Boozy Bundts® range of desserts unveiled by frozen food distributor Central Foods

Menuserve Boozy Bundt® from Central Foods

Frozen food distributor Central Foods has launched a range of Boozy Bundts® to add a dash of excitement to dessert menus.

The three-strong Menuserve range has been created in response to increasing demand for retro, homemade-style puddings and sweets.

Perfect for coffee shops, restaurants, pubs, hotels and other hospitality outlets looking to serve up something special, the Boozy Bundts® are available in three flavours - rum, Limoncello or chocolate – and bring a touch of indulgence with a tipple of alcohol.

“Authentic Bundt® cakes can only be baked in Nordic Ware® cake tins, originally developed in the USA in the 1950s and based on speciality Scandinavian ethnic cookware products,” explained Gordon Lauder, MD of Central Foods.

“The Menuserve range of Boozy Bundts® has been launched to tap into the current demand from consumers for comforting, retro-style desserts and puddings, which seems to have risen in these unstable, political times, and thanks also in part to programmes like the Great British Bake Off, which have introduced a new generation to traditional desserts.”

The Vanilla Boozy Bundt® is a light moist sponge infused with authentic Jamaican rum, filled with rum buttercream and topped with a glacé cherry, and has a total rum content of 5%.

The Lemon Boozy Bundt® is a light moist sponge infused with lemon liqueur (Limoncello), filled with lemon liqueur buttercream and topped with a sweet lemon slice, and has a Limoncello content of 4.75%.

The Chocolate Boozy Bundt® is a light moist sponge infused with coffee liqueur (Kahlua®), filled with coffee liqueur buttercream and topped with a coffee bean decoration, and has a total Kahlua® content of 5%.

Suitable for vegetarians, the Boozy Bundts® are the latest desserts to be added to the Menuserve range at Central Foods, which also features roulades and pavlova.

The Boozy Bundts® are supplied frozen, in packs of 12, and have a defrosted shelf-life of two days.

Central Foods, which is based at Collingtree near Northampton, is this year celebrating 21 years of supplying to the foodservice sector.

The distributor supplies more than 400 different lines, ranging from desserts, cakes and bakes, to canapés, buffet items, breads and meats. It delivers to more than 220 independent wholesalers, as well as larger national and regional wholesalers, and foodservice caterers across the entire foodservice industry, including coffee shops, cafés, pubs, restaurants, bars, hotels, universities, schools, business and industry caterers, and sports facilities.

Visit www.centralfoods.co.uk for more information.

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Cherry on the cake for specialist baker Butt Foods on winning award

David Williams of Butt Foods and David Ratcliffe of Brakes

A quarter of a century of supplying a leading food wholesaler with bread has been topped for specialist baker Butt Foods after the company was awarded the title of Desserts and Bakery Supplier of the Year at the Brakes Supplier Conference.

The Nottingham-based company, which supplies flatbread, naans, sub rolls and other speciality breads to the food service sector, received the award from Brakes Group for a range of reasons, including 100% level of supply, stock and logistics innovation, market leading insight and new product development, as well as being praised for having a helpful team.

“Pardon the pun, but it really was the cherry on the cake to receive the award from Brakes, a wholesale company that we have had links with for almost the entire history of Butt Foods and who source from more than 2,000 suppliers,” said Butt Foods managing director David Williams.

“Our company was founded in 1990, and the following year began supplying naan breads to Brakes – dealing with the original founding Brake family. The business relationship has continued since then, as both companies have developed, and we are thrilled to have been named the Desserts and Bakery Supplier of the Year at the Brakes Supplier Conference.”

Family owned Butt Foods, which prides itself on keeping abreast of trends and developing new products to satisfy consumer demand in a fast-paced industry, produces hand-finished frozen sweet and savoury bakery items, used by a range of outlets from restaurants and hotels to pubs and cafés.  

Brakes is the UK’s biggest food distributor, and also supplies to Ireland, France and Sweden. The group sources and supplies a range of more than 50,000 fresh, ambient, chilled and frozen foods, including more than 4,000 own-brand products and a wide range of non-foods.

Butt Foods is one of more than 2,000 suppliers from around the world that the group deals with.

For more information about Butt Foods, visit www.buttfoods.co.uk

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Spice up Mother’s Day with an Indian cookery class gift voucher from the founder of Anila’s Authentic Sauces

If your mum loves Indian food, why not treat her to a cookery class gift voucher.

Award-winning Anila Vaghela, the founder of Anila’s Authentic Sauces, runs small and friendly cookery lessons at her home in Surrey. During the step-by-step sessions, she shares the secrets of successful vegetarian curries and shows how to prepare Indian starters, desserts and other delights.

Lessons include three-hour taster sessions, four-hour Indian starter classes, six-hour vegetarian thali classes and a four-hour Indian desserts and starters session…with prices from £50.

And there’s currently a special offer on bookings made or gift vouchers bought before May 31st 2013 (Use FRIEND10 promotional code on checkout to receive 10% off your first cookery class).

“I love showing Indian food fans the best ways of using various herbs and spices to create authentic Indian dishes,” said Anila, who is an expert in Indian cuisine and is celebrating 21 years in the business, having sold her first curry sauce at a fair in Surrey in 1992.

Anila’s Authentic Sauces has grown since then and now has a range of eight concentrated curry sauces, which are free from artificial colours, additives and preservatives, are sugar, dairy and gluten free, contain no onion or garlic, and are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

The firm also produces a wide range of chutneys, pickles and dips which are made with single fruits and vegetables, and natural ingredients.

Anila’s supplies hundreds of outlets that include speciality food halls, garden centres, delis, farm shops, gift shops and also health stores. The firm also sells direct to the public at farmers’ markets and at food shows and festivals as well as online via www.anilassauces.com

Products are on sale at places like Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis Oxford Street and Bluewater, Chatsworth Farm Shop, and the Wholefoods chain of stores across the UK from Glasgow to Richmond in Surrey.

Visit www.anilassauces.com for more information about gift vouchers and the cookery classes, which are held in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Anila’s has won 12 Great Taste Awards, including two *** Gold Awards in 2007 for its curry sauces.

Awards include:

One star Gold Award 2012 – Hot Mango Pickle

Two Star Gold Award 2010 – Goan Green Curry Sauce

Three Star Gold Award 2007 - Spicy Mild Curry Sauce

Three Star Gold Award 2007 - Spicy Korma Curry Sauce

Reserve - Best Speciality from the South East 2007 - Spicy Mild Curry Sauce

Silver Award 2006 - Goan Green Curry Sauce

Gold Award 2005 - Chilli Chutney

Gold Award 2005 - Tindori Pickle Best Speciality from the South East 2005 Award for the Tindori Pickle

Anila’s Goan Green Curry Sauce was a winner at the FreeFrom Food Awards 2012. It was also named Best Vegan Product 2011 in the Veggie Awards run by Cook Vegetarian! magazine. Anila’s Spicy Korma Curry Sauce scooped a FreeFrom Food Award in 2009.

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