“Always roast your nuts. For flavour. But also when you’re baking.”
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On October 13, The Great Australian Bake Off will feature 12 of Australia's best amateur bakers, competing to be crowned this year's champion.
We were lucky to have the show's hosts, Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle, join us in the office to show us a thing or two! We put them to the test with a challenge to decorate the ultimate Showstopper Sponge in five minutes.
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Meanwhile, we grilled them about their experience guiding the bakers over 10 weeks of competition, and what tips and tricks they might have picked up in that time.
How would you explain Great Australian Bake Off to someone who has never seen it before?
Claire Hooper: You take a shed, you put it in the middle of a field, you fill it with normal people, and you submit them to a gruelling schedule. You put them out of their comfort zone, and you turn cameras on them to watch them flounder under the critical gaze of Maggie Beer and Matt Moran. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THE HOSTS! There are also 12 people that do a bit of baking.
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Are there strong Aussie influences on the show?
Mel Buttle: Well I'm on there and I say things like, "grouse cake! Real rippa today!"
CH: And also in the first episode there is a challenge where they're given a lot of specifically Australian Ingredients. The Davidson's Plum...
MB: ...muntries...
CH: Just because it grows on a tree in Australia does not mean it would make a delicious cake ingredient and someone needs to tell Maggie Beer that.
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