GBBO season 5 - thread #2

[Dolly80]

Thought I better start another one (in case I lose you all next week!)

ok, the proper version:

make a dough from
500g flour
1 sachet yeast (if you use fresh yeast or not the quick stuff you need to activate in the liquid first)
80g sugar
250 ml milk
75 g butter pinch of salt

let the dough rest for half an hour then roll out onto a baking tray and leave for another 20 min or so.

cut 175g of butter into cubes and gently push into dough evenly spacing the cubes.
sprinkle with 100 g flaked almonds and 100g sugar (granulated)

bake at 170 (fan) for about 20-30 min until golden

and then eat the lit still warm

Thanks mausmaus I looked at a couple if recipes on chefkoch.de and some people make it with a sponge rather than yeast dough which is just wrong.
Do you know Streuselkuchen as well, and Bienenstich?

Ooer, has Nancy just sabotaged herself with the microwave proving trick, or has she done something brilliant

Martha's dough looks like dog poo

and Louis's puts me in mind of broccoli...

I wish Martha would keep her hair tied properly, I live in fear of Paul&Mary choking on a hair.

Luis is forcing me to break out the cherry brandy.

Martha's looks like a giant turd!

I love Chetna's.

I want to hit Paul on the head with one of those loafs.

Richards looks good

ooooh I like the look of the technical, yummy

Paul has possibly overdosed on his smug medicine today. He is a big smug mahogany toad.

it looks as though a herd of rats with the shits has run through the tent

Are they all copying Nancy?

Richard is shamelessly copying Nancy.

They should not have processed the walnuts mix to a paste though, it should have stayed crumbly.

My gran made Walnuss Kipferl and the filling was always crumbly.

I'm losing respect for Richard at the mo

the finished thing looks less like an intestine I think....

Glad Martha was able to laugh off doing badly this time.

Why didn't we get the "Paul and Mary having a cup of tea and discussing how to make the technical bake" bit? Does even orange Paul not know how to make it?

I wonder how the microwave proving works. You can't speed up yeast by microwaving it. I wonder if you just expand the gas bubbles inside by heating them up.

Martha is trying a cronut.

Aww Martha.

Gremlin, we did have that bit - fairly quickly, but it was there.