Once you get on to the recipes, there are lots of lovely things to choose from, including wholemeal loaf, ciabatta, sodabread, focaccia, chapatis, Cheddar and apple bread, baklava, fruit loaf, fresh croissants, scones, classic Victoria sponge, lemon drizzle cake, buttery shortbread and triple layer chocolate cake
Ugne went for the sweetest flavour with a chocolate quick bread topped with salted caramel sauce, and Paul made a cranberry and orange quick bread - which he got a PaulHollywood handshake for
Paul’s lion was a real work of art and “the best thing I’ve seen in bread…ever” said Mr Hollywood. A special commendation was given to Paul this week for his bread sculpture of a lion
The recipe is adapted from a PaulHollywood recipe and can be found on BBC Food. I hadn’t make pretzels before or any bread that involves boiling first but I was pleased by how easy they were to make and also by how well they turned out
FlatbreadsPaulHollywood Week. The video below from PaulHollywood should change your mind. In fact there are only a few ingredients needed to cook a basic sodabread but as he explains, you can cheese, bacon and other items to make it more interesting
(Recipe from PaulHollywood’s How to Bake book. I had seen sodabread recipes before but never tried them as I didn’t think I would enjoy the stodginess of it
I used PaulHollywood'ssodabread recipe from his How to Bake as the basis for me, tweaking the flour to include wholemeal bread flour because I thought it would give extra flavour and we have loads of it from when I got four bags at silly prices last year because they had almost reached their best before date
