Great canadian baking show recipes

Nothing beats homemade bread on the dinner table. These breadsticks are great with soups and salads, your family’s favourite lasagne, and even as an after-school snack. Let the kids help shape and roll out the dough and choose their own toppings. Any kind of spice, seed and salt will be delicious. Breadsticks Note: If using a stand mixer, simply follow the directions using a dough hook attachment and knead on medium speed until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes.

The bakers were put to the test one last time on Finale Week with this tricky, Technical Bake cake.

The trick to a perfect brandy snap is timing: if the biscuit is under- or over-baked, it'll be impossible to roll.

This classic Bakewell tart recipe consists of sweet almond frangipane and raspberry jam inside a shortcrust pastry shell. Easy and delicious.

For the Technical Bake in Cookie Week, the bakers take a spin with pirouettes.

10 kitchen tips from 3 seasons of the CBC series.

Two maple leaf shortbread cookies sandwiching a layer of maple cream — what could be more Canadian than that? Maple leaf sandwich cookies were the technical challenge for Canada Week on The Great Canadian Baking Show.

The ultimate challenge in the season finale

Sadiya didn't use any yeast to make this quick-bread naan, but she still managed to rise to the occasion. ► Watch Bread Week (Season 2, Episode 3) Sadiya's naan won her the Star Baker title for Bread Week.

Opera cake is a complex dessert, made with joconde sponge, chocolate ganache, coffee buttercream and chocolate glaze — all in perfect even layers. The final flourish is the word Opera written on the top of the cake. "One chance. Opera means elegance and if you write or appear like a child, your cake is not going to look very elegant at all," says Great Canadian Baking Show judge Bruno Feldeisen. This opera cake was the technical bake for French Patisserie Week on The Great Canadian Baking…