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Great British Bake Off 2018 [** Spoilers **]
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Sooooo..... idiotic question of the week from a non-baker to all you baking afficionados.....
Briony's chocolate cake came out underbaked (not by much, to my - admittedly uneducated - eye). Could she not have put the layers back together again and whacked it back in the oven for another 5/10 mins??? Instead of starting all over again (which I'm still deeply suspcious of!)
Please don't have me banned from the thread for that question
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »Sooooo..... idiotic question of the week from a non-baker to all you baking afficionados.....
Briony's chocolate cake came out underbaked (not by much, to my - admittedly uneducated - eye). Could she not have put the layers back together again and whacked it back in the oven for another 5/10 mins??? Instead of starting all over again (which I'm still deeply suspcious of!)
Please don't have me banned from the thread for that question
It would depend on how long the cake had been out of the oven, and how much time she had left. Because of editing, that's difficult to tell.
Arguably, if the cake was still pretty hot and the oven was also hot (and not occupied), yes, she could have chanced her arm and bunged it back in for another 5-10 minutes. You run the risk of drying out the cooked parts, however, so it's not a 100% perfect recovery. If it had been longer, and the cake was warm, you could also take a chance on a lower oven temp for longer, allowing you to cook the middle without overcooking the outsides.
It's possible that the oven already had other stuff in it though, or that she just didn't think of it at the time. Or that the bake in general had gone wrong (under/over-mixing, etc.) and wasn't salvageable. Often that happens if you cook at too high a temperature - the outside will catch and start to burn, the inside won't be done. With cake, low and slow is a good way to go (within reason!), but obviously, I'm not usually under the same time constraints as the contestants are when they are baking!0 -
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Well thank god that's over. I am not a friend of bread, so bread week is always very fraught for me :silly:
I thought that most of the showstoppers were pretty underwhelming, if I'm honest. And a lot of them seemed kinda.... burnt. Bit of a weaker selection overall (not that I could do much better myself, of course). I called star baker while watching, but couldn't tell who was going to go home.
I made chelsea buns, because I didn't want to make naan, and I couldn't figure out what the showstopper was. I don't like raisins and currants though, and since most recipes suggested those, I made them without. Probably makes them not proper chelsea buns, but whatever, Paul isn't in my house poking my dough, and my family liked them a lot
Cinnamon cream cheese chelsea buns
As a bonus, because I was feeling extra Irish Countrywomen Association last night, I made butter, and then saved the buttermilk from making the butter, and used that to make some soda bread. So in addition to my chelsea buns, we also ate fresh soda bread with homemade sea salted butter last night too. I don't have a photo of that yet, I'll share as soon as it's off the camera.0 -
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