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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 3 – Baguettes

Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged , , on August 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

P1200438On the Great British Bake Off last week, it was bread week. The technical challenge was to make 4 baguettes. I do bake my own bread, but not as often as I would like to and I usually end up making a white, wholemeal or granary loaf for the weekend and to put in the freezer. I bought Paul Hollywoods book ‘How to Bake’ a few months ago and I have made a few things from it, with varying success! So my bread making experience is fairly limited. But I love a challenge and really enjoy trying out new things, so click here to find out how I got on.

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 2 – Arlettes 

Posted in GBBO Challenges, Pastry, Spices, tagged , , on August 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »


Last night, was my last opportunity to try the technical GBBO challenge before this week’s bake off. So, I decided to give it a go. I read through the recipe a few times before I started and it didn’t seem that difficult, just quite time consuming. However, they turned out to be trickier than I thought, even with the full instructions (which seemed half complete to me so I don’t know what the contestants got given)! Click here to see how I got on.

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Noah’s Ark Christening Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , , , , on August 14, 2015| 1 Comment »

Noah's Ark Christening Cake

Noah’s Ark Christening Cake

A few weeks ago I made a Christening cake for my friends Chloe and Rory’s sons Christening. They had the lovely idea of a Noah’s Ark cake. I took some inspiration from Pinterest and had an enormous amount of fun creating this cake! Click here to see the animals marching in two by two…

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 1 – Frosted Walnut Layer Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, tagged , , on August 10, 2015| 1 Comment »

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It’s that time of year again – the Great British Bake Off has started and each Wednesday evening we can look forward to some baking entertainment on TV! Last year we tried to make a few of the technical challenges, but we ran out of time, so this year between the two of us, we are hoping to attempt most of them. This week it was Mary Berry’s frosted walnut layer cake. Click here to see how I got on.

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Safari Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, tagged , on August 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

 I haven’t made some fun cupcakes for a while so I was really excited when my friend Jen asked if I could make some safari themed cupcakes for her daughter Abi’s first birthday party. Click here to find out how to make these safari cupcakes.

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