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Cantaloupe Cake Bites

Clean the Sky - Positive Eco Trends & Breakthroughs

These Scrumptious Fruit Cakes Look and Taste Like Real Cantaloupe

— July 29, 2014 — Lifestyle
If you're looking for a refreshing baking recipe to try out this cantaloupe cake is a refreshing dessert that tastes and looks like the real melon.

During the summer it seems that watermelon is the number one fruit that gets the most amount of attention. Now you can change things up a bit by trying out these delicious cantaloupe cake bites. Begin by turning the orange melon flesh into a cantaloupe reduction. Then add the reduction to crumbled up vanilla cake and create a ball like you would if you were making a cake pop. Then dip the balls into melted light green candy wafers to replicate the look of the cantaloupe rind. Then cute the balls up into slices and serve them as confectionary cantaloupe bites.
Trend Themes
1. Fruit-inspired Desserts - The trend of creating desserts that mimic the appearance and flavor of fruits, such as these cantaloupe cake bites, offers disruptive innovation opportunities for the bakery and confectionery industry.
2. Alternative Ingredients - The use of alternative ingredients, like cantaloupe reductions, to create unique and surprising flavors in desserts presents disruptive innovation opportunities for the food and beverage industry.
3. Visual Appeal - The trend of visually capturing the appearance of fruits in desserts, as demonstrated by these cantaloupe cake bites, presents disruptive innovation opportunities for the culinary and catering industry.
Industry Implications
1. Bakery and Confectionery - The bakery and confectionery industry can explore the creation of fruit-inspired desserts, utilizing alternative ingredients to enhance flavor and visual appeal.
2. Food and Beverage - The food and beverage industry can innovate by incorporating alternative ingredients like cantaloupe reductions to create unique and surprising flavors in desserts and beverages.
3. Culinary and Catering - The culinary and catering industry can capitalize on the trend of visually appealing desserts that mimic the appearance of fruits, offering unique and eye-catching offerings to customers.
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