Recipes using ready-made ingredients make for seemingly expert cuisine skills
Implications - In this age, very few have the time to create truly impressive cuisine, resulting in pseudo-domestic recipes that allow for corners to be cut. Modern foodies are steering less toward homemade ingredients and more toward the ready-made, time-saving options. Ultimately, consumers will appreciate any opportunity to save time, especially if they're still able to feel the pride that comes with cooking one's own dish.
Trend Themes
1. Ready-made Ingredients - With less time available to consumers for cooking, ready-made ingredients provide a time-saving option while maintaining the feeling of home-cooked meals.
2. Cake Mix as a Base - Adding cake mix as a base to recipes like cookies and donuts creates a soft, chewy consistency that people love.
3. Baking Kits - Baking kits like macaron kits provide an easier, more fool-proof way to create complex, delectable pastries.
Industry Implications
1. Food & Beverage - Ready-made ingredients, cake mixes, and baking kits provide opportunities for innovation in the food industry.
2. Technology - Innovations in baking kits, like silicone and fiberglass baking sheets, require modern technology for their production.
3. Retail - The consumer trend toward baking as a hobby provides opportunities for retailers to create or market cake mixes and baking kits.
