Great British Bake Off episode 5 2021 – German Week: Beautiful cakes, likeable bakers, risky decisions, cheesy jokes… it’s another delight of a Bake Off episode, even if it’s full of bakes you may never have heard of. Mandelhörnchen, for instance, or glühweinplätzchen, or Prinzregententorte. These are not things you find in your average Greggs. They are though, the ingredients […]
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Great British Bake Off episode 8 2015 – Patisserie: The remaining bakers must work their way through delicate french fancies. In the first quarterfinal challenge, the bakers have to make twenty-four cream horns in three and a half hours. They are asked to make twenty four cream horns – twelve of each flavor, using either puff, ruff puff or flaky
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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