Jessica's Bake Off Challenge

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the long delay since my last post. I was digging in Israel over the summer, and then was focused on doing some baking for a friend's wedding last week. I did do some extraneous baking over the summer, but unfortunately was a bit too lackadaisical to write down the recipes I developed for most of the bakes. This post and the next three or four will be dedicated to the various bakes I accomplished during the summer (and other miscellaneous tidbits), and then I shall be celebrating the new series of The Great British Bake Off ! Once I am back in the baking swing of things, I will be devoting my time to challenges from this new Series 10 of GBBO . I just finished watching the first episode of the new series, and have determined that I must accomplish one bake from each episode- AND post about it- before moving on to watch the next episode. As of right now, I am already drying some fruit to make a fruitcake a la Series 10, Episode 1's signature ba