The Great British Bake Off is back on our screens on August 6th and we for one can’t wait to see what bake-tastic things this years bakers will come up with.
To celebrate the return, we have teamed up with Bee & Tea to give one lucky reader the chance to win 1 set of 4 assorted design tea towels worth £40. Simply scroll down to find out how to enter.
About Bee & Tea
BeeAndTea are a company based in England and is run by sisters Bridget and Natasha Chetwynd.
Their inspiration for their designs came from visits to Normandy to visit their granny. All of the products are all produced in the UK and are based on flowers, gardens, beautiful objects, home-grown produce and cooking.
How to Enter
To enter for your chance to win a set of Bee & Tea tea towels simply:
1. Tell us what The Great British Bake Off has inspired you to do.
2. For an EXTRA entry Tweet us a picture of what you made!
Eat more cake
I have been inspired to have a go and also try and let my children learn how to bake so they know what is involved in making things.
To more baking at home rather than buy shop bought cakes and biscuits.
I made an Easter cake and also tried my hand at bread making.
After never baking in all my 44 years it inspired me to try baking for the first time.
Eat more cake!
Bake scones without burning them!
Bake a cake.
The Great British Bake Off inspired me to sell cupcakes last year at local fairs on Bonfire Night and in the lead up til Christmas. I was able to supply happy customers with unique gifts and yummy treats! I also had a go at making my own giant meringue shells!
As I can’t eat anything sweet it hasn’t inspired me to do anything – but I still love watching it
Bake bread at home
Be more ambitious in my baking
Stay out of the kitchen!
I have made Gingerbread men for the children. They enjoyed them so much that we made the next batch together. I am now reminded that I need to add baking ingredients to my shopping list. We are now finding recipes for different types of cakes. We are having great fun baking together.
to start baking again i always used to but stopped now im on my own. i realise now that lots of people love handmade items freshly baked so always lots of willing samplers
Eat more cake
Try making different things, and given me some new ideas
Be more creative in the kitchen & eat more cake!!
I enjoy making my own bread and muffins, but I recently made a batch of deluxe chocolate brownies with toasted pecan/walnut/almond/pistachio nut mix – they were lush and went down a treat 🙂 looking forward to the new series of GBBO !!
Feed everyone else!!
To actually bake more cakes & asking mum for her old recipes
Devils food cake – yum!
Enjoy the delights of home baking with the family.
Enter a baking competition, and i won!
Have a go at trying recipes that I wouldn’t normally try.
Bake bread, it’s so therapeutic!
not to be so lazy and start baking again
I just enjoy watching the show
To try and be more patient with my bread making skills. Croissants are my nightmare!
I’ve been inspired to bake more with my little girl.
BAKE MORE CAKES THAN USUAL
make birthday cakes for my wider family
Just to experiment more, the good thing about cakes is that you don’t use all of the ingrediants at one time so can keep trying.
To try more difficult recipes
inspired me to bake cakes scones bread biscuits and quiche
To arrange a cake fair for charity and make lots of nice goodies x
watch less tv!
Eat more cake 🙂
eat the cakes that my partner makes lol
bake
Inspired me to be a bit more adventurous with my baking
Dig out all my old baking tins from a box in the loft. A little more inspiration – and laughter – from this series will be enough to send me back into the loft to find my food processor: then I’ll get cracking.
Use fresh natural ingredients
cook from scratch every day and share my cakes with friends
I already bake a lot and am happy to try all sorts of recipes so it hasn’t necessarily inspired me to try anything new, but I do love watching the show.
it as inspired me to bake more at home
Dust off the recipe books.
To try cupcakes!
Eat cake!
Experiment with my baking and obviously, eat more cake lol!!!
I’ve always baked, but it’s nice to get some new ideas.
eat a box of mr kiplings, and not worry about the washing upxx
I hadn’t made a swiss roll since school, but now inspired to try one with a pattern in the sponge
It has inspired me to bake more cakes
I have been making lots of cakes and eating lots lol
Every time bake off comes back on the telly it gets me inspired to vaje cakes with my lil boy he lives it… So do i ;0)
To get more creative when baking 🙂
I actually made some pecan brownies that were edible.
Bake more with my daughters xx
To try and make my own bread.
Make Florentines
Bake my daughters 3rd birthday cake! I will be tweeting a piccy!
I dont need inspiration I always bake at least once a week, next big bake though is for a friends coffee morning for macmillan
Eat more cakes
I have baked some cakes, nothing fancy, but the family ate them all so can’t have been that bad! I’ve tweeted as @FamilyClanBlog
I have been inspired to buy my sister some creative baking presents as she is the baker and I enjoy testing the results.
Practice my scone making
Stretch my baking skills by being a bit more ambitious!
I love baking already, but the British Bake Off has been inspired me to be more creative with my presentation
Telling my husband how he would make a wonderful job of cooking cakes and breads and he should give it a go – and he did !!
I am now baking cakes for family and friends to enjoy to the taste of a home baked cake made with love.