Maybe you knew this but I didn’t: the Great British Bake Off puts the complete recipes for many of their challenges online, including what looks like all the technicals and 100s of bakes by contestants.
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Wow. That’s both pleasing and genuinely useful. Every year my wife chooses something from Bake Off that the kids and I should make for her birthday, with predictably disappointing but funny results. Now I no longer have to improvise.
This is not the channel through which I expected this news to come, but thank you. Helpful.
Yes! I am planning on making the lemon thyme bundt cake from last week’s technical challenge this weekend. https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/prue-leiths-lemon-thyme-bundt/
Also, one of my favorite blogs tries to make the technical challenge each week without the recipe and the results are hilarious. https://defector.com/the-not-so-great-defector-bake-off-wastes-time-thyme-in-botanical-week
Oh man, that defector blog is really funny. Definitely going to be a regular reader from now on!
My favorite British Bake-off fact is that the US version has a ton of VFX to replace Bake-off with Bake Show to avoid a trademark issue with Pillsbury.
https://youtu.be/2OEwbocwYF8
I just want a book of all the illustrations from the bakes
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