A Date With The Bake

The Great British bakers of Series 11 have switched off their ovens, wiped down their work stations and hung up their aprons as the tempered chocolate sets on another season. Matty walks away the unlikely champion and forgets a very important proposal in all the excitement! Its been a season full of (ooooh) controversial decisions from Paul and Prue, but also comedic gold with the fabulous Alison Hammond joining Noel as the co-Hostess cupcake with the mostest! As for Kimberly, Katie and Jake: after all the lardy cakes are rightly tossed into the bin forever and the dusting sugar has settled… they just happy for their teams and wish them all well deserved success moving forward in their confectionary journeys! Tiers and Cheers to another great season and on your mark… GET SET…A DATE WITH THE BAAAAAAAAAKE!

Only four distinguished bakers enter the Bake-Off tent this week to participate in the persnickety Patisserie themed SEMI-FINAL! Jake and Katie have two bakers on their respective teams and Kimberly has left the chat this week to protest. (Just kidding! She will be back for the Final). And while some bakers are able to display their immense pastry skills to their full effect, a few are a little rough and ready when it comes to the fiddly fancies. And the final insult occurs as EVERYONE’s favorite baker is given the Paul Hollywood desert boot out of the tent. Mistakes were made, a travesty has occurred and we are expecting outrage from the British public and the American anglophiles who enjoy this delightful franchise. So get your tissues ready and ON YOUR MARK…GET SET…A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

In the final weeks, bakers in the Great British Baking Show tent are tasked with a new set of bakes that fail to leave most in a “Party” mood. Especially when one of the challenges is Paul Hollywood’s all time, absolute, hands down, undisputed, most FAVORITE treat of all time. Oh, and of course, like McDonalds he has made “millions” of the savory snack. Meanwhile, Kimberly has lost another member of her team, Katie is concerned with the trajectory of her remaining bakers and Jake appears to have been destined to win since the lucky mixing bowl created team Bake and Destroy. But, it can all turnovers in the upcoming semi-finals so temper that excitement for now and On Your Mark…Get Set…A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

The teams are really thinning out in the Bake Off tent. But a thin consistency is not a bad thing as the name of the game this week is syrups, caramels and air light meringues. Dessert Week always presents certain challenges for the bakers and for Kimberly, Katie and Jake as well who are forced to watch a favorite baker make their untimely exit. Prue and Paul’s judging appears to be at odds with K,K & J and it’s tough to gauge who exactly will be emerging from this competition clutching the cake plate of glory. So get those stodgy pudds down ‘ya and ON YOUR MARK…GET SET…A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

It’s a Date with the Bake 2 for 1 special! Double the episodes means double the star bakers, but TRIPLE the bakers making their sad exit from the yummiest tent in England. Pastry Week is a classic and a must for showing the bakers’ skills with a flakey crust. However, the Great British Baking Show has a long history of choosing more problematic themes for the bakes of the week. And Botanical Week may not feel controversial, but it certainly evoked a reaction from Kimberly, Katie and Jake. Most of whom agree that this theme can leaf and never come back again. This double stacked episode means you have enough time to chill a floating island or proof a big cob loaf, so get those tins greased and ON YOUR MARK… GET SET… A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

It’s chocolate as far as the eye can see in the Bake Off tent! Some peoples ultimate dream, but for our bakers the finicky sweet can be a huge problem. Striving for the right consistency, taste, shine – it’s enough to melt a few nerves! Jake has to watch one of his bakers truffles off the the sick bay for some of the challenges. And while the teams remain unchanged for this week… the bittersweet aftertaste is fast approaching as TWO bakers will bid adieu next week! It’s gonna be a cocoa finish so On your mark… Get set…. A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

Bread dread, anyone? While Kimberly, Katie and Jake are loafing around, the ten remaining bakers are sweating their dough balls off in the Bake Off tent during the much anticipated BREAD WEEK! And as if they kneaded more stress, starchy Paul Hollywood is ever watching over these bakes in particular. And while most bakers are able to Prueve themselves as carb connoisseurs, there are a few who fall to the bottom of the basket. A beloved favorite forager is in trouble and Katie and Jake are in sour(dough) spirits about it. But another tent favorite is consistently rising to the top! Enough with the Plait-itudes … on your mark… get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

Week two in the Bake Off tent and the eleven bakers are out to prove who is the smartest of smart cookies! Kimberly, Jake and Katie root on their teams in the biscuit showdown. And while one early favorite is the custard creme of the crop, there is another favorite who crumbles under the pressure of Paul Hollywood’s icing, or rather, icey stare. Who will be getting the cookie cut? Put away that piping bag and find out with A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

The ovens are warmed, the tent is open and 12 piping hot new contestants enter the ultimate competition of all things baked! The GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW has returned to deliciously delight and series 11 is off to the refrigerators! Kimberly, Katie and Jake have their 4 baker teams, chosen at random by the magic mixing bowl! Kimberly’s “Jam and the Challah-Grahams” consists of Amos, Dana, Saku and Rowen. Katie random draft for “The Tammy Faye Bakkers” includes Abbi, Cristy, Dan and Matty. And Jake hopes to proove his team “Bake and Destroy” is the strongest with Josh, Keith, Nicky and Tasha. Who will come out of gate swinging in the Cake Week premiere? Join us to find out! Batter Up and on your mark…get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

Another season of The Great British Baking Show has come to an end and while our three finalists did their best, there was a clear front runner who’s unique flavors and designs stood above the rest! However, the final challenges of series 10 may have left a little to be desired. Baker for Life! (Team Jake) struggled to get his technical to really GEL, The Tammy Faye Baker (Team Katie) may have missed an un-BEE-lievable opportunity and Team jdSm (Team Kimberly) had to FACE some hard truths in the Showstopper. But when all the flour settled, Kimberly, Katie and Jake are all in agreement that while the finale offerings may have been a little underbaked the chosen winner did plenty throughout the season to prove herself a true champion. Congratulations to the incredibly talented winner! And thank you all for joining us for a truly epic teams edition of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Baking One for the Team!

It’s the semifinals of The Great British Baking Show and four lonely bakers remain to face the challenges of pastry desserts…again…because Pastry Week just happened. Unfortunately, the flaky confections happen to be one baker’s Achilles high heel, and one of the biggest personalities to grace the Bake Off tent is heading off to spread his sunshine and rainbows elsewhere. This means Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake miraculously each have one remaining team member to fight for the elusive cake platter prize in the series 10 finale. But leading up to this finale a critical article was written, questions have been raised surrounding bread week, jokes have gone mysteriously missing throughout the season and suspicions are heightened about the judges and their knowledge of common flavor pairings. Release the Swedish Kraken! It’s A DATE WITH THE BAKE: The Curious Case of P&P and the Perilous PB&J!

Thank the baking gods that Pastry week is finally here in The Great British Baking Show so that Katie can stop going on long winded diatribes about it! It’s here. And it’s rough (puff). The challenges prove to be mildly traumatic for the bakers, mildly disappointing for the judges and a complicated range of emotions for Kimberly, Katie and Jake. Bakers who have been in the upper crust in past weeks are crumbling and one baker who had been sconed by the judges in the past is really chouxing up the competition. As we roll into the semi-final it’s still a toss up who’s team will be eclaired the winner! On your mark… Get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Filo She Better Don’t!

It’s the halfway mark and as the Great British Baking Show tent loses its filling, so to speak, the remaining bakers need to perfect a filling of their own. It’s Custard Week! Team Kimberly is down to one MVP who is really picking up steam in the competition. Team Katie is holding at two bakers, but you might not know it as their screen time is severely lacking. Will Team Jake be able to hold on to his THREE bakers after a pretty disastrous ice cream technical that sunk many bakers in a watery waffle cone grave? Well, the proof is in the pudding. The race for the finish is on and it’s anyone’s guess who will walk away with the beloved cake plate! On Your Mark… Get Set… Ting that Custard… with A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and one extra scary rogue astronaut have descended upon the Bake Off tent to create bakes to die for in The Great British Bake Off’s first ever Halloween Week! But it’s not all about simply creating eerie-sistable good treats this time, it’s also about figuring out the trick to getting flavors and design bubbling together in the same cauldron. Kimberly, Katie and Jake have watched their teams dwindle as their bakers are picked off week after week. So, who will be done in this time by the glare from the Camp Crystal Lake blue eyes of Paul Hollywood? Or is there a new apple of his eye? And will this new Halloween theme just leave everyone wanting s’more? Find out in this spooktacular edition of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Bone Appetit!

Alone on a dessert island our 8 remaining bakers have to bake their way back to civilization one delicious pudding at a time. Not really, but we are halfway through series 10 of The Great British Baking Show and half of our beloved bakers have already been voted off the (floating) island! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake each have at least 2 bakers left in the tent and at this point it’s anyone’s game. Sandro is coming up strong (both literally and culinarily), Syabira is multi talented in a multitude of cuisines and Maxy is the soft spoken confiseur that no one saw coming. Find out who edges closer to the winner’s cake stand in this episode of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Pud up or Shut up!

The Great British Baking Show takes a hiatus from is regularly scheduled baking and tries to bring some multi-culturalism into the tent with a new International week called Mexican Week! It’s a lively romp from beginning to end with everyone getting into the south of the border spirit and producing interesting takes on classic Mexican dishes using classic Mexican flavors! Except it didn’t really happen that way… Team Kimberly is holding on by a thread of melted cheese, Team Jake is having some difficulties with the taco-ness of it all, and Team Katie has a real high and some real guacamol-lows. So grab a Jarritos ( or maybe actually this calls for a cerveza) and prepare for the first ever and probably only Mexican Week coverage from A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Chili con Carnage.

Yeasterday… all our troubles seemed so far away. But now its Bread Week in the bake off tent for the Great British Baking Show and every baker’s buns are on the line! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake try to “prove” their worth. And while a few really desperately “knead” improvement, one baker “rises” to the top of the pack! Will K,K & J be able to cinnamon roll with the punches? Find out in this weeks coverage of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Gluten for Punishment!

Aaaaaaand their off!! New bakers are in the tent and Kimberly, Katie and Jake are ready to cheer on their teams. Kimberly’s team JDSM has highs and lows with a Hollywood handshake and a young baker sent home early. Katie’s team The Tammy Faye Bakers has the exact same journey except Katie still has some extra bitterness (not from Carole’s chicory) but losing out on her number 1 draft pick. And team Jake, Baker For Life, starts strong with two of his bakers showing some advanced skill and getting high marks in the personality department. So who WILL be setting the baking bar high in Cake Week and Biscuit Week? And who WILL crumble under the pressure? Find out in the premiere double episode of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Smells Like Team Spirit!

It’s a new year… a new tent… and 12 shiny new best of British bakers are going to try their luck over the next 10 weeks to become the new Great British Baking Show Champion! And those aren’t the only new ingredients in the mixer. This year A Date with The Bake is trying something new! TEAMS! Kimberly, Katie and Jake will each have 4 of the 12 bakers on their respective teams and will be reporting on their progress throughout the Bake-Off Season! This Pre-Episode 1 reveals the results of a very in-tents draft to create the teams with K, K and J only having watched the introductions to the new bakers in the Episode 1 signature challenge. Who’s team will prove to be winners and who will be left with the soggy bottoms? Find out in this prologue to a brand new season of A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

It may be March, but we are still not even a quarter of the way into 2022. That means it isn’t too late to take a peek back into the Bake Off tent and see who has valiantly returned to face the steely judges once again. Well… one steely judge. The Great New Year Bake Off welcomes favorites Nancy, Helena, Henry and the ever delightfully neurotic Rahul. It’s a delightful reunion filled with mostly successful bakes and a lot of laughs as the bakers battle to be crowned Caribbean Queen- whoops- Star Baker! But will a tricky Paul technical cause a few of the bakers to Bao out? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t. But that joke was irresistible. Kimberly and Katie school Jake on the bakers from season’s past and Jake schools them on fashion lingo that is wholly unacceptable to people just trying to get their year off to a good start. So break out those dusty cookie sheets, make sure those ovens are definitely switched and on your mark… get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE!