Obsessed!

 I am obsessed!  With Great British Baking Show!! It is in tenth season now—one problem—shows only drop once a week on Friday!  If I watch current show on Friday—it’s difficult to wait for another week.  Brown headed daughter (who lives in Denver) and I have watched this show over the seasons; we sit there, with our mouth watering, thinking “can we bake any of these goodness?”  And believe it or not, we learn some British history behind different challenges!  One episode, the technical challenge was to make “ Garibaldi biscuits(to us cookies).  Who was Garibaldi to receive such an honor? 

Don’t these look delicious!  Here’s the recipe in case you want to try your hand at baking as the bakers do with only these instructions.  No photo of the biscuit either! 

INGREDIENTS:

150g currants, roughly chopped 

50g dried cranberries, roughly chopped 

150ml orange juice 

125g self-raising flour 

pinch of salt 

75g unsalted butter, cubed and chilled 

25g caster sugar 

1 large egg, separated 

To decorate:

200g 54% dark chocolate, broken into pieces 

100g white chocolate, broken into pieces

Since thre is only show a week, daughter suggested I watch the Junior Bake Off show--well, I did--so amazing, that these youngsters can do such baking on their own!  They tackled "Cookie Cups and Hazelnut milk"--looks and sounds so delicious!

you pour the milk into the cookie and hope it doesn't leak!  I want to try these someday!

So, now as I wait for the next regular British Bake Off to drop, I can satisfy my obsession by watching seven seasons of The Junior Bake-off!