English Mum’s Big Bakeoff: baking on the edge.
So we did the Cupcake Challenge a while back and it was just the biggest fun ever. I was thinking of doing another one, and I mulled over biscuits, or maybe whoopie pies (the NBT*), but then I thought no, it’s too limiting. What we need is a big, mahoosive baking competition where there are no limits – baking on the edge, as it were.
And then the lovely chaps at Green and Black’s said: ‘baking competition? But we LOVE baking!’ and offered to put up a rather stonkingly good prize in the shape of a lovely Green and Black’s hamper!
So seeing as we’re all baking rebels who embrace a challenge and laugh in the face of danger, I think we should go for it.
Rules? Ha, we snigger at them
There are no rules. Well, apart from the fact that you’ve actually got to bake something. You must travel henceforth from this place, bake me something (anything) beautiful. Be it brownie or bun, teacake or tart, take a picture and email it to me by the end of July (there are NO extra brownie points for using Green and Black’s so you can wipe all those sneaky ‘product placement’ thoughts out of your mind too, you little devils) at contactenglishmum [at] gmail [dot] com.
I’m giving you loads of time so there’s no excuse not to join. All photos must be in my inbox before the end of July. If you’re a blogger, please link back to this post.
Entries will be displayed in one enormous blog post and the winner will be hurled from the very top of the Empire State Building. No, that was a joke. The winner will be the recipient of one fantastic and utterly fabulous hamper of gorgeousness from Green and Black’s.
There will also be a special Kids’ Prize, so encourage your little ones to get baking!
While you’re at it, Green and Black’s would like to know a little about your sneaky chocolate habits. They’d especially love to hear from parents with kids aged 4-12, so if you’d be so kind as to fill in their little survey here:
… they’d be very grateful. So are you up for it, then? Who’s going to knock the last competition’s winner, and this time’s judge: food blogger Eggs, Cream and Honey off the top spot?
*NBT = Next Big Thing
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On the one hand, I’d love to win (YUM!) on the other hand, my fat bum is big enough as it is.
As I keep saying to my son “sharing is caring”… not where chocolate is concerned.
You can see the recipe hear at my blog.
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thanks, andy
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Phew, now we can eat them!
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