This week's episode was all about pesky pastries and a hell of a lot of innuendo's, courtesy of Sue, Mel and Christine, about spotted dick. Oh dear. The first challenge on everybody's list was the signature bake - Suet Puddings?! Made from fat (why, just why). Ruby was trying to be more positive this week, although she had got distracted from practising as she has a new cat. The young baker described herself as having turned into a 'crazy old cat lady', meanwhile Glenn looked to be having a bit of a shaky start making his suet pastry.
Frances opted for a more simpler approach this week, after having had many of her complicated, stylish dishes, fail on the taste test. She chose a figgy roly-poly which turned out to be not that bad, whilst Christine made Spotted Dick, Beca made a lamb concoction, Ruby made a plum jam roly poly and Kimberley made a Barberry and apple spotted dick. Glenn chose a prune and armagnac pudding and it didn't fare too well.
Thus setting Glenn up in the line of fire for this week. Everyone fared fairly well in the first round, so it was time to knock them all back for the technical. The bakers had to make choux buns in the form of little chocolate nun people. Seriously? Some people's nuns were being beheaded all too easily and for others, their creme pat was incredibly runny.
It looked disastrous. It should come as quite a surprise to anyone that Glenn managed to secure third considering his creme was like water. Christine had burnt hers rather considerably which meant she scored last place, with Kimberely securing 5th, despite her saying that it was relatively easy to make. Bad move Kim, a lot of people will have picked up on that. Frances scored 4th, Ruby's abysmal piping skills still managed to score her 2nd and Beca secured the top spot with fairly pretty nun buns.
The showstopper, I'm afraid to say, saw Glenn fail miserably as he (incredibly stupidly) decided to combine the butter and pastry in a completely different way to everyone else. Paul tried to warn Glenn that this was not wise, but oblivious to any risk, Glenn continued on and surprise, surprise, failed miserably.
And I mean miserably. His food ended up looking like something out of nightmares (if you had a penchant for pastry). His Mille-feuille broke in several places and both Mary and Paul muttered horrible noises and said it looked pretty bad. In case this hasn't given it away already, Glenn was evicted from the tent for some pretty shocking baking.
Frances managed to finally win Star Baker, after the title has eluded her for so many weeks, by focusing on content and subtance more than style. That being said, her final show-stopper was musical-themed and did look rather nice too. Everyone else fared ok and no doubt were pleased to be passing on through to the quarter finals. The all-female quarter finals (sorry guys!). Next week's challenges are Loaves, Dacquoise and Novelty Vegetable Cakes (what on earth is that?!), so, who do you think will manage to pull those off? Do you have a current favourite to win, or have you not been able to decide on who may walk away with the bake off title? Only time will tell, but it's pretty safe to say it'll be a woman.
Reviewed by Mel.
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