the search for the platinum pudding began with a once in a lifetime competition more than 5
000 bakers competed to create a pudding fit for the queen britain is going to be so delighted
and the queen too gemma was crowned the winner with this seven-layered lemon and amaretti trifle
it was really important to the judges that the winning entry had a bit of a story behind it and
it just so happens that i found a couple of blue peter fans with some sweet stories of their own
bp fans and baking superstars clara and rocco are going to help me recreate the platinum pudding
but first they've each brought their favorite homemade desserts for me to try clara rocco
you're huge into your baking aren't you you love it yeah what do you love so much about bacon clara
thing about baking is i like how there's always a set recipe to do things if you follow the recipe
you have a great outcome there's not really a way you can go wrong with you straight up a path
so for baking for me is like you make food and then you eat the food and then the food's very
nice that's true that's very very true make food eat food food's very nice tell us about
your dessert as well so this is a tiramisu and it tastes very nice it's a traditional italian dish
and every time i go to italy we have loads of tiramisu and it's absolutely delicious it tastes
so nice it looks stunning clara what about you because these look completely different but also
delicious so these are called jujube cakes these were usually given to
royalty in china such as emperor empress which is sort of why i brought it along today because it
links into the jubilee and the queen everything looks so good almost too good to eat but we're
going to anyway should we dig in yeah yes first up it's clara's jujube cakes let's try this cheers
because they include goji berry juice water chestnut powder
and a bit of sugar those flavors are amazing it was really nice it was a
bit sweet it was incredible i loved it okay rocco your turn ready yep
there you go there's mascarpone there is um whipped cream there's egg whites egg yolks
sugar amazing first of all i can just taste all the textures all the flavor all the sweetness
in my mouth at once i think i found the right people to help me out because today we're going
to be making the official platinum pudding now all we need is a pro to lead the way and who better
than great british bake off finalist chicks so today we are going to attempt to make this beast
it looks complicated but if you break it down by each component it's absolutely fine this
epic royal trifle is layered with lemon curd swiss roll fruit jelly creamy custard mandarin [ __ ]
whipped cream tasty amaretti biscuit and some delicious white chocolate to top it off
so if we work together as a team we're going to absolutely smash it and i'll just like
cheerleading a background yeah are we going to get him to bake yeah yeah okay i'll try my best
right ready i'm ready are you ready come on then let's do it so what you want to do first of all
is start with the swiss roll stuff so if i can ask you rocco and richie to start making the
swiss roll batter okay okay and then clara if you can start making the amaretti biscuits okay
while rocco and i crack on with the eggs huh sorry clara gets busy whisking that's it now whisk that
until it goes all pale and fluffy today we're making just some elements of this pudding but this
royal dish can actually be made without any baking at all so gemma the lovely lady who actually won
the competition and who created this recipe she's made it so you can actually do some cheaps to
it as well okay so like the custard you can buy already made yeah the jelly you can buy ready made
you could probably even replace the chocolate with chocolate bars if you wanted to white
chocolate bars if you wanted to so in theory even i could make up yes you could with the egg whites
nice and fluffy clara adds ground almonds and some caster sugar to make a nice dough for the biscuits
meanwhile rocco is putting me to work you also know how to break my arms
i said go for it rishi that's it look at that there you go there you go like that
cool so rocker do you want to sift the flour into the mix with the flour added we pour our sponge
mixture into two baking trays and both the sponge and the amaretti biscuits are put into the oven
i helped officially 15 minutes later and clara's biscuits are looking amazing but what about
mine and rocco's sponge i think that's a perfect sponge perfect spoiler well done that's your good
work thank you there you go in order to get that all-important swirl our flat sponge is carefully
rolled creating a spiral design for the base of our trifle look at that swirl now a trifle like
this needs time in the fridge so the layers can set but with a bit of tv magic here's one we made
earlier yeah yeah always wanted to say that line now that we have a sturdy base we can build the
rest of our masterpiece in goes the custard along with clara's amaretti biscuits beer in my hands
now on top of that is the mandarin [ __ ] yeah i'll do one in a different area some delicious
whipped cream pretty spot on and finally a bit of decorative flair with some chocolate shards on top
of course it's all about the presentation well i think that the queen herself would be very very
happy with that it looks spectacular ladies and gentlemen i give you the platinum pudding
and we all know there's only one more thing to do alright we're ready guys yes let's try this okay
a bit of cream here bit of everything another biscuit
win a winner chicken dinner there are gonna be thousands of these made this weekend
but none of them are gonna beat this one cheers