Croffle, anyone?
The Food Chain
BBC
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Crookie, anyone? Cronut, croffle?
Ruth Alexander looks at the rise of the dessert café and the extraordinary creations it’s spawned.
She visits one such café in Manchester with roses adorning the walls, and chocolate adorning almost everything else.
And speaks to a food blogger in Dubai and a café owner in USA about the latest trends and the businesses who have been serving puddings for decades.
Find out what the latest fashions are in dessert, and how quickly a new invention can sweep the world.
Going out for pudding has become the thing to do in many places and the more extravagant your order, the better.
In fact, going out for pudding has never been so fashionable – or has it?
Presenter: Ruth Alexander
Producers: Rumella Dasgupta and Hannah Bewley
(Image: A selection of sweet desserts. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:26.2 | The Hunger Game with me, Professor Gilesio. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.9 | Crooky anyone? |
| 0:36.5 | Cronut? |
| 0:37.4 | Crosl? The crossing of the croissant with cookies, donuts? Cronut? Crockle? |
| 0:38.2 | The crossing of the croissant with cookies, donuts and waffles and more |
| 0:43.0 | is all part of a shake-up of dessert culture. |
| 0:46.6 | I've always thought of desserts as closer to something like jewelry making or fashion |
| 0:52.2 | than to cooking. |
| 0:54.1 | This is the food chain from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Ruth Alexander, and this week we're exploring the popularity of dessert cafes, |
| 1:02.2 | and they're ever more over-the-top offerings. |
| 1:05.2 | Stuff oozing out of it, stuff pouring on top of it, something extraordinarily indulgent. |
| 1:11.4 | We want to know what people are searching for when they're going out for pudding. |
| 1:15.6 | We're serving a happy product because, you know, whether it's a cheesecake or an ice cream or whether it's chocolate, you know, all of these products make people happy. |
| 1:24.2 | And why it's such a competitive business to be in. |
| 1:27.6 | People eat with their eyes. |
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