Today MK Unigroup introduces trending bakery menus made with fruit that are popular in Thailand. They're seriously delicious, so let's see whether any of your favourite cakes and bakes are on the list. They're tasty and good for you too.
Seasonal Fruit Bakery Trends
1. Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Pineapple cake is a popular bake in the rainy season, when pineapples are at their juiciest and sweetest. It's pineapple season, making this the best time to use them in baking. It's perfect for cake lovers who don't like cream, with a sweet-and-sour flavour from the pineapple that you'll never tire of.
2. Pomelo Cake
Pomelo is sweet-and-sour with soft, juicy flesh, ideal for cakes. In the rainy season Thais often use pomelo in baking instead of other citrus, especially imported oranges, because the flavour is similar and pomelo is also cheaper, worth a try for any shop interested in selling it.
3. Rambutan Cheese Pie
Rambutan is sweet, juicy and crisp, and fruits in the rainy season. Its juicy sweetness makes it great for baking, especially rambutan cheese pie, which wins over everyone who tries it. Bakery owners can easily create special menus like this to boost sales.
4. Kluay Khai Banana Pie
This bake blends Thai dessert and Western baking perfectly, using kluay khai (small sweet "egg bananas"), a rainy-season fruit, as the main ingredient. It's sweet and easy to eat, and kluay khai are inexpensive and easy to find, making this a great signature item or recommended menu that should drive sales for any bakery owner who wants to try it.
5. Pear Cake
Pear cake is another bake often sold in the rainy season, as pears fruit from August to September. Pears are sweet, fragrant, soft and juicy, so it's no surprise they're used in baking.
6. Mangosteen Granola Tart
This pairs mangosteen, the "queen of fruits", with granola for a perfectly balanced sweet-and-sour bake. It's rich in protein and fibre, which aid digestion and reduce bloating. Delicious and genuinely good for your health.
Fruit Bakery Items Thais Love
1. Cakes
Cakes are the baked goods that use fruit most, and they're a dessert Thais love, perhaps because they're delicious, easy to eat and the most familiar bake of all. Popular fruit cakes include peach, melon, strawberry, blueberry, mixed fruit, orange, kiwi, bael fruit, young coconut and durian cakes, vanilla cheesecake, and marian plum (mayongchid) cakes.
2. Pies
Pies come with both savoury and sweet fillings, and sweet pies mostly use fruit, such as berry, apple, pineapple, cherry, lemon meringue and peach pies, as well as palm sugar pie.
3. Tarts
Tarts are another type of bake made with all kinds of fruit. Popular fruit tarts include mixed fruit, blueberry, passion fruit, mango, lime and cherry tarts.
The bakery favourites closest to Thai hearts include rambutan cheesecake pie, young coconut cake, durian cake, mango cheesecake, banana cake, pineapple cake and mayongchid cheese pie.
