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Pumpkin Scones

October 5, 2021 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Pumpkin Scones
It’s Fall baking time, and that means Pumpkin Scones are on the menu!

A good scone is hard to come by… and for good reason.
Two secrets to the best scones.

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Filed Under: Fall Baking, how to, Recipe, technique Tagged With: diabetic, diabetic friendly, flaky scone, pumpkin, pumpkin scone, pumpkin spice, pumpkin spice scone, scone

Chocolate No-Bake Cheesecake

August 30, 2020 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Let’s face it, cheesecake is a crowd pleaser! And if you made the NoBake Bars pictured below, you know exactly what I’m talking about. There are some minor adjustment you can do to the original recipe (Heck, I’ll make the changes for you all you gotta do it follow the instructions) and you can createView Post

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No-Bake Cheesecake Bars

August 12, 2020 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Let’s face it, cheesecake is a crowd pleaser! But I know a lot of people struggle with the cracking of a baked cheesecake (usually from over mixing, over baking and drastic temperature changes… maybe someday I’ll tackle all that in a post and recipe for you) Honestly, let’s keep it real, it’s too hot toView Post

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Banana Bread – No Eggs, No refined sugar

April 7, 2020 by Aaron Leave a Comment

So here’s the deal… I had a few banana’s on hand… like 80 lbs on hand. As you can imagine, it’s only a couple. There was a local business selling off cases of banana’s, I don’t really why they had so many, I would imagine due to lower sales from all the Covid shut downs,View Post

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Filed Under: Recipe, technique, Vegan Tagged With: banana bread, honey, no refined sugar, vegan, vegan baking, vegan banana bread

Razor Sharp Edge… Every time!

November 6, 2018 by Aaron 1 Comment

As we progress down our caking path we are constantly looking for ways to improve what we already know. Sometimes learning something new can take quite some time to master, however I am willing to bet that this technique will take mere hours to master. YES… mere hours… I hear you saying it now: “What couldView Post

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Realistic Sculpted Sneaker Cake

September 19, 2018 by Aaron Leave a Comment

As cake artists we are often challenged with the task of creating cakes that don’t actually look like cakes. For me this style of cake is my favourite, it allows me to think outside the box of how I can make cake do something it’s really not supposed to do. It also allows me toView Post

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Sculpted Sir Topham Hatt Cake

April 11, 2018 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Year after year I am faced with the challenge (well actually 4 times a year) of what will I make for my kids (and wife’s) birthday. While the kids are younger the themes are usually pretty simple and straight forward, the challenge comes when you need to figure out how crazy I will go withView Post

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Chocolate Sphere Decorations

March 20, 2018 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Week one of Spring Baking Championship in the books and WOAH what a rush! As if putting parsley in my cake wasn’t a challenge enough, I had to make a 3D chocolate decoration for my cake.     I’ll be honest with you here, the decoration saved me. I honestly had NO idea what IView Post

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Filed Under: chocolate, how to, technique, Tutorial Tagged With: 3D chocolate, chocolate, chocolate sphere, spring, spring baking, spring baking championship

The BEST Pastry Cream – Brown Sugar Cream Cheese

March 19, 2018 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Pastry cream is more commonly known as custard, a mixture of milk and egg yolks typically cooked to thicken.
Using a good quality vanilla bean definitely elevates a good pastry cream to the next level and gives you a beautifully aromatic custard with rich vanilla flavor,
and those specs, those glorious vanilla been seeds… swoon!

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Be My Valentine…

February 9, 2018 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Do you need a last minute Valentine’s Day gift? Or simply struggling to find the perfect gift? These Valentine’s Day brownies are SURE to be a hit, leaving your Valentine begging for more… Now now… get your mind out of there! Begging for more brownies, seriously these simple yet delicious chewy brownies are hard toView Post

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WELCOME, I'M AARON! I am a self-taught Red Seal baker and specialty cake decorator and College Baking and Pastry Arts Instructor. I am located in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, an island as far east in Canada as you can go! I am married to an amazingly supportive wife and we have 3 very energetic boys! READ MORE

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