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Nov 17
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Use CMC Powder to Make Edible Glue

Category:Food Products,Products If you need a reliable, edible glue for your sugar based products, you can use this easy to make glue and all you need is CMC Powder and water. Once made, it can be stored in a sealed container – we recommend in the refrigerator – for about two weeks.

Here’s what you’ll need. You can adjust the proportions based on the amount of glue you need:

1/4 tsp CMC Powder 2 tablespoons warm water small bowl or container

Here’s what you do:

Mix CMC powder and water in a small bowl or similar container.
Stir to mix as thoroughly as possible. The powder does not mix easily with water, so just do your best to break up any big lumps.
Let the mixture sit in the refrigerator overnight. This is where the powder will dissolve completely in water.
You should have a thick liquid, about the consistency of syrup. That’s your glue! You can thicken the glue with more CMC, and you can thin it with water.
Apply it to surfaces using whatever tool you think is best suited for your project.

04
May 17
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Using Edible Gold Leaf

Category:Products We now have available 23K edible gold leaf for use on your candies, cookies, or cakes. It’s not harmful to eat because it “biologically inert,” which means basically, it’s not affected by the digestive system and doesn’t break down in the body. Ugh! But it sure adds a touch of elegance to your treats. Here are a couple of things to remember:

Don’t breathe on it, or use it around an air conditioning vent, or a fan. It’s very light and will blow away easily.
You can pick it up gently with a needle or sharp knife then brush it flat with a soft paint brush.
Other than that, it’s pretty easy.

Here’s a very short YouTube video – made by BakeClub – showing briefly how you can accent a treat with piece of gold leaf. The possibilities are (nearly) endless!

17
Jan 17
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Crispy Flakes – an underused Topping

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Crispy flakes and cake slice with coffee

These flakes add a tasty crunch to your pastry items.

Nonpareils, jimmies, sugar crystals, pearls, these are all great toppings for your cupcakes and candies, but there is a topping that adds a slightly sweet crunch to your pastries and even candy. These are the Crispy Flakes. The French even have a name for this topping: feuilletine, and it’s used in many fine pastries. They are slightly sweet and has a taste that will remind you of a sugar cone for ice cream. Their neutral color will complement almost any pastry or candy. So give ’em a try and add a new level of taste and texture to your goodies.

17
Jan 13
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Silver Dragees – Little Balls of Doom?

Category:stories Tags : decorations dragees

So many people have come into the store looking for the shiny silver balls known as dragees. When I tell them we can’t sell dragees they are astonished. Until just a few weeks ago, I thought they were actually outlawed by law, but it turns out the truth is stranger than that. In 2003, a lawyer in Napa County, California, started a lawsuit against sellers of the little silver balls because each ball contains small amounts of silver – you know, to make them shiny. Of course, any business he sues has the option of paying this attorney to settle out of court, thereby assuring that the public is once again saved from the evil of tiny bits of silver. Perhaps this attorney, Mark Pollok, is looking out for the public good. Maybe he just found an easy way to intimidate large and small business to pay him money. Regardless, almost no one in California sell dragees any more. Just so you know, you can buy dragees in any of the other 49 states, and in Europe. If you want to read a newspaper article about the dragee suit, you can click this link to read an article from the San Francisco Chronicle.

12
Jan 13
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Temperamental Colored Melting Candy

Category:stories Well, sometimes it happens. The melting candy sometimes becomes troublesome. Usually, the chocolate, dark chocolate, white, and superwhite candies give no problem at all. But the colored candy can sometimes be stubborn. One of our customers called me and told me that the pink melting candy was too thick to work with and would not flow easily. After I spoke with her, I grabbed a bag of the pink, ripped it open, and melted it down as a test.

Pink melting candy being poured into a mold. Notice that the top of the candy is clumpy.

It turned out to be a little thicker than usual, but I was able to work with it, and even poured it into molds and dipped some graham crackers. Here’s the process I went through:

I melted the candy like we recommend, in the microwave, twice, at half power for 30 seconds, stirring after each 30 seconds.
At the end, the candy was somewhat thicker than normal, and it seemed to start to harden even as it was being poured. I threw in some shortening flakes (paramount crystals) to thin it out. I used a lot of the flakes, about twice as much as I would normally recommend. That made the candy considerably thinner, but when poured into a mold, it didn’t spread out to fill the mold, but remained thick and ropy (see the photo).
I picked up the mold, still flat, about a half to one inch from the table and dropped it onto the table.The candy immediately spread out and properly filled the entire mold, and then went on to harden in the refrigerator into little candy treats (see the photo).

This colored melting candy needed some extra shortening flakes and some tapping to make it smooth.

To sum it up, colored candy melts can sometimes be thicker than usual. If you have a particularly stubborn batch of candy, add about twice as many shortening flakes as you normally would. Even a little more, if you have to. If the candy pours into the mold easily, but doesn’t fill it properly, pick up the mold about an inch and let it fall to the table again. That should smooth it out just fine.

07
Dec 12
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Guava: Our New Filling

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Guava: Our Newest Filling is from this Fruit

We’ve had several customers asking for us to carry a guava filling, so we thought we’d try it out. We now have guava cake filling in our normal 32 ounce tubes. You’ll find them along with the other filling just waiting for you to use it. So give it a try and let us know what you think. Sadly, we had to remove on of our fillings, Apricot, to make room for guava’s tropical goodness, but poor apricot was just sitting on the shelf with no one asking for it. We may yet bring apricot back, though, if we have enough requests.

12
Nov 12
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A Customer Uses Our New Isomalt Sticks

Category:stories

Check Out the Isomalt Letters

A couple of days ago, one of our customers brought in a cake to show me that she had made letters out of Isomalt sticks she had recently bought from us. She said that the Isomalt was easily melted using the microwave instructions on the package. After melting the sticks, she just poured the liquid into the letter forms and let them harden for several minutes. Our customer, Bethany, had never used the Isomalt sticks before, and she just wanted to experiment with them. As the picture shows, her experiment was successful.

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Nov 17

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Use CMC Powder to Make Edible Glue

Here’s what you’ll need. You can adjust the proportions based on the amount of glue you need:

Here’s what you do:

May 17

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Using Edible Gold Leaf

Jan 17

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Crispy Flakes – an underused Topping

Jan 13

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Silver Dragees – Little Balls of Doom?

Jan 13

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Temperamental Colored Melting Candy

Dec 12

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Guava: Our New Filling

Nov 12

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A Customer Uses Our New Isomalt Sticks

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