Missing the chance to join in with Bake Off German week due to our ongoing kitchen renovation, was a disappointment. But if I have to miss out on Pastry week as well, it could just turn out to be a blessing. It’s not that I don’t like pastry, my regular consumption of pies proves I …
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You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
When Joni sang ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ she probably wasn’t thinking about baking. The problem I have is that with our kitchen refurb underway, baking is gone, at least for the time being, and now it is all I’m thinking about. From Bake Off German week, with some fascinating challenges, …
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Bake Off dessert week
With the possible exception of bread week, there’s a case to be made it’s always dessert week on Bake Off. However this time it officially was. The week you can guarantee more than any other that every challenge is going to be sweet, sticky and indulgent. My mum would have loved it. Whenever she ate …
Bake Off bread week
Bake Off bread week feels as if it marks the point in the series when the basics have been covered. We started with cake, followed with biscuits and now bread means that the things we’re all most likely to bake at home have been ticked off. Desserts and pies are the only bakes you can …
Bake Off biscuit week
For the third season running Bake Off had me making one of my childhood treats at home. Two years ago it was my all-time favourite, an Angel Cake. This confection consists of three layers of delicate sponge, one raspberry flavoured, another lemon and the third vanilla, with a layer of buttercream between each. No childhood …
Bake Off is back.
There’s no surer sign of the onset of Autumn than the return of Bake Off. As the evenings get darker and the curtains pulled earlier it just feels like perfect television for this time of year. A little bit of calm amongst the madness of rising gas prices, unnecessary petrol shortages and the many other …
The joy of group baking
Bake Off is done for another year. First, there was the expectation that like so many of our annual highlights, it just wouldn’t happen this year. Then a few brief weeks of anticipation once we’d heard it was going ahead. Followed by ten weeks of baking challenges that feel as if they’ve gone by in …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 9
It doesn’t feel long since I was anticipating the unexpected pleasure of a new Bake Off series, yet here we are at the semi-final stage already. Somehow this sums up 2020 for me. Long spells where time drags and nothing much happens, followed by fleeting pleasures that are gone far too quickly. Only a week …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 8
We’re down to the last five contestants in the Bake Off, this was quarter-finals week and the challenges were all desserts. For me, dessert is a catch-all title which can include gateaus or even pies, as long as they’re of the sweet variety. For Bake Off, it gets a bit more specific, as the ones …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 7
This season’s Bake Off has reached the point where the weekly themes start to go a bit off-piste. In previous years we’ve been served vegan and Danish baking, this time around we’ve had Japanese followed by the Eighties. When I saw this theme listed I was desperately hoping the show might include a Black Forest …
David in the kitchen. 