I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.” – Mary Berry I’ve had many baking disasters but whatever it is, I’ll cover it with icing and sprinkles and say a child has made it.” – Rylan Clark-Neal Baking With Love The act of baking in service is deeply rewarding. It can bring hope to those facing challenges and gratitude to those who bake for others. 5. Baking builds friendships. Do not despair if you are not a professional. An amateur built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. Prue found Saku’s creation to be impressive bread art but disappointing to eat, thought Cristy’s was beautiful, said Dana’s flavours were spot on and described Rowan’s as simply hideous. Wow.

Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without love, it becomes difficult to swallow life.”Mehek Bassi) SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the outcomes of each of the challenges, this week’s star baker and the second of The Class of 2023 to go home. Please don’t read on if you have yet to watch the biscuit week episode and don’t want to know the outcome! **** THE SIGNATURE BAKE This isn’t the first time researchers have drawn a line connecting making food with positive feelings. In recent years, psychologists have started spending more time exploring cooking and baking as a therapeutic tool to help people dealing with things like depression and anxiety, Meager reports. The time has finally come. Creativity now wants to be lived out professionally and you are guaranteed to be very successful. Kim-Joy and fellow finalist Ruby Bhogal applaud Bake Off winner Rahul Mandal. Photograph: C4/Love Productions/Mark Bourdil/PA

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Be grateful for the things you have instead of comparing yourself to others. You don’t know other persons’ share of struggles.Peter’s win was never in doubt. The only of the three finalists not to self-identify as the underdog when the episode began, he calmly overachieved during all three of the challenges; turning round a set of elaborate Cranachan custard slices in the opener and a sterling “Bonkers Bake Off Bubble Cake” showstopper. The only thing that slowed his path to victory was the walnut whirl technical challenge, but then again you’d struggle to produce a walnut whirl in a gazebo during a 35C heatwave. It felt a little like the walk of doom to the gingham altar this week with Dan describing his Devonshire splits as “…the garish A&E look”, Rowan declaring the technical challenge “…monstrous to another level” and Abbi simply placing her tray of buns down with a sigh and an “oh dear.”

I cherish the sweet things in life, like buttermilk pancakes, coffee cake, and fresh-baked muffins. Our digital marketing team also bakes birthday cakes and cupcakes for local children whose families need extra support. It's one of my favorite ways to volunteer. I mean, what could be more joyful than making a birthday cake for an unsuspecting child? A new mom, fresh from maternity leave, once became flooded with emotion at the sight of the Lemon Chess Pie I baked her. I now think of that recipe as “Happy Aime Pie,” because I can't have a slice without feeling uplifted by the memory of her joy. 7. We use baking to show who we are. Immediately place a saying in the centre of each biscuit, fold the biscuit halves over each other and fold the ends together over a glass rim.Again, no real problems for the bakers with their first technical challenge. Some of the cakes were criticised for having a bulge / definition between the layers visible despite the cake being coated with ganache on the outside. (This can happen if you don’t fill you cake right to the edges of the layers). The people she saw were limited to six half-hour sessions, and many more were classed “severe” than “low to moderate”; she had 150 people on her books at any one time. It is a classic story of stretched services, but having been in the caring professions all her life – she worked in a care home when she finished her first degree, in sociology, at Bristol – she has seen the limitations at close range. She says the care-home role “was terribly paid and the management were terrible. [But] I ended up really liking the residents.” Then she settled in Leeds, and did support work in the community to fund her master’s, mainly for adults with learning disabilities.