A Date With The Bake

The Great British bakers of Series 11 have switched off their ovens, wiped down their work stations and hung up their aprons as the tempered chocolate sets on another season. Matty walks away the unlikely champion and forgets a very important proposal in all the excitement! Its been a season full of (ooooh) controversial decisions from Paul and Prue, but also comedic gold with the fabulous Alison...

Only four distinguished bakers enter the Bake-Off tent this week to participate in the persnickety Patisserie themed SEMI-FINAL! Jake and Katie have two bakers on their respective teams and Kimberly has left the chat this week to protest. (Just kidding! She will be back for the Final). And while some bakers are able to display their immense pastry skills to their full effect, a few are a little ro...

In the final weeks, bakers in the Great British Baking Show tent are tasked with a new set of bakes that fail to leave most in a “Party” mood. Especially when one of the challenges is Paul Hollywood’s all time, absolute, hands down, undisputed, most FAVORITE treat of all time. Oh, and of course, like McDonalds he has made “millions” of the savory snack. Meanwhile, Kim...

The teams are really thinning out in the Bake Off tent. But a thin consistency is not a bad thing as the name of the game this week is syrups, caramels and air light meringues. Dessert Week always presents certain challenges for the bakers and for Kimberly, Katie and Jake as well who are forced to watch a favorite baker make their untimely exit. Prue and Paul’s judging appears to be at odds...

It’s a Date with the Bake 2 for 1 special! Double the episodes means double the star bakers, but TRIPLE the bakers making their sad exit from the yummiest tent in England. Pastry Week is a classic and a must for showing the bakers’ skills with a flakey crust. However, the Great British Baking Show has a long history of choosing more problematic themes for the bakes of the week. And Bot...

It’s chocolate as far as the eye can see in the Bake Off tent! Some peoples ultimate dream, but for our bakers the finicky sweet can be a huge problem. Striving for the right consistency, taste, shine – it’s enough to melt a few nerves! Jake has to watch one of his bakers truffles off the the sick bay for some of the challenges. And while the teams remain unchanged for this week&...

Bread dread, anyone? While Kimberly, Katie and Jake are loafing around, the ten remaining bakers are sweating their dough balls off in the Bake Off tent during the much anticipated BREAD WEEK! And as if they kneaded more stress, starchy Paul Hollywood is ever watching over these bakes in particular. And while most bakers are able to Prueve themselves as carb connoisseurs, there are a few who fall...

Week two in the Bake Off tent and the eleven bakers are out to prove who is the smartest of smart cookies! Kimberly, Jake and Katie root on their teams in the biscuit showdown. And while one early favorite is the custard creme of the crop, there is another favorite who crumbles under the pressure of Paul Hollywood’s icing, or rather, icey stare. Who will be getting the cookie cut? Put away t...

The ovens are warmed, the tent is open and 12 piping hot new contestants enter the ultimate competition of all things baked!  The GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW has returned to deliciously delight and series 11 is off to the refrigerators! Kimberly, Katie and Jake have their 4 baker teams, chosen at random by the magic mixing bowl! Kimberly’s “Jam and the Challah-Grahams” consists of...

Another season of The Great British Baking Show has come to an end and while our three finalists did their best, there was a clear front runner who’s unique flavors and designs stood above the rest! However, the final challenges of series 10 may have left a little to be desired. Baker for Life! (Team Jake) struggled to get his technical to really GEL, The Tammy Faye Baker (Team Katie) may ha...

It’s the semifinals of The Great British Baking Show and four lonely bakers remain to face the challenges of pastry desserts…again…because Pastry Week just happened.  Unfortunately, the flaky confections happen to be one baker’s Achilles high heel, and one of the biggest personalities to grace the Bake Off tent is heading off to spread his sunshine and rainbows elsewhere. T...

Thank the baking gods that Pastry week is finally here in The Great British Baking Show so that Katie can stop going on long winded diatribes about it!  It’s here. And it’s rough (puff).  The challenges prove to be mildly traumatic for the bakers, mildly disappointing for the judges and a complicated range of emotions for Kimberly, Katie and Jake. Bakers who have been in the upper crus...

It’s the halfway mark and as the Great British Baking Show tent loses its filling, so to speak, the remaining bakers need to perfect a filling of their own. It’s Custard Week! Team Kimberly is down to one MVP who is really picking up steam in the competition. Team Katie is holding at two bakers, but you might not know it as their screen time is severely lacking. Will Team Jake be able...

Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and one extra scary rogue astronaut have descended upon the Bake Off tent to create bakes to die for in The Great British Bake Off’s first ever Halloween Week! But it’s not all about simply creating eerie-sistable good treats this time, it’s also about figuring out the trick to getting flavors and design bubbling together in the same cauldron.  Kimberly, K...

Alone on a dessert island our 8 remaining bakers have to bake their way back to civilization one delicious pudding at a time. Not really, but we are halfway through series 10 of The Great British Baking Show and half of our beloved bakers have already been voted off the (floating) island! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake each have at least 2 bakers left in the tent and at this point it&#821...

The Great British Baking Show takes a hiatus from is regularly scheduled baking and tries to bring some multi-culturalism into the tent with a new International week called Mexican Week! It’s a lively romp from beginning to end with everyone getting into the south of the border spirit and producing interesting takes on classic Mexican dishes using classic Mexican flavors! Except it didn&#821...

Yeasterday… all our troubles seemed so far away. But now its Bread Week in the bake off tent for the Great British Baking Show and every baker’s buns are on the line! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake try to “prove” their worth. And while a few really desperately “knead” improvement, one baker “rises” to the top of the pack! Will K,K & J be...

Aaaaaaand their off!! New bakers are in the tent and Kimberly, Katie and Jake are ready to cheer on their teams. Kimberly’s team JDSM has highs and lows with a Hollywood handshake and a young baker sent home early. Katie’s team The Tammy Faye Bakers has the exact same journey except Katie still has some extra bitterness (not from Carole’s chicory) but losing out  on her number 1...

It’s a new year… a new tent… and 12 shiny new best of British bakers are going to try their luck over the next 10 weeks to become the new Great British Baking Show Champion!  And those aren’t the only new ingredients in the mixer. This year A Date with The Bake is trying something new! TEAMS! Kimberly, Katie and Jake will each have 4 of the 12 bakers on their respective tea...

It may be March, but we are still not even a quarter of the way into 2022. That means it isn’t too late to take a peek back into the Bake Off tent and see who has valiantly returned to face the steely judges once again. Well… one steely judge. The Great New Year Bake Off welcomes favorites Nancy, Helena, Henry and the ever delightfully neurotic Rahul. It’s a delightful reunion fi...

It’s been a fantastic season of The Great British Baking Show, but now let the true hand wringing, oven watching and sweat mixed with tears BEGIN! It’s the grand finale and it all comes down to these final bakes for Chigs, Crystelle and Giuseppe! The final showstopper is the Mad Hatter’s tea party, will any of the bakers lose their heads? No that’s just Kimberly, Katie and...

It’s almost the end and the final four bakers file into a near empty Bake Off tent to bake for their lives. Not really their lives, but with the stress levels of Kimberly, Katie and Jake watching this week you would feel like it is. It’s a notoriously complicated and finicky theme that will stretch the bakers in multiple areas. Its multi layers, multi textures and all about the flavor....

It’s the quarter finals in the Great British Bake Off tent and the bakers certainly aren’t free from much. There’s enough stress, tears, hopes and fears to go around. And that goes double for Kimberly, Katie and Jake. It’s a dairy free signature challenge, a meat free technical, a gluten free showstopper and a those lead to a determinedly Hollywood Handshake free episode. B...

Caramel is sticky sweet/ Jurgin and ‘Seppe will be hard to beat! This rhyme might be bad but not as bad caramel that just refuses to cooperate. The bakers have dwindled to half their original number and the pressure is on as this sugary ingredient is notoriously hard to work with. The signature is all about consistency. The technical challenge is a familiar pairing beTWIXT shortbread and the...

The bakers return to the tent and Kimberly, Katie and Jake return to their microphones for the dreaded pastry week of The Great British Bake Off. It’s known to be complicated, finicky, temperature sensitive and no we aren’t talking about Paul Hollywood’s mood swings. But this week brings some surprises with its challenges and a surprise handshake means there might be a new frontr...