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These Viennese finger crumble in the hand and melt in the mouth but require a light touch and real unsalted butter
This nutty version of the classic bake has already got the Hollywood Handshake seal of approval and can be put together in no time at all. Liam has used bar shaped moulds here, but you could use any silicone shapes that you like.
The February 2021 Bake Off Box challenge was the Signature Chocolate Cake - a rich chocolate cake smothered in chocolate ganache and topped with fresh raspberries!
In the Great British Bake Off Masterclass, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood "take over the tent" and show us how they would've tackled all of the challenges from the season.
Today, in the final part of our mouthwatering series from the new Great British Bake Off book, the contestants on this year's show share some of their home recipes.
My coconut bars are an American version of a Filipino coconut cake called bibingka. These are a crispier, sweeter take on the Christmas tradition I grew up with. —Denise Nyland, Panama City, Florida
"Oh my god, look! Pheasants! ... Two male pheasants."
Based on a retro classic, this is a far cry from its wobbly 1970s reputation – it’s a light and creamy raspberry and almond dessert, here served with buttery langues de chat biscuits.
Episode 2 of The Great British Bake Off was Biscuit Week! We saw the Bakers create an array of unusual flavours for the Signature Bake round where they made sandwich biscuits! For the Technical Challenge, Paul Hollywood set the difficult and fiddly task of creating Fortune Cookies! One of the instructions was “to fold then […]
These desserts are really creative.
He's one of the best things this series, besides Liam.
A collection of british bakes and recipes to inspire your inner baker. Cakes, pies, tarts, cookies and pastries with interesting takes.
The nation’s favourite cake, traditionally the ingredients are calculated by weighing the eggs in their shells and using this weight for the butter, sugar and flour.
The Great British Bake Off Family-style! Your family will love participating the Family Bake Off together.
This week I made Paul Hollywood's Technical Challenge from 2023's Bread Week on Bake Off - Devonshire Splits!
18 Hilariously Perfect Moments From The Great British Bake Off - Funny memes that "GET IT" and want you to too. Get the latest funniest memes and keep up what is going on in the meme-o-sphere.
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For the final technical challenge Mary Berry asked the bakers to make this simple sponge with homemade jam and buttercream – without a recipe. We won't be so unkind. Mary's perfect Victoria sponge recipe with buttercream is yours. For this recipe you will need two 20cm/8in sandwich tins, an electric mixer and piping bag fitted with plain nozzle.
A recipe from Paul Hollywood
I grew up on these – my dad used to make these in his bakery. They’re just delicious to eat – soft in the mouth, slightly chewy, and with a beautiful sweetness from the strawberries.
The French puits d’amour means ‘wells of love’ – which says it all.
These pillowy balls of dough are filled with homemade raspberry jam. One of the trickiest things about making doughnuts is the frying time – the sugar in the enriched dough means that they brown very quickly, in turn making it tempting to remove them from the oil before they are cooked in the middle. With that in mind, make sure you fry the doughnuts for at least 2 minutes on each side.
Who wouldn’t choose the custard-filled doughnuts in a table full of treats? Sugar-coated with a neat stripe of homemade jam to finish, they are quintessentially British summer fête.
All the elements of a sticky-toffee pudding plus toffee apples in one cake! The sponge layers are made with dates, spices and pieces of dried apple.
This is a classic pâtissérie-style fruit tart made with a sablé Breton base – the salt (fleur de sel) comes from Brittany. The base is thick, buttery and crisp, and is easy to make in a sandwich tin, and the berry topping is the very essence of summer.
A step up from the free-and-easy Double Marble Cake, the Battenberg uses colouring in a more precise way to make a pretty cake that looks impressive.
In the 1920s in the USA, girl scouts on camp called for more melty, sandwiched marshmallow – ‘Some more!’ – and s’mores were born. These digestive biscuits are treacly with brown sugar and the marshmallows fragrant with vanilla.
Laughter is the best medicine, but freshly baked bread is a close second.
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Watch me bake my way through Great British Bake Off technical challenges, starting with scrummy Victoria Sandwich! Sponge, raspberry jam, and whipped cream!
Not just another teatime sponge, this citrus-flavoured yeasted cake is soaked in orange liqueur syrup and crowned with Chantilly cream and fresh fruit. For when you want to go all out. For this recipe you will need a 23cm/9in bundt tin or savarin mould, a sugar thermometer and a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.
Tonight we step back in time on the Bake Off as contestants try their hand at Victorian cooking:
Chocolate roulade, pork pie with quail's eggs, tarte au citron: Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood choose their all-time favourite recipes from The Great British Bake Off
Straight from the Great British Bake Off, the seven most delicious bread recipes. Including baguettes, ciabatta, cheat's sourdough, soft-crust sandwich bread, quick-cook flatbread wraps and pizza.
Watch me bake my way through Great British Bake Off technical challenges, starting with scrummy Victoria Sandwich! Sponge, raspberry jam, and whipped cream!
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If your family loves watching The Great British Bake Off, you are going to love this fun, technical-themed challenge for the whole family!
18 Hilariously Perfect Moments From The Great British Bake Off - Funny memes that "GET IT" and want you to too. Get the latest funniest memes and keep up what is going on in the meme-o-sphere.
Whip up a winner: Bake off finalist Kate Lyon's sticky toffee apple caramel cake
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Packed with flavour, these are real hot cross buns. The addition of apples to the dough enhances the taste and lends a lovely, moist texture.
This twist on a traditional walnut whip hides delicious coffee ganache in a bed of fluffy marshmallow all wrapped in a crisp chocolate shell.
Created to celebrate Prince Regent Luitpold, born in March 1821 and who reigned from 1886–1912, this traditional Bavarian cake is made up of eight layers of sponge, symbolising the eight administrative districts of Bavaria that existed at the time.
These individual puddings are laced with homemade golden syrup and steamed in the oven, rather than on the hob, making them a perfect end to a Sunday lunch – just pop them in to bake once you’ve finished the roasties
Traditionally served at birthday celebrations in the city of Palermo in Sicily, the torta settevelli is seven layers (settevelli is Italian for ‘seven veils’) of chocolate and hazelnut in various guises. The result is a light, rich cake.
The fruity raisins in these crisp, puff-pastry swirls filled also with vanilla crème pâtissière become sweeter still with baking. The woody, citrus notes in the cinnamon pick up the citrus of the orange zest, too.
