Puratos Launches Novel Ready-To-Bake Cheesecake Base
Puratos has launched Deli Cheesecake, a ready-to-bake cheesecake base, allowing to make the perfect cheesecake, every single time. It contains 30 percent of real fresh cheese and can be poured straight into the cake form.
With no preparation time, Deli Cheesecake delivers a good result with constant quality and no cracking thanks to its patented oven-setting process,
Puratos Deli Cheesecake promoted as the perfect convenient cheesecake cake ingredient. It can be used straight from the packaging and has a six-month shelf life in closed packaging at ambient storage. The product is sold in buckets of 5 or 12 kilograms.
It is also available in larger packaging for industrial use. The product can be pumped straight from the container into the cake form. The cake base can either be whipped to give it an aerated structure or can be used on its own on a crust. Deli Cheesecake is suitable for any industrial oven. The result is a perfect cake with no loss in volume and no cracking.
Deli Cheesecake is freeze-thaw stable, both before and after baking. Once baked, the cake can be used in chilled and frozen distribution channels.
Deli Cheesecake is so easy-to-use and versatile that it allows for a thousand creative applications. There is of course the real New York Style Cheesecake with a baked short crust, baked fresh cheese and a decoration or filling on top. But Deli Cheesecake can also be mixed with chocolate, fillings and aromas. The cheesecake can be shaped in different forms, for individual servings or as family dessert. It can be presented in several layers and be decorated with glazes or ganaches. Deli Cheesecake allows for creating an own special cheesecake variation.
Puratos note that consumers love cheesecake. For them, it is not an everyday dessert. It’s a treat, eaten at special occasions and most often when celebrating with friends or family.
Consumer tests in several European countries have proved that Deli Cheesecake is the favourite taste of many consumers. After tasting Deli Cheesecake 56 percent of the consumers in France declared they preferred the dessert to the local version of Tarte Fromage Blanc. In Portugal, 60 percent of the consumers preferred the Deli Cheesecake dessert. Spanish and Latvian consumers are even more outspoken. A large majority of 85 percent of Spanish consumers said the Deli Cheesecake dessert was pleasant and 79 percent said they would certainly buy it. In Latvia Deli Cheesecake was chosen by 79 percent.
