Once again Helen Hollywood and myself Jenny Berry (*chortle), have been blown away by all the amazing great bloggers who are baking out there and joining in with our linky! Thank you – I am chuffed to bits by your support and enthusiasm for your baking and how adventerous you – and I – are getting. I doubt I would have made bread yet had it not been for this, as I was always too scared!! Now I have made buns and two lots of bread rolls last week! I think bread making may be a little addictive!
So, without further ado, let’s look back at all your wonderful entries for week 2 of the Great Bakers Bake Off
The themes in last weeks GBBO Show were
Breadsticks, Muffins and Bread
and your entries included
MUFFINS
1. Traditional English Muffins by Tales of Pigling Bland
2. Smoked Paprika Muffins by Baking Making and Crafting
3. English Muffins by The Good LIfe Mum
4. English Muffins by Nelly
BRIOCHE
1. Brioche made into French Toast by Actually Mummy
2. Chocolate & Orange Brioche by The Crazy Kitchen (obviously not an entry as Helen Hollywood made this!)
3. Strawberry & White Chocolate Brioche by Cakes Photos LIfe
BREAD
1. Gluten Free Focaccia by Cupcake Mumma
2. Focaccia by All You Need Is Love & Cake
3. Tomato, Rosemary and Red Onion Focaccia by Mummy Vs Work
4. Mediterranean Roasted Vegetable Loaf by Hijacked by Twins
5. Zopf Bread by Jennifer’s Little World
6. Savoury Monkey Bread by Keynko
7. Focaccia by Johnson Babies
8. Egyptian Bread by Here Comes The Girls
9. Walnut & Gruyere Bread by Multi Layer Mummy
10. Sundried Tomato, Feta Cheese & Basil Fougasse by Jujubean
11. Pretend Bread (not edible!!) by Here Comes The Girls
12. Grainy Mustard & Beer Bread by Being Mrs C
13. Gluten Free Focaccia and Pizza by Cafe Bebe
14. Focaccia by Cakes Photos Life
CROISSANTS
1. Pain Au Chocolates by Being Mrs C
2. Quick Cheese Croissants by Sarah’s Wacky World
SWEET BREAD
1. Chocolate Chip, Orange & Ginger Tear and Share Bread by Mummy Is a Gadget Geek
2. Orange & Cranberry Bread by Mummy Makes Cake
3. Fruit & Cinnamon Loaf by Helvetia Handmade
4. Swirly Coloured Bread by Superbusy Mum
SWEET BUNS
1. Raspberry White Chocolate Swirls by Snaffles Mummy
2. Cinammon Finger Buns by Ramblings of a Crafty Mum
3. Chocolate, Coconut & Cherry Buns by me (does not count as an official entry)
4. Chocolate Cinnamon Buns by Cakes and Scribbles
5. Chocolate & Cinnamon Swirls by The Mini Mes and Me
6. Apple & Cranberry Chelsea Buns by Yellow Days
7. Banana, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Sticky Buns by Little Life Of Scrap
SAVOURY BUNS
1. Quick & Easy Cheese Buns by Mummy Alarm
2. Pizza Pinwheels by All You Need Is … Love….Is All You Need
BREADSTICKS
1. Beer & Black Pepper Grissini by Wallflower Girl
2. Marmite & Parmesan Breadsticks by Crazy With Twins
3. Garlic, Parmesan and Parsley Breadsticks by Jo’s Kitchen
4. Basic Breadsticks and Crispbreads by Bluebird Sunshine
5. Cheese & Rosemary Breadsticks by Vanilla Stitches
6. Chocolate Breadsticks by Welcome to the Mummy Madness
7. Parmesan and Sundried Tomato Grissini by LovebyBryony
Seriously, some fantastic entries and the creativity shown, photo styling and flavours have been brilliant! It is making judging that much harder for us both!
However, after much debate Helen and I (apologies to the Hollywood for disturbing her while she was on holiday!) have selected a winner. We decided to go with a breadstick/grissini entry as we felt that these seemed more of a challenge to make and perfect for the linky. In the end it was between two bloggers and it was a close call but we have decided to go with
………… *cue dramatic pause in a Mel and Sue kind of way* ……………
Congratulations to Bluebird Sunshine with her basic breadsticks and crispbreads. The simplicity of the bake and the effort of making not just breadsticks but crispbreads aswell , with the pretty garnish just edged the vote in her direction! As the lady herself said
I was so excited to hear the SNAP when I self-judged that I could sit like a loon tonight with a glass of wine and a slab of cheese and devour the lot with a snap, slather, slap.
Don’t forget to contact me for your Star Baker badge and well done 🙂
You can view all your creations so far in our GBBO Pinterest board
http://pinterest.com/thecrazykitchen/great-bloggers-bake-off/
If anyone who is joining in with the linkies, would like to be added to our GBBO FB group please let me know in the messages below.
Thanks again and the new linky will be open Wednesday morning xx
Great round up Jenny!! Relieved that week is over, can’t wait for tonight’s show 🙂
thanks Andrea – here is to pies x
Congratulations Bluebird 🙂 lovely breadsticks and crispbreads
What a fantastic round up, and some amazing baking going on. You’ve inspired so many people to take part, and everyone is so talented!
thank you and i am so pleased that so mnay people have caught the GBBO bug and want to broaden their baking skils x
Goodness, so many of those look amazing!! On to Macarons this week 😉
they do, dont they? i look forward to seeing your banoffee macaroons x
What a fantastic round up and an AMAZING range of bakes!
amazing arent they? and well done to you for entering twice this week x
congrats bluebird! lovely round up – so many bread recipes! and they all sound super delicious… I’m definitely interested in trying the brioche, cinnamon buns and croissants some time 🙂
well done to you too as you were a very close second 🙂 x
I love the way you presented the round up – thankyou very much for organising this.
Everyone’s entries look amazing! Was my recipe not included for a reason? If I broke the rules just want to make sure I don’t do it again 🙂 and I would love to be added to the FB group (Bryony Treadwell) xx
wow so many wonderful items. I’m starving… x