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 – 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 […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Chocolate Roulade
One of my favourite episodes of Great British Bake Off involved the bakers making some delicious looking delights for dessert week! They were challenged to make a roulade for the signature bake where we witnessed many delicious sounding flavours such as piña colada, yum! The technical was a very complicated looking marjolaine and the showstopper; […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Mini Bakewell Tarts
This week’s GBBO was pastry week and the eight remaining bakers were challenged to make Danish pastries for the signature challenge, a classic Bakewell tart for the technical challenge and for the signature bake they were asked to make 24 sweet and 24 savoury bite sized delights from filo pastry – Filo amuse bouche! There […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Nutella & hazelnut twist bread
Last weeks episode of Great British Bake Off was bread week. Bread has been a bit hit and miss with me, I’ve tried numerous bread recipes with varying results over the years; but after seeing the chocolate breads in the signature bake round, I really wanted to make a loaf filled with Nutella & hazelnuts. […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Viennese Whirls
It’s biscuit week on GBBO this week and we saw the bakers make iced biscuits for the signature bake, Viennese whirls for the technical and a gingerbread story for the showstopper. I loved Louise’s Baa Bara Brith Biscuits (I’m rather partial to a spot of Welsh inspired baking, making both Bara brith and Welsh cakes […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake
I’ve been trying out different recipes to create a delicious lemon drizzle cake. I’ve tried various loaves & traybakes with varying results, some too dry, some too sweet and one had so much drizzle that it turned into a soggy mess!! But after much trial & error, I finally came up with a yummy lemon […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Jaffa Cakes
One of my favourite shows is back on TV ! The Great British Bake Off returned last week where the 12 amateur bakers were challenged to create a drizzle cake where we saw a variety of flavours from the traditional orange or lemon to more unusual flavours using apple, vanilla & blackberry, gin & tonic, […]