If I had submitted my recently made birthday cake to the judges in the great British Bake-Off I think comments may have been made that it was a little dry, that the icing was too sticky, that the decoration (giant chocolate buttons and jelly milk bottles) was too simplistic and not home-made… but I was baking this for my daughter and luckily she loved it!
However, if I had been baking for GBBO no doubt I would have upped my game… except of course nerves can get the better of any contestant, and things can go dreadfully awry, as one of the contestants found on last night’s episode.
I felt really sorry for the bloke whose ice-cream melted, maybe because another contestant had left it out of the freezer, but it was how he handled the situation which was his undoing. He ended up leaving the competition, not because of the melted ice-cream, but because he didn’t even let the judges see what he had achieved, the sponge and the meringue which would have completed his baked Alaska.
I may not be the best baker in the world, but I do think I can come up trumps in an emergency… if something goes wrong for me, then I’m quite good at adapting, at thinking round the problem, at improvising. I’m not saying that in the pressured atmosphere of a hot Bake-Off tent I would have been able to do anything amazing, but I actually don’t think I would have chucked it all in the bin… Poor fellow, I really do sympathise with him…
Read all about it here:
One of my failures:
Lois Elsden 
When something goes wrong with my wifes cooking it somehow is because of something I have or have not done. The funny thing is that I agree with her and eat it anyway. With age and experience comes wisdom.What’s for supper Honey?
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I want cake now….
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Give in to your desire… Vienna is famous for cakes and pastries, isn’t it?!!
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