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[Homemade] The Great British Bake Off Cake
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[Homemade] The Great British Bake Off Cake


[Homemade] The Great British Bake Off Cake

by KrishTheBaker

33 Comments

  4. KrishTheBaker

    Here is the recipe for anyone who wants to try and bake it!

    Ingredient:  Chocolate Fudge Cake:  175g Dark Chocolate (54% Cocoa Solids) 150g Unsalted Butter 3 x Eggs 125ml Sour Cream 50ml Vegetable Oil 2 Tsp Vanilla Extract 150g Caster Sugar 150g Soft Brown Sugar 250g Self-Raising Flour 50g Cocoa Powder 1 ½ Tsp Baking Soda ¼ Tsp Salt 125ml Hot Water Dark Chocolate Ganache:  300g Dark Chocolate (54% Cocoa Solids) 450ml Double Cream 25g Unsalted Butter Decoration: 400g Raspberries  

    1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Break the dark chocolate into small pieces and cut your butter into cubes. Then in a large mixing bowl add broken dark chocolate and diced butter. Place the mixing bowl over a pan of simmering water (this is a Bain-Marie). Slowly allow the ingredients to melt and mix until the ingredients have been fully incorporated, then remove the bowl from the pan and allow to cool.
    2. In another large mixing bowl, add the eggs, sour cream and vegetable oil. Mix until they have become incorporated.
    3. Then add the caster sugar and soften brown sugar into the bowl and mix.
    4. Once the chocolate-butter mixture has cooled lightly pour it into the wet ingredients and mix until everything has been incorporated.
    5. Sieve the self-raising flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate soda, and salt into the wet ingredients and add the hot water at this point. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until there are no lumps in the mixture.
    6. Divide the mixture into 2 x 20cm Cake Tins.
    7. Bake the Chocolate Fudge Cakes for 35-40 minutes. You can tell the cake is baked when a toothpick is placed into the center and no batter sticks to the toothpick.
    8. Once baked leave the Chocolate Fudge Cakes to cool on a wire rack.
    9. While the Chocolate Fudge Cakes are cooling, make the Dark Chocolate Ganache.
    10. Pour the double cream into a pan and heat until it starts to simmer. Once simmering remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
    11. Break the dark chocolate up into small pieces and large into a mixing bowl. Once the cream has cooled slightly, pour the cream into the bowl (with the chocolate). Mix until all the chocolate has melted and the ingredients have come together. Leave the Dark Chocolate to cool and thicken.
    12. Add the butter and mix until all of the butter has been fully incorporated into the ganache. Leave the Dark Chocolate to cool and thicken.
    13. Once the Chocolate Fudge Cakes have cooled, place one onto a cake board and then place some of the Dark Chocolate Ganache on top.
    14. Using an off-set spatula spread Dark Chocolate Ganache evenly across the cake.
    15. Place another cake layer on top and place more Dark Chocolate Ganache evenly across the cake. Again, using an off-set spatula spread Dark Chocolate Ganache evenly across the cake.
    16. Spread Dark Chocolate Ganache around the side of the cake and smoothen the ganache using a bench scraper.
    17. Finally add the raspberries on top of the cake and make sure to leave one raspberry off the top of the cake to make it perfectly replicate the Bake Off Cake!

  5. sadnessresolves

    Bruh you couldn’t add one more berry

  6. maledivianer

    Did u do it first or did u follow the Bingin with Babish video?

  7. RedBattleBandit

    I understand you didn’t have enough berries, and who goes to the grocery store just for one berry, right.
    I also understand you wouldn’t redo all the berries so they have consistent spacing 100% with you on that.

    What really bothers me though is, why not rotate the cake, so that the missing berry wouldn’t be right in front of the camera!

  9. psalty_dog

    Everyone commenting about the missing raspberry obviously doesn’t know Bake Off lore…

    OP nailed it!!!

  10. peatypeacock

    THAT MISSING BERRY THO 💀💀💀💀💀💀

  11. Scheerhorn462

    For those who don’t know the history of this cake: it’s a replica of the cake that’s in the title credits of the Great British Bake-Off show, which IS MISSING THE SAME RASPBERRY. That’s why it’s missing here. It’s become a running joke among GBBO fans. They did a challenge on the show last year that involved recreating this cake and everyone copied the missing raspberry.

  12. nwilli9

    I was watching the most recent binging with babish episode about making this same cake when I scrolled past this post. Babish?

  13. Poodlepink22

    I still want to know why there was a missing berry on the show. Your cake looks fantastic!

  14. elliesm495

    Lmao welcome to Reddit. Man can some people just get over the berries and say what a damn good cake! Good job OP

  15. PKblaze

    That fucking raspberry.
    Every.
    Damn.
    Time.

  16. Fingerhut89

    Just on time for the new season! Come on OP, show us a picture of a slice!

  17. Csquared6

    The fact this is rage inducing and yet perfectly accurate has me feeling all kinds of confusion.

  18. RXL

    Surprised at how many people didn’t get the raspberry reference.

  21. Fun-Supermarket6820

    It’s supposed to have a shine

  22. XxCOZxX

    I’m annoyed as hell at this photo!

    You can easily get another damn raspberry on there and you just had to leave it unfinished.

  27. RaskolnikovShotFirst

    Looks great! Also, that’s like $50 in raspberries!

  29. dzone25

    I refuse to believe you made this OP – I think you just went and stole their prop cake they used to shoot the opening. That’s SO good. Even the varied berry sizes and missed raspberry – it’s all perfectly imperfect.

  32. nitroguy2

    …are they joking, or do this many people seriously not realize there’s supposed to be a missing berry?!

  33. MiniGnocchi

    I saw the missing berry before the title 🤣 still bothers me every time! Looks yummy though 😋

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