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BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:36 PM Apr 2020

Finnish baker's toilet roll cakes keep profits rolling in

A quick-thinking Finnish bakery has saved itself from financial ruin due to the new coronavirus pandemic by creating a cake that looks like a toilet paper roll.

The dismayed staff at the Ronttosrouva bakery found all their orders cancelled last month, at the same time as panicked consumers began to hoard toilet paper rolls.

This sparked the idea of a toilet roll cake made of oat batter, passion fruit mousse and covered with white fondant.

The first five cakes sold within an hour, baker Uliana Timofeeva told Reuters, and the cake became a social media hit.

The bakery now has hundreds of orders and its owner Saana Lampinen has even been able to hire two extra people to her 9-member team.

https://www.fijivillage.com/news/Finnish-bakers-toilet-roll-cakes-keep-profits-rolling-in-f45rx8
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Finnish baker's toilet roll cakes keep profits rolling in (Original Post) BeyondGeography Apr 2020 OP
In one end and out the other. Historic NY Apr 2020 #1
Let's make one for tRump with some "chocolate" filling... Blue Owl Apr 2020 #2
I would like to see Putin's "chef" bake him a special cake BigmanPigman Apr 2020 #4
A Fiji newsource for a story of a Finnish bakery on a US website. By poster named BeyondGeography. marble falls Apr 2020 #3
I have to say, I have never heard of anything like this...K and R?? Stuart G Apr 2020 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
4. I would like to see Putin's "chef" bake him a special cake
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 06:37 PM
Apr 2020

made just for him. I hope he hasn't run low on ingredients like polonium during this crisis....

marble falls

(57,081 posts)
3. A Fiji newsource for a story of a Finnish bakery on a US website. By poster named BeyondGeography.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:28 PM
Apr 2020

Doesn't get much better than that!

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