Unique taste, texture and naturality – bake your way to success with premium Valio butter

As one of the judges in the television show The Great Bake Off: Finland, I have seen how home bakers appreciate the taste and other qualities of butter. There is a huge consumer segment that is not willing to settle for second-best when buying baked goods.

In industrial baking, the product and process determine what is required of good butter. In puff pastry and other laminated doughs for example, butter needs to have plasticity for flaky and light texture. In shortbread, the taste of the butter plays a significant role. At Valio, we have long experience in manufacturing butter that performs optimally in each bakery application.

This is how Valio butter makes your bakery products irresistible:

Unparalleled taste and mouthfeel

As bakery professionals, we all know that the taste of butter in baked goods is inimitable. Butter in itself tastes really good. It gives a rich yet fresh taste to any product.

Butter also carries all other flavours. Whether your product has fruit, berries, vanilla, chocolate or any other ingredient as its core, butter naturally enhances those flavours. You get a rich and aromatic flavour without any E numbers or artificial flavour enhancers.

Butter has a relatively low melting point, which does wonders to the mouthfeel. Valio butter gives the finished product that melt-in-the-mouth effect that any high-quality bakery product should have.

Flaky texture and long shelf-life

Butter increases short bite in all baked goods. You can make the crumbliest shortcrust pastry and the flakiest puff pastry. Compared to products baked with margarine, those baked with butter have such a fantastic texture and taste that they can be marketed as premium products.

In-store bakeries are increasing all over the world, and consumers are increasingly looking for good quality and wide selection. Manufacturers need to make sure they use ingredients that don’t lose taste or texture when freezed. Valio butter is perfect for products manufactured for in-store bakeries as it provides great texture and aromatic flavour also in frozen bakery products.

Naturality and transparency

It doesn’t take special skill to over-whip cream until it separates and starts forming into butter. But I have never heard of anyone accidentally turning olives into oil or rapeseed into margarine. This alone tells us that butter is an all-natural ingredient. Its manufacturing process doesn’t require any heavy chemicals, for instance.

Valio’s unsalted butter won Best of Class at the World Championship in Wisconsin, USA, on March 2018. There were 30 leading butter brands from around the world participating in the unsalted butter class.

Valio butter is manufactured from fresh and pure Finnish milk. All the milk we use is non- GMO* and has no additives or E numbers. Valio butter is lactic, which gives it a naturally long shelf life without the need for added preservatives or freezing.

We know how important it is for manufacturers to know where their ingredients come from. We also know that consumers want to know what they are eating. Valio butter is a notoriously difficult product to trace because its production employs cream skimmed from a number of different milk batches. That is why we put up a reporting system that enables us to trace the origin of the milk used for a specific batch of butter.

*) ref Reg (EC) No 1829/2003 and No 1830/2003