Last month’s resolutions to eat healthier remain top of mind for consumers, shaping restaurant dessert menus and bakery offerings. While sweet treats are still in demand, consumers are increasingly gravitating toward individual and smaller packaged options. Assorted cookie and dessert boxes, such as bento-style boxes featuring a small cake alongside a variety of cookies and bars, have grown in popularity. Themed macarons and cupcakes with flavorful fillings and festive decorations for Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year, heart shapes, and football motifs are expected to perform especially well this month.

Here are some new trending specialty favorites to inspire limited-time offerings for February:

Portion-Controlled: Small-scale treats are highly popular:

• Bento Cakes & One-Bite Cakes: Scaled-down multi-layer cakes often feature unique fillings like pistachio or ube.
• Doughnut Bombs & Cake Truffles: Compressed full dessert profiles into single bites.
• Shaped Offerings: Small heart-shaped cake pops, football-shaped brownies, horse-shaped cookies, and protein balls are growing in popularity.

Flavorful, Textured Mashups: Consumers are seeking contrasting sensations in single bites.

• “Mookies”: Cookie-muffin hybrids with soft centers and crispy edges, often filled with chocolate or gooey surprises.
• “Brookie Cake”: Surround an already-baked brownie with cookie dough, forming it into a cake shape. Bake. Finish with a drizzle of chocolate sauce.
• Ube Mochicro: Flaky croissants with a chewy mochi center and ube glaze.

Theatrical “Burn-Away” Cakes Piped with Buttercream: Cakes featuring rice-paper toppers that burn away to reveal hidden Valentine’s messages remain a top viral trend.

Natural-Infused Color Baked Goods

• Re-Engineered Red Velvet: Natural colorants like beet juice, paired with a different flavor profile like chai to disguise the earthy flavor.
  • Red Velvet Ube Cheesecake Brownies.
  • Red Velvet Cupcakes with strawberry and basil filling.
  • Doughnuts with red velvet chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Heart-Shaped Baked Goods:

• Sugar Cookies: Frosted pink and red heart-shaped cookies, which can range from $5 to $6 in retail bakeries.
• Artisanal Breads: Heart-shaped chocolate cherry bread and sourdough loaves.
• Fruit Hand Pies: Heart-shaped strawberry or raspberry hand pies.

No matter what your February baked-goods offerings may be, Buchmann Egg Inc. – Buchmann Bakery and Restaurant Supplier has all the quality ingredients, packaging, and supplies you need. Our inventory of Hope’s cookie dough features a wide variety of flavors, and we continue to offer finished cheesecakes that are frozen, ready to thaw and serve, and produced by local San Diego wholesale bakeries. We also carry an extensive selection of specialty chocolate products, including chips, callets, wafers, bars, cocoa powder, and decorative pieces. Nuts, seeds, and dried fruits are excellent inclusions for protein balls, and our specialty flours for sourdough, bagels, and gluten-free breads are fully stocked. Finally, don’t forget that window pie boxes are an ideal packaging option to showcase decorated cookies, hand pies, cake balls, and more.

We invite you to view our product catalog at www.buchmannegg.com, call us with an order at 619-443-6875, or email us at sales@buchmannegg.com. We look forward to serving you soon!