Bakery

Plain cheesecake is a blank culinary canvas perfect for expressing sweet sentiments: Add a few choice store-bought toppings and you can turn a plain-Jane slice into a dessert fit for a starlet. …

Cupid got off easy this Valentine’s Day, but spikes in cocoa bean and sugar prices may have the Easter bunny digging deeper into your pocket for those chocolate eggs and rabbits. …

The Snack Food Association and the Safe Quality Food Institute have partnered to bring you this exciting half-day course. The course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive overview and knowledge of the Safe Quality Food Program and the SQF 2000 Code requirements for processing and manufacturing within the Snack Food Industry. The course is tailored specifically to provide you with critical insight for implementing the SQF systems into your facility. …

In years past, Yvan Valentin crafted elaborate mousse-filled meringue cakes for Frank Sinatra, built a towering croquembouche (a cream puff pyramid decorated with pulled sugar) for Jane Fonda and Ted Turner’s wedding and constructed a chocolate replica of downtown’s Union Station for President Clinton. But these days, the well-pedigreed French pastry chef is more interested in the rough-hewn chocolate truffles that are the heart of his Leimert Park chocolate factory and wholesale bakery. …

About a year ago, Cal Dining’s healthy relationship with Durant Food Court’s King Pin Donuts – which used to supply baked goods, pastries and donuts to on-campus dining locations – turned from sweet to sour. …