Great British Bake Off

This year we decided that it would be fun to hold our own Great British Bake off at home for our friends. Each week whichever of our friends could make it would come up with some form of baked goods and present them at our house on a Tuesday night. We would all sit down, drink tea and watch the Bake Off together. All sounds far too civilised really - some weeks we would stuff our faces with about 6 or 7 different cakes and feel slightly ill afterwards. There were a few weeks when there were only a few of us around too and then we'd end up with 2 huge cakes to share between us (some did then get taken to work for pack-up for the next few days after that!)

I promised all of my friends at the beginning of the Bake Off that after we had all finished I would type up everyone's recipes and provide them each with a Bake Off book. This is what I have been working on today - I have typed up most of the recipes (apart from a few that I am waiting for people to send me and some that I need to remember where we got our recipes from...) so hopefully this will be finished soon and ready t give to people.

I have also made a pro to-type for the front covers of the books. It is made from mount board (like you would put around the edge of photos if you cut a hole in the middle) and I have stuck different wrapping papers to the front to make the Union Jack flag. I am going to cover it with sticky-backed plastic before hole punching it and attaching to the pages of the book:

I will provide more pictures when I have done a few more and have finished the insides - I think that will be an extremely photo-heavy post as a warning in advance. Hopefully I should get this all done in the next few weeks.

I'm now going to go and make the most of the extra hour that we have today and sit, watch a film and carry on with my crochet. See you soon!