A Date With The Bake

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...

Yes, Fraulein it is ze German Week and the bakers are shaking and quaking in their das boots. Well, except for one. Jurgin’s homeland is on the table and the pressure is on to see who can beat the resident Deutsche. It’s fanciful biscuits, cakes with names that no mortal can properly pronounce and a multi tier showstopper that is decidedly not very German at all. Kimberly, Katie and Ja...

It’s all desserts all the time! It is a baking show after all so wouldn’t that mean every week is dessert week? Not here folks.  In the tent desserts are fussy and complicated and have sauces and collars and require short/long setting times. Its cracking eggs, cracking meringues and some downright good craic as bakers edge ever closer to that precious Best Baker title!  And while this...

The dreaded bread week is upon us and the Series 9 bakers are ready to bust their buns! Some rise to the occasion and some just aren’t loafing it as much as they hoped. But Date with Bake Jake is back after feeling pretty crumby so Kimberly and Katie are ready for his take on the action. This episode is filled with watery dough x2 , cheeky winks x100 and let’s raise a very special toas...

It’s Season 9 of THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF and a dozen bakers enter the tent of triumph and trifles to compete for the ultimate conversation starter. A giant cake plate which means they are the best amateur baker in Britain. But before the glory of the cake plate can even be considered the bakers have to endure the many challenges of cake week and biscuit week. Will the brandy snaps have th...

Hold on to your cookies for some seriously good craic as the cast of the hilarious series DERRY GIRLS are taking over the tent for the New Years Bake Off!  Paul and Prue have every right to be worried about testing the offerings from these inexperienced bakers, but the only stomach aches caused from these challenges will be from laughter. But it’s no trifling matter to compete in the bake of...

It’s that time of year when cheer and joy fills the air… but this is 2020. So this year we need more than cheer, we need a good dose of Christmas Bake Off hilarity and hijinks and most importantly Paul Hollywood and Prue scale models dancing wildly next to a gingerbread tower! Four past year’s bakers enter the tent for a chance at redemption and to just have a jolly good time. Ki...

The time has come. The three bakers that have made it through the ganache gauntlet to reach the finale of The Great British Bake Off have entered the tent for the last time. Dave, Laura and Peter are baking their hearts out to try to win the elusive Bake Off Trophy and the official love of the nation ( well many nations). Kimberly, Katie and Jake are trying to keep their cool as tensions and tempe...

It’s the SEMI FINAL of the Great British Bake Off Season 8 and the last 4 bakers have to compete in some of the toughest challenges yet. It’s the always delicate and difficult Patisserie week where the bakes are likely to be dainty, detailed and often French (so you know its going to be hard). And as it’s Thanksgiving in the states, Kimberly, Katie and Jake are mostly grateful th...

In the grand tradition of the Great British Bake Off it’s the return of the frighteningly general Dessert Week! Wherein the bakes can be downright confusing or very familiar or sometimes a little bit scary all in the same week. Kimberly and Jake are on their own this week, which may be a good thing as Katie is highly suspicious of cakes that wobble unnaturally. Who will they root for now tha...

Gag me with a spoon full of cookie dough- It’s 80’s week for the Great British Bake off! As our original bakers dozen gets smaller and smaller the remaining bakers are livin’ on a prayer as they attempt to pour some extra sugar on their donuty confections. Temperatures soar in the tent and in the heat of the moment one baker makes a doozy of a mistake while the other bakers fight...

This week the bakers head back to the Great British Bake off tent for what will prove to be a somewhat difficult but HIGHLY controversial Japanese week! Will it be Kowai or Kawaii? Is the theme a matcha made in heaven? Which of the bakers has the steamiest buns? Kimberly, Katie and Jake will be the judge. One of their most favoritist competitors winds up at the bottom of the heap and somebody&#821...

Other than the Great British Bake Off’s infamous bread week, which always seems to separate the wheat from the chaff, the week that seems to show which bakers are really the crème (de pat) of the crème is PASTRY WEEK. Kimberly and Katie introduce Jake to the world of rough puff, short crust, soggy bottoms and curdled custard fillings. This year a few of the bakers are touting Pastry week as...

The bakers are facing a daunting task this week in the Great British Bake off tent… no its not croquembouche time yet, no 60 perfectly equal macarons, no creme brulee with a perfect crack…. its BROWNIES. Who would have thought the seemingly simple tray bake would be the downfall of all the talented contestants this year. Kimberly, Katie and Jake have their own daunting task of trying t...

Bake Off Bread Week is a grainular tour de force and the bakers are coming into the tent with buns a blazin! Kimberly, Katie and Jake are discussing the nitty and the sometimes unintentionally gritty details of the challenges. Surprises abound as two as yet unsung bakers shoot to the top of the food pyramid as the wheat starts to separate from the chaff. Paul Hollywood is giving out another famous...

Week 2 of The Great British Bake Off season 8 is upon us and its Biscuit Week! Also known in the US as Cookie Time! The bakers lost a great flavor-filled competitor from the tent last week and a tiny fly during the technical challenge managed to turn the whole competition pineapple upside down. But the scandals are minimal for the three biscuit challenges, unless you count bendy over nutted floren...

Last week Kimberly and Katie discussed in detail the latest competitors to come into the baking tent and this week its time to talk Technical and Showstopper challenges of the premiere! And this year GBBO isn’t the only one to switch up delightful hosts. K & K are hoping to up their own delightful factor by bringing Bake Off newbie Jake into the dough fold! He is quickly learning the rop...

2020 may have changed a lot of things in our lives. But the one thing, the one thing that still brings pure joy and happiness to us all from across the pond is The Great British Bake Off!  And friends, it could not be more kneaded! Its time to pre-heat those ovens, strap on those aprons and start fanning those hot buns because the GBBO has 12 new bakers entering the tent and ready to compete (in t...

Back to the tent for the first time in…2019? Oh, well. Seems we are getting this episode a little after the fact, but it’s well worth the wait as four favorites return to show off their baking skills in a New Yearstravaganza of sugar! Kate, Tamal, Steven and former Bake Off winner Candice (Candeece?) are ready to tackle stollen recipes (gasp! how dare they), a tricky meringue filled te...

Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas to us all. The Great British Bake Off is back with it’s Holiday episodes. Returning to the tent are 4 past competitors who will attempt to win over Paul and Prue one last time as they create baking Christmasterpieces! K & K are ready for a walk down memory lane with a few favorite bakers and a few that take some remembering. It’s all butter and bi...