{"id":461,"date":"2016-08-31T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/causeway\/?p=461"},"modified":"2016-08-31T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:04:59","slug":"bake-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/2016\/08\/31\/bake-time\/","title":{"rendered":"BAKE OFF TIME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great British Bake Off has become a stalwart of BBC1 these days but this seventh series seems to be as much the same as it ever was. It remains every inch the easy watching as\u00a0past series but it seems more polished every year, which for me takes something away from it.\u00a0It sometimes has the feel of the Olympics,\u00a0desperately clinging to amateur status but clearly backed by more money and infrastructure. Over the years the show\u00a0has given inspiration to the masses to get their cake making bits out of the cupboard, dust off the cutting rings and silver sugar balls last used 11 months ago and turn the oven to 180.\u00a0The major difference is that, in my house at least, the kids are not going to rate my cake beyond how large it is and what % is chocolate. For me the pressure of cameras, strange kitchen, strange oven and minor celebs trying to shoe-horn humour and innuendo into every sentence is a non-issue.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Baking is a skill, some say an art, which culminates in something (usually) sweet and tasty. What more can you ask for.<\/p>\n<p>So what else is new so far in this 2016 version&#8230;&#8230;?\u00a0\u201cWhat we wanted to do was take it back to basics a little bit,\u201d said Paul Hollywood. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean the judging\u2019s going to get easier. In fact, it\u2019s going to get harder.\u201d This could just be TV speak for saying.\u00a0\u201cActually, we decided not to change anything.\u201d Like anything repetitive there has to be a careful approach of &#8216;zesting it up&#8217; (see what I did there) for freshness without taking away from a format that seems to be, &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke, why fix it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. enjoy the cakes on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the Causeway School Eastbourne has its own training kitchens which Schools Plus are happy to offer most evenings and weekends. Why not create your own little &#8220;Bake Off&#8221; group with friends and family and use the school for some baking fun and a bit of healthy competition. I expect you an even find some willing judges out there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/causeway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/causeway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"4034\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034-116x70.jpg 116w, http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2016\/08\/4034.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great British Bake Off has become a stalwart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lettings","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/theturingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}