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Great British Bake Off Birthday Party

March 14, 2016 by Julie 1 Comment

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Kids have birthday parties based on characters from television shows quite often. But adult birthday parties based on tv shows can be just as much, if not more, fun. This weekend my sister threw a Great British Bake Off Birthday party. If you’re unfamiliar with this show I suggest you remedy that asap.

great british bake off party show stopper ingredients

I watched a lot of The Great British Bake Off in preparation for the show. I needed to nail down all the right catch-phrases. Included the proper way to say “Ready, Set, Bake” to start our show-stopper competition.

great british bake off party food

For the party Kara, the birthday girl, and one of her guests competed head to head in the show-stopper competition. This meant that they made an entire cake, start to finish, during the party. Everything was set up in the kitchen. Each contestant had their own stand mixer and recipe. And all of the ingredients were in the center of the kitchen (as well as a large trash can.) We used my parents house for the party because they have a double oven, which meant each baker had their own oven to use for baking.

great british bake off party scones

The guests who weren’t competing in the cake baking competition were each asked to bring a specific dish for the party table. We had crumpets, Yorkshire pudding, homemade biscuits, fresh bread, cheese, and scones.

I was in charge of bringing scones and I picked some savory pumpkin sage scones. The party food table were primarily savory dishes since we would cake two cakes at the end of the party for sweets. I picked savory pumpkin scones because I often make sweet pumpkin spice scones and I thought it would be a fun twist.

great british bake off party food table

And lots of red, white, and blue to go with the show theme.

great british bake off party guests

A party that is all about food is bound to keep the guests primarily in the kitchen. We made sure our two bakers were brought drinks and snacks while they worked. And just like the show there was a time limit for the cake baking.

great british bake off party bunting

The Great British Bake Off website has an entire party pack that you can download to throw your own party, and it includes this bunting, the front door sign, invites, and more. (And it’s free!)

great british bake off party ganache

Pouring the chocolate ganache over her Almond Joy cake.

great british bake off party strawberry shortcake cheesecake

Show stopper cakes have to have some garnish on top!

great british bake off party show stopper cakes

Our fabulous bakers. The show stopper cake recipes were an Almond Joy cake on the left and Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake on the right.

great british bake off party almond joy cake

As Mary Berry and Paul would say, it’s important to be able to see distinct layers in your sponge (cake). The Almond Joy cake featured layers of chocolate sponge with coconut sponge in the middle. (Gotta get those phrases right!)

great british bake off party show stopper cakes almond joy and strawberry cheesecake shortcake

Kara had prizes for each of her guess. I got some adorable teaspoons that look like owls. She knows me well.

Come back tomorrow for the recipes for both of our show stopper cakes!

Want more birthday party idea’s based on TV shows? Check out the Lip Sync Battle Birthday Party we threw! 

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  1. Mori says

    July 27, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    I love the show and I think this is an awesome party idea which you have implemented. Great job!

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