With the nights drawing in and the coronavirus news getting bleaker by the day there has never felt like a better time for the return of Bake Off. For the next ten weeks on a Tuesday evening, we can pull the curtains, pour a cup of tea, cut a slice of cake and collectively all …
Tag Archives: #GBBO
Bake Off is coming back
So apparently there is going to be a Great British Bake Off this year after all. The world may feel as if it’s rapidly going to hell in a hand basket, but we will be getting our much needed weekly fix of baking powder and icing sugar. No doubt there will be numerous bonkers baking …
Soft spiced apple cake..Monday comfort baking
I don’t think I’ve ever thought about food quite as much as I’m doing at the moment. I’m sure we’re all a bit like that, what with the combination of more time on our hands and limited opportunities for stocking up, but as someone who’s been known to list food as a hobby before now …
Continue reading “Soft spiced apple cake..Monday comfort baking”
Baking Advent Calendar day 11
For Baking Advent Calendar Day 11 I’ve been into what is relatively unchartered territory for me. My partner recently acquired The New Vegan by Aine Carlin and has been trying to persuade me to cook something from it. To be honest I didn’t have a great deal of enthusiasm , but when she pointed out …
Baking Advent Calendar day 8
I had two bakes yesterday. The first was the mince pies that I shared for day 7, the second was some bread and that’s what we’re having for Baking Advent Calendar day 8. I know I’ve written before about how much I enjoy baking bread, but at fear of repeating myself I do think that …
Baking Advent Calendar day 5
Someone recently asked me which was the most difficult bake I’d ever made. It didn’t take a lot of pondering to decide on a Gateau Vert and that’s the one I’m sharing for Baking Advent Calendar day five. I remember being undecided after first seeing this cake as a technical challenge in a Great British …
#NationalCakeDay
If you use social media at all you’re probably used to the never ending list of #National days that clutter up your timeline. I don’t know who sets them but in a lot of cases it’s probably the major producers of whatever product the day is promoting. Today is a little different though as the …
Great British Bake Off week ten
Bake Off week ten and we’re there, after bread, cake, pastry and a whole bunch of slightly odd themed weeks it’s the final three bakers. Three challenges left before they turn off the ovens and pack up the tent for another year. If you’ve been following the series in the UK you’ll know that this …
Great British Bake Off week nine
Bake Off week nine and we’ve reached the semi finals. Only two more to go before we all get our Tuesday evenings back and I have to find something else to write about. This time the theme was patisserie. That fiddly and intricate style of baking that’s guarantied to make you stop and stare with …
Great British Bake Off week eight
Bake Off week eight and as we’re down to the last five bakers it’s the quarter final. That might sound a bit confusing but don’t forget that three bakers take part in the final. After some unusual themes in recent weeks this show returned to a baking staple as it was about all things pastry. …
David in the kitchen. 