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The Great British Baking Show S.10 – Patisserie Week

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It’s the semifinals of The Great British Baking Show and four lonely bakers remain to face the challenges of pastry desserts…again…because Pastry Week just happened.  Unfortunately, the flaky confections happen to be one baker’s Achilles high heel, and one of the biggest personalities to grace the Bake Off tent is heading off to spread his sunshine and rainbows elsewhere. This means Team Kimberly, Team Katie and Team Jake miraculously each have one remaining team member to fight for the elusive cake platter prize in the series 10 finale. But leading up to this finale a critical article was written, questions have been raised surrounding bread week, jokes have gone mysteriously missing throughout the season and suspicions are heightened about the judges and their knowledge of common flavor pairings. Release the Swedish Kraken! It’s A DATE WITH THE BAKE: The Curious Case of P&P and the Perilous PB&J!

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 – 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.

The Great British Baking Show S.9 – Free From Week

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It’s the quarter finals in the Great British Bake Off tent and the bakers certainly aren’t free from much. There’s enough stress, tears, hopes and fears to go around. And that goes double for Kimberly, Katie and Jake. It’s a dairy free signature challenge, a meat free technical, a gluten free showstopper and a those lead to a determinedly Hollywood Handshake free episode. But is all fair in love, baking and judging? A favorite baker leaves the tent after their best bake of the series and one frontrunner baker drops the ball. And by ball we mean multiple meat free sausage rolls… Hold on to your biscuit sheets and On your mark! Get Set! A Date with the Bake: Free From Logic!

The Great British Baking Show S.9 – Caramel Week

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Caramel is sticky sweet/ Jurgin and ‘Seppe will be hard to beat! This rhyme might be bad but not as bad caramel that just refuses to cooperate. The bakers have dwindled to half their original number and the pressure is on as this sugary ingredient is notoriously hard to work with. The signature is all about consistency. The technical challenge is a familiar pairing beTWIXT shortbread and the sticky substance. And finally the showstopper incorporates one particularly difficult baking element that will have the bakers spinning in circles. Kimberly, Katie and Jake have a lot on their plates for this discussion. So on your mark… get set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Caramelancholy Blues.

The Great British Baking Show S.9 – Pastry Week

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The bakers return to the tent and Kimberly, Katie and Jake return to their microphones for the dreaded pastry week of The Great British Bake Off. It’s known to be complicated, finicky, temperature sensitive and no we aren’t talking about Paul Hollywood’s mood swings. But this week brings some surprises with its challenges and a surprise handshake means there might be a new frontrunner in the competition. Who’s going to flake out and who gives a multi-layered performance worthy of that Bake Off top spot? We donut know what the future folds but On Your Mark… Get Set… A DATE WITH THE BAKE: Baklava Not a Fighter.