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GBBO S08E03

SANDI IMITATES YORKSHIRE ACCENT: To think we've had two weeks

in t'Bake Off tent.

Here we are, week three.

Two bakers gone, now just ten remain.

Grand times.

I don't know why I'm doing the voice in your head.

I can't do the accent, keeps coming out a bit Indian.

Well, go to the top of our stairs, you're here now, lad,

might as well do this.

Welcome to the Great British Bake Off.

Last time, the bakers battled biscuits...

SHE GASPS ..Sophie came close again...

I think it's wonderful. ..but it was checkmate to Steven...

That is exceptional. ..winning Star Baker for the second week in a row.

SHE GROANS So frustrating!

Stacey and Flo were at breaking point...

Ah! Job cracked.

..but it was Chris that folded under the pressure...

This is so embarrassing.

..and was the second baker to say goodbye.

Now it's bread week.

What can go wrong? They'll be taking on a signature tea-time classic...

Ah! They've sunk. ..getting stuck into the technical...

Two fingers.

I just know how Paul does it.

..and going all-out to attempt...

I've never baked a dragon before.

..the toughest bread sculpture challenge ever set on the Bake Off.

I feel like you're trying to psych me out.

I quite like this accent, I might stick with it, go up the path,

and 'ave a bath. Really suits you.

What about you, could you pretend to be well-bred?

Actually, I am well-bred,

I just pretend to be a street urchin, you know,

give me a bit of an edge. Check this out.

HE IMITATES POSH ACCENT: Toodle-pip, everyone,

and welcome to bread week.

This is probably the week I've been...dreading!

Bread's not my forte.

I love bread and I can't wait to get on with it.

I've been making bread for about 40 years.

I've said that now.

I hope they turn out good today!

I love bread, but I make it for my family,

I don't make it for Mr Paul Hollywood.

I hope I haven't peaked because I really would like Star Baker again -

it's kind of addictive.

Morning, lovely bakers, welcome to bread week.

Today, Prue and Paul would like you to make 12 teacakes.

Your teacakes need to be round, they need to be identical,

made with an enriched dough,

and your fruit of choice needs to be evenly distributed.

You can serve them with accompaniments.

Maybe a jazz singer.

Yeah, that'd be nice, or just jam is fine, too.

You've got 2 hours 45 minutes.

On your marks. Get set.

Bake!

This is the biggest week for me.

It's my chance to show them that I can bake bread.

Still a bit nervous, I'm not a great one for bread week.

We don't make a lot of bread at home.

Fingers crossed, I've tried these quite a lot,

so everyone at home is absolutely sick of teacakes.

Teacakes are made from an enriched dough,

which contains extra fats, eggs,

sugars and fruit, all of which can inhibit the yeast,

preventing the all-important rise.

With an enriched dough,

they have two prove it for a little bit longer

because it's full of butter, so it will rise more slowly.

If they under-prove, the dough will be very tight inside.

If they over-prove,

it'll just basically flatten out like a pancake.

Some of the bakers will do very unusual flavours, I'm sure,

and I love that. I don't think I should have a closed mind,

however much I like a traditional teacake.

They can put cranberries in there, sultanas, mixed peel.

As long as it tastes sweet and delicious,

and spread out equally amongst the whole teacake, I'll be happy.

I've got me milk on to boil,

so I'm making blueberry and cardamom teacakes, with, like,

cinnamon through it as well,

just because it's all the flavours of, like, sticky buns, you know

those cinnamon buns that you get?

Like, they're like my favourite thing.

Back home in Liverpool,

Kate often bakes bread and cakes for a local homeless charity.

She's filling her teacakes with dried blueberries

and infused spices.

That's gone a bit wrong.

No, I'm going to start this again because my hob turned off

and now my butter's gone weird.

Oh!

I think they have too much clo...

Ugh!

Hello, Liam. Morning. Morning.

Tell us about your teacake.

So I actually didn't know what a teacake was.

Have you never had one? No.

So I was, like, OK,

something that's remotely similar is my nan's Jamaican Easter bun.

Liam's been following his nan's recipes since he was 15.

His homage to her Jamaican roots

will be packed with cherries and raisins

and made with a dough infused with a stout he's just old enough to drink.

What sort of texture are we expecting inside?

Teacake texture. Right, and that is...?

Very nice. THEY LAUGH

I'm just putting the milk in the dough,

see if I can get it the right consistency.

Oh, that's nice! That is nice.

So I'm making a kind of Dutch-Nordic-inspired teacake.

Go, James! Playing to the crowd.

James is no stranger to trying something new.

At home, he has a lengthy to-do list of bakes he'd like to master.

Today, he can tick off fruited teacakes, with cardamom, citrus,

and infused dried fruit to give them a Nordic twist.

What makes a good teacake?

Well, I don't like teacakes, to be honest.

I think they're the poor cousin of the hot-cross bun.

You are joking, aren't you? No.

These are great for, like, a lunchtime snack... Lunchtime?!

Well, in the Nordics. You can't tell cos of the light in there,

you can't really tell if it's morning, evening, night or what.

Don't you start with your anti-Scandinavian nonsense!

Oh, I love a bit of kneading.

Cos you don't have to go to the gym.

As well as providing a workout,

kneading creates the gluten that gives dough its strength

and structure.

Without enough kneading, the bakers' teacakes will be dense and flat.

Lots of people say, "Oh, if you're really angry,

"like, knead and put your anger in the dough,"

but I always feel like I can't do that because I love my dough.

You think, "I love you, I love you!"

Julia's been married to husband Matt for three years.

It's her English mother-in-law's love of toasted teacakes

that's inspired her Earl Grey-infused apricot and cherry version.

Just need to get the dough proving as quick as possible.

I just want to get it right.

Cos rushing too much creates panic, doesn't it?

Who needs panic? Nobody.

I call them my tagine teacakes

because they are based on the leftovers that I had from a tagine.

All the ingredients, minus the lamb.

Trainee stuntwoman Sophie started baking six years ago

when she left the Army and the officers' mess behind

and finally got her own kitchen.

Her tagine-inspired teacakes will be filled with spiced dates,

almonds and apricots. You're a stuntwoman, aren't you?

You can probably do stunt falls, can't you?

Rolls. Combat roll, I used to...

Combat roll, do you learn that at stunt school?

Erm, I actually learnt that when I was doing judo.

They call it a break fall. Judo, very similar to comedy.

First day at comedy school, banana skin.

Of course!

Once the bakers feel their dough's kneaded enough...

I like the feel of it, when it changes from this, like,

gloopy mess into a nice silky ball.

..the dough needs to prove.

Prove that for about 45 minutes.

This is going to prove for an hour.

It's a waiting game now, just waiting for it all to prove.

What have you put yours on? One.

Half. See, I've put mine on 30.

30? It's on holiday in there!

SHE LAUGHS

Holidaying in Greece!

Steven comes from a family where recipe books are piled high.

He's hoping for a hat-trick of Star Baker crowns.

He's going all out with his Madras cocktail teacakes

flavoured with orange and cranberry and with a unique accompaniment.

So this is vodka butter.

The vodka is purely there to lift flavour.

Oh, I can taste it.

This is called keri no chundo, it's the equivalent of mango chutney.

My friend's mum has this for breakfast every morning.

She likes it a bit more spicier than I'm going to present it

because I don't want to blow their heads off.

After an unconventional commute home from work, Yan loves to bake bread.

Her spicy keri no chundo will accompany her honey-glazed

masala-chai teacakes.

You've got a little bit of an injury there.

Yeah. Is that a baking injury?

No, it's a scooting injury. I fell off my scooter.

What, like a moped?

No, a...

A children's scooter?

It's an...

Little bit embarrassing. Little bit embarrassing!

Maybe you need to take some tips from Sophie.

Cos, you know, she's a stuntwoman, so she can do those stunt falls.

Tuck and roll? Yeah, the tuck and roll. Well, this is a minor injury,

could have been worse. No, that's not bad, actually. That's not bad.

It makes you look a little bit, you know, dangerous, a bit edgy!

You're so edgy, Yan!

I quite like doing these bread cos it's nice and quiet.

Aw, I don't know, this makes me nervous, the sort of sitting around.

Everything makes me nervous.

Back in her own kitchen,

Flo loves to share her 40 years of baking knowledge with granddaughter

Lydia. That's the Elvis Presley quiff.

She's making spiced mixed-fruit teacakes

served with orange and whisky jam.

I feel terrible sitting down here.

With one hour of the bake already gone...

I feel as if I'm doing nothing.

..the bakers need to manage their time carefully.

It's definitely grown.

I think mine's ready. Spend too much time on their first prove

and they won't have enough for the second.

I can't leave it in there any longer.

I think another five minutes, then I'll stretch it out,

get the fruit in there, cos I think the second prove's more important,

as you're making the actual shapes of the buns, so...

Now I'm introducing the dried fruits,

the cranberry and the orange zest.

The only thing that I always stuff up on

is my fruit being evenly distributed.

The thing is with adding fruit now, it's not easy to mix it in

because it all just falls out.

I've rolled it up like a sausage roll

to try and get it quite even to start with,

then it's just a lot of kneading.

Ensuring their teacakes are all the same size

is about attention to detail.

You've got to get them as even as possible, really,

so that they cook evenly in the oven.

Pretty straightforward - what can go wrong?

If the fruit pokes through, it tends to catch in the oven.

I'm sort of smoothing the dough, pushing it round, tucking it under,

so all the fruit's in the middle.

I didn't even know what a teacake was cos in Scotland a teacake is,

like, a mallow thing with chocolate and a biscuit.

Tom's homeland may have denied him a lifetime of fruited teacakes

but it's given him plenty of lochs to swim in at the weekends.

Agh!

He's making a cranberry and orange fruited teacake,

and for extra sweetness he's adding chunks of white chocolate.

You've managed very well to have your fruit hidden.

Is there any fruit in there?

There are. I hate when you get a teacake

and you get a little cranberry or something that's like a bullet.

I actually think it looks like a good teacake when you've got a bit

of fruit on the top, personally, but who am I to judge?

Ooh, that's good.

Stacey makes bread every week for her family.

She's channelling all the flavours of Christmas with her cranberry and

cinnamon teacakes. Are you egg-washing these before they go in

the oven? I'm putting a bit of milk on the top and it makes them nice

and soft. You put milk on the top?

Right, bakers, you've got one hour left, 60 good teacaking minutes.

That is really not a long enough time. Ooh!

The addition of fruit means the second prove will take longer.

I'm going to leave it in for as long as I can before they have to go into

the oven. How are we supposed to prove two in the proving drawer?

I'm stacking them, with bowls.

SHE GASPS Oh, dammit!

Almost had squashed ones.

Instead of perilously stacking in the proving drawer,

Steven's opted to use somewhere that already has more shelves.

Hopefully in this

proving oven, that should

be all right. More waiting. HE CHUCKLES

Hello, Flo. Hello.

So you can have a little rest now, can't you?

I can, yep. Can't be doing with clock-watching.

Wow. I never time a cake or nothing.

All in here? Mm. That's magic, isn't it?

Mmm. Yes.

Do you just get a sense, a feel?

Yeah. Yeah. A touch.

Ah. Not all the time.

Didn't last week! HE LAUGHS

There's 30 minutes, bakers, just 30 minutes left!

Great.

To avoid under-baked teacakes,

judging the precise moment to stop proving

and start baking is critical.

I'm going to go in in five minutes, you know.

Ah... You all right there, mate?

Mine are going in. You're going in?

I'm going in. They look big enough.

These have not had long enough to prove.

Yep. Come on, bad boys.

Oh, mine are huge.

They haven't rised as much as I wanted to, but, like,

you've just got to crack on. I'm egg-washing the teacakes

so they come out nice and shiny. I'm putting a bit of milk on the top

and it makes them nice and soft.

Argh, they've sunk, they've sunk!

They just... The proving, I think they've just proved too quickly

and they've gone, "Bleurgh."

15 minutes, bakers, 15 minutes!

Right, they'll go in for 15.

Going in, OK?

I've put them in at 190.

I have 160.

You're 160? I went 160.

160? That's low.

I don't know whether to do 180.

Do what you normally do, don't listen to me, sorry.

Oh, I don't know now! It's the blind leading the blind.

How long have we had, do you know?

How long have we got? Bakers, you have five minutes!

They're not going to be ready.

I'm coming out, I'm coming out, I'm coming out.

Mine aren't ready, so I'm not taking them out.

They're looking fabulous. I think I'm going to get one tray out.

Oh, my days.

They're going to cut into it and it's going to be raw. Aw, I'm dead.

Bakers, you have one minute left.

Oh... One minute! Ooh...

I actually think they're ready.

Ow! They're hot. Ow!

SHE GASPS

Jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam... Oh, thank you, lovely.

Do you want me to put these in?

Put them on the top. Bakers, your time's up!

Step away from your teacakes! LIAM SIGHS

The bakers' teacakes will now face the judgment of Paul and Prue.

I think they're a bit small.

I think teacakes should be big and flat.

These are sort of buns.

Good fruit distribution in there.

I think you have slightly over baked them.

Yeah. I get the blueberry, I get the cinnamon.

They taste terrific.

Thank you. Nice... Thank you. ..buns.

SHE GIGGLES

Great texture. Thank you.

The proving is perfect.

And the baking is perfect.

It's got good flavour.

That tastes fantastic.

Yeah. You just need that temperature to be up by 20 degrees.

That's fair enough. And you ended up with the perfect teacakes.

Congratulations. Brilliant, thank you.

Handshake from me. Thanks very much. Means nothing.

These two look heavily fruited, and these don't.

They might not be when you open them,

but the truth is it's better not to have these outside,

because they get a bit too overcooked.

My problem is, is I don't think it's baked.

Oh, no.

It's not baked. That's not good.

Have you got any salt in there? Yeah.

Yeah, a little bit of salt. Not enough.

It's bland. Bland. Do you know,

I think you could have done with a bit more fruit in here.

What temperature was your oven?

160. Too low.

Smells great.

Actually, I quite like it. Yeah?

Yeah, I do. The thing it needs, though, is more spice.

Oh, really? OK. Yeah.

It just lacks flavour, but actually

the fruit is lovely.

I think it's clever of you to have rolled them,

so that the fruit is really encased.

Never got any fruit in that one.

Never got any fruit in that one. LAUGHTER

But the flavour of the dough is excellent, and that balances it out,

so by the time you've toasted it and put your butter on, it tastes good.

That's the closest thing I've had to a teacake so far.

I think you baked it OK.

I honestly think it's a good teacake.

It looks like a teacake, it feels like a teacake, it's not hard.

I think your choice of milk was a big problem.

Yeah. Because if you'd had egg on that, they'd look as they should.

I know. But you've got the basic shape,

and you've got a decent teacake.

There seems to be plenty of fruit in there.

I'm certainly getting the fruit, and certainly getting the orange.

Spices, yeah, I'm getting that too.

Overall, I think the flavour's good, distribution's good, the size is OK,

just slightly under proved. OK.

It's a little doughy, isn't it?

It's the volume of fruit, and it's added all the moisture to it.

But overall the flavour's nice, you know?

It does have a very good flavour, though.

What else is in the mango? Cardamom, cumin, chilli.

It's amazing, there's so many things going on.

Beautiful chutney. And a little bit of a kick at the end.

I didn't want to blow your heads off.

That's great. It's delicious. Thank you. Very, very good.

Really delicious.

They, my friend, are not your finest hour.

They are pretty bad. It's just over proved.

Because you've heated it up,

the whole thing's fallen apart, you know. Yeah.

On the other hand, your vodka cocktail looks absolutely wonderful.

You know what, it's absolutely delicious!

Try a bit of vodka butter, Paul, see if you change your mind!

THEY CHUCKLE

They're still over proved!

I got my negative feedback that I've been waiting for.

I think he referred to it as "not my finest hour."

It was really disappointing.

By far my worst bake in the tent, hands down.

I need to come, like, top three in the Technical, or, like,

I'm in trouble.

I do feel relieved, yeah, definitely.

Just looking forward to the Technical now.

I mean, I think for someone who has never really eaten a teacake,

for Paul to say it was the closest thing to teacake

he'd had so far was, that was pretty good.

I would very much like them to say, "Wow, you've nailed it."

That's what I want, "Wow, you've nailed it."

Hasn't happened yet.

NOEL: Bread week isn't about to get any easier.

The bakers could practice for their first challenge,

but not for the next one.

And they're tackling another classic in the world of great British bread.

Right, bakers, it's time for your Technical Challenge,

which, surprise, surprise, has been set for you today by Paul.

Paul, any words of wisdom?

We expect perfection.

No pressure.

I'm going to have to ask you two lovelies to leave, sorry.

Off you go.

It's all right, they're going drag racing.

Yeah, it's the Prue Paul Drag Race.

That is the pun to end all puns!

LAUGHTER

Right, for your Technical Challenge,

Paul would like you today to make a cottage loaf.

Now, the cottage loaf, the history of it, dates back hundreds of years,

to a time we call PM,

pre-mixer, so you are going to be making your dough by hand.

You've got 2.5 hours.

On your marks... Get set...

BOTH: Bake!

Lovely jubbly.

Cottage loaves have been baked in Britain for hundreds of years.

Oh, my God, something I know.

I'm just so pleased I know what it is.

I kind of know what I'm doing.

But not all our bakers have this loaf in their repertoire.

I've not made one before.

It is very daunting.

I don't bake a lot of bread.

What can go wrong? Apart from everything.

Why have you set a cottage loaf for a challenge?

These are the best amateur bakers Great Britain has to offer,

so I expect them to be able to make a decent cottage loaf.

What I want to see is the smaller piece of dough on the top,

but not too small, larger on the bottom, good, even colour,

and good slashes all the way around.

What can go wrong, Paul?

Shaping, obviously, is the key point,

because you've got to be able to bond the top and the bottom.

If they don't, the bottom will blow off the top,

so the top will literally fall off.

So it's all about making both the balls quite tight,

and the way that you do that, and the way I do it is just

drive my finger right the way through to the tray underneath.

Do you flour your finger?

HE SNIGGERS

You must, otherwise it would just stick to the dough!

I could oil it!

Make a dough!

That's it, that's all we get.

The instructions are pretty vague,

so I'm just trying to get as much liquid into it as possible,

without it becoming like sloppy.

I've never made one before in my life,

so I've gone for the rubbing in the lard, don't know if that's right.

I'm going to make the basic dough, flour, salty-ish water.

If you put too much water in it, it goes drunk,

what I've experienced loads!

When I've made it once before, the little one on top, lid, off.

Obviously, I've got a lot to make up for from this morning.

Making the dough by hand.

Oh, my God. It is quite a long process.

My muscles are aching so bad.

I'm knackered.

If it's not kneaded enough, it just loses all its shape.

I don't know if that's right or not, but...

It feels like it should feel, I guess?

I can't really afford to leave it much longer.

It's all about time management.

I'm just about to do the window pane test.

If it doesn't get a hole in it, that means the gluten's developed enough.

If you can stretch it, I can say it's almost ready, so...

30 more seconds for luck.

It's going into its first prove.

I love Paul's instructions, don't you?

Prove. Do it.

He hasn't given us any info.

Prove it for 40 minutes.

We're going to do it for about an hour.

Play it by ear.

45 and check it.

If the dough doesn't prove enough, the loaf won't come up and rise.

What I want is double in size.

The dough's in the proving drawer, so we just wait.

I feel, like, heart racy.

This is horrible. Are you enjoying bread week?

So far, so good. Yeah, you like bread, don't you?

Yeah, I love bread, but I do know what a cottage loaf is,

I have made one before. That's an advantage.

You said that like you didn't.

No, I have made one before.

I do know what it is.

I have seen one, I made one. I've made one before.

Yeah? Prove it.

SHE LAUGHS

We're going to moonwalk out of here. See you later. Good luck.

I'm taking out.

It's the art of actually knowing when it feels right, whether it's

proved right, and I just haven't got the experience.

Would you take that out now?

What do you reckon? I'm going to leave it with you, my love.

I'm quite happy with it. Looks good, risen well.

All right.

The instructions say divide the dough, and shape into two balls,

one small and one large.

How much I'm going to split it, am I going to split it 500, 225,

or am I going to split it... I just don't know yet.

Take about a third, I think.

A quarter?

Divide by three.

I'm not weighing it, I'm just doing it by eye.

No-one had scales, electric scales, in a cottage.

"Shape into a classic cottage loaf."

And that's about as much instruction as we've got.

So I'm just shaping the dough, otherwise it will kind of wonk over.

You don't want wonky balls.

You can't help but look around.

Paul wants it perfect, and this isn't looking that perfect.

Maybe this should have been smaller.

That doesn't seem right.

What Paul does is he sticks his fingers in the flour,

and he

goes down like that.

Two fingers.

Up and down like that. I just know how Paul does it.

That just looks wrong and weird.

Put your finger in it.

I'm just going to stick with it.

Slash your dough, any way you like, I guess.

The instructions say prove.

So this is going to go back into the proving drawer.

The second proof is really important,

because it's what gives the final loaf its structure.

It may work, it may not. My heart is...POOF.

Bakers, you have 45 minutes left, 45!

Take it out, the second prove.

It's not horrific.

If that's not right, then I don't know what is.

Very happy with that.

I just want to make it perfect.

That looks like BB8 out of Star Wars.

Oh, well.

Not happy.

Oh, gawd. Look at my cowpat!

It's turned into just one loaf.

I think the dough was too wet, so it kind of spread.

The instructions say "bake".

Hot water in the pan, creating a bit of steam-age.

Wish me luck.

Baking it at 170, but I might have to turn it up.

I'll probably do, like, ten minutes high, and then drop it down.

Fingers crossed.

How long are you going to bake it for?

30, 35 minutes, but I'm going to watch it like a hawk.

I'm trying to send vibes. "Become more beautiful."

Talking about the bread.

The longer it's in there, the longer mine's hid.

Why? The bottom of my bread has eaten the top of my bread.

What can you do? Nick someone else's?

You'll be fine.

Inside, I'm crying.

Bakers, you have 15 minutes left for your cottage loaf.

It doesn't seem to be going brown, it's going to take a while.

Not a great sign, is it?

I hope the clouds are not a reflection of Paul's mood,

I'll put it that way.

I'm happy it hasn't gone like that.

I just hope it doesn't go zzzzup.

I'm frightened in case it goes pffft.

Oh, God! What's up?

It's fallen off the top!

It just fell off! Oh, my God!

It's ruined. It just, like, died.

I feel sick.

Oh, my God, I'm dying inside.

Do you know what, it's not the worst.

It's just all about not being the worst.

I feel like I'm in trouble.

Bakers, you have five minutes.

Say something urgent. Left!

You've got five minutes left!

Seriously?

Five minutes?

Mine's raw.

I've just put the oven back up a little bit,

because it's not quite dark enough.

It's the highest temperature possible, just to give it...

Bang. I'm hoping it goes POOOF! And blossoms.

I don't think it's cooked.

I know it's not cooked.

Tick, tick, tick, tick...

My God! It's actually sliding more down.

I'm going to wait until the last minute.

Bakers, you've got one minute left!

OK, go!

That's definitely not cooked.

You see, mine's done.

I'm taking it out the last 30 seconds.

It's going to be tight.

OK, bakers, your time's up, please bring up your cottage loaves.

It's just a disaster.

Paul and Prue want to see a classic cottage loaf,

well risen with a rounded bottom,

and a honey coloured, crusty exterior.

They have no idea whose loaf is whose.

Let's start from this one over here.

The actual shape of it, the way it sits, is good.

There's a little bit of decoration on there, which is good.

And a nice rounded bottom.

It's quite risen.

It's proved well, but it's slightly under baked.

Good flavour.

Overall, not bad at all.

Paul, I really do like this one, it's been properly pushed together.

There is a nice shape.

I do like the big cuts in it, as well.

Let's have a look at it inside.

It is baked, it's crispy.

When you're making a big loaf, you can afford to have some crust,

and it's worth it, because it's lovely.

I think it's a really satisfactory loaf.

OK, next one.

That doesn't look as if it's risen at all.

I think a little bit more proving might have helped.

It's a bit soft, it needed ten, 15,

maybe even 20 minutes still in the oven.

It's coming out too early, what happens is the dough then rests,

and then concertinas down onto the bottom.

Right, moving on to this.

The actual shape, but it is central, it hasn't ripped either way.

It's got a little bit of a crisp there.

If that had another ten minutes,

it would be perfectly crisp, wouldn't it?

Yeah. OK, next one.

The actual overall proportions are right.

Very nice. The flavour's good.

But it would be nicer if it had more crust.

Right, moving on.

It's just not been put on straight.

Normally, you'd push your finger right the way through from the top

to the bottom, and that allows the dough to become straighter.

Yes, this didn't get the finger treatment, at all.

Next one. The overall shape is good.

It's stayed in the middle.

It's really under baked.

Yeah, it is.

And you can still feel it's full of moisture, it's a wet loaf

Right, moving on to this.

The whole thing's merged together to create a big cob

You've lost that top.

The dough itself was a bit too wet,

it doesn't look like a cottage loaf at all.

Very neat, I quite like the look of that one.

The proportions are right. And actually the height as well,

you see the way it folds in.

It' lost a bit of definition on the top, but it's still there.

It's quite light, too.

Enough salt. Flavour's good.

It's a decent loaf, that one.

OK, last, the colour's good,

but the one on the top

is almost like a pancake sitting on top of the cob.

Texture's a bit tough, it's a bit flat.

Paul and Prue must now rank the loaves from worst to best.

In tenth place, we have this one.

Whose is this?

Kate, it's slightly wobbly, though,

and it has a soggy middle.

In ninth place is this one.

Whose is this? You've lost all the definition in it.

Yan is eighth,

Flo is seventh,

Sophie sixth,

Liam fifth,

and Tom is fourth.

And third place is this one, whose is this?

Beautiful shape. I like the flour, very, very neatly done.

I like that. Thank you. In second place...

Beautifully risen, it would have been a great loaf

if you'd left it in the oven a bit longer.

So, in 1st place is this one.

APPLAUSE

Good definition, nice and round, good, strong, shaping.

Very good.

First in the Technical on bread week, I mean, that is massive!

So excited!

My dough ate itself, which wasn't a good look.

I was surprised I wasn't last, to be fair.

Oh, what a disaster.

I hope there's some redemption there from this morning.

You can be confident, and you know the bake,

but you don't know which way that dough's going to go.

It's got a mind of its own.

I've got to actually smash it tomorrow, that's all I've got to do.

Just smash it tomorrow, and I should be fine.

NOEL: There's one challenge left

before Paul and Prue decide who's destined for Star Baker

and who will be leaving the tent.

For me, the most surprising thing is the way bread week

has simply blown it wide open.

I thought I had a good idea of who was doing well, Steven particularly.

He did OK in the technical.

Then you look at his teacakes, they were massively over proved

and it was such a shame. Two star bakers on the bounce, that's...

That's a difficult place to fall from.

Can we talk about Flo for a brief moment?

Oh, lovely Flo. She's been in a sort of middling area the whole time.

She has and she struggled in the technical as well,

so she's in trouble.

She has known every time that that wasn't the best she can do.

And I think Liam's in some danger

because yesterday, he didn't have a good day.

He just needs to do well today. Yeah.

I think three of them, at the moment, look very safe.

Julia I think's done well.

Tom's done well.

Stacey's done really well.

I'd like to see her do well in the show stopper

because she's set herself up to be, you know, a Star Baker, she has.

The Bread Queen. Yeah, she's in a very strong position.

Wow, that makes it quite exciting.

Just a touch!

Well, morning, bakers. Welcome to your Showstopper Challenge.

Now, for today's challenge,

Prue and Paul would like you to make a bread sculpture,

but not just any bread sculpture - a coloured bread sculpture.

We want eye-catching designs

using natural ingredients to create flavour and colour.

Channel Jackson Pollock.

Right, you've got four and a half hours.

On your marks. Get set.

BOTH: Bake!

This is big. This challenge is big.

I've got to smash this in order to get into safety mode.

Just trying to stay calm, do the best I can.

NOEL: The bakers not only have to produce a bread sculpture,

they have to showcase a minimum

of three naturally occurring colourings.

Beetroot just, like, gives a really, really nice vibrant colour.

I've got spinach and parsley.

And I'm adding it to obviously make a green colour.

I'm flavouring it and colouring it with some squid ink.

PAUL: When you're introducing colour to a dough,

it's all about balance.

Beetroot, turmeric, chocolate,

you've got to add them in in such proportions

it doesn't inhibit the yeast too much, and that's the trick.

PRUE: I mean, to impress us, it's got to look amazing

with as vibrant a colour as you can get.

And every bit of it has got to taste good.

All right, Flo? Hello. Hello, Flo.

Now is that activated charcoal or is it..?

No, it's squid ink. Squid ink. Oh, squid ink. Yes.

It's going to be Davy Jones's locker.

Davy Jones's locker? Yeah.

Flo's pirate-themed sculpture

will be made from one basic white bread dough

coloured and flavoured with squid ink,

beetroot and paprika.

That's a good idea. That's a nice idea. And I hope it turns out well.

I hope so. Thank you.

Hope I do something right!

Don't be like that, it's all right. Well done, Flo. OK.

NOEL: Flo isn't the only baker going for a nautical theme.

I'm doing a squid ink and smoked garlic octopus.

Kate's octopus will take centre stage in her undersea sculpture,

resting on a spicy twisted red seaweed bread

with an accompanying green spirulina bread.

I like flavours of the sea,

so I wanted to do something that all, like, tied in together.

And I think it works quite well as a concept.

I've never made a bread sculpture in my life.

So... Especially, when I saw coloured bread,

I was like, "OK, cool, food colouring."

But when I saw "naturally" I was like, "Eurgh... That's even worse."

Liam plans to shape his bread into an ice cream sculpture.

His three doughs will be coloured and flavoured

with apricot, beetroot and cocoa.

I am in a precarious position.

Kind of wish I'd made more bread,

but I can't help what's not my thing.

So I am doing a picnic basket,

so I've got a dough for the basket itself.

Then I've got, like, a baguette poking out of it,

so that's a separate dough.

Bunch of grapes.

And some apples and a sort of tea towel, if I have time.

Sophie's trying to give her sculpture an Italian colour scheme,

with a white basket,

green bread apples filled with apple compote

and red beetroot bread grapes.

A lot of time's taken up with the sort of kneading

and preparing the doughs, so I think that'll be sort of priority,

just try and get that done as quickly as I can.

SANDI: As if delivering three different

coloured breads wasn't enough...

JULIA SINGS

..Julia has decided her sculpture needs four.

I'm making kind of a scene, so it's like bit of a grass on the bottom,

mushroom in the middle and snail on the side.

You've got quite a lot to do, then. I've practised it about...

Not a lot, only about, like, six, seven times.

It's a big thing to do, isn't it, six or seven times?

Julia's flora and fauna will sit on

a spinach and parsley forest floor.

A red pepper and paprika bread snail will shelter under a mushroom

with a potato and beetroot bread cap

and a Russian black rye bread stalk.

Tell me about this black Russian bread.

Basically, it's traditional bread that I always had.

I've kind of changed the recipe a little bit.

I'm adding black treacle to it and I've put some malt in it as well.

I love the sound of it. It's quite complicated.

We want you to do well, don't we?

Absolutely, yes. We don't want to send you home, or the snail.

Good luck to you. Can't send snails home, that's the thing. Thank you.

I've got three different doughs to do.

We're going to have a raisin and walnut saffron loaf,

which is the milk steeping here.

So this will turn a bit more yellowy.

So it'll be... I'm making an owl, so it'll be like a tawny owl type body.

And if I've got leftover dough, a couple of hedgehogs.

A hot chocolate chilli bread will form

the head and wings of James's owl,

which will nestle in the branches

of green tea baguettes.

Now I've just got to make sure it all stands up.

And the head doesn't fall off. But apart from that, it's simple!

SANDI: For her sculpture,

Stacey's turning to a traditional family recipe.

My main bread is a challah. This is a Jewish bread.

It takes quite a while, a challah.

I mean, really, I like to prove my dough overnight.

But I have done it in the time before and it's fine.

Sporting a challah bread brim,

Stacey's hat will have a crown

of woven turmeric and lemon bread

and come adorned with a variety

of coloured breadsticks.

Are we going to get some good tastes in this as well? Not just look good.

I know, well, the thing is - I want it to taste good,

but I wasn't actually going

for the flavours in the colour, I was going for colour.

If the basic bread is delicious anyway, it's fine. Yeah.

It's nowhere near as pink as it is normally at home.

Don't want to put any more beetroot in it,

cos I think it'll make it too moist.

And too heavy for the yeast.

So, erm... I think I might make this again.

Tom's planning a floral bouquet of beetroot and turmeric bread roses

nestling in a pesto breadbasket.

I'm going to keep this dough, I'm going to prove it,

as I would the other one.

I'm just going to see if the other one gives me a better colour,

because it's got to be a nice vibrant colour

to look like a flower.

FLO: Look at that!

Nice that. It's a good prove.

SANDI: After the first prove,

the bakers can start shaping their dough into their sculptures.

To get it right, Yan has been practising using modelling dough

borrowed from her niece's toy box.

Wow! The sculpture is called

Basil the Vegetarian Dragon and his Pumpkin Hoard. No meat involved!

I can't see how anyone's going to beat that

unless someone does a gluten-intolerant unicorn.

Yan's dragon will be made from a basil and spinach bread

with turmeric and tomato coloured pumpkins,

a host of sweet and savoury toadstools,

all resting on a coriander focaccia floor.

My superpower is probably, apart from baking, obviously,

is time management.

And in my head I can do this in four hours and 30...

Four hours and 15 minutes is my target.

Got 15 minutes to spare.

Before they can shape their dough,

the bakers need to incorporate any ingredients they're using

to further flavour them.

Now this is the caramelised onion and goat cheese.

The compote's got apple and cinnamon mainly.

This is stuffed with chorizo, Manchego, onions and garlic.

I don't want to disappoint today. I really hope I don't.

There's a lot of flavours going on.

Morning. Hi, Steven. Good morning.

Tell us about your bread sculpture.

I'm making a handbag.

You're making a handbag? I'm making a handbag.

Steven's handbag will be made of a Manchego, chorizo and sherry bread,

adorned with a curried breadstick chain

and a chocolate and peppermint handle.

You've struggled a little bit on the bread week so far.

Yeah, yesterday was...was quite painful actually.

So it's really important that this one works.

It's important... Just not that it works as bread,

but that the flavours are good.

I'm just shaping the octopus now.

I'm making a snail.

That just looks inappropriate.

At the moment, it looks a bit like a chicken.

That's why I need that model.

The second dough is not quite the right colour.

So I'm just actually going with the first one.

It's very fiddly.

I feel like you're trying to psych me out.

Super stressy.

NOEL: Bakers, you are halfway through!

Is this what it's like being you?

Good, isn't it? Yeah, it's weird down here. I like it.

Your roots have... well, they want doing.

This is ready to go in the oven now, which I'm very pleased about.

If the bread doesn't hold its shape whilst baking,

then their structures will collapse.

Ooh, that one...

I've never baked a dragon before.

Please work!

This is the ugliest snail I've ever made.

I'm going to make a couple of little hedgehogs.

Trying to do a pirate's hat.

This is like a Noddy's hat.

Cos the light colour can go really dark,

so I've made a little owl chest plate for him and little sunglasses.

Please be nice, please be nice.

Mine's a disgrace.

I'm going home.

LIAM: I'm out. Game over, kid.

It's done.

Some of them sort of, like, tipped over, so...

One hour left, bakers, just one hour.

An hour? Yay, it looks like an owl!

I'm really quite pleased with that actually, yeah,

I'm just going to give it a Paul Hollywood tap.

It's not too bad.

It's the best I can do, anyway.

I've still got about 20-something roses to make.

How many doughs are you in? This is my fourth.

Ooh!

With at least three different types

of bread to bake and only one oven...

Everything I'm doing, everything, is on different temperatures,

so I've got to remember to turn it up, got to remember to turn it down.

Right, they'll go in for about 25 minutes.

..time management is crucial.

Have to move really quickly with these because

literally one minute and they catch.

This is my mushroom.

Yeah, it seems to be OK.

So this one is the focaccia forest floor.

It's a nice green, though, innit?

Not bad at all. Now my challah's going in.

See you soon!

Hello, mate. You all right?

Emotional. Like, crazy, bro, like.

Really? Are you all right though, now?

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

I mean, sometimes I just have to have self belief.

I couldn't boil an egg at your age.

I'm not too sure I can do that now!

No, I'm joking!

Bakers, you've got ten minutes left.

Ten minutes.

This is where the trouble starts.

The bread's a little bit softer than it was when I was practising

but it doesn't look like it's going to collapse.

This is so stressful.

OK. Three, two, one, go.

Bakers, you've got five minutes left!

Just hating my pirate's hat.

Not happy.

Bakers, time's up.

Please place your bakes

at the end of your stations.

Some of them are marvellous, aren't they?

It's judgment time for the bread sculptures.

Each must showcase a minimum of three natural colourings.

It's a pity he's like a baby dragon.

I would have liked to see him really centre stage.

Paul's going to pull his head off.

I think you've got some strong bold flavours.

The basil's there. It's very good.

Tastes just like pesto. Great flavour. Wow.

I think we'll try the pumpkin.

It's well baked. I love the colour.

I'm trying to hunt the flavour. I'm not getting much.

I get the chilli heat,

but I'm not getting much else. Let's try this focaccia.

Garlic.

Strong.

Almost too strong. Mm.

It's not very evenly distributed, the apricots.

OK. The flavour of the apricot is delicious.

What's in this chocolate one? Um, so it's chocolate and date.

Your flavours are fantastic today.

Get in! But your proving is little bit under. OK.

I like the design of the owl.

The hedgehogs, probably not as much.

This is walnut and raisin, isn't it?

Yes, it is. Smells good.

Saffron's quite strong.

The walnut and raisin is losing its battle against the saffron,

which is a real shame. Remind me what the green is?

It's matcha green tea. Oh, it's matcha.

Do you know, that's too strong for me, too.

I really don't like the flavours, James.

Yeah. But the design is so bold,

the baking is so good,

the proving is right...

..you've got everything right, except it doesn't taste nice.

Do you know, I think it is so elegantly done.

It's exquisite. Thank you.

I'm going to take a little cut of the challah.

While I'm here... Yes.

..I'll take a little bit of the lemon and turmeric.

Challah is lovely.

Really good.

The tastes all right, but the proving's wrong. It needed longer.

The strength of that turmeric is quite overwhelming.

Now, the lemon's lost.

I think the design's good, I think it's been executed well,

but your flavours are wrong.

Wow.

Well, Steven, that is amazing.

It does look mighty impressive.

I'm going to have to destroy this now, you know. It's fine.

I think that's unbelievable.

The delicacy of the crumb, which is more focaccia-like,

the flavours that you've got from the manchego,

from the chorizo... Well done.

I mean, that's a big tick.

I've got to find the weak link.

It's delicious.

It's a perfect breadstick, just curly.

Remind me of this one again. It's a peppermint...

A chocolate peppermint breadstick.

It's lovely. I mean, wow, wow, wow on the flavours.

Steven, come here a second.

Amazing. Come here.

Stand next to Prue. I'm going to go and sit down here.

LAUGHTER

That is ridiculous.

Thank you, Flo. Can you tell us a little about your coloured breads?

It's supposed to be Tom Jones's... Tom Jones? Davy Jones's locker.

I think Tom Jones's locker would not look like that.

Davy Jones's locker!

I think it's very ingenious.

I think it's a little too clumsy to come off perfectly.

Oh, look at the colour. There's your three right there.

Squid ink, turmeric and beetroot.

The texture's very good. It's baked well cos it's more like a ciabatta.

Is that what you set out to do?

No. You could've lied then, Flo. I left the door open.

You never walked through. No.

The paprika is quite strong in there.

This one tastes almost tasteless because my mouth is still burning

from the paprika.

The paprika's just overwhelming.

Not your best, Flo. No.

I love that octopus.

I love the flavour of squid ink,

so I hope we're going to get it.

The squid ink comes through,

and it's very suitable for an octopus.

That is very good.

Heavy crust. All the way around, which cracks.

It's beautiful, and a regular structure inside.

Well done.

I do like the basket. I think the plaiting is very, very good.

I'm looking for the definition in the colour and I'm not seeing it

too much at the moment.

The apples don't really look that green, do they?

The dough's quite underdone.

I think it's only marginally underdone.

And although of course the apple inside has made it a bit wet,

it's still very pleasant to eat.

Well, you've certainly got your three colours, haven't you?

But having said that, it was about getting the definition in the rose,

and I think you've lost some of the definition.

And the definition on the yellow roses is much better.

Much better, yeah. I mean that is really quite exquisite.

This is the... Beetroot one.

I mean, there's this little pink hue, which is what you're going for.

Yeah, what you're aiming at.

Not much flavour. Quite bland,

which is a shame.

I like the snail.

Is there something about the shape of the snail that particularly...

LAUGHTER

Paul, are you going to pull yourself together? Yeah.

Give me a minute.

Well, you certainly have the three colours, don't you?

In fact, you have four colours. Beetroot and potato.

Oh, just feels so lovely.

Look at that. The colour of that is amazing.

Lovely texture. Nice flavour.

I'd like to try this.

This is the rye. Wow.

Oh, that's packing a punch, isn't it?

This is going to be fascinating. Good crust.

Very malty. Great texture, great flavour.

Really good bread. All right, now we're going to attack this fellow.

Look at that. It's goat's cheese and...

Caramelized onion.

Great taste. Really fantastic taste.

The goat's cheese in there is delicious.

Your design is very, very good.

Well thought through. Well done. Thank you so much. Thank you.

What a memorable Showstopper.

Who stood out for you?

Stacey's fallen out of the possibility of Star Baker.

I don't think that was good enough.

I think Julia's certainly still up there.

Julia's was lovely. The snail was humorous,

with the goat's cheese inside and the onion.

It was delicious. She gave herself a huge job and she pulled it off.

Obviously, Steven stood out. That was exceptional.

I mean, every single element to that was perfection.

The flavour combinations were stunning.

Very, very clever.

Though I'm not sure we could give him Star Baker when he did so badly

with his teacakes.

Can we talk about Flo and Tom Jones' locker?

The paprika burnt your mouth.

It just killed everything.

There's so much paprika in there.

She's in trouble. I think she struggled, Flo.

What about Liam?

I want to shake Liam because he keeps doing things wrong,

but he has this brave thing about flavour, which I love.

Has he saved himself? I don't know.

Do you think that you two are going to be in agreement about who's going

to be Star Baker and who's going to be saying goodbye?

I think so. I think we might not!

I'm sure we will. In the end. Right.

NOEL: I've seen them, they arm-wrestle. I know.

I have to say, that's the best Bread Week I've ever seen.

Well done.

I have the lovely chore of announcing who the Star Baker is.

The Star Baker this week is the person who put the "tea" into teacake

and whose Showstopper was from Russia with love.

It's Julia.

Well done.

That leaves me with the horrible job of revealing

who's going to leave us.

And the person that we have to say goodbye to is...

Flo. Yeah. I'm sorry. All right. Have a hug. Fine.

Honest to God, I'm fine with it.

Let me get myself together.

I will really miss Flo.

I'm a little bit sad that she's gone, actually,

because I think the world of Flo.

I've enjoyed the ride.

I've met some lovely people

and I'll remember that for the rest of my life.

I'm glad to get back to normal life. It is exhausting!

I thought I was going. I need to up the levels a bit.

I've got to do better.

Julia is the deserved Star Baker on Bread Week.

She was incredibly ambitious.

I did not expect that whatsoever.

It was exhausting!

I think it will be good for Steven to realise

that he's not going to dominate.

You know, there are other bakers there beginning to gnaw at his

ankles a little bit and I think Julia's one of those.

I needed to come down off my little cloud.

I've got to practise.

I'm heading back home tonight and the oven's going on.

Next time... Something smells burning.

..a Bake Off first...

Oh, my God! ..Caramel Week...

It's a beautiful thing, but it will destroy you.

..with a super-sweet signature.

Can you really eat that much caramel?

A double Dutch technical.

What the hell does that mean?

And a Showstopper so sticky...

It's all just melting. ..it spins the bakers.

Do not move. ..into a sugar frenzy.

The judges are not going to like any of that.

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