Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Victorian Savoy Cake
This week was Forgotten Bakes week! The bakers’ first challenge was to make four Bedfordshire Clangers for the signature bake, which is a bit like a Cornish pasty, with one end sweet and one end savoury. The pastry is made with suet and is longer and more sausage like in shape than a pasty. The […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Sfogliatelle
This week’s Great British Bake Off episode was the first ever Italian Week. As the pressure rose, so did the temperature as it was the hottest ever day in the bake off tent! Whilst everyone was trying to cool themselves using fridge doors, fans, sticking their heads in the freezer and fantasising about laying in […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Decorative Chicken & Mushroom Pie
Pastry week in the Great British Bake Off tent was another tense one! For the signature bake; we saw the bakers challenged to make an assortment of decorative pies with a common theme so they all linked together in some way! Then they were challenged, in the technical round, to make Portuguese custard tarts which […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Chocolate Fondants
This weeks Great British Bake off was Pudding Week! Perfect timing for the more Autumnal weather we’ve been experiencing recently! We saw the bakers challenged to a wide array of different puddings and desserts! In the Signature Bake round, they made a steamed school pudding.The Judges were looking for light puddings with the right amount […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Millionaires Cookies
This post is much later than planned because I had such a busy week last week with cake orders, work and generally playing catch up!! But I finally developed a little GBBO Caramel Week recipe for these super easy Millionaires Cookies! I’ve made Millionaires Shortbread before and I have to say they are a bit […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Tear ‘n’ Share Bread
The latest episode of The Great British Bake Of was Bread Week, the signature bake was teacakes, a tricky bake due to the high fat content. A lot of the bakers teacakes were bland in flavour, under baked, under proved or over proved (according to the judges) so it seemed that none of the contestants […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Jam Heart Sandwich Biscuits
Episode 2 of The Great British Bake Off was Biscuit Week! We saw the Bakers create an array of unusual flavours for the Signature Bake round where they made sandwich biscuits! For the Technical Challenge, Paul Hollywood set the difficult and fiddly task of creating Fortune Cookies! One of the instructions was “to fold then […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Apple Crumble Cake
So week one of the new series of The Great British Bake Off has been and gone! Though a lot of people were skeptical about it moving to Channel 4 with new hosts and Judges (apart from Paul Hollywood!) I still decided to give it a chance…and I love it!! Episode one kicked off with […]
Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
I’ve been craving a nice chocolate loaf cake lately and also wanted to try out baking one in the little disposable loaf cake trays you can find in most good supermarkets! I picked up a pack of 4 in Asda for £2! This recipe makes enough to use all 4 trays so you can give […]
Easter nest cupcakes
I know I’ve already posted an Easter recipe for Rocky Road, but couldn’t resist making delicious Easter themed cupcakes. I didn’t want to just make a cupcake topped with buttercream and mini eggs alone…oh no…I wanted something a bit more and I’ve been craving chocolate Easter nests, so what could be better than combining cupcakes […]