Festive Treats Josie Orr shares her favourite sweet and savoury festive bakes! The Christmas season is well and truly upon us, and this means that our favourite Christmas recipes are too! As soon as the festive season arrives, I can’t help but start to get excited about all the food that comes with it; be […]
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Bake Off’s Eggsilarating Semi-Final
Clemence Smith reviews the penultimate week of the GBBO! As four of the UK’s best bakers fought for a place in the Bake Off final, drama was bound to unfold, and this year’s semi-final didn’t disappoint. Patisserie week proved to be just as intimidating as it sounds. The contestants baked twelve pâte à savarin for […]
Choc-a-Bloc – GBBO Week 4 Review
Charlotte Kerr brings us a review of Chocolate Week! This week Britain’s best amateur bakers took on Chocolate week. An ‘in-tents’ episode saw the bakers tackle a Brownie Traybake signature, a Braided Bread Babka (quite the mouthful) in the Technical and a White Chocolate Celebration Cake Showstopper- and there was chaos crammed in from the […]
Week 5 Bake Off Review!
Livia Cockerell runs us through the highs and lows of pastry week! Pastry week proved to be a flaky one for Linda as she became the fifth baker to say goodbye to the Bake Off tent. From the classic Cornish pasty to the slightly eccentric caged tarts, the bakers were put to the ultimate test […]
Dread Week! – GBBO Week 3 Review
Jess Steward reviews week 3 of the GBBO – Bread Week, or as she calls it ‘Dread Week!’ Week 3 of Bake Off was Bread Week, and with the better bakers beginning to show themselves, those who originally seemed as though they may win started to show cracks. The bakers had to attempt Soda Bread, […]
Bake Off is Back!
Amelia Huxtable reviews the much anticipated return of the Great British Bake Off As summer turns to autumn and leaves crunch underfoot, we head inside and hope for something good on TV. In a world of little certainty and a summer of cancelled events, our favourite baking show has triumphed again. On Tuesday evening, I […]
Ready Steady Bake… Chocolate Fudge Tart!
Anna Taylor takes us through her simply delicious chocolate fudge tart recipe
Ready Steady Bake… Lemon Drizzle!
Fancy getting your bake on? Give Lucy Aylmer’s lemon drizzle recipe a go!
One Hungry Student: The Traybake
Online Editor Harry Caton explores the wonders of the traybake. Let’s talk baking. Specifically, that nebulous realm of the “traybake”. A curious portmanteau of a utensil and the preferred method of its treatment, the whole enterprise implies something straightforward. Bland, even. But there’s a complexity, in both definition and make-up, that often goes ignored. How […]
Home Comforts: Chicken Pie
For me, comfort food has to be something that you don’t have often. Something that brings a warmth to you and is kept in fond memory until you have it again, when you eat far too much until you’re full, if not stuffed, in heart and belly. My family has a fixation with pies. I […]