One of the bakes for this week’s Great British Bake Off challenge is joconde sponge. This obscurely named dessert is a sponge that I hear of once a year and that’s on the Great British Bake Off. I don ...

Attention all bakers: hide that Magimix and put on your best apron, because we have a new superhero in our midst. No, it’s not Nigella, the buxom brownie-maker, or the queen of chocolate roulade Mary ...

One of the bakes for this week’s Great British Bake Off challenge is joconde sponge. This obscurely named dessert is a sponge that I hear of once a year and that’s on the Great British Bake Off. I don ...

Its full name is biscuit joconde and I’m unsure why it’s called biscuit in the first place. We won’t stray into ‘Is Jaffa Cake sponge or biscuit’ territory, except to say that joconde sponge is ...