Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Spices, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Jumbles, Spiced Biscuits, Tudor Biscuits on October 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It’s not long till the bake off final, so only a few more weeks of technical challenges left. I’ve got a very busy few weeks, so it’s a good job that last weeks challenge was a quick and easy one! I thought they would be good for a post cross country race snack, so made a double batch to take to the first Met League cross country race of the season. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, Nuts, Other Cakes, tagged Almonds, Chocolate Ganache, GBBO Technical Challenge, hazelnut, Marjolaine, Praline on October 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last weeks challenge had to wait till we got back from Devon earlier this week, so I made this on Wednesday and assembled it on Thursday morning in a bit of a rush while trying to get Emily breakfast and get ready to go out. None of the individual parts were too complicated, but it was very time consuming to make! Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges on October 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Most weekends I bake a loaf of bread. I’m a creature of habit though and always make the same super simple white loaf – it’s one where you mix everything together in a bowl (no kneading required!) and leave for up to 24 hours before shaping and baking. It’s quite a dense loaf but I think it’s perfect freshly baked in the morning and then toasted with scrambled egg on top. I do like trying new breads but often look for reason to try one so I was slightly disappointed with the technical challenge from bread week. However, last week (botanical week), gave us another bread to try and it sounded really good. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Pastry, Puddings, tagged Bakewell Tart, GBBO Technical Challenge, pastry, raspberry on September 27, 2016| 1 Comment »
Em and I were both really looking forward to making this weeks technical challenge from the Great British Bake Off, we both love Bakewell tart! I actually don’t think I have ever made one, so couldn’t wait to give it a go. Click here to see how we got on
Posted in GBBO Challenges, Puddings, tagged batter, GBBO, Great British Bake Off, lace, lace pancakes, technical challenge on September 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure where the last week has gone – how is it nearly bake off time already? I was rapidly running out of time to do the latest technical challenge from batter week, so I decided to try to cook a batch tonight. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged bread, Dampfnudel, GBBO Technical Challenge on September 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Time for another technical challenge! A slightly unusual one this week, like all the other contestants I hadn’t heard of dampfnudeln either. I love making bread, but I don’t really do it very often as my hubby can’t really eat gluten. Mary Berry said these are a bit like iced buns, so I thought they would probably still be suitable for me to take to the baby group on Thursday morning and rather than making the plum puree and vanilla sauce, I thought I would just put some icing on top instead and hope that the Mums and Dads at the group aren’t too disappointed that they haven’t got any cakes or biscuits this week. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes on September 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I went to the wedding of Rob and Sian – Sian and I grew up in the same village and we’ve known each other since we were about 3 years old. As well as being invited to the wedding, I got to make the cake. Tom and I had a great time at the wedding – everything about the day was perfect. Keep reading.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Other on September 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Time for GBBO technical challenge number 2! I love Viennese whirls, the biscuits just melt in your mouth, so I was really pleased with this weeks challenge. I have made them before, but probably about 10 years ago, so it’s nice to give them a go again. Click here to find out how I got on.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged chocolate, GBBO, jaffa cakes, orange, technical challenge on August 30, 2016| 1 Comment »
In case you missed it, the Great British Bake Off started again last week! Becky and I both really enjoyed trying the technical challenges last year so we’ve decided we’ll be doing them again this year. Last year we took it in turns to make them each week but we both decided we wanted to try the technical challenge from cake week – Jaffa Cakes!
Posted in Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Summer, tagged 2016, cupcakes, olympic cupcakes, olympic rings, olympics, Rio, summer olympics on August 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
For the last two weeks I’ve been lacking sleep. Partly because of the Olympics (why do most of the finals have to be in the middle of the night?!) and partly due to being at a hen do last weekend for one of my friends, Sian. These Olympic themed cupcakes were for Sian’s hen do. We had a mini Olympics during the day on Saturday so I decided that some themed cupcakes would help re-fuel the athletes! Click here to keep reading.
Gloverly Cupcakes 