Worth The Calories - A Great British Bake Off Podcast

Free from cat noises this week, alongside being free from gluten in our pizza pastry, free from dairy in our (mammoth) cake, and free from knowing who's going to make the final at this point!

Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe

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Pastry week brings pies and more pies, plus a decadent Polish vanilla custard dessert. We are also joined by a very noisy cohost... Kira the cat wanted a lot of attention during the recording, she has opinions on pastry!

Karpatka Recipe

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Dessert week brings us good challenges as well as a first time try of a British staple for some of our bakers (and one of your hosts).

Bread & Butter Pudding

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Bread week is memorable this year for all the wrong reasons. We're still washing our hands from all the garlic and our flatbreads need more of a clue in the name about whether they should be thick or not!

Blue Cheese & Roasted Grape Flatbreads

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Audience Choice week brings us relatives, bake what you know, and wearable bakes. Because wearing something you've baked is such a standard thing to create, right?

Toasted Marshmallow Raspberry Cake

Apple Tart Recipe

Caribbean Rum Cake Recipe

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A whopping bake of 30 whole cookies plus a technical that is gems of childhood and never need to be made at home!

Iced Gems Recipe

Donna Dundas Daim Bar Cookies Recipe

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Welcome our new judge, new challenge variations, and new bakers. Come for the baking insights, stay for the controversial thoughts about an actual use for the Imperial system!

Coffee & Walnut Cake

Nigella's Chocolate Guinness Cake

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A bake off final, a birthday, and a visit from the Ghost of Bake Offs Past on this week's Worth The Calories.

Madeleine tower recipe

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Yes we did the sugar dome. We melted clingfilm. But other than that we also got to use our favourite piping gadget and our favourite cream substitute, so it's a good week.

Framboisier

Le Tube - The best piping gadget ever!

The Coconut Collab - The best cream alternative ever!

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This episode stands on its own and is full of gelatine.

Upside Down Orange Pudding recipe

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Raspberry soufflé - minimum ingredients, maximum effort! Find out how we get on making meringue pies and serving a soufflé that simply MUST be eaten as soon as it is baked.

Raspberry Soufflé recipe

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We're having a gala time enjoying savoury flavours and all types of pastry. Eggy / daddy / nostalgia pie and grumbles about arts & crafts challenges abound!

Gala pie recipe

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Chocolate week and we're enjoying our tarts and keeping our tempers. Another change to a challenge (which we celebrate and welcome), a display of 'fondue' (the inverted commas are important here), and things that are as useful as a chocolate teacup.

White Chocolate Tart Recipe

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We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh yes and that showstopper which was definitely a bread challenge.

'School Cake' Recipe

So yes flapjacks are basically pancakes in the US. Thanks to Suzi H on Instagram for confirming, and this All Recipes article.

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We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh yes and that showstopper which was definitely a bread challenge.

Glazed Doughnuts Recipe

Roasted garlic and herb monkey bread recipe (Great British Chefs)

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We may say the word Capsule too many times in this episode, and struggle to contain the excitement over the arrival of the KING OF BISCUITS onto the Great British Bake Off.

Hob Nobs Recipe

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Opening the 16th series of the Great British Bake Off and it's rocking with Swiss Roll, a fancy change to the repeated technical, and an arts and craft project for the showstopper.

Fondant Fancies Recipe

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A strong line up throughout this series left us with incredibly good bakers, come join us to discuss the eventual winners and our thoughts on each of the bakes.

Strawberry Tarts
Egg & Cress Rolls
Lemon Sandwich Cakes

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Disco bakes and delicate cakes are the order for the next two 2024 episodes, as we discuss wobbles, Queen, and brave decision making in the tent.

Banoffee Pie
Opera Cake

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Get ready to laugh your spots off with a rude technical, alongside some tasty puddings as we get into week 7 of the Great British Bake Off.

Spotted Dick

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Double duty on episodes this week as we consider the pronunciations for frangipane and pecan; sweets from granny; the regionality of Parkin; and a split of feelings about vegetables in cakes.

Spanakopita
Vegan Parkin

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Salty over caramel this week with a set solid attempt at home and some bulges in the tent for this week's Great British Bake Off.

Pear Tarte Tatin

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Bread week is here bringing savoury flavours, plaits, and horns. Lots of bread analysis for your hosts this week, and the never-ending debate over the impact of the technical challenge.

Seven Strand Plaited Loaf recipe

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We're back and we're bringing you chocolatey minty goodness. Covering the first two weeks of the 2024 season of the Great British Bake Off, prepare for reality show copying, illusion cake disdain, and impressive whirls.

Battenberg recipe
Mint Chocolate Creams recipe

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Finally time for the final, and we have three bakers making eclairs, Lardy cake, and layer cake. What a lark! #WorthTheCalories

Lardy Cake recipe

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Apologies now for the accent attempts, and the noises made at the idea of greeny-blue mirror glaze. But delight at the interesting patisserie available this week! #WorthTheCalories

Tarte Aux Pommes recipe

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After several weeks unable to record we are back with a packed podcast covering four Bake Off episodes! Join us to discuss treacle pudding timings and botanical opinions. #WorthTheCalories

Dauphinoise potato and caramelised onion pithivier recipe
Lemon and thyme bundt recipe
Orange and ginger treacle puddings recipe
Caterpiller cake recipe

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A technical that takes weeks not hours to really create, plus we're Torte a lot about cake and chocolate box creation. #WorthTheCalories

Caramelised White Chocolate Cheesecake recipe

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Some minor anguish this week over a decision in the show, plus a new clue from an unlikely source as to when this was filmed. #WorthTheCalories

Devonshire Splits recipe

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Is a teacake a biscuit? At what point does the ratio of filling to biscuit stop something being a biscuit? These and other fundamental questions are discussed, as well as some chat about the latest episode of the Great British Bake Off. #WorthTheCalories

Custard Cream recipe

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Bake Off is back and we have the most chocolatey chocolate cake left to eat along with animal cakes with non-animal fillings. #WorthTheCalories

Chocolate Fudge Cake recipe

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Late but worth the wait, our episode about the 2022 Great British Bake Off Final. #WorthTheCalories

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A double serving this week of PastryPatisserie, lots of chat about this year's finalists, jealousy over the quality of the technical challenges, and a quick sojourn into childhood books. #WorthTheCalories

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Delighted at the amount of custard we're presented with this week, and saddened not to be making ice creams. Also a brief discussion of the way every dessert menu in restaurants seems to be identical these days. What's with that? #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Pistachio and Praline Ice Creams

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Spooky scary baking this week with apple cake horrors and deadly digestives. #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for S'mores

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The broadest topic possible this week with one of the great technical challenges and one of the possible worst showstoppers. Two recipes from Cathryn this week along with some off the cuff creation of cocktail dessert recipes Enjoy! #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Lemon Meringue Pie

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Hola! Semana Mexicana, with tacos, buns, and the moistest of cakes. We had a great time doing this, and that's not just the tequila talking. #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Tacos

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Again questions of how close the recipes map to the theme. Efforts made in baking pizzas and pain aux raisins mixed fruit, plus a discussion of pre-baking pizza dough or not. #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Pain aux Raisins

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We have some great questions to discuss this week, which is perhaps better than discussing Garibaldi biscuits. But you can also find out what is the '2001 A Space Odyssey of biscuits', what masks your hosts would make from biscuits, and what actually is a macaron foot. #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Garibaldi

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New bake off brings new bakers, fizzing 17cm red velvet cake, and a lack of recipes. Never fear, we baked anyway and you can hear our thoughts on sandwich cakes, showstoppers, and swapping the middle of cakes. #WorthTheCalories

Recipe for Red Velvet Cake

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