There’s something carnal about whipping together butter and sugar into a creamy confection. Baking is almost a meditation for home cooks, who surreptitiously watch flour fold into itself in 33 degree angles. But, throw 12 home bakers, two celebrity chefs and two eagle-eyed women into the mix, in a tiny cottage, with 12 ovens and there’s more sweating going on than sugars caramelizing on the stove.
The Great Australian Bake Off is back. After the first incarnation flopped more than a pancake, Foxtel are revitalising the format with new hosts, new judges and a whole lot more butter.
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Australian of the Year Maggie Beer and chef of many hats Matt Moran have been tasked with separating the curds from the cream, sampling every morsel with a freshly polished golden spoon.
Comediennes Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle will replace the Shane Jacobsen and Anna Gare as hosts with the most, in search of a ‘star baker’.
Parent show The Great British Bake Off has been a runaway success making Judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry household names across the UK.
The sweet and syrupy natured program set in a country garden is a far cry from the high drama of carefully edited counterparts My Kitchen Rules and Masterchef. Each week contestants will whisk their way through cakes, pies, tortes, tarts and breads but the winner will need to beat more than eggs to take the title.
The look of the bake is just as important in this competition as taste. Someone who knows the pressures of cooking on television all too well, Masterchef runner-up and Rescu’s expert patisserie chef Julia Taylor got us into the baking mood last week with this delectable Orange and Ricotta Torte.
Congratulations to this week’s star baker, Angela who wowed the judges with a Mint and Chocolate Checkerboard cake.
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