Author: Lily Sparks

I always thought it was "pita" bread, but apparently the British English is "pitta". This is also how the BBC spells it here https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/gluten-free_pitta_bread_09625 I think either way is fine though. This was alternative ingredient week on the bake off so the

Here's the recipe for Mary Berry's Spanische Windtorte: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spanische_windtorte_64745 This recipe uses a total of 12 egg whites. I had a brief think about what I could do with all of those leftover egg yolks but then remembered that you can buy

Before making these baguettes I thought I was going to have another ciabatta disaster like series 5 bread week, so was very careful with reading this recipe (mostly). Here it is https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_55351 The first step was easy because there was no kneading

I was feeling greedy when planning to make arlettes so decided these ones would just be for Chris and me. Here's the recipe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/arlettes_17164 The ingredients are pretty basic for this recipe, so no need to go hunting for obscure ingredients like

When I first saw this episode I remember watching the technical challenge and thinking "that looks pretty easy, I could probably do that" and now, 8 years later, we can find out whether my confidence was justified. Here's the recipe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/_schichttorte_49934 The cake

I think this was the most bizarre method of baking I've come across so far and I actually quite enjoyed it. Here's the recipe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/povitica_92623 First of all I made a very sticky dough. I'm glad it was in the stand mixer

Another bake I'd never heard of before, Kouign amann. Here's Paul Hollywood's recipe https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/kouign_amann_09102 This is a puff pastry but made with yeast so I had no idea how this would turn out. Making the dough was pretty easy because I just used

I was pretty nervous about making this one, a few people had mentioned it to me when talking about my challenge and I wasn't sure how well I could pull it off. Here's a link to the recipe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/prinsesstrta_17336 I got all

I'm pretty sure this was the first bake that I saw which started brewing the idea of making all of the bake off bakes. It looked like fun to do. Here's the recipe  https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mini_pear_pies_77186 I went rogue when making this and