![]() ![]() You may recall that Brendan made a Family Reunion cake, an almond-coated raspberry chiffon with fresh raspberries and raspberry cream cheese frosting, surrounded by a ginger biscuit “family.” James created five different cakes with four different fillings and toppings, the fifth cake uniting them all, while John’s Heaven and Hell cake consisted of a dark chocolate and orange base layer cake topped with lemon and coconut meringue “cakelets.” ![]() And it should follow a theme of the baker’s choosing. Not only that, it should be displayed in spectacular fashion, as befits the final challenge in the final episode of the 2012 GBBO series. But you know that Paul and Mary are looking for the lightest, fluffiest, most flavorful chiffon cake of all time. The challenge seems simple enough: Bake a chiffon cake. So rather than bore you with a step-by-step tutorial, I’ll describe what I did wrong and how I would do it differently, so you can (hopefully) learn from my mistakes. In the end, it turned out okay, but if I had it to do over again, I would have dialed my expectations way back. Wanting to make it a truly showstopping showstopper, I probably tried to do too much. While I wouldn’t call this, my final bake in the first season (The Beginnings on Netflix, Series 3 in the U.K.), a complete failure, so many things went wrong in the process, mostly because I didn’t think things through properly. When I set out on this journey, eight months ago now, to attempt every challenge in The Great British Bake Off, I promised to show you, my faithful readers, both my successes and my failures. A Cautionary Tale, or, The Cake That Almost Wasn’t.
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