GBBO Technical Challenge, Season 15 Episode 6: Sticky Vegan Parkin

 

Sticky Vegan Parkin

Week 6 was "Autumn" week which seemed to be an attempt to get people to make spiced desserts, my favorite.

Overall I think I succeed quite well at this except for cutting it. That was problematic due to the stickiness so it ended up uneven and raggedy edges. Another larger problem was my ginger didn't really crystallize, unclear what the failure here was but I think it might have been not cooking them enough during the early phase.  The parkin did they taste great, with a heavy amount of spice.

The initial Ginger boil, this is the step I think I need to go longer on.

This dough had all of the sugars, Black treacle (very similar to Molasses), Dark muscovado sugar, golden syrup and caster sugar.

Mixing up the batter.

I might have ended up a little over baked, Paul probably would have called it burnt, it was hard to see the browning on such dark batter.

The icing was fun to do, I had to use way more syrup then the recipe called for to get it thin enough to decorate with using a spoon like it suggested. Maybe if I piped the decoration then this would have been okay with the amount of suggested syrup.