Baking Ingredients & Decorations

Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, most often an oven. This culinary method of preparing food is used widely across the world. With the method of baking, a wide variety of dishes and meals can be prepared ranging from savory and salty to sweet such as bread, pizza, cookies and cakes.
In order to create these famous and well-loved meals, many ingredients are needed. Baking ingredients such as flour, baking powder, yeast and many more are used on a daily basis and therefore the demand for these ingredients is extremely high. Bakery products and ingredients are part of the staple food in many western cultures and this is the major factor that drives the market economy. Private label companies have tremendous opportunities on this market because the western food culture is growing in popularity all across the globe and the variety of the ingredients is vast

Since baking is so popular it is no wonder that there are thousands upon thousands of different recipes and ways of preparing baked foods.
Ingredients used in baking are most commonly baking powder, flour, baking soda, butter, eggs, yeast, honey, fruits, nuts, flavor additives, preservatives, enzymes, color additives and even pre-mixes for cakes and breads. With these ingredients many meals can be prepared such as breads, cakes, biscuits, pastries, cookies, pies, torts, donuts and many more. Hand in hand with baking comes decorations. Decorating cakes and other baked foods began as a trend back in mid-17th century when cake pans became a common household item for the first time in Northeastern Europe and one of the first cake decorating classes were opened for chefs, caterers and other gourmands around 1929 Most commonly used decorating tools when it comes to baking are piping bags, tips, coupler, cake turntable, fondant cutters, icing bottle set, fondant smoother.