- I'm in serious denial about the fact that we're going to be losing Mel & Sue's bake off intros on our tellyscreens.
- This week it's Batter Week, a first in Bake Off history.
- Challenge uno: 24 identical Yorkshire puddings. This whole 'identical' thing is the real issue. Even Mary's saying it's difficult.
- I've just realised I've never made Yorkshire puddings, yet I'm from Yorkshire. Oh jeez, Mary is now saying to Val that as she's from Yorkshire they should be a "doddle".... am now questioning my entire being
- Val's filling them with chilli. Mmmmm.
- Candice seems pretty confident this week. She's dropped a fork but apart from that she's on top form with a beef wellington filling.
- "I can't make Yorkshires to save my life". Jane setting herself up for victory there.
- Thai-inspired filling with tofu for Rav. This is fairly exotic, am just used to gravy, beef and some roast potatoes to be honest.
- Vampire Weekend Tom, last week's winner, sounds quite confident also.
- Selasi...I have been spelling his name wrong all this time, aaaaah. Anyway, he's using pork crackling and Paul is very happy about that. Kate, meanwhile, is making Christmas dinner Yorkshires.
- The baker winning me over this week is Benjamina. She's using possibly the best combination of foods ever: brie and bacon.
- I didn't catch what Andrew was up to earlier but he's using chicken, that's all I know. Apologies.
- There's Mel being Tom's Bake Off Guardian and telling him he needs to work harder if he's going to keep his Star Baker title. No pressure.
- Selasi has made HUMUNGOUS Yorkshires. Seriously giant. They may not be even but who cares.
- Mary and Paul care actually, that's who. Aaaand probably Selasi.
- Ohhhh, Tom is having to start again. His Yorkshires just didn't rise. The same situation for Val too, at least they're in this together. 10 minutes left!
- And at results time I've found out that Andrew has been making 'Tapas' filling for his bake. Mama M and Papa P approve.
- Jane absolutely aced the flavours but her Yorkshires were a bit under-baked.
- Candice also kicked flavour-y butt. A bit shallow in the Yorkshire department though. Similar result for Benjamina.
- Selasi has well and truly won Paul Blue Eyes' affections with his pork crackling bake. He may have indirectly deafened Sue though, from Paul almost breaking his jaw as he bit through it.
- Rav did really well too, despite Paul not being a big fan of tofu. So did Val, much to her delight. Tom's were a bit of a flop though - obviously Mel's attempt at encouragement didn't work all too well.
- Time for the Technical. The Batter Technical. 12 heart-shaped lacy pancakes (oo-er).
cheeky - Candice has enlightened us on the complexity of the recipe: "1. Make pancake batter." FOR PETE'S SAKE PAUL
- I would say that it seems like some of the bakers have common sense here in terms of pancake-making but I really wouldn't know.
- Selasi, Bake Off 2016: "Can you smell definition"
oh Sue - Ohhhh one of Val's has split! Bound to happen in this sort of time allowance though. The bakers only have 1 hour to make 12 so that's... half an hour for 6 and... 5 minutes for 1. Gosh.
- Time up! It's the blind judging and it's a mixed bag. Rav used all the sugar which turned out to be too much, Tom's turned out okay, Benjamina's very good and Andrew's too dry.
- Results time: Rav is in last place. Third place is Jane, second is Candice, and in first is Benjamina. These three have done well this week.
- In their little chat at the table, M & P have named Benjamina, Andrew and Candice as safe so far. Rav is currently in a big pile of doughy doo-doo.
- But it's not over yet - time for the showstopper! And this week it's....churros. 36 of them, to be exact. Oh yum, I hope someone makes chocolate sauce.
- Andrew is playing it safe and simple with his churros mixture, but is using a tricky flower design and tasty-sounding dipping sauces. The others seem to be complicating the churros mix itself, adding flavours all over the shop.
- For example, Rav is using matcha and pistachio and a range of dips and that sounds kinda delicious.
- Val either sounds like she's a churros expert or she's recalling fake knowledge from a dream and doing it very convincingly. Anyhow she's using chocolate dipping sauce!!! Yessss Val. That's for her orange zest churros filled with chocolate ganache.
- Tom and Rav are piping their churros mixture straight into the fryer, which seems like a dodgy move in that their churros ain't gonna be identical, surely.
- Someone's brought in a sheet of fake grass.. oh it's Tom with his fennel snake churros.
- And time for judgment. First up, it's Val: very uniform and great ridges but too doughy for M & P.
- Tom's snakes are too tough as he baked them for too long. D'oh.
- Selasi had gone for the freezer approach in order to keep the dome shapes of his churros, but it's backfired and he's ended up with raw dough inside. Sad times.
- Jane, despite never having eaten a churro, has aced her pistachio ones and I think she has a shot at Star Baker fo' sho'.
- Rav's been called out for his inconsistency and his bad flavours....oh man.
- Andrew's flowers were in the fryer for too long, such a shame.
- Kate let the oil get to her churros, resulting in a lot of crispiness and no softness in the middle. They looked cute though.
Kate's 'bunny boiler' churros - Candice's weren't terrible, it seems. I reckon she did enough to stay in the running.
- Benjamina now. On image, she's aced it. On taste, she's aced it. Oooh so maybe Benjamina is SB?
Benjamina's coconut churros with passionfruit dip - Tom, Rav and Kate are in the danger zone.......must be weird for the bakers to watch the show afterwards and see the times that they didn't think they were at risk. These three know it this time however.
- Now for the lovely Mel to announce Star Baker. And it's... Benjamina!
- Now for the lovely Sue to announce the leaver of the week... it's Kate. Her dark horse destiny was not to be, evidently.
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