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It's a safe bet that nobody in the sweet-goods or pastry sectors, nobody anywhere, for that matter, expected still to be contending with COVID-19 a full year and a half after lockdowns threw the baking industry, and life as we know it, into upheaval.
When it comes to sweet goods like doughnuts, Danishes, sweet rolls, muffins and coffee cake, the market is in a state of flux. As Walter Postelwait, president of Pak Group LLC/Bellarise Baking Ingredients, Pasadena, CA, puts it: “The total segment appears to be growing slowly, but has hot pockets of activity.”
After nearly a century on New York's Long Island, Entenmann’s in late August stopped producing its famous pastries. From a small bake shop on Main Street to a big production factory on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, Entenmann’s called Long Island home for nearly a century. That era has ended.
Celebrating 20 years in business, with its latest cookbook hot out of the oven, Metropolitan Bakery, Philadelphia, delights in baking delicious breads and creating incredible pastries, popcorn and granola, among other foods.
You will, if you try one from Golden Cannoli Shells Inc. The family-owned, 40-year-old bakery is rolling in the dough at its more spacious, 30,000-sq.-ft. production facility in Chelsea, Mass., to which it relocated in September. The largest national cannoli maker in the U.S. strives for top product quality and strict food-safety standards as well as to ‘just doing things right.’ It’s these and many other reasons that make Golden Cannoli our 2013 Bakery of the Year.
On Demand The pastry category, including products like Danishes, cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, and more, continues to see strong pockets of growth, with the category overall growing nearly 5% according to IRI, Chicago and Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery 2022 State of the Industry coverage. In this webinar, Chef Emily McPhee will look at current trends in the category, including opportunities for growth.