This year’s Great New Year Bake Off features Scottish contestants from previous seasons to celebrate Hogmanay:
Lea – S1 (9th place)
James – S3 finalist
Norman – S5 (7th place)
Peter – S11 winner
Kevin – S13 (6th place)
Nicky – S14 (8th place)
signature challenge: black bun
who made what: [Spoiler (click to open)]
James – Rabbie Burns black bun with whisky, vermouth, cherry lambic, kirsch, cherries, almonds, black & white pastry lattice
Kevin – whisky soaked apricots, pomelo, cranberries, & pistachios, golden almond marzipan, pistachio hibiscus marzipan & short crust pastry tartan
Lea – Desperate Dan’s coo pie with marzipan horns, currents, raisins, Scottish rum-soaked prunes, marzipan veg, short crust pastry
Nicky – Angus the Highland cow with whisky infused currents, raisins, cherries, clove, cinnamon, ginger, Scottish cheddar
Norman – mum’s special with whisky infused filling, marzipan Scottish flag insert, pastry lattice, Scottish macaroon bars (Hollywood handshake for the macaroon bars)
Peter – orange marzipan, cherries, pistachios, pastry thistles
technical challenge: shortbread snowflake with royal icing (no recipe provided)
rankings: [Spoiler (click to open)]
1 – James
2 – Peter
3 – Nicky
4 – Lea
5 – Norman
6 – Kevin
showstopper challenge: cranachan inspired dessert display
who made what: [Spoiler (click to open)]
James – cranachan croquembouche with oat craquelin, raspberry craquelin, raspberry mousseline, honey whiskey diplomat
Kevin – 3 tiered cake with raspberry sponge, rosewater sponge, raspberry curd, oat praline, cream cheese frosting, meringue
Lea – cranachan cake with jaconde sponge, raspberry mousse, oat biscuit, honey whisky ricotta cream, chocolate collar, cakepop snowman
Nicky – cranachan charlotte russe with ginger biscuit base, raspberry mousse, whisky honey cream, toasted oats, ladyfingers, spun sugar
Norman – seven tier pavlova with meringues, honey cranachan cream, whisky, toasted oats, raspberries, semolina shortbread (2 Hollywood handshakes – 1 for the pavlova and 1 for the shortbread)
Peter – cranachan croquembouche with nougatine discs, honey & raspberry mascarpone cream, oat crumble, freeze dried raspberries
winner: [Spoiler (click to open)] Peter
