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Episode 4: Dessert Recipe (Technical Challenge): Tiramisu Cake Continuing along the thread of the last dessert – when the competitors were given this challenge a lot of them were new to tiramisu. This surprised me because in North America, tiramisu is practically a restaurant dessert staple! Granted, it may not always be made with real marscapone, but […]

Episode 4: Dessert Recipe (Signature Challenge): Self-Saucing Pudding This episode was really interesting in that it showed me how different the dessert culture is between the UK and North America. I mean, I’ve always known it is different. Of course it is different! But it really manifested itself in this new episode – featuring desserts. The first […]

Episode 3: Bread Recipe (Showstopper Challenge): Yeasted Chocolate Coffee Cake Full disclosure – I have made this recipe before! (came out really well) Although the majority of recipes I have made were with new recipes, I was actually pretty excited to use a recipe from my own repertoire. It seems that the competitors do get to practice […]

Episode 3: Bread Recipe (Technical Challenge): Ciabatta The Technical Challenge for the Bread episode was ciabatta – the recipe being Paul Hollywood’s (seriously – what a name!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_ciabatta_98431 It’s a very easy and basic dough but you can tell by the bakers that it wasn’t as straightforward as they expected. The dough is definitely very wet […]

Episode 3: Bread Recipe (Signature Challenge): Rye Rolls After a seemingly eternity of baking cookies, I was really ready to get into bread. For one – it’s a lot less work! (more waiting time) And I knew it would be a real challenge for me. I don’t eat or make much bread, so I was excited […]

Episode 2: Biscuits Recipe (Showstopper Technical Challenge): 3-D Vancouver Special Cookie House Ahhhh the Showstopper Challenge! To be honest, I have been looking forward to doing the Showstopper challenge since the beginning. The challenge was to create a 3-D cookie, a la gingerbread house and most of the bakers on the show did some sort of ‘scene’. […]