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Today’s consumers have busy lives, so convenience is important in everything. Even when it comes to food. The latest Taste Tomorrow survey revealed that consumers all over the world long for ultimate convenience. This is mostly linked to obtaining food as easily as possible, with a high level of service and a minimal amount of effort. But it’s also about convenience in eating. And that’s where this delicious tube cake comes calling.
Ultimate convenience: easy ordering, easy delivery, easy eating
Ultimate convenience is one of the nine global trends that were revealed by the latest Taste Tomorrow survey. Consumers want immediate access to anything they desire, as easily as possible, without having to wait or compromise. Buying food online and other technological innovations can make things more convenient. But it’s more than that. It’s also about appreciating finished goods that can be consumed conveniently, and that are convenient in their tasting.
Recipe: reduced sugar tube cake
This delicious tube cake answers the need for convenient tastings, as it combines all the flavours of hazelnuts and chocolate. When developing this recipe, we also indirectly responded to the Health trend, by using sugar-reduced cake mix and sugar-reduced chocolate. But above all, this is a delicious tasting cake.
Ingredients
Sugar reduced cake
- Puratos Tegral Satin Cream Cake SR 500 gr
- Eggs 175 gr
- Water 120 gr
- Oil 150 gr
- Belcolade Selection Noir Sugar Reduced Cacao-Trace 50 gr
Filling
- PatisFrance Gianduja QS
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Working Method
Sugar reduced cake
Filling
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces to be incorporated into the cake batter.
- In a mixing bowl with a paddle attachment mix all the ingredient together.
- Pipe the tegral satin cream cake in between two tube lined with baking paper.
- Bake at 180ºC for 15 to 18 minutes close damper.
- Cream the gianduja in a mixer with paddle to a pipeable texture.
- Pipe stripes of 40cm long.
- Cut to the size of the tube.
- Add roasted hazelnuts and candied fruits.
Make up
On a cooling rack, pipe some sugar reduced chocolate in the center of the cake with a baking paper in the bottom and remove it right away to have chocolate coated in the center of the cake.
Interested in this recipe?
One of the key ingredients of this tube cake is Puratos Tegral Satin Cream Cake. This sugar-reduced cake mix is highly versatile and easy to use. It guarantees a consistent quality in every cream cake or moist cake that you bake, and can easily be enriched with different aromas, fruits and fillings.
Interested in trying out this recipe yourself? Download the PDF with the tube cake recipe.
You can also discover how the Ultimate Convenience trend is applied throughout these 6 concepts.
