Wednesday’s here again and that means that bake off is too!
This week is dessert week and the signature bake is roulade, the bakers will be hoping not to see any cracks in their bakes.
Unfortunately for Jane her sponge wasn’t big enough so she ended up with more of a cylinder than a roll! However the alcohol in the bake was able win at least Mary over! Selasi had a great bake, good texture and flavour impressed both Paul an Mary!
The technical is nuts! Well, nuts and meringue. The bakers this week are required to layer meringue and nuts and decorate it perfectly to make a dacqouise.
Selasi, again, ended up at the bottom of the pile this week leaving him at risk of being left behind. Andrew had a great bake however, nailing the texture, flavour and decoration, making him a prime candidate for star baker at the end of day 1.
The showstopper today is to make 2 flavours of mini mousse cakes and make 12 of them both. The bakers need to make sure they have identical bakes decorated beautifully.
Jane, who’s had a poor week so far managed to produce two beautiful bakes with great texture and fantastic flavour combinations saving her from elimination this week. Selasi had a poor bake, as his cakes were not so mini and the texture combination didn’t work. Tom’s bake didn’t really fit the brief as his bake was more like a cake than a mousse cake since what little mousse he had didn’t hold the air! Benjamina had great flavour but didn’t look as good as it should have!
This week’s star baker will have been one of the more easy choices, he didn’t make any mistakes and had the best technical challenge, it’s Andrew. This week was the last for Tom unfortunately who struggled throughout the weekend unfortunately. So as we say goodbye to dessert week, we say Hail and Well Met to Tudor week next week!
However in the meantime if you want to try baking some mini cakes we have just the perfect products Alan Silverwood Mini Cake tins !