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    Baking techniques

    Find out what mixing method you should use for different recipes and why, how to prep your baking pans so that things don’t stick to them, and how to check if your cake is done baking. These techniques and tricks are essential to becoming a better baker!

    Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.

    Butter temperature in baking

    Hand of flour and butter cut together for making scones.

    Online baking classes and resources

    A layer cake on a cake stand, with parchment paper pressed up on the cut sides of the cake to help prevent drying.

    How to store cake

    How to make marmalade

    A stack of cake pans, one square and two rectangular loaf pans of different sizes.

    How to measure cake pan sizes

    A bundt pan for baking bundt cakes.

    How to use a bundt pan

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.

    How to poach pears

    How to bake a flat cake and make a cake rise evenly

    Thick cream cheese frosting on a layer cake, spread with an offset spatula to create vertical streaks on the surface of the frosting.

    How to make thick cream cheese frosting for cakes and piping with less sugar

    How to make chocolate fudge frosting for cakes

    A saucepan of homemade crème anglaise (custard sauce) that is flavoured with vanilla bean paste.

    How to make crème anglaise

    Filling éclairs with chocolate pastry cream

    How to make pastry cream

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    Marmalade 101

    a palette of orange marmalades with varying thickness and set, some runnier others thicker, to show impact of cooking temperature on marmalade set
    Understand the marmalade setting point and your marmalade making will be more successful! Use this to make lime marmalade!

    Baking for Easter

    • How to make hot cross buns for Easter weekend
    • Carrot muffins
    • Eggless carrot cake
    • Carrot focaccia

    Baking conversions

    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This simple poached pears recipe is easy and you can use the fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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