Blind baking?

[jpaul]

below .. adulterated too, to 10% ! .. that makes 6ml in a £3 bottle => £160 Litre ... appropriate swear word ... wow

 

[Merlin5]

Wow, yeah. I looked at Dr.Oetker Moroccan Almond extract. It's a 35ml bottle and the ingredients are just Vegetable Oil (Sunflower) and Almond Extract. I've not tried it but it doesn't appear to be diluted with water and alcohol.

 

[Merlin5]

I made my first ever pastry recently also for a Bakewell tart but I used baking beans I got from Amazon.

One little tip for the pastry, don’t trim until after you blind bake as it does shrink a bit.

I used this recipe

https://www.bakingmad.com/recipe/bakewell-tart

I made another Bakewell using my recipe, but tried the fondant topping this time. It didn't come out as tidy as yours. I think I splodged a bit too much icing on and the red kind of got smudged. I think I could have afforded to let the white icing set a bit more first before applying the red lines. Also, I used Dr.Oetker red food gel which came out pink, and I've since seen others complaining of the same problem. Which colour gel or paste did you use? All tastes great though.

 

[ElliorR]

I made another Bakewell using my recipe, but tried the fondant topping this time. It didn't come out as tidy as yours. I think I splodged a bit too much icing on and the red kind of got smudged. I think I could have afforded to let the white icing set a bit more first before applying the red lines. Also, I used Dr.Oetker red food gel which came out pink, and I've since seen others complaining of the same problem. Which colour gel or paste did you use? All tastes great though.

Still looks nice matey. My photo was from something like my 5th attempt and the first one I wanted to photograph.

I bought Cake Decor Gel Food Colour Red. I got it from Morrisons so I know they sell it.

 

[Merlin5]

Still looks nice matey. My photo was from something like my 5th attempt and the first one I wanted to photograph.

I bought Cake Decor Gel Food Colour Red. I got it from Morrisons so I know they sell it.

Thanks, may give it a punt. Only one review on it though which says
"Barely even food colouring
Generally I would expect gel food colouring to be more concentrated than traditional liquid food colouring. This was not that. A whole tube barely rendered my bowl of icing pink."

But yours came out quite nice and red. Did you have to use more than a couple of drops? There's another I'm considering which has great reviews on amazon called Rainbow Dust ProGel, which I can get from a shop called Hobbycraft.

 

[ElliorR]

Thanks, may give it a punt. Only one review on it though which says
"Barely even food colouring
Generally I would expect gel food colouring to be more concentrated than traditional liquid food colouring. This was not that. A whole tube barely rendered my bowl of icing pink."

But yours came out quite nice and red. Did you have to use more than a couple of drops? There's another I'm considering which has great reviews on amazon called Rainbow Dust ProGel, which I can get from a shop called Hobbycraft.

I probably used more than a few drops.