Great British Bake Off

[JamesDean]

But the two are so compatible - cricket is nothing without tea!

I love both (so there!) and am celebrating the Ashes win with a nice slice of coconut madeira - anyone?

JD

[Yamin151]

Ugggh! Slab like. As I found to my cost as I had a coconut sponge in the oven as I watched the show! And it was indeed, flat as a pancake!!!

[JamesDean]

Ugggh! Slab like. As I found to my cost as I had a coconut sponge in the oven as I watched the show! And it was indeed, flat as a pancake!!!

Ah now, mine has a crack Mary would be proud of ... !

JD

[loobylou]

It's generated plenty of baking enthusiasm in this house too. We have ginger nut cookies, chocolate truffles, lemon whoopie pies and chocolate brownie whoopie pies baked here since yesterday morning!

[KS10]

I like both too. I really don't understand though why people put themselves under that sort of pressure.

[Eccentric]

I think the next programme should be called the healthy bake off. It is amazing what you can cook simply with healthy ingredients. I am a bit obsessed by fixing healthy alternatives. My Dd is used to it but some of her friends turn their noses up a bit so not for everyone. Tonight's pudding was avocado, banana coconut cream and raw cacao powder mouse with cacao nib sprinkles and it was delicious. Dd always has to take a small handful of cacao nibs to school to munch on before tests. She swears by them, says they clarify her mind.

[kenyancowgirl]

I'm not sure I'd want to eat powder mouse, let alone a raw cacao one.....

[Eccentric]

I'm not sure I'd want to eat powder mouse, let alone a raw cacao one.....

I love predictive text

[Guest55]

I see that the 'amateur' status of some of the competitors is being questioned.

[JamesDean]

I'm not sure I'd want to eat powder mouse, let alone a raw cacao one.....

Powdered mouse is far more likely in the Masterchef invention test - yum!

JD