I’ve been struggling with my baking motivation recently.  I thought that joining the #TwitterBakeAlong may give it the jolt it needed.  A baking challenge is set every week and you tweet a picture of your bake. This week the Bake Along challenge was a layer cake.  I hadn’t made a sponge cake in ages.  This...

So, the technical challenge for cake week on the Great British Bake Off was Gateau Vert – a green cake made green by pistachios and spinach.  Now, it was Prue Leith’s choice and she chose it, so she said, because it was Claude Monet’s choice of birthday cake.  I’ve never heard a more spurious reason...