Benjamina Ebuehi, a 23-year-old teaching assistant, posted a photograph where she was joined by her co-stars including financial services employee Selasi Gbormittah and student support worker Rav Bansal.
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He admitted he was “disappointed to be the first off” after his trio of bakes failed to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry.
The first baker to be booted off the show, former builder-turned-theologist Banfield said he would never make Jaffa Cakes again.
“We think our Jaffa Cakes are fantastic as they are, so why mess with the best?”
From late August we can look forward to watching a Durham entrant in The Great British Bake Off in this this years programme on the BBC. Her creation was called (deep breath) “Mirror mirror on the wall who is the shiniest cake of them all”.
Jane Beedle was crowned the first Star Baker of the series, after leaving Paul and Mary more than satisfied with her lemon and poppy seed drizzle cake, her perfectly uniform jaffas and her mirror glaze offering – which was basically a giant version of the technical challenge. The contestants had to make Jaffa cakes, and some were confused about which was the right side to put the chocolate. In the end, aerospace engineer Andrew got it wrong and unsurprisingly he came bottom of the round.
“I don’t want to reveal too much, but we wanted something a little different, a little bit taxing”, teases Paul. Anyone who watches the show will know that each episode, a contestant is awarded the lauded “star baker” accolade – but not everyone was happy with this week’s victor. But her concern was misplaced as the judges love the shine on the glaze and her sponge cakes. Jane took the crown of star baker this week, having been praised on all three tasks.
The 67-year-old, who is also the oldest competitor in the seventh series of the popular BBC show, fell behind the other 11 bakers to become the first to exit the tent. Paul simply described the texture on Lee’s drizzle cake as “awful”.
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The opening episode was “laden with innuendo”, says Andy Halls in The Sun, with a sex toy joke within the first 20 seconds.
