City Girl Reviews: Bake With A Legend
The concept of Bake with a Legend is simple. You watched them on TV and now you can bake with them. Having originally enabled Bake Off fans to bake with some fan favourites face to face, at locations in London and Manchester, the business has now pivoted due to Covid-19 to enable you to get involved in small online classes with strangers or in pre booked private groups.
Classes range from sweet to savoury, with some bakes you may recognise from The Great British Bake Off. You can decide to take part in this solo or add your partner or the rest of your household for a fun date night or social idea.
The Bake
I was given the opportunity to bake black forest eclairs, which were cocoa choux buns filled with cherries and cream and smothered in a chocolate ganache. Baking with others meant that the time flew by and before I knew it I had 8 little eclairs ready to eat.
Myself and a small group, baked alongside Howard Middleton (Bake Off Season 4) who demoed and gave tips throughout. Bakers had to provide their own ingredients and a few ended up bringing slight alternatives such as fresh raspberries to substitute the cherries (which sounded delicious!)
I have to say, the proof was really in the pudding. Although my choux didn’t puff up as much as I would have liked - once the cream, cherries, and chocolate were added they tasted delicious. I made 8, and within moments of the class ending and me showing them to my partner that figure had been halved.
They’ve got a huge range of other classes available, for me the most appealing is another Howard class which is pork pies as I have never mastered hot water crust pastry. This class also has a vegetarian option and if I’m honest, I’m not sure which one sounds better!
Atmosphere
I was amazed at how chilled out and comfortable this felt. In the lead up, I was very much dreading revealing my rather messy, pokey, and not glamorous kitchen to strangers and Howard from Bake Off, but very quickly it felt like catching up with friends.
I was in a small invited group of 6 given the opportunity to bake for a 90 minute class. It was great that everyone in the group had a good sense of humour, and no one was afraid to speak up when something was going wrong or when they had a question. I was impressed too with Howard’s knowledge, I know it sounds silly but Bake Off contestants are not professional bakers but Howard knew a lot.
I loved hearing Howards stories too, if I’m honest I just wanted to chat to Howard all evening, he was just great fun! I feel like the group I was with really gelled and I imagine in one of their face to face classes a lot of people end up grabbing drinks or a coffee afterwards.
Price
Prices for an individual online class are £35 with the cost rising to £50 for a couple. There are also opportunities to book as a private group which I think could be a perfect lockdown birthday party, hen party, or virtual family get together online. Although you have to buy the ingredients yourselves it didn’t require anything fancy. I actually had everything I needed in the cupboard except some fresh cream and the cherries (I used tinned cherry pie topping).
City Girl Rating
★★★★★
This was so much better than I thought it would be and it is something I would definitely consider trying again either on my own or as a date night with my partner.
Perfect for a date night in, family bonding evening while we are all separated across the world, birthday party with a difference or fun work Christmas party- Find out more about what classes and parties Bake With A Legend have on offer HERE!
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Written By Alice Louise Hargreaves
Find Alice and her eating exploits at @alice_ate_here
