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Cherry Bakewell

by Alison Bad Mutha Bateman, Loz McSpoz, Bargain Hunter 11 photos Rated 73% 202 votes when voting closed

Ingredients:

2 x pastry cases
Jar of sainsbury’s el cheapo jam
Large box of icing sugar
Ingredients for Almond sponge (eggs, flour, butter, sugar, crushed almonds)
Glace cherries
3 students with dissertations to write

After weighing up the pros and cons of snacks possibly worthy of pimping it emerged that a firm favourite was the Cherry Bakewell…

1. Pastry cases were crushed till they could take no more and butter was melted until..it was melted…

2. Crushed pastry and butter were united to co-exist as one forever more

Melted butter poured from a bowl into a glass dish of pale crumbs

3. Pastry and butter combo was inhabited in what was to be it’s home for the next 2 hours.. a big bowl which happened to be the right shape (which we had lined with cling film)..which was placed in the freezer

Several hands pressing pale pastry dough into a cling-film-lined mixing bowl to shape the case

4. Icing sugar and water were whipped up into a frenzy

A white mixture being beaten with a whisk in a plastic bowl held on a lap

5. hmmmm almond sponge…

Pale almond sponge batter mixed in a glass dish with a table knife

6. ta-da! (Cherrys are divided and conqered while we wait for sponge to cool)

Baked round almond sponge cooling on a wire rack

7.El-Cheapo jam meets now hard as a bad boy growing up on the streets pastry case

Oversized pastry case sitting in a white bowl, filled with a layer of red jam

8. the sponge is delicately shaped using the ancient technique of ‘cuttingroundaplate’

9.All available tools are employed to place sponge into it’s pastry bed

The baked sponge lowered onto the jam-filled pastry case using two fish slices

10. sponge, jam and pastry are gently smothered in icing

White icing poured from a bowl over the sponge inside the giant pastry case

11. cherries unite.

A hand arranging glace cherries into a cluster on the white iced top

12. How good are we? Baby Bakewell meets the Big Mutha Bakewell..it was all going sooo well until…

The finished giant bakewell on a plate beside a normal-sized cherry bakewell tart for scale

11a…it all went wrong.. unfortunately being the impatient little pimpers that we are we just couldn’t wait for it all to set.. ‘Cut it open’ ‘Lets taste it’ the crowds cried so we gave in…unfortunately so did the bakewell.. still it tasted GOOD…and these pimpers had enough sugar to last them fo’ eva, fo’ eva eva…

The giant bakewell cut open, cherries and jam visible, shop-sized tart perched behind

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