My Baking Challenge

Home made cakes, biscuits and bread have been my passion since I was a young girl and I am happiest when I am buzzing round the kitchen whipping up an exciting creation. I feel that I have mastered a range of recipes but recently I found that I was getting rather bored of baking the same things. 

To help me expand my baking skills I have enlisted the help of the book: 

The Great British Bake Off - How To Bake

I fell in love with this book when I saw the copy my mother owned and after reading through the many recipes wanted to immediately rush home and start baking all of the delicious cakes, puddings and biscuits. 

My Challenge:

The challenge I have set myself is to make every single recipe from the How To Bake book. Being a full-time mum I will only manage to do one recipe per week.

The book is split into the following chapters:

• Cakes
• Biscuits and Teatime Treats
• Bread
• Pies and Savoury Pastry
• Tarts and Sweet Pastry
• Patisserie
• Puddings and Desserts
• Celebration Cakes

So that my poor husband is not subjected to weeks of continuous puddings and pies, I will pick a recipe per week from each chapter. So week 1 will be a cake recipe, week 2 a biscuit recipe, week 3 a bread recipe and so on. 

Rules:

1. One recipe per week.
2. A different recipe per week. I am not allowed to repeat a recipe even if it turns into a complete disaster.  
3. The recipe must be followed to the letter and the ingredients can't be substituted for low-fat alternatives. 

I am very excited about starting the challenge but at the same time my stomach churns at the enormity of what I have set myself as most things in the book I have never made before.

So all that is left to say is "LET THE BAKING BEGIN!!!!".