From Everyday to Extra-Special: Elevate Bakes with Keylink Essentials
The flagship of our bakery range, Keylink Essentials features products that add value to every bake, cake, pastry and dessert. With a choice of flavoured spreads, coatings, glazes and sprinkles, these core products are the perfect foundation of any sweet ingredient list.
Read on to find out why the Keylink Essentials range is so popular with bakers and dessert makers!
by Lyndsey Hall
19 November 2025
Introducing the Keylink Essentials Range
While our bakestable chocolate chips and chunks and vanilla products have been popular among bakeries and artisan bakers for many years, we knew we needed something new and exciting to really get people talking! Adding a range of spreads, coatings and sprinkles that boost flavour and add visual appeal was an easy decision.
With a core selection of bestselling flavours, including pistachio spreads and milk chocolatey hazelnut spread, our Keylink Essentials range are become a versatile and adaptable base on which our customers are building their product ranges. From cookie pies to stuffed croissants, doughnuts to brownies, these affordable products take a classic bake and turn it into a bestselling showstopper!
New to the world of spreads and coatings? We’re here to help you make the most of these fabulous ingredients and use them in your everyday recipes with ease.
How to Use Keylink Essentials Spreads
Some of our favourite products in the range are the spreads – sumptuous, smooth and creamy. We’ve included both milk chocolatey and white chocolatey spreads, as well as hazelnut versions of each, and a hugely popular pistachio cream spread, plus a zesty lemon cream spread.
One of our favourite ways to use these spreads is to warm them gently and fill a piping bag, then pipe a generous amount into any pastry, doughnut, tart case or cruffin within arm’s reach. Finish with a quick dip or drizzle of coating and you’ve got an indulgent bakery treat that will fly off the shelves.
Cookie pies are big sellers for lots of bakers and dessert shops. Our spreads are absolutely perfect for creating a layered cookie pie, simply pipe into your prebaked cookie base and add in any inclusions you like. Our pistachio and lemon spreads are even bakestable!
What is a Compound Coating?
Compounds are an alternative to couverture chocolate that is ideal for bakeries, especially where you want to give products that chocolatey taste but tempering would be time-consuming and impractical. Our range of coatings includes the three classic chocolate flavours, with premium versions of both the milk and dark compounds, and a pistachio flavoured coating.
If you’re looking for some extra guidance on how to use your new compound coating, we’ve put together a few resources to get you started:
Why Decorations are the Key to Unlocking More Profit
If there’s one thing that elevates an on-trend sweet treat to the next level, it’s that little extra finishing touch. An Ipsos consumer survey found that UK customers are willing to pay up to 50% more for a dessert that looks as good as it tastes, so edible decorations aren’t just for fun or an unnecessary additional cost, they’re an affordable added boost to your bottom line. Find out how to capture your customer’s attention and Boost Profits with Edible Decorations, using our Keylink Essentials decorations.
Recipe Ideas Using Keylink Essentials
If you’re looking for some ideas and inspiration for ways to use these fabulously versatile products, look no further! We’ve collated some of our favourites right here:
Why Choose Keylink?
Not only do we stock a huge range of products for chefs and bakers across the UK, we also offer next working day delivery, no minimum order quantity and generous discounts. With an easy-to-use website, friendly customer service staff on the phones and live chat, and excellent quality products for both artisans and industrial producers from some of the world’s leading manufacturers, we’re a one stop shop for all your chocolate and sweet ingredient needs.
Our Resources hub is choc-full of recipe ideas, beginners’ guides to everything from pricing to tempering chocolate, articles on legislation and tried and tested chocolate courses.
And our in-house chocolatier and development baker are always on hand to answer any questions you may have about products and how they perform in application.
The Keylink Essentials range is designed to make your life easier, your products more profitable, and your customers keep coming back. Fancy giving it a try? Ask for a sample of some of our spreads and sprinkles with your next order.
Lyndsey is a marketing executive, writer and lover of books and chocolate from Sheffield.
Her favourite bake is a gooey chocolate brownie.