Beyond Baking Vol. 82 Issue 9 by Wisconsin Bakers Association

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BEYOND

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REFLECTIONS ON 2018 COOLEST THING FALL BAKERS & LOOKING AHEAD MADE IN WISCONSIN FORUM RECAP ••• ••• ••• A Letter from WBA’s Winners Thank You Executive Director Announced! Marc & Sue Anderson

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MISSION WBA supports our members by providing access to education and resources to grow business and enhance customer experience. How? - Shared industry knowledge - Dynamic networking opportunities - Strategic partnerships

VISION To be the premier partner in the baking industry through World-class professional relationships, Building successful businesses; and Advocating for bakers of tomorrow.

WBA Board of Directors President Tamara Mugerauer, Tamara’s the Cake Guru Vice President Tony Nieto, Neat-O’s Bake Shoppe Treasurer Dawn Ebert, Simple Simon Bakery Board Trustee Bob Hiller, Rollin Pin Bakery Directors-At-Large Tara Nowak, Sweet Lola’s Jennifer Bukouricz, Monzu Bakery Ken Heil, Sweet Perfections Bake Shoppe Ralf Tschenscher, Lesaffre Yeast Corporation Joey Carioti, Cranky Al’s Shane Griesbach, Breadsmith of Appleton

WBA Staff Jessica Hoover

We have a new address! Wisconsin Bakers Association P.O. Box 658 Muskego, WI 53150 Phone: (414) 258-5552 Fax: (414) 258-5552 info@wibakers.com www.wibakers.com

Reflecting on 2018 and Looking Ahead to 2019 Hello WBA Members and Industry Partners!

bakeries and schools from around the state of Wisconsin and upper Illinois participated in baking and cake decorating competitions hosted by WBA in partnership with the Wisconsin Restaurant Association at the 2018 Midwest Foodservice Expo in downtown Milwaukee, WI.

This past year has been incredible! 2018 certainly had some ups and downs as WBA has gone through some major transitions in a short period of time and there have been quite a lot of adjustments. However, there have also been a lot of accomplishments that we are quite proud of! Here are just a few of the highlights: • One of the very first goals that the WBA Board of Directors had set out to accomplish in 2018 was crafting a Mission and Vision for the organization. With support from Valley Cooperative Association, we were able to accomplish that goal. • In January, we redesigned and launched a brand new website.

• Two $1,000.00 scholarships were awarded individually to Kathleen Dunn, recipient of the 2018 Hiller Scholarship and Ashley Borchardt, the 2018 WBA Scholarship recipient. • WBA held three Bakers Forums – Winter at Fox Valley Technical College, Spring at Waukesha County Technical College,

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and Fall at Linda’s Bakery. Each of the forums was well-attended by our members and industry partners! • WBA members and their families from Frosted Memories, Molly’s Gluten Free Bakery, Hill Top Bakery, The CupcakeA-Rhee, Simple Simon Bakery, Desserts by Deb, O&H Danish Bakery, Tamara’s the Cake Guru, Monzù Bakery, Clasen’s European Bakery, The Extra Special Touch Bakery, Sole Passion Baker, Valley Cooperative Association, and Bakery on Terrace enjoyed a wonderfair day at the Wisconsin State Fair. WBA members went behind-the-scenes inside the Original Cream Puffs Dairy Bakery taking tours led by Co-Director, Brandon Grebe. • The inaugural meeting of the WBA Foundation was held in September. Thanks to the assistance of Valley Cooperative Association, we were able to file the necessary paperwork to receive official 501©3 status! school students how to decorate cupcakes at the first ProStart Career & Industry Expo in November. Thank you Cook Specialty Co. Inc. and BakeMark for donating the supplies!

• Governor Walker proclaimed September 14th as Bakery Day throughout the State of Wisconsin! • In October, we partnered with the Wisconsin Grocer’s Association and introduced a new cake competition – Wisconsin’s Cake Decorating Championship! Thirty-one cakes were entered in 2-D sheet cake and 3-D shaped/ sculpted categories featuring a Halloween theme.

• In December, WBA sponsored MATC’s annual Gingerbread House Competition by providing scholarship awards, medals, and bringing in professional judges from our industry. • We recently announced that we are officially working together with Lifestyle Health Plans to provide our members with an optional health care plan for your business!

• Baking & Pastry Arts students and instructors from MATC Milwaukee and Madison College showed 300 high

• We’ve had the honor of visiting the following members and learning about their businesses this year: Valley Cooperative Association, Manderfield’s Home Bakery, Breadsmith of Appleton, Croissant Etc., Burke Candy, Lesaffre Yeast Corporation, Cook Specialty Company, Sweet Perfections Bake Shoppe, Molly’s Gluten Free Bakery, The Extra Special Touch Bakery, Batch Bakehouse, Beans n Cream Bakehouse, Cakes While U Wait, Sally’s Sweet Shoppe, Coffee Talk Bakery, Nino’s Italian Bakery, Breadsmith of Whitefish Bay, Friendship Bakery, Miss Cupcake, Hill Top Bakery, The Main Grain Bakery, Not by Bread Alone, Uncle Mike’s Bake Shoppe, Cranky Al’s, Tamara’s the Cake Guru, Monzu Bakery & Custom Cakes, Cupcake Couture, O&H Danish Bakery, Lehmann’s Bakery, MOR Bakery, Linda’s Bakery, National Bakery & Deli, Johnston’s Bakery, Oostburg Bakery, Mila’s European Bakery, BakeMark, Just Bakery, Dick’s Family Foods, Grebe’s Bakery, Metcalfe’s Market, and Trig’s!

Little Wissota Bakehouse, LLC, Lorelei Bittner Bakery, Loving Traditions Cakery LLC, MacReady Artisan Bread Company, Main Grain Bakery, Malicki’s Piggly Wiggly, Memah’s Gourmet Delights, Meringue Bakery, Metcalfe’s Market, Miller and Sons Supermarket Molly’s Gluten Free Bakery, MOR Bakery, P&H Cake Deco, Peter Sciortino Bakery, Potawatomi Hotel and Casino, Scaturo’s Baking Co. & Café, Stinebrink’s Piggly Wiggly, Stone Creek Coffee, Stoneridge Piggly Wiggly, Sugar and Spice Cupcakes LLC, SURG Restaurant Group, Sweet Girls Bakery, Sweet Retreat Cake Boutique, Sweet Talkin’ Treats, The Baker’s Table, The Coffee Talk Bakery, The Dough Shoppe, The Little Bakery in Big Bend, The Naked Baker, The Sugar Tree, To Di For, Vande Walle’s Candies, Viroqua Baking Co., Voyageurs Sourdough, Wayne’s Family Restaurant, and Webster’s Marketplace!

• Our membership continues to grow and we would like to thank all of our new members that have joined WBA this year: ADAA cakes, Batch Bakehouse, BnC Bakehouse, Brigette Bakes, Cakes While U Wait, Carl’s Cakes, Chambers Creek Kitchen, Confectionately Yours by GGG, Country Cakes & Catering, Crossroads County Market, Edible Impressions, LLC, Elsie Mae Canning and Pies, Flavor Right, FlourGirl Patissier, Fox’s Piggly Wiggly, Friendship Bakery, Gooseberries Fresh Food Market, Happy Dough Lucky, Hatched, LLC, Katie Mae’s Cakery, Lipari Foods,

We could not have accomplished all of these things without the hard work of our WBA Board of Directors, the support of our Industry Partners, and most importantly – our Members! And we’re already looking ahead to more fantastic WBA events planned in 2019! • WBA’s First Rolling Pin Bowling Tournament will be held at Rev’s Bowl in Oshkosh on Sunday, January 13th. Special thanks to Grebe’s Bakery, Sweet Lola’s, Cranky Al’s, Breadsmith of Appleton, and Monzu Bakery & Custom Cakes for sponsoring lanes! Sign up as an individual or bring a team to participate in this fun networking event for WBA Members! Registration includes 3 games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza and soda per person. Sign up here: https:// wibakers.com/event-3134572 • Also, the Midwest Foodservice Expo will be here soon! Be sure to mark March 11-13, 2019 on your calendars. Students, Beginners, and Advanced Professionals are invited to compete in the Extreme Wedding Cake Challenge, Creative Cake Decorating Competition, Best of the Midwest Pie Contest, and NEW IN 2019: Extreme Birthday Cake Challenge, Decorated Cut-Out Cookie Contest, and Wisconsin’s Top Cupcake! Advanced Professionals are also invited to compete in Wisconsin’s Ultimate Donut Duel, NEW IN 2019: Clash of the Cake Artists, and BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND the Baker’s Best Kringle Contest! All of the competition info can be found here: https://wibakers.com/ competitions

Thank you to all of our members and industry partners for making 2018 a memorable year! We look forward to seeing you in 2019! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Uncle Mike’s Bake Shoppe’s Sea Salt Caramel Pecan Kringle named the 2018 Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin! After more than 175,000 votes were cast, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and Johnson Financial Group announced Uncle Mike’s Bake Shoppe (De Pere) and its Sea Salt Caramel Pecan Kringle as the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin. The winner was unveiled at the State of Wisconsin Business & Industry Luncheon on Tuesday in Madison. The third annual contest featured nearly 160 nominees that competed in a popular vote in early September to get into the Top 16.

The Wisconsin-made products that made the Top 16 were placed into a tournament-style bracket known as “Manufacturing Madness.” Head to head matchups took place until four finalists were determined. The Top 4 competed once again in a popular vote, and the Sea Salt Caramel Pecan Kringle came out on top. Nominees for the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin covered a wide range of products.

From metal fabrication and food production to automation components and machinery, Wisconsin makes a long line of cool things.

and leadership in Manufacturing. Today, we congratulate all Wisconsin manufacturers!” Nearly 20,000 votes in the last round determined the ultimate winner. The other finalists were C.C. Moo, LLC (Stoughton) and its Medically Adaptive Clothing; John Deere (Horicon) and its Gator XUV835R; and Cardiac Science Corporation (Deerfield) and its Power Heart G5 Automated External Defibrillator (AED) with Intellisense CPR Feedback.

In 2017, the winner was Oshkosh Corporation and its Joint Light Tactical vehicle, and the winner of the first statewide contest in 2016 was Harley Davidson and its Milwaukee Eight Engine. “When you say you are from Wisconsin, it means something. We have a workforce of talented and diverse individuals who have developed meaningful partnerships with their local communities,” said Johnson Financial Group CEO Jim Popp. “These partnerships have formed the foundation of Wisconsin’s success

All nominees can be seen by visiting www.MadeInWis.com. To find out more about Wisconsin Manufacturing Month, please visit www. WIManufacturingMonth.org. BB

A bowling event to benefit WBA!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN Register today for WBA's First Rolling Pin Bowling Tournament! Sunday, January 13, 2019 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Revs Bowl Bar & Grill 275 N Washburn St Oshkosh, WI 54904 Registration is now open for WBA's First Rolling Pin Bowling Tournament at Rev's Bowl in Oshkosh on Sunday, January 13th. Sign up as an individual or bring a team to participate in this fun networking event for WBA Members! Registration includes 3 games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza and soda per person. A. Individual Bowler – $25.00 B. Team of Four Bowlers – $100.00 C. Lane Sponsorship (Includes Team of Four Bowlers) – $200.00 D. Event Sponsorship (Includes Two Teams of Four Bowlers) – $500.00 Registration Deadline - December 30, 2018 For more information, please contact Jessica Hoover at 414-258-5552.

Fall Bakers Forum Recap Thank you to Marc and Sue Anderson for hosting WBA’s Fall Bakers Forum at Linda’s Bakery in November and to our allied partners Valley Cooperative Association, Lesaffre Yeast Corporation, Cook Specialty Co. Inc., Lawrence Foods, and DecoPac for helping make this event a success! Attendees at the forum took a “behind the scenes” tour of the bakery. Following the tour, Paul Tentis from DecoPac talked about the online ordering system that Linda’s Bakery uses. Next up, Don Hando shared some of the latest trends in the industry and commodities. The talented decorating team at Linda’s Bakery demonstrated how to make unicorn horns out of Fantasia Fondant and everyone got to take home fondant samples. Jill Backhus from Lawrence Foods shared fudge, fillings, and seasonal cake trends.

The forum ended with a group discussion of the topic of Waste Reduction from repurposing products to recycling to “green” initiatives. Tony Nieto from Neato’s Bake Shoppe shared his success with coming up with a formulation for Scrappy Brownies and Jimmy Johnson from Blue Boy’s Bakery shared his version of a Cinnamon Smear.

Marc and Sue prepared a delicious lunch (calzones – yum!) sponsored by Valley Cooperative Association. During lunch, members participated in an equipment swap & door prizes provided by Valley Cooperative Association, Lesaffre Yeast Corporation, Cook Specialty Co. Inc., and samples from Lawrence Foods were awarded.

Even though the weather was a little crummy, it was a great day of learning and sharing! BB

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IDDBA Seeks Decorators To Compete In 24th Annual Cake Decorating Challenge The International Dairy Deli Bakery Association’s (IDDBA) 24th annual Cake Decorating Challenge is approaching and we’re excited for this year’s talented creations. The event will take place during IDDBA 19 in Orlando, FL, June 2-4. Contestants compete in a three-day event where they craft and decorate a variety of specialty cakes ranging in size, theme, and shape. This challenge is open to supermarket decorators and contestants will be chosen based on the quality of their portfolio submitted. They will receive an all-expense

paid trip to Orlando for the competition. The deadline for the portfolio and entry form to be received by the IDDBA is Friday, February 14, 2019. This is a can’t-miss event to gain recognition and experience in the industry. Read the guidelines at https://www.iddba. org/iddba-show/participate/cake-decoratingchallenge-entry and submit your entry form for the opportunity to compete in Orlando. BB

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Write a HACCP plan (Standard starter templates provided)

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Session Information February 20th, 8:00am - 4:00pm Hyatt Regency 333 W Kilbourn Ave. Milwaukee, WI 414.276.1234 Cost • $350 for first attendee • $50 discount for each additional attendee from the same company ($300 each)

Register today, go to: www.manufacturingmatters.org Special Offer for Both HACCP on Feb. 20th & Manufacturing Matters! on Feb. 21st Register for both HACCP and Manufacturing Matters! and receive an additional $100 off your Manufacturing Matters Registration. Contact Tammy Schwarzbauer to receive the special discount code at: schwarzbauer@wmep.org or call 920.915.2582.

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Food Safety Consultant 920-850-6590 dorn@wmep.org Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership • Milwaukee • Green Bay • Madison • 920.850.6590 • www.wmep.org

Wisconsin Bakers Association • P.O. Box 658 • Muskego, WI 53150