Richard Burr Bakes It Better for Great Ormond Street Hospital with this Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cake

Richard Burr Bakes It Better for Great Ormond Street Hospital with this Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cake

by | May 12, 2017 | Celebrity, Featured, GloKitchen

Bake it Better Week: 22-28 May 2017

 

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Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Registered charity no. 1160024

RISE TO THE CHALLENGE AND HELP ‘BAKE IT BETTER’ FOR

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY

*Charity calls on the nation to “Get Your Bake On” and raise vital funds for GOSH*

Bake it Better in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is back this summer and the charity is encouraging amateur bakers to cook up some vital cash by hosting a bake sale between 22-28 May. Whether you’re a complete kitchen novice or a star baker in the making, every penny raised will make a huge difference to seriously ill children from across the UK who are cared for at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

The leading children’s charity is challenging budding bakers to create tempting treats to sell at home, in the office, at school or in their community, all to raise vital money for GOSH. To kick-start Bake it Better week, the charity has put together a free fundraising kit for every host which is jam-packed full of bunting, cake toppers, posters, celebrity and patient recipes, baking themed games, stickers and top tips to ensure every bake sale is a sweet success.

Money raised will help Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide world-class care for young patients and their families. It could fund pioneering medical research, state-of-the-art medical equipment, support services for patients and their families which includes parent accommodation so mums and dads can stay close by, and help the rebuilding and refurbishment of the hospital.

Laura Savory, Head of Community Fundraising at Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity, says: “Whether you’re a whizz in the kitchen or just starting out, you’ll be part of a team of bakers who are joining in the fun and raising money to improve the lives of seriously ill children cared for at GOSH at the same time. Every bake sale, no matter how big or how small, will help us make a real difference to GOSH’s young patients from right across the UK, and help us support their families too. So please roll up your sleeves, get your bake on and sign up!”

Richard Burr star of The Great British Bake Off gives you this wonderful recipe, all in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, a moist Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cake.

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Ingredients

For 2 x 7″ sponges

  • 200g plain flour
  • 225g caster sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 175g unsalted butter
  • 50g peanut butter
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • 2 1/2tsp baking powder

For the buttercream

  • 200g icing sugar
  • 150g peanut butter
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 2 tbsp milk

For the ganache & finish

  • 300ml double cream
  • 300g dark chocolate
  • 50g peanut butter
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • packet of Reese’s mini peanut butter cups

Method

N.B. I have made this cake using 7″ round tins but it would work with 6″ or 8″ tins too – you may just have to adjust the cooking time

  1. Grease and line your tins with baking parchment
  2. Pre-heat the oven to 180oC  / fan 160oC  / gas mark 4
  3. For the sponges, cream together the butter, peanut butter and caster sugar with an electric hand whisk
  4. Beat the eggs into the mix
  5. Mix the baking powder and cocoa powder into the plain flour – you’ll need to sieve these together, as the cocoa powder and baking powder can clump together
  6. Fold these dry ingredients into the mix with a silicone spatula
  7. Divide the mixture evenly between the two cake tins (about 440g in each if you’re weighing your tins) and smooth the surface with an offset palette knife
  8. Bake for 20 minutes or until a cocktail stick poked into the centre comes out clean
  9. Allow the sponges to cool in their tins for 10 minutes before taking them out and putting them on a cooling rack
  10. To make the buttercream, add the butter, peanut butter and icing sugar into a bowl and beat slowly with an electric hand whisk until you have a smooth mix – you may need to add a little milk to get a smooth enough consistency to spread
  11. Meanwhile, make the ganache by breaking the chocolate into a heatproof bowl. Put the cream into a saucepan and heat until just before it starts to simmer. As soon as it’s reached this point, tip the cream into the chocolate and mix. If it starts to split (i.e. go greasy and bitty-looking) then add around 2tbsp of warm milk and this should bring it back. As the ganache cools it will begin to thicken up, making it easier to apply
  12. I used my cake cutter to cut each sponge in half horizontally so that there were four thin layers in the cake. If you don’t have a cake cutter, you can use a large bread knife (watch your fingers!) or just have two layers instead
  13. Build the cake by spreading layers of buttercream between each of the four sponges with an offset palette knife
  14. Coat the cake with ganache and smooth with a palette knife. If the ganache starts to split as you’re spreading just put your palette knife in very hot water, dry it and continue smoothing
  15. Gently heat 50g of smooth peanut butter on the hob and drizzle this over the ganache on top of the cake. Use a cocktail stick to swirl the peanut butter and ganache together, creating a marbled effect
  16. Decorate the sides of the cake with Reese’s mini peanut cups (or other sweets of your choice) and make a peanut butter lover very, very happy!

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Our thanks to Richard and Great Ormond Street Hospital for this recipe

For more information, and to sign up and request a Bake it Better fundraising kit, visit http://www.bakeitbetter.org/

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FOSTERING FORTNIGHT 2017 – CHANGING LIVES FOREVER

FOSTERING FORTNIGHT 2017 – CHANGING LIVES FOREVER

by | May 11, 2017 | Featured, GloWellness

As we come into Fostering Fortnight once again, we learn that 9,070 new foster families are needed over the next year alone, in order to meet the needs for the thousands of children who are both vulnerable and at risk of being abused or neglected.

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Caring families, couples or individuals who feel that they have the capacity to give time to one or more of these children are urgently needed.

If you are able to offer the time and dedication to care for a young person, then you may be on the brink of an amazing new life challenge and rewarding career.

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Being a foster carer does indeed work both ways, and this was verified when we spoke to Debbie and Mike Reynolds who have adopted one child and fostered several over the years. ‘We are commended by so many people for the life changing work we have carried out with our foster children, but the rewards for us totally outweigh the work we have done and it is an incredible experience to make a difference to a child’s life and turn it around.’ Said Mike.

Debbie told us ‘We are mum and dad to some incredible children, some of whom are now at University and working in great jobs, something we have been able to offer them with advice and support over the years.’

Debbie and Mike have taken on some very challenging young people, which turned their lives around – just as they tell us, by offering them life choices and making them aware of the outcome.

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If you are considering a career or life change in a career in fostering – the rewards will be incredible for you too, and you will be supported 24/7 by the Fostering Agency of your choice.

TACT offer some amazing support with excellent on-going training, access to the local fostering team, local support groups and social events and a generous salary and benefits package.

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If you have been thinking about fostering for a while, contact your local TACT office, and find out how you can begin to embark on the career that will change both your life and that of a vulnerable child.

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All The World Is Our Stage – So Let’s Get Creative

All The World Is Our Stage – So Let’s Get Creative

by | May 8, 2017 | Celebrity, Featured, GloWellness

How many times have you heard the terminology ‘get a proper job?’ when someone wants to go into the creative arts, as if there is no hope of earning an income from such an outrageous career choice.

The same when going to the Theatre, Opera or Ballet, where you feel that the audience is part of the privileged elite.

So how do we create a space where we are not just preaching to the converted? Well, it seems It is actually beginning to happen, and the world is ready to amalgamate graft with creativity.

Take the Festival of Making https://festivalofmaking.co.uk/ that has just taken place in Blackburn – the first of its kind where industry is connected to art in every form. Art In Manufacturing for instance, where they unite artists and local industrial manufacturers in a creative collaboration.

It is evident with the success of Big Brother and increase in reality shows that the world is obsessed with being taken into people’s homes or communities to share their experiences.

After all, real life dramas happen all the time, whether it be at work, in the home or on the street. We heard of someone recently, waiting for a bus at the Oval in London with their small child, and a car skidded up, a man pulled a gun to the little guy standing next to her. It turned out to be a plain clothes policeman in a drug raid. The lady in question was too stunned to take a picture or video on her phone, but walked away with her child and after recovering from the shock, wished she had. That was an average day in an ordinary person’s life, but could have been a scene from a Hollywood movie.

Years ago the fifties ‘kitchen sink’ drama ‘Look Back in Anger’ was the film that made Albert Finney famous, and was set against a backdrop of Northern working class Britain and a desperate man in an unlikely marriage, struggling for survival.

Similarly ‘Cathy Come Home’ in the sixties portrayed an unmarried Mother swimming against the tide of prejudice and judgement. Both told stories of ordinary life and were blockbusters in their day. It started a trend for ‘real life’ dramas on celluloid, and brought starting reality to the big screen.

The locations are not always glamorous, and can take place in an office, a factory, or on your street corner – and these days ordinary people are capturing those moments on their iphone or ipad and sharing them with the World, some receiving millions of hits.

Take the young mum blogger ‘Tired and Tested’ who recently rewrote lyrics to one of Ed Sheeran’s songs ‘Shape of You’ and recorded it on her ipad in her kitchen, lyrics about how hard it is to be a mum. Lines like  “I gag at the smell of poo, and the sight of vomit too,”  As a result, her video went viral, and she is now a household name. So many parents relate to her situation .

See the video here

 

So in a thrice we can transform some part of our mundane everyday into moments of magic. After all, as the old saying goes, ‘truth is stranger than fiction’, and in your case it could also be your fortune or at least your claim to fame.

 

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