned Jason Bull, director of Eurostar Commodities.
“The marketplace for these merchandise is rising steadily in Europe and predicted to develop by 5.5% by 2027. Nonetheless, the standard of a few of these merchandise, and among the preservatives used should not what shoppers need proper now. We’re seeing continued curiosity in clear labelling and a motion in direction of easy, clear, and healthful meals.”
Mamma mia
Celeb chef Gino D’Acampo has launched a spread of Italian classics and staples to offer shoppers a style of his childhood.
Handed down from his Nonna Flora and harking back to his childhood in southern Italy, D’Acampo has shared these treasured recipes in his eating places, in his bestselling cookbooks and widespread TV sequence. Now, his partnership with Asda helps everybody to take pleasure in a slice of Gino’s Italy at residence.
The vary of staples means residence cooks have every little thing they should prepare dinner the classics from scratch, from several types of pastas and pulses to thrilling additions like ‘Nduja paste and Nocellara olives.
The vary additionally features a Garlic and Provola Cheese Flatbread and a wood-fired Neapolitan pizza with ‘Nduja Sausage, buffalo mozzarella pearls, spicy salami and roasted pepper strips – a nod to Gino’s 30 years of expertise perfecting the artwork of pizza-making since he was a younger boy in Naples
“We’re so excited to be partnering with Gino D’Acampo to launch over 60 new merchandise throughout three completely different ranges,” mentioned Duncan Cross, senior director, Meal Options and Frozen Meals at Asda.
“We all know households will take pleasure in having a singular option to expertise Gino’s family-inspired Italian recipes, to swimsuit any event, whether or not it’s home-cooking comforting Italian favourites or treating their family members to a three-course Italian feast.”
Added D’Acampo, “For me, life is about two issues: household and meals. I can’t wait to share my ardour for family-cooking and Italian meals with ASDA prospects. These Italian recipes, which have been impressed by my household, are scrumptious and really stand the check of time.”
Gino D’Acampo’s new vary is offered on-line and in Asda shops from September.
