Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, pink, tagged Donuts, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Glazed ring donuts on September 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Bread week is always one of my favourites on bake off, I love seeing what the bakers make and getting inspired to bake or invent something new. I really wanted to make a monkey bread too, but ran out of time so settled for the glazed ring donuts. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged bread, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Plaited bread on October 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Bread week this year was amazing, so many interesting bakes and some brilliant bread making skills! I wanted to try all the challenges but just haven’t had the time, so decided to stick to doing the technical, which was perfect to eat over the weekend for lunch with some soup! Click here to see how I got on.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, tagged GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Lardy Cake on December 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Finally got round to doing the last bake off technical challenges at the weekend, everyone was a bit unsure about this one, but it was delicious, the homemade candied orange was amazing. It was a cross between puff pastry and a sticky fruited bun. Click here to see how I got on.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Summer, tagged Bread Week, Devonshire Splits, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I don’t often share photos of the bread I bake, but most weeks I bake bread at least twice, sometimes 5 or 6 times, I absolutely love it! I tend to make milk bread loaves or rolls for breakfast/toast for the girls and sourdough for Rich and me. Then at the weekend we quite often have some kind of enriched dough for breakfast as a treat, any variety of cinnamon buns, babka’s, cruffins, croissants, brioche etc. And now it’s getting colder we’ll be having more soup for lunch which means I can try more savoury bread recipes too. I find it really enjoyable and rewarding. I couldn’t resist making these straight away and having them for breakfast this morning!
(more…)Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged bread, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, laminated dough, Pain aux Raisin on September 30, 2022| 1 Comment »
We were very much looking forward to bread week! We eat a lot of bread in our house, I bake bread anywhere between 2-6 times a week. Up until a few years ago I rarely made bread as Rich didn’t really eat gluten so had had very little bread making experience. But now Rich is eating it again and I am totally addicted to bread making. I had Chloe as my little helper this week, click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, tagged Chocolate Orange, christmas baking, panettone on December 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
As chocolate orange is one of my absolute favourite flavours I couldn’t resist making these as a treat for breakfast in the run up to Christmas. I knew the girls would love them too, the only problem was that one just wasn’t enough! Click here to try this recipe.
(more…)Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged Belgium buns, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge on December 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Last week’s Bake Off final certainly didn’t disappoint! It was so close I really wasn’t sure who was going to win. Rich was very pleased that the technical was something he really likes, so we were looking forward to making these! The girls also love any kind of sweet bread buns, so I knew these would go down well. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged Ciabatta, ciabatta bread sticks, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Up until about 4 years ago I rarely baked bread, Rich didn’t really eat gluten so I didn’t really have any reason to make it. But when he started eating gluten again I slowly started making more bread and trying different things and now I’m totally addicted and bake bread at least once a week but usually 4-5 times! I make a loaf or two of milk bread most weeks, as it’s lovely and soft and perfect for toast in the morning, so I was very excited to see the bakers giving it a go. I also love trying new breads for lunch at the weekend and with the weather turning colder we’ll definitely be having soup and bread for lunch a lot more. Click here to see how we got on with our bread sticks.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Christmas, Spices, Winter, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cinnamon buns, mincemeat and marzipan cinnamon buns on December 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
One of our favourite treats for breakfast at the weekend are homemade cinnamon buns! I’ve tried quite a few different recipes and spotted this Christmas version so thought I’d give it a go for breakfast this weekend. I have a huge jar of homemade mincemeat in the cupboard still, so this was perfect for using some of it up. Click here to read more.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Jam Doughnuts on November 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I’m getting a bit behind with blogging about the Bake Off technicals, but we have been giving them a go! I think I have only made doughnuts a couple of times as I don’t have a deep fat fryer, but these looked so good that it seemed worth the effort of filling a large saucepan with oil and using the thermometer to check the temperature, its definitely much harder to regulate it on the hob. We were all very excited to give these a go! Click here to see how we got on.
I didn’t have any strawberries, but had some of my parents homegrown raspberries in the freezer, so used some of these to make the jam instead. Emily and Chloe helped measure things out and helped with kneading the dough a bit too. Chloe loved poking her fingers in the soft dough! Pauls recipe can be found here.
I fried the doughnuts while the girls were having their tea so we could all have them for pudding. I couldn’t believe how big they got when they were put into the hot oil! They had just enough time to cool down so I could pipe in the filling and the jam. We very much enjoyed eating them! Probably one of the best technical challenges ever, they were so good!
Gloverly Cupcakes 