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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.
A collection of british bakes and recipes to inspire your inner baker. Cakes, pies, tarts, cookies and pastries with interesting takes.
"Oh my god, look! Pheasants! ... Two male pheasants."
These desserts are really creative.
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He's one of the best things this series, besides Liam.
This twist on a traditional walnut whip hides delicious coffee ganache in a bed of fluffy marshmallow all wrapped in a crisp chocolate shell.
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.
This is a chocoholics dream. The rich, dark chocolate mousse hides a coffee-mousse centre all robed in a chocolate mirror glaze and served with almond brittle.
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.
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 […]
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.
This lovely, nostalgic bake is a cross between a Danish pastry and a bread. Combining sugar, lard, butter and fruit, it’s a British classic that has been around for hundreds of years.
Laughter is the best medicine, but freshly baked bread is a close second.
Watch me bake my way through Great British Bake Off technical challenges, starting with scrummy Victoria Sandwich! Sponge, raspberry jam, and whipped cream!
After last week, where I had actually seen the episode before baking, I'm back to my role of baking blind (oh, such a witty pun... no? Sp...
Chilling the flour (as well as the butter) before using it helps to ensure that you end up with really flaky, tender layers of puff pastry for your Saint Honoré gâteau – making this recipe a fitting tribute to the patron saint of baking, after whom it takes its name.
"Oh my god, look! Pheasants! ... Two male pheasants."
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.
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
Tonight we step back in time on the Bake Off as contestants try their hand at Victorian cooking:
A recipe from Prue Leith
Wagon Wheels consist of two plain biscuits that are sandwiched with marshmallow and coated in chocolate. This version of the classic biscuit snack contains a layer of jam, too.
Best on the day, this fudgy chocolate babka is easy to wrap and take with you to share with a friend alongside a good cup of coffee
There are as many versions of this classic of French patisserie as there are cheeses! For this version, Prue has added calvados to the frangipane and put the filling in a pâte brisée shell, for its crumbly, buttery texture.
If there’s one thing we deserve after a freezing-cold walk, it’s a sweet hit with a hot mug of tea or, even better, hot chocolate. These biscuit bars are just the thing –crisp shortbread biscuit topped with shiny set caramel and coated in smooth milk chocolate. Add a few sprinkles of sea salt over the caramel for a salted caramel version, if you like.
Simply scrumptious
This iteration of a 17th-century French pithivier (from the town of the same name) comprises dauphinoise encased in two discs of cheat’s rough puff. The creamy cooking liquid is reinvented as a rich roquefort sauce.
The leafy, floral raspberries and intensely perfumed jam are the stars of these elegant traybake slices. Raspberries, like strawberries, have hints of milk in them, making them a perfect pairing for cream. You could try stirring a little chopped fresh basil into the cream, if you like, to up the ante and add a spicy freshness.
Soaked in sweet syrup and often topped with fruit, the ring-shaped savarin is not your average sponge cake – it’s made with yeast for a start.
The crêpes in this beautiful, celebration centrepiece are made using matcha powder – finely ground green tea leaves that give a gorgeous, vivid colour. In Prue’s recipe, they are layered with creamy, white chocolate and strawberry filling.
Recipes include salt 'n' peppered sausage rolls. The perfect picnic or party food, sausage rolls are incredibly easy to make, especially when using bought puff pastry.
The 2021 finalist dishes on her time on the show.
Inspired by Loriea’s Week One showstopper, this lightly spiced chilli-and-chocolate sponge is sandwiched with mango jam and topped with a rum-flavoured buttercream to transport us to the shores of the Caribbean.
These dainty treats are filled with homemade orange curd. You’ll make more curd than you need, so keep the remainder to have on toast another time.
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.
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.
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