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Welcome fans of The Great British Baking Show! Our group was started in November 2020. It is for bakers who enjoy the Great British Bake Off/Baking Show and want to try to replicate some of their bakes. Each month we have a Technical Challenge with a recipe chosen from the show. We have members of all levels of experience, of all ages and from all parts of the country. Our goal is to share what worked well for us and what didn't and discuss our baking experiences and results with other like-minded bakers.
We meet virtually on Zoom on Sunday evenings at 6pm Eastern Time (5pm Central Time).
The frequency of meetings changed from 1x per week to 1x per month (July 2023).
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For our January 2025 (Happy New Year!!!) bake, let's choose another EASY recipe. We'll be making the Technical Challenge Recipe from Week One of the 2020 GBBO "Cake Week" episode.
The technical challenge: Paul´s Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cakes.
https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/paul-hollywood-pineapple-upside-down-cakes/
My baking hero Mary Berry, says you should always follow the recipe exactly when you are making something for the first time, and only start changing things the next time.
However, since this is a Paul Hollywood recipe, feel free to go free-form. Examples of ways to modify or improve:
Because the caramel calls for only a wedge of lemon, you can choose to use the remaining lemon zest and/or juice of the lemon that wasn’t used for the caramel, and add it to the sponge mix.
if you don´t want to buy a pineapple and cut it, you could buy a can of pineapple rings (just make sure there are 6 rings).
glacé cherries can be used as a substitute for Maraschino cherries
Equipment required is: Six of the 175ml mini pudding moulds. 175 milliliters is equal to 3/4 cup or 6 oz. If you do not have Pudding Moulds, perhaps you can use X-tra Large muffin pan.
Handy calculator for making Self-Raising flour from AP Flour and Baking Powder:
https://arw.me/flour/
If the recipe calls for:
• 125 g of self-raising flour
Then use...
• 118.75 g of all-purpose flour, and
• 6.25 g of baking powderHappy Baking, and remember to post your pictures before our Sunday Zoom Meeting on January 19
