COURSE #4: QUICK BREAD & BAKING BOOTCAMP

Roll up your sleeves and get ready to bake! Quick Bread & Baking Bootcamp is a full-featured cooking course designed to build your baking confidence through a delicious collection of sweet and savoury quick breads, cookies, treats, scones, muffins and cakes.

You GET: 365-Day Access to online video instruction for all of the following 3 modules, 9 lessons, and 14 downloadable printable recipes!

Throughout three modules, Chef Dez takes you beyond simply following recipes. You’ll learn the techniques and principles behind successful baking, including properly measuring and combining ingredients, working with cold butter, creaming butter and sugar, mixing wet and dry ingredients, controlling gluten development, recognizing the dangers of overmixing, portioning and shaping doughs and batters, and knowing when your baked goods are perfectly done. 

And because cooking should be fun, Chef Dez will also sprinkle in baking trivia, history, interesting food facts and plenty of kitchen knowledge throughout the course.

Module #1: Quick Breads

Forget the intimidation of traditional bread making! This module explores quick and approachable ways to create incredible homemade breads while teaching you techniques that can be used far beyond these recipes.

You’ll make Cranberry Pistachio Banana Bread and Peppered Cheese Bread, discovering how the same basic category of baking can produce dramatically different sweet and savoury results. You’ll tackle Quick Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls, combining biscuit-style dough with the buttery brown sugar and cinnamon goodness of a traditional cinnamon roll, finished with homemade cream cheese frosting. Finally, you’ll make rustic Irish Soda Bread, learning how gentle dough handling and simple ingredients can produce a beautiful homemade loaf.

Module #2: Cookies, Scones & Treats

Now we turn up the fun! You’ll make decadent Triple Chocolate Peanut Cookies alongside chewy Peanut Eatmore Squares, followed by bright and refreshing Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies and Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes.

Then it’s time for Scones 101, where you’ll learn essential scone-making techniques while preparing savoury Ham & Cheddar Scones and warmly spiced Cranberry Buttermilk Scones. You’ll discover why cold butter matters, why overmixing is the enemy, and how proper shaping and handling can make a noticeable difference in your finished baking.

Module #3: Sweet Baking

Put your growing baking skills to work with three lessons devoted to some irresistible classics.

We’ll dive into Muffins!, preparing both Banana Nut Muffins and Carrot Bran Muffins while exploring the all-important muffin method, along with some fun muffin trivia and facts.

Next comes a rich Cranberry Almond Coffee Cake, featuring cranberries, almonds, warm spices and coffee flavours in an impressive cake that’s perfect alongside your favourite cup of coffee.

Finally, we’ll travel back through baking history with Lemon Glazed Pound Cake, based on the traditional formula of one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour, before giving it a bright finish with a fresh homemade lemon glaze.

More Than a Collection of Recipes

The goal of Quick Bread & Baking Bootcamp isn’t simply to give you recipes to reproduce. It’s to help you understand why baking techniques work, so you become more comfortable and confident every time you reach for the flour and mixing bowl.

By the end of the course, you’ll have worked your way through three modules, nine complete lessons and fourteen recipes, covering everything from rustic breads and cinnamon rolls to cookies, scones, muffins and cakes.

Grab your apron, preheat the oven and join Chef Dez for a baking bootcamp packed with practical techniques, kitchen confidence and some seriously delicious homework! 🍞🍪🧁🍰