As we head into the fifth technical challenge of this year's Great British Bake Off I remember that I hadn't posted the challenge here for anyone who hasn't been following along on Twitter.
The challenge kicks off at 3pm AEST
Week one was cake week and I managed to complete Mary Berry's Frosted Walnut Layer Cake with time to spare, though in hindsight that time could have gone into more cooling of the sponges and decoration.
Given that it's the Great British Bake Off I thought I should dress for the occasion, thankfully I did have this left over from a royal guard production of Dreamgirls.
Ok a frosted walnut cake, sure why not?
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
So that's the walnuts, fine, not mighty fine just fine
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
Cakes are in, now onto the caramel...
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
Cakes out now just to cool in time to stack!
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
The fifty shades of caramel
Ok stop taking photo's or it will be burnt!
Walnuts done, I'm worried we have a bit of foot going on!!
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
So that's #lets_get_technical number one done & frosted with time to spare?
What have I done wrong?
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— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
— dontboilthesauce (@dbtsauce) August 9, 2015
I must remember more time cooling = much prettier layers
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It's lovely having fans, thanks Lucy!
This makes me so hungry reading this!
ReplyDeleteI'll just need to find an oven in Stockholm Kath!
DeleteOh, I love this post Jason. I can't wait to read the rest. I love following along on Sunday arvos. You've done a brilliant job on those toffee walnuts too. See you back here for bake 2.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fiona, it's quite fun to have a go at bakes I wouldn't probably just skip over if they were in a cookbook. Thanks for following along on Sundays, I'm hoping there won't be tears as the weeks progress!!
Deletecheers
Jason