Sweet Baked Goods

The role of mixes for sweet baked goods in professional baking

There are many reasons why bakers decide to use cake and sponge cake mixes, including:

Absolute consistency: Mixes are scientifically formulated which are difficult to replicate with standard pantry ingredients. This ensures the crumb structure, rise, and moisture level are identical every single time, with improved shelf life, regardless of who is operating the production process.

Reduced Skill Requirement: “Scratch baking” requires a baker who understands the chemistry of aeration, emulsion and more. Mixes eliminate the risk of human error (e.g., over-mixing or mismeasuring baking powder), allowing less experienced staff to produce a high-quality product.

Efficiency: You only need to stock the mix, oil, and water/eggs, rather than managing bulk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and various extracts. Scratch recipes also often leave you with leftover ingredients or failed batches.

Storage: Simple to store with no temperature-controlled conditions required.

Speed: Weighing out 10 individual ingredients takes significantly longer than weighing one mix and adding just a few additional ingredients like water and oil. In a bakery producing hundreds of units a day, this labour saving directly impacts profit margins.

How can Bakels mixes for sweet baked goods help you?

Our cake and sponge cake mixes enable you to differentiate your sweet baked goods through superior cake quality, with texture and taste that satisfies consumer preference and expectation, and innovation, thanks to the development of mixes aligned to evolving consumer preferences.

Our mission is to help our customers sell more bakery products. An important way to do this is through the development of robustly versatile mixes, coupled with the development of a whole host of inspiring recipes from across the world. This powerful combination enables you to delight consumers with many outstanding all-year-round sweet baked goods, and creative seasonal products, which is increasingly of interest to global consumers, all using a versatile selection of mixes.