It's that time of year again when the Great British Bake Off is back on our TV screens for another series of baking delights and disasters. Welcoming a new batch of amateur bakers to the iconic white tent, over the next ten weeks we'll see them rejoice, breakdown and panic as thirty new challenges come their way. In 2023, judge Paul Hollywood tasked the bakers with recreating the show's chocolate fudge cake which features in title credits - which we're all familar with.
To get in on the action from the comfort of my own home, I challenged myself to make the cake just to see if I could keep up with the likes of the bakers on the show for WalesOnline . This is how it went. "The Great British Bake Off is a cultural phenomenon full of sickly sweet treats and tumultuous challenges, yet every autumn it brings millions around the country (and world) together to indulge in impressive skill and cringe-worthy gaffs.
"Three weeks in and the current batch of bakers are being whittled down by the finest of margins. "This year the show promised to get 'back to basics' by foregoing the strange and seemingly off-the-cuff cuisine challenge which bare no relevance to the programme other than to try something "different". "So for the bakers' first technical challenge they were set the most iconic bake of all.
"No, not a Vicky sponge, but the all-too familiar Bake Off chocolate fudge cake decked out with raspberries (apart from the obligatory missing one, of course) crafted by judge Paul Hollywo.
