And the winner of the LOVELY book, MaryBerry’s Ultimate Cake Book, goes to………. Vanessa from Cakesand Teacups for her LOVELY Black Forest Gateau, as this was the FIRST time she has ever attempted anything like this, and she will really benefit from the Mary Bery book as a novice cake maker, plus, her Black Forest Gateau was GORGEOUS
from a recipe by MaryBerry. Apple Crumble, Toffee Apple Crumble, Cinnamon Apple Muffins, Apple, GingerandCranberry Crisp, Apple Turnovers, Chocolate Apples, German Hazelnut, Coffeeand Apple Cake
Jen made MaryBerry’s lemon yoghurt cake last year and enjoyed the taste and texture that the yoghurt gave to the cake, so that was the inspiration for this recipe, and I think her cakes look SO pretty as well as sounding wonderful with all those great ingredients
The first technical challenge of the season was MaryBerry's Cherry Cake. Richard and Enwezor both used coffeeandwalnut as their flavours, which are a favourite of Mary'sand they received good feedback from her
Then MaryBerry & ”the male judge” showing us how it should be donein their masterclass I was certain this was for us (minus the alcohol of course), you see my husbandand I (and possibly the kids sneak a small slice which is why I don’t make it so often) like coffeeandwalnutcake but he’s the main espresso drinker, I’m more inclined towards the beverage when i’ve had a ‘bad’ day
Then MaryBerry & ''the male judge'' showing us how it should be donein their masterclass I was certain this was for us (minus the alcohol of course), you see my husbandand I (and possibly the kids sneak a small slice which is why I don't make it so often) like coffeeandwalnutcake but he's the main espresso drinker, I'm more inclined towards the beverage when i've had a 'bad' day
I used an old faithful recipe from the MaryBerry Christmas Collection*, where the pastry gets a lift from adding a bit of icing sugar and the grated zest of half an orange (recipe is also in this article)
But am especially grateful for MaryBerry'sall-in-onecake recipes. In-between we squeezed one Friday night trip to town for Light Night, and a Saturday afternoon shoppinginAbingdon with reindeers, Morris Men, Punch and Judy, Carol singing, what looked like a a Hog roast andall the fun of the fair
Unfortunately, MaryBerry was busy writing her onethousand two hundred and fiftieth cookbook. And both Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood were too distracted by affairs of the heart occupying newspaper headlines (it would seem terribly inappropriate to discuss weddingcakes, of allcakes, under such circumstances)
Not because it was a disaster (it was incredibly delicious though very rich - Josh has been able to eek it out all week as he only needs a little piece to get his daily chocolate fix
MaryBerry recommends using foil linedbaking paper to make life easier but I didn't have any so I folded a length of foil over twice to make it fairly rigid then wrapped it in greaseproof paper and stood it up in the middle of the tin
