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Great British Bake Off episode 7 2015 – Victorian

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 6 minutes of reading / October 17, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 7 2015 – Victorian: In a Baking Show first, the entire episode is devoted to the period of history that gave birth to modern baking, the Victorian era. For the first challenge, the bakers have three hours to make a raised game pie. The pie must have thin pastry, and must be very ornate, as most game pies from the era were. For the technical challenge, a tennis fruit cake is set for the bakers. The bakers were given three hours to make a fruit cake, along with royal icing and sugar paste, […]

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Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 4 2021

Great British Bake Off 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / October 14, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 4 2021: Jo Brand is joined by Stephen Mangan, Kadeena Cox and Matt Lucas to chew over recent events in the contest, featuring unseen footage from Dessert Week and an interview with the week’s eliminated baker. Tom Allen casts a cheeky eye over the bakes brought along to the studio, and Jo rummages through the photos of the weird and wonderful bakes viewers have been making at home. There’s also extra footage and photos of the curious so-called cakes that eager amateurs have been creating at home.

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Great British Bake Off episode 6 2015 – Pastry

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / October 14, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 6 2015 – Pastry: With bread, biscuits and cakes complete, the bakers must now prove their pastry skills. For the signature challenge, the bakers make a frangipane tart in two hours, the challenge being that it must be open-topped and use shortcrust pastry. In the technical, the bakers strive to make flauones – a cheese filled pastry made in Cyprus. Vol-au-vents are set as the Showstopper – the bakers must make two types, all using their own puff pastry – in three hours and forty five minutes. Culinary competition in which amateur cooks

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Great British Bake Off episode 4 2021 – Dessert Week

Great British Bake Off 2021 / 4 minutes of reading / October 12, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 4 2021 – Dessert Week: Pudding week, and the bakers must make a pavlova. Paul Hollywood has a warning: “They could crack… melt, allow water to come out, or indeed collapse,” he says. He’s referring to the meringues, not the bakers. In fact this lot, as well as being great company on screen, are generally cool in the face of a crisis: “It’s very collapse-y,” sighs one baker of his pavlova, while another notes fairly calmly of her showstopper, “It’s going to go splodge,” as she confronts the inevitability of letting go of

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Great British Bake Off episode 5 2015 – Alternative Ingredients

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / October 10, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 5 2015 – Alternative Ingredients: The remaining bakers face baking challenges without sugar, gluten or dairy. This episode has a theme of using alternatives for ingredients usually used in baking. For the signature bake, the bakers are given the challenge of baking a cake, but without using sugar. For the technical bake, the challenge is to make twelve identical gluten-free pitta breads in two hours. In the showstopper, the bakers must make an ice-cream roll using dairy-free ice-cream. Culinary competition in which amateur cooks compete in a variety of culinary challenges, hoping to

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Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 3 2021

Great British Bake Off 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / October 9, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 3 2021: Jo Brand is joined by fans of the show Aisling Bea, Martin Kemp and Melvin Odoom to chew over recent events in the contest, featuring unseen footage from Bread Week and an interview with the week’s eliminated baker. Tom Allen casts a cheeky eye over the bakes brought along to the studio, and Jo rummages through the photos of the weird and wonderful bakes viewers have been making at home. There’s also extra footage and photos of the curious so-called cakes that eager amateurs have been

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Great British Bake Off episode 4 2015 – Desserts

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / October 7, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 4 2015 – Desserts: For the nine bakers left, it’s time to tackle the sweet ending to every meal – desserts. For the signature challenge, the bakers must make twelve crème brûlées. They had two and a half hours, with instructions that the custard must be set, and that the bakers aren’t allowed to use a blowtorch to caramelize the top. For the technical challenge, the bakers have four hours to make a Spanische Windtorte. This dessert has two types of meringue, Swiss and French, designed into a circular box and filled with cream and

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Great British Bake Off episode 3 2021 – Bread Week

Great British Bake Off 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / October 6, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2021 – Bread Week: Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding present as the amateurs demonstrate their bread-baking skills, putting their own twist on a classic Italian focaccia in the signature challenge and making a Greek-inspired snack in the technical. On day two, judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith task them with creating an artistic showpiece rendering decorative designs in milk bread. Who will be leaving the tent this week? Culinary competition in which amateur cooks compete in a variety of culinary challenges, hoping to be crowned Britain’s best amateur baker. Contestants create a

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Great British Bake Off episode 3 2015 – Bread

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / October 4, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2015 – Bread: The ten remaining bakers face the challenge of bread week. In the first task, the bakers have one and a half hours to make two quick bread to be made free-form (i.e. not in a tin). For the second task, Paul sets the bakers the challenge of baking 4 identical crusty baguettes in two and a half hours. For the final Showstopper, the bakers must make a 3-D bread sculpture in five hours. The bread sculpture should be made of three types of dough, and one of them should be filled.

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Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 2 2021

Great British Bake Off 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / October 1, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 2 2021: Jo Brand chews over biscuit week with broadcaster Nick Grimshaw and comedian Darren Harriot, and there’s exclusive footage from the tent and an interview with the latest baker to leave. Tom Allen casts a cheeky eye over the bakes brought along to the studio, and Jo rummages through the photos of the weird and wonderful bakes viewers have been making at home. There’s also extra footage and photos of the curious so-called cakes that eager amateurs have been creating at home. Great British Bake Off

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Great British Bake Off episode 2 2015 – Biscuits

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / October 1, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 2 2015 – Biscuits: With cake week done, the remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. For the signature challenge, the bakers are given two hours to bake 24 identical biscotti of any shape, flavour or size. In the technical challenge, they are required to make eight arlettes, which are high-end light delicate cinnamon-flavoured biscuits, in two and a half hours. For the Showstopper, they must face the challenge of making 36 biscuits, to be presented in a biscuit box made of a different kind of biscuit mix. They are given four hours in

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Great British Bake Off episode 1 2015 – Cake Week

Great British Bake Off 2015 / 5 minutes of reading / September 29, 2021 / By HDclump

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2015 – Cake Week: Once again, 12 new bakers don their aprons and head for the iconic tent in the heart of the British Countryside. Judges Mary Berry & Paul Hollywood have created 30 new challenges that will test their baking prowess, creativity and skill in a bid to find the country’s best amateur baker. From Victorian classics to high end patisserie, chocolate sculptures to everyday staples the bakers will need a cool head and even colder hands to make it to the final. With them every step of the way are Mel Giedroyc

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