Mexican Bakery & Spanish Sweet Breads

Tina's Quality Baked Goods – A Crown of Artimex Bakery

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:37:50 -0700

Artimex Bakery is a subsidiary of El Gallo Giro Corporation and well known for its fresh, delicious and authentic Mexican Bakery products. Artimex has been supplying a wide variety of frozen dough and fully baked products to 11 of its Mexican restaurants and bakeries in Southern and Northern California.

Tina’s Quality Baked Goods is a famous name among bakery product lovers. For more than 25 years, people in California are associated with Tina’s quality baked products. Due to the exclusivity of their products, deliciousness and quality of baking Tina’s baked goods were everybody’s favorite.

Tina’s has been offering a wide variety of baked products including full line of cakes, pastries, cookies, brownies and muffins. The diversity of bakery products being offered by Tina’s is unique with different variants of cookies, muffins, cakes.

After serving people for several years through supermarkets, convenience stores, neighborhood grocery shop and schools, Tina’s Quality Baked Goods has entered into a completely different way of serving customers under supervision of Artimex LLC. After acquisition of Tina’s Quality Baked Goods by Artimex LLC, in august last year, Tina’s is bringing its customers all the great advantages of the strict standards and top quality control of Artimex Bakery.

Artimex Bakery is specializing in all Mexican bakery products like Bolillos, Teleras, Conchas, Elotes, Empanadas, Jelly Rolls as well as Bagels, Muffins, Brownies, Danish, Cookies, Cakes and Custards for retail, in-store bakery and foodservice industries. After acquisition of Tina’s Quality Baked Goods with Artimex LLC, now they are having a huge trusted customer base and a more diverse product line to offer to bakery product lovers.

Certainly, Tina’s Quality Baked Goods will prove itself a crown in the baggage of Artimex LLC. Together they can cover most of the quality Mexican food market and bakery products.

Artimex Artisan Mexican Bakery offers a wide-array of delicious, freshly baked Mexican breads and authentic Spanish bakery recipes like Conchas, Bolillo, Rosca de Reyes, Pan de Muerto, Empanadas, Polvorones and Puerquitos for any meal, occasion, or special celebration. For more information please visit: - http://www.artimexbakery.com/

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Artimex Bakery – Serving Needs of Mexican Bakery Product Lovers

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:46:55 -0800

Artimex Bakery is a well known name for making Mexican bakery products. People have been associated with the different products made by expert artisans of Artimex Bakery. The quality, taste and hygiene of products made by Artimex are superior than most of the Mexican bakeries. Artimex has several years of expertise in making of various favorite products for Mexican Bakery Lovers.

The best quality ingredients being used in all products made by Artimex Bakery is one of the most important reason behind its increasing popularity. You can feel the quality of all Mexican bakery products made by Artimex through the aroma itself.

Some exclusive products made by the expert bakers of Artimex Bakery like Conchas, Bolillos, Empanadas, and Pan de Huevo, are among favorites of people since long. Along with that “Pan De Muertos” and “Rosca De Reyes” are two seasonal specialties of Artimex Bakery. People are crazy for these two marvels from Mexican bakery and Artimex is among the best Mexican Bakeries making these two products.

Artimex has been a favorite place of finding the best bakery products of everyday use. After acquiring Tina’s brand (a popular household name of United States in bakery products), Artimex has entered into home user segments directly. Tina’s Quality Baked Goods are being used by people since more than 25 years. It was itself enough to describe its quality and superiority. But after being acquired by Artimex (the leader in Mexican bakery products segment), its customers are enjoying the advantages of the strict standards and top quality control of Artimex Bakery.

Artimex claims that they are among those who believe in “He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist”, so you can be assured of the quality of the Artimex baked goods from closed eyes.

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El Gallo Giro – Carrying Mexican Food Tradition

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:27:02 -0800

El Gallo Giro, a Mexican restaurant chain of California is serving real traditional flavors of Mexico to all Mexican food lovers since 1988. The taste and deliciousness even gets richer with an atmosphere combining the liveliness of a Mexican marketplace with the kitchen-like comfort of a family meal. Currently, El Gallo Giro has 11 sites throughout Southern California.

After serving exotic food lovers for several years, El Gallo Giro had entered into unique segment of bakery products with its new venture Artimex Bakery. Artimex Bakery offers exquisite taste of pure Mexican bakery products made with finest materials combined with experience of several years of artisanship. Initially, Artimex was just the production subsidiary of El Gallo Giro, but now they have expanded themselves out of El Gallo Giro and started delivering their finest bakery products and other materials outside their parent concern El Gallo Giro to supermarkets and other retailers dealing in different kind of bakery products.

Artimex Bakery specializes in Mexican bakery and pastry items such as bolillos, teleras, conchas, elotes and empanadas, but also produces bagels, muffins, brownies, Danish, cookies, cakes and custards for retail, in-store bakery and food service industries. Artimex Bakery is specialized in production of Mexican Bakery products using the latest in flash frozen bakery technology and has created an impeccable track record of reliability, consistency and dependability.

After acquisition of Tina's brand by Artimex, from Anaheim, a California based Tina's Bakery they are now equipped with greater range of delicious bakery products. This strengthens the presence of Artimex in the market, as Tina's products are already very popular among customers of all segments and people are well aware with the name.

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Famous Mexican Bakery Products

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:33:17 -0800

Bakery products are a must in every household and are an all time favorite with young and old alike. It has to be incorporated in any occasion be it party, festivals, anniversaries, etc. An interesting thing to know about Mexican bakery products is that all the products are exclusively made from bread as it is their staple diet and are very popular among masses due to its exciting taste, attractive colors and has a variety of shapes.

The most popular among bread items is Bolillos, which is also known as pan de labranza. These are bread meant for sandwiches and are served fresh from the oven with butter. It is topped along with black beans, lettuce, chicken, tomato and onion made into football shape.

Empanada is another famous item from Mexican bakeries, which are pastry shells, made with yucca and is reddish yellow in color. Large amount of fruits is added as filings. Conchos, polvorones and puerquitos are the traditional bread of the Mexicans. Pan Fine and Feite are sugary bread, which are exquisite buttery. A tortilla is one more kind of bread, which is simple flat bread.

There is another Mexican bakery product known as Marinates. They are cookies and are better known as gingerbread pigs. Since the cookies are pig shaped, so they are called gingerbread pigs. “Pan de muerto bread”, a bone shaped bread is yet one more product from Mexican bakery, which has a sweet taste and is served at altars during Day of the Dead festivities. There are Tress Leches Cakes, which are moist and sweet cakes, combined with milk products and has vanilla whipped cream as toppings. Churls have strawberry and apple filings.

All the above-mentioned mouth-relishing Mexican bakery products are in heavy demand as they are easily digestible and have good taste. They are dry products so can be use in parties too.

There is a wide-array of delicious, mouth watering, freshly baked Mexican breads and authentic Spanish bakery recipes for any meal, occasion, or special celebration like Mexican bread conchas, Bolillos, Rosca de Reyes, pan de muertos, Empanadas, polvorones and Puerquitos at Artimex Artisan Mexican Bakery.

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Important Bakery Tips for Birthday Cake

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:27:19 -0800

As we think of someone’s birthday, we also tend to think of delicious, beautiful birthday cakes almost right away. And particularly kids are extremely fond of these cakes. They wait the whole year for their birthdays to come in order to get their much loved, yummy cakes ordered exactly in accordance with their own suggestions and choices.

So, at this extraordinary time of your child’s birthday, get them a very unique birthday cake; one of their own preference, with the beloved cartoon character, super heroes, landscapes or other such stuff. Let them be really excited with their most wanted edible and be prepared to rock the merrymaking!

And yes…why not do something extra exceptional this time? Let’s bake the cake our self! Isn’t it a great suggestion, folks? Baking a cake in a professional way might seem to be rather unfeasible thought, though it is nothing of that sort, really! What is required at this moment is just taking care of certain important factors while baking it, and you are for sure going to get the party go bonkers over the delicious, mouth-watering and attractive cake.

Technically speaking, the cake-baking recipes have gone a huge change from the time they were first started to be made. Although a little alteration has taken place in the form of its ingredients, but it was capable of bringing a big change in its consistency, taste and quality; and that is, the shift from active yeast to whipped cakes. When starting to bake the cake, remember to add half a tablespoon of soda bicarb to 200 gram of flour which should be of a good quality.

Basically a cake should be thoroughly blended with butter or margarine and sugar in the mixture of yet again thoroughly blended flour and egg-whites and yolks, both before baking. The clever way of baking a cake is to carry out the whole thing meticulously and to put in as much air to the combination as doable. Carry out this process energetically and wait for the cream to turn pastel and velvety; since this blend actually is supposed to be lighter from the time it was first begun.

Take a bowl for mixing all the ingredients of the cake so that no lumps are formed and do not forget to do the blending quite forcefully for a better result. And remember a very key tip here; that is, stir all these elements in an up and down motion and never in a circular movement. This will allow the cake to be filled in with added and extra air necessary for the cake to raise light and soft.

The last, but not the least, is the time-factor; that is after you have finished doughing all the cake ingredients together, please take care not to take much time for putting it into the oven as the mixture has a lot of air in it and the soda bicarb stars to get converted to carbon dioxide quickly, which is not desirable here. Heat the mixture for about an hour or so and just wait for your delicious cake to come out soft and high!

Artimex Artisan Mexican Bakery offers a wide-array of delicious, freshly baked Mexican breads and authentic Spanish bakery recipes like Conchas, Bolillo, Rosca de Reyes, Pan de Muerto, Empanadas, Polvorones and Puerquitos for any meal, occasion, or special celebration. For more information please visit:-http://www.artimexbakery.com/

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Popular Types of Baked Breads

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:49:45 -0700

Popular Types of Baked Breads – Part II

15 10 2008

Pan Fino – This is soft, sugary and delicate bread and one of the most popular types of bread from Mexican bakery. The Pan Fino is well known for its unmistakable cinnamon flavor. Although, Pan Fino is made by hand, and its shape is also given by hand, but it comes in several shapes, sizes and flavors. You can find several variants of Pan Fino with different fruit fillings and decorated by frosting.

Danes – Also known as Wienerbrod (Viena’a bread) is well known throughout the world. This bread is originated in Australia but popular all around the world due to its sweetness and mild taste. The base ingredients are sweet dough and butter. Butter is used for lamination of bread. You can find several varieties of Danes differing in taste, shape and fillings making it a versatile product.

Feite - A traditional sugary bread of French origin made of alternating layers of dough and butter. When baked, vapor trapped in between the layers of butter produces a physical separation from the dough, fluffing the product and offering an exquisite buttery and delicate flavor. A great variety of fillings, glazes and/or decorations add to the character of this product.

Polvorones – Differing from the products with yeast, the Polvoron does not raise itself before baking that takes place during baking, expanding and taking the shape and size in accordance to the weight of the portion. The flavors and colors of the Polvoron are diverse among the favorites are pink, chocolate, white, and the Trebol (clover) which combines all colors in one product.

Pan de Huevo - This bread is made with a base of egg and yeast producing homogeneous and spongy dough covered with a Raspberry topping. It is then rolled taking the form of a “wrapped child” and then covered with a raspberry topping and powdered with coconut. It is very popular for its soft texture and sweetness.

Puerquitos – This piglet shaped bread is funny and traditional product of Mexican bakery. This bread is made with help of a special cookie-cutter in piglet shape. During the cutting process a layer of dough is made with combination of refined wheat flour with large amounts of milk, sugar, and molasses. These ingredients provide the shape and color to this soft and tasty bread.

Artimex Artisan Mexican Bakery offers a wide-array of delicious, freshly baked Mexican breads and authentic Spanish bakery recipes like Conchas, Bolillos, Rosca de Reyes, Pan de Muertos, Empanadas, Polvorones and Puerquitos for any meal, occasion, or special celebration. For more information please visit: - http://www.artimexbakery.com/

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Popular Types of Baked Breads

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:38:27 -0700

Bread is an essential part of our meals. We all love breads due to its nutritious and easy to digest nature. There are different variants of bread. Wheat is essential ingredient of bread, but its other ingredients like fruit extracts,

chocolates or cream that defines the variety of breads. People from all over the world eat breads. Some prefers home made simple breads, whereas some people prefer eating breads made by popular bakeries. Baking bread is not as difficult as many people think. But making delicious breads like Mexican bakeries you need extra expertise. Mexican bakeries are very much popular due to the variations in types and taste of breads.

Some most popular examples of breads from Mexican bakeries are as follows:

Conchas – Conchas are the most traditional products by Mexican bakeries in breads segment. It is a most popular and easily visible type of bread found on the family table for breakfast and even dinner. Conchas are made in different colors like chocolate, pink, white and yellow. It is prepared from dough rich in sugars, butter and eggs, which results in unique taste and soft texture. It is formed by hand then covered with a sweet paste made of different flavors, using a mold to mark the figure of a shell.

Bolillos - The Bolillo is probably the most popular and recognizable bread made by Mexican bakeries. It is basically a French-roll cut with a knife. Bolillo, popularly called as “Pan De Labranza” is the only bread produced by Mexican bakers was the Bolillo for thousands of years. The Bolillo is baked directly on the hot floor of the oven, producing a thick and crunchy crust. At baking time the Bolillo is required to be placed uniformly in the oven allowing the heat and vapor to circulate freely.

Empanadas – This is an example of traditional breads being eaten in many countries. This product is characterized by the filling made up of a large variety of fruits and is distinguished for its flavor of lightly sweetened dough. The original shape is made by hand, giving the edges a curly trim.

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Packaging of Bakery Products

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:25:52 -0700

Packaging of bakery products is very important, because they are meant for use until long time from the day of its making. Attractive food packaging also increases appetite, and people eat more than they need for being fit. The bakery industry has been wonderful except.

Bakery products are an important source of nutrients viz. energy, protein, iron, calcium and several vitamins. Commercial bread and biscuits contain around 7.5% to 7.8% protein respectively. Biscuits are amongst the lowest cost processed food in the country when compared to other Indian sweets and salted snacks. Biscuits are easy to use during travel or at home because of its availability in variety of pack sizes. They also offer substantial energy. Thus, biscuits have an important role to play as a diet supplement for both adults and children. It is no longer viewed as a luxury teatime snack but essential daily food component for an average Indian household.

The bakery industry, production of which has been increasing steadily in the Mexico, is the largest among all growing countries and companies in India and global home and he processed food industries in India. The two major bakery industries, viz. bread and biscuit account for about 82% of the total bakery products.

The annual production of bakery products, which includes bread, biscuits, pastries, cakes, buns, Rusk etc., is estimated to be in excess of 3 million tonne. The production of bread and biscuits in the country, both in the organized and unorganized sectors, is estimated to be around 0.44 million tonne and 11 million tonnes respectively. The cake and pastry market estimated at 0.4 million tonne, is the fast growing market with volume growth of 16%.

Product Range

Bakery products contain high nutritive value and are manufactured from wheat-flour, sugar, baking powder, condensed milk, ghee (fat), salt, jelly, dry fruits, various essences and flavoring etc. Different type of bakery products can be classified as:

Dry Bakery Products

Biscuits - Soft biscuits, hard biscuits, cookies, crackers, fancy biscuits, cream wafer biscuits

Moist Bakery Products

Bread: Sweetbread, Milk bread, Masala bread, Garlic bread, Fruit bread etc

Buns: Fruit buns, hamburger buns, dinner rolls, crisp bread, pizza

Others: Cakes, pastries, dough nuts, muffins etc

Artimex Artisan Mexican Bakery offers a wide-array of delicious, freshly baked Mexican breads and authentic Spanish bakery recipes like Conchas, Bolillos, Rosca de Reyes, Pan de Muertos, Empanadas, Polvorones and Puerquitos for any meal, occasion, or special celebration.For more information please visit: - http://www.artimexbakery.com/

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Preserving Favorite Bakery Products

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:09:18 -0700

Bakery products have always been liked by all due to its exotic taste and attractive color. To maintain the taste of particular type of bakery products need some preserving procedures. It is through preservation bakery products can be used long and enjoyed by all at all occasions. Chances are there that particular type of bakery products are not available all time, due to this if preserved then they can be enjoyed. Way to keep bakery products mold-free and good texture industry has turned to preservatives like calcium propionate and organic acids such as ascorbic and fumaric acids to combat mold growth.

Fumaric acid it reduces spoilage eliminates translucency and extends life of products for long. It is through increased stack height and delays reaction with baking powder it improves the efficiency of leavening. Then is Sobric acid provides powerful anti microbial benefits and creates fluffier finished products. Freezing and cooling are also good preserving method. In this liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide along with preserving flavors are added. Benefits of this method includes formation of smaller ice crystals, resulting in less drip loss and higher quality of the frozen product, low investment costs, flexible design for multi-purpose deployment and low maintenance effort and downtime.

Cryogenic freezing and cooling is ideal for many bakery products. It is used to freeze part-baked breads and fast-freeze rolls, pretzels and prepared bakery products. Dry foods are preserved from cryogenic technology. Latest preservation of bakery product contains beanie and enzyme to improve the textural properties of a bakery product when baked. That increases softness, reduced staling and increased shelf-life. Added betaine and enzyme has synergistic effect for improving bakery product. The emulsifier in combination with the betaine and the enzyme preferably prove at least one of the textural properties of the baked product.

New tries to improve the properties of a bakery product, by combining flour, water, enzyme and betaine. People adopt freezing method to reduce cost of production and reducing. Condition, freezing, storage and defrosting have profound effect on bakery products. Along with chemicals used for preservation freezing is the most commonly used for preserving bakery products?

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Diversity of Bakery Products – Something for Everyone

nobody@vox.com(artimexbakery) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:22:29 -0700

Bakery products are integrated part of meals in our daily life. We use different types of food or foodstuffs prepared in bakeries in or around our neighborhood. Some common and most popular bakery products are cakes, cookies, biscuits, and breads. People from all ages love group love these products and use them in their daily meals.

However, there are a few specific products for people with some special taste of attributes. Even the same product can have different flavors or taste based on their ingredients. The choices of these products are always different for different set of people. It is not necessary that all members of a family love the same product.

Evergreen Products by Expert Bakers

An expert baker knows the taste of people and then prepares the products based on their individual choices. The most important thing required in all bakery products is the hygiene, quality and durability. To fulfill the demand for different taste and flavors, bakers produces same product with different flavors and ingredients.

Some all time favorite products with different variations in their flavors, ingredients and taste are as following:

Cakes - The best example of this variation is our most loving bakery product, Cake. There are numerous flavors of cake available in market. Some people love chocolate cake, some love vanilla cake, some love pineapple cake. These cakes have different flavors. Similarly, a few people avoid having cakes that contain egg. To cater the tasting need of such customers, expert bakeries always produces eggless cakes.

Cookies – Cookies are a favorite bakery product of kids as well as elders. Everyone loves to have them after their dinner or all other time during the day if possible. Some people are crazy for cookies. They keep cookies with them always. Again, you can find variation in types of cookies. You can find chocolate cookies and other sweet cookies with different fruit flavors.

Biscuits – You cannot imagine your morning tea and evening tea without a few biscuits to nibble. Here again people have different types of taste for biscuits. To fulfill their demands bakers produce different types of biscuits including cream biscuits, sweet and salty biscuits with cashew nuts, and almonds as their secondary ingredient.

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