Great British Bake-off: The Final

[StrangerintheNight]

Just typed out a very excitable post only to find the previous thread, on which I was an avid lurker, had exceeded it's capacity. So if you don't mind, I'll start the overflow thread in the lead up to the Grand Final.

John was in the Strictly audience last night with his partner.

I wondered if that was that his partner? Sometimes they sit 'celebs' & special guests together rather randomly (i.e. in a place where they can more easily film them)

Queen of PUddings is gorgeous

Honestly it's delicious. It's not stodgy like bread pudding. Just a delicious lemon-scented custard with jam and meringue. It's very light and lovely.

I once made it for a dinner party and one of the guests confessed afterwards that she had never heard of Queen of Puddings and assumed I had decided to name my own pudding that in honour of my own amazing cooking

Watched this for the first time last week and I was absoltutely enchanted!

I wanted to know what the fuss was all about. Now I know. Beautifully made programme with four lovely natural judges/ cooks/ presenters. Watched it again last night as the cooks were baking - enchanted some more.

Hoping people are still reading this thread, because I need help from GBBO obsessives! I'm trying to track down the recipe for the chocolate shiny ganache like cake covered with fresh raspberries that appears in the credits for the show....my dd dreams over it every week and I want to try and make it for her birthday, but despite roaming for hours across GBBO web pages I can't find it anywhere (even a close substitute would do at this stage!). Any ideas v gratefully received!

Maybe Mary's Sacher torte?

Can custard afficionados tell me what I did wrong?

I made QoP - did the custard yesterday, set beautifully, smelt lovely. When it cooled, the jam went on soooo easily. Covered it and fridge overnight. This morning made the meringue. Custard came out of the fridge and sat about for a few hours (so room temperature). Covered it with meringue, and after main course eaten, put it in the oven at 130 C as per recipe for no more than half an hour. Came out looking fine. Served it up, custard had gone completely liquid and mixed with the jam.

Still tasted nice, but not what I'd wanted!

Guessing, but perhaps you shouldn't have put the jam on yesterday as it might have sunk through the custard "skin" and messed it up. I have just watched Mary do this on the masterclass and she said you can do the custard the day before.

It's at 12:50 in this:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nm61z/The_Great_British_Bake_Off_Series_3_Masterclass/

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nm61z/The_Great_British_Bake_Off_Series_3_Masterclass/

I think you must be right. I had watched the programme and thought, ah yes, do it the day before. I watched it again a few days ago and thought the same. Clearly I had some sort of brain explosion last night, and forgot that it was only the custard that was done the day before. Mind you, it looked absolutely fine when I put the meringue on. No sign of seepage.

Mine looked exactly the same, right up until I served it, at which point it wasn't! Ah well, learn something new every day.

Thanks Vikingvagine, I'm going with sachertorte (mary's recipe) and just adding raspberries, Ill do the glazing with sieved jam thing they seem to do on the show. Glossy cake her I come!

Kings of Pastry on BBc4 now, you must watch it or catch it on Iplayer