Great British Bake Off Series 3

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I'm so excited, the new series starts next week . Link

They were lovely.
A cloud of marshmallow in chocolate coating.

Nooo when i ate them the M & S ones were delightful it's the CONTRAST of the crunchy choclatey base and the soft cloudy not too sweet topping that was deevy. You first of all eat the good quality choc. topping off . Tunnocks = shxx IMHO

Personally I'm not fussed whether its a Tunnocks or m and s, I'd happily scoff both! I love a choc tea cake myself but not enough to make them from scratch. I agree with those saying John should have been star baker, he should have won for his gingerbread colleseum alone. He wuz robbed! Lol

Yes John's building was tons better than the rest. Really clever.

I missed the first two series of GBBO. does anyone know how/if I can access them please? Ta

Ooooh, I remember those German ones from my childhood. I have no idea why we would have had German tea cakes but we did!

Civil- YouTube the second series is on there anyway

"I'm not sure why anyone bothers with teacakes at all - why take a nice chocolate digestive and ruin it with a load of weirdy fluffy marshmallow on top."

I agree. I dislike marshmallows intensely. I find them too sickly sweet. I hated Wagon Wheels as a child and couldn't understand why everyone else loved them.

bunbakerAAH but the M & S ones are much LESS sweet and have no jam. I can't eat gelatine so I don't eat them anyway now. I totally agree about wagon wheels such cheap chocolate and tons of sugar yeuch.

This week's Mighty Mighty Monk Seal. Cryinglaughing

That is hilarious letus do you know who writes it? "cos apart from the bit where he or she reckons Brendan is going to be the winner it's spot on!!

I'm fairly sure it's a man but other than that, I know nothing. A poster on a Strictly thread from a couple of years ago or possibly last year linked to it, but this is the first year he's done GBBO. He seems to be sharing that with his friend/flatmate who's watched the other series.

Whoever it is, they're bloody hilarious and spot on with their observations!

the german ones used to be called 'negerkuss' (kiss of a n**ger). Now they are just 'schokokuss'.
btw, lidl sells them.

I just rewatched last week's and I thought it was very odd that that they called the filling in the teacakes meringue! Not marshmallow; did I see one of them with a bag of marshmallows?

Yes, that confused me too. I thought perhaps marshmallow was made by mixing meringue with something. I ought to look it up, really, but can't be arsed. I'll find out when I want to make marshmallow (though, tbf, he'll will probably freeze over before I actually do that.)

And of course that was hell

jux yup understood! I'm glad someone else noticed! I've no idea how to make marshmallow I know it's a plant that's all . I like them when they're not too sugary and not full of pork gelatine! Although now I look at labels they all seem to have it in even when in H.F. shops made with natural colours and low sugar!

Ah, maybe it's meringue mixed with gelatine? I can tell I'm going to have to look it up, just to assuage my curiosity.

OK, now I know.

Melt sugar to hard ball, mix in gum Arabic gelatine or agar agar. Pour slowly into whisked egg whites.

So it is just meringue with a setting agent.

Phew, don't have to think about it any more!

Oh thanks that's disappointing though; is that recipe from GBBO? Does NO ONE use real marshmallow then?

I have just caught up with all the episodes on iPlayer. Should have been doing a uni assignment but I'll catch up with that today. I've never seen GBBO before but now I'm hooked. Can't wait for patisserie tomorrow night. Glad Catherine has gone, I thought she was intensely irritating :)

Home made marshmallow is easy to do as long as you have a good stand mixer (takes a while to mix). Once you've made it, you'll never buy it in the shops again.....

I live in a country with a large Muslim population so fish gelatin is very common here (no fishy taste!). It's very difficult to make with agar agar, never sets properly for me. Rose flavour is fabulous...

Oooh I love rose flavour anything! It would be great to have the recipe butterflies I live between fr. and eng. and there's a good herbalist here (Fr).

Very glad Cathryn 'oooh, I'm so rubbish but I'm so cute' has gone. Her shrieking, flapping and general playing up to the cameras last week was teenage and highly irritating.

I loved the Colosseum and like John a bit more for it. But I thought James's 'derelict barn' was a very good save!

I didn't like Brendan's gingerbread cottage that much but it was obviously very good. Thought Danny's was embarrassing, like a child had made it. Cathryn's was just a picture rather than a structure and a giant cop-out.

Will never understand why you would fiddle about making teacakes, although popping them out of the moulds looked like great fun.

Still love James and don't care if he has a knitted Fair Isle willy, squoosh.