How to decorate your hoops so that they look irresistible, set you apart and add value to your establishment.
Hoops have something about them that makes them one of those sweets you always want. It might be their circular shape, their rich flavour or their striking appearance but, there’s no doubt about, wherever they are, they’re a hit.
Hoops are circular sweets that are notable for having a hole in the middle. Their spongy interior and delicate tenderness have made them one of those products you should always have to hand in your cafeteria or bakery. And the fact is that they’re usually rather a success with the customers, but if you enhance them, they’ll be peerless.
How to do it? Easy: with a decoration on the same level. To do so, you should know, first, that the most suitable ones for doing that are Glazed Maxi Hoops and Chocolate Maxi Hoops. The former, glazed maxi hoops, are notable not only for their interior, but also for delicious icing that covers them. And that’s not their only quality: it should also be mentioned that they’re extra tender, from beginning to end. As for the latter, chocolate hoops are ideal for chocolate lovers thanks to their crispy chocolate layer. Both are, of course, unbeatable, and with the following tricks for decorating them, they’ll be unstoppable at the point of sale.
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Ideas to decorate your Hoops
If you want to decorate one of your Glazed Maxi Hoops, you should know, first of all, that one of the options is to also fill in the centre (the one with the hole), which will lend the product greater volume and give it a more appetising touch. To do this, you can use cocoa cream or pastry cream, which you can apply in a spiral shape directly over the entire hoop or, if you prefer, only on the edges with little dabs. To round off this decoration, you can cover any of the creams with rich sweets, from Smarties to marshmallows and blackberry gums, among other wine gums. Since these are generally bright colours, they’ll make your hoops stand out even more on the display stand.
Another equally delicious variation is to use meringue to cover the hoops. Also, as in the previous case, it can be dropped gently onto the product in a spiral. The master touch, of course, will come with flambéing, which you can do with a kitchen torch easily and quickly. If you then paint them with a little gelatin, it’ll be even shinier. On the other hand, you can also add two wafers or sheets of chocolate that jut out from the meringue, which makes for a striking detail, and, to finish, sprinkle a little icing sugar or edible golden or silver food powder on top.
If you choose to decorate the hoop with pastry cream, the fruit bitsand the red fruit crispies can become your good friends, thus making a piece that is as striking as it is tasty. For those who cannot resist sweets,we also have the option, in this case with Chocolate Hoops, to decorate their surface with white chocolate pastry cream. You can make as many shapes as you want, and also place sweets on top again if you want to give them a morepowerful appearance.
By investing very little time, as you see, you can give the hoops a stamp of your own so that they can be differentiated from other products, stand out for themselves in the display cabinet or point of sale and give them added value. Gaining visibility and attractiveness at your establishment is possible with these simple, quick tricks. And not only that, since there are no limits when it comes to creation, so, on this basis, you can try things out and innovate with your own combinations.
Hoops that already have their story
If besides decorating your hoops you want to try other flavours andstyles, you can do that too, since there are some hoops that come lightly decorated or that have their peculiarities. Sugared Hoops, for example, have a coating of delicious granulated sugar that follows the authentic Americanmanufacturing process. What’s more, there are two equally tasty variants of it: Sugared Cream Hoops, which are also covered in granulated sugar and with a creamy cream filling (25%) that’svisible on the surface; and the Sugared Choco Hoops, which are filled with chocolate cream (25%) on their surface.
You also have Croc Hazelnut Hoopsy, which come decorated with a layer of crispy chocolate and a thin layer of hazelnut bits wrapped in delicious drops of sugarthat makes each bite an explosion of flavour. Super Choco Hoops are notable fortheir crispy chocolate coating covered with milk chocolate squares and the Crunchy Mix Hoops for its flavour of white chocolate covered in hazelnutand milk chocolate pearls. Nor should you lose sight of Super Pink Hoops, which are coveredwith half covered in a strawberry flavour and finished with pink, crunchy sugarpearls.
How easy it is to enjoy a product like hoops, and how easy it is to squeeze out its full potential.
