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Meet Emma!

We’re excited to introduce our newest product developer, Emma Magnusson. Emma holds a PhD in emulsions and joined Candeco this year to help realise our clients’ confectionery ideas. Her role at Candeco involves theorising, developing and putting our customised sweet recipes to the test. Get in touch with Emma at emma.magnusson@candeco.se 

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Chocolate with real fruit juice — a customer success story

Panda has been making chocolate and liquorice in Vaajakoski, Jyväskylä since the 1920’s, and is the second largest confectionery manufacturer in Finland.

When the time came for Panda’s first venture into the world of flavoured white chocolate tablets, the recipe in mind involved a familiar combination of flavours: white chocolate and raspberry.

The challenge? Developing a component with real raspberry fruit juice, inspired by a love for good quality components and conscious consumers’ increasing demand for natural ingredients. This is where we at Candeco joined innovative forces with Panda.

”Candeco has been a supplier for Panda for a couple of years and we know them by experience to be trustworthy, effective and qualified. Their wide selection of components offers a lot of options, which made them a natural choice for developing this unique component,” says Eliisa Haverinen, Quality and Product Development Coordinator at Panda.

To give friends of white chocolate a brand new experience to get excited about, our challenge was twofold. Finding the right fruit juice component at a friendly price for one, and of course, getting the right taste in place.

We tackled this by spiking raspberry pearls with real raspberry juice concentrate, making an ordinary component extraordinary. Not to mention, we got the good flavour and composition in place without compromising Panda’s demands for high quality components.

”We have had great experiences with Candeco as an innovation partner and are very pleased with their ability and keenness to customise products, not least on a tight schedule. With their help, we were able to give friends of white chocolate a high-quality tablet that is both interesting and delicious,” adds Eliisa Haverinen.

With a heart of real raspberry juice, Panda White Chocolate packs a whole lot of flavor and texture into one single bite.

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Fruity flavours - Passion Pizza

As warmer times roll in, we welcome fresher, fruitier flavours onto our plates. While salads and sorbets are traditional for the season, Candeco brings you a whole other way to enjoy fruity flavours with a passion. Our friends at Orchard Valley Foods and the talented Application Chef Stephen Hemmingway prepared us this delicious recipe of Passion Pizza.

With the help of fruity flavours from our assortment of creamy fudges, Citrus and Cosmopolitan, the Passion Pizza makes for a sweet, colourful and innovative addition to your range of baked goods.

Recipe Passion pizza

2 x 30 cm Pizza

Pizza Dough

Plain flour, 500 g

Egg, 1 p

Dried yeast, 8 g

Water, 2,5 dl

Rapeseed oil, 4 tbsp

Sugar, 2,5 tbsp

Salt 2,5 ts

Topping

Idun Pineapple & Lime Ripple*

Idun Passionfruit Ripple*

Candeco Citrus Fudge 6762

Candeco Cosmopolitan Fudge P1541

White Choc Melted

Method

• Combine yeast with egg and water. If using dry yeast just mix egg and water and add dry yeast to other dry ingredients.

• Place all remaining ingredients into a bowl and mix with dough hook attachment until it’s blended.

• Add wet ingredients and mix it until a dough is formed.

• Leave to prove and double in size.

• Knock back and roll out to desired thickness.

• Place onto baking sheet and top as required.

• Bake at 180 c for 12-15 minutes.

* For information on Idun ripples contact Idun Industri AS at anne.gro.myrtveit@idun.no

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Organic range

The demand for certified organic food has grown over the past years, and Candeco can now offer several organic products that are both colourful and full of flavour. We have a great range of brightly coloured pearls and strands, and we can also offer a range of Buttercrocant, liquorice products, fat coating etc. that are all organic. We have also made our chocolate products more sustainable and only use UTZ certified chocolates and cocoa.

We are constantly looking for new ingredients to use and if you have any specific requests for organic products - ask us!

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Candeco has a new crunch!

Mouthfeel is a very important factor for most food. Inclusions in chocolate and ice cream can create new dimensions of flavour and texture, taking the final product to a whole new level. However, demands on inclusions are many; they should give the right bite or the right crunch, not be too hard nor stick too much in your teeth. Size is important, as well as the appearance of the pieces in the final product.

To be able to offer a wider range of “crunch” we now have a new assortment of chopped, irregular pieces of hard-boiled candy with a more handmade, non-industrial look. Whether you want indulgent salted caramel or colourful peppermint crunch, our new crusher will do the job! The size fraction is approximately 2-4 mm.  

We are confident that our chopped pieces can help give your chocolate bar or ice cream that delicious extra dimension, both in terms of texture and taste. They are also great for decorating cakes, topping chilled dessert pots, and more.  

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Partners

For samples or product enquiries, please contact us, or one of our international partners,

Candeco.se

Orkla Food Ingredients Orchard Valley Newchem Alfalfa Ibk Tropic Welding Additive Solutions

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Classic Flavours – Mocha Cookies

The classic ”brown flavours”, like toffee, caramel, coffee and chocolate never truly goes out of style and are loved across generations. Therefore it is important to consider that not all innovation have to be about keeping up with the latest trends. Sometimes the comfort of a plate of cookies and a tall glass of milk is all you really need. But that doesn’t mean that the cookies have to be with the same chocolate chips all the time. 

If you want to spice up your range of cookies, why not try a Mocha Cookie with products from Candeco. If you want to add a crispy texture try our Chocolate Coated Coffee Pearls. If you prefer to keep the soft texture of the cookie and just get small bursts of flavour, then Chocolate Coated Coffee Fudge is what you should go for.  

The recipe for these cookies are extremely easy. Just use your normal cookie dough, or start with a commercial cookie base like the one you can buy from our sister company Credin AS Denmark. Then you just add approximately 10-15% of the Candeco product and bake as normal.

Recipe example 900g Credin Cookiebase EB 15-2488* (or similar) 100g Wheat flour 150g Margarine 100g Water 100-150g Candeco Coffe Pearls or Coffe Fudge

Mix cookiebase, flour and margarine for 2 minutes at low speed. Add water and Candeco product and mix for another 1 minute. Immediately divide dough into 75g pieces and form balls. Put the balls on a baking sheet and bake at 180°C for approx. 15 minutes.

* For information on Credin Cookiebase contact Credin A/S at info@credin.dk

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Keep the Crunch!

Most of the products Candeco produces are sugar based which means that they are sensitive to water and humidity. Therefore, our hard boiled candy chips, fudge and sugar pearls might bleed their colors and will eventually dissolve in contact with water.  

We now have the possibility to coat our products to help them resist water and humidity in the end product and in the packaging. This means that we can keep caramel pieces crunchy inside your ice cream as well as prevent color bleeding from decorations on frosted donuts and cakes.

We can offer palm free fat coatings (cocoa butter or shea fat) on most of our products and adjust the thickness of the coating to fit your application.

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Visit us at FIE and ISM

Food Ingredients Europe is one of the major trade shows for the industry, bringing together the world's leading food and beverage buyers, R&D, business development and marketing specialists from all around the globe. FI Europe is held once every two years in a major European city, this time in Paris on December 1st – 3rd and Candeco will of course be there. 

For us the FI Europe trade show is the most important exhibition we participate in, as it provides us with a great opportunity to meet both new and old customers, and highlight all our new and exciting ideas. This year we will bring a lot of samples for our customers to taste first hand, as well as several interesting application ideas, for example chocolate bars with Candeco crisp and ice cream with fun inclusions.

So if you are going to FI Europe in Paris, make sure to stop by stand 6G109 to check out our products, or at least for a nice cup of coffee or an ice cream. If you can’t make it to FI Europe, you can also meet Candeco at the ISM fair in Cologne next year. ISM takes place from January 31st to February 2nd, and is the world’s largest trade show for the confectionary business.  Candeco will be part of a joint exhibition stand called “Try Swedish”, which is arranged by Business Sweden. Come see us there!

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Candeco Goes Sustainable

Climate changes and daily reports on global warming are something we at Candeco want to take action on. Therefore we now launch our first products with organically certified range, chocolate coated products made with chocolate based on sustainably farmed cocoa, carrying the UTZ certification. 

For the modern consumer both environmental sustainability and social responsibility becomes ever more important. For many consumers, especially among the millennials, buying products that are not made in an environmentally friendly and ethical way is not even an option. It is clear that the demand for this will only increase over the years to come.

The world of candy, ice cream and other products brought to “treat yourself” has not been able to keep up with this trend. Most of the organic products found on the market today is plain chocolate or traditional ice cream without the flair found in the ordinary range. This is something we at Candeco want to change! 

Candeco offer a range of naturally coloured and flavoured sprinkles, flakes and pearls made from organic sugar and certified according to the European Union’s standard for organic production. In addition to these products, we also have a real butter crocant that is organically certified. The range will just keep on growing based on the need of our customers. Tell us what you want to have!

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Chopped Nougat - replacement for hazelnuts

Today’s Hazelnuts price are at an all time high and it’s still increasing.

Our product: Chopped Nougat with a 20% hazelnut content has a distinct and intense flavour and taste of real hazelnut. A perfect substitute for chopped nuts at a competitive price point. It gives excellent crunchiness in chocolate and aperfect nutty feeling in ice cream and baked goods. It comes in 3-5 mm sizes,round pieces, free flowing, 15 kg in bag and 600 kg on pallet. Chopped Nougat is also available with 10 % hazelnut content. No artificial ingredients. 

Send us an e-mail here if you want a sample of the two products. Make sure to include your name and address you want the samples being sent to. We deliver the samples prompt.

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Trendy Flavours - Mojito Fudge

Mojito has been one of the most popular drinks in bars across Europe the last couple of years. Now Candeco brings you the opportunity to bring this trend to other applications. With our great tasting Mojito Fudge you can add a colourful drink touch to your cake, chocolate bar or ice cream. For example why not try the recipe for MojitoCookies, found below.

Our Mojito Fudge has a nice flavour of fresh mint and lime, with only a mild rum sweetness, which also makes it suitable for a younger audience.

Of course, the Mojito is not the only popular drink right now, so we haven’t stopped there. Right now we have four different fudges with flavours that comes directly from the bartender's handbook. In addition to Mojito we have the traditional Cuba Libre, the Cosmopolitan with a fresh cranberry taste, and the super tropical Piña Colada. 

If you want to try the drink collection, send us an e-mail here. Make sure to include your name and the address you want the samples being sent to.

Recipe - Mojito Cookies

25 pieces

Dough

200 g butter or margarine

90 g white sugar

80 g potato flour

210 g wheat flour

Filling

90 g Candeco Mojito Fudge

Icing

45 g icing sugar

7 g water

Candeco Mojito Fudge

1.     Mix and knead all the ingredients of the dough. Leave to cool in the fridge for minimum 1 hour.

2.     Roll the cold dough out thin. Cut out round cakes of approx. 5 cm in diameter, half straight and half with wavy edges.

3.     Place the ones with straight edges on a baking tray. Put some Candeco Mojito Fudge at the centre of each. Put the pieces with the wavy edges on top of the others. Lightly fix both sides together.

4.     Bake the cookies in 175°C for about 12 minutes (or until they get a golden brown colour).

5.     Let the cookies cool down.

6.     Whisk the icing sugar and water. Apply the frosting in curls over the cookies. Sprinkle some Candeco Mojito Fudge on top of the cookies.

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Liquorice - a flavour on the rise

At Candeco liquorice has always been a big product, even though it’s mainly been a taste for the Scandinavian region and the Netherlands. But something is happening. Liquorice is becoming more and more popular all over Europe.

Sweet and salty liquorice is growing in markets where it hasn’t been a popular flavour before, like the UK and Germany among others. At the SIGEP Fair in Italy, one of Europe’s leading trade shows for gelato and artisan bakery, you could clearly see the new liquorice trend, with almost all gelato manufacturers offering some version of liquorice ice cream, with or without liquorice pieces.

InSweden and Finland there are a lot of new applications were liquorice is used as an ingredient, like hugely popular chocolate bars with liquorice pieces or sweet pastries with liquorice as an inclusion or decoration.

The Italian, French or German preference in liquorice flavour might not be precisely the same as the Scandinavian, but it still liquorice and the Candeco-products can always be adapted to the customers local preferences.

We have also had our first questions about salty liquorice from Eastern Europe, so we do believe that it might become more popular there as well.

So if you want to explore the growing trend of liquorice, and think that liquorice inclusions, salty or sweet, crispy or soft, could be something for your markets and customers don’t hesitate to contact us. We have many years of experience of tailoring products to our customers needs, and we have a large selection of liquorice products to choose from.

Want to order a sample of liquorice products? Send us an e-mail here. Make sure you include your name and the address you want the sample being sent to.

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Nordic Flavour

The food industry has discovered the trendy Nordic Cuisine, mainly in Europe, but also in the rest of the world. As an example, today we have one of the world’s best restaurants, Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, where all the ingredients are based on the wild Nordic flavours.

At Candeco we are proud of our Nordic heritage and wild life. And we want to bring our sweet wild nature to you, through our new Nordic sprinkles range. The Nordic flavours are unique, natural and a bit mysterious. Our new sprinkles with Nordic flavours can add to your products by giving them the balanced sweetness from Nordic Forest Fruit, bitter sweetness from Lingon Berries or summer sweetness of Wild Strawberries.

Lingon Berry is one of our new favourites, perfectly suited as a topping for a cupcake or as an ingredient in your cookie, to give it that real and fresh taste of the Nordic nature.

Want to order samples of our Nordic Flavour products? Send us an e-mail here. Make sure you include your name and the address you want the samples being sent to.