This term we partnered with Volare to create a new filling for their cronuts.

Volare's Head Pastry Chef, Samantha Smith, gave us a brief to create a new and exciting filling for their very popular cronuts using an ingredient that could be sourced locally. The girls each trialed and perfected one different filling for them. Sam visited during the project to provide the naked cronuts for filling and to give valuable feedback. After her initial visit she emailed to say "It was really nice getting out of the bakery, seeing the students yesterday motivates me as much as I motivate them! I’m super excited to see their creations!" Over the last 8 weeks the girls have been researching, measuring, mixing, tasting, trialing, evaluating and documenting every piece of the process. Their final cronut was packaged and hand delivered to Volare on Tuesday 21 June. The next day their work featured on Volare's Instagram page - what a buzz!

Sam and her pastry team then tasted and provided feedback to us about the potential of these ideas to be used commercially at Volare. We were excited to hear that they were all well received. Feedback included: "amazing texture, good balance of flavours, very inviting, smooth and silky."

Partnering with an external stakeholder provides real life experience and makes the project so much more meaningful for the girls. We are really fortunate to have such a good working relationship with Volare. We thank them for their ongoing support of our girls.