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Episode 8: Advanced Dough Recipe (Signature Challenge): Sweet Fruit Loaves We are in the home stretch! This Signature Challenge kicked off the ‘Advanced Dough’ episode and tasked the competitors to create a free-form enriched bread loaf with fruit. To be honest, I didn’t feel particularly inspired by the competitors’ creations (just not my taste) so I […]

Episode 6: European Cakes Recipe (Signature Challenge): Streusel Brioche I moved onto the “Pastries” episode of the challenge and the first challenge was a yeasted cake dough. Or a sweet bread dough. Most of the competitors made kugelhopfs, but I decided to make a brioche. I think the choices of the competitors and myself do show the […]

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 […]

So I am a little late to this parade. I had heard about it years ago when it came out but I didn’t have the urge or tools to do it. Fast forward 8 years and I finally have a 5qt cast iron casserole to make the famous Jim Lahey No Knead Bread! A quick […]