Advances in packaging materials continue to extend shelf life, while adding convenience and freshness to bakery and snack goods. Innovations in modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP), microbial-inhibiting film, and the use of cellulose nanocrystals are helping to push the envelope.

Consumers can add eggs, butter or oil, and water for homemade baked goods with the new mixes.

A leader from the bakery chain talks growth, innovation, and maintaining quality standards.

Like the original Sara Lee Angel Food Cake, this line extension is fully baked and ready to simply thaw, slice, and serve.

The Mother's Day cakes and Graduation Cake is available starting May 1, and the Cheers to Dad cake is available starting June 8.

This week's Crumbl lineup includes Butter Cake, Chocolate Covered Pretzel Pie, Lemon Cupcake, Honey Bun, PB&J, and Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk.

Retailer’s first significant private label line debut in recent years boasts sweet treats, dessert toppings, seasonal favorites, scented candles, and more designed to celebrate life’s everyday moments.

With more consumers attending gatherings, the dessert category is having a renaissance. 

Laminators and sheeters continue as essential components of many bakery operations, thanks to several prevailing consumer trends.

Ease of cleaning, maintenance and access, as well as the ability to produce a wider variety of items, are among the top desires of companies looking to purchase dough laminators and sheeters for production of snack foods and baked goods.

The American Bakers Association’s Bakers Manufacturing Academy has launched a new specialized course for cracker operations: the Sheeting and Laminating Lesson.   

Boulder Canyon has introduced its first ranch product, Buffalo Ranch Canyon Cut Kettle Style Potato Chips. 

Pringles Mexican Street Corn Potato Crisps are light, crispy, and never greasy, and bursting with roasted spices, citrus zest, and a little kick of cayenne pepper, per the brand.

The limited-edition Spicy Pimento Cheese includes a blend of bold pimento peppers and cheddar cheese flavors cooked into Kettle chips.

This new, LTO menu item features a Mediterranean-inspired ranch seasoning, with onion, garlic, and paprika alongside Cava's proprietary herb mix.

Salsa Verde joins three other flavors (Queso, Zesty Ranch, and Cinnamon Churro)in the Fiesta Twists lineup.

The puffs are made with real grass-fed white cheddar, and are free from grains, gluten, nuts, rice, and added sugars.

The puffs, available in four flavors, are made with cauliflower or broccoli.

In Good Hands' new Protein Puffs are exclusively available nationwide in Sprouts New-For-You Innovation Centers, where the newest, most innovative, and on-trend better-for-you products can be found.

Consumers continue to reach for their favorite puffed and extruded snacks in their many forms. However, while U.S. shoppers still put tried and true types (like cheese curls and pork rinds) in their cart, they’re increasingly interested in trying new flavor twists, better-for-you bases, and other novel takes on the category. 

The snack company chatted up its various brands and new items at Sweets & Snacks.

For the first time in the brand’s history, Fritos is blending two flavors into one bag with an exclusive, limited-edition Fritos X Twisters snack.

Extruded snacks are having a bright year, and producers expect the success to continue.

Mission MightyMe’s expansion to brick-and-mortar retail for the first time will lead to new brand discovery, making it even easier for families to follow pediatric recommendations to include nuts in babies’ diets early and often. 

The limited-edition edible is Dr. Norm’s take on one of America’s most popular snacking obsessions.

The snack company uses a proprietary process to impart its products with the taste of hickory smoke.

Unique Pretzel Bakery astutely combines equal measures of Pennsylvania Dutch tradition and modern-day innovation to catalyze its success.

Congratulations to CHEEZ-IT, our 2022 Snack Producer of the Year!

The new veggie-based twist on BBQ potato chips include a crispy, crunchy air-dried carrot tossed in extra virgin olive oil and a bold, smoky barbecue seasoning.

The new retail offerings include Honey Chicken Bites and Restaurant Style Crispy Wings.

Insomnia Cookies is conjuring up sweet treats inspired by Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along, now streaming on Disney+.

Walker’s Shortbread, the 125-year-old Scottish shortbread brand, is introducing its 2024 holiday lineup, touting its new tartan packaging.

The scallop-shaped baked treats reportedly are made without artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.

Supermarket Italy, an online destination for authentic gourmet imported products from Italy since 2009, has expanded its offerings to include snack and bakery baskets.

Founded by mompreneur Lindsay Hancock, My Better Batch was created to simplify life for busy families.

Shaped like classic gingerbread men, Ounce of Hope's baker makes each crème pie in-house.

The product consists of a chocolate cookie dotted with crisp peppermint chips throughout.

The Double Chocolate Peppermint Footlong Cookie is the sequel to Subway's footlong cookie and is available nationwide on November 1.

The selection features eight flavors that capture the essence of autumn, per the brand.

Nearly 15 years ago, a definition for whole grains was developed, based on scientific information from the American Association of Cereal Chemists (now AACC International). 

The bold, new look is designed to help the Cudahy, WI, bakery's products stand out in retailers' natural foods aisles.

Let’s take a look at how we can transform a basic brownie into a value-added product through the use of key functional ingredients and eye-catching inclusions.

Oils and fats manufacturers continue to develop ingredients that help bakers and snack producers create healthier versions of the products consumers love.

The acquisition expands Mondelez International’s portfolio into faster-growing, on-trend, better-for-you areas.

Flowers Foods will use the trademark in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Bahamas.

This recipe brings together multiple components with which most American consumers are quite familiar: flatbread, pesto, scrambled eggs, vegetables and a creamy sauce.

 Fortress Technology has made several recent enhancements to its Stealth Gravity Metal Detector.

Leonard Novelty Bakery announced today a recall involving Carrot Cake Squares sold in its bakery departments due to undeclared walnuts.

Maintaining sanitary conditions is at the top of the priority list in the food processing industry.

The May 8–11 event connects snack and bakery professionals with safety solutions.