Worth The Calories - A Great British Bake Off Podcast

Pastry week brings pies and more pies, plus a decadent Polish vanilla custard dessert. We are also joined by a very noisy cohost... Kira the cat wanted a lot of attention during the recording, she has opinions on pastry!

Karpatka Recipe

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Dessert week brings us good challenges as well as a first time try of a British staple for some of our bakers (and one of your hosts).

Bread & Butter Pudding

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Bread week is memorable this year for all the wrong reasons. We're still washing our hands from all the garlic and our flatbreads need more of a clue in the name about whether they should be thick or not!

Blue Cheese & Roasted Grape Flatbreads

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Audience Choice week brings us relatives, bake what you know, and wearable bakes. Because wearing something you've baked is such a standard thing to create, right?

Toasted Marshmallow Raspberry Cake

Apple Tart Recipe

Caribbean Rum Cake Recipe

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A whopping bake of 30 whole cookies plus a technical that is gems of childhood and never need to be made at home!

Iced Gems Recipe

Donna Dundas Daim Bar Cookies Recipe

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Welcome our new judge, new challenge variations, and new bakers. Come for the baking insights, stay for the controversial thoughts about an actual use for the Imperial system!

Coffee & Walnut Cake

Nigella's Chocolate Guinness Cake

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A bake off final, a birthday, and a visit from the Ghost of Bake Offs Past on this week's Worth The Calories.

Madeleine tower recipe

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Yes we did the sugar dome. We melted clingfilm. But other than that we also got to use our favourite piping gadget and our favourite cream substitute, so it's a good week.

Framboisier

Le Tube - The best piping gadget ever!

The Coconut Collab - The best cream alternative ever!

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This episode stands on its own and is full of gelatine.

Upside Down Orange Pudding recipe

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Raspberry soufflé - minimum ingredients, maximum effort! Find out how we get on making meringue pies and serving a soufflé that simply MUST be eaten as soon as it is baked.

Raspberry Soufflé recipe

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We're having a gala time enjoying savoury flavours and all types of pastry. Eggy / daddy / nostalgia pie and grumbles about arts & crafts challenges abound!

Gala pie recipe

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Chocolate week and we're enjoying our tarts and keeping our tempers. Another change to a challenge (which we celebrate and welcome), a display of 'fondue' (the inverted commas are important here), and things that are as useful as a chocolate teacup.

White Chocolate Tart Recipe

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We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh yes and that showstopper which was definitely a bread challenge.

'School Cake' Recipe

So yes flapjacks are basically pancakes in the US. Thanks to Suzi H on Instagram for confirming, and this All Recipes article.

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We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh yes and that showstopper which was definitely a bread challenge.

Glazed Doughnuts Recipe

Roasted garlic and herb monkey bread recipe (Great British Chefs)

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We may say the word Capsule too many times in this episode, and struggle to contain the excitement over the arrival of the KING OF BISCUITS onto the Great British Bake Off.

Hob Nobs Recipe

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Opening the 16th series of the Great British Bake Off and it's rocking with Swiss Roll, a fancy change to the repeated technical, and an arts and craft project for the showstopper.

Fondant Fancies Recipe

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A strong line up throughout this series left us with incredibly good bakers, come join us to discuss the eventual winners and our thoughts on each of the bakes.

Strawberry Tarts
Egg & Cress Rolls
Lemon Sandwich Cakes

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Disco bakes and delicate cakes are the order for the next two 2024 episodes, as we discuss wobbles, Queen, and brave decision making in the tent.

Banoffee Pie
Opera Cake

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Get ready to laugh your spots off with a rude technical, alongside some tasty puddings as we get into week 7 of the Great British Bake Off.

Spotted Dick

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Double duty on episodes this week as we consider the pronunciations for frangipane and pecan; sweets from granny; the regionality of Parkin; and a split of feelings about vegetables in cakes.

Spanakopita
Vegan Parkin

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