Temper Chocolate & Pastry Chef/Owner Steven Hodge will give budding bakers, aspiring pastry chefs, and DIY dessert fans an insider’s edge on how to conjure their own brand of at-home culinary magic when he debuts ‘Steve’s Sugar Shack’ on YouTube.
Hodge, host of Project Bakeover and co-host of Great Chocolate Showdown alongside Anna Olson on The Food Network Canada, decided to launch the channel to better connect with fans and provide helpful tips, tricks, and techniques to home bakers of all stripes.
In each video, Hodge will provide viewers with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions for pastry, dessert, chocolate, and even cocktail recipes at his home and pastry shop, on the BBQ and in the great outdoors.
Hodge first fell in love with the fine art of pastry while attending the California School of Culinary Arts and went on to sharpen his skills at Wolfgang Puck Catering and Porto’s Café in California before returning to his hometown of Vancouver and tying on an apron as Executive Pastry Chef for local hospitality stalwart Glowbal Group.
After a three-year overseas sojourn as a pastry chef at London, England’s Le Caprice,
The Wolseley, and three-Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Hodge headed back to Vancouver to work with celebrated pastry chef Thomas Haas before opening Temper Chocolate & Pastry in 2013.
In the decade since, both Hodge and Temper have been singled out for excellence in pastry and chocolate making by such outlets as the Food Network, Vancouver magazine, and Chatelaine.
This fall, Hodge will add the title of author to his ever-expanding resume when Penguin Random House Canada publishes his first cookbook, Chocolate All Day, which collects 100 of Hodge’s meticulously tested recipes to inspire home bakers of all skill levels.
In the book, Hodge also provides tips on how to buy, store and work with chocolate, learn essentials like mirror glazes, pastry cream, and buttercream, and gain the type of confidence to tackle even the most challenging chocolate recipes.