The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (2014–…): Season 7, Episode 6 - Japanese - full transcript
In a Bake Off first...
Yeah!
"Katbu" curry?
Katsu curry.
..the tent looked east
for Japanese Week.
It's Japanese Week.
Konnichi wa!
IN JAPANESE:
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello and welcome to the show.
It was Bake Off's very
first Japanese Week.
Now, punctuality is an extremely
important part of Japanese culture,
so it was ironic that the actor
playing one of the fridges
turned up late for work.
Yeah, I'm enjoying getting to
know about it. I think...
LAUGHTER
..the baking techniques
are totally different.
Prue couldn't wait for
Japanese Week to get under way.
I go around the tent salivating.
You do.
I actually sometimes have to
follow you with a mop,
wiping it up!
Prue was so excited,
she didn't even notice when, halfway
through the Signature Challenge,
she caught fire...
So you practised it? Yes. Yeah.
FIRE CRACKLES
Lovely.
..while cameras captured the moment
when Peter realised Japanese Week
meant he wouldn't be able to
bake anything Scottish.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
It was also a week in which Dave
seemed desperate to show his fellow
bakers
increasingly strange items.
First to be approached, Marc.
Have you seen how much orange
I've got?
Wow, that's a lot of orange.
Marc showing no interest whatsoever
in Dave's huge orange quantities.
Maybe Dave would have better luck
accosting the other Mark.
Do you want to see my crescent?
LAUGHTER
Nobody wants to see your crescent,
Dave.
But by the end of Japanese week,
Dave was desperate for one thing
and one thing only.
Right. Off you go, Dave.
Toilet.
Here to let off steam
about Japanese Week,
will you please welcome top comedian
Darren Harriott,
top Derry Girls actor
Siobhan McSweeney,
and top bloke Jonathan Ross.
APPLAUSE
Now, Jonathan, you're fanatical
about Japan.
What is it that you love about
the country and the culture?
I kind of love everything about it.
I got into it because I used to
love... when I used to love comic
books when I was a kid,
it was fascinating to see a country
where they were kind of like,
you were looked down on in the UK
for loving it,
but in Japan, it was always
part of adult life, as well.
I love the language.
You know when you've had a big meal
and you couldn't possibly eat any
more
and then you see the dessert
and you find room for dessert?
In Japan, they have the word
betsubara, which means spare
stomach,
which is where you put the dessert
at the end of a big meal.
I have a new respect
for these people.
Siobhan, would you like to see
an Irish Week in the tent?
I don't know. I mean,
growing up in the '80s,
Irish food was absolutely appalling.
It was, you know, we've given
the world, you know,
Yeats and Heaney
and James Joyce,
and also the breakfast roll,
essentially.
It's just a baguette with a couple
of sausages and baked beans in it.
I don't think we should...
That sounds brilliant.
It is actually quite nice,
but I don't know if we'd
get a whole week out of it.
Darren, what would they be baking
if it was West Midlands Week?
Um... Yeah, I mean,
a West Midlands Week would be fun.
Can you bake a chip butty?
LAUGHTER
Then it's going to be a short
week.
Anyway, viewer Claudia in London
was obviously under the impression
it was Rod Stewart Week,
and spent several days creating
this cake for a friend.
The likeness is spot on.
I mean, the likeness is, actually,
cos Rod is kind of like,
God bless him, but he has sort of
turned into, like, a gargoyle.
Suitably gargoyle cake.
I'd still eat it.
Anyway, more of those later, and
of course, Tom Allen will be here
to wave his whisk
at our home bakers,
plus we'll be meeting the
sixth baker to leave.
Now, there wasn't a dry eye
in the tent
when his name was announced.
And I'm afraid the baker
leaving us this week is...
..Mark L. That's all right.
That's all right.
Um... Oh.
HE SNIFFLES
Going to miss you, I really am.
Going to miss you all.
Why?!
Cheer up, everyone.
I'm on the show tonight!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Okey dokey, let's remind ourselves
what happened when the tent
went to Japan.
The Bake Off tent turned Japanese...
I'm feeling good about
Japanese week.
Mm.
..and the ovens had a
rare morning off...
Cakes are boring.
Whoa.
..in the steamed buns Signature...
I love it. It's soft,
and the filling is just delicious.
..while a mysterious green
Technical...
It smells nice.
Do you reckon? No.
..aimed for stacked crepe
matcha rapture.
Excellent buttercream,
perfect flowers and crescents.
It's a model.
Everyone got cute...
My dog's name is Yoki.
Aww!
..well, OK, not everyone...
Oh, don't give me that look.
..with Showstopper cakes
in the style of "kawaii".
Last time I had a sponge like that,
I was actually in Japan.
Well done, Lottie.
But sadly, it was time for Mark
to say "bye-bye-ii",
while Lottie won
Star Baker for the first time.
APPLAUSE
So we have a new Star Baker.
Lottie really came up trumps
this week.
The judges said her cheeseburger
steamed buns were beautiful,
she came second in the technical,
and her jiggly woodland themed
kawaii cake wowed the judges.
Were you pleased for Lottie,
Siobhan? Are you a fan of hers?
I am a fan of anyone who can sound
more deadpan and dry and sarcastic
about everything,
whereas, you know, at the same time
being incredibly passionate
about what she does.
It's quite a combination.
So I'm a fan of her, yeah.
And her, um... what was the name of
the cake, the wobbly cake?
The jiggly cake.
The jiggly cake, yeah.
That looked pretty good, I thought.
It looked delish! Looked great.
It did, didn't it?
It looked like it really would
be very hard to make.
You really have to...
She's quite brave, I think.
Yeah. She takes some kind of
real challenges and rises to them.
Well, apparently, that sort of
cake is very fragile.
That's stunning.
PRUE: Very good.
That's really good.
That sponge is amazing.
Perfect texture.
Very good flavour. Thank you.
Thank you.
Last time I had a sponge like that,
I was actually in Japan.
What do you think of Lottie?
You a fan?
Yeah, I like Lottie.
She's very talented. She's funny.
She's got an edge about her,
I quite like.
She looks like she starts fires
just to see what happens.
You know what I mean? She's like
the naughty one in the tent.
You expect something, like,
naughty to happen with Lottie.
Yeah, I'm really... I'm really
liking her.
I was very surprised she got
Star Baker.
I just never expected it. Were you?
I just never expected it from
Lottie.
I think she's one of those
kind of ones
who's been kind of quietly
just under the top tier
all the time, you know what I mean?
And so I think we're going
to see her go the distance.
And that's why I wasn't surprised
when she got Star Baker.
I thought,
"OK, I knew it would happen."
It's almost like she's deliberately
tried to stay away from getting
Star Baker
so she can surprise everyone
when she wins.
Well, it wasn't surprising
that Lottie excelled
in the Showstopper.
PRUE: It would be nice to see
the bakers think about
Japanese flavours,
like yuzu or matcha or sake.
And let's face it, no-one
does "sarky" like Lottie.
LOTTIE: If Mark gets a handshake...
..I'll be very happy for him.
So were you disappointed, Siobhan,
to see Mark go?
I was disappointed,
and I'm not just saying
that cos he's here,
but he was my favourite.
And I'm getting a little bit
annoyed now,
and feeling personally victimised,
because Linda was my favourite
before Mark.
I'm like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Who are you leaving me with?
Very capable bakers, admittedly.
But you've gotten rid of
two of my favourites.
Siobhan, who's your favourite now?
So we know who's going next week.
Yeah, exactly!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I...
No, I'm not going to say.
Yeah, don't curse them.
No, don't curse them.
But, in some good news for Mark,
he won this week's award
for shortest panic over
a missing ingredient.
Oh, my God, where is my...?
Oh.
Japanese Week kicked off with
steamed buns.
Mark and Lottie came up
with the same idea for theirs,
and found themselves involved
in a tense battle of the burgers.
The judges thought Lottie's
burger buns were better,
and she wasted no time in heading
to the local car-boot sale
to start selling them from her van.
VAN BEEPS HORN
Darren, how would you react if
someone did the same bake as you?
Would it worry you that much?
I mean, what are the odds
of somebody else making toast?
Several of the bakers
chose to shape their meat buns
into the various cute little animals
that had been killed and butchered
to provide the filling.
Dave's were shaped like chicks.
Laura's pork-filled buns
looked like piggies
that were the product of
intensive farming.
And Peter made adorable wee lambs.
Peter is just an exceptional baker,
isn't he?
It's like, he's an amazing talent.
I think we'd all be surprised
if he doesn't make it through to the
final. So his looked gorgeous.
But they all looked to me
like really lovely,
the sort of things you would find
in a Japanese shop.
I liked Peter's cos
he had little, like,
barely edible Shaun the Sheeps.
I'm just a big fan of Peter overall.
Yeah.
I don't think there's anything
he can do that I won't go,
"Love it." he reminds me of, like,
the third Jedward brother.
Like, he's got that
kind of look about him.
And he's just such a nice guy.
You know when you're just like...?
The third Jedward brother,
but talented.
I mean, I won't even say
that he's my favourite,
to give him a fighting chance,
really.
Yeah. That's true, yeah.
Yeah. I'm going to stay...
Well, Marc E was shocked to see
how big his buns were.
Good God.
That was too big, wasn't it?
I mean, a bun, generally,
I think anything above five inches
is too big for a bun.
Like, you can go up to five or
five and a half inches for a bap
and then it becomes a small loaf,
doesn't it?
Jonathan, I don't know whether you
heard Marc E
when he talked about the buns.
They're not just steamed buns,
they're "Hmmmm dhal" buns.
"Hmmmm" buns! Hmmmm!
The way he pronounced "Hmmmm" was...
I don't know, they're called
"HMMMM dhal"!
Let's see how the judges reacted
to his spicy filling.
PAUL CLEARS HIS THROAT
PRUE COUGHS
Are you getting a cough?
That's come from the paprika,
hasn't it?
HE COUGHS
That's come from the paprika. Wow.
PRUE COUGHS
Horrible stuff.
Well, once they had recovered,
Paul and Prue were impressed by
his dhal and apple flavours.
But anything Marc E does
is just lovely.
Isn't he the nicest man
in the universe?
He really is.
He's just gorgeous. He is.
And I won't even say
he's my favourite.
Don't!
Now, meanwhile, Peter was still
trying to get his head round
the fact that Japanese Week meant
no traditional Scottish ingredients.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Peter?
Now, for the Japanese Week
Technical,
the bakers had to make
a matcha crepe cake.
Paul and his big coat were intrigued
by Prue's choice for the Technical.
So, Prue, you've chosen a
matcha crepe cake. It looks...
Disgusting? Mouldy?
Like it's covered in a bit of
material
Prue's ripped off an
old snooker table?
I think matcha is a
divisive flavour,
a bit like Marmite, in that
some people love Marmite
and everyone hates matcha.
Is that a fair comment, Jonathan?
No, I like matcha
and I like Marmite. Yeah, same!
I wouldn't have them both together
at the same time, obviously.
But no, matcha's nice.
But you want matcha in...
That did look a bit heavy
on the matcha.
Matcha should be used sparingly.
Paul isn't a massive fan of
matcha - I'm with you there, Paul -
and went a bit Derren Brown,
using mind control
to try turning the cake
into a sausage bap.
OTHERWORLDLY HUMMING
Wow.
The mille crepe Technical
required a delicate touch,
which Mark was a
bit concerned about.
Is that too thick?
Yeah.
It's as wafer thin as my sausage
fingers can get it, all right?
You shouldn't be so hard
on yourself, Mark.
I mean, I'm sure you don't have
sausage fingers at all.
Let's just see how he got on.
It's as wafer thin as my sausage
fingers can get it, all right?
That is the stuff of nightmares.
Absolutely.
Now, first place in the Technical
went to a baker who made a model
mille crepe cake.
It's his second Technical win
so far.
Peter!
♪ Get your rocks off
♪ Get your rocks off, honey
♪ Shake it now, now
♪ Get 'em off downtown. ♪
We've mentioned Peter before,
but he is incredibly talented,
isn't he, for someone so young?
Do you hate that, Jonathan?
No, I love it. I love it.
I don't like young people
who kind of
just sit around at home on Twitter
all day and voice opinions
when they've got nothing to
back it up.
Someone who's actually out there
and has learned a craft
and is really passionate about it
and he's sharing it,
that's to be applauded. That's the,
hopefully, that's the future, Jo.
I'm like Whitney Houston.
I believe children are the future.
And Peter's not really a child
any more,
but he's barely out of childhood
and he is the future.
Yeah, well, that's true.
Now, to celebrate coming first,
Peter devised a brand-new
catchphrase.
Game, set, matcha.
WIND BLOWS
BELL TOLLS
What a shame.
Let's move on to the
Japanese Week Showstopper,
a cake that reflected
the prominent place
cuteness has in Japanese culture.
It's got a special name,
hasn't it, Dave?
Ka... kawo... kawaii... kawawi cake?
Kawawi. Kawawi.
Kawo... kawaii.
Kawaii. Yeah.
Kawaii cake. We'll go with that one.
Basically, kawaii means
charming, shy and childlike.
Jonathan, that's you in a nutshell,
basically, isn't it?
I like to think so.
Kawaii means, it really means cute,
though it's come to represent, like,
a certain kind of manga image.
But it's weird, cos I got
in trouble in Japan
cos when I was trying to learn
to speak it, when I was there,
I'd try and speak Japanese all day,
much to the embarrassment of my wife
and kids.
And the word kawaii sounds a little
bit like... which means cute,
sounds a little bit like "kowai".
Kowai means scary.
And I was in a lift and a woman
came in with her two children.
I was trying to make conversation
and I went, "Ah, kowai desu ne?"
So I was pointing at her children
going, "Aren't they scary?"
So it was kind of a... kind of
a faux pas there.
Anyway, it was a particularly
special week for Paul.
Quite a milestone.
Can I ask you a question? Yeah.
Is it your 100th episode today?
Yes.
Paul Hollywood, master baker.
For me, it's not just
about passion and flair.
It's about their ability.
It's going to be fascinating.
Bang!
I've never seen a pineapple like
that on the top of a cake before.
This is Oopsie,
my upside down pineapple cake.
100 episodes later,
and he's still staring at weird
pineapple cakes.
Happy hundredth, Paul!
♪ Congratulations
♪ And celebrations
♪ When I tell everyone that
you're in love with me
♪ Congratulations... ♪
OK, time for a quick break.
Back in a bit with Tom Allen,
who will be wielding his whisk.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back. I'm having a jabber
about Japanese Week
with Jonathan Ross,
Siobhan McSweeney
and Darren Harriott.
And now, it's time to say
"yokoso" to Tom Allen.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, hello! Hello, Tom
So, what did you make
of Japanese Week?
The thing I realised
this week with the bakers, Jo,
is they're all actually actors!
Here's Hermine auditioning
for a role as the new Terminator.
I'm going to be back.
They're so desperate for work,
they're even auditioning
while they're on the show.
Note Peter here, auditioning for
the role of someone
identifying a body on CSI.
LAUGHTER
Yeah, that's him!
Paul even had to leave for
another film shoot
and left his stand-in cardboard
cut-out in his place,
hoping nobody would notice.
Think that one might have collapsed,
but it's fine,
that was kind of a back up anyway.
Hello.
Laura, it's not real!
Watch at one point, Hermine actually
forgets her lines.
Are you a matcha fan? Well, as a
drink, yes, it's very good for you.
It has a lot of anti...-oxidants.
Laura took her opportunity to prove
she's got so much range,
she can also do a Hoover turning
off.
Ugh-h-h-h-h...
It was also a chance for the
actors...
I mean, bakers, to show us their
crepes. Now, now, I don't do
pancake puns because,
as far as I'm concerned,
pancake puns are for tossers.
There was, of course, the Technical,
and here we see Prue's...
Oh, it's lovely, isn't it?
And let's compare that to Mark's.
Oh...
It's exactly the same! It's like a
game of spot the difference!
Like all actors,
they were full of insecurities
and needed to keep being reassured
about their motivation.
So, I'm doing an upside-down
pineapple cake, rather than a
pineapple upside-down cake,
if that makes sense.
No, Laura, that doesn't make sense.
Unless it's a pineapple cake that's
the right way up?
So, I'm doing an upside-down
pineapple cake, rather than
a pineapple upside-down cake,
if that makes sense.
Hm, no, Laura, still no.
Now, knowing they're all
trained actors,
I wonder what they think of me.
Very cheeky, incredibly naughty.
How kind! I wonder what Laura thinks
of my performance.
It has the potential to collapse
quite easily and in practice,
it's been hit or miss.
Thank you very much, Laura.
Anyway, they all seem to be holding
up under a lot of pressure,
but I can't wait to find out
how they get on next week.
Aw!
Thank you, Tom. Thank you, Jo.
Time to look at the baking that's
been going on in kitchens
across the country and for sheer
weirdness,
you really have excelled yourselves
this week.
Phil in Whitstable has sent in the
jam roly-poly cake he made
for his girlfriend, Jodi, in the
shape of a lobster.
Phil's not wasting his evenings,
let's have a look.
Extraordinary! Wow!
And let's just check for that
classic swirl?
TOM OOHS
That is amazing, Phil, bet it goes
down a treat with that side salad!
Another watcher in Germany was
inspired by last week's
Signature challenge to make the
ultimate Cornish pasty,
one that's actually in the shape of
Cornwall.
Here it is. Ooh!
Yeah, fantastic.
Nice looking crimps, too,
although can you all please stop
putting lettuce on the side?
Making me queasy!
Sisters Katie and Sophie in
Edinburgh had a baking competition
in lockdown to make cakes of sumo
wrestlers.
So, in Bake Off's first-ever
Japanese Week, let's see if
they did justice to an icon of
Japanese culture.
LAUGHTER
Oh, dear...
I think we all feel like the one on
the right.
Caitlin from Tunbridge Wells
wanted nothing more than a Border
collie puppy for her 15th birthday,
but instead she had to make do
with a cake of a Border collie,
which she made for herself.
Here's what Caitlin was hoping
for...
Aww! Aww!
..and here's what she got.
You've got no-one but yourself
to blame, Caitlin.
Football-mad Steve in Cheltenham
is over the moon at Leeds United's
promotion to the Premier League...
Mm, me too, Steve!
..so to celebrate, his wife Dina
baked him a cake of
legendary Leeds player Eric Cantona.
Here's how Dina chose to depict the
famous French striker in sponge.
Sacre bleu, Dina!
I love the way you've made
the middle of his face
look further away than the outside
of it. That's brilliant!
Keep your pictures coming,
use the hashtag Extra Slice
or go to...
Details below.
OK, Tom, over to you.
Thanks, Jo. And I'm delighted to be
here with
our carefully-selected home-bakers.
And because there's food
on the tables, we're allowed
to stay open. That's right -
I'm turning our bakers' area
into a Yates's wine lodge!
First up, we have Anna, Josh
and Rob, where are you?
Oh, you're right there. Oh, my
goodness. So close all the time.
Which one are you? I'm Rob.
Rob. Josh. Josh. Anna.
What have you brought? I've made a
Japanese cornet roulette.
A Japanese cornet roulette? So, the
Japanese... A Japanese cornet
roulette?!
Did you make that up?
These are Japanese cornets filled
with different fillings.
I made it into roulette, so some of
them are chocolate and vanilla
and then, some are gravy and garlic.
Japanese cornets? Is that...?
Yeah, these bread rolls...
The spirals... Oh, OK. So, that's an
authentic Japanese...?
Apparently so. Apparently so...?!
Anna, you've researched it so
thoroughly! I can tell.
And Josh or Rob, which one? Josh.
Josh, what have you brought?
I made... What are they?
Are they ka-wa-wi macarons?
You say that like a question...
LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
They're... Yeah, Japanese...
anime style macarons.
You seem to be using a lot
of terms there...
LAUGHTER
All I can see is some macarons
with some rather... I want to say...
I don't mean to be unkind,
but childish pictures...
Is that correct or not?
Yeah, that's correct.
And now, Anna's brought this
roulette wheel along, so I think
it's only fair that Rob and Josh
should have a go at the roulette.
Don't we think, everybody?
JONATHAN: Yes!
That's only fair, isn't it? So, what
number are you going to choose?
Uh... 16.16, OK. Anna led you a
bit, there, to 16.
I don't think she knows
which flavours are which,
so it is a complete roulette.
OK, so we're going to try that.
So just... Just put it in. Yep.
Is it lovely? No...
No?
LAUGHTER
Chew it! Chew it!
It's Marmite... It's Marmi-i-i-i-te!
Really gross. It's really gross.
Well done.
OK, Anna and Josh and the other one.
Rob! Rob, everybody.
APPLAUSE
Now, where is Lorna and Seth?
Over there! Lorna and Seth...
Seth, you look like an absolute
bloke there, don't you?
Look at you, looking all aloof!
Now, what have you got, Lorna?
A cinnamon bunny.
A cinnamon bunny...
It's just like a rabbit, isn't it?
If it had been melted...
Is it made of cinnamon...? Bread.
..bread, all the way though.
Japanese style. Japanese-style
cinnamon bread.
Have you ever seen a rabbit before?
We have two pet rabbits.
You have two pet rabbits.
And this is what they look like?
Yes. OK, that's a worry.
What do you do for a living, Seth?
Uh, consulting. Consulting on what?
Um... Not cakes? No, talent
consulting. Talent consulting? Yeah.
What sort of talents? Cake-making?
No, very boring pension stuff.
Well, what sort of pension schemes
do you recommend at the moment?
Uh, none. None? None at all? I only
started working there last month,
I couldn't tell you much about it.
Last month?! What a time
to start working in pensions! Lorna,
what do you do? I'm an actuary.
You're an actuary? What do you
actuary do? No, what do...?
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
There we go! What is an actuary?
So, I work... Do... Quickly, Lorna!
..on pension schemes.
Pension schemes as well?!
Wow, you guys! You're so exciting!
Two bunny rabbits and just all
that chitter-chatter about pensions.
Well, it's been actuary very
nice to speak to you...
LAUGHTER
..and good luck with your pension
stuff. I can't wait to get old!
OK, give it up for Seth and Lorna!
Now, Mona and Abdul, where are you?
Oh, yes...
HE MUMBLES AND PANTS
Hi! Hello.
Abdul, Mona. Mona, tell
us, what have you brought?
So I bought a kawaii cake, so I've
got one half - the beautiful Prue...
Oh! ..and the other half - the
moody... Oh! That's very cute.
That's very cute, as long as you
haven't thought about doing that
to the actual people. No.
What is in your lovely cake?
It's red velvet with some cream
frosting and white ganache around.
Oh, that sounds nice! Very nice.
And Abdul, you made...? I tried to
make... You tried to make...?
What do you make? These? I have to
confess that Mona made...
She baked... She baked. And what did
you do? I did the syringes.
You did the syringes! I'm actually a
doctor. So you stole them from work?
Most people just raid the
stationery cupboard - not you!
Actually, I have my own... You have
your own...?
..my own supply at home. Your own
supply of syringes at home? Yes.
Well, that's interesting in itself.
We won't ask any questions on that
front!
But... do you take them from the
surgery? Do you say,
"Don't worry about getting a
coffee machine,
"I'll just bring home the
defibrillator"? I actually
invented the contents of the
syringe. You invented the contents?
Yeah. It's my raspberry flavoured
coronavirus vaccine.
Oh, that's lovely.
I hope it IS raspberry flavour
when they get that vaccine! I think
it's almost ready for human trials.
Start it now! Come on.
Abdul, have you ever baked before?
No.
TOM GASPS
First time, baker, everybody!
Our first time baker.
Thank you very much. Thank you,
Abdul and Mona!
Finally, we come to Nicole and
Carla.
Nicole and Carla... Nicole! Pa-pa...
Hello. Nicole? Nicole? Nicole.
Pa-pa... Carla, hello.
Nicole, what is this?
What have you brought?
This is supposed to be
a kawaii Prue cake,
but it's sweating now.
Sweating now... Yeah!
LAUGHTER
Mm-hm-hm! Give me some of that
sweaty Prue cake!
And what have you put
on the little bit of writing here?
It was her famous quote to Lottie.
Oh, yeah, Lottie! Yeah.
"You only have to be not the worst."
And isn't that ironic that that's
on your cake?
NICOLE LAUGHS
I mean, it's kind of fitting,
right? Yeah, yeah...
Carla...
What have you what have you brought
here? It looks mesmerising...!
It's a Mount Fuji-inspired...
Mount Fuji inspired? Yeah...!
Which bit of Mount Fuji?
The bottom of the mount...?
Yeah, yeah... And also...
I'm not really a baker at all,
so it's from... Oh, first time?
Uh, from a box, actually. It's from
a box, actually! Wo-o-o-ow!
I, like, mixed it myself... Wow!
Guys, who needs this whole
competition?!
Carla can get stuff out of a box
and mix it herself!
Sorry, yes, go on...
There is also matcha powder on it as
well. Yeah, OK, great, yeah,
matcha powder makes it Japanese,
does it? OK, bye. Yeah, yeah...
Where is your accent from? Are you
from America? I'm from Canada.
Canada. Yes, yeah. Oh, who's your
favourite Canadian?
NICOLE WHISPERS: Justin Bieber.
Celine Dion...
Don't put words in her mouth!
Not Justin Bieber, no-one likes him!
Who? Celine Dion. Celine Dion!
Why didn't you make a cake of her?
Maybe... Oh! Maybe Nicole you could
make a cake of Celine Dion
next time! In fact, you could just
say that is a Celine Dion cake!
Exactly! Well done, Nicole and
Carla. Well done, everyone.
APPLAUSE
She got it out of a box!
And now, I have the lovely job of
announcing this week's Star Baker,
and I am delighted to say
this week's Star Baker is...
..Abdul because he's discovered
a cake-based vaccine.
APPLAUSE
Well done, Abdul.
As our Star Baker, you would
normally get a prize, but due
to the oncoming apocalypse, there's
just no point letting you have it.
But let's see what you would
have won.
TOM GASPS
It's a superya-a-a-acht!
Oh, no! What a shame, what a
terrible week to win a superyacht.
I've now got the dreadful job
of announcing who will be leaving
the studio because, well,
they let themselves down,
they let us down, but most
importantly of all,
it's part of the format of the show.
SAD BAKE-OFF MUSIC PLAYS
And the judges have decided
the baker who will be leaving
the studio is...
..Carla cos you made
a cake out of a box! Rubbish!
Anybody could do that.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Mount Fuji...!
And if any of you would like to join
me with your bake in our wine lodge,
then email us at...
Details at the bottom of the screen.
Thank you, though, to all of
our wonderful studio bakers!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thanks, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting the
sixth baker to lead the tent, Mark.
He's just ironing his shirt
and then he'll be here.
Yeah, I'm a little bit behind,
but not much.
BUBBLING, STEAMING AND SPRITZING
So, it's an hour and 18?
Yeah, yeah. OK. Cool.
Welcome back.
I'm here with celebrity Bake Off
fans Darren Harriott,
Siobhan McSweeney and Jonathan Ross,
and I'm delighted to say it's time
to meet the latest baker
to leave the tent.
Will you please give a warm
welcome to Mark!
CHEERING
Hi, Mark. Hello.
Have a seat.
Welcome to An Extra Slice.
Thank you.
And congratulations for getting
to week six...
Thank you.
..of Bake Off.
It is an incredible achievement,
and I hope you feel that.
Is it true that your pals call you
the baking Buddha?
Yeah, they do.
What's that all about?
So, I had an experience, actually,
in Southeast Asia
where someone had come up to me and
rubbed my belly
and said that rubbing the belly
of a happy Buddha
gives you luck. Aw!
So I feel like my love of cakes
hopefully has shone through
at that moment.
Given that you travel a lot,
I wonder if you could tell us where
it was you ended up here.
LAUGHTER
Did you go far?
I did go quite far, actually, yeah.
I ended up on the floor, I think,
not long after that.
The Japanese Week Signature was
steamed buns,
and you had the added pressure of
a rival burger bun baker.
So, come on, who copied who?
Well, I mean, it was obviously...
I had the idea first, of course.
And then Lottie seen it and took it.
No, we found out quite early on in
the experience, actually,
that Lottie and I had the same idea
for our Japanese Week steamed buns.
Did you feel cross with her?
Did you think, "Grr!"?
Er, no, it heightens the pressure,
definitely.
It makes it more difficult when
someone's cooking
exactly the same thing as you.
Because, you know, it takes away
your novelty
and your imagination somewhat
when someone else
has come up with the same idea.
But, actually, that whole experience
of making those steamed buns,
I had a really fun one in the tent.
For this Showstopper you went for a
Kawaii avocado cake,
complete with baby avocado biscuits.
What led you to have a go at that?
I wanted to do something cute,
really,
and I sort of, you know, ran with
that idea.
You know? What's cuter than sort of
two avocados in love
decided to have some babies.
So I ran with that idea.
Unfortunately, it just didn't
pay off for me in the tent.
But, you know, I feel like I've left
on a bake
that I am still proud of.
How did you make the stone?
The stone, that was tempered
chocolate in the middle.
So in a sphere and then sort of
inserted.
Design-wise, I think yours was the
most kawaii,
the most Japanese.
I thought you were definitely
sailing through.
So it must have tasted terrible!
Yeah, yeah.
Was that fair, what he said?
I mean, it's hard to know because...
I mean, I quite liked it.
I mean, it wasn't as it was in
practice.
You know, the sponge wasn't as light
as it was.
And I think a chiffon sponge is
meant to be really light,
really airy.
And especially with the avocados,
they're meant to be silky.
So I do take the critique of,
you know,
"It was a bit tougher."
Let's talk about a more
successful week.
You won all the brownie points in
Chocolate Week
when you were crowned Star Baker.
Brilliant! You must have been
delighted? I mean, yeah.
I mean, I was over the moon with
that win,
especially on a week that started
out as really difficult
with the brownies.
Well, Chocolate Week was when you
shared your handy hint
for knowing when your meringue's
ready.
It's like Donald Trump's hair,
isn't it?
That's how you know when your
meringue is done.
You've got a Trump on your whisk.
Now, speaking of Donald Trump.
He was actually in Britain
at the time.
And I found a bit of unseen footage
where none of you actually noticed
he'd taken a wrong turning
on his way to the nearby
golf course.
Nice to see Rowan rushed off his
feet as usual.
Now, in the white chocolate cake
Showstopper,
Prue gave you the ultimate
compliment.
Let's just remind ourselves.
I love the way it looks.
Oh, thank you.
I think it looks original.
It looks modern.
I'd buy that.
Thank you.
It's a great looking cake.
Naked elements of it look nice.
It's neat.
I love that the drips are all equal
as well.
Aw, well, it did look beautiful.
It was to celebrate your wife's
birthday, wasn't it?
Yeah. So I think, when going into
the tent,
I was conscious that I had missed
our first wedding anniversary.
So that was in week one.
So I had to make up for that,
really.
So I wanted to make her a cake
that she would love.
So I think she really enjoyed this
one in practice as well.
Yeah, so I was really proud of that.
I mean, really proud of
Chocolate Week,
to be able to come away with that,
you know, has been amazing.
You presented another great
Showstopper in Biscuit Week,
which had the judges buzzing.
It certainly looks very African.
Scruffy, but it looks the part.
PRUE COUGHS
NOEL LAUGH
Bit strong, isn't it?
It's lovely.
Very strong coffee flavour.
I really like that flavour,
don't you?
Mm. I've never had anything like it
before.
You'll be awake all night.
How did you feel knowing your
biscuits
would keep Prue and Paul up
all night?
I mean, greatest compliment,
isn't it?
So...
THEY LAUGH
Yeah.
Yeah, I really want to get a
coffee hit in those,
so I'm really happy that that came
through
and kept them buzzing up all night,
yeah.
DARREN: That was great.
This is honestly hard to watch now.
I'm seeing your old bakes from...
It's like looking at pictures with
your ex.
"Oh, look! Can you come back,
please?"
Now, Prue had some other concerns in
Biscuit Week
during the Florentine Signature.
I remember worrying a bit about your
very large nuts.
Because...
PAUL SIGHS
In hindsight, were your nuts too
large?
I think they were perfect.
Perfect size, really, you know?
Yeah, it certainly made me blush
in the tent.
Did it? Yeah, it did.
Bless you. Yeah, it did.
I looked like that avocado again.
Rosy cheeks.
Now, I'm sure there are lots of
things you'll miss
about being in the tent,
but probably something you might
not miss
is when Noel or Matt want to come
and chat to you
when you're busy baking.
I mean... here, for instance.
So whereas before...
Yeah.
..if there was, like, a big fire,
you would see this big fire.
But now they just have loads of
people sat around a table going,
"Hey, did you hear about the fire?"
Yeah.
"Shocking."
The budget's gone down.
"Did you hear Cyril and Sue got
married and divorced?"
You don't see anything happening
any more.
They just talk about stuff.
Listening!
I'm listening!
Where did you go?
Sorry, I just went around to
the fridge.
Where did you go? I was talking.
I needed cream.
I was listening. I was listening.
I was very upset.
I'm really sorry. I thought for a
minute you were gone.
I was all on my own.
I know, I'm really sorry.
I was listening.
This is not nice.
You have to promise never, ever
to leave me again.
I won't. I won't, I promise.
You promise?
I promise. Fine.
But I'm just going this way.
No, you've got to come with me
wherever I go.
Come on. OK.
Come with me wherever I go.
Comedians love it when people walk
off when they're doing a show.
Yeah, they do.
No audience is exactly what you're
after it, isn't it?
Now, I've got a bit of unseen
footage here
from when our Tom had a chat online
with you all,
and I think you told him about an
unusual habit of yours.
Panel, try and guess...
Is it a cooking-based strange habit,
or is it...?
I'll give you a clue.
Yeah, it involves toast.
Toast? Yeah.
I bet you like it burnt.
You eat burnt toast.
No.
Let's have a look.
TOM: Tell me something interesting
about you.
Er, I like to drink butter off
toast.
OTHER BAKERS: Urgh!
That is disgusting.
What? Just normal butter?
Yeah, just a really thick layer of
butter on toast,
and then I like to fold the toast
and just drink it off.
Oh!
THEY LAUGH
I love that!
DARREN: That sounds good.
I absolutely love that!
Oh, I love butter so much, yeah.
Well, let's allow the image of you
drinking butter off your toast
to sink in with viewers around
Britain
as we take some time out
to play a game.
Do you fancy that?
Yeah, why not? Yes.
What better way to celebrate
Japanese Week in the tent
than by playing a game that was
invented by the French?
So let's play charades!
Or, as it's known in Japanese,
sharedo!
Thanks for making the effort
with your Japanese outfit.
Yeah, this is all Japanese,
including the tabi shoes for you.
OK, so...
All the words that you act out have
been inspired
by Japan or Japanese Week
in the tent.
Jonathan, you're up first.
Off you go. OK, so...
Two words!
DARREN: First word. First word.
Gun?
Shot?
Bullet?
Bullet?
Second word.
Train? Bullet train!
Boom!
Thank you. Well done.
Bullet train!
It was, yes.
OK, Darren. Go on, Darren!
Focus here.
Darren, don't be nervous.
Remember, it's a Japanese theme.
Right, off you go. OK.
Three words. Three words.
First word.
Eagle? Catch?
Basketball?
Scared?
Hot? Hot?
Second word.
Crossed buns?
Teapot?
Hot tea ceremony?
Tea ceremony?
Hot steam?
Hot steamed buns!
Hot steamed buns, yeah!
Yeah!
Hot steamed buns! Of course,
from the thing?
Siobhan did that on her own.
Jo, you didn't join in at all.
Mark, you're meant to be playing
as well.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, come on! Join in.
I think you're probably quite good
at it.
We're more of a verbal nation.
Yeah.
Mime isn't for us, really.
No, exactly.
So...
..in spite of that...
Two words.
No, it's not!
Two syllables? That's right.
Good start. One word, OK.
A vein?
No.
Arm?
One word, two syllables.
Yes, thank you. Oh, OK, sorry.
First syllable.
Are you sure it's only two
syllables?
Three syllables. Three syllables.
Three syllables.
Thank you, Jo.
That's all right.
Three syllables.
First syllable.
Door? Open.
Walk in? Walk out?
Cupboard? Close? Open? Closing?
Wardrobe? Opening.
Shut? Shut? Shut?
Shut, yeah.
Shuttlecock!
Wow. You're on fire! You two would
make a very good team.
There's a connection, there.
OK, Mark.
I apologise in advance for this.
I believe in you.
OK, all right.
OK. Two syllables.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I think so.
They're sneaky.
First syllable.
Sounds like.
Sounds like.
Sounds like me?
Jonathon?
Ross? Toss? Floss?
Jon?
Sounds like Jon.
Jon? Jon?
The second syllable.
Second syllable.
Sounds like.
Tear? Eye? Cry?
Ron tear? Jon Cornear?
Eye!
Ron eye?
Bonsai! Yes!
That fell out of my mouth.
YEAH! That was a tough one.
That was a tough one.
You got the toughest one.
Mark, to be fair, that was hard.
Well done, guys.
I can hear the wheels of the Extra
Slice cake trolley approaching.
Tom is on his way, and we'll be back
in a bit.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back to the final part
of the show.
Mark's here, along with Darren,
Siobhan and Jonathan.
And, Mark, we know that you lot in
the tent can bake we're always keen
to know what other talents you have.
So let's see what else you excel at.
My name's Mark and my hidden talent
is I can cartwheel like a gymnast.
I spent ages practising
just alone in my bedroom.
And then I've managed to master it.
I've been cartwheeling a lot
while I've been here, actually.
Yeah, every night.
It gives me a real thrill
to cartwheel like that.
I feel like I'm transported
to a different world.
Would you like to compete
professionally?
Big ambitions.
Maybe in a few years with more
practice, I could get there.
I'm really proud that I'm able to
do it and I'm able to share
it with everyone today.
HEAVY ROCK MUSIC
Nailed it.
Yeah. Yeah, you did!
Impressive.
That was so athletic. Well done.
LAUGHTER
OK, it is time now for
Tom and his trolley.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Chicken or beef? Chicken or beef?
Chicken or beef? Scratchcards?
Oh, hello, Mark.
LAUGHTER
Please tell us
what you will be taking away
from your time in the tent.
Oh, so much,
I learned a lot about myself.
Learned a lot more about baking some
I'm taking away some amazing,
amazing skills that I learned in the
tent, but also, you know,
11 new friends, and a sense of
pride, really, in everything
that I was able to do in there.
Oh, that's lovely to hear.
But what will I be taking
away from your time?
LAUGHTER
Mark... Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark,
you adorable, bearded
woodland creature, you.
LAUGHTER
How we shall miss you,
now you have to return to
The Animals of Farthing Wood.
LAUGHTER
We love your jolly smile
and your laughter.
It's inspired us all so much.
That and those adorable cheeks!
Oh, I could just him all up!
Even though the miserable judges
didn't like your avocado baby cake,
we thought it was cute and adorable,
just like you.
So, thank you, Mark, for being such
a great part of this year's
Bake Off.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you.
OK, Mark, let's take a look back
at your time on Bake Off.
This is where it gets messy.
This recipe suits me quite well
because I am a messy baker,
so it feels quite nice
to get stuck into something.
Do you know, that is really
what a pasty should look like.
The textures are spot on.
It's gorgeous.
Very good.
That's a great loaf.
And the butter's lovely. Thank you.
I think it's a good job.
Oof.
Have you ever got naked
in a public space?
I haven't, no!
In second, we have this one.
Loads of texture,
nice chocolate on the top, spot on.
Yeah, I'm happy with that.
It's got a nice, little
zigzag design in it.
It tastes delicious.
Ooh.
Very good flavour.
And it's a well-baked cake.
I love the way it looks.
Thank you.
It's a great-looking cake.
Star Baker is
Mark L.
Thank you.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
OK, Tom, if you could do
the grand unveiling.
Course.
DRUM ROLL
FANFARE
Wow, amazing.
So, there you are with your
Star Baker winning tier cake,
Ethiopian coffee biscuits
and Rex the dog.
Let's give Mark a Great British
send-off, everyone. Well done, Mark.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
APPLAUSE
OK, everyone,
that's it for this week.
A big thank you to Tom, to Mark,
to all our studio bakers,
and to our celebrity panel,
Darren Harriott, Siobhan McSweeney
and Jonathan Ross.
We'll be back
at the same time next week,
when the tent
goes back to the 1980s.
Goodbye.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Subtitles by Red Bee Media
Yeah!
"Katbu" curry?
Katsu curry.
..the tent looked east
for Japanese Week.
It's Japanese Week.
Konnichi wa!
IN JAPANESE:
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello and welcome to the show.
It was Bake Off's very
first Japanese Week.
Now, punctuality is an extremely
important part of Japanese culture,
so it was ironic that the actor
playing one of the fridges
turned up late for work.
Yeah, I'm enjoying getting to
know about it. I think...
LAUGHTER
..the baking techniques
are totally different.
Prue couldn't wait for
Japanese Week to get under way.
I go around the tent salivating.
You do.
I actually sometimes have to
follow you with a mop,
wiping it up!
Prue was so excited,
she didn't even notice when, halfway
through the Signature Challenge,
she caught fire...
So you practised it? Yes. Yeah.
FIRE CRACKLES
Lovely.
..while cameras captured the moment
when Peter realised Japanese Week
meant he wouldn't be able to
bake anything Scottish.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
It was also a week in which Dave
seemed desperate to show his fellow
bakers
increasingly strange items.
First to be approached, Marc.
Have you seen how much orange
I've got?
Wow, that's a lot of orange.
Marc showing no interest whatsoever
in Dave's huge orange quantities.
Maybe Dave would have better luck
accosting the other Mark.
Do you want to see my crescent?
LAUGHTER
Nobody wants to see your crescent,
Dave.
But by the end of Japanese week,
Dave was desperate for one thing
and one thing only.
Right. Off you go, Dave.
Toilet.
Here to let off steam
about Japanese Week,
will you please welcome top comedian
Darren Harriott,
top Derry Girls actor
Siobhan McSweeney,
and top bloke Jonathan Ross.
APPLAUSE
Now, Jonathan, you're fanatical
about Japan.
What is it that you love about
the country and the culture?
I kind of love everything about it.
I got into it because I used to
love... when I used to love comic
books when I was a kid,
it was fascinating to see a country
where they were kind of like,
you were looked down on in the UK
for loving it,
but in Japan, it was always
part of adult life, as well.
I love the language.
You know when you've had a big meal
and you couldn't possibly eat any
more
and then you see the dessert
and you find room for dessert?
In Japan, they have the word
betsubara, which means spare
stomach,
which is where you put the dessert
at the end of a big meal.
I have a new respect
for these people.
Siobhan, would you like to see
an Irish Week in the tent?
I don't know. I mean,
growing up in the '80s,
Irish food was absolutely appalling.
It was, you know, we've given
the world, you know,
Yeats and Heaney
and James Joyce,
and also the breakfast roll,
essentially.
It's just a baguette with a couple
of sausages and baked beans in it.
I don't think we should...
That sounds brilliant.
It is actually quite nice,
but I don't know if we'd
get a whole week out of it.
Darren, what would they be baking
if it was West Midlands Week?
Um... Yeah, I mean,
a West Midlands Week would be fun.
Can you bake a chip butty?
LAUGHTER
Then it's going to be a short
week.
Anyway, viewer Claudia in London
was obviously under the impression
it was Rod Stewart Week,
and spent several days creating
this cake for a friend.
The likeness is spot on.
I mean, the likeness is, actually,
cos Rod is kind of like,
God bless him, but he has sort of
turned into, like, a gargoyle.
Suitably gargoyle cake.
I'd still eat it.
Anyway, more of those later, and
of course, Tom Allen will be here
to wave his whisk
at our home bakers,
plus we'll be meeting the
sixth baker to leave.
Now, there wasn't a dry eye
in the tent
when his name was announced.
And I'm afraid the baker
leaving us this week is...
..Mark L. That's all right.
That's all right.
Um... Oh.
HE SNIFFLES
Going to miss you, I really am.
Going to miss you all.
Why?!
Cheer up, everyone.
I'm on the show tonight!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Okey dokey, let's remind ourselves
what happened when the tent
went to Japan.
The Bake Off tent turned Japanese...
I'm feeling good about
Japanese week.
Mm.
..and the ovens had a
rare morning off...
Cakes are boring.
Whoa.
..in the steamed buns Signature...
I love it. It's soft,
and the filling is just delicious.
..while a mysterious green
Technical...
It smells nice.
Do you reckon? No.
..aimed for stacked crepe
matcha rapture.
Excellent buttercream,
perfect flowers and crescents.
It's a model.
Everyone got cute...
My dog's name is Yoki.
Aww!
..well, OK, not everyone...
Oh, don't give me that look.
..with Showstopper cakes
in the style of "kawaii".
Last time I had a sponge like that,
I was actually in Japan.
Well done, Lottie.
But sadly, it was time for Mark
to say "bye-bye-ii",
while Lottie won
Star Baker for the first time.
APPLAUSE
So we have a new Star Baker.
Lottie really came up trumps
this week.
The judges said her cheeseburger
steamed buns were beautiful,
she came second in the technical,
and her jiggly woodland themed
kawaii cake wowed the judges.
Were you pleased for Lottie,
Siobhan? Are you a fan of hers?
I am a fan of anyone who can sound
more deadpan and dry and sarcastic
about everything,
whereas, you know, at the same time
being incredibly passionate
about what she does.
It's quite a combination.
So I'm a fan of her, yeah.
And her, um... what was the name of
the cake, the wobbly cake?
The jiggly cake.
The jiggly cake, yeah.
That looked pretty good, I thought.
It looked delish! Looked great.
It did, didn't it?
It looked like it really would
be very hard to make.
You really have to...
She's quite brave, I think.
Yeah. She takes some kind of
real challenges and rises to them.
Well, apparently, that sort of
cake is very fragile.
That's stunning.
PRUE: Very good.
That's really good.
That sponge is amazing.
Perfect texture.
Very good flavour. Thank you.
Thank you.
Last time I had a sponge like that,
I was actually in Japan.
What do you think of Lottie?
You a fan?
Yeah, I like Lottie.
She's very talented. She's funny.
She's got an edge about her,
I quite like.
She looks like she starts fires
just to see what happens.
You know what I mean? She's like
the naughty one in the tent.
You expect something, like,
naughty to happen with Lottie.
Yeah, I'm really... I'm really
liking her.
I was very surprised she got
Star Baker.
I just never expected it. Were you?
I just never expected it from
Lottie.
I think she's one of those
kind of ones
who's been kind of quietly
just under the top tier
all the time, you know what I mean?
And so I think we're going
to see her go the distance.
And that's why I wasn't surprised
when she got Star Baker.
I thought,
"OK, I knew it would happen."
It's almost like she's deliberately
tried to stay away from getting
Star Baker
so she can surprise everyone
when she wins.
Well, it wasn't surprising
that Lottie excelled
in the Showstopper.
PRUE: It would be nice to see
the bakers think about
Japanese flavours,
like yuzu or matcha or sake.
And let's face it, no-one
does "sarky" like Lottie.
LOTTIE: If Mark gets a handshake...
..I'll be very happy for him.
So were you disappointed, Siobhan,
to see Mark go?
I was disappointed,
and I'm not just saying
that cos he's here,
but he was my favourite.
And I'm getting a little bit
annoyed now,
and feeling personally victimised,
because Linda was my favourite
before Mark.
I'm like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Who are you leaving me with?
Very capable bakers, admittedly.
But you've gotten rid of
two of my favourites.
Siobhan, who's your favourite now?
So we know who's going next week.
Yeah, exactly!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I...
No, I'm not going to say.
Yeah, don't curse them.
No, don't curse them.
But, in some good news for Mark,
he won this week's award
for shortest panic over
a missing ingredient.
Oh, my God, where is my...?
Oh.
Japanese Week kicked off with
steamed buns.
Mark and Lottie came up
with the same idea for theirs,
and found themselves involved
in a tense battle of the burgers.
The judges thought Lottie's
burger buns were better,
and she wasted no time in heading
to the local car-boot sale
to start selling them from her van.
VAN BEEPS HORN
Darren, how would you react if
someone did the same bake as you?
Would it worry you that much?
I mean, what are the odds
of somebody else making toast?
Several of the bakers
chose to shape their meat buns
into the various cute little animals
that had been killed and butchered
to provide the filling.
Dave's were shaped like chicks.
Laura's pork-filled buns
looked like piggies
that were the product of
intensive farming.
And Peter made adorable wee lambs.
Peter is just an exceptional baker,
isn't he?
It's like, he's an amazing talent.
I think we'd all be surprised
if he doesn't make it through to the
final. So his looked gorgeous.
But they all looked to me
like really lovely,
the sort of things you would find
in a Japanese shop.
I liked Peter's cos
he had little, like,
barely edible Shaun the Sheeps.
I'm just a big fan of Peter overall.
Yeah.
I don't think there's anything
he can do that I won't go,
"Love it." he reminds me of, like,
the third Jedward brother.
Like, he's got that
kind of look about him.
And he's just such a nice guy.
You know when you're just like...?
The third Jedward brother,
but talented.
I mean, I won't even say
that he's my favourite,
to give him a fighting chance,
really.
Yeah. That's true, yeah.
Yeah. I'm going to stay...
Well, Marc E was shocked to see
how big his buns were.
Good God.
That was too big, wasn't it?
I mean, a bun, generally,
I think anything above five inches
is too big for a bun.
Like, you can go up to five or
five and a half inches for a bap
and then it becomes a small loaf,
doesn't it?
Jonathan, I don't know whether you
heard Marc E
when he talked about the buns.
They're not just steamed buns,
they're "Hmmmm dhal" buns.
"Hmmmm" buns! Hmmmm!
The way he pronounced "Hmmmm" was...
I don't know, they're called
"HMMMM dhal"!
Let's see how the judges reacted
to his spicy filling.
PAUL CLEARS HIS THROAT
PRUE COUGHS
Are you getting a cough?
That's come from the paprika,
hasn't it?
HE COUGHS
That's come from the paprika. Wow.
PRUE COUGHS
Horrible stuff.
Well, once they had recovered,
Paul and Prue were impressed by
his dhal and apple flavours.
But anything Marc E does
is just lovely.
Isn't he the nicest man
in the universe?
He really is.
He's just gorgeous. He is.
And I won't even say
he's my favourite.
Don't!
Now, meanwhile, Peter was still
trying to get his head round
the fact that Japanese Week meant
no traditional Scottish ingredients.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Peter?
Now, for the Japanese Week
Technical,
the bakers had to make
a matcha crepe cake.
Paul and his big coat were intrigued
by Prue's choice for the Technical.
So, Prue, you've chosen a
matcha crepe cake. It looks...
Disgusting? Mouldy?
Like it's covered in a bit of
material
Prue's ripped off an
old snooker table?
I think matcha is a
divisive flavour,
a bit like Marmite, in that
some people love Marmite
and everyone hates matcha.
Is that a fair comment, Jonathan?
No, I like matcha
and I like Marmite. Yeah, same!
I wouldn't have them both together
at the same time, obviously.
But no, matcha's nice.
But you want matcha in...
That did look a bit heavy
on the matcha.
Matcha should be used sparingly.
Paul isn't a massive fan of
matcha - I'm with you there, Paul -
and went a bit Derren Brown,
using mind control
to try turning the cake
into a sausage bap.
OTHERWORLDLY HUMMING
Wow.
The mille crepe Technical
required a delicate touch,
which Mark was a
bit concerned about.
Is that too thick?
Yeah.
It's as wafer thin as my sausage
fingers can get it, all right?
You shouldn't be so hard
on yourself, Mark.
I mean, I'm sure you don't have
sausage fingers at all.
Let's just see how he got on.
It's as wafer thin as my sausage
fingers can get it, all right?
That is the stuff of nightmares.
Absolutely.
Now, first place in the Technical
went to a baker who made a model
mille crepe cake.
It's his second Technical win
so far.
Peter!
♪ Get your rocks off
♪ Get your rocks off, honey
♪ Shake it now, now
♪ Get 'em off downtown. ♪
We've mentioned Peter before,
but he is incredibly talented,
isn't he, for someone so young?
Do you hate that, Jonathan?
No, I love it. I love it.
I don't like young people
who kind of
just sit around at home on Twitter
all day and voice opinions
when they've got nothing to
back it up.
Someone who's actually out there
and has learned a craft
and is really passionate about it
and he's sharing it,
that's to be applauded. That's the,
hopefully, that's the future, Jo.
I'm like Whitney Houston.
I believe children are the future.
And Peter's not really a child
any more,
but he's barely out of childhood
and he is the future.
Yeah, well, that's true.
Now, to celebrate coming first,
Peter devised a brand-new
catchphrase.
Game, set, matcha.
WIND BLOWS
BELL TOLLS
What a shame.
Let's move on to the
Japanese Week Showstopper,
a cake that reflected
the prominent place
cuteness has in Japanese culture.
It's got a special name,
hasn't it, Dave?
Ka... kawo... kawaii... kawawi cake?
Kawawi. Kawawi.
Kawo... kawaii.
Kawaii. Yeah.
Kawaii cake. We'll go with that one.
Basically, kawaii means
charming, shy and childlike.
Jonathan, that's you in a nutshell,
basically, isn't it?
I like to think so.
Kawaii means, it really means cute,
though it's come to represent, like,
a certain kind of manga image.
But it's weird, cos I got
in trouble in Japan
cos when I was trying to learn
to speak it, when I was there,
I'd try and speak Japanese all day,
much to the embarrassment of my wife
and kids.
And the word kawaii sounds a little
bit like... which means cute,
sounds a little bit like "kowai".
Kowai means scary.
And I was in a lift and a woman
came in with her two children.
I was trying to make conversation
and I went, "Ah, kowai desu ne?"
So I was pointing at her children
going, "Aren't they scary?"
So it was kind of a... kind of
a faux pas there.
Anyway, it was a particularly
special week for Paul.
Quite a milestone.
Can I ask you a question? Yeah.
Is it your 100th episode today?
Yes.
Paul Hollywood, master baker.
For me, it's not just
about passion and flair.
It's about their ability.
It's going to be fascinating.
Bang!
I've never seen a pineapple like
that on the top of a cake before.
This is Oopsie,
my upside down pineapple cake.
100 episodes later,
and he's still staring at weird
pineapple cakes.
Happy hundredth, Paul!
♪ Congratulations
♪ And celebrations
♪ When I tell everyone that
you're in love with me
♪ Congratulations... ♪
OK, time for a quick break.
Back in a bit with Tom Allen,
who will be wielding his whisk.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back. I'm having a jabber
about Japanese Week
with Jonathan Ross,
Siobhan McSweeney
and Darren Harriott.
And now, it's time to say
"yokoso" to Tom Allen.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, hello! Hello, Tom
So, what did you make
of Japanese Week?
The thing I realised
this week with the bakers, Jo,
is they're all actually actors!
Here's Hermine auditioning
for a role as the new Terminator.
I'm going to be back.
They're so desperate for work,
they're even auditioning
while they're on the show.
Note Peter here, auditioning for
the role of someone
identifying a body on CSI.
LAUGHTER
Yeah, that's him!
Paul even had to leave for
another film shoot
and left his stand-in cardboard
cut-out in his place,
hoping nobody would notice.
Think that one might have collapsed,
but it's fine,
that was kind of a back up anyway.
Hello.
Laura, it's not real!
Watch at one point, Hermine actually
forgets her lines.
Are you a matcha fan? Well, as a
drink, yes, it's very good for you.
It has a lot of anti...-oxidants.
Laura took her opportunity to prove
she's got so much range,
she can also do a Hoover turning
off.
Ugh-h-h-h-h...
It was also a chance for the
actors...
I mean, bakers, to show us their
crepes. Now, now, I don't do
pancake puns because,
as far as I'm concerned,
pancake puns are for tossers.
There was, of course, the Technical,
and here we see Prue's...
Oh, it's lovely, isn't it?
And let's compare that to Mark's.
Oh...
It's exactly the same! It's like a
game of spot the difference!
Like all actors,
they were full of insecurities
and needed to keep being reassured
about their motivation.
So, I'm doing an upside-down
pineapple cake, rather than a
pineapple upside-down cake,
if that makes sense.
No, Laura, that doesn't make sense.
Unless it's a pineapple cake that's
the right way up?
So, I'm doing an upside-down
pineapple cake, rather than
a pineapple upside-down cake,
if that makes sense.
Hm, no, Laura, still no.
Now, knowing they're all
trained actors,
I wonder what they think of me.
Very cheeky, incredibly naughty.
How kind! I wonder what Laura thinks
of my performance.
It has the potential to collapse
quite easily and in practice,
it's been hit or miss.
Thank you very much, Laura.
Anyway, they all seem to be holding
up under a lot of pressure,
but I can't wait to find out
how they get on next week.
Aw!
Thank you, Tom. Thank you, Jo.
Time to look at the baking that's
been going on in kitchens
across the country and for sheer
weirdness,
you really have excelled yourselves
this week.
Phil in Whitstable has sent in the
jam roly-poly cake he made
for his girlfriend, Jodi, in the
shape of a lobster.
Phil's not wasting his evenings,
let's have a look.
Extraordinary! Wow!
And let's just check for that
classic swirl?
TOM OOHS
That is amazing, Phil, bet it goes
down a treat with that side salad!
Another watcher in Germany was
inspired by last week's
Signature challenge to make the
ultimate Cornish pasty,
one that's actually in the shape of
Cornwall.
Here it is. Ooh!
Yeah, fantastic.
Nice looking crimps, too,
although can you all please stop
putting lettuce on the side?
Making me queasy!
Sisters Katie and Sophie in
Edinburgh had a baking competition
in lockdown to make cakes of sumo
wrestlers.
So, in Bake Off's first-ever
Japanese Week, let's see if
they did justice to an icon of
Japanese culture.
LAUGHTER
Oh, dear...
I think we all feel like the one on
the right.
Caitlin from Tunbridge Wells
wanted nothing more than a Border
collie puppy for her 15th birthday,
but instead she had to make do
with a cake of a Border collie,
which she made for herself.
Here's what Caitlin was hoping
for...
Aww! Aww!
..and here's what she got.
You've got no-one but yourself
to blame, Caitlin.
Football-mad Steve in Cheltenham
is over the moon at Leeds United's
promotion to the Premier League...
Mm, me too, Steve!
..so to celebrate, his wife Dina
baked him a cake of
legendary Leeds player Eric Cantona.
Here's how Dina chose to depict the
famous French striker in sponge.
Sacre bleu, Dina!
I love the way you've made
the middle of his face
look further away than the outside
of it. That's brilliant!
Keep your pictures coming,
use the hashtag Extra Slice
or go to...
Details below.
OK, Tom, over to you.
Thanks, Jo. And I'm delighted to be
here with
our carefully-selected home-bakers.
And because there's food
on the tables, we're allowed
to stay open. That's right -
I'm turning our bakers' area
into a Yates's wine lodge!
First up, we have Anna, Josh
and Rob, where are you?
Oh, you're right there. Oh, my
goodness. So close all the time.
Which one are you? I'm Rob.
Rob. Josh. Josh. Anna.
What have you brought? I've made a
Japanese cornet roulette.
A Japanese cornet roulette? So, the
Japanese... A Japanese cornet
roulette?!
Did you make that up?
These are Japanese cornets filled
with different fillings.
I made it into roulette, so some of
them are chocolate and vanilla
and then, some are gravy and garlic.
Japanese cornets? Is that...?
Yeah, these bread rolls...
The spirals... Oh, OK. So, that's an
authentic Japanese...?
Apparently so. Apparently so...?!
Anna, you've researched it so
thoroughly! I can tell.
And Josh or Rob, which one? Josh.
Josh, what have you brought?
I made... What are they?
Are they ka-wa-wi macarons?
You say that like a question...
LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
They're... Yeah, Japanese...
anime style macarons.
You seem to be using a lot
of terms there...
LAUGHTER
All I can see is some macarons
with some rather... I want to say...
I don't mean to be unkind,
but childish pictures...
Is that correct or not?
Yeah, that's correct.
And now, Anna's brought this
roulette wheel along, so I think
it's only fair that Rob and Josh
should have a go at the roulette.
Don't we think, everybody?
JONATHAN: Yes!
That's only fair, isn't it? So, what
number are you going to choose?
Uh... 16.16, OK. Anna led you a
bit, there, to 16.
I don't think she knows
which flavours are which,
so it is a complete roulette.
OK, so we're going to try that.
So just... Just put it in. Yep.
Is it lovely? No...
No?
LAUGHTER
Chew it! Chew it!
It's Marmite... It's Marmi-i-i-i-te!
Really gross. It's really gross.
Well done.
OK, Anna and Josh and the other one.
Rob! Rob, everybody.
APPLAUSE
Now, where is Lorna and Seth?
Over there! Lorna and Seth...
Seth, you look like an absolute
bloke there, don't you?
Look at you, looking all aloof!
Now, what have you got, Lorna?
A cinnamon bunny.
A cinnamon bunny...
It's just like a rabbit, isn't it?
If it had been melted...
Is it made of cinnamon...? Bread.
..bread, all the way though.
Japanese style. Japanese-style
cinnamon bread.
Have you ever seen a rabbit before?
We have two pet rabbits.
You have two pet rabbits.
And this is what they look like?
Yes. OK, that's a worry.
What do you do for a living, Seth?
Uh, consulting. Consulting on what?
Um... Not cakes? No, talent
consulting. Talent consulting? Yeah.
What sort of talents? Cake-making?
No, very boring pension stuff.
Well, what sort of pension schemes
do you recommend at the moment?
Uh, none. None? None at all? I only
started working there last month,
I couldn't tell you much about it.
Last month?! What a time
to start working in pensions! Lorna,
what do you do? I'm an actuary.
You're an actuary? What do you
actuary do? No, what do...?
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
There we go! What is an actuary?
So, I work... Do... Quickly, Lorna!
..on pension schemes.
Pension schemes as well?!
Wow, you guys! You're so exciting!
Two bunny rabbits and just all
that chitter-chatter about pensions.
Well, it's been actuary very
nice to speak to you...
LAUGHTER
..and good luck with your pension
stuff. I can't wait to get old!
OK, give it up for Seth and Lorna!
Now, Mona and Abdul, where are you?
Oh, yes...
HE MUMBLES AND PANTS
Hi! Hello.
Abdul, Mona. Mona, tell
us, what have you brought?
So I bought a kawaii cake, so I've
got one half - the beautiful Prue...
Oh! ..and the other half - the
moody... Oh! That's very cute.
That's very cute, as long as you
haven't thought about doing that
to the actual people. No.
What is in your lovely cake?
It's red velvet with some cream
frosting and white ganache around.
Oh, that sounds nice! Very nice.
And Abdul, you made...? I tried to
make... You tried to make...?
What do you make? These? I have to
confess that Mona made...
She baked... She baked. And what did
you do? I did the syringes.
You did the syringes! I'm actually a
doctor. So you stole them from work?
Most people just raid the
stationery cupboard - not you!
Actually, I have my own... You have
your own...?
..my own supply at home. Your own
supply of syringes at home? Yes.
Well, that's interesting in itself.
We won't ask any questions on that
front!
But... do you take them from the
surgery? Do you say,
"Don't worry about getting a
coffee machine,
"I'll just bring home the
defibrillator"? I actually
invented the contents of the
syringe. You invented the contents?
Yeah. It's my raspberry flavoured
coronavirus vaccine.
Oh, that's lovely.
I hope it IS raspberry flavour
when they get that vaccine! I think
it's almost ready for human trials.
Start it now! Come on.
Abdul, have you ever baked before?
No.
TOM GASPS
First time, baker, everybody!
Our first time baker.
Thank you very much. Thank you,
Abdul and Mona!
Finally, we come to Nicole and
Carla.
Nicole and Carla... Nicole! Pa-pa...
Hello. Nicole? Nicole? Nicole.
Pa-pa... Carla, hello.
Nicole, what is this?
What have you brought?
This is supposed to be
a kawaii Prue cake,
but it's sweating now.
Sweating now... Yeah!
LAUGHTER
Mm-hm-hm! Give me some of that
sweaty Prue cake!
And what have you put
on the little bit of writing here?
It was her famous quote to Lottie.
Oh, yeah, Lottie! Yeah.
"You only have to be not the worst."
And isn't that ironic that that's
on your cake?
NICOLE LAUGHS
I mean, it's kind of fitting,
right? Yeah, yeah...
Carla...
What have you what have you brought
here? It looks mesmerising...!
It's a Mount Fuji-inspired...
Mount Fuji inspired? Yeah...!
Which bit of Mount Fuji?
The bottom of the mount...?
Yeah, yeah... And also...
I'm not really a baker at all,
so it's from... Oh, first time?
Uh, from a box, actually. It's from
a box, actually! Wo-o-o-ow!
I, like, mixed it myself... Wow!
Guys, who needs this whole
competition?!
Carla can get stuff out of a box
and mix it herself!
Sorry, yes, go on...
There is also matcha powder on it as
well. Yeah, OK, great, yeah,
matcha powder makes it Japanese,
does it? OK, bye. Yeah, yeah...
Where is your accent from? Are you
from America? I'm from Canada.
Canada. Yes, yeah. Oh, who's your
favourite Canadian?
NICOLE WHISPERS: Justin Bieber.
Celine Dion...
Don't put words in her mouth!
Not Justin Bieber, no-one likes him!
Who? Celine Dion. Celine Dion!
Why didn't you make a cake of her?
Maybe... Oh! Maybe Nicole you could
make a cake of Celine Dion
next time! In fact, you could just
say that is a Celine Dion cake!
Exactly! Well done, Nicole and
Carla. Well done, everyone.
APPLAUSE
She got it out of a box!
And now, I have the lovely job of
announcing this week's Star Baker,
and I am delighted to say
this week's Star Baker is...
..Abdul because he's discovered
a cake-based vaccine.
APPLAUSE
Well done, Abdul.
As our Star Baker, you would
normally get a prize, but due
to the oncoming apocalypse, there's
just no point letting you have it.
But let's see what you would
have won.
TOM GASPS
It's a superya-a-a-acht!
Oh, no! What a shame, what a
terrible week to win a superyacht.
I've now got the dreadful job
of announcing who will be leaving
the studio because, well,
they let themselves down,
they let us down, but most
importantly of all,
it's part of the format of the show.
SAD BAKE-OFF MUSIC PLAYS
And the judges have decided
the baker who will be leaving
the studio is...
..Carla cos you made
a cake out of a box! Rubbish!
Anybody could do that.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Mount Fuji...!
And if any of you would like to join
me with your bake in our wine lodge,
then email us at...
Details at the bottom of the screen.
Thank you, though, to all of
our wonderful studio bakers!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thanks, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting the
sixth baker to lead the tent, Mark.
He's just ironing his shirt
and then he'll be here.
Yeah, I'm a little bit behind,
but not much.
BUBBLING, STEAMING AND SPRITZING
So, it's an hour and 18?
Yeah, yeah. OK. Cool.
Welcome back.
I'm here with celebrity Bake Off
fans Darren Harriott,
Siobhan McSweeney and Jonathan Ross,
and I'm delighted to say it's time
to meet the latest baker
to leave the tent.
Will you please give a warm
welcome to Mark!
CHEERING
Hi, Mark. Hello.
Have a seat.
Welcome to An Extra Slice.
Thank you.
And congratulations for getting
to week six...
Thank you.
..of Bake Off.
It is an incredible achievement,
and I hope you feel that.
Is it true that your pals call you
the baking Buddha?
Yeah, they do.
What's that all about?
So, I had an experience, actually,
in Southeast Asia
where someone had come up to me and
rubbed my belly
and said that rubbing the belly
of a happy Buddha
gives you luck. Aw!
So I feel like my love of cakes
hopefully has shone through
at that moment.
Given that you travel a lot,
I wonder if you could tell us where
it was you ended up here.
LAUGHTER
Did you go far?
I did go quite far, actually, yeah.
I ended up on the floor, I think,
not long after that.
The Japanese Week Signature was
steamed buns,
and you had the added pressure of
a rival burger bun baker.
So, come on, who copied who?
Well, I mean, it was obviously...
I had the idea first, of course.
And then Lottie seen it and took it.
No, we found out quite early on in
the experience, actually,
that Lottie and I had the same idea
for our Japanese Week steamed buns.
Did you feel cross with her?
Did you think, "Grr!"?
Er, no, it heightens the pressure,
definitely.
It makes it more difficult when
someone's cooking
exactly the same thing as you.
Because, you know, it takes away
your novelty
and your imagination somewhat
when someone else
has come up with the same idea.
But, actually, that whole experience
of making those steamed buns,
I had a really fun one in the tent.
For this Showstopper you went for a
Kawaii avocado cake,
complete with baby avocado biscuits.
What led you to have a go at that?
I wanted to do something cute,
really,
and I sort of, you know, ran with
that idea.
You know? What's cuter than sort of
two avocados in love
decided to have some babies.
So I ran with that idea.
Unfortunately, it just didn't
pay off for me in the tent.
But, you know, I feel like I've left
on a bake
that I am still proud of.
How did you make the stone?
The stone, that was tempered
chocolate in the middle.
So in a sphere and then sort of
inserted.
Design-wise, I think yours was the
most kawaii,
the most Japanese.
I thought you were definitely
sailing through.
So it must have tasted terrible!
Yeah, yeah.
Was that fair, what he said?
I mean, it's hard to know because...
I mean, I quite liked it.
I mean, it wasn't as it was in
practice.
You know, the sponge wasn't as light
as it was.
And I think a chiffon sponge is
meant to be really light,
really airy.
And especially with the avocados,
they're meant to be silky.
So I do take the critique of,
you know,
"It was a bit tougher."
Let's talk about a more
successful week.
You won all the brownie points in
Chocolate Week
when you were crowned Star Baker.
Brilliant! You must have been
delighted? I mean, yeah.
I mean, I was over the moon with
that win,
especially on a week that started
out as really difficult
with the brownies.
Well, Chocolate Week was when you
shared your handy hint
for knowing when your meringue's
ready.
It's like Donald Trump's hair,
isn't it?
That's how you know when your
meringue is done.
You've got a Trump on your whisk.
Now, speaking of Donald Trump.
He was actually in Britain
at the time.
And I found a bit of unseen footage
where none of you actually noticed
he'd taken a wrong turning
on his way to the nearby
golf course.
Nice to see Rowan rushed off his
feet as usual.
Now, in the white chocolate cake
Showstopper,
Prue gave you the ultimate
compliment.
Let's just remind ourselves.
I love the way it looks.
Oh, thank you.
I think it looks original.
It looks modern.
I'd buy that.
Thank you.
It's a great looking cake.
Naked elements of it look nice.
It's neat.
I love that the drips are all equal
as well.
Aw, well, it did look beautiful.
It was to celebrate your wife's
birthday, wasn't it?
Yeah. So I think, when going into
the tent,
I was conscious that I had missed
our first wedding anniversary.
So that was in week one.
So I had to make up for that,
really.
So I wanted to make her a cake
that she would love.
So I think she really enjoyed this
one in practice as well.
Yeah, so I was really proud of that.
I mean, really proud of
Chocolate Week,
to be able to come away with that,
you know, has been amazing.
You presented another great
Showstopper in Biscuit Week,
which had the judges buzzing.
It certainly looks very African.
Scruffy, but it looks the part.
PRUE COUGHS
NOEL LAUGH
Bit strong, isn't it?
It's lovely.
Very strong coffee flavour.
I really like that flavour,
don't you?
Mm. I've never had anything like it
before.
You'll be awake all night.
How did you feel knowing your
biscuits
would keep Prue and Paul up
all night?
I mean, greatest compliment,
isn't it?
So...
THEY LAUGH
Yeah.
Yeah, I really want to get a
coffee hit in those,
so I'm really happy that that came
through
and kept them buzzing up all night,
yeah.
DARREN: That was great.
This is honestly hard to watch now.
I'm seeing your old bakes from...
It's like looking at pictures with
your ex.
"Oh, look! Can you come back,
please?"
Now, Prue had some other concerns in
Biscuit Week
during the Florentine Signature.
I remember worrying a bit about your
very large nuts.
Because...
PAUL SIGHS
In hindsight, were your nuts too
large?
I think they were perfect.
Perfect size, really, you know?
Yeah, it certainly made me blush
in the tent.
Did it? Yeah, it did.
Bless you. Yeah, it did.
I looked like that avocado again.
Rosy cheeks.
Now, I'm sure there are lots of
things you'll miss
about being in the tent,
but probably something you might
not miss
is when Noel or Matt want to come
and chat to you
when you're busy baking.
I mean... here, for instance.
So whereas before...
Yeah.
..if there was, like, a big fire,
you would see this big fire.
But now they just have loads of
people sat around a table going,
"Hey, did you hear about the fire?"
Yeah.
"Shocking."
The budget's gone down.
"Did you hear Cyril and Sue got
married and divorced?"
You don't see anything happening
any more.
They just talk about stuff.
Listening!
I'm listening!
Where did you go?
Sorry, I just went around to
the fridge.
Where did you go? I was talking.
I needed cream.
I was listening. I was listening.
I was very upset.
I'm really sorry. I thought for a
minute you were gone.
I was all on my own.
I know, I'm really sorry.
I was listening.
This is not nice.
You have to promise never, ever
to leave me again.
I won't. I won't, I promise.
You promise?
I promise. Fine.
But I'm just going this way.
No, you've got to come with me
wherever I go.
Come on. OK.
Come with me wherever I go.
Comedians love it when people walk
off when they're doing a show.
Yeah, they do.
No audience is exactly what you're
after it, isn't it?
Now, I've got a bit of unseen
footage here
from when our Tom had a chat online
with you all,
and I think you told him about an
unusual habit of yours.
Panel, try and guess...
Is it a cooking-based strange habit,
or is it...?
I'll give you a clue.
Yeah, it involves toast.
Toast? Yeah.
I bet you like it burnt.
You eat burnt toast.
No.
Let's have a look.
TOM: Tell me something interesting
about you.
Er, I like to drink butter off
toast.
OTHER BAKERS: Urgh!
That is disgusting.
What? Just normal butter?
Yeah, just a really thick layer of
butter on toast,
and then I like to fold the toast
and just drink it off.
Oh!
THEY LAUGH
I love that!
DARREN: That sounds good.
I absolutely love that!
Oh, I love butter so much, yeah.
Well, let's allow the image of you
drinking butter off your toast
to sink in with viewers around
Britain
as we take some time out
to play a game.
Do you fancy that?
Yeah, why not? Yes.
What better way to celebrate
Japanese Week in the tent
than by playing a game that was
invented by the French?
So let's play charades!
Or, as it's known in Japanese,
sharedo!
Thanks for making the effort
with your Japanese outfit.
Yeah, this is all Japanese,
including the tabi shoes for you.
OK, so...
All the words that you act out have
been inspired
by Japan or Japanese Week
in the tent.
Jonathan, you're up first.
Off you go. OK, so...
Two words!
DARREN: First word. First word.
Gun?
Shot?
Bullet?
Bullet?
Second word.
Train? Bullet train!
Boom!
Thank you. Well done.
Bullet train!
It was, yes.
OK, Darren. Go on, Darren!
Focus here.
Darren, don't be nervous.
Remember, it's a Japanese theme.
Right, off you go. OK.
Three words. Three words.
First word.
Eagle? Catch?
Basketball?
Scared?
Hot? Hot?
Second word.
Crossed buns?
Teapot?
Hot tea ceremony?
Tea ceremony?
Hot steam?
Hot steamed buns!
Hot steamed buns, yeah!
Yeah!
Hot steamed buns! Of course,
from the thing?
Siobhan did that on her own.
Jo, you didn't join in at all.
Mark, you're meant to be playing
as well.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, come on! Join in.
I think you're probably quite good
at it.
We're more of a verbal nation.
Yeah.
Mime isn't for us, really.
No, exactly.
So...
..in spite of that...
Two words.
No, it's not!
Two syllables? That's right.
Good start. One word, OK.
A vein?
No.
Arm?
One word, two syllables.
Yes, thank you. Oh, OK, sorry.
First syllable.
Are you sure it's only two
syllables?
Three syllables. Three syllables.
Three syllables.
Thank you, Jo.
That's all right.
Three syllables.
First syllable.
Door? Open.
Walk in? Walk out?
Cupboard? Close? Open? Closing?
Wardrobe? Opening.
Shut? Shut? Shut?
Shut, yeah.
Shuttlecock!
Wow. You're on fire! You two would
make a very good team.
There's a connection, there.
OK, Mark.
I apologise in advance for this.
I believe in you.
OK, all right.
OK. Two syllables.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I think so.
They're sneaky.
First syllable.
Sounds like.
Sounds like.
Sounds like me?
Jonathon?
Ross? Toss? Floss?
Jon?
Sounds like Jon.
Jon? Jon?
The second syllable.
Second syllable.
Sounds like.
Tear? Eye? Cry?
Ron tear? Jon Cornear?
Eye!
Ron eye?
Bonsai! Yes!
That fell out of my mouth.
YEAH! That was a tough one.
That was a tough one.
You got the toughest one.
Mark, to be fair, that was hard.
Well done, guys.
I can hear the wheels of the Extra
Slice cake trolley approaching.
Tom is on his way, and we'll be back
in a bit.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back to the final part
of the show.
Mark's here, along with Darren,
Siobhan and Jonathan.
And, Mark, we know that you lot in
the tent can bake we're always keen
to know what other talents you have.
So let's see what else you excel at.
My name's Mark and my hidden talent
is I can cartwheel like a gymnast.
I spent ages practising
just alone in my bedroom.
And then I've managed to master it.
I've been cartwheeling a lot
while I've been here, actually.
Yeah, every night.
It gives me a real thrill
to cartwheel like that.
I feel like I'm transported
to a different world.
Would you like to compete
professionally?
Big ambitions.
Maybe in a few years with more
practice, I could get there.
I'm really proud that I'm able to
do it and I'm able to share
it with everyone today.
HEAVY ROCK MUSIC
Nailed it.
Yeah. Yeah, you did!
Impressive.
That was so athletic. Well done.
LAUGHTER
OK, it is time now for
Tom and his trolley.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Chicken or beef? Chicken or beef?
Chicken or beef? Scratchcards?
Oh, hello, Mark.
LAUGHTER
Please tell us
what you will be taking away
from your time in the tent.
Oh, so much,
I learned a lot about myself.
Learned a lot more about baking some
I'm taking away some amazing,
amazing skills that I learned in the
tent, but also, you know,
11 new friends, and a sense of
pride, really, in everything
that I was able to do in there.
Oh, that's lovely to hear.
But what will I be taking
away from your time?
LAUGHTER
Mark... Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark,
you adorable, bearded
woodland creature, you.
LAUGHTER
How we shall miss you,
now you have to return to
The Animals of Farthing Wood.
LAUGHTER
We love your jolly smile
and your laughter.
It's inspired us all so much.
That and those adorable cheeks!
Oh, I could just him all up!
Even though the miserable judges
didn't like your avocado baby cake,
we thought it was cute and adorable,
just like you.
So, thank you, Mark, for being such
a great part of this year's
Bake Off.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you.
OK, Mark, let's take a look back
at your time on Bake Off.
This is where it gets messy.
This recipe suits me quite well
because I am a messy baker,
so it feels quite nice
to get stuck into something.
Do you know, that is really
what a pasty should look like.
The textures are spot on.
It's gorgeous.
Very good.
That's a great loaf.
And the butter's lovely. Thank you.
I think it's a good job.
Oof.
Have you ever got naked
in a public space?
I haven't, no!
In second, we have this one.
Loads of texture,
nice chocolate on the top, spot on.
Yeah, I'm happy with that.
It's got a nice, little
zigzag design in it.
It tastes delicious.
Ooh.
Very good flavour.
And it's a well-baked cake.
I love the way it looks.
Thank you.
It's a great-looking cake.
Star Baker is
Mark L.
Thank you.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
OK, Tom, if you could do
the grand unveiling.
Course.
DRUM ROLL
FANFARE
Wow, amazing.
So, there you are with your
Star Baker winning tier cake,
Ethiopian coffee biscuits
and Rex the dog.
Let's give Mark a Great British
send-off, everyone. Well done, Mark.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
APPLAUSE
OK, everyone,
that's it for this week.
A big thank you to Tom, to Mark,
to all our studio bakers,
and to our celebrity panel,
Darren Harriott, Siobhan McSweeney
and Jonathan Ross.
We'll be back
at the same time next week,
when the tent
goes back to the 1980s.
Goodbye.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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