The signature bake of round one required the bakers to make a batch of 24 identical iced biscuits.
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Louise will join Jo Brand on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice this Friday at 9.30pm on BBC Two.
“It’s an unfortunate part of being on Bake Off”.
Candice had a strong week, which was surprising given her iced biscuits were labelled “a mess” by Paul.
The team was tasked with icing biscuits in the first round, producing ideal Viennese whirls in the second, and culminated in a gingerbread showstopper.
“This is my home and I want my kids to be proud of that and I don’t want them to grow up with a chip on their shoulder, so I live as positively as I can”. Yet only Kate manages everything spot-on; the rest of the class is subjected to the horrors of “raw”, “broken”, and “lack of definition”.
This will be the first time in the show’s six-year history that Mel has ever fronted it alone, and although some reports have hinted that the show was left in “crisis” by her absence, we have no doubt Paul’s large, powerful hands held everything together.
The challenge was to create a story using gingerbread, that had to be at least 30cm tall, and Jane used her childhood on the seaside as her inspiration. Who am I to complain with even pre-baked, glue-it-together gingerbread houses consistently failing me every Christmas – but on GBBO, you’d expect some basic gingerbread engineering skills.
Rose Simpkins, chief executive of racism charity Stop Hate UK, said: “This shows racism is not a thing of the past”.
It was an appropriate way to celebrate because she clinched the star baker title by making a gingerbread pub. I guess someone has to take the biscuit.
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“I’ve had things thrown at me and been pushed and shoved”, Bangladeshi-origin Mr Hussain had said recently. It’s time for the bakers to pick up the crumbs and get their dough together for bread week.
