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I’m participating in our office bake off. Each week someone brings in a baked thing and it’s scored and rates by the office.

I’m actually the defending champion after making a Christmas stollen last year.

However, this year I’m completely lacking in ideas and so need some inspiration for something that looks and tastes great but is relatively straight forward. Thanks! X

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Upside down pear cake?

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I planned on entering our work bake off with a pina colada style cup cake - sponge cakes with shredded pineapple through them iced with butter icing full of dessicated coconut. You could possibly add some yellow and green colouring to the relevant parts.

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sounds good!

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And you call these homemade although they are clearly Greggs

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Will have a look through my recipes later and will see if I can find a winner.

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a true champion would never ask for help, shocking behaviour

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tiramisu

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Master what? Oh, right…

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Brownies with chocolate bars baked into them. Easy, taste amazing, look really cool and always go down a treat

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That’s a good shout. Brownies with a layer of salted caramel always goes down well.

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My boss made pretty much this a few weeks ago - home made salted caramel as well the showoff.

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Posted this half an hour ago and not one of you (not one) has replied ‘Bless you’

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This is my fail safe show stopper that requires very little actual skill but always gets a good reaction. Three chocolate sponges then make a vat of chocolate buttercream (I make with mascarpone for added luxury) cover up the mess round the outside with matchmakers then whack a ton of smarties on top.

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Holy fuck that looks amazing!

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Woah, that looks good!

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One of the easiest cakes I’ve baked, honestly (takes a bit of time to decorate however and you need to buy about 8 tubes of smarties)

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We have a winner :star_struck::heart:

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Recipe…?

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Not sure I actually have a recipe for this one - I tend to make it up as I go along - the best I can do is:

  1. google a chocolate sponge recipe and make enough to fill 3 small sandwich tins - bake at 180.
  2. bung some butter(salted), cocoa and mascapone in a bowl and mix (1:1:1 ratio? - I tend to keep adding stuff till it tastes ok)
  3. layer the sponge and icing and cover the sides and top
  4. cover the outside with matchsticks (you need 2 boxes)
  5. add the smarties, start with 1 smartie in the dead centre of the sponge and work your way outwards

Et voila!

This is literally how I bake and explains how the outcome own 50% genius and 50 % disaster

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