Floral Three Tier Cake – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 6)

Week 6! Botanicals Week? The first ‘botanicals’ week on GBBO saw the bakers making things with floral flavours and just ‘anything that GROWS’, as star baker Tom bluntly put it. The episode started with a citrus meringue pie signature bake, followed by a fougasse (basically a French focaccia), and finally ended with the bakers making a 3 tierContinue reading “Floral Three Tier Cake – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 6)”

Sweet & Savoury Amuse-Bouche – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 5)

WEEK 5: Pastry Week! Ok, so 5 weeks into my personal GBBO Showstopper Challenge and I’m already asking myself, ‘Erm Ang, why on earth are you doing this again?!’ Don’t get me wrong, I’m LOVING eating all the things I’m getting to make, but MY GOSH is it a lot of effort! (Especially with aContinue reading “Sweet & Savoury Amuse-Bouche – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 5)”

Birthday Cake Flavoured Churros – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 4)

Week 4! Batter Week! So following last week’s GBBO showstopper challenge of a savoury bread plait centrepiece (and my attempt to make a bloomin’ TREE out of bread!), this week’s episode saw the bakers completing challenges all to do with ‘batter’. Supposedly. The first challenge was Yorkshire puddings – something I don’t think I’ve seen on GBBOContinue reading “Birthday Cake Flavoured Churros – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 4)”