Author: Helena

Focaccia – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

Focaccia – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

This is the short version of the focaccia recipe that the bakers had to follow in the third episode of the Season 2 of the Great British Bake Off. As you may guess, this one is originally Paul’s recipe – the full recipe can be 

Tarte au Citron – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

Tarte au Citron – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

This is the short version of the Tarte au Citron recipe that the bakers had to follow in the second episode of the Season 2 of the Great British Bake Off. This one is once again Mary Berry’s recipe – the full recipe can be 

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 4 – Karask

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 4 – Karask

So probably you see the title of this post and think to yourself – what the hell is karask? Well, karask is a traditional Estonian soda bread, usually made with kefir, buttermilk, curd cream or yoghurt. It’s made with barley flour – although sometimes a 

Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia

Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia

Hey, everyone! I loooove myself some garlic. However, I have been struggling with any of the existing “garlic” focaccia recipes because most of the time the garlic flavour does not simply come through. I know that the roasted garlic has a way more subtle taste 

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 2 – Homemade Marshmallows

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 2 – Homemade Marshmallows

Hi! We’re back, it’s week 2! I’m a little late posting this here, haven’t been feeling too good recently so couldn’t bring myself to write here sooner. Anyways, it’s here now! The theme for this week’s challenge was “Candies”. Basically, you could choose to make 

Cornish Pasty – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

Cornish Pasty – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

This is the short version of the Cornish Pasty recipe that the bakers had to follow in the fifth episode of the Season 1 of the Great British Bake Off. It wasn’t directly mentioned whose recipe was used – however, Cornish Pasties are Paul’s speciality, 

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 1 – Cornish Pasties

52 Weeks of Baking: Week 1 – Cornish Pasties

Hi! Long time no bake! So I’ve kinda lost my baking groove recently due to a million reasons I’m not gonna get into. But I really wanted to start baking along in the r/52weeksofbaking subreddit’s challenge to get back on track and start learning new 

Malt Loaf – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

Malt Loaf – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

This is the short version of the Coffee and Walnut Battenberg recipe that the bakers had to follow in the first episode of the Season 12 of the Great British Bake Off. This is Prue’s recipe – the full loaf recipe can be found here, 

List of The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipes

List of The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipes

In this post, I want to gather all of the shortened recipes from all of the technical challenges from the Great British Bake Off episodes. I realized there is no single reliable place where one could actually see these recipes and attempt the challenges themselves 

Coffee and Walnut Battenberg – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

Coffee and Walnut Battenberg – The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Recipe

This is the short version of the Coffee and Walnut Battenberg recipe that the bakers had to follow in the first episode of the Season 2 of the Great British Bake Off. As they say in the episode, this is the “queen” Mary Berry’s recipe