E30 - Sandy Steps In - Celebrities S7E3
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We are back! A few bakes on the books - Sheldon with some "funfetti" cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Alison does a great job explaining why butter isn't used in them. Sheldon also tackles some popular cookies from Alison Roman (she was at Milk bar with our Alison's favorite Christina Tosi). They came out reallllly well. Alison also made some of her well tuned recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but made a slight modification that was a real crowd pleaser at her work. We have a date! Great AMERICAN Bake Off starts May 5th! we are excited for this new content. Alison curated the pic for this week's review and man she did a great job. Celebrities S7E3 - mark it down and watch it if you haven't yet! Celebrities were Jess Phillips (head of Parliament Labour party at the time), Katrina Johnson Thompson (Olympic Pentathlete), Johnny Vegan (Comedian), and... one of the best guests ever - Big Narstie. He was just all you can hope for. The first bake was straight forward - make 18 shortbread cookies. Some really nice efforts, a couple that were a little under baked. Big Narstie's... just wow... very wet dough... wasn't rolling things out... coming apart.. but he was having a blast regardless. Paul and Prue were even helping him. But - he made some caramel and it looked GOOD. In the technical. Pork pies. Not bad results from 3 folks - supposed to make 4 small pies - again a little under baking, some over filling. Big Narstie - first didn't use pork (this was I believe a personal thing - so he used spicy beef). But then - he just made 2 big pies. totally hand made. Totally ignored the brief. It was epic. Then - in the showstopper - make a portrait cake. Big Narstie was sick...so... SANDY STEPPED IN! And she was amazing. Using a recipe from Paul and Prue she used banana bread to build a brick wall with her little fondant face poking over it. The other three made good efforts - a lot of fondant work, some laughing with looking at Katrina's legs on her long jump replica of herself - but dang these looked great for the celebrities. One of the most amazing and touching moments in GBBO history happens as well - it was awesome. Next week we tackle another of the Celebrity Episodes. Follow us on IG - @Scrummyhandshakes
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