My experiences in the Black Forest Bakery in Johannesburg.
The Bakery Project – Diary – 15 ( This is my final diary entry from South Africa.) Mince Pie is a traditional English pastry for christmas. As South Africa is a multicultural country with a big influence from England, the Black Forest Bakery is offering them for christmas. I was always suspicious of Mince […]
The Bakery Project – Diary 14 Lots of biscuits for christmas! The Black Forest Bakery has pretty much christmas stress. They are offering 20 different kinds of christmas biscuits. I’m helping to package them all. When we are ready with one batch of biscuits, the bakers come with the next batch. I’m already dreaming of
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The Bakery Project – Diary – 13 This year the Black Forest Bakery is offering a Gingerbread House. The package contains the walls and the roof out of ginger bread – additional a christmas tree. People have the opportunity to build this little cute house themself and to be creative in decorating.The house in the
The Bakery Project – Diary – 12 It is recommendable to have a Ginger Bread recipe in your repertory for Christmas time. The Black Forest Bakery is offering different cookies with icing decoration – as you can see in the picture above. The Santa picture is printed on edible rice paper. So is my little
The Bakery Project – Diary – 11 Christmas is around the corner! The first Stollen are baked. And there are already lots of orders for Stollen in the bakery. The Black Forest Bakery is offering 5 different kinds of Stollen in different sizes. You can choose between Dresdner Stollen, Marzipan, Poppy Seed, Hazelnut
The Bakery Project – Diary – 10 In connection with the brand relaunch the Black Forest Bakery was searching for new product packaging as well. I made some suggesstions and we started to put one idea for the christmas products into practice. One of the most important conditions for the new packaging was: Practical in
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The Bakery Project – Diary – 09 Danish pastries or just Danish is a speciality of the Black Forest Bakery. It is a multilayered, sweet pastry in the viennoiserie tradition. The concept was brought to Denmark by Austrian bakers and has since developed into a Danish specialty. Like other viennoiserie
The Bakery Project – Diary – 08 The last few weeks were very busy in the bakery. I moved from the sweet bakery department one level upstairs to the packaging department. On that level I arranged my little photostudio. The Black Forest Bakery is working on a brand relaunch. They already have a new logo
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The Bakery Project – Diary – 05 I have never heard of “Lamingtons” before. When I was told about them the first time I had to think of the animals “Lemminge”. But far from that: “Lamingtons” are a pastry covered with chocolate and coconut. I saw them the first time in the Black Forest Bakery;
The Bakery Project – Diary – 04 Cheesecake is another speciality of the Black Forest Bakery. Last week I had the oppurtunity to help with the cheesecakes and I learned something new I was impressed of. On a prebaked shortbread base I had to spread a thin layer of apricot jam. On top a
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