Transform Your Desserts with Barker’s Professional Caramels

Barker’s Professional caramel fillings are a popular choice in bakery and foodservice environments, widely used in baked goods and desserts to enhance flavour and texture. These sweet, rich fillings bring a smooth, creamy consistency and a deep, buttery flavour that complements a variety of treats, from pastries to cakes and cookies. The versatility in both taste and application make caramel fillings a go-to choice for many bakeries.

In the Barker’s kitchens, we create a wide range of caramels:

Classic Cremes: Our caramel and salted caramel classic cremes are true workhorses in the Barker’s family of caramels. They offer fantastic bake stability, and the salted caramel is perfectly balanced - not too salty, but just enough to add zing to any slice, cookie, muffin, or cake.

Vegan Caramel: Our research team in Geraldine has perfected Barker’s Professional vegan caramel, replacing eggs and butter with coconut cream and oil. This magical all-round product is eagerly embraced by caterers and industrial kitchens that need to accommodate a wide range of dietary concerns. This caramel stands on its own but has the added benefit of being vegan friendly.

Deluxe Caramel: This caramel will remind you of your grandmother’s baking, made with real eggs and lashings of butter. Biting into a caramel slice made with Deluxe will transport you back in time. It’s also an all-star in our range, used in cheesecakes, muffins, filled croissants, mousses, and many other applications.

Self-Saucing Caramel: While all of the above caramels are bake-stable and designed to set slightly during the baking process, our self-saucing caramel is specifically designed to cascade down products, such as winter puddings, sticky date desserts, and upside-down cakes.

Toppings: Our caramel, butterscotch caramel, and salted caramel toppings are traditionally designed to be paired with desserts. They’re fantastic on drip cakes or used as a drizzle over decadent café cakes.

Coffee Syrups: Our caramel coffee syrup and butterscotch caramel also work well as sugar syrups to keep cakes nice and moist.

Dulce de Leche Milk Caramel: This is the Rolls Royce of caramels, just eat it straight out of the jar with a spoon! It’s outstanding! I have a jar sitting on the kitchen bench now, and I swear it winks at me every time I walk past. When people try this product for the first time, it’s so much fun watching their reactions. Mix this in with some fantastic baking, and you’ve got a recipe for success.

All the above can be used in danishes, sticky buns, tarts, and eclairs. Their rich, gooey consistency adds a delightful sweetness to the products, creating a luxurious experience for consumers. The fillings can be applied directly into pastries before baking or piped into the center of baked items afterward, providing a burst of flavour that contrasts beautifully with the dough’s texture.

Barker’s Professional caramel fillings play a key role in the production of various desserts, particularly in confectionery items like caramel cakes, pralines, and caramel-stuffed cookies. Their sweet, silky texture helps to balance the flavours of the dessert while adding depth. In cakes, caramel can be used as a filling between layers or as a topping or glaze, providing a shiny, appealing finish. When used in pies or tarts, the filling adds moisture and sweetness, complementing fruits like apples or pears in caramelized versions.

In the foodservice industry, Barker’s Professional should be the first and last stop for pre-made caramel fillings that offer convenience and consistency for bakers, allowing them to create high-quality products with less preparation time.

Call us today for a free sample of any of the above!