New York State
Assn of Manufacturing
 Retail Bakers
May 2023 | Early Spring Newsletter
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New York State Bakers Officers

Chairman of the Board 
Joseph Gifoli
516-354-3930

President 
Nick Stork

Vice President
Mary Sydor

Secretary
Werner Simon

Treasurer 
Edward Maher

Newsletter Editors
Rosanne & Brian Rush 
 
Executive Assistant 
Mary Sydor 

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You Were Invited
to Attend
New York State Bakers
2023
Tools, Tips, and Techniques
Workshop
And if you did, you had the pleasure of watching and learning from Lisa Mansour. demonstrating cutting-edge technologies, the latest trends, and tools for all your cake decorating needs.




Lisa is an award-winning expert in cake decorating. She is the owner of New York Cake and is the Director of the New York Cake Academy. She has appeared in many magazines and publications. Lisa has been seen as judge, head judge and organizer of many national cake competitions. Her passion is to bring the latest and greatest tools, techniques and products from all over the world.

Master bakers and decorators from all over New York gathered at Manhattan Sweets.
Our own New York State Bakers Association Secretary, Werner Simon, owner of Manhattan Sweets Boutique Bakery graciously hosted this event at his shop.
Lisa provided her audience with some new products to try
and showed some advanced techniques on cake decorating
Everyone walked away with new ideas to bring back to their own shops and their own unique customers.

Thank you Lisa for taking the time in bringing your expertise to us.
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The New York State
Assn of Manufacturing
 Retail Bakers
Show Their
Commitment
to Local
Community Values --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As part of this commitment, our association often supports local charity events. The most recent was arranged by our Editor, Rosanne Rush, who works at Raymour & Flanigan.

Rosanne met Tracy Quisenberry, Founder and Executive Director of Icing Smiles at the Atlantic City Bakery Show in October 2022. The mission at Icing Smiles is to create special memories during a difficult time by providing custom celebration cakes to ill children and their siblings.

Together with the manager, Juan Ruiz of Raymour & Flanigan in Farmingdale North, Rosanne and Juan enthusiastically invited the charity, Icing Smiles to their store.



Rosanne Rush
Juan Ruiz
Tracy Quisenberry
What an exciting and unique event! Tracy did a fabulous job of making it fun for Raymour & Flanigan's customers and staff. She placed Specialy cakes throughout the store, and customers entered a raffle telling how many cakes they found. The winners received $25.00 gift cards. Additionally, there were "sample stations" of wonderful treats and desserts in the store. Customers enjoyed sweets while they shopped and gazed at beautiful and fun cake creations.

These sweets were donated by our NYS Bakers Chairman of the Board, Joe Gifoli, owner of Gourmet Bakery, Ashley Howell, owner of Bites Galour Sweetique and Brian Fishman of Sweet Karma Desserts. Pintail Coffee of Farmingdale also participated with a volunteer and their wonderful roasted coffee. Pintail is also an organization that donates 100% of their profits to fight hunger.
Joseph Gifole, Gourmet Bake Shop
Bites Galore Sweetique
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Brian Fishman. Sweet Karma Desserts
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Raymour & Flanigan made a generous donation of $500.00 to Icing Smiles, along with may other donations from customers and staff.

All in all this was a great event, enjoyed by young and old, customers, management and staff. Raymour & Flanigan looks forward to Icing Smiles return in the Fall with more exciting ideas to offer!

Thank you to Tracy, those who donated desserts and participated.
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“Bake the best with something good"
Our commitment to the quality of our products and the initial raw materials has been in place from day one. Only the best ingredients with a flawless certificate are included for sophisticated and gentle processing. This is the only way we can ensure that our products are full of the quality we guarantee.
User-friendliness, high quality and nutritional aspects are extremely important – only succeeded by our primary focal point: You. Our customer. In addition to our extensive standard range, we also offer countless tailored products, providing everyone exactly with what they need.
Also
Do Not Forget to
mark your Calendars

October 1&2, 2023 


This experience will provide the opportunity to network with your peers and connect with the industry. You’ll learn the latest baking techniques and business practices as presented by some of the most successful bakers in the region. The nation’s top bakery suppliers will be on-hand so you can taste and experience the latest cost-savings and profit-generating ingredients, supplies, services, and equipment available in the market today.
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Bakers Amusement Corner
Jokes, Quotes, etc!


An owner of a bakery brings his assistant baker home for dinner unannounced at 6:30 after a long day of work.

His wife screams at him while his assistant sits and listens in.

“My hair and makeup are not done, the house is a mess, the dishes are not done, I am still in my pajamas, and I can’t be bothered with cooking tonight! Why the heck did you bring him home?”

Calmly the husband replies,

“Because he’s thinking of getting married, and I promised him a demo.”
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Up Coming Events
  
New York State Bakers Meeting
When: May 18 23, 2023, 3:00 PM

Where: Your Mother's Place
2349 New Hyde Park Road
New Hyde Park, NY
516 493-9030 
 
Atlantic Bakery Expo
Aka. Artisan Bakery Expo East 
October 1&2, 2023  
Atlantic City Convention Center 
New York State Bakers