Cookies are a bakery treat that fit in many places—solo snacking sessions, birthdays, and special occasions, tucked into lunchboxes for school or work consumption, and more. 

This month’s eMagazine explores the field’s current health and future success.

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

Producers face ongoing pressures, but they keep demonstrating their strength.

Manufacturers are poised to tackle the various challenges of the chips category.

Speakers set to present include experts from Circana, SNAC International, and ABA.

Seeking to replace an outdated laminator or sheeter? You’ll find plenty of new replacements to meet your current and future needs.

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.

Dough comes in many styles, and today's laminators and sheeters need to accommodate an increasing range of requirements.

Effectively and efficiently handling dough is integral to many snack and bakery operations. And the needs producers have today are diverse.

The two chip flavors—one new and one returning—are hitting shelves in time for the fall snacking season.

Company founder Lauryn Bodden triumphed in the Netflix cooking competition ‘Snack vs Chef.’

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

After a seven-year hiatus, the Lay’s Do Us A Flavor contest is making its return.

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.

Frito-Lay's Flamin’ Hot portfolio, encompassing 25 unique products, is coming together as an official brand and stepping out with a fierce new look.  

On April 8, Whisps is launching Popped: protein-packed poppable snacks made from 100% real cheese, seasoned with even more cheese.

Available in two flavors, the new snack will be available at Sprouts and on LesserEvil.com starting June 1.

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.

For the first time, the brands are coming together for an unexpected flavor mash-up: Funyuns x Maruchan Hot & Spicy Chicken Ramen Onion Flavored Rings.

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

Conagra to unveil sweet, spicy, and salty new innovations from its brands.

The snacks consist of a baked base of green peas and are flavored with a touch of sweetness and heat.

PepsiCo will be debuting new flavor innovations from Cheetos, Doritos, Quaker, and Lay's.

Shearer’s Foods portrays “Shearer Perfection,” thanks to its new LEED Platinum-certified snack
manufacturing plant.

Over the past 15 years, Late July Snacks, the 2018 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery "Snack Producer of the Year", has steadily grown its business to its position today as a leader in organic, non-GMO snacks, most notably its strong level of innovation in the tortilla chip category.

Pizza is essential to a high percentage of Americans, a fact reflected in the over $6 billion annual sales for this market segment in frozen retail pizzas alone. While diversification of crusts and ingredients is attracting health-conscious consumers, there is still demand for high quality, Italian-style premium frozen pizza.

The award will be handed out at SNAXPO 2023, taking place March 19–21 in Orlando.

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

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

The brand is offering its Spooky Pizookie dessert, as well as its Big Twist Pretzel with beer cheese.

Brownie Brittle, the snack known for its thin treats, is debuting a new look.

The item consists of shortbread cookies shaped like Scottie dogs, housed in a specially decorated 3D carton, to be sold at Walmart.

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

The products include a mix of new and returning limited-time offerings.

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.

Effective immediately, Brian Hansberry is CEO of the specialty cookies and baked goods producer.

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

From a young age, we’ve been told that eating protein will help us grow tall and strong.

Ingredient manufacturers offer a diversity of whole grains to build nutritional appeal in today’s snack foods and baked goods.

The company will launch an integrated marketing campaign this month titled “Love, Your Bread” to reinforce the goodness of whole grains.

I am truly blessed to be a chef in California. We are spoiled by having the best selection of ingredients literally in our backyards.

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

The new tool captures and saves digital images of critical foreign material contaminants that the sorter detects and rejects from the product stream.

Spiroflow will now be offering the full range of Cablevey tubular drag conveyors in its product portfolio.