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Bring out your Pie molds it’s Tudor week on Bake Off 2016!

Bake Off’s back again and after an enthralling dessert week which saw Tom leave the tent, we take a trip back in time to Tudor week!

Much like Botanical week a couple of weeks ago this is a brand new theme for the tent! In case this wasn’t enough pressure from the bakers The weekend as always, kicks off with the signature challenge which requires the bakers to create shaped pies, creating a large arrangement from individual shaped pies.

These savoury pies need to be able to hold their shape and show off their flavouring and design skills. Several Alan Silverwood’s Individual Pie Sets were visible in the tent as the challenge progressed !

Jane managed this with a superbly flavoured set of pies, which held their shape fantastically when cut through! Benjamina struggled on time causing her pastry to be underbaked, despite great flavour much like Candice who bit off more than she can chew by making two types of pies! Selasi’s flavours were good but a thick crust let him down! Andrews pies were an engineering masterpiece and had great flavour as well, maybe he’s found a run of form at the right time!

The technical this week is jumbles! The two biscuits require a difficult shape to be formed, a knot ball and a Celtic knot.

Selasi had trouble initially with his pattern meaning he had a problem finishing his bake on time. Benjamina also had a problem with her patterns and Andrew didn’t quite have the colour he needed but still had a good bake. Candice had a fantastic bake however and came first in the technical, Jane on the other hand struggled with the bake and her pale biscuits put her at the bottom of the pile.

The showstopper for this week is an entirely edible marzipan showstopper, a bake in which the judges are looking for incredible detail and for traditional style, a bake fit for a King!

Jane managed to produce a fantastic bake, with incredible detail in the bake and a fantastic sponge. Andrew’s presentation was a bit messy but the overall texture of the bake was good. Benjamina’s cake was very doughy and her bake expanded a bit too much in the oven meaning her maze wasn’t quite a maze! Candice, as she likes does so often went above and beyond the call of duty in her showstopper producing a peacock piñata cake of incredible detail and finally Selasi produced a bake which had a little bit of a plain bake leaving him at risk of getting sent home!

After an incredible week of traditional baking, with pies biscuits and an incredible amount of marzipan, we saw Candice take the accolades of star baker this week! Benjamina was the baker to go home this week, it turns out that Tudor week just wasn’t her week!

Have you been inspired to try some traditional baking? Wanted to make some Gourmet Pies? We have just the Pie molds in our extensive range of Alan Silverwood molds.

Semi-final week approaches and with just 4 left who will get the crown?

Let the batter battle commence! Batter week on Bake Off!

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Let the batter battle commence! It’s week 4 on The Great British Bake Off Series 7.

This week’s theme centers around cooking using batter, often a delicate and difficult to mixture to use for baking and today’s technical signature challenge is exactly that. Trying to produce 24 identical Yorkie’s is nigh-on impossible, how will the remaining bakers cope?

For Tom and Jane, both star previous star bakers the answer is not well unfortunately as both of their Yorkshires came out looking more like biscuits (probably because they both filled their tins with the oven door left open letting out all the heat).

Thankfully Jane’s bake tasted amazing which meant it wasn’t all bad news for her. At the other end of the spectrum Selasi had an great bake which Paul couldn’t stop eating although he did have a few irregularities, but with an almost flawless bake Andrew is definitely in the hunt for the star baker prize even at this early stage of the batter week!

The technical challenge this week is a toughie, pancakes are simple right? Well not these ones, lace pancakes are delicate, fiddly and a little bit special. To get 12 pancakes all looking the same with only one practice really lives up to the name of technical challenge.

Unfortunately Rav struggled with his pancakes, with major inconsistencies and over baking but Benjamina absolutely knocked this challenge out of the park with an incredibly elaborate design which was recreated almost perfectly across all twelve of the pancakes.

The showstopper for batter week is a Spanish street food delicacy and a delicious doughnutty one too! Churros are made using a batter choux style batter causing it to have a crispy outside but soft and fluffy centre.

Tom’s poor week has continued, an overbaked dry set of churros leaves him at risk of not being in the tent again next week and Selasi is also at risk after his churros were raw in the middle and burnt on the outside. Kate, another previous star baker who has had a difficult week and hasn’t improved with her showstopper, producing what were probably the worst bake of the entire weekend as her churros ended up taking in all of the oil and being all crispy with no doughy inside. Benjamina had another great bake, nailing her tropically flavoured churros!

This weeks star baker was a certain almost at the end of the technical challenge and her incredible showstopper only helped her cause as this week’s runaway star baker is Benjamina!

The bake off is definitely cruel to some of its bakers, and Kate is no exception; after looking so strong for the competition so far her churros and Yorkshire puds let her down and unfortunately she won’t be returning to the bake-off for next week.

If you have been inspired by this weeks bake off take a look at Gourmet Cookwares range of Yorkshire Pudding Tins & Bun Tins from Alan Silverwood & Judge Bakeware

Extended range of Alan Silverwood Bakeware

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Just in time for the Great British Bake Off, we have extended our range of Alan Silverwood Bakeware here at Gourmet Cookware, and would like to tell you a bit about this wonderful product range, made 100% here in the UK.

Alan Silverwood Bakeware is a family firm, established in 1966, and are specialists in manufacturing a distinctive range of bakeware, all made in their Birmingham factory. These products are long lasting and high quality, British made, good enough to bear the Silverwood family name, and in fact many of their innovative bakeware designs are unique to them.

As well as stocking the extremely popular Aluminium Silver Anodised (Alsil) Bakeware, at Gourmet Cookware we have secured a limited quantity of their very best Hard Anodised Bakeware, bringing them all to you at excellent prices; including loaf tins and baking sheets.

The Hard Anodising process is related to silver anodising, but is a more advanced finish. A film is built up, after prolonged processing, which can be 10 times thicker than the film on silver anodised bakeware, and if it is then properly cared for, it will last a lifetime. This process leave the surface in a permanently changed state, leaving a finish that is harder than steel. This then means that metal whisks and other utensils can be used in the pans and bakeware, without causing damage. This surface will never end up peeling or blistering, and a benefit of Anodised aluminium is that it will never rust. These non-stick and durable items by Alan Silverwood Bakeware are all available to purchase on the Gourmet Cookware website.

Gourmet Cookware is listed as an Official Stockist on the Alan Silverwood website, and we are more than happy to order any of the Alan Silverwood Silver Anodised Bakeware items that we don’t currently stock as a special order for customers.