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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 5 – White Chocolate Tart

Posted in Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Pastry, Summer, tagged , , , , , , on October 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago we had family to stay for the weekend and once again the bake off technical made a great pudding! Click here to keep reading.

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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 4 – School Cake and Custard

Posted in GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Other Cakes, tagged , , , , on October 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago we had friends to stay for the weekend, I was hoping that the technical challenge would be something suitable for dessert on Saturday night so I was very pleased when we watched episode 4 to see that it would be the perfect pudding!

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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 3 – Glazed Donuts

Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, pink, tagged , , , 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.

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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 2 – Chocolate Caramel Hobnobs

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged , , , , , on September 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

We were really looking forward to trying this weeks bake off technical challenge. I love having a go at recreating shop bought biscuits, I’ve made bourbons, custard creams, digestives, wagon wheels and jammy dodgers before but I’d never tried making hobnobs. Click here to see how I got on.

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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 1 – Raspberry and Almond Fondant Fancies

Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, pink, Summer, tagged , , , on September 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

It’s that time of year again, the Great British Bake Off is back! We are all looking forward to seeing how this year’s contestants get on and trying some new recipes when we try all the technical challenges. So here’s the first one, click here to see how we got on making these fondant fancies.

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GBBO 2024 Technical Challenge No. 7 – Banoffee Pie

Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Pastry, Puddings, tagged , , , on November 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I’m a bit behind with the challenges this year, October and November are always so busy with both the girls Birthdays and Rich’s Birthday too, so I have been busy making 3 Birthday cakes instead. But the other weekend I did manage to squeeze in making a smaller version of the banoffee pie. Click here to see how I got on.

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GBBO 2024 Technical Challenge No. 5 – Spanakopita

Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Pastry, tagged , , , on October 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

When they first made filo pastry on the bake off as a technical, I had a go and I remembered saying next time I would buy the pastry as it was so time consuming! But it wouldn’t be a proper technical challenge if I bought it and I had two very keen helpers this week, so we spent Sunday making a lot of mess attempting this one, click here to keep reading.

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GBBO 2024 Technical Challenge No. 4 – Pear Tarte Tatin

Posted in autumn, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other, Pastry, tagged , , , , on October 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Caramel week is always one of our favourite weeks on the GBBO and this year was no exception. Rich was very pleased that the technical bake was Tarte Tatin, one of his favourites and something I have never made. Click here to see how I got on.

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GBBO 2024 Technical Challenge No. 3 – Seven-strand Plaited Wreath

Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, tagged , , , 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.

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GBBO 2024 Technical Challenge No. 2 – Mint Chocolate Biscuits

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

There was so much drama in biscuit week in the bake off! We also had our own drama at home with a sick bug from school that was doing the rounds and put a stop to all our plans, so these were made in a bit of a rush on Sunday afternoon. Click here to keep reading.

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