Featured Recipes from Issue 21

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Below, you will find the tasty recipes featured in Issue 20. Click on the images to view them in our recipe database. Jordan Almond Gelato Create this recipe using: PreGel Diamant 50,  PreGel Nonfat Dry Milk, PreGel Roasted Almond Traditional Paste , PreGel Coriandolina® – Lemon, PreGel Coriandolina® – Strawberry Green Machine Soft Serve Create… Read more »

Top Ten: Marketing Mistakes Dessert Businesses Are Making

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10. Avoiding Social Media If a business isn’t on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the like, how do they expect today’s consumer to find them? Social norms today include following, liking and friending businesses to get exclusive offers and feel like a personal relationship is formed between businesses and customers. With visual content on the rise… Read more »

Convenience Goes Gourmet C-Stores at the Crossroads of Gourmet and Convenient

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The name speaks for itself: convenience stores are all about quick and easy accessibility. Frequented by time-pressured consumers looking to multitask, they are the best destination to park, pump and pick something up to eat at the same time. As a preferred stop for on-the-go refreshments and meals, the trend of gourmet food being sold… Read more »

Desserts & Beverages: An Evolving Love Story

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Drinks and desserts, two of the hottest categories in the Foodservice Industry, are crossing over – inspiring and influencing each other and perhaps creating a new category altogether with dessert drinks. As we continue to see dessert-inspired drinks and drink-inspired desserts, the industry has a world of possibilities to innovate and surprise consumers reinventing what… Read more »

Say Mascarpone Cheese!

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Native to Lombardy, Italy, mascarpone is an intensely rich triple cream cheese that is said to have been created around the 16th century. Made from blending curdling milk with citric acid or acetic acid, the result produces a soft, sweet, creamy, spreadable fare. Mascarpone’s soft texture ranges from smooth and creamy to buttery, and it… Read more »

Basics 101: Pectin: Interesting Name, Interesting Ingredient

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Pectin is an interesting little ingredient. From simple jams and jellies, to high-end pastry and everything in between, pectin allows for fruit-based desserts and dessert components to have that perfect gel texture. The name sounds like something you would find on the periodic table – though not scientific, pastry chefs would agree that it is… Read more »

Spring Into PreGel 5-Star Pastry Series 2014 Seminars

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The world’s finest culinary talent to the 2014 PreGel 5-Star Pastry Series® lineup starts this spring. The series provides an opportunity for established culinary professionals to sharpen and increase their skills in the arts of pastry, chocolate, showpieces and plated desserts at PreGel’s state-of-the-art Professional Training Center in Charlotte, NC. The PreGel 5-Star Pastry Series®… Read more »

QSRs Entering The Retail Market

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Have you noticed that products from your favorite restaurants, coffee shops and donut shops are invading supermarket shelves? More and more restaurants are realizing the profit potential of selling their products in retail stores and extending their brands further into the marketplace. A win-win for brands, it’s expected this shift will only continue to gain… Read more »

Back to Our Roots: InTuit

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As I blissfully punch each letter of this article, my mind is at ease knowing that my Macbook won’t freeze, once again dodging the “spinning wheel of death.” Behind every functioning computer, phone and tablet at PreGel AMERICA are two men whose true passion for problem solving keeps this company connected 24/7. John Baran and Anthony… Read more »

Chocolate Accents By PreGel Latest U.S. Product Addition Ready-made chocolate decor creates new line for dessert ingredient company

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PreGel AMERICA is excited to announce the addition of Chocolate Accents by PreGel – the company’s first line of finished chocolate decor. The decorative Chocolate Accents line adds a new level of appeal to the company’s superior specialty dessert ingredient products. Available in milk, dark and white chocolate, and designed using only the finest cocoa… Read more »