Thursday, 3 September 2015

2015 GBBO mini blog. Week 5

Alternative ingredients week.

AKA: 'Free from' week - and atypically free from much tent smut, until Mel got to inspect Ian's hanging nuts and Paul's marzipan bikini gusset.  Until then the only 'high point' had been Flora discussing her buche.

Bye bye: Ugne and her perfect haircut.  She tied her hair back for the Showstopper and I knew the game was up - thwarted like a Bake Off Samson to Berrywood’s Delilah.  Or perhaps it was because her peanut butter ice cream and grape jelly roll looked, shall we say, a bit mushy. 

Lucky escape: Wunderkind Flora, who failed to use enough sponge for Bezza's liking. Mary didn’t rate Flora's narrow sponge landing strip at all - she was clearly hoping for a fuller, seventies buche.

Ma Baker: After several weeks of producing great own-bakes, but always coming bottom in the technical challenge, Nadiya was top of the technical class, making gluten-free pitta breads that presumably tasted marginally less disgusting than anyone else’s.

Agave nectar: nope, me either...  What's the point of a sugar-free cake if you are forced to add other incredibly sweet ingredients which can't be any better for you.  It’s a cake!  No amount of probiotic/microbiotic/madeupbiotic alternatives are going to make it healthy, whatever the Goop newsletter might promise.

Next time: Pastry time.  IT'S SOGGY BOTTOM WEEK, PEOPLE!

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