Great British Baking Show ™
Baker:
Season:
Week:
Challenge Type:
Slovakian Apple and Poppyseed Pie
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Nelly: "I'm doing apple and poppy seeds pie."
Paul Hollywood: "So the poppy seeds in the pastry, I take it?"
Nelly: "No, it's going to be poppy seed filling with apples. That's how we do it in Slovakia. This is traditional Slovakian, and it's called Jabikové Pité."
Paul Hollywood: "How much poppy seeds are you putting with that apple?"
Nelly: "So one kilo (36 ounces) of apple and 200 gram (8 ounces) poppy seeds."
Prue Leith: "It's got a lot of poppy seeds."
Nelly: "Get ready with toothpicks afterwards."
Voice-over: "Nelly always takes a slice of her Slovakian apple and poppy seed pie on autumn family walks through her local woods. But it's not just the filling that comes from her home country."
Nelly: "The pastry is a little bit different than your British classical shortcrust pastry. We add the baking powder, so it is a little bit raised up. The only the trouble is you can't really control the thickness, but we'll see."
"I do like the decoration. I think it could have done with a little bit longer in the oven."
"It's just a little bit pale."
Nelly: "It is apple and poppy seeds pie. A short crust pastry with lemon. A little bit inside."
"The filling is exquisite."
"I've never had anything like that before. The pastry is very delicate. It flakes in the mouth, it melts. I just think it needs a little bit longer."
Get recipes ...
Subscribe to our weekly recipes and culinary tips from streamed cooking shows.
Culinary Learnings inspired by The Great British Baking Show ™
About The Great British Baking Show ™
The Great British Bake Off ™ (often abbreviated to Bake Off or GBBO and referred to in the United States as The Great British Baking Show ™) is a streamed British baking competition, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, hoping to impress the judges with their baking skills. One contestant in The Great British Baking Show ™ is eliminated in each round, and the winner is selected from the three contestants who reach the final.
The Great British Baking Show ™ operates on a weekly elimination process to find the best all-around baker from the contestants, who are all amateurs. In each episode, the bakers are given three challenges based on that week's theme: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper. The bakes are assessed by the judges who then choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a contestant is also eliminated. In the final round, three bakers are left and a winner is chosen from the three.
