Junior Bake Off Winner Amari answered your questions
Amari won Junior Bake Off 2015. We chatted to her live and asked her your questions, straight after the final on Friday 20th November 2015. Check out her answers below.
Your Questions
NephriteRainbowPenguin - 鈥淲hat was it like cooking for The Vamps?鈥
It was really amazing as well as nerve wracking as I have never cooked for anyone as famous as them before. In fact, I have never cooked for anyone famous, apart from Allegra and Graham, of course!
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BlackSuperPuffin - 鈥淚f you could invent any type of pie, what would it be? Mine would be a salted popcorn and caramel crumble pie!鈥
That sounds yummy! Mine would be mint chocolate chip ice cream pie!
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MustardPartySparrow - 鈥淲hat was the best bake you ever made? How did you make it? How old were you?鈥
The best bake I ever made was when I was still eleven, it was an easter cake and I made a fondant bunny鈥檚 bottom and it looked like the bunny was burrowing into the cake. It also had sponge fingers around the edges.
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BlushGreatGhost - 鈥淲hy do you bake and who inspired you?鈥
I bake because I enjoy it and I like experimenting with different things. I was inspired by my mother and grandmother as they both love baking and every birthday we have three cakes - one made by my mum, one made by my grandma and one made by me.
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PlumSpringyKitten - 鈥淲hat is your worst baking disaster?鈥
Once I baked some cupcakes for my classmates and I put them in the fridge. Unfortunately, my mum had put some fish in the fridge as well so when my friends tried the cakes, they had to spit them out as they tasted of fish.
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CrimsonVanillaTailor - 鈥淲hat is the trickiest bake you have ever done? (It doesn't have to be from Junior Bake Off)鈥.
It is from the Junior Bake Off! it has to be the meringue en bouche - I had made meringue a few times before but it had never been successful and I was not that good at piping! I鈥檝e had lots of practice now though.
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FireOpalLeapingTomato - 鈥淲as it fun being on Bake Off and did anything funny happen that didn't appear on TV?鈥
It was a lot of fun being on Bake Off. The funniest thing happened in the final when Alyth and I were making mini pizzas out of the extra dough from our signature bakes. We were spinning the pizza doughs on our fingers and seeing who鈥檚 could last the longest without breaking their dough. Then Sam and Mark joined in and they were throwing the pizza dough across the Bake Off tent!
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BlueVioletMusicalAnteater - 鈥淲hat was your favourite bake to make?鈥
My favourite bake has to be the puff pastry pin wheels because I really like working with pastry and I had made something like that before with my mum, so it was nice to make them again and get more ideas for the future.
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BlackSportyOrka - 鈥淗ow did you feel when you arrived in the tent?鈥
I was really amazed as I didn鈥檛 realise it would be the actual tent from Great British Bake Off. It was amazing to have all the bowls and equipment to use. It was a bakers paradise.
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EmeraldTerribleGadget - 鈥淲hat is next for you?鈥
I鈥檓 going to carry on baking loads and loads and practising new skills. I will probably try to make eclairs or some bread sometime.
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MustardSquashBobcat - 鈥淲hat advice would you give to a new baker?鈥
At first, just stick to one recipe and keep practising that. As you get used to things, then you can elaborate and express yourself with different things and try new flavour combinations.
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PinkCleverDaffodil - 鈥淚f you could teach anyone to bake, who would it be and why?鈥
It would have to be my little brother because he really likes watching me bake and I鈥檇 love him to love baking as much as I do. My other brothers and sisters don鈥檛 really like baking as much as my little brother.
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ApricotPopularPear - 鈥淗i I love your show! What are Sam and Mark like as presenters? I think there fab and also funny.鈥
They are really funny and they come up with cheeky things sometimes. They鈥檙e really good fun, especially when you鈥檙e under pressure to bake, it鈥檚 really good to have them there.
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PurpleMuffinCamel - 鈥淲hat would you like to bake next?鈥
I鈥檇 like to try some bread or some other styles of baking such as cheesecakes or meringues, maybe even things i鈥檝e made in the show and try and get better at them.
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LimeSmilingConker - 鈥淲hat is it like when you open the oven and the cameras peer inside?鈥
It鈥檚 really cool when you鈥檙e opening the oven and seeing what your bake is like, but there鈥檚 quite a lot of pressure when all the cameras are around and watching what you do. But it鈥檚 cool because you never thought you鈥檇 get to experience something like that.