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The Great British Bakealong – Episode 3

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Hey Cake Chums and welcome back to Mr Baker’s Cakes: The Blog!

This week was it was bread week in The Great British Bake Off tent and the bakers were tackling a whole host of bread-based challenges set by the ‘male judge’ and self-proclaimed King of Bread, Paul Hollywood.

As I have explained in my posts over the last couple of weeks, once again I am baking along with the bakers in the tent and for the very first time, in this year’s edition of The Great British Bakealong, YOU get to decide which challenges I take on!

In this week’s poll (over on my Instagram stories), it was a VERY decisive result and, for The Great British Bakealong – Episode 3, 92% of you decided that you wanted to see me tackle this week’s Technical Challenge, so, in today’s video, I will be attempting to make a batch of six Rainbow Bagels – which, once again, I have NEVER made before… *gulp*

Check out The Great British Bakealong – Episode 3 below and be sure to let me know what you think of my Rainbow Bagels.

If you want to ensure you don’t miss a future episode of The Great British Bakealong, be sure to head over to YouTube and hit that big red subscribe button! And if you decide to have a go at one of this week’s challenges, be sure to tag me on social media so I can come and check out your bakes…

But, until next week guys… happy caking!

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The Great British Bakealong – Episode 2

Mr Baker

Hey Cake Chums and welcome back to Mr Baker’s Cakes: The Blog!

If you’re keeping up with The Great British Bake Off, then you will already know that this week was Biscuit Week and the bakers were tackling a whole host of biscuit-based challenges set by judges, Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.

As I announced last week, once again I am baking along with the bakers in the tent and for this year’s edition of The Great British Bakealong, YOU get to decide which challenges I take on!

In this week’s The Great British Bakealong – Episode 2, you decided that you wanted to see me tackle the Signature Challenge, so, in today’s video, I will be attempting to bake a batch of 36 Florentines – which, incidentally, I have NEVER made before.

Just a bit of an advance warning… stacked alongside the previous five years of baking along with The Great British Bake Off, it wasn’t my MOST successful bakealong challenge, but as I recall, you guys do seem to enjoy it when things go wrong, so you’re really going to love this week’s episode!

Check out The Great British Bakealong – Episode 2 below and be sure to let me know what you think of my bake.

If you want to ensure you don’t miss a future episode of The Great British Bakealong, be sure to head over to YouTube and hit that big red subscribe button! And if you decide to have a go at one of this week’s challenges, be sure to tag me on social media so I can come and check out your bakes…

But, until next week guys… happy caking!

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Introducing The Great British Bakealong 2020!

Mr Baker

Hey Cake Chums and welcome back to Mr Baker’s Cakes: The Blog!

The Great British Bake Off is BACK and you know what that means… my weekly bakealong challenge is back too!

Long time followers will know that for the last five years (I think…?), I have been baking along with the talented amateur bakers of The Great British Bake Off and 2020 is no different… Introducing The Great British Bakealong 2020 – every week for the next ten weeks, I will be attempting to bake along with the bakers in the tent – and this year, I AM switching things up!

Rather than exclusively baking along with the Technical Challenges like in the last few years, in 2020, YOU will get to decide which challenges I take on!

In this week’s first episode, the vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the Signature Challenge, so, in today’s video, I will be attempting to create my very own original Battenberg Cake recipe.

I’ll warn you, as I’m introducing the challenge – as well as baking two cakes, whipping up a batch of ganache AND making from scratch – this week’s episode is a little longer than the norm, but hopefully they won’t all be quite so feature length… 😉

Check out episode one of The Great British Bakealong below and be sure to let me know what you think of my bake.

If you want to ensure you don’t miss a future episode of The Great British Bakealong, be sure to head over to YouTube and hit that big red subscribe button! And if you decide to have a go at one of this week’s challenges, be sure to tag me on social media so I can come and check out your bakes…

But, until next week guys… happy caking!