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GBBO.S08E10.The.Final.srt

In the beginning...

Look at that.

I love you, Flo. I love you too now.

..there were 12.

Ohhhh!

Oh, pum, pum, pum, pum...

It's all right, I'll just hold it like this.

Chin up. I'm going.

No, you're not!

Now...

Keep calm. Keep the nerves under control. Yeah.

..there are three.

Not very happy with the ciabatta.

Oh... No pressure.

HE EXHALES

HE EXHALES AGAIN

BIRDSONG

Three remaining bakers.

Breathe in.

Breathe in for the apron.

Three final challenges.

From the beginning, Steven seemed unstoppable.

You wouldn't think that wasn't bread.

But his ingenious designs...

That is ridiculous.

..haven't always been matched with great flavours.

Overall, it's a bit bland.

But the three-time Star Baker fought his way to the final.

I've ticked every box. Handshakes, Star Bakers.

There's that huge box that needs one big tick in it.

The winner.

Kate's road to the final has been rocky.

SHE GASPS

So nearly worked, didn't it?

But her creativity...

I love that octopus.

..historic inspiration...

I researched into the recipes onboard the Titanic.

..and her bold flavours...

The mango with the curry just works.

Very clever. ..ensured a steady rise.

The cake is sensational.

I do want to win but I'm not going to be arrogant enough to think

the other two bakers in there aren't fantastic.

Through the outset, Sophie has marched through the challenges with

military precision. Oh! That's delicious.

But for the two-time Star Baker,

there's one enemy that threatened defeat.

Bread, bread, bread, bread!

The dough's quite underdone. I hate bread.

The apples don't really look that green.

It's a dark art that I'm yet to master.

We never thought I'd get this far. It's just like a big thumbs-up.

Yes, this is what you're meant to do.

Morning, bakers,

many congratulations on making it through to the Bake Off final.

Now, for your final Signature Challenge,

Paul and Prue would like you to bake a batch of 12 small loaves.

But obviously they're not going to make it that easy for you.

No, they want you to make three different types of bread,

so four of your loaves need to be intricately shaped, so I don't know,

plaited, for example.

Four need to be flavoured,

and four need to be made with an alternative grain such as spelt

or buckwheat. You've got three hours to make 12 small loaves.

On your mark... Get set...

Bake!

Good luck, guys.

This is the final. I woke up this morning so excited.

Whoever wins, it'll be amazing.

The Signature is something I particularly love.

Bread. We've asked the bakers to produce 12 loaves.

Three different types.

Different baking times, different proving time.

It would be very easy to get into a muddle.

It's critical to remain calm, be absolutely confident

about what you're doing and create baking magic.

Hello, Sophie. Hello, Sophie. Good morning. How are you? Finals day.

Yes. Excited? Nervous, yup.

Sophie's attempting round spelt loaves,

ciabattas flavoured with wild mushrooms,

and plaited brioche flavoured with orange.

You've picked two breads that take a long time to make.

Brioche, technically overnight. Ciabatta, a long prove.

Yep, because I thought that was a great idea.

Not really realising that I'd stitched myself up a little bit.

Yeah. You'll be more impressed, though, if she pulls it off, right? Exactly.

You will have shown three skills, never mind all the others,

shaping and flavouring.

It's the final, you've got to go for it. Got to go for it.

Kate is playing this final Signature a little safer.

I'm keeping the doughs quite simple, and just want a good bake on it.

She'll shape her simple white dough into flowers,

and she's also making spelt loaves,

and a flavoured loaf filled with curry,

sweetened with yet another one of her discoveries.

Jaggery gur? Bit of jaggery. Do you want to try some? Yeah.

It's basically a sugar.

Like a cane sugar type thing? Yeah.

SHE COUGHS

Wow. My whole body's perked up.

That's fanta... What a lovely flavour.

I kind of got into jaggery when I found it in, like, this little shop

back home in Liverpool on Bold Street.

Do you just go round shops trying to find things nobody's heard of to cook with? Yeah.

Rummaging in the back of the supermarket shelves.

Ah! Here's a thing!

NOEL: Whilst Kate and Steven's first doughs are ready for proving...

That's going to go for an hour.

..Sophie's brioche is already proving time-consuming.

Enriching the dough and it's a lot of butter.

A lot of butter!

Right, er... For his second flavoured dough...

Baked garlic.

..Steven isn't holding back.

I'm going to whole-roast these garlic,

and you'd think three bulbs in four loaves is a lot,

but it just becomes a really sweet, mellow flavour and it's really good.

Steven's making flavoured loaves with garlic, rosemary,

and fontina cheese.

He's also making spelt and rye loaves, and his shaped loaves,

filled with chocolate and cinnamon,

have been inspired by his boyhood hobbies.

The shaped one is going to be a Winston knot.

A what? A Winston knot. What's that?

I think it's a tie knot, isn't it? It's got three strands to it, hasn't it? Yes.

I remember doing knots when I was in Scouts just because I wanted to

get that badge. Channelling your childhood.

I did get my badge. And for baking.

Steven began baking long before he joined the Scouts.

Did you cut your own hair?

I think I might have let my friend do it.

Steven and I both share a passion for cooking.

He was always clearing up after me in the kitchen.

I don't think my mum realises just how much she influences him

and how much she helps him, how much of a guide she is to him.

I think my mum would be quite surprised to...to realise

that a lot of this is to do with her.

I am immensely proud. He's my Star Baker.

That is flavoured dough.

The more doughs the bakers complete...

That's going to go down for an hour.

..the more complicated this final Signature Bake becomes.

You leave it in this until it's about doubled in size.

Each dough will have a different proving time,

and it gets harder.

They'll need to budget enough remaining time for a second prove,

then the baking itself.

The second prove will vary depending on how well they've done.

And if nine variable timings wasn't enough to contend with...

I'm to do number three.

..all three finalists are attempting a dough using spelt flour.

I'm doing this one by hand because it's very easy to overwork spelt.

You just end up with a chewing gum.

How's that doing? This is spelt and rye.

It's the same stuff the Roman Army would've eaten with olive oil.

Obviously I'm going to do something historic, aren't I?

And I'm obsessed. My favourite film's Gladiator.

So I've got a running joke with my dad about that.

There you are, Kate, by the Pyramids.

Growing up, she was into many different things.

It started with dance school, drama.

Fishing, doing her martial arts.

Horse riding.

Brownies.

Go-karting.

Then she started baking.

Even practising for the Bake Off hasn't slowed Kate down.

Katie is doing a Masters degree in occupational health and safety, as

well as doing her full-time job, as well as practising all the recipes.

I remember the phone call to say, "Dad, I'm going to be on Bake Off."

And I was really a bit choked.

The next minute she'd actually got a place in the final.

It's just amazing. It really is.

As well as three doughs with three different proving times...

I'm just going to go get another timer.

..Kate's given herself something else to keep track of.

This is for the inside of my flavoured breads.

Like a peshwari filling.

So I'm just putting some jaggery in now, which will just sweeten it up.

And she's not the only one spending time on a filling.

I don't know what they'll think of wild mushroom ciabatta. I like it.

That's all that matters.

Is that your christening? That is my christening.

She's always been very determined, yes.

Even as a little girl.

She did like to bake her own big cakes.

The ballet school. I think she would have carried on with the ballet,

but she just got too tall.

The army was the most surprising one.

When she puts her heart into something, she goes and gets it.

Very proud of Sophie, I've always been proud of Sophie.

Sophie did not apply for Bake Off, I applied. I put it in for her.

I'm incredibly proud of Sophie.

To come up with some of the stuff she's done is quite amazing.

Absolutely incredible.

If I heard Sophie's name being called out and she's been crowned

best baker in Britain, even from an Irish perspective!

You got to the end and you might win!

Well... You'd be famous.

Can't go to Tesco's in my pyjamas any more.

You just want to get bread over with, don't you?

Yeah, and do you know what, that's not really the feeling I should have

on finals, but I know I'm not great at it, so it's kind of like,

let's just get it over and done with. Get that one done. Yeah.

Bakers, we are halfway through your final Signature Challenge.

Anyone need anything? You warm enough?

Current tent temperature.

I've had bad experiences with this proving drawer.

Best just to stay clear of it.

It's had half an hour. Now the maths gets even more complicated.

Yeah, I've got about 15 minutes until I make the Winston knot.

No, I've got two minutes until I make the Winston knot

and 15 minutes in which to do them.

The judges will expect loaves that are uniform in size and shape.

I'm just bread-measuring.

I think we should give them Roman soldier names cos this is what

the Roman Army used to eat.

Yeah. So that's Maximus.

Maximus. Decimus, Aurelius, and, erm...

Stuart? Stuart.

But every minute spent weighing and shaping...

These two get crossed over.

..is a minute they won't have for a second prove and baking.

Apparently it's like a French sort of design.

It's a bit different to, like, the traditional knot shape.

You'd think it would be easy to get things to look the same but it's

not. I'm glad I went to Scouts.

I'm not sure it did much for my knot-making skills.

That is now going to prove again.

I'm just going to give them, like, 20 minutes.

I have to get it in there.

That's cinnamon sugar and chocolate chips.

Weighing out my ciabatta so it can go on for its second prove.

This is called a couche, which is

French for "bed", and it just gives the dough a little bit of support

while it's rising. I'm putting it to bed.

Once upon a time in the Bake Off tent...

there was a girl who was terrible at making bread.

There's a kind of a knot used in nautical,

it's called a monkey's fist.

And that looks exactly the same.

You're going to miss me. Terribly.

There's just 45 minutes remaining in the final Signature Challenge.

I'd really like to give it a long time to second prove,

but I'd rather it be baked in the oven, so I need to get them in.

We're running out of time, they've got to go in, ready or not.

This is the flavoured dough.

It's only going to get a little bit of a prove.

Right, I need to get a wriggle on now.

That was a bit of a balls-up one.

HE TUTS AND SIGHS

I'm starting them off quite high temperature, they'll get a nice

crust on them, and then I'll drop it down.

I wanted to give them another 15 minutes' proving,

but I would rather they were baked.

Bakers, you only have half an hour left.

Not the best they've looked, but also not the worst.

I don't think I'm going to have enough oven space, so what I'm going

to have to do is move these all onto one baking sheet.

Right, let's get these babies in the oven.

These actually have puffed up quite quickly.

These are my spelt loaves.

I'm scoring them cos as they rise, if I didn't, they'd burst out

at the weakest point, which is usually on the bottom.

That's annoyingly misshapen.

It's really not enough space.

That's everything in now, by the skin of my teeth,

so hopefully they won't be underbaked.

One has split horribly in the middle.

Probably in my haste to get them in the oven.

Ah! No pressure!

I'm concerned there won't be enough air bubbles in my ciabatta,

but I'm afraid my spelt will be like bricks.

SHE LAUGHS

I feel I want to do one of those yoga poses.

Oh, oh, actually...

Oh!

SHE LAUGHS

What's happening in there? My loaf has split.

That's OK, though, isn't it?

It's not the end of the world, it's just irritating.

Mmm. Imagine if it was the end of the world.

Your loaf split and everything went... Phoar!

Should have got them in sooner.

I'm going to whip them out with about one minute to go.

Well, hopefully the taste will carry me a little bit.

How long have we got left?

Just one minute remaining.

I really don't want to drop any of these

because that would just be horrific.

This is what happens when you rush.

Ah!

Oh... Ah!

God, they've all split open.

Bakers, your time is up!

Not very happy with the ciabatta.

Oh, God, everyone's looks beautiful.

It's judgment time in the final Signature Challenge.

Hello, Sophie. Hi. How are you doing? Hello, Sophie. Hello.

I think they look very good.

I do like the plait. It's a little bit under proved but not much.

The naan bread looks interesting.

I wouldn't call that a ciabatta really.

Well, let's see how it tastes.

I must say that I'm impressed by the look of them,

especially the spelt ones.

It looks really good.

It sounds good. It is slightly under proved.

And, therefore, what follows is it's slightly under baked.

I tell you what, the flavour is lovely.

Mm. Really nice flavour.

Great flavour. Spelt is not the tastiest.

That's a good start. Let's look at this ciabatta, shall we?

I always cut ciabattas this way because you get more of an

indication of the overall structure. A pretty nice structure but not

as open as it could be.

Smells really mushroomy.

They were dried mushrooms, weren't they? Uh, some dried, some sauteed.

It works. It brings you two different textures in.

And they do taste very, very good.

I wouldn't call it a ciabatta though.

Right, let's have a look at this.

Great structure. Great.

Look at that. And, you know, the orange really works.

I didn't think it would. Excellent flavour.

Soft crumb. Great texture on the

outside and the plaiting is very good as well. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hmm. They definitely do look a little different, don't they?

Yes. That one does not look much like that one.

They do look pretty terrible. We're looking for consistency.

They do look awful. So,

the bread has the garlic running through it and then there's some

cheese and rosemary in the centre. Smells good.

It's actually a little disappointing because it's quite tough.

Your dough needed more water.

OK. Dry dough will split wherever it wants to go and that's what's caused

that and that to be totally different.

Yeah. These don't look good either. It's massively under proved.

Rye bread tends to rip. Yeah.

Look at that one there.

I agree with it trying to pull away.

It instantly means that you've under proved it. Yeah. But let's have a taste.

It's probably going to be slightly doughy inside.

And it tastes like that. It's gluey in your mouth.

Nice flavour, though. Beautiful flavour.

Just right, the rye and the spelt.

The knots. They are so artisan and real and beautiful.

It's always tricky when you put something into the middle.

Does it destroy the crumb?

And I think you've done quite well on the sweet one there.

That is very good.

It's delicious. I think the chocolate's really good and you've

got just enough cinnamon. It's not overpowering.

Under proved, under proved, perfect.

Thank you very much, Steve. Thank you. Thank you.

I must say, I think these are interesting and they look absolutely

beautiful. Now, this is the spelt.

Yeah. It's got a little rip but a nice neat pattern.

I'm not going to quarrel with the actual flavour,

except that I think if you'd had a little salt in there you'd have

enhanced it. Uh, I quite like it.

You push it, it springs back, which is a good sign.

Let's have a look at these. Nice. That's the sound I like to hear.

Great structure. You can tell, you see where the knife drags the dough,

doesn't cut through like a cake,

it's pulling so you have this tension there.

I think the texture's perfect. Nice and crisp on the outside.

I'm getting a little bit of flavour in there as well, which is good.

OK. That's a good one. All right, now, let's look at these ones.

It's the filled one, isn't it? Yeah.

Oh, no. Are you all right?

What's he thinking? You can never tell.

I'll tell you what I think. I think it's got a lovely texture.

I think it's properly baked.

I like the curry and I like the flaky edge.

It tastes divine. The structure's spot on.

I like the filling. Something I might even look at.

I think overall you've done very well.

Well done, Kate. Thanks.

It was much better than I expected.

Woo. Woop-woop. SHE LAUGHS

Yeah... Ah... I mean...

Mm...

I did it as well as I could have done in the time.

I thought bread was going to be my

undoing and it's nice to know I'm not starting from behind.

I am frustrated with myself.

But then I think, "What's the point, it's not going to change anything?"

Now the finalists face mastering not one but two levels

of absolute baking precision.

Time for your final Technical Challenge,

which today has been set for you by Prue.

Prue, have you been kind to the finalists? No.

It's all about the bake.

No trouble. It's all about the bake.

As ever the technical will be judged

blind so I'm going to have to ask you crazy kids to skedaddle.

Off you go. For your final Technical Challenge Prue would like you to

make ten ginger biscuits baked to perfection with a powerful snap.

Prue wants half of them to be oval and the other half to be square.

But they all need to be intricately iced.

You have two and a half hours.

On your marks. Get set. Bake.

The finalists all have identical ingredients...

and Prue's pared down recipe.

It seems quite straightforward, which worries me.

Some lace pattern does look complicated.

This is the Bake Off final,

and what could be more of a classic British bake than a ginger biscuit?

They are exquisite. It's all royal icing.

As we've said it must be exactly these decorations.

They should be able to look at that and know that they should first pipe

the outline and then flood it.

Of course, you'll need a thicker icing for the baubles than you need

for the flooding. Although the icing is very intricate and difficult to

do we want a really crisp perfect biscuit.

Beautiful. So we are looking for a really nice snap with these

biscuits, aren't we? It should make a crack.

I love the fact that you're dunking. I'm too posh to dunk.

Are you? You didn't see. You're never too posh to dunk.

You're dead right.

It just says make the ginger biscuits using the creamer method.

After this morning I'd like to do much better

into this afternoon's technical.

It's a bit hard to get tablespoons of beaten egg.

One, two. I'm expecting that to be quite a stiff dough.

I've done it wrong. I've put too much egg in.

I was focusing so much on the muscovado that I

put too much egg in. Awkward.

Right, try again.

After each stage they need to be frozen.

It's quite a wet dough.

I expect it will firm up when it gets in the fridge.

There is no indication of thickness.

I'll just go for a couple of millimetres.

You want them nice and thin.

How's it going to fit? It's not going to fit.

Kate's done it wrong again.

This isn't ideal. This is human error in action.

Two hours remaining in the final Technical Challenge.

Make eight by eight square templates and a ten by seven oval.

This is not ten by seven. So I'm going to have to freehand.

Ovals freehand, I'm assuming, which'll be unamusing.

I've never drawn an oval before in my life.

I do feel I'm back at, like, a school art class.

Not very ovaly. That's annoying me.

Yeah, that's probably close enough.

So yours is more like a sort of, uh... Don't, no, no...

No? I was going to say egg.

Don't say egg. It's a little egg like.

It looks like something From Mork & Mindy travels

in. I used to love that show. I just want to make sure I can get five.

So, one, two... Three... Idiot!

It needs to be quite a lot bigger.

I'm just going to freeze those and then stick them in the oven.

They shouldn't take that long to bake.

I'm going to cut them out afterwards because I don't want the outsides to

burn. All about finesse.

Bakers, you are halfway through your ginger biscuits.

Let's get these in the oven. It doesn't even say how long to bake

the biscuits for. Just this bake.

So, I'm going for seven minutes and check them thereafter.

Eight minutes, that sounds about right.

I'm doing it at five minutes, I will keep an eye on it, though.

It's all about the bake.

Prue said, you know, all about the bake. It's all about the bake.

This is royal icing.

Icing sugar, egg whites and lemon juice.

Alls I can taste is just sweet air.

Trying not to mix it too hard because the icing sugar will get

away with me. Right, that's five minutes.

Hm. I can see them browning around the edge.

This is how I normally do it because I just didn't want the edges to burn.

I'm tempted to put them back in actually for a couple more minutes.

I'm going to put the squares back in. They just feel a little softer.

I'm going to get them back in the oven.

Hm.

Just doing them in increments of two minutes just to see how they look.

It needs a little bit longer because they've got to have a nice snap to them.

I think I'm happy with those.

They're nice and thin. They smell good.

A couple more minutes. Just take a minute.

They've just spread a little bit. I didn't freeze them long enough.

Ah, snap.

Put them back in for a little flash of, like, a minute.

Bakers, you have one hour left.

How much time is that per biscuit?

Six. Minutes. Six minutes.

Which one's the minutes again? Go away. Go on.

Pipe flower pattern onto the oval and pipe lace onto the square.

Simple, right? Let's give it a go.

A bit too dark. I burnt my biccies.

I hate rushing decorating.

Definitely the fastest I've ever iced. Is it enjoyable?

SHE MUMBLES

At home it took me all day to ice 12 biscuits.

You've got four and a half minutes per biscuit left. Right. Yeah. OK.

I'm just thinking they're looking... They're lovely, they look beautiful,

they're a little on the plain side.

I'm having two different consistencies

for piping and for flooding.

A lot more to do than perhaps I first thought.

No time to redo anything.

There's so much intricate detail on here.

If I can just get some basics done on these.

Draw the line and then it kind of semi-sets.

Flood the white icing and then pipe the flower straight on top.

I should have just done that in hindsight but I decided to flood ice

everything. What I'm going to do is do the same on each one and then go

back and add detail.

I think everyone's got their own technique for flood icing, though.

If I run out of time, just have to serve them, won't I?

My hand is surprisingly steady actually considering

how nervous I am.

I think everybody needs to learn how to speed pipe.

Bakers, you have ten minutes left.

Just not enough time at all.

If I can just get as much done on these coloured ones.

I'm just going to pipe some dots around the flooded ones.

I literally can't give you eye contact right now unless you're a

biscuit and you need some icing on you.

I mean, look how many biscuits are uniced.

Do you want me to do one for you? No.

I haven't actually taken more than about three breaths in the last two

minutes. I haven't breathed.

I haven't looked up. They're looking increasingly messier.

It's actually really hard going on your hand.

Oh! My back's killing me.

Bakers, time is up.

Step away from your nozzles.

They look good, mate. Have you both finished?

Prue and Paul are expecting ten exquisitely delicious

ginger biscuits with

a perfect snap, and they'll have no idea whose is whose.

Shall we start with this one then, Prue?

They're beautifully even. Likewise with the oval.

There has been flooding. The icing is nice and thin.

It could have been a little bit thinner in order to flood it better

because this is a bit lumpy.

That went snap. It did. Nice and crisp.

That is a very good ginger biscuit.

Lovely flavour. There's a couple of issues with this one.

One, they're not finished. Two, they're very different.

They aren't the same as that.

No. But they might be redeemed by the bake. Nice crunch. Mm.

It's a bit dark, that one, actually. Tastes good. Texture is beautiful.

Yeah, but the problem is, look, there's nothing on them.

These are quite neat, actually.

Mm-hm. Uh, they're quite big, you know, the blobs on them.

Yeah. But they are finished. The biscuits aren't very square.

They've spread a tiny bit in the oven but this still looks really

good biscuit. Yeah. Nice snap.

Flavour's very good, texture's very good.

Let's have a look at the other ones. It's flooded well, this.

I just think it's lost something. The piping here is not blobs.

If the icing had been a bit thicker

you would have got that perfect bobbly edge.

But who has triumphed in the last Technical Challenge?

This is third place.

Oh, what a surprise.

Well, Kate, you know you didn't finish.

Yeah.

Second place...

..is this one.

The consistency of the icing was

slightly off and some of your biscuits

were slightly round. But they were all finished, so well done.

That leaves Steven in first place.

Steven, the icing isn't perfect.

No. But it is more intricate and you have tried hard to get the shape.

It's a really good crack at a nice biscuit. Thank you.

Oh! I was willing that. I was willing that to happen.

There is a chance but everything

tomorrow's going to have to be bang on.

Fair enough, came third, didn't finish them.

I mean, I had a good bake on the bread and going into the Showstopper

I think everyone's going to be

starting from roughly the same point.

Just one challenge remains in this year's competition.

In just a few hours,

at a very special garden party for family and friends we'll discover

the winner of The Great British Bake Off.

Coming into today, I think what we've got is two

challenges that turn everything upside down.

Initially, we'd put Kate on top, close to Sophie and then Steven.

The technical was then Steven, Sophie and Kate.

So it is literally reversed.

The fact of the matter is, whoever wins the Showstopper is going to be

the winner. What happens if they're all even at the end of

the Showstopper? I'm walking out.

You win, Noel. Do I? Yes. Amazing.

Morning, bakers. Welcome to the last ever Bake Off challenge before one

of you is named champion of 2017.

For your final Showstopper,

Paul and Prue would love you to make a large entremet.

As we all know, an entremet is a thing that Sandi knows about.

An entremet is a light, delicate,

multi-layered cake that was originally served as a dessert

between courses. Your entremet must have a minimum of five elements,

one of which must be sponge.

The entire cake should be covered in perhaps a glaze.

Or maybe a ganache, whichever you choose,

your entremet should be decorated to the highest of standards.

And, when sliced, should hold together perfectly with each of the

delicate layers clearly visible.

You have five hours.

BOTH: On your marks, get set, bake!

This is the most unforgiving final Showstopper in Bake Off history.

A perfect entremet is a flawlessly decorated mousse cake,

filled with distinct, delicate layers,

delivering contrasting textures and complementary flavours.

The three bakers are probably very, very nervous.

This is technically a very difficult challenge to get right.

The sponge is one element of it, but

they need to bring in other elements, too.

A mousse, a bavarois, a jelly, a meringue.

But you've got to get it all working in unison.

If you've got five, or six, or seven, or eight different elements,

when you get a mouthful, whatever's in that spoon must be delicious.

They've got to work backwards. How long have I got to make this?

How long does it take for the jelly to set, the sponge to be cool?

It's very, very tricky.

I've been so impressed with those

bakers and I know that they can all do

incredibly well, so I want every one of them to be so good that we

struggle to choose a winner.

Hello, Sophie. Hello, morning.

Hi, Sophie. What are you doing?

I have named mine The Ode To The Honey Bee.

I just love honey. I find it fascinating.

I think it's incredible just how different it can taste.

It's like wine, really. A tempered chocolate honeybee and flower will

decorate a marbled white chocolate mirror glaze entremet,

containing several layers, featuring honey custard, blackberry jelly,

orange blossom sponge, hazelnut feuilletine,

lemon curd and a lavender mousse.

Do you think all these things go together?

I think actually the honey, and the lemon, and the lavender,

I think it all harmonises quite well.

I'm trying to think, lemon and lavender.

I think that could...

I think that will work. Honeybees like all those things, don't they?

So why shouldn't we? Let's hope there's no sting in the tail.

Do you see what he did there?

I'm going to take him away now and put him in a dark room.

Come with me. Even at the

beginning of this final Showstopper, the bakers will have to move fast.

I want the whole thing to be

freezing within two and a half hours.

My countdown timer is everything.

Unless they set their individual layers quickly,

they won't be firm enough to stack

so they can construct their entremet.

It's such a process to get everything chilled.

You can't just stack it all on top of each other and hope for the best.

What I'm doing here is custard.

This is what I want to get done first because it's got to freeze.

Got some blackberries, some sugar and some lemon juice.

I'm just going to mush that down and make it into a puree.

So, a couple of jobs on the go at the same time.

This is what we call concurrent activity and this is an actual

principle of war.

In the battle for the Bake Off crown...

Multitasking is a principle of war.

..Kate's opened up an Eastern front.

I've coloured my lychee jelly with red food colouring because the whole

entremet's going to be white and I really just wanted a flash of colour

in the middle. So that's like the Japanese flag.

Kate's jelly will sit at the heart

of a Japanese inspired white chocolate

mirror glazed entremet, decorated with shards of black sesame tuile,

dragon fruit dice and a tempered chocolate butterfly.

And all her layers will be encased

in a set custard known as a bavarois,

flavoured with an oriental twist.

What's that? Yuzu juice.

Yuzu juice. It's like lemon.

It's like lemon, mixed with mandarin, yeah.

You look calm. Do I? The bake's all about Zen today.

So that's what I'm channelling.

What are you going to do if you win?

If I do, I'm going to do something ridiculous.

Streak? Streak!

Through the tent? I'm going to do a naked cartwheel.

THEY LAUGH

This is the first layer of custard. I'll get this freezing.

One thing down, another six to do.

It's the rising sun.

Kate's not the only one headed to the Far East.

But Steven's given himself twice as far to travel.

It's a big entremet. It's two halves.

It'll be a yin yang.

A yin yang is a representation of light and dark.

And the two can't exist without one another.

Caramelised bananas with run, creme brulee, raspberry coulis,

chocolate mousse, honeycomb feuilletine

and hazelnut genoise sponge will be

layered in two separate moulds.

And if 14 elements wasn't enough,

the two halves will have contrasting decoration.

One will be mirror glaze with a galaxy scene of the Northern Lights

streak. The other half will be

sprayed warm chocolate onto the frozen

surface, and it leaves what looks like velvet.

Is this inspired by something?

I was in Sweden when I applied for the Bake Off.

I remembered the snow on the ground and you could see the galaxy in the

sky. You saw the Northern Lights. It was a most beautiful scene.

That's when I applied for the Bake Off.

You see how inspirational we Scandinavians are?

Cool, right.

A nice honey set custard.

Usually I'd set overnight.

So I've had to put more gelatine in than I'd want to.

Rather than setting one layer at a time, with so much to get through,

Steven is planning to set three at once.

A layer of custard and a layer of banana,

then a layer of custard underneath.

But as well as perfectly set layers...

That's going back in the freezer.

..the judges will expect contrasting textures.

I'm starting the genoise now. This is going to be the sponge element.

I picked genoise because it's light and airy, but it has structure.

This is for my orange sponge.

It's a financier recipe, which is like a little petit four.

It's almost got a chewy texture.

It's going to be right at the bottom.

I'm using this pan to just get it as flat as I can.

When you're stacking, everything is a little bit out.

There is a cumulative effect.

I'm going to cut it into a circle so

it doesn't need to be neat around the edges or anything like that.

It's going to go in the oven.

This is the last layer of custard going on top of the bananas and

we're going to do a final freeze to get it solid.

I knew this would take a while, but it is the star of the show.

Right.

Bakers, you're halfway through.

You've got two and a half hours left,

and then Blue Eyes comes in and destroys us all.

Lemon curd. As well as their set and sponge layers...

Right, what now? ..all the finalists are hoping to deliver an element of

crunch. This is the coconut dacquoise.

Essentially it's like a meringue with coconuts.

I'm making a bunch of honeycomb and I'm going to crush that up and it's

going to go in between chocolates.

My feuilletine layer is basically like a really

posh Rice Krispies cake.

It's like the Honey Monster's heart.

It's nice, isn't it? I'm just going to look at this for a bit.

It's making me sort of wistful.

Yeah. Nice and springy.

Look at that.

This is the frozen inserts.

I want to get it cut so I can get it back into the freezer,

just to give it a little bit more chilling time.

There you go. Easy does it.

Before they can begin assembling their final Showstopper,

Sophie, Steven and Kate...

There's so many processes.

..need to perfect a mousse to encase their entire entremets.

This is a chocolate mousse.

My mousse, it's white chocolate and lavender.

So, this is the yuzu and white chocolate bavarois.

It's got a really unique flavour.

It's a bit experimental and that's what I wanted to do.

Most of the flavours I think, are terrific.

I think Kate's coconut and yuzu will be very good together.

They're not too aggressive.

Sophie's gone for the most diverse

flavours I think I've ever heard of in the Bake Off tent.

Just put the lavender there.

Smell it. Lavender and lemon.

I initially went really subtle with it. I'm putting a fair amount in.

I'm a little bit worried about Steven's.

Chocolate is so dominant.

Has he bitten off more than he can chew?

Yeah. He's often come to a point where timing has been his downfall.

I want all of them to finish what they set out to do.

Me too. Is Steven going to finish?

I think Sophie's is very complicated.

And, actually, is Kate going to be able to give it the finesse that she

very often lacks?

Just got to give yourself as much time as possible to concentrate on

the assembly, which is why I'm trying to fly through these bits.

I'm going to go and retrieve those inserts.

Hopefully they've set just enough.

Unless they're built quickly...

Everything is just about to set and I can go ahead.

..there won't be enough remaining time for the assembled entremets to

set again... It's all got to be spot on first-time.

..so that they can be decorated before the final judging.

It's a bit too sloppy.

Let's get it out. This is the lemon curd.

I'm going to let it freeze for

another ten minutes, just to reset everything.

Push the sponge.

Caramelised honey. I'm trying to use every single spare second.

It means that I'm prepared for the next step.

This is the feuilletine.

That is Japan in a cake tin.

This is raspberry coulis going over the sponges.

Back in the freezer. Just set for as long as I can.

This is going to set now.

So, I'm going to start doing all my decorations.

I'm going to start off by doing honeycomb.

I'm going to use a bit of bubble wrap.

This is going to be messy. I'm going to have to do it.

I'm just tipping these into the moulds.

OK. They're in. This is cocoa butter on acetate,

then I'm going to use melted chocolate on top of this.

Take half the jam with me.

This is going to be my honey bee.

I stuck down little strips of tape and painted cocoa butter on.

So the chocolate will show through and he'll have stripes.

Don't know why it's a he. Well, it is a he, isn't it?

Because only the queens...

Right, my gorgeous finalists. You've got one hour left.

The entremet needed half an hour more than it's going to

get in the freezer.

It's got a nice shine on it, hasn't it?

Come on, come on, freeze, freeze, freeze.

This is a dragon fruit. It's going to be decoration for the top.

So soft. I'm worried it's not going

to hold when I take it out the mould.

STEVEN EXHALES

I have got a chocolate collar.

This is going to be a tuile if it hopefully works.

Keep calm. Keep the nerves under control. Yes.

Here, sweetie. Thank you so much.

I probably should have done bigger wings.

I'm going to get it out and have a look at it. Is it set enough?

Right, just carry on, carry on.

I've got an entremet, whether it's a good entremet remains to be seen.

Yes, that's set fine.

I'm going to work on my mirror glaze.

Let me get this entremet out.

It's holding its shape, I've just got to be so careful.

It needs to be 30 degrees C.

Bakers, just 15 minutes before the entire Bake Off of 2017 is over.

It's going to be close, going to be close.

That is white chocolate and cocoa butter.

Right, I think I'm going to go for it.

Right, that's the best you're going to get out of that.

God, don't inhale cocoa butter.

Moment of truth.

Just make it a bit more like marble, less squiggly.

Wish me luck.

If I can't present something beautiful, I'll present what I can.

I've got to add the chocolate collar.

Oh, no. A bit of a crack.

I need to get it on the cake stand.

Yin needs to meet yang.

It's on.

Not the beautiful entremet I imagined.

There's cracks all over the place.

Bakers, you have one minute.

Where are me balls? Come on, Steven.

What's he doing? What are you doing?

Come on, come on.

Bakers, your final challenge is over.

Wow.

What a relief.

It's all over. It's all over.

Well done. You did it. Congratulations.

You got through it. Well done.

Bless you. Our kids have all grown up.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I'm crying now.

Quite beautiful.

Baked our little socks off.

SANDI: Outside the tent, the bakers' friends and family have arrived,

along with a few familiar faces.

I had butterflies this morning coming back to the tent,

which is ridiculous, considering I'm not baking.

It is really amazing to be back. I've missed everyone so much.

"Hi. How are you?" It's sort of like a reunion.

If I had to pick a winner, erm...

I'm not going to choose. It'd be like choosing your favourite child.

They are all fantastic bakers.

I want Stevie to win. He has taught me so much.

As long as he doesn't do rubbery jelly, he'll be fine.

..I'd probably say Sophie, you know.

Being a northern lass, I'd like Katie.

I honestly don't know who it's going to be.

WHISPERS: Steven. HE LAUGHS

NOEL: It's judgment time for the final show-stopping entremets.

Sophie, please bring up your final Showstopper.

Thank you, Sophie. Can you tell us all about your entremet, please?

So, I've named my entremet Ode to the Honeybee.

There's an orange-blossom financier sponge.

Then there is a blackberry jelly.

Then there is a feuilletine caramelised honey custard,

a set lemon curd... SHE LAUGHS

..a white chocolate and lavender mousse and a mirror glaze.

I think the overall look is absolutely beautiful.

It's original. It's pretty.

The marbling is absolutely stunning.

The colour has broken up a little bit,

but the honeycomb with the bee, with the flower,

with the marble, I think, is exceptional. Thank you.

Wow. Knife just fell through. That's great.

Look at that.

That is just set,

and they're not running into each other, the layers.

Very neat. The jelly, especially. And it's just holding together.

That is amazing.

Mm! Lemon and lavender has got to be the new taste.

SHE CHUCKLES

HE SIGHS

I love it.

Being the theme of the entremet is the honey,

that's the first thing you get, and it's not overly sweet.

The jelly, with that little tartness...

The sponge is just right

cos it gives it a little bit of bite to the whole thing.

And even the lemon and the lavender work, as well.

Every one of the creamy, jelly layers

is the right degree of gelatine.

It's not rubbery. It's not liquid.

And on top of all that, it tastes fantastic.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

SHE EXHALES

Kate, would you like to bring your entremet up to the table, please?

Ooh! Flew off.

Kate, remind us about your entremet.

It's yuzu and white chocolate bavarois

on top of coconut dacquoise,

with lychee jelly and a yuzu zest sponge,

and then a yuzu and white chocolate glaze.

It's tremendously unusual and beautifully done.

The glaze is as shiny as a bathroom tile.

The mirror finish you've got on the top is beautiful

and the colour choices are superb.

Well, that dropped through well, actually.

Oh, look at that.

They're big and they're bold and they're equal.

I think that yuzu flavour

is just so sharp and delicious and surprising.

It starts off tasting like grapefruit

and then you know it's not grapefruit. Mm, it's lovely.

I love the flavour combinations.

The bavarois, it's that light citrus.

Have you put that in the jelly, as well?

Because it's got this beautiful citrus hit, as well, in there.

That meringue and coconut

is a little stroke of genius because it's a different flavour.

It's very harmonious with the lemony flavours,

and it's drier than the bavarois.

So, you get the contrast of texture and the contrast of flavour,

and I think it's really beautiful. OK.

The jelly melts in the mouth. Not too much gelatine in there.

The sponge, and then that light bavarois is sublime.

I'd eat that all day. Thank you.

Well done. Thank you.

Well done, Kate. That's good, mate. Well done.

Good luck, Steve. Thank you.

Steven, please bring up your final Showstopper.

Steven, tell us all about your entremet, please.

So, inside, there is a hazelnut dacquoise,

genoise sponge with a raspberry coulis.

There is bananas and custard surrounded by a chocolate mousse.

On the yin side is white chocolate flocking,

and on the yang side, galaxy mirror glaze.

That is extraordinary glazing.

It looks like a shell. It looks amazing.

The contrast is there, but I almost want this to be smoother

and a little bit more refined.

This looks a little as if it's unfinished.

I'm going to go for the mirror.

The distinctive layers upsets me a little bit. Mm.

Because this all comes down to timing,

which I've said before. Yeah.

The mirror glaze is not quite set, and so the knife is taking

the colour through to the next layer,

and the next layer's being pushed through to the next layer.

Love the bananas. Love the chocolate mousse.

If I was to close my eyes and eat that,

that's a chocolate mousse with a bit of banana in.

You're not getting too many textures in there.

I want to cut a bit of the other side

because that blue glaze is making a muddle.

To me, it's exactly the same.

You've got bleeding of each of the layers.

It's hard to distinguish any layers

except the dominant ones - the chocolate and the banana.

It's almost too much of a good thing.

It's very rich and sweet.

I don't think you'd be able to eat a lot of it.

I just think you missed a trick here.

Mm. I think you missed a trick.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Paul and Prue now have a huge decision to make.

The three bakers came into the Showstopper pretty even,

so is this a very difficult decision?

You have elements in all these which are just sheer perfection.

You have something exceptional from Sophie.

Sophie's marbling on top is just amazing.

You have flavours, and the mirror glaze from Kate is gorgeous.

On the other hand, I'm sure Steven feels a little bit down,

because I don't think Steven's is as good as the other two.

Steven's let himself down a little bit.

Well, ten weeks of amazing memories, but it comes down to this,

and I do not think it is an easy decision.

I came in here thinking I knew who'd win,

and the more I think about it, I'm going to change my mind.

But I'm not going to tell you who.

Hopefully, you will eventually. There's a lot of people out there.

And then you can tell them!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, my God! SHE LAUGHS

NOEL: Before the winner is revealed, Steven, Kate and Sophie

can finally join their family and friends.

I'm feeling very nervous. It could go any way.

And I will be incredibly pleased and proud of them,

especially because I count Katie and Steven

very much as my friends now.

Genuinely, whoever won, it would be deserved,

because we've all come so far from where we started from.

Hey, Mum.

I haven't let go of that dream of winning.

It left me halfway through the bake.

It left me. But I clawed it back.

Come and sit down. Come on.

I could still win. HE SIGHS

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello. Thank you all for coming. The moment's here.

I'd like to ask the three finalists to step forward.

Big round of applause for Kate, Steven and Sophie.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Come on, then. Come on, lads. SHE LAUGHS

Good luck.

Right, guys.

I have the huge honour of announcing...

I'm going to cry!

I have the huge honour of announcing the winner

of The Great British Bake Off 2017.

You three are amazing,

but I'm afraid there can only be one champion.

The winner of The Great British Bake Off 2017

is...

..Sophie. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well done.

Are you going to cry? I'm nearly in tears.

Well done, Sophie. Thank you. You deserve it, hon.

That's yours, my dear.

You are such a clever girl, and you deserve it.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I... I'm sure it'll sink in, but it hasn't quite yet.

Just kind of disbelief, really.

The idea of winning is such a minute possibility.

I don't think I'll forget this for as long as I live.

Well done, Sophie. Thank you.

Oh, thank you so much, Sandi.

Well done. I'm going to pinch myself. Amazing.

Oh, my God.

Can I be honest? I got a little bit emotional there.

And it's because Sandi got a little bit emotional.

So, I sort of walked off quite quickly and went, "It's the wind.

"It's the wind in my eye." I'm made up for her.

Well done. Oh, my God.

It's been a real learning curve for Sophie.

To come up with that entremet in the final bake, you know, it...

I was really shocked about the standard.

Sophie seems very calm, but she's not that confident,

possibly because she knows everybody else has had

more experience than she has.

Oh, I'm so proud of her. Actually, I'm really proud of all of them.

You've done well. This is not the end of you.

I've lost to a really brilliant - really, really brilliant - baker,

so fair play to the girl.

Oh, Julia. Well done. Thanks. Well done. I'm so proud of you.

I know Sophie can appear quite tough,

but she's not. She's soft.

Tom. Well done. Thanks, buddy.

She was as scared as Kate and I were,

and for the first time in ten weeks, I saw vulnerability.

Hello. Thank you so much. So proud of you.

She's put her heart and soul into this, as we all have,

but she put her heart and soul into it and she earned it.

She really earned it.

NOEL: This is the first time you've lost your cool.

I'm not really... I'm going to keep pinching myself.

Baking - I thought it was almost like a bit of a calling,

so to go from just that sort of idea,

that sort of initial inspiration...

But I never dared think about it until we were here.

Met some brilliant people, and then I got to the final,

and now I'm here.

It is beyond anything I thought or dreamed of.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What a privilege. Well done, Soph.

Yeah, it's pretty mega.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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