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Top Tips For A Thicker, Cuttable Spread For Your Bakes

Posted: 07 Jul 2024

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Top Tips For a Soft, Sliceable Filling For Your Bakes

If you’re making cookie pies, tarts, traybakes or layered desserts, you might want a thick, softly set but sliceable layer between your biscuit base and your chocolate topping. We’ve got the perfect solution: cuttable fillings made by combining sumptuous spreads with compound coatings. Read on to find out how to create your own ideal fillings for every application using Keylink Essentials…

by Joe Baker

07 July 2024

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Given the enduring popularity of traybakes, it’s essential to have a thicker, more easily cuttable version of our versatile spreads that can be piped into tart cases, biscuit bases, cookie pies and more.

Each spread has a corresponding Keylink Essentials compound coating, which you can combine with the spread to achieve a soft-set, cuttable consistency your customers will love to bite into. We’ve taken care of all the ratio calculations for you!

How to Blend Spreads and Coatings for a Set, Cuttable Layer in a Cookie Pie or Traybake

Simply pour melted coating onto your spread and blend with an immersion blender until fully combined. There’s no need to worry about workability, as until you set the spread in your fridge, it will remain spreadable and pipeable. We’ve shown a comparison without (in a cronut) and with (as a traybake).
Spread Matching coating % of coating required Bakestable
Pistachio (10%) Pistachio 20% Y
Pistachio (15%) Pistachio 20% Y
Lemon Cream White 20% Y
White White 20% N
Milk Milk 20% N
Milk with Hazelnut Milk 20% N
White with Hazelnut White 20% N
White chocolatey spread before White chocolatey spread and white compound coating after

Each spread will need 1-2 hours to set in the fridge after combining to make them cuttable. After keeping at room temperature, the spreads will soften but will keep their form, so can be displayed all day.

White chocolatey spread before White chocolatey spread and white compound coating after

Each spread will need 1-2 hours to set in the fridge after combining to make them cuttable. After keeping at room temperature, the spreads will soften but will keep their form, so can be displayed all day.

Given the enduring popularity of traybakes, it’s essential to have a thicker, more easily cuttable version of our versatile spreads that can be piped into tart cases, biscuit bases, cookie pies and more.

Each spread has a corresponding Keylink Essentials compound coating, which you can combine with the spread to achieve a soft-set, cuttable consistency your customers will love to bite into. We’ve taken care of all the ratio calculations for you!

How to Blend Spreads and Coatings for a Set, Cuttable Layer in a Cookie Pie or Traybake

Simply pour melted coating onto your spread and blend with an immersion blender until fully combined. There’s no need to worry about workability, as until you set the spread in your fridge, it will remain spreadable and pipeable. We’ve shown a comparison without (in a cronut) and with (as a traybake).
Spread Matching coating % of coating required Bakestable
Pistachio (10%) Pistachio 20% Y
Pistachio (15%) Pistachio 20% Y
Lemon Cream White 20% Y
White White 20% N
Milk Milk 20% N
Milk with Hazelnut Milk 20% N
White with Hazelnut White 20% N

Flavour Combination Ideas for Your Cuttable Fillings

If you’ve tried all of the above combinations and are looking for something a little different, we’ve got just the thing. Here are some spread and compound coating combination ideas for you to try in your next batch of bakes:

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Our range of Keylink Essentials spreads and compound coatings are a perfect pairing, allowing you to create your own range of indulgent fillings. Use our table as a guide, but feel free to experiment and find your own ideal ratios for every application!

Looking for other ways to use compound coating in your bakery business? Read our blog 5 Reasons to Use Compound Coatings for a few ideas.

We’d love to see your creations, tag us on social media in your photos of compound coatings and spreads!