Well where to begin?
This has simply been the most incredible year of my life. What a journey it has been through the
@BritishBakeOff
tent. I’ve seen myself grow in confidence from week to week, and I can look back now with so much pride.
How amazing was that?
I’m into the final of
@BritishBakeOff
! Star baker in the semi-final and 1st in technical, just wow!
So proud of this week’s showstopper, probably the proudest I’ve felt after any bake.
See you all next week, for one last time.
#gbbo
#starbaker
#bakeoff
Such an honour to bake alongside two absolute legends in Dan and Matty. You are both incredible and I can’t wait to see what you do next.
Bake Off, thank you for everything.
Nanny, you were right in getting me to apply again. You were always right. X
#bakeoff
#gbbo
A Chemistry Showstopper Cake.
Chocolate and coffee flavours.
Decorated with structures of caffeine (in coffee) and the likes of theobromine, butyric acid and phenylethylamine (all found in chocolate)!
For
@NCanagarajah
’s visit to
@Leicesterchem
@uniofleicester
#chemtwitter
Merry Christmas Everyone! 🎅🏻🎄⛄️
Just completed one of my Christmas morning traditions; harvesting the Brussel sprouts! Now to get them prepped and cooked for Christmas dinner.
Hope you all have a wonderful day, eat loads of food and enjoy all the family traditions of your own.
Well that was a choco-lot of fun wasn’t it!🤪
My Showstopper theme for this week is CHEMISTRY; what I spend my day to day working life doing as a Post Doc researcher.
This chocolate box is to celebrate the upcoming centenary period for
@leicesterchem
at
@uniofleicester
.
Josh is a post-doctoral research associate from Leicestershire who’s a chemist by trade. He brings his scientific precision to baking so it’s unlikely he’ll need first aid.
#GBBO
The final showstopper encouraged us to use flavours to tell a story within bake. In homage to my love of gardening, here’s a ‘Slice of the Seasons’, with rhubarb (Spring), Strawberry (Summer) and Apple (Autumn) flavours, seasonal decoration, and a biscuit greenhouse on top.
Publication time! A change from my recent baking related posts 😆
Delighted to have my work published in
@ACSMedChemLett
. Was putting this together whilst preparing for the final stages of
@BritishBakeOff
. Rewarding in a very different way 😂
#chemtwitter
Cake week completed. So nervous beforehand, but absolutely loved it once I got baking.
Thank you everyone for all the support and lovely messages. It means a lot. Up next….. Biscuit week 🍪😊 See you there!
#gbbo
#gbbo14
@channel4
@britishbakeoff
The wait is over. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I will be donning the apron, and entering THE famous white tent for S14 of
@BritishBakeOff
A dream come true -such a special opportunity to be part of the Bake Off family. I can’t wait to share this experience with you all. X
Game, Set and Match …. progressing through to the Quarter Finals. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that would be possible!
Tennis themed showstopper, as one of my big summer highlights is watching
@wimbledon
.
@BritishBakeOff
#gbbo
#bakeoff
The best kind of party is a Christmas party, right? Hope my bakes this week have put you all into the the festive spirit. 🎅🏻🎄☃️🎁🛷
An incredible feeling to have made it through to the semi-final. Better than any Christmas present ever!
#GBBO
#bakeoff
#christmas
@BritishBakeOff
It was my ambition for as long as I remained in the competition to showcase all my passions and interest in my bakes, delivering strong themes with really personal flavours. I think I’ve done that, none more so than with the showstoppers.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that
@joshpsmalley
has kindly agreed to be a patron of Edgar's Gift charity 💙.
Josh is a Research Associate in chemistry at the University of Leicester and was a finalist on the Great British Bake Off on Channel 4 in 2023.
Well….. a SHOWSTOPPER Hollywood handshake - I was not expecting that at all! Just wow. 🍔🍔🍔
So so happy to have made it through biscuit week. Absolutely loved the illusion biscuit banquet challenge.
Biscuit done, now onto Bread. X🥖 🍞
#GBBO
#GBBO14
@BritishBakeOff
C Ho Co La Te Macarons for
@RoySocChem
Chemistry Week (5th - 11th Nov 2023).
This years theme: ‘How is Chemistry making the world a better place’
Looking forward to seeing what events are going on and how people are celebrating it.
#chemistryweek
#chemtwitter
@Leicesterchem
Thanks everyone for such lovely messages. I haven’t got the time to thank you all individually, but I’ve read every reply. The support means so much.
Rest assured the baking will ofcourse continue. Looking forward to some exciting stuff in the near future. Keep an eye out 😊
A lemon and white chocolate cake 🍋
Made specially for
@bbcleicester
in celebration of the launch of this years ‘Make a Difference Awards’. And delighted to say I will be helping judge the nominations. Had a great chat with
@ady_dayman
today all about it.
#BBCMakeADifference
Chemist Josh Smalley is competing in The Great British Bake Off this year. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where he cooks up small-molecule probes and proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs). Read more:
I dough not believe it, I’ve made it through bread week! The nerves hit new heights this week with the prospect of baking for the Breadfather (a.k.a Paul Hollywood). But I absolutely loved it once I got baking.
Bread done, up next is chocolate!
#GBBO
#GBBO14
@BritishBakeOff
Absolutely delighted to be the first Chemistry Champion for
@Salters_Inst
. I can’t wait to get involved.
I hope my time with Salters’ will inspire more young people to pursue chemistry and the related sciences in and beyond school.
#chemistry
@Leicesterchem
@uniofleicester
We are excited to announce that Dr
@joshpsmalley
will be the first Salters’ Chemistry Champion of 2024.
Josh, a finalist on season 14 of
@BritishBakeOff
, is also a chemical biologist at the
@uniofleicester
.
Read more about Chemistry Champions here:
Love this 🐯
I was so excited and proud to be able to showcase rugby and especially the Leicester Tigers in this weeks Showstopper! And the judges comments this week were amazing 😊
@LeicesterTigers
That’s fantastic!! As a lover of rugby and season ticket holder for over 15 years, I had to bring the Leicester Tigers into the Bake Off tent 🐯🙌
An new take on the Tiger Bread 😆 Hope everyone likes it! 😊
🍪Calling biscuit lovers🍪
With the release of Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea by Michelle Francl last week, it’s time for that question: what’s your favourite biscuit with a cuppa?
4 polls below. I will combine the winner of each poll and design a super biscuit!
Please Share 🔁
It was lovely to chat with
@cenmag
for this article- ‘Bringing Chemistry Nerdiness to TV Baking’
It discusses my Bake Off Chocolate Box, which was designed to celebrate the upcoming
@Leicesterchem
centenary at the
@uniofleicester
.
Happy Halloween!!
🎃👻🧙♀️🐈⬛🧟♂️🕷️
Enjoy your trick or treating later today. Stock up on all those treats, then you can tuck into them whilst watching
@BritishBakeOff
on Channel 4 at 8pm. It’s botanicals week 🌺
#halloween
#gingerbread
#gbbo
#bakeoff
Back on tv, but my turn to judge. How did I do?
Beheaded the snowman in true Paul Hollywood style 😂😂😂
Thanks
@sarahhawleytv
for inviting me, absolutely loved doing this. ☺️
Thrilled to announce the opening of the Science Kitchen at
@uniofleicester
. A multifaceted space for food-related scientific videos, demonstrations, talks, research and events. A great way to showcase science in the real world and encourage the next generation of scientists. /1
Such a great time organising my annual Pancake Celebrations at
@Leicesterchem
@uniofleicester
Thanks to everyone who came along. We have raised over £250 for two amazing charities
@age_uk
&
@Salters_Inst
Well worth the effort of making over 200 pancakes last night 🥞
Thanks as always!! 🌺☺️
Plenty of chemistry equipment on show again this week- with crystallisation dish plus disposable syringes and needles to help create the jelly art 🌺 You just can’t take a chemist out the lab, we need our science fix 😂
#chemtwitter
#chemistswhobake
Mini Simnel Cakes for Easter Sunday 🐣
The traditional Easter cake for me, but in miniature form this year so I can share them with friends and family.
Recipe is on my website if you want to give them a try this weekend:
Happy Easter Everyone🐣🌷🪺🐰
Really excited to announce I will be at the Cheltenham Science Festival this year on Saturday 8th June as the on stage chemist cook in ‘Culinary Reactions’ - event code L004.
For more details see
@cheltfestivals
#CheltSciFest
👨🔬👨🍳🧪🧬 ⚛️
Haha, yep progressing through to Quarter Finals. Still can’t believe it.
In the words of Dame Prue “If Wimbledon did Strawberries and Cream like this, it would be terrific.”
I couldn’t ask for better praise than that, a comment I won’t forget 😌🎾🍓
@Wimbledon
It was a joy to talk to
@cenmag
about all things bake off and chemistry!
Please give this a read if you want to hear about my chemistry-themed showstopper on Bake Off; a celebration of the upcoming centenary for
@Leicesterchem
at
@uniofleicester
.
#chemtwitter
What a wonderful start to the week this was. A joy to chat to all the children from Years 4-6 at
@MowmacreHill
this morning. And so many great questions about baking and science!
Love this drawing by Prof Andy Abbott (from
@Leicesterchem
) of me in the
@BritishBakeOff
tent during Bread Week! Drawn as part of the
#inktober
challenge 2023- word prompt was ‘rise’. I’m honoured to have made the cut for one of his amazing chemistry-themed drawings.
#chemtwitter
Can’t wait for you to meet my Bake Off family. They are all superstars. X
See you at 8pm next Tuesday, 26th September, on Channel 4.
#GBBO14
#chemtwitter
🧁 Episode 17 has dropped! 🧁
A special treat this week as we:
🍰 Chat to Bake-Off star (and Tigers fan)
@joshpsmalley
🦅 Review the Falcons win with
@CRichardsonTel
⛈️ Look ahead to a brand new fixture against the Stormers
Get it in your ears!
Don’t forget to join me for my
@ChemistryWorld
Webinar on 27th March. We’ll have some live demonstrations as I host the session from my Science Kitchen! Register below 👇
Do you consider yourself a beginner baker, confident confectioner, perfect pâtissier or somewhere in between? Whatever your skill level, join us for a free webinar all about the science of baking with
@BritishBakeOff
2023 finalist
@joshpsmalley
!
Ok so it’s my last Afternoon show
@BBCLeicester
but it’s going to be a good one.
Talking to the incredible
@BellaRamsey
about their role in Time, neurodivergence and what they loves about home.
And my own Bake Off with
@joshpsmalley
Join me one last time 2-6pm ❤️
I had a wonderful visit to
@Warning_Zone
this morning, a Leicester charity dedicated to teaching life-skills and safeguarding children. Thanks for the invite Richard and leading me around the Zones- an amazing setup. I can’t wait to return soon for a talk and fundraising event.
Delighted to have passed my PhD viva yesterday🙌 Very grateful to my examiners Glenn (
@BurleyResearch
) and
@RichardDoveston
for their generous comments and discussions on taking the research forwards. And huge thanks to my supervisors James, John and Shaun!
@HodgUoL
@RamLeicester
Super eggcited to be doing my annual Pancake Celebrations in
@Leicesterchem
on Tuesday! Always a fun event and raising money for 2 amazing charities
@age_uk
&
@Salters_Inst
. Eggs supplied by the Happy Egg Co.
Just the 250 pancakes to make on Monday in readiness 🥞
@uniofleicester
Annual visit to the
@JHMTorguk
Christmas Fair with Mum and Dad this morning. A local charity, raising awareness of SADS (Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome).🦋
Lots of lovely chats about Bake Off, stocked up on Xmas decorations, and of course I wore a Xmas t-shirt 🎄🎄
@TheBHF
It was great to meet you too
@Arran_Solo
Thanks so much for the
@Asynt
kit, it will be put to excellent use immediately!
Next time you visit I will be sure to bake something 😂
Wonderful to meet Dr
@joshpsmalley
@Leicesterchem
#GBBO
finalist yesterday - exciting times ahead for sure in your chemistry of baking journey 😃
@Asynt
are proud to have supplied the tools you use for all your lab exploits.
When is it cake o clock? 🎂🍰🧁
I'm very excited to share that
@joshpsmalley
will be joining a
@ChemistryWorld
webinar on March 27th for a live baking session, sharing more about the Bake-Off experience and how chemistry plays an important role in baking.
Register for free here:
The new GBBO book: Kitchen Classics is out today!! What an incredible feeling it is to have one of my recipes featured inside, along with those of my fellow bakers. That’s my Christmas present for friends and family sorted for this year! Enjoy X
#gbbo
#gbbo14
@BritishBakeOff
After a crazy Tuesday, back to a bit of normality yesterday. Attending the
@RSCEastMidlands
local section event with a great talk and celebrating the UG students receiving their 1st year practical prizes. Hopefully they continue to do great things
@RoySocChem
#chemtwitter
And what a Fantastic
#AutumnFest
it was. Our liquid nitrogen ice cream was a huge hit. 🍨🍦Great to see so many people attend the event. There was so much on offer to see. 😊
🍪🧪 It's
#BiscuitWeek
on
@BritishBakeOff
We're throwing our support behind
@joshpsmalley
the chemist-turned-baker extraordinaire! 🍰
Grab your lab coats (or aprons) & let's cheer on
#TeamJosh
as he combines his love for chemistry with his passion for baking! 👨🔬🧁
#GBBO
A flippin’ fantastic pancake day in
@Leicesterchem
yesterday. Liquid nitrogen ice cream was a big hit! Well worth 3hrs of pancake flipping on Monday evening-150 in total 🥞🤩
And £70 in donations raised for
@BritishRedCross
appeals for Turkey-Syria earthquake and Ukraine crisis.
Pancake Day celebrations in
@Leicesterchem
yesterday!🥞🍨🍓🫐🍫🍯🫖☕️
Amazing turnout-bringing together UGs, PGRs and both academic and technical staff.
Overwhelmed with the interest and generosity, so we’ve accumulated nearly £50 of profits to donate to aid funds for Ukraine🇺🇦
Dive into the fascinating world of culinary chemistry with
@joshpsmalley
! From beautiful bread to decadent desserts, this webinar will explore the science that enables bakers to work their magic. Don't miss out on a mouthwatering journey – register today:
Cheers Jack. So chuffed.
Haha, well to be honest I’ve not seen your baking. So maybe it’s your turn to bring some training…..😜😜 Then we can decide 😂
#DreamTeam
#rugby
#backthree
NEW EPISODE | The Leicester Tigers Rugby Show 🐯
@Tom_Varndell
is joined by Bake Off's
@joshpsmalley
and
@CrumbieSte
.
🟩 Exclusive with Kyle Hatherell
🟩 A lowdown of State Francais ahead of a huge Champions Club clash.
Download 👇: