Necessity is the mother of invention With all of our favourite restaurants closed at the moment, home cooking and the occasional takeaway are the only options. But you can’t get takeaways every day – they’re too expensive and, for the most part, not that good for you. What you can try and do though is […]

6 years ago

On your marks, get set, quiz! GBBO 2019 has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @ Rather than simply finding great comfort in the fact that another bountiful series of GBBO has sated our appetites, we must now test our knowledge of the […]

6 years ago

Week 8 – Pastry! Big bloody night in the GBBO tent last night, wasn’t it? Big bloody night. All of sudden, there were but five contestants in the quaintly-decorated tent, baking their little hearts out to avoid uncertain death being eliminated from the competition. Pastry week brought with it many twists, turns, folds and an assortment of […]

6 years ago

Week 7 – Festivals! As the old saying goes, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the GBBO fit-for-purpose marquee. Last night’s show saw the bakers engaging in a spot of festival-themed baking, whereby they took a lot of drugs, saw the Kaiser Chiefs, asked a minor celebrity for a selfie, wore a lot of […]

7 years ago

Week 6 – Desserts! Big night in the GBBO tent last night, wasn’t it? The bakers had to tackle the notoriously difficult task of making desserts, which as we all know is ‘stressed’ spelled backwards and an anagram of ‘Ed’s rests’, whatever that means. Still, they gave it their all. Henry dressed up for the occasion for […]

7 years ago

Week 5 – The Roaring Twenties! Last night’s GBBO was a roaring outrage from start to finish. We got to see the bakers struggle with custard tarts, then struggle with beignets, then struggle with 20s-inspired showstopper cakes. Michael cried for the entirety of the show, accurately depicting what it’s like to exist with the knowledge that the […]

7 years ago