The Bake Off Challenge | Week Three - Bread
*Contains Bake Off spoilers*
I decided to challenge myself (as you may have seen from my previous blog posts) I have been baking along side with the Bake Off. So I have baked my own bread!
This was the first time I have ever made bread and I'm so pleased with myself, bread is easy to make but hard to get right. Mine is an Italian bread and tastes amazing but its a little dense. There is a few reasons why this could be. For a starts I didn't use the right flour(I used plain white flour when you should really use strong whit plain flour as that has more or stronger gluten in it), secondly I think it could of done longer in the oven and thirdly I used my airing cupboard prove it.
My dad who is an experienced bread maker told me that its not such a great idea to prove your bread in the airing cupboard because it will raise unevenly. You're better off to rise it over night in the fridge which I might give ago in the week as I'd love to perfect a simple bread loaf.
I was so upset for Terry on this weeks Bake Off, as he was doing amazingly for the first and second challenge and I was so sure that Ruby would be the one who was going to get sent home.
I was also thinking that Bri would be asked to leave the tent but I also think she is an amazing baker who will make it to the finals.
Next week is dessert week (which I've now missed...oopies) I have no idea what I'm going to bake. The preview for next week showed them making chocolate bombs...not baking but hey ho.
But this is what I love about this challenge I have set, its going to push me to bake things I've never baked before, it will help me to approach new recipes.
As always thank you for reading and I hope you're having a lovely week wherever you are. If you'd like to join in on the challenge tag me on Instagram of your bakes and use the hashtag - the bake off challenge. I'd love to see your baking creations!
I was so upset for Terry on this weeks Bake Off, as he was doing amazingly for the first and second challenge and I was so sure that Ruby would be the one who was going to get sent home.
I was also thinking that Bri would be asked to leave the tent but I also think she is an amazing baker who will make it to the finals.
Next week is dessert week (which I've now missed...oopies) I have no idea what I'm going to bake. The preview for next week showed them making chocolate bombs...not baking but hey ho.
But this is what I love about this challenge I have set, its going to push me to bake things I've never baked before, it will help me to approach new recipes.
As always thank you for reading and I hope you're having a lovely week wherever you are. If you'd like to join in on the challenge tag me on Instagram of your bakes and use the hashtag - the bake off challenge. I'd love to see your baking creations!
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