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CONTENTS

special report 1 volume 2

from the

EDITOR

Functional
ingredients issue
CUSTOM SOLUTIONS
04
Bakery owner Josh Allen set out to
help his clients build their programs
from the ground up, inspired by the
collaborative process.
A BREAD REVIVAL
14
Messenger Cafe + Ibis Bakery did not
necessarily foresee in the manifestation of their dream that Ibis would
emerge as a brand in its own right.
ICINGS WITH FLAIR
20
Investing in premium icings helps
your bakery stay on top of trends
and provides a platform for sharing
your creative decorating skills.

JOHN UNREIN
editor
04

CAKES & E-COMMERCE
24
One area that has seen dramatic
changes is online, as some predict
the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed
e-commerce ﬁve years to the future.
SWEET GOODS
28
Sweet goods are sweetening the pot
for future innovation.

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PASTRIES
30
Discover how pastries are pushing
the envelope with dietary changes.

INNOVATORS
TO WATCH

& more
03
32
34

from the editor
formulas
consumer insights

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28

COVER BY: ©DIANA VYSHNIAKOVA - STOCK.ADOBE.COM

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Leave it to retail bakeries in Washington, DC, to reinvent
their concept with imagination and zeal. Our nation's capital
is home to many things, and now the city is emerging as a
forward-thinking bakery hotspot where a growing number
of bakeries are ﬂourishing thanks to creative product
positioning and ambitious marketing.
The most recent issue of Food & Wine makes the bold
proclamation: " Washington, DC, Is America's Next Great
Bakery Town. " That in itself is quite a statement, and a
closer look lends a lot of credibility to the claim.
Here are bakeries on the list:
La Bodega
Sharbat
Rose Ave Bakery
Call Your Mother
Yellow
Levain
Mah Ze Dahr
The latter two are prominent bakeries that are making
the successful expansion from New York City into our
nation's capital. Levain, featured a year ago on the cover
of bake, pledges to change the world, one delicious cookie
at a time. Like the meaning of Mah-Ze-Dahr, this beloved
bakery is a culmination of years of traveling the world
and experiencing people through their food, decades of
culinary and restaurant experience, and the staunch belief
that what you eat changes who you are.
La Bodega is a Washington, DC, bakery by executive
pastry chef Paola Velez, inspired by bodegas around the
world. The menu includes an inspired breakfast sandwich
line and home delivery via DoorDash.
Sharbat, the city's ﬁrst bakery featuring the foods of
Azerbaijan, also serves an appetizing breakfast, and features
honey cake, shekerbura (a decorated pastry ﬁlled with
nuts and sugar), and borek (ﬁlled with chicken breast).
America's retail bakeries are adapting to change amid a
tumultuous time during the COVD-19 pandemic, and there
are continued examples of innovation that pave the way
for our industry's future.

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