by Susan Holtz | Sep 25, 2010 | B&CA, Equipment, General
Happy to post the interview with Daniel Budiman on Bakery Business Entrepreneurship! Check out “So You Dream Owning a Bakery” on Streetwise. Hope to see Daniel Budiman and many other Baking Industry colleagues and vendors at the IBIE in Los Vegas beginning Saturday,...
by Susan Holtz | Sep 25, 2010 | Streetwise
Streetwise caught up with Daniel Budiman at his Caljava International headquarters near Los Angeles, California where he generously donated his time in the interest of entrepreneurial education. Those of you who desire to learn all you can in order to attain the goal...
by Susan Holtz | Sep 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Kings of Pastry” a Film by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker This stellar film about the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition is itself comparable to a fine pastry that contains all of the right elements to seduce and satisfy. In the effort to create pastry...
by Susan Holtz | Aug 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
Featured in Los Angeles Times Local: A sweet ending for a one-of-a-kind cake museum was assured Friday when bakery students from a San Fernando Valley vocational school rescued more than a hundred colorfully decorated cakes from a trip to the dumpster. The elaborately...
by Susan Holtz | Aug 27, 2010 | Streetwise
To listen to the interview please click here. You need to be a member in order to listen. If you are not a member yet, you can click here to sign up for a 14 day free trial. Robert Wemischner, author of “The Dessert Architect,” discusses The Four Cornerstones that he...
by Susan Holtz | Aug 21, 2010 | General
With a limitless variety of ingredient combinations available in today’s marketplace, and because mixing and baking are not labor intensive tasks, QUICK BREADS offer the ability to make muffins, scones, biscuits, loaf type cakes, and even popovers fresh within limited...
by Susan Holtz | Aug 3, 2010 | General
One Aha! moment that awakened my passion for cake decoration dealt with an episode involving my sixth grade friend, Sharon, whose cake decorator mom made a “Forget-Me-Not” cake for our classmate who was about to move. That gesture profoundly influenced my creativity...
by Susan Holtz | Aug 3, 2010 | General
Frances Kuyper was an inspiration to me and I’ll bet anyone who met her. My students and I would visit Frances at Hollenbeck Palms where she moved herself and her cake museum after the death of her husband. When she demonstrated her talents in a large room complete...
by Susan Holtz | Jul 29, 2010 | Stories
My first wedding cake customer was a college chum. She wanted me to do a three-tiered cake covered in edible white royal icing daisies. At the time, my sister and I shared a studio apartment. I do not remember how I managed to store six cake layers in such a small...
by Susan Holtz | Jul 26, 2010 | Healthy Baking
My summer Bakery class is in the midst of the HEALTHY BAKING/SPECIAL DIET unit which is generating interest because many of the students know of someone who is either diabetic, hypoglycemic, allergic to something ,or follows a vegan eating pattern. Luckily I...
