GBBO 2016 thread 2

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Here we are

Come back Tom.
Am munching my own freshly baked banana and hazlenut loaf to keep me going

They taste like sweet goo like that or the ones you bake can just taste like sugar

Bloody those are works of art! Gorgeous.

they go easy on Candice I think. Her meringue was awful looking, and they always discount things with her and overlook the bad.

BB, those looks amazing!

I think her mouth is now shaped like that from permanent pouting.

God, purple that bread looks delicious. I must try it. I've done focaccia but not this

Love a banana bread

booky I use Richard Bertinet's recipe, which is handily www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/8030829/Fougasse-bread-recipe-by-Richard-Bertinet.html

But it's just just a basic bread dough, baked crisp, and you can vary the herbage.
If you've not seem it, I really really recommend his book Dough, which features fougasse. And he also has 'Crust' which is also fab, and one on pastry i think, but I don't have the latter.

Tom may be clinically insane but he's awesome at bread

Those cakes are so beautiful, Bloody!

Am pleased this is an actual, proper showstopper challenge.

Wow bloody are those really cakes? They look gorgeous.

thank you Spotted - know what I will be trying this week :)

Yes, ready for proper fancy decorations

Raahh I'd have thought that the tennis cake was right up your street.

bloody those cakes look wonderful!

I also think they go easy on Candice, they only play up positives when there are negatives sometimes

Looking forward to these

I have hope this is more show stoppery not a word this week.
I have been disappointed in previous weeks, the show stoppers have just been extra signature bits.

I like the sound of Rav's. But I love almonds.

I thought Mary was very anti anything that wasn't edible on cakes etc or was I dreaming?

Come on Selasi! Be a good 'un

Legend

Crushed chamomile flowers in cake? GAH.

I am not mad about floral flavours in foods. So these will just be 7 ruined cakes for me.

tea - oh dear...

These are the kind of showstoppers that i like.

Grouchy- it really have been, shouldn't it??.

I don't think all these layers will go together.