Yesterday the Tasty Baking Company of Philadelphia celebrated its 100th birthday. It was on February 25, 1914 that Philip Bauer and Herbert Morris began baking and selling their products to locals. But it was in 1927 that they experimented with a small sponge cake topped with butterscotch icing. Originally baked in the shape of a small rectangle it frequently broke apart when removed from the mold. A solution was found to crimp the sides of the metal mold thus making it easier to remove the cake and in so doing creating small indentations in the baked goods. And of course we know them today by that iconic shape, and the name that was derived from the process, Krimpets!
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