The Great Technical Challenge-Off

If you are reading this and have not watched the Great British Bake Off, then stop reading immediately and go and binge watch all 4 seasons of pure baking perfection. It will make you a better person, as you will want to emulate the perfectly polite, determined, and helpful nature of each and every contestant (ignore the Iain ice cream debacle of 2014). Beware that this show will make all other baking shows pale in comparison, as you tear up with the winner because of the pride they feel (and you feel in them) as they are handed a cake plate and flowers (money is not necessary when you have won the most prestigious show on television).

Now that you have binge watched all 4 seasons, you are ready to follow along with us as we try to bake through all 10 technical challenges of Season 5 of the Great British Bake Off. We will be baking a new technical recipe each week and then we will have our carefully selected judges (people whose opinions we value, but pale in comparison to the prestigious Mary Berry and straight up truth teller, Paul Hollywood) rate our bakes on taste and presentation. Each week a star baker will be crowned and luckily no one will have the awful job of sending someone home because we are already the perfect final three.

The princesstarta in all its glory

Finally, you may be wondering, why on earth we have decided to put ourselves through some pretty difficult bakes (who has really ever eaten a princesstarta, much less made one) for 10 weeks. Well first off, we all absolutely adore the show and wish we were Brits so that we would have some hope of one day being on it. 

Secondly, we have all been friends since college (just look at us as little Seminoles 9 years ago) and we each live in a different country now. So this is a way for us to constantly chat each week about our bakes and of course figure out who really is the Star Baker among us. We are excited to see all the good sponges and soggy bottoms that we will have over the next 10 weeks and we hope you stick around to see who deserves that Paul Hollywood handshake.