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The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Pastry Week

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Thank the baking gods that Pastry week is finally here in The Great British Baking Show so that Katie can stop going on long winded diatribes about it!  It’s here. And it’s rough (puff).  The challenges prove to be mildly traumatic for the bakers, mildly disappointing for the judges and a complicated range of emotions for Kimberly, Katie and Jake. Bakers who have been in the upper crust in past weeks are crumbling and one baker who had been sconed by the judges in the past is really chouxing up the competition. As we roll into the semi-final it’s still a toss up who’s team will be eclaired the winner! On your mark… Get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Filo She Better Don’t!

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Custard Week

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It’s the halfway mark and as the Great British Baking Show tent loses its filling, so to speak, the remaining bakers need to perfect a filling of their own. It’s Custard Week! Team Kimberly is down to one MVP who is really picking up steam in the competition. Team Katie is holding at two bakers, but you might not know it as their screen time is severely lacking. Will Team Jake be able to hold on to his THREE bakers after a pretty disastrous ice cream technical that sunk many bakers in a watery waffle cone grave? Well, the proof is in the pudding.  The race for the finish is on and it’s anyone’s guess who will walk away with the beloved cake plate! On Your Mark… Get Set… Ting that Custard… with A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Halloween Week

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Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and one extra scary rogue astronaut have descended upon the Bake Off tent to create bakes to die for in The Great British Bake Off’s first ever Halloween Week! But it’s not all about simply creating eerie-sistable good treats this time, it’s also about figuring out the trick to getting flavors and design bubbling together in the same cauldron.  Kimberly, Katie and Jake have watched their teams dwindle as their bakers are picked off week after week. So, who will be done in this time by the glare from the Camp Crystal Lake blue eyes of Paul Hollywood? Or is there a new apple of his eye? And will this new Halloween theme just leave everyone wanting s’more? Find out in this spooktacular edition of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Bone Appetit!

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Dessert Week

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Alone on a dessert island our 8 remaining bakers have to bake their way back to civilization one delicious pudding at a time. Not really, but we are halfway through series 10 of The Great British Baking Show and half of our beloved bakers have already been voted off the (floating) island! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake each have at least 2 bakers left in the tent and at this point it’s anyone’s game. Sandro is coming up strong (both literally and culinarily), Syabira is multi talented in a multitude of cuisines and Maxy is the soft spoken confiseur that no one saw coming. Find out who edges closer to the winner’s cake stand in this episode of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Pud up or Shut up!

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Mexican Week

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The Great British Baking Show takes a hiatus from is regularly scheduled baking and tries to bring some multi-culturalism into the tent with a new International week called Mexican Week! It’s a lively romp from beginning to end with everyone getting into the south of the border spirit and producing interesting takes on classic Mexican dishes using classic Mexican flavors! Except it didn’t really happen that way… Team Kimberly is holding on by a thread of melted cheese, Team Jake is having some difficulties with the taco-ness of it all, and Team Katie has a real high and some real guacamol-lows. So grab a Jarritos ( or maybe actually this calls for a cerveza) and prepare for the first ever and probably only Mexican Week coverage from A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Chili con Carnage.

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Bread Week

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Yeasterday… all our troubles seemed so far away. But now its Bread Week in the bake off tent for the Great British Baking Show and every baker’s buns are on the line! Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake try to “prove” their worth. And while a few really desperately “knead” improvement, one baker “rises” to the top of the pack! Will K,K & J be able to cinnamon roll with the punches? Find out in this weeks coverage of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Gluten for Punishment!

The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Cake Week/Biscuit Week

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Aaaaaaand their off!! New bakers are in the tent and Kimberly, Katie and Jake are ready to cheer on their teams. Kimberly’s team JDSM has highs and lows with a Hollywood handshake and a young baker sent home early. Katie’s team The Tammy Faye Bakers has the exact same journey except Katie still has some extra bitterness (not from Carole’s chicory) but losing out  on her number 1 draft pick. And team Jake, Baker For Life, starts strong with two of his bakers showing some advanced skill and getting high marks in the personality department. So who WILL be setting the baking bar high in Cake Week and Biscuit Week? And who WILL crumble under the pressure? Find out in the premiere double episode of A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Smells Like Team Spirit!

The Great New Year Baking Show- Season 4

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It may be March, but we are still not even a quarter of the way into 2022. That means it isn’t too late to take a peek back into the Bake Off tent and see who has valiantly returned to face the steely judges once again. Well… one steely judge. The Great New Year Bake Off welcomes favorites Nancy, Helena, Henry and the ever delightfully neurotic Rahul. It’s a delightful reunion filled with mostly successful bakes and a lot of laughs as the bakers battle to be crowned Caribbean Queen- whoops- Star Baker! But will a tricky Paul technical cause a few of the bakers to Bao out? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t. But that joke was irresistible. Kimberly and Katie school Jake on the bakers from season’s past and Jake schools them on fashion lingo that is wholly unacceptable to people just trying to get their year off to a good start. So break out those dusty cookie sheets, make sure those ovens are definitely switched and on your mark… get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE!

The Great British Baking Show S.9 – The Final

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It’s been a fantastic season of The Great British Baking Show, but now let the true hand wringing, oven watching and sweat mixed with tears BEGIN! It’s the grand finale and it all comes down to these final bakes for Chigs, Crystelle and Giuseppe! The final showstopper is the Mad Hatter’s tea party, will any of the bakers lose their heads? No that’s just Kimberly, Katie and Jake trying to keep their cool as the seconds tick down to the cake plate of glory! So until next time… on your mark… get set… AND OH MY GOD REMEMBER TO SHUT THAT OVEN DOOR CORRECTLY… Whew… BAKE!

The Great British Baking Show S.9 – Patissiere Week

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It’s almost the end and the final four bakers file into a near empty Bake Off tent to bake for their lives. Not really their lives, but with the stress levels of Kimberly, Katie and Jake watching this week you would feel like it is. It’s a notoriously complicated and finicky theme that will stretch the bakers in multiple areas. Its multi layers, multi textures and all about the flavor. And these finalists are more than competent in all the aforementioned. Paul and Prue have to make a controversial decision and one of these bakers’ place in the finale balances on a cake knife’s edge. Get out your hankies and prepare to bid auf Wiedersehen to one of the competition’s most memorable bakers… ever. On your mark… Get Set… A Date with the Bake: Seminal Finale.