Bake Off, Undressed

Welcome to episode nine of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. This week was Patisserie Week and it was full of emotions - for both Matt and the contestants. There were tears, cries of WTF and frustrations all over. We had Izy Hossack on the couch today - she wrote her first cookbook at 18 years old (Top with Cinnamon) while studying for her A levels in chemist...

Welcome to episode eight of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. This week was Danish Week and we couldn’t pronounce any of the challenges hence why there were no Hollywood Handshakes. There is a correlation there!

There were tears all round this week but not here on the podcast - where Matt is joined by Ben Ebbrell, one fifth of SORTEDfood, the world’s long...

Welcome to episode seven of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. This week was the history making Vegan Week, a GBBO first! We had mixed feelings - could this have been done earlier in the series? Did they make the Vegan challenges too challenging? Chickpea juice is called Aquafaba?? Lucky we had friend of the pod (and resident vegan) Sarah Austin as our guest t...

Welcome to episode six of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. This week was pastry focused - sweet and savoury (bit controversial). Unfortunately for Matt, it was not Dan’s week at all and we almost had to watch him walk slowly out the door, holding back the tears (us and him)! The surge in Hollywood handshakes continued - we can’t even say anything more about ...

Welcome to episode five of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas and this week was Spice Week and it was HOT IN THE TENT. We had cardamon, we had cinnamon, we had ginger(mon) and we had Paul Hollywood shakes a plenty. Seriously, what is the value of a Hollywood handshake these days?

Our guest this week is Scott Bryan, Buzzfeed TV editor, unofficial / official ...

Welcome to episode four of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. It was Dessert Week, and also the worst week to try and spell any of the bakes (Roulard? Rouland? Blaumonge? Blamang? Who knows…). In a shocking development, Terry had a week off ‘sick’. Really? More like he booked non-refundable Ryanair holiday and didn’t realise he’d make it this far in the show!

Welcome to episode 3 of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas. This week was bread week, which was put the bakers in all sorts of knots. Terry declared bread was his thing - and then he forgot the filling for his bun and the entire country let out a collective sigh - ohhhhhhh TERRY. But then he won the Naan challenge! Naan! GO TERRY! Dan got a handshake - Paul is ...

Welcome to episode two of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas, and talking a whole lot about fingering your bread. This week’s show was all about cakes - from the basic traybake to Monet's birthday cake and the end showstopper featuring what actually nearly stopped the show - the great British heat wave! Terry is hanging by a thread, Manon dropped the F Bomb and...

Welcome to episode one of #BakeOffUndressed with Topless Baker - aka Matt Adlard! We’re recapping last nights #GBBO bakes and dramas - including crunchy Karen's #snackgate and Dan’s prawn-or-baby selfie biscuit (or is it something else…?).

Matt is joined this week by expert baker Juliet Sear - who you may know as she is the creator of the incredible imperfect bakes for the shows TV adverts and the outstanding “cake-traits” - yes...