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In the bakery industry, shortening is often considered just an additional fat. However, shortening plays a crucial role in the production of bakery products. According to Chef Junaidi, besides providing a soft texture and increasing dough volume, shortening also helps create a uniform crumb structure, which is essential for producing high-quality bakery items, especially bread.

Shortening is also useful in making cookies, crackers, buttercream, and various pastries, and it can serve as a butter alternative with a similar aroma and texture. Some types of shortening are even specifically designed for frying, making it a versatile ingredient in a wide range of baking and cooking applications. Due to the variety of shortening products available, bakery and culinary business owners need to understand the functional differences to achieve optimal results.

FILMA Shortening Product Range and Its Advantages

To meet the needs of various baking and cooking applications, FILMA® offers a wide selection of shortenings, each designed with specific advantages and functions. Every FILMA® shortening product provides different benefits, from enhancing dough softness to ensuring crispy, long-lasting frying results.

Let’s take a closer look at FILMA®’s shortening range, so you can choose the type that best suits your baking or cooking needs.

1. FILMA® Butter Oil Substitute (BOS)

FILMA® Butter Oil Substitute (BOS) is designed as a versatile fat substitute for butter, offering a similar aroma, texture, and functionality to real butter. Made from refined and deodorised vegetable oil, FILMA® BOS has a unique milky butter aroma and is bake-stable, allowing its scent to last longer in bakery products. This versatile product is perfect for various recipes such as butter cookies, biscuits, cakes, pia, and sweet breads.

For optimal results, use FILMA® BOS with FILMA® Margarine as in Cheese Cookies recipes. The cookies will have a more fragrant aroma and soft texture, enhancing the overall quality of the product.

2. FILMA® Pusaka White Baker’s Fat

This multi-purpose shortening is specially designed for bakery applications with an optimal melting point, making it ideal for making buttercream, sandwich bread, steamed buns, and crackers. With superior cream development, this product ensures long-lasting and stable buttercream decoration.

Additionally, FILMA® Pusaka White Baker’s Fat helps produce dough with a soft texture and perfect consistency, delivering high-quality results for various creations like Assorted Steam Bun.

3. FILMA® Baker’s Cream Fat

FILMA® Baker’s Cream Fat is formulated with a premium vanilla butter aroma and excellent creaming ability, making it ideal for a wide range of bakery products, from white and sweet bread, baozi, mantau, crackers, to buttercream. With its low melting point, FILMA® Baker’s Cream Fat helps you create maximum volume buttercream that is soft, non-sticky, and bright white colour.

Its excellent stability also ensures that your buttercream remains firm and doesn’t melt easily, making it perfect for cake decorations, such as in the Steamed Mocha Ganache Cake recipe.

4. FILMA® Puff Pastry Shortening

FILMA® Puff Pastry Shortening is used as folding butter or margarine (korsvet) for various pastry, such as Danish pastry and puff pastry. Its primary advantage lies in its ability to create optimal layer structure, resulting in flaky and crispy pastries, making it an ideal choice for high-quality pastries. Its high elasticity can also make the folding process easier.

Try making pastry creations like Strawberry Almond Danish Pastry or Assorted Bicolour Croissants, and ensure the perfect crisp texture by using FILMA® Puff Pastry Shortening.

5. FILMA® Goodfry Deep Frying Fat

FILMA® Goodfry Deep Frying Fat is a high-quality solid frying fat specifically designed for deep frying applications, such as Bread Tempura and Jalangkote Makassar.

With its high smoke point, this product remains stable at high temperatures and is suitable for deep frying large quantities repeatedly without worrying about the oil quickly darkening. In addition to maintaining the quality of taste, colour, and aroma of the product, the fried food becomes crispier and less oily.

6. FILMA® Goodfry Semi Liquid Frying Oil

FILMA® Goodfry Semi Liquid Frying Oil is a premium frying oil made to meet professional needs for deep frying applications. With its semi-liquid texture, this oil is easier to handle and apply quickly.

FILMA® Goodfry Semi Liquid Frying Oil has a high smoke point, making it stable at high temperatures and maintaining consistent colour and aroma in fried foods. This oil is also more economical because it doesn’t evaporate easily and can be reused multiple times without losing quality, producing crispy and long-lasting fried foods. It’s perfect for frying in large quantities, such as Fried Chicken and other fried foods.

Tips for Choosing the Right Shortening

Choosing the right shortening is crucial to ensure optimal baking results. Chef Junaidi recommends always selecting the type of shortening that meets the specific needs of the product you want to create. “Choose the shortening that suits the type of product you are making, and make sure to use the correct measurements according to the recipe,” he says.

Selecting the right shortening is key to ensuring success in your bakery and culinary business. Understanding the benefits of each type of shortening will help you create delicious and consistent products that meet customer expectations.

Stefanus Edo, Senior Brand Manager of Sinar Mas Agribusiness and Food, added, “FILMA® offers a complete range of shortening products to meet the various needs of bakery and culinary businesses. With a diverse selection and guaranteed quality, FILMA® can improve product quality and customer satisfaction.”

Ready to enhance your baking quality? Consult with our expert team here, and find FILMA®’s full range of shortening products in our e-catalog.