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SCOTTISH BAKERS MEMBERS SHORTLISTED FOR BIA AWARDS

The finalists for the 2022 Baking Industry Awards have been revealed and three of our Bakery members and one Allied Trade Associate Member are in the running for an award.

Fisher & Donaldson will be looking to add to their Scottish Baker of the Year, Bakery Café Award by winning the Craft Bakery Business Award. If they win, it will be consecutive wins for a Fife baker as Stephens Bakery took home the title last year. Let’s hope it stays in Scotland! You will have read about Amy McBean from Maclean’s Highland Bakery in the last edition of the newsletter. She has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Rising Star category. A fantastic achievement for someone with a bright future in the bakery trade. McGhee’s Bakery is shortlisted in the Bakery Manufacturer of the Year category, alongside Allied Trade member Dawn Foods. We will be rooting for them all come October when the winners are revealed at a glittering awards night in London.

SCOTTISH BAKER OF THE YEAR AWARDS

A few of our award winners were unable to collect their awards in person at our conference and awards weekend. Our Chief Executive and some of our training team did the honours of visiting some of the winners in person to present their certificates and trophies.

Pictured are the team from Breadalbane Bakery & Pantry who won both best Traditional and best Sourdough in Scotland, Annie’s Bakery, who won the Customer Choice Bakery Café award, Graeme & Cameron Ross from JG Ross who won National Silver and Best in Region for their Multiseed Bread, David Little from R Little Bakers who won best in region for their White Roll and Jane Brown from Biggar Flavour, who won a regional bronze for their cheese scone. We also conducted the prize draw with customers from Harry Gow Bakery, Aulds Bakeries and J M Bakery winning a Google Nest Hub Max.

Annie’s Bakery

Breadalbane Bakery

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CSM INGREDIENTS LOOKS TO NOSTALGIA AND COMFORT AS IT SPICES UP AUTUMN RANGES

CSM Ingredients predicts that autumn and winter 2022 sweet bakery ranges will be dominated by products that meet the four demands of nostalgia, comfort, enjoyment and indulgence, manifesting with a focus on cookie cakes, stuffed cookies and the traditional Halloween ranges. Tapping into the pleasure gained from eating and drinking, bakers should create their ranges accordingly to meet their customer’s requirements.

Fifty-six per cent of people have increased purchasing of comfort food and, irrespective of health concerns, taste and enjoyment remain the main reasons why consumers turn to products in an era when they are seeking out small indulgences that offer temporary escapism from every day life. Their new autumn recipes include: Spiced Toffee Apple Traybakes, Spider Cupcakes and selection of cookies - Ghost cookies, Stuffed cookies, Monster cookies and Chai-Spiced Maple and Pecan Cookies.

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

We are delighted to extend a warm welcome to the association for two new members:

BALD BAKER, EDINBURGH

Owner, Scott Parker, started his bakery business in 2021, in lockdown, creating homemade sweet treats for collection and delivery throughout Edinburgh & Lothians. One year later he now has his own shop in Oxgangs, Edinburgh. He has a range of traybakes and cakes, as well as bread, rolls and pies available daily.

ULMA PACKAGING

With over 60 years of creating and installing packaging machinery, ULMA Packaging UK provides customers with a wide variety of solutions to suit any requirements. As a result, the company can offer multiple types of machinery for bakery, biscuits and confectionery applications, including vertical and horizontal flow wrappers, alongside thermoforming and traysealing solutions. ULMA is proud to be the only supplier capable of providing such a wide range of packaging options to the baked goods sector.

MUD PIES COMPLETE TOUGH MUDDER

Well done to the Mud Pies of Apple Pie Bakery who completed the Tough Mudder Challenge in July.

They were raising money for Chris’s House, a crisis centre for the support, response and intervention surrounding suicide. To date they have raised over £1000!