The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (2014–…): Season 7, Episode 8 - Episode #7.8 - full transcript
Dessert week...
Why would Prue do this to me?
..and the bakers
puzzled over Prue's pudding.
I've never heard of
Sussex Pond pudding.
I think my nan would probably know
what it was. Can I call her?
I still haven't got
a clue what it is,
so Tom's giving Laura's nan a ring
to find out. OK, right, yeah. OK.
Oh, oh, that!
Oh, that is interesting.
Oh, I see now! Right, OK.
Well, OK, all right, bye!
Bye, bye, bye! Bye, bye, bye!
Bye-bye. Bye.
No, she didn't know either.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello and welcome to the show.
It was the quarterfinal,
and with the five remaining bakers,
Prue and Paul
had just one job to do.
NARRATOR: Prue and Paul
will now rank the puddings
from worst to best.
Bit rude!
Paul tried to make amends
by coming up with a friendly
nickname for Peter.
Cheesecakes. Yes.
What have you decided to do?
Dave was pulling no punches when
asked for his opinion of the judges.
They're very
temperamental little things.
While Mark was even more blunt.
Slippery little buggers!
Here to feast on dessert week,
will you please welcome
top woman Kathy Burke,
top comedian Sophie Duker,
and top presenter Jools Holland!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Desserts, puddings, afters.
What do you call them,
and what's your favourite? Kathy?
Well, I call them pudding,
and my absolute favourite
is a Pavlova
made by my friend Pete in France.
And I don't like anybody else's
Pavlovas. I like Peter's Pavlova.
That's very specialist.
He does make other puddings,
and they're all delicious,
but he did make...
It was baked pineapple,
and it was rank.
LAUGHTER
I didn't enjoy that at all.
I hope you're watching, Pete!
Jools, what about you?
What do you call it?
Well, if I were to go back to my
earliest, happiest memories
of puddings, which is
what I would have been then,
would have been
Nan's treacle pudding.
That would have been the highlight
to this day of my pudding memories.
I hate the word "puddings". Do you?
It sounds like it just plops
onto the plate. I don't like it.
Also, I think my dessert
philosophy is that
I always got dessert when I was
a kid trying to seem more grown-up,
so I had a bit where I pretended,
when I was about five years old,
I pretended
I was addicted to tiramisu.
Because I knew it had, like,
naughty adult stuff in it,
so I've always liked
quite adult desserts,
and when I say "dessert"
I feel quite French.
"Dessert." Yes. What does Pete
in France call them, I wonder?
He says dessert. But then, he's from
Liverpool. He's not French!
What's he doing in France, then?!
LAUGHTER
Is he on the run?
Amongst our viewers, the theme of
baking famous faces continues.
Following on from last week's
chief medical adviser Chris Whitty,
Rosie in London has made a cake
of a man you might recognise
from the queue at the Jobcentre.
Former President of
the United States Donald Trump.
And if you try making that cake
at home and don't get
the result you wanted, just demand
a recount of the ingredients!
More of those later,
plus will be joined by
the latest baker to leave the tent.
Mark will be here.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And as ever, Tom Allen
will be inspecting the bakes
brought along to the studio.
But don't worry, everyone, he's
always really nice about them. Yeah?
All right. Let's remind
ourselves what happened
when the bakers
got their just desserts.
ALL: One, two, three.
Quarterfinals!
Dessert week saw just five
enter the tent.
Rinky-dink.
Aargh!
Bakers crumbled
and crumbs tumbled...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
..in the mini cheesecake signature.
You've ticked all the boxes.
It's neat and it tastes good.
Thank you.
While things turned ugly...
This is evil! Squidge!
..in the Sussex Pond
pudding technical.
I wish I could say it was wonderful,
but it really wasn't
much better than the rest.
Some emerged smelling of flowers...
Yeah! It's absolutely gorgeous.
..in the jelly art design cake
showstopper.
The raspberry mousse
is particularly good.
It's perfect, actually. Lovely.
But the judges were not ready for
Mark's jelly, and he left the tent.
See you, guys.
While Hermine won Star Baker
for the second week running.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Every one of the final five bakers
has been star baker at some point,
so it was always going to be
a week of spectacular results.
Let's have a look at
what they presented to judges
in the technical.
Yeah.
Hmm.
It's called a Sussex Pond pudding,
also known as a well pudding, or as
I call it, a not-very-well pudding.
Kathy, what did you make of it?
Ugliest bake of all time?
I thought it was absolutely
disgusting, and I just...
It made me heave looking at it!
Suet, as well. Suet's horrible!
Suet is animal fat, and I'm a
vegetarian, and I just was repulsed.
And I just thought, Paul has
scraped the bottom of the barrel
and dug out that pudding from
the bottom of an old manky barrel.
Some Dickensian era.
I thought it was horrible.
LAUGHTER
It's something that a wicked witch
would bake with.
Like, wing of bat, suet...
What was interesting, really,
what Kathy was saying,
all the reasons she didn't like it,
I rather warmed to it.
I like the idea of something
coming out of a Dickensian slum...
Served by Hogarthian grotesques.
That's exactly my idea
of a night out,
so I'm not sure about
the ingredients, but...
For once, I did actually read up on
Sussex Pond puddings,
and the lemon in it
was the late addition.
What did they put it before lemons?
Syphilis? What was in there?
You just think, what are you
going to cut that with? You know?
It was an interesting
signature as well,
with everyone going slightly rogue.
Dave served up 12 dice
that had all landed on four.
Laura served up 12 used tissues,
while Peter opted to present
the judges with 12 full ashtrays.
Sadly, none of these were
what Noel had asked them for.
The judges would like you to make
eight identical
baked mini cheesecakes.
< But don't forget that it is 12.
Oh, is it 12? Sorry, kids.
I just thought I'd make it
a bit easier for you!
No-one wants to make 12, do they?
Why don't you just make
one big one, you idiots?
Nearly all of the bakers used
passion fruit in their cheesecakes,
which gave Paul the opportunity to
make a special passion fruit noise.
Like here, with this week's
Star Baker Hermine.
I'm making a passion fruit
cheesecake.
Ohhh!
Her mini passion fruit
cheesecakes looked exquisite,
although Paul had been concerned
that she was presenting them
in their jars.
But there was
a very good reason for that,
and here she is explaining it to us.
I like anything to do with jars.
Fair enough! But the star of
the show was her chocolate
and raspberry mousse jelly cake.
Paul heaped praise on the cake,
describing it as beautiful,
gorgeous, and fantastic.
I did like the look of it.
I think Hermine's brilliant.
Yeah, she's my favourite.
Am I allowed to say that?
Of course you are, yeah.
I mean, I love them all,
darling, but...
But I've got a real
soft spot for Hermine.
I think she's just been superb.
And I love all her
bit of French, bit of Cockney...
Mash up. It's adorable.
Whilst on the subject of jelly,
it's a big part, of course,
of the history of jazz. Oh! Oh!
Because there is, of course,
Jelly Roll Morton, who, along with
Louis Armstrong, sort of invents
scat and all of that sort of thing.
And also, a lot of those songs,
you know -
It Must Be Jelly
('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That),
the New Orleans song.
Isn't their jelly our jam?
I don't think it's the same
sort of jelly. Am I right?
I think maybe they... Cos Beyonce,
I don't think she was like,
♪ I don't think
you're ready for this... ♪
Jam. Like, I don't...
I thought she was talking about
a big, wobbly, sexy...
Well, I'm afraid
that's all we've got time for.
LAUGHTER
On to Mark, then.
Now, the judges said his vanilla
and apricot-flavoured cheesecakes
didn't pack enough punch,
and were far too big.
They should have been canape-sized.
Jools, whether a canape is
too big or too small
surely depends on the size of your
hands, doesn't it?
Oh, I thought you were going to say
the size of your gob!
Mark's little cheesecakes...
The word "little" is only
a comparative word, after all.
I think Mark's may be perfect size.
Let's not call them little or large,
just appropriate size. Absolutely.
Well, on the plus side,
Mark's cheesecakes gave Prue
an opportunity to share one of her
favourite apricot-related proverbs.
You don't get any apricot at all
until you hit the apricot.
I think we can all learn
something from that!
Sadly, Mark's jelly art showstopper
was far from being a masterpiece,
and he became the eighth baker
to leave the tent.
Jools, who would you have
sent Mark away? No, but I...
Would be hopeless.
I couldn't send any of them away.
And when I see them cry at the end,
I get so upset and start howling
in the room at home and...
On the floor! When Lottie got
sent home, I thought, "No!"
I know! How can they send Lot...
They can't send Lottie home!
HIS VOICE BREAKS UP
It's impossible!
But if you were a judge, then,
and you saw someone start crying,
would you say, "Oh, all right, then.
You can stay"?
Absolutely.
Let's move on to Laura, shall we?
Now, here she is in the latest
episode of exciting new game show
What Will Laura Drop This Week?
GAME SHOW ANNOUNCER: It's time...
No!
..for...
BLEEP
..What Will Laura Drop This Week?
First up, it's a tray of crumbs
for her cheesecake base.
Don't drop it, don't drop it,
don't drop it! Oh! BLEEP!
Oh, she's dropped it.
Crumbs flying everywhere.
Whoopsie! Don't drop,
don't drop, don't drop...
Delicate jelly cake next.
Phwoar! Impressive save
there, Laura.
Uh-oh. Back for more,
and this looks ill-advised.
Oh, help, help, help, help!
Yeah, told you.
It's OK. It's OK.
Cake survives, though, and phew!
There it is, safe and sound
with the judges.
Let's just hope they like it.
Oh, Prue!
Join us next time for
What Will Prue Drop This Week?
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
I did want to say that, actually,
Laura's my favourite,
cos I think there's just something
really endearing about her,
and everything she makes looks
delicious. I thought it was
very unfair to focus there
for those few moments on...
We've all dropped things!
We've all made mistakes!
But they are in a competition
on one of the top cooking programmes
in the world!
Well remembered, well remembered,
yeah. Good point, good point.
So I think the least they could do
is make them look nice.
Despite having never heard of
Sussex Pond pudding,
Laura came first in the technical,
earning high praise from Prue.
Laura, I wish
I could say it was wonderful,
but it really wasn't
much better than the rest.
I'm sorry.
And Prue's Complete Guide To
Giving Compliments is out now.
Although, ironically, for
a complimentary book, it's £4.99.
Laura's flower power showstopper
was inspired by her pet Koi carp.
Remember this?
Come on, Boris!
Hmm. Wonder if she's got
another fishy called Rishi?
Let's talk about Dave,
and specifically about
how noisily he eats an apple.
LOUD CRUNCHING
You all right?
LOUD CRUNCH
KATHY LAUGHING
That could get annoying, couldn't
it? Do you think? I quite like it!
LAUGHTER
The thing about Dave
that I find confusing is,
whenever I see his picture
in front of the cakes, I'm like...
That's a man with much more hair.
Like, his haircut has completely
changed him since he got it.
I don't think he is the real Dave.
That needs to be investigated,
I think. Yeah.
I'd like to see a full investigation
launched into that, actually.
When it came to
the Sussex Pond technical,
Dave just wanted to get
the whole thing over and done with.
So, the last thing to do
is turn out and serve.
Ooh!
There you go. Some pond puddings.
TRUMPET FANFARE
LAUGHTER
In better news, Dave's Newquay
beach scene showstopper
was a big hit with Prue.
Paul said Dave's showstopper
was Prue in cake form.
Kathy,
what would be your cake equivalent?
I'd be a lovely big fat doughnut!
Oh!
LAUGHTER
A gorgeous doughnut. Oh, talking of
which, you know last week's show?
Martin Kemp said,
when they did the finger doughnuts,
he said he used to work
in a greengrocer's,
and the girl that worked in
the bakery next door used to come
and bring him a finger doughnut.
Well, Martin Kemp worked in the
greengrocer's on the Essex Road.
I worked in a bakery next door to
the greengrocer's on the Essex Road.
But it wasn't me,
because I'd have eaten them.
LAUGHTER
I would never have
given them to him.
Now, Dave has an anecdote
for every occasion.
Remember this one, from last week?
I said to my mum the other day,
I went,
"Oh, yeah, have you seen in the
paper that they've said
"that Bake Off's apparently axed?"
She went, "Is it?!"
I went, "No, Mum. I'm here."
Well, this week he shared
a thrilling story about
how he very nearly
didn't appear on the show.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
When I put the application form in,
and I got a phone call back the next
day, I thought it was a cold caller.
I almost didn't answer!
LAUGHTER
This is preposterously unfair!
He wasn't trying to
tell a great anecdote,
he was just saying something
that happened to him!
I know! I know, but it's endearing
rather than...
I think he's been framed.
And finally, to Peter, who sent us
all into shock by having a bad week.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Things started badly
with the signature.
Peter has clearly had
a very traumatic experience
with a cheesecake in the past.
Can't trust a cheesecake.
Why do you think he doesn't
trust the cheesecakes, Kath?
Well, I wondered whether
he'd fed one to his
gluten intolerant brother...
LAUGHTER
..and that's how they knew he was
gluten intolerant. Fair enough.
Peter adopted a positive attitude
as always.
Rinky-dink. We are good to go.
Things may have started out
all rinky-dink,
but then his lime and ginger
cheesecakes began to sinky-sink,
and he was in trouble.
Sophie, do you think that
the pressure has finally been
getting to him, and he's going to
smash everything up in the tent?
No, I think it was actually quite
nice, because he's been so perfect
all the way through,
I thought it was quite nice
to see him make cheesecakes
that look like Yorkshire puddings.
It will be good, because that will
give him the energy for next week.
Yes. The determination to reverse
previous defeats. Absolutely.
Right, well, thanks, guys.
Now, time for a quick break,
then Tom Allen will be here
to dig into some of the desserts
here in the studio. See you shortly.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
APPLAUSE
Welcome back. I'm dissecting
Dessert Week with Kathy Burke,
Sophie Duker and Jools Holland.
Time now for our very own
sweet treat. It's Tom Allen!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, hello. Hi. Hello, everyone.
Hello, Tom. Hello, Jo.
What did you make of Dessert Week?
Dessert Week...
Mm, desserts! Maybe crepes suzette,
knickerbocker glory, Sussex...
...pond pudding? Mm...
LAUGHTER
Sounds so lovely! Oh, give me some.
And just like when you go
pond dipping with your school,
you pull out all
sorts of disgusting things -
this one had a whole lemon in it.
It's as if the inventor thought,
"I want this to taste like lemon,
"but I can't be bothered
juicing or zesting,
"so I'll just chuck the whole
thing in and hope for the best!"
It's like making a shepherd's pie
by just bunging a whole sheep
in a casserole dish and smearing it
with mashed potato.
Hermine didn't hide her feelings.
When cut into,
the filling should ooze out,
creating a lemony, syrupy pond.
Mmm, yeah.
LAUGHTER
I have so many questions
about this week,
like is Peter actually
a time-travelling Victorian child?
He wears shorts,
he knew what suet was,
he says things like "rinky-dink"
and "crackerjack".
And he has a rickets.
No, he doesn't.
I've never met the man.
Being from Edinburgh,
Peter has actually seen
a few of my Edinburgh shows.
I'd love to know what he thought.
Got a bit of a dip
in the middle.
It's actually all about
how you finish, Peter!
But the tension continued.
Laura stopped finding Dave's anxiety
so charming.
Has everyone else finished
apart from me? Yeah.
"Yeah.
"Yeah."
Watch out, Dave, or you might end up
with a dead fish on your cake!
And Prue's had it with
the director.
You want a punch?
So, no wonder,
with all this negative energy,
Marc didn't even seem that
bothered about going home.
I'm feeling...
surprisingly OK, actually.
"Uh, fine, yeah, whatever!
"It's week eight. I was going to
walk out early
"to beat the traffic anyway."
I mean, what was the real reason
Marc got sent home?
He was wearing the same shirt
as Paul.
And La Hollywood won't stand for it!
Still, it's nice to know M&S are
still shifting
their Blue Harbour range,
even in the pandemic.
It's getting very tense,
and I can't wait to see how
they all get on next week.
APPLAUSE
Thanks, Tom. Thank you, Jo.
Time now to look at the baking
that's been going on
in kitchens across the country.
Chris in Berkshire won't be able
to get together with her friend
Sandra this year
for their annual Christmas meal,
so she made her an illusion cake
of a Christmas dinner instead.
Ooh. That is incredible, isn't it?
Let's just see it carved.
Wow! Amazing.
Kathy, does that make
Christmas appealing?
Not really, no.
OK.
Now, the turkey is
made of lemon Madeira
and the whole thing
is glazed in vodka.
Oh, I've changed my mind!
LAUGHTER
Now, meanwhile, in London,
Lizzie went in at the deep end
for her mum Jane's birthday cake,
recreating their local lido
in Tooting
where they go swimming every day,
whatever the weather.
Oh. Ooh. That's lovely, isn't it?
Fantastic.
For her 60th birthday,
Tracey in Wales asked her husband
for a cake of their cockapoo Jaffa.
Aw, adorable.
Here's what Tracey was presented
with on her very special day.
LAUGHTER
Hm, Tracey's husband appears
to have made an orangutan.
LAUGHTER
We can actually see another photo
of Jaffa with the cake.
Yes, where she is so terrified of it
she's had to hide under the table.
Sarah in Bedfordshire made a cake
of pet Jack Russell Ida
for her daughter's 13th birthday.
Here's the real Ida.
Oh, look at her sweet,
delicate face.
Hopefully Sarah captured that.
LAUGHTER
Oh, dear.
Husband Phil swears it tasted better
than it looks, which,
frankly, can't have been hard.
Ellie and mum Michelle in Twickenham
decided to have a go
at Dave's steamed buns,
the ones that were
shaped like chicks.
Identical in size
and exquisitely decorated,
could Ellie and Michelle reach
the same high standard?
LAUGHTER
No.
Keep your pictures coming...
Details below.
OK, brace yourselves, studio bakers.
Tom's got his big whisk
and he's not afraid to use it.
Off you go, Tom.
Thanks, Jo.
Yes, I'm delighted to be here with
our special home baker contributors.
It's all been going on, hasn't it?
New president, second lockdown,
but we've got someone called Posey
who's made a cake
that looks like a potato!
Sorry, Krishnan Guru-Murthy,
I think the real news is
happening right here.
OK, first up, we have Georgia
and Freddie.
Where are you? There. OK.
Georgia, Georgia,
what have you made?
The leaning Tower of Pisa.
It does seem to be leaning a lot,
doesn't it, because you've got
a stick holding it up?
It's currently
undergoing reconstruction.
Why have you done this?
We went to Italy last year, and
it was one of our favourite things.
Oh, look at you, showing off
about trips abroad that
we could all once have!
And what is this horrible
monstrosity on the side?
Oh, that's you... clinging on.
That's me? And the fact that
it's leaning over does seem like
an implication on my lockdown
weight.
And, Freddie...
Hello. Hello. What a lovely shirt!
Thank you. You are welcome.
What have you brought?
I've brought our cat in cake form.
You have brought your cat
in cake form.
Freddie, have you baked before?
Not a cake.
You've not baked a cake.
What have you baked before? Bread.
So this is your first cake? Yes.
First-time cake baker, everybody!
APPLAUSE
Freddie, I'm so proud of you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Georgia and
Freddie. Thank you very much.
Posey and Andrew, where are you?
Posey and Andrew...
Posey. Hello.
Hello. Nice to see you.
Thank you. And? Andrew.
Nice to see you too. What is this?
So, I was inspired
because of Matt Lucas re-releasing
the Baked Potato Song...
Oh, yes... for our NHS.
Yes. And so, inside,
if I were to cut it open,
which I can if like... Mm.
..you'll find a rainbow.
Oh, that's lovely!
A rainbow for... nurses or gays?
Um... Gay nurses.
Gay nurses. Oh, specific.
Yes, absolutely.
Carb-loading gay nurses.
What a lovely tribute!
Don't get mentioned often enough.
Where are you from, by the way,
Posey?
I grew up in the States... The
States... as you may have heard.
I've never heard of it, I'm afraid.
Posey, please cut into
your delightful gay potato cake.
A gay-tato cake, if you will.
Oh, my goodness.
What do you think, Kathy?
KATHY: Yum.
Oh, look at that!
Oh, my goodness, it's
like slicing into a gay nurse.
LAUGHTER
That's the inspiration.
That was the inspiration.
If I was Dorothy,
I'd leap over it right now.
But I'm not. I'm just a friend.
Now...
LAUGHTER
Well done. And, Andrew, Andrew,
you've come in with Posey.
Are you connected?
We are married, yes.
You are married.
Andrew, how long have you been
married for? 22... years?
You said that with some curiosity.
I don't know. I've never met you
before.
How did you meet?
We met on the internet.
On the internet. 22 years ago?
Yes.
Slow meeting!
One word at a time, was it?
HE IMITATES DIAL-UP MODEM
BEEPS AND WHIRRING
Pretty much. "Fingers crossed
I'll meet my wife soon.
"Oh, someone's picked up the phone.
I guess it's not today."
Andrew, what pathetic cakes
have you brought?
Right, in our house, Tom,
we're not allowed to speak about
Christmas until after Halloween.
Quite right. So, now the embargo
has been lifted... Oh, yes!
..I have brought some mince pies.
Oh, that's lovely.
So, little mince pies.
Which is also my name on an internet
dating site. So, that's wonderful.
Andrew and Posey, lovely to see you
both. Thank you very much
and give it up for Andrew and Posey.
Aren't they gorgeous?
Where's Holly and Dmitry?
Where's Holly and Dmitry?
That's here, goodness.
OK, you must be Holly, Dmitry.
Hello, Holly, what have you brought?
Well, I've brought one of Paul
Hollywood's classic blue shirts.
That is a very Paul Hollywood Blue
Harbour from M&S blue shirt.
Well done, Holly.
But it's actually got
a bit of a surprise inside, so...
What could it be?
It's my favourite pattern of shirt
and also maybe one of Noel's
favourite patterns of shirt.
Which is?
Leopard print. Leopard print!
Oh, that's wonderful.
Would you like to show us that?
Yeah, yeah. A leopard-print cake.
I really hope so. Oh, my.
Let's have a look.
Are you excited on the panel to see
this? Oh, look at Kathy.
She's crying.
Oh, look! It's just like a leopard
print(!) Oh, that looks lovely.
Just, oh... I'll let you try it.
No, you try it, you try it.
You've tried all of our patience.
Nobody clap. Posey did...
But she's American.
They clap at anything.
And Dmitry? Hi.
Hello, what have you brought?
It's a giant peanut butter cup.
Oh, that's very clever.
It's Ed Kimber's recipe from the
first series of Bake Off. Who?
He was the first winner.
Oh, oh, yes, of course I remember...
Happy days. Yes.
And so you've been doing
a lot of baking, have you, recently?
Holly has. Have you, Holly?
I've been baking a lot.
Put on furlough, so... Oh, furlough,
oh, no, that's a shame.
Erm...
Well, thanks for bringing the mood
down.
We're just trying to get through it,
you know what I mean?
OK, well, thank you very much, Holly
and Dmitry!
Heidi and Paul, where's Heidi and
Paul? Right here! Heidi and Paul.
Heidi, I feel like
we should be in the mountains,
maybe with that lovely hairdo,
like Heidi did in the series.
Hi-de-hi!
Ho-de-ho. Correct. Is
that your name? Hi-de-hi. Ho-de-ho.
And Hi-de-hi, what have you brought?
I have brought my take on a medieval
subtlety. Hang on a second.
Tell us what this is.
For a medieval feast,
if you are particularly wealthy,
you may have had a sugar decoration
that could have been
something allegorical, something
slightly witty. Oh! So, my take...
Like myself.
So, I took an example from the
borders of a medieval manuscript,
recreated it in cake form,
but then adapted it so it reflects
the current day.
Has anybody understood
anything about this bake?
LAUGHTER
Well, it's right up my street,
actually. I'm a keen medievalist.
I love the jousting tent,
the nice medieval touch there.
So I'd like to say well done.
It's beautiful.
A medieval allegory is my favourite.
Oh, that's wonderful. What great
praise.
APPLAUSE
And Paul, what have you brought?
Well, mine's far lesser, but it's...
Is that the blood, perhaps? No.
Maybe from jousting. No.
It's in memory of my grandfather,
who came from Switzerland,
so it's the white Swiss cross
on a red background. Oh, I see.
Oh, that's wonderful.
And have you ever baked before?
Not really, no. Not really, no.
So, a "not really, no," sort of
first-time sort of baker, everyone.
APPLAUSE
Heidi and Paul, thank you so much,
thank you very much, thank you.
Next up, we have Sabrine and Zana.
Sabrina and Zana, where are you?
All the way over there.
Getting my steps up!
Sabrine? Zana. Zana. Hello.
You must be Sabrine. Sabrine.
Sabrine, what have you brought?
I've brought an interactive biscuit.
An interactive biscuit?
Who do you think you are,
Steve Jobs?!
I've always wondered what you'd
look like with hair,
so I made lots of biscuit wigs.
Oh, that's so kind.
Stick them on,
stick them on, come on,
we're not here for a long time,
we're here for a good time.
Am I right?
Oh, look at me there. Yeah.
There I am, Janet Street-Porter.
Or is it Noel Fielding?
I look beautiful. And...
I don't know what this is. This is
supposed to be blonde curly hair.
Generic blonde curly hair. Yeah.
Dolly Parton? Possibly. Oh, look.
Who wouldn't want a hair
transplant like that?
That's wonderful.
And actually, you could put the Noel
Fielding one on as a lovely
moustache.
Go on. That is... Oh, oh. I'm just
worried it's going to break.
Don't worry.
We're here to support you.
That looks...
That looks wonderful. Oh! Oh, no!
Oh, I felt it.
I felt it as well in my face.
Thank you, Sabrine and Zana.
Wonderful.
OK.
And now, I have the lovely job of
announcing this week's Star Baker.
And I'm delighted to
say that it is...
..Posey!
For such a noble gay nurse potato.
And as our Star Baker, we would
normally have got you a prize,
but the boring old government
said it wasn't essential shopping,
so I'm afraid you'll just have to
look at a picture of it instead.
Here's what you could have won.
Oh, it's a fitted carpet!
Perfect for pacing the walls
in lockdown. Oh, such a shame.
I've now got the awful
job of announcing who will be
leaving the studio
because everything about their bake,
from the idea, right through to the
execution was, I'm afraid,
an absolute fiasco.
And the judges have decided
the baker who will be leaving
the studio this week is...
..Sabrine with the biscuit,
cos you broke my face!
That's why, Sabrine. Get out.
APPLAUSE
And a huge thanks to
all of our studio bakers.
APPLAUSE
Thank you, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting
the latest baker to leave the tent.
He lives in Cornwall, you know.
It's Mark. Back shortly.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back.
I'm here with celebrity Bake Off
fans Kathy Burke, Sophie Duker
and Jools Holland, and it's time to
meet Bread Week's Star Baker
who brought Bowie to the
Bake Off tent.
It's Marc!
Hi, Marc! Hello!
Hello, please have a seat.
Welcome to An Extra Slice, Marc.
Delighted to have you with us.
How did it feel to make it all
the way to quarterfinal week?
Cos it's a massive achievement.
How did that feel?
Well, I never even expected
to get that far.
I never even expected to get on the
show,
never mind get to the quarterfinals,
so, yeah, it was amazing.
Absolutely amazing.
And, actually, you only started
baking cakes a year ago.
I did, yeah,
and I've been baking bread for about
four years quite seriously,
and it was about this time last year
that my daughter, Rosie,
convinced me to apply.
And I opened up the application form
and there was this list of all these
different cakes and tarts
and pastries that you need to
demonstrate that you've made,
so that was the start of it,
so, yeah, less than a year that I've
been baking cakes and stuff.
Now, your daughters,
Rosie and Jasmine,
were with you in the Bake Off
tent bubble, weren't they?
They were, yeah. And your dog...
And my dog, Hamish.
..was with you in the Bake Off
bubble. He was.
Oh, right, well, let's have a look
at him.
We've got a picture of him, I think.
Oh, yeah, there he is.
LAUGHTER
Now, that was, of course,
your brilliant kawaii cake tribute
to him.
Here is the real Hamish.
ALL: Aww.
He's delicious. What make is he?
He's a rather naughty
border terrier.
Incredibly naughty border terrier.
Right, OK.
Did he behave himself in the tent?
No, not at all. No. So...
They had a pen, dog town, where
they kept all the dogs that
came on the set.
What, were there lots, then?
Probably about four, four dogs.
Four or five dogs, yeah. Oh, OK.
So this was designed to contain the
dogs, but Hamish managed to escape
every single time and made it into
the practice tents and caused havoc.
Does he eat things he shouldn't have
done? Of course he does, yeah.
Yeah. It's acceptable if you're a
dog, isn't it?
It's not if you're a person
and I can vouch for that.
Now, something else not many people
will know about you, Marc,
is that you live in Cornwall. I do.
LAUGHTER
You didn't mention it much on
the show. No, not at all.
No, no. Let's have a look.
So I'm doing a Cornish-themed soda
bread.
So I'm doing a Cornish kelp,
Cornish cheese, Cornish sea salt
and Cornish cream.
I'm using Cornish Kern.
It's based on the Cornish Yarg,
so it's going to be a
Cornish-inspired Cornish quiche.
So fish that, you know, could be
caught from Cornwall.
Paul and Prue would like you each
to make your version
of the Cornish national dish,
the pasty.
Why did they have to say it's
the Cornish national dish?
Just to give me more pressure?
HE SIGHS
Technically, though, I'm from up
north. Bingo.
Now, what do you actually
love about living in Cornwall?
What do I love about living
in Cornwall?
Well, it's by the sea, of course,
and the coast is just amazing.
It's very rugged, isn't it?
It's very rugged and very wild
and very windy and stormy.
I think going to the beach on a wild
winter's day is a great experience.
Fantastic.
For your Dessert Week challenge,
you had to make 12 mini cheesecakes.
Yes. And the clue was in the brief,
but you went a bit rogue.
Let's have a look.
They're not canape-size. OK.
I would have done it slightly
bigger than the apricot.
That's too big and too thin. Yep.
Now, just to get a clearer idea
of the size of your cheesecakes,
here they are next to the
Eden Project.
LAUGHTER
That wasn't the first time
you super-sized a bake,
I seem to remember.
Back in Japanese Week, you surprised
yourself with your big buns.
Remember that? I certainly did.
Good God!
LAUGHTER
You weren't expecting...?
No, not quite that big, no. No.
They were massive.
Well, in Pastry Week,
Paul tested your Cornish credentials
when he asked how many pleats.. Hm.
..were on your fish pasties.
Let's just remind ourselves.
You're lacking on the number of
pleats. How many should there be?
I think it's 20 or 21.
I was getting close.
Yeah, I think you're about seven,
eight short. Yeah. Yeah.
So seven or eight pleats
short of a pasty.
Yeah, but then he called them
pleats,
and they should be crimps, shouldn't
they?
Paul is very ignorant about baking.
LAUGHTER
Have you found out since what the
definitive number is?
Yeah, I gather there should be about
21. Right.
But then I went to Padstow last
week and I bought a pasty
and there was only 17, so...
That's an outrage! It is an outrage.
Did you take it back? I was going
to, but then... Fair enough.
Bread Week was an absolute triumph
for you when you won Star Baker.
Your Cornish soda breads were
delicious.
Also, you came second in the
rainbow bagel... thing. Thing.
LAUGHTER
Was that easy to do?
It was a bit fiddly. It was actually
quite good fun to do.
I mean, I wouldn't make one again. I
don't really... No... see the point
of putting all the colours in there,
but it was good fun to make.
And your dharma wheel show stopper,
that ticked all the boxes as well.
It did, yeah.
It was a good week for me, that one.
Cos bread's your thing, obviously.
Yeah, bread's the thing I'm more
confident, so, yeah.
Now, we have to discuss
one of the most memorable bakes
seen in the tent this year.
Let's remind ourselves, everyone.
One of the most wonderful
things about David Bowie is
the shape of his face,
it's so beautiful...
It is beautiful... and so slim.
It's quite slender.
MUSIC: Ziggy Stardust
by David Bowie
He had a very strong jaw line,
didn't he? Yes, he did, didn't he?
Very strong jaw line.
So I'm going to try and work on that
a little bit.
I'm trying to get his jawline
cos he's got a really kind of
distinctive face, doesn't he?
Yeah. Cheekbones.
Cheekbone Central.
Erm...
LAUGHTER
Oh, Marc, I really felt for you.
I mean, in hindsight, would you have
made any ch-ch-ch-changes to that?
What would you have done?
I think I probably should have
made it a bit smaller
and probably had supports in there,
maybe.
It's, like, such a huge amount of
pressure to come up with. Yeah.
I know you practised it
cos we've got a picture here of a
more successful attempt.
I mean, look at that,
that's incredible.
That's what I was hoping for.
I think, of course, you practice at
home and I did it over two days.
I had the cakes in the fridge
overnight and you take them out
and they're nice and cool
and your buttercream's nice
and cool and it all goes
together quite nicely.
But in the tent, of course,
you can't get things cool that quick
and I had no choice
but to start building it
and then it started cracking
and the buttercream started seeping
out, then it started drooping...
Well, there's massive pressure of
time, isn't there? Yeah.
And I think you never get long
enough, like you say,
to cool things down.
Jools, having met David Bowie a few
times over the years,
what did you think of Marc's
cake tribute?
Well, I thought
it was absolutely wonderful.
I could see where it was coming
from.
The earlier versions, they look
wonderful,
but I thought it was a great
tribute.
I think David would have loved it.
Little-known fact - he was a great
cake man.
We always had tea and cakes
when he came on the show.
Curiously enough, when Squeeze first
appeared on Top Of The Pops,
so inspired by that same image,
when they said,
"Do you want any make-up?" -
meaning, like, just a bit of powder
or something - I said,
"Yeah, I want to look like David...
"Can you do that?"
And so they did that on my face.
It took like an hour or something.
Yeah.
And then when they filmed us,
all they showed of me was a
close-up of my hands.
LAUGHTER
It was a complete waste of time.
But I saw that cake and all
the memories came flooding back.
I thought it was brilliant,
absolutely brilliant.
Oh, that's good.
Now, in Chocolate Week, you paid
tribute to your daughters with your
white chocolate and raspberry
celebration cake,
which was also a triumph.
What did Rosie and Jasmine have to
say about their cake tribute?
Were they impressed?
Yeah, they were pretty impressed.
They were quite proud, I think.
They wouldn't rather have had
the cost of the ingredients in cash?
Yeah, probably. If I'm honest, yes.
LAUGHTER
That's what my daughters are like.
Stay with us, Marc, because we're
going to have a musical interlude.
Now, Jools, would you please take
your seat at the Extra Slice piano?
Cos it's time for the
Bake Off Blues.
Now, Jools, you are a musical
genius, as we know. Pff, steady!
Thank you.
LAUGHTER
So we've got some clips, right,
that we're going to show you
and you're going to play
the piano along to them. OK.
Now, back in '80s Week,
the tent sweltered in a heatwave
so how would that sound to you,
Jools? Well, I think...
Let me try and get a bit of
sweaty music if I can.
Something a bit steamy.
SULTRY BLUES PIANO
Ahh. Ahh.
Poor Lottie. I know, I know.
Now let's hear you accompany, if you
will,
one of the most dramatic
scenes in the tent this series.
It's always, I think, the joy of the
people who do music for films,
doing something dramatic.
Yeah. Yeah.
So here comes some drama. OK, then.
SLOW, DRAMATIC PIANO
Oh!
Go away! Ugh!
SHE GASPS
PIANO SPEEDS UP
I'm so sorry.
Oh, my God.
Finally, what about when the bakers
have to leave the tent?
It's very sad. The blues, I think,
comes into it, really doesn't it?
You know, cos it's goodbye
and there's going to be tears, so...
I'm afraid to say the baker going
home this week is...
SOMBRE BLUES PIANO
..Mak.
I was expecting that.
Thank you very much.
Rowan.
These boots are made for walking.
Mark L.
Oh!
HE SNIFFS
I'm going to miss you all.
I'm so sorry - it's Marc.
That was absolutely brilliant.
Thank you very much, Jools Holland.
A pleasure.
OK, now, Tom's on his way with
the sweet trolley.
We'll be back in a bit.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back to the final
part of the show.
Marc is here alongside
with Kathy, Sophie and Jools,
and we've just got time
for another peek into your kitchens
at home.
Mandy baked a cake for her
mother-in-law Jackie's birthday
with some help from daughter Amber.
Jackie spends hours carefully
tending to her garden in Derbyshire,
so Mandy decided to recreate the
whole thing in sponge and fondant.
Looks wonderful.
Well done, Mandy and Amber,
that's brilliant.
We've got a very exciting bake next
which was sent in
by a celebrity. Ooh!
Panel, want to have a guess
who it's from?
Boris Johnson,
he's been doing naff-all else.
LAUGHTER
Absolutely, but let's have a look.
It's Brian Conley, of course.
Lovely to see you, Brian.
Now, Greta in London tried
making a chocolate cake
based on a simple recipe
she found online.
This is how the recipe said
the cake should look,
light, fluffy and with a great,
spongy texture.
And this is what Greta
extracted from the oven.
I'd still eat it, though.
Thanks to everyone who
sent their pictures in this week.
Keep them coming,
details at the bottom of the screen.
OK, I'm delighted
it's time to welcome Tom back
with the dessert week trolley.
Come on, Tom.
APPLAUSE
So many gateaux, Viennetta,
maybe some fruit.
Actually, my first job
was pushing a dessert trolley
around a golf club in Bromley.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Oh, hello, Marc! Hello, Tom.
So, tell me, what will you take
away from your time in the tent?
What will I take away?
Well, I made some great friends,
they'll be friends for life.
But I think for me, it was the fact
that I could take my two
daughters with me
so they could
share the whole experience.
The fact that all three of us
have shared that experience
is quite special.
Oh, Marc, that's lovely...
..but what will I be taking away
from your time in the tent?
Marc,
maybe we don't know you at all.
It turns out Marc's just been
wearing someone else's glasses
to seem more interesting.
Gosh, I can't see a thing out of
those.
Oh, Marc, you don't need glasses,
you'd still look like an
adorable woodland owl without them.
More than that, we've loved
the calm sense of Zen and
mindfulness you brought to the tent.
You've shown us that baking is
not just about the things we make,
but also the journey
to the kitchen as well.
Marc, it's dessert week and now
it's time for you to desert us
and return back to your home in,
where was it again? I forget.
Cornwall. Where? Cornwall.
Corn... Cornwall. Corn... wall.
I see. Never heard of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Marc!
APPLAUSE
OK, Tom. Hopefully,
there's a cake under there
if you could do the big reveal?
Of course.
DRUM ROLL
Ah! Thank you.
There you are, Marc, with your
Hamish Kawaii cake,
chocolate celebration cake
and Star Baker-winning Dharma bread.
Let's give Marc a great
British send-off, everyone.
APPLAUSE
Now, Marc, let's just take a look
back at your time on Bake Off.
Bing, bing, bing, bing.
Mmm. Good God. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
If Fanny Cradock was going to do
a Battenberg, that'd be it.
Is that a compliment?
Aaagh! I love that. Really?
Mmm, it's a nice loaf.
Very surprising, very original
and very delicious. Brilliant.
Um... That's a load of rubbish,
isn't it?
It looks brilliant.
You've done an amazing job.
Slippery little buggers.
It's really neat.
It's a great-looking cake.
Marc, I think you've done a
fantastic job.
Very professional, you'd expect
to see that in a bakery, for sure.
Whoa! That's hot.
Considering that that's an ice
cream cake, it's quite impressive.
Star Baker is... Marc E.
We have a wibble-wobble.
HE LAUGHS
Yikes!
APPLAUSE
I hope you enjoyed that, Marc.
You've been a brilliant part of
this year's Great British Bake Off.
That's it for this week.
Before Jools plays us out,
a big thank you to Tom, Marc,
all our studio bakers
and to our celebrity panel,
Kathy Burke, Sophie Duker,
Jools Holland.
We'll be back at our regular time
next week, Friday at eight.
It's the semi-final and the Bakers
face patisserie.
Goodbye! Take it away, Jools.
BOOGIE-WOOGIE TUNE
AUDIENCE CLAP ALONG
Subtitles by Red Bee Media
Why would Prue do this to me?
..and the bakers
puzzled over Prue's pudding.
I've never heard of
Sussex Pond pudding.
I think my nan would probably know
what it was. Can I call her?
I still haven't got
a clue what it is,
so Tom's giving Laura's nan a ring
to find out. OK, right, yeah. OK.
Oh, oh, that!
Oh, that is interesting.
Oh, I see now! Right, OK.
Well, OK, all right, bye!
Bye, bye, bye! Bye, bye, bye!
Bye-bye. Bye.
No, she didn't know either.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello and welcome to the show.
It was the quarterfinal,
and with the five remaining bakers,
Prue and Paul
had just one job to do.
NARRATOR: Prue and Paul
will now rank the puddings
from worst to best.
Bit rude!
Paul tried to make amends
by coming up with a friendly
nickname for Peter.
Cheesecakes. Yes.
What have you decided to do?
Dave was pulling no punches when
asked for his opinion of the judges.
They're very
temperamental little things.
While Mark was even more blunt.
Slippery little buggers!
Here to feast on dessert week,
will you please welcome
top woman Kathy Burke,
top comedian Sophie Duker,
and top presenter Jools Holland!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Desserts, puddings, afters.
What do you call them,
and what's your favourite? Kathy?
Well, I call them pudding,
and my absolute favourite
is a Pavlova
made by my friend Pete in France.
And I don't like anybody else's
Pavlovas. I like Peter's Pavlova.
That's very specialist.
He does make other puddings,
and they're all delicious,
but he did make...
It was baked pineapple,
and it was rank.
LAUGHTER
I didn't enjoy that at all.
I hope you're watching, Pete!
Jools, what about you?
What do you call it?
Well, if I were to go back to my
earliest, happiest memories
of puddings, which is
what I would have been then,
would have been
Nan's treacle pudding.
That would have been the highlight
to this day of my pudding memories.
I hate the word "puddings". Do you?
It sounds like it just plops
onto the plate. I don't like it.
Also, I think my dessert
philosophy is that
I always got dessert when I was
a kid trying to seem more grown-up,
so I had a bit where I pretended,
when I was about five years old,
I pretended
I was addicted to tiramisu.
Because I knew it had, like,
naughty adult stuff in it,
so I've always liked
quite adult desserts,
and when I say "dessert"
I feel quite French.
"Dessert." Yes. What does Pete
in France call them, I wonder?
He says dessert. But then, he's from
Liverpool. He's not French!
What's he doing in France, then?!
LAUGHTER
Is he on the run?
Amongst our viewers, the theme of
baking famous faces continues.
Following on from last week's
chief medical adviser Chris Whitty,
Rosie in London has made a cake
of a man you might recognise
from the queue at the Jobcentre.
Former President of
the United States Donald Trump.
And if you try making that cake
at home and don't get
the result you wanted, just demand
a recount of the ingredients!
More of those later,
plus will be joined by
the latest baker to leave the tent.
Mark will be here.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And as ever, Tom Allen
will be inspecting the bakes
brought along to the studio.
But don't worry, everyone, he's
always really nice about them. Yeah?
All right. Let's remind
ourselves what happened
when the bakers
got their just desserts.
ALL: One, two, three.
Quarterfinals!
Dessert week saw just five
enter the tent.
Rinky-dink.
Aargh!
Bakers crumbled
and crumbs tumbled...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
..in the mini cheesecake signature.
You've ticked all the boxes.
It's neat and it tastes good.
Thank you.
While things turned ugly...
This is evil! Squidge!
..in the Sussex Pond
pudding technical.
I wish I could say it was wonderful,
but it really wasn't
much better than the rest.
Some emerged smelling of flowers...
Yeah! It's absolutely gorgeous.
..in the jelly art design cake
showstopper.
The raspberry mousse
is particularly good.
It's perfect, actually. Lovely.
But the judges were not ready for
Mark's jelly, and he left the tent.
See you, guys.
While Hermine won Star Baker
for the second week running.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Every one of the final five bakers
has been star baker at some point,
so it was always going to be
a week of spectacular results.
Let's have a look at
what they presented to judges
in the technical.
Yeah.
Hmm.
It's called a Sussex Pond pudding,
also known as a well pudding, or as
I call it, a not-very-well pudding.
Kathy, what did you make of it?
Ugliest bake of all time?
I thought it was absolutely
disgusting, and I just...
It made me heave looking at it!
Suet, as well. Suet's horrible!
Suet is animal fat, and I'm a
vegetarian, and I just was repulsed.
And I just thought, Paul has
scraped the bottom of the barrel
and dug out that pudding from
the bottom of an old manky barrel.
Some Dickensian era.
I thought it was horrible.
LAUGHTER
It's something that a wicked witch
would bake with.
Like, wing of bat, suet...
What was interesting, really,
what Kathy was saying,
all the reasons she didn't like it,
I rather warmed to it.
I like the idea of something
coming out of a Dickensian slum...
Served by Hogarthian grotesques.
That's exactly my idea
of a night out,
so I'm not sure about
the ingredients, but...
For once, I did actually read up on
Sussex Pond puddings,
and the lemon in it
was the late addition.
What did they put it before lemons?
Syphilis? What was in there?
You just think, what are you
going to cut that with? You know?
It was an interesting
signature as well,
with everyone going slightly rogue.
Dave served up 12 dice
that had all landed on four.
Laura served up 12 used tissues,
while Peter opted to present
the judges with 12 full ashtrays.
Sadly, none of these were
what Noel had asked them for.
The judges would like you to make
eight identical
baked mini cheesecakes.
< But don't forget that it is 12.
Oh, is it 12? Sorry, kids.
I just thought I'd make it
a bit easier for you!
No-one wants to make 12, do they?
Why don't you just make
one big one, you idiots?
Nearly all of the bakers used
passion fruit in their cheesecakes,
which gave Paul the opportunity to
make a special passion fruit noise.
Like here, with this week's
Star Baker Hermine.
I'm making a passion fruit
cheesecake.
Ohhh!
Her mini passion fruit
cheesecakes looked exquisite,
although Paul had been concerned
that she was presenting them
in their jars.
But there was
a very good reason for that,
and here she is explaining it to us.
I like anything to do with jars.
Fair enough! But the star of
the show was her chocolate
and raspberry mousse jelly cake.
Paul heaped praise on the cake,
describing it as beautiful,
gorgeous, and fantastic.
I did like the look of it.
I think Hermine's brilliant.
Yeah, she's my favourite.
Am I allowed to say that?
Of course you are, yeah.
I mean, I love them all,
darling, but...
But I've got a real
soft spot for Hermine.
I think she's just been superb.
And I love all her
bit of French, bit of Cockney...
Mash up. It's adorable.
Whilst on the subject of jelly,
it's a big part, of course,
of the history of jazz. Oh! Oh!
Because there is, of course,
Jelly Roll Morton, who, along with
Louis Armstrong, sort of invents
scat and all of that sort of thing.
And also, a lot of those songs,
you know -
It Must Be Jelly
('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That),
the New Orleans song.
Isn't their jelly our jam?
I don't think it's the same
sort of jelly. Am I right?
I think maybe they... Cos Beyonce,
I don't think she was like,
♪ I don't think
you're ready for this... ♪
Jam. Like, I don't...
I thought she was talking about
a big, wobbly, sexy...
Well, I'm afraid
that's all we've got time for.
LAUGHTER
On to Mark, then.
Now, the judges said his vanilla
and apricot-flavoured cheesecakes
didn't pack enough punch,
and were far too big.
They should have been canape-sized.
Jools, whether a canape is
too big or too small
surely depends on the size of your
hands, doesn't it?
Oh, I thought you were going to say
the size of your gob!
Mark's little cheesecakes...
The word "little" is only
a comparative word, after all.
I think Mark's may be perfect size.
Let's not call them little or large,
just appropriate size. Absolutely.
Well, on the plus side,
Mark's cheesecakes gave Prue
an opportunity to share one of her
favourite apricot-related proverbs.
You don't get any apricot at all
until you hit the apricot.
I think we can all learn
something from that!
Sadly, Mark's jelly art showstopper
was far from being a masterpiece,
and he became the eighth baker
to leave the tent.
Jools, who would you have
sent Mark away? No, but I...
Would be hopeless.
I couldn't send any of them away.
And when I see them cry at the end,
I get so upset and start howling
in the room at home and...
On the floor! When Lottie got
sent home, I thought, "No!"
I know! How can they send Lot...
They can't send Lottie home!
HIS VOICE BREAKS UP
It's impossible!
But if you were a judge, then,
and you saw someone start crying,
would you say, "Oh, all right, then.
You can stay"?
Absolutely.
Let's move on to Laura, shall we?
Now, here she is in the latest
episode of exciting new game show
What Will Laura Drop This Week?
GAME SHOW ANNOUNCER: It's time...
No!
..for...
BLEEP
..What Will Laura Drop This Week?
First up, it's a tray of crumbs
for her cheesecake base.
Don't drop it, don't drop it,
don't drop it! Oh! BLEEP!
Oh, she's dropped it.
Crumbs flying everywhere.
Whoopsie! Don't drop,
don't drop, don't drop...
Delicate jelly cake next.
Phwoar! Impressive save
there, Laura.
Uh-oh. Back for more,
and this looks ill-advised.
Oh, help, help, help, help!
Yeah, told you.
It's OK. It's OK.
Cake survives, though, and phew!
There it is, safe and sound
with the judges.
Let's just hope they like it.
Oh, Prue!
Join us next time for
What Will Prue Drop This Week?
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
I did want to say that, actually,
Laura's my favourite,
cos I think there's just something
really endearing about her,
and everything she makes looks
delicious. I thought it was
very unfair to focus there
for those few moments on...
We've all dropped things!
We've all made mistakes!
But they are in a competition
on one of the top cooking programmes
in the world!
Well remembered, well remembered,
yeah. Good point, good point.
So I think the least they could do
is make them look nice.
Despite having never heard of
Sussex Pond pudding,
Laura came first in the technical,
earning high praise from Prue.
Laura, I wish
I could say it was wonderful,
but it really wasn't
much better than the rest.
I'm sorry.
And Prue's Complete Guide To
Giving Compliments is out now.
Although, ironically, for
a complimentary book, it's £4.99.
Laura's flower power showstopper
was inspired by her pet Koi carp.
Remember this?
Come on, Boris!
Hmm. Wonder if she's got
another fishy called Rishi?
Let's talk about Dave,
and specifically about
how noisily he eats an apple.
LOUD CRUNCHING
You all right?
LOUD CRUNCH
KATHY LAUGHING
That could get annoying, couldn't
it? Do you think? I quite like it!
LAUGHTER
The thing about Dave
that I find confusing is,
whenever I see his picture
in front of the cakes, I'm like...
That's a man with much more hair.
Like, his haircut has completely
changed him since he got it.
I don't think he is the real Dave.
That needs to be investigated,
I think. Yeah.
I'd like to see a full investigation
launched into that, actually.
When it came to
the Sussex Pond technical,
Dave just wanted to get
the whole thing over and done with.
So, the last thing to do
is turn out and serve.
Ooh!
There you go. Some pond puddings.
TRUMPET FANFARE
LAUGHTER
In better news, Dave's Newquay
beach scene showstopper
was a big hit with Prue.
Paul said Dave's showstopper
was Prue in cake form.
Kathy,
what would be your cake equivalent?
I'd be a lovely big fat doughnut!
Oh!
LAUGHTER
A gorgeous doughnut. Oh, talking of
which, you know last week's show?
Martin Kemp said,
when they did the finger doughnuts,
he said he used to work
in a greengrocer's,
and the girl that worked in
the bakery next door used to come
and bring him a finger doughnut.
Well, Martin Kemp worked in the
greengrocer's on the Essex Road.
I worked in a bakery next door to
the greengrocer's on the Essex Road.
But it wasn't me,
because I'd have eaten them.
LAUGHTER
I would never have
given them to him.
Now, Dave has an anecdote
for every occasion.
Remember this one, from last week?
I said to my mum the other day,
I went,
"Oh, yeah, have you seen in the
paper that they've said
"that Bake Off's apparently axed?"
She went, "Is it?!"
I went, "No, Mum. I'm here."
Well, this week he shared
a thrilling story about
how he very nearly
didn't appear on the show.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
When I put the application form in,
and I got a phone call back the next
day, I thought it was a cold caller.
I almost didn't answer!
LAUGHTER
This is preposterously unfair!
He wasn't trying to
tell a great anecdote,
he was just saying something
that happened to him!
I know! I know, but it's endearing
rather than...
I think he's been framed.
And finally, to Peter, who sent us
all into shock by having a bad week.
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Things started badly
with the signature.
Peter has clearly had
a very traumatic experience
with a cheesecake in the past.
Can't trust a cheesecake.
Why do you think he doesn't
trust the cheesecakes, Kath?
Well, I wondered whether
he'd fed one to his
gluten intolerant brother...
LAUGHTER
..and that's how they knew he was
gluten intolerant. Fair enough.
Peter adopted a positive attitude
as always.
Rinky-dink. We are good to go.
Things may have started out
all rinky-dink,
but then his lime and ginger
cheesecakes began to sinky-sink,
and he was in trouble.
Sophie, do you think that
the pressure has finally been
getting to him, and he's going to
smash everything up in the tent?
No, I think it was actually quite
nice, because he's been so perfect
all the way through,
I thought it was quite nice
to see him make cheesecakes
that look like Yorkshire puddings.
It will be good, because that will
give him the energy for next week.
Yes. The determination to reverse
previous defeats. Absolutely.
Right, well, thanks, guys.
Now, time for a quick break,
then Tom Allen will be here
to dig into some of the desserts
here in the studio. See you shortly.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
APPLAUSE
Welcome back. I'm dissecting
Dessert Week with Kathy Burke,
Sophie Duker and Jools Holland.
Time now for our very own
sweet treat. It's Tom Allen!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, hello. Hi. Hello, everyone.
Hello, Tom. Hello, Jo.
What did you make of Dessert Week?
Dessert Week...
Mm, desserts! Maybe crepes suzette,
knickerbocker glory, Sussex...
...pond pudding? Mm...
LAUGHTER
Sounds so lovely! Oh, give me some.
And just like when you go
pond dipping with your school,
you pull out all
sorts of disgusting things -
this one had a whole lemon in it.
It's as if the inventor thought,
"I want this to taste like lemon,
"but I can't be bothered
juicing or zesting,
"so I'll just chuck the whole
thing in and hope for the best!"
It's like making a shepherd's pie
by just bunging a whole sheep
in a casserole dish and smearing it
with mashed potato.
Hermine didn't hide her feelings.
When cut into,
the filling should ooze out,
creating a lemony, syrupy pond.
Mmm, yeah.
LAUGHTER
I have so many questions
about this week,
like is Peter actually
a time-travelling Victorian child?
He wears shorts,
he knew what suet was,
he says things like "rinky-dink"
and "crackerjack".
And he has a rickets.
No, he doesn't.
I've never met the man.
Being from Edinburgh,
Peter has actually seen
a few of my Edinburgh shows.
I'd love to know what he thought.
Got a bit of a dip
in the middle.
It's actually all about
how you finish, Peter!
But the tension continued.
Laura stopped finding Dave's anxiety
so charming.
Has everyone else finished
apart from me? Yeah.
"Yeah.
"Yeah."
Watch out, Dave, or you might end up
with a dead fish on your cake!
And Prue's had it with
the director.
You want a punch?
So, no wonder,
with all this negative energy,
Marc didn't even seem that
bothered about going home.
I'm feeling...
surprisingly OK, actually.
"Uh, fine, yeah, whatever!
"It's week eight. I was going to
walk out early
"to beat the traffic anyway."
I mean, what was the real reason
Marc got sent home?
He was wearing the same shirt
as Paul.
And La Hollywood won't stand for it!
Still, it's nice to know M&S are
still shifting
their Blue Harbour range,
even in the pandemic.
It's getting very tense,
and I can't wait to see how
they all get on next week.
APPLAUSE
Thanks, Tom. Thank you, Jo.
Time now to look at the baking
that's been going on
in kitchens across the country.
Chris in Berkshire won't be able
to get together with her friend
Sandra this year
for their annual Christmas meal,
so she made her an illusion cake
of a Christmas dinner instead.
Ooh. That is incredible, isn't it?
Let's just see it carved.
Wow! Amazing.
Kathy, does that make
Christmas appealing?
Not really, no.
OK.
Now, the turkey is
made of lemon Madeira
and the whole thing
is glazed in vodka.
Oh, I've changed my mind!
LAUGHTER
Now, meanwhile, in London,
Lizzie went in at the deep end
for her mum Jane's birthday cake,
recreating their local lido
in Tooting
where they go swimming every day,
whatever the weather.
Oh. Ooh. That's lovely, isn't it?
Fantastic.
For her 60th birthday,
Tracey in Wales asked her husband
for a cake of their cockapoo Jaffa.
Aw, adorable.
Here's what Tracey was presented
with on her very special day.
LAUGHTER
Hm, Tracey's husband appears
to have made an orangutan.
LAUGHTER
We can actually see another photo
of Jaffa with the cake.
Yes, where she is so terrified of it
she's had to hide under the table.
Sarah in Bedfordshire made a cake
of pet Jack Russell Ida
for her daughter's 13th birthday.
Here's the real Ida.
Oh, look at her sweet,
delicate face.
Hopefully Sarah captured that.
LAUGHTER
Oh, dear.
Husband Phil swears it tasted better
than it looks, which,
frankly, can't have been hard.
Ellie and mum Michelle in Twickenham
decided to have a go
at Dave's steamed buns,
the ones that were
shaped like chicks.
Identical in size
and exquisitely decorated,
could Ellie and Michelle reach
the same high standard?
LAUGHTER
No.
Keep your pictures coming...
Details below.
OK, brace yourselves, studio bakers.
Tom's got his big whisk
and he's not afraid to use it.
Off you go, Tom.
Thanks, Jo.
Yes, I'm delighted to be here with
our special home baker contributors.
It's all been going on, hasn't it?
New president, second lockdown,
but we've got someone called Posey
who's made a cake
that looks like a potato!
Sorry, Krishnan Guru-Murthy,
I think the real news is
happening right here.
OK, first up, we have Georgia
and Freddie.
Where are you? There. OK.
Georgia, Georgia,
what have you made?
The leaning Tower of Pisa.
It does seem to be leaning a lot,
doesn't it, because you've got
a stick holding it up?
It's currently
undergoing reconstruction.
Why have you done this?
We went to Italy last year, and
it was one of our favourite things.
Oh, look at you, showing off
about trips abroad that
we could all once have!
And what is this horrible
monstrosity on the side?
Oh, that's you... clinging on.
That's me? And the fact that
it's leaning over does seem like
an implication on my lockdown
weight.
And, Freddie...
Hello. Hello. What a lovely shirt!
Thank you. You are welcome.
What have you brought?
I've brought our cat in cake form.
You have brought your cat
in cake form.
Freddie, have you baked before?
Not a cake.
You've not baked a cake.
What have you baked before? Bread.
So this is your first cake? Yes.
First-time cake baker, everybody!
APPLAUSE
Freddie, I'm so proud of you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Georgia and
Freddie. Thank you very much.
Posey and Andrew, where are you?
Posey and Andrew...
Posey. Hello.
Hello. Nice to see you.
Thank you. And? Andrew.
Nice to see you too. What is this?
So, I was inspired
because of Matt Lucas re-releasing
the Baked Potato Song...
Oh, yes... for our NHS.
Yes. And so, inside,
if I were to cut it open,
which I can if like... Mm.
..you'll find a rainbow.
Oh, that's lovely!
A rainbow for... nurses or gays?
Um... Gay nurses.
Gay nurses. Oh, specific.
Yes, absolutely.
Carb-loading gay nurses.
What a lovely tribute!
Don't get mentioned often enough.
Where are you from, by the way,
Posey?
I grew up in the States... The
States... as you may have heard.
I've never heard of it, I'm afraid.
Posey, please cut into
your delightful gay potato cake.
A gay-tato cake, if you will.
Oh, my goodness.
What do you think, Kathy?
KATHY: Yum.
Oh, look at that!
Oh, my goodness, it's
like slicing into a gay nurse.
LAUGHTER
That's the inspiration.
That was the inspiration.
If I was Dorothy,
I'd leap over it right now.
But I'm not. I'm just a friend.
Now...
LAUGHTER
Well done. And, Andrew, Andrew,
you've come in with Posey.
Are you connected?
We are married, yes.
You are married.
Andrew, how long have you been
married for? 22... years?
You said that with some curiosity.
I don't know. I've never met you
before.
How did you meet?
We met on the internet.
On the internet. 22 years ago?
Yes.
Slow meeting!
One word at a time, was it?
HE IMITATES DIAL-UP MODEM
BEEPS AND WHIRRING
Pretty much. "Fingers crossed
I'll meet my wife soon.
"Oh, someone's picked up the phone.
I guess it's not today."
Andrew, what pathetic cakes
have you brought?
Right, in our house, Tom,
we're not allowed to speak about
Christmas until after Halloween.
Quite right. So, now the embargo
has been lifted... Oh, yes!
..I have brought some mince pies.
Oh, that's lovely.
So, little mince pies.
Which is also my name on an internet
dating site. So, that's wonderful.
Andrew and Posey, lovely to see you
both. Thank you very much
and give it up for Andrew and Posey.
Aren't they gorgeous?
Where's Holly and Dmitry?
Where's Holly and Dmitry?
That's here, goodness.
OK, you must be Holly, Dmitry.
Hello, Holly, what have you brought?
Well, I've brought one of Paul
Hollywood's classic blue shirts.
That is a very Paul Hollywood Blue
Harbour from M&S blue shirt.
Well done, Holly.
But it's actually got
a bit of a surprise inside, so...
What could it be?
It's my favourite pattern of shirt
and also maybe one of Noel's
favourite patterns of shirt.
Which is?
Leopard print. Leopard print!
Oh, that's wonderful.
Would you like to show us that?
Yeah, yeah. A leopard-print cake.
I really hope so. Oh, my.
Let's have a look.
Are you excited on the panel to see
this? Oh, look at Kathy.
She's crying.
Oh, look! It's just like a leopard
print(!) Oh, that looks lovely.
Just, oh... I'll let you try it.
No, you try it, you try it.
You've tried all of our patience.
Nobody clap. Posey did...
But she's American.
They clap at anything.
And Dmitry? Hi.
Hello, what have you brought?
It's a giant peanut butter cup.
Oh, that's very clever.
It's Ed Kimber's recipe from the
first series of Bake Off. Who?
He was the first winner.
Oh, oh, yes, of course I remember...
Happy days. Yes.
And so you've been doing
a lot of baking, have you, recently?
Holly has. Have you, Holly?
I've been baking a lot.
Put on furlough, so... Oh, furlough,
oh, no, that's a shame.
Erm...
Well, thanks for bringing the mood
down.
We're just trying to get through it,
you know what I mean?
OK, well, thank you very much, Holly
and Dmitry!
Heidi and Paul, where's Heidi and
Paul? Right here! Heidi and Paul.
Heidi, I feel like
we should be in the mountains,
maybe with that lovely hairdo,
like Heidi did in the series.
Hi-de-hi!
Ho-de-ho. Correct. Is
that your name? Hi-de-hi. Ho-de-ho.
And Hi-de-hi, what have you brought?
I have brought my take on a medieval
subtlety. Hang on a second.
Tell us what this is.
For a medieval feast,
if you are particularly wealthy,
you may have had a sugar decoration
that could have been
something allegorical, something
slightly witty. Oh! So, my take...
Like myself.
So, I took an example from the
borders of a medieval manuscript,
recreated it in cake form,
but then adapted it so it reflects
the current day.
Has anybody understood
anything about this bake?
LAUGHTER
Well, it's right up my street,
actually. I'm a keen medievalist.
I love the jousting tent,
the nice medieval touch there.
So I'd like to say well done.
It's beautiful.
A medieval allegory is my favourite.
Oh, that's wonderful. What great
praise.
APPLAUSE
And Paul, what have you brought?
Well, mine's far lesser, but it's...
Is that the blood, perhaps? No.
Maybe from jousting. No.
It's in memory of my grandfather,
who came from Switzerland,
so it's the white Swiss cross
on a red background. Oh, I see.
Oh, that's wonderful.
And have you ever baked before?
Not really, no. Not really, no.
So, a "not really, no," sort of
first-time sort of baker, everyone.
APPLAUSE
Heidi and Paul, thank you so much,
thank you very much, thank you.
Next up, we have Sabrine and Zana.
Sabrina and Zana, where are you?
All the way over there.
Getting my steps up!
Sabrine? Zana. Zana. Hello.
You must be Sabrine. Sabrine.
Sabrine, what have you brought?
I've brought an interactive biscuit.
An interactive biscuit?
Who do you think you are,
Steve Jobs?!
I've always wondered what you'd
look like with hair,
so I made lots of biscuit wigs.
Oh, that's so kind.
Stick them on,
stick them on, come on,
we're not here for a long time,
we're here for a good time.
Am I right?
Oh, look at me there. Yeah.
There I am, Janet Street-Porter.
Or is it Noel Fielding?
I look beautiful. And...
I don't know what this is. This is
supposed to be blonde curly hair.
Generic blonde curly hair. Yeah.
Dolly Parton? Possibly. Oh, look.
Who wouldn't want a hair
transplant like that?
That's wonderful.
And actually, you could put the Noel
Fielding one on as a lovely
moustache.
Go on. That is... Oh, oh. I'm just
worried it's going to break.
Don't worry.
We're here to support you.
That looks...
That looks wonderful. Oh! Oh, no!
Oh, I felt it.
I felt it as well in my face.
Thank you, Sabrine and Zana.
Wonderful.
OK.
And now, I have the lovely job of
announcing this week's Star Baker.
And I'm delighted to
say that it is...
..Posey!
For such a noble gay nurse potato.
And as our Star Baker, we would
normally have got you a prize,
but the boring old government
said it wasn't essential shopping,
so I'm afraid you'll just have to
look at a picture of it instead.
Here's what you could have won.
Oh, it's a fitted carpet!
Perfect for pacing the walls
in lockdown. Oh, such a shame.
I've now got the awful
job of announcing who will be
leaving the studio
because everything about their bake,
from the idea, right through to the
execution was, I'm afraid,
an absolute fiasco.
And the judges have decided
the baker who will be leaving
the studio this week is...
..Sabrine with the biscuit,
cos you broke my face!
That's why, Sabrine. Get out.
APPLAUSE
And a huge thanks to
all of our studio bakers.
APPLAUSE
Thank you, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting
the latest baker to leave the tent.
He lives in Cornwall, you know.
It's Mark. Back shortly.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back.
I'm here with celebrity Bake Off
fans Kathy Burke, Sophie Duker
and Jools Holland, and it's time to
meet Bread Week's Star Baker
who brought Bowie to the
Bake Off tent.
It's Marc!
Hi, Marc! Hello!
Hello, please have a seat.
Welcome to An Extra Slice, Marc.
Delighted to have you with us.
How did it feel to make it all
the way to quarterfinal week?
Cos it's a massive achievement.
How did that feel?
Well, I never even expected
to get that far.
I never even expected to get on the
show,
never mind get to the quarterfinals,
so, yeah, it was amazing.
Absolutely amazing.
And, actually, you only started
baking cakes a year ago.
I did, yeah,
and I've been baking bread for about
four years quite seriously,
and it was about this time last year
that my daughter, Rosie,
convinced me to apply.
And I opened up the application form
and there was this list of all these
different cakes and tarts
and pastries that you need to
demonstrate that you've made,
so that was the start of it,
so, yeah, less than a year that I've
been baking cakes and stuff.
Now, your daughters,
Rosie and Jasmine,
were with you in the Bake Off
tent bubble, weren't they?
They were, yeah. And your dog...
And my dog, Hamish.
..was with you in the Bake Off
bubble. He was.
Oh, right, well, let's have a look
at him.
We've got a picture of him, I think.
Oh, yeah, there he is.
LAUGHTER
Now, that was, of course,
your brilliant kawaii cake tribute
to him.
Here is the real Hamish.
ALL: Aww.
He's delicious. What make is he?
He's a rather naughty
border terrier.
Incredibly naughty border terrier.
Right, OK.
Did he behave himself in the tent?
No, not at all. No. So...
They had a pen, dog town, where
they kept all the dogs that
came on the set.
What, were there lots, then?
Probably about four, four dogs.
Four or five dogs, yeah. Oh, OK.
So this was designed to contain the
dogs, but Hamish managed to escape
every single time and made it into
the practice tents and caused havoc.
Does he eat things he shouldn't have
done? Of course he does, yeah.
Yeah. It's acceptable if you're a
dog, isn't it?
It's not if you're a person
and I can vouch for that.
Now, something else not many people
will know about you, Marc,
is that you live in Cornwall. I do.
LAUGHTER
You didn't mention it much on
the show. No, not at all.
No, no. Let's have a look.
So I'm doing a Cornish-themed soda
bread.
So I'm doing a Cornish kelp,
Cornish cheese, Cornish sea salt
and Cornish cream.
I'm using Cornish Kern.
It's based on the Cornish Yarg,
so it's going to be a
Cornish-inspired Cornish quiche.
So fish that, you know, could be
caught from Cornwall.
Paul and Prue would like you each
to make your version
of the Cornish national dish,
the pasty.
Why did they have to say it's
the Cornish national dish?
Just to give me more pressure?
HE SIGHS
Technically, though, I'm from up
north. Bingo.
Now, what do you actually
love about living in Cornwall?
What do I love about living
in Cornwall?
Well, it's by the sea, of course,
and the coast is just amazing.
It's very rugged, isn't it?
It's very rugged and very wild
and very windy and stormy.
I think going to the beach on a wild
winter's day is a great experience.
Fantastic.
For your Dessert Week challenge,
you had to make 12 mini cheesecakes.
Yes. And the clue was in the brief,
but you went a bit rogue.
Let's have a look.
They're not canape-size. OK.
I would have done it slightly
bigger than the apricot.
That's too big and too thin. Yep.
Now, just to get a clearer idea
of the size of your cheesecakes,
here they are next to the
Eden Project.
LAUGHTER
That wasn't the first time
you super-sized a bake,
I seem to remember.
Back in Japanese Week, you surprised
yourself with your big buns.
Remember that? I certainly did.
Good God!
LAUGHTER
You weren't expecting...?
No, not quite that big, no. No.
They were massive.
Well, in Pastry Week,
Paul tested your Cornish credentials
when he asked how many pleats.. Hm.
..were on your fish pasties.
Let's just remind ourselves.
You're lacking on the number of
pleats. How many should there be?
I think it's 20 or 21.
I was getting close.
Yeah, I think you're about seven,
eight short. Yeah. Yeah.
So seven or eight pleats
short of a pasty.
Yeah, but then he called them
pleats,
and they should be crimps, shouldn't
they?
Paul is very ignorant about baking.
LAUGHTER
Have you found out since what the
definitive number is?
Yeah, I gather there should be about
21. Right.
But then I went to Padstow last
week and I bought a pasty
and there was only 17, so...
That's an outrage! It is an outrage.
Did you take it back? I was going
to, but then... Fair enough.
Bread Week was an absolute triumph
for you when you won Star Baker.
Your Cornish soda breads were
delicious.
Also, you came second in the
rainbow bagel... thing. Thing.
LAUGHTER
Was that easy to do?
It was a bit fiddly. It was actually
quite good fun to do.
I mean, I wouldn't make one again. I
don't really... No... see the point
of putting all the colours in there,
but it was good fun to make.
And your dharma wheel show stopper,
that ticked all the boxes as well.
It did, yeah.
It was a good week for me, that one.
Cos bread's your thing, obviously.
Yeah, bread's the thing I'm more
confident, so, yeah.
Now, we have to discuss
one of the most memorable bakes
seen in the tent this year.
Let's remind ourselves, everyone.
One of the most wonderful
things about David Bowie is
the shape of his face,
it's so beautiful...
It is beautiful... and so slim.
It's quite slender.
MUSIC: Ziggy Stardust
by David Bowie
He had a very strong jaw line,
didn't he? Yes, he did, didn't he?
Very strong jaw line.
So I'm going to try and work on that
a little bit.
I'm trying to get his jawline
cos he's got a really kind of
distinctive face, doesn't he?
Yeah. Cheekbones.
Cheekbone Central.
Erm...
LAUGHTER
Oh, Marc, I really felt for you.
I mean, in hindsight, would you have
made any ch-ch-ch-changes to that?
What would you have done?
I think I probably should have
made it a bit smaller
and probably had supports in there,
maybe.
It's, like, such a huge amount of
pressure to come up with. Yeah.
I know you practised it
cos we've got a picture here of a
more successful attempt.
I mean, look at that,
that's incredible.
That's what I was hoping for.
I think, of course, you practice at
home and I did it over two days.
I had the cakes in the fridge
overnight and you take them out
and they're nice and cool
and your buttercream's nice
and cool and it all goes
together quite nicely.
But in the tent, of course,
you can't get things cool that quick
and I had no choice
but to start building it
and then it started cracking
and the buttercream started seeping
out, then it started drooping...
Well, there's massive pressure of
time, isn't there? Yeah.
And I think you never get long
enough, like you say,
to cool things down.
Jools, having met David Bowie a few
times over the years,
what did you think of Marc's
cake tribute?
Well, I thought
it was absolutely wonderful.
I could see where it was coming
from.
The earlier versions, they look
wonderful,
but I thought it was a great
tribute.
I think David would have loved it.
Little-known fact - he was a great
cake man.
We always had tea and cakes
when he came on the show.
Curiously enough, when Squeeze first
appeared on Top Of The Pops,
so inspired by that same image,
when they said,
"Do you want any make-up?" -
meaning, like, just a bit of powder
or something - I said,
"Yeah, I want to look like David...
"Can you do that?"
And so they did that on my face.
It took like an hour or something.
Yeah.
And then when they filmed us,
all they showed of me was a
close-up of my hands.
LAUGHTER
It was a complete waste of time.
But I saw that cake and all
the memories came flooding back.
I thought it was brilliant,
absolutely brilliant.
Oh, that's good.
Now, in Chocolate Week, you paid
tribute to your daughters with your
white chocolate and raspberry
celebration cake,
which was also a triumph.
What did Rosie and Jasmine have to
say about their cake tribute?
Were they impressed?
Yeah, they were pretty impressed.
They were quite proud, I think.
They wouldn't rather have had
the cost of the ingredients in cash?
Yeah, probably. If I'm honest, yes.
LAUGHTER
That's what my daughters are like.
Stay with us, Marc, because we're
going to have a musical interlude.
Now, Jools, would you please take
your seat at the Extra Slice piano?
Cos it's time for the
Bake Off Blues.
Now, Jools, you are a musical
genius, as we know. Pff, steady!
Thank you.
LAUGHTER
So we've got some clips, right,
that we're going to show you
and you're going to play
the piano along to them. OK.
Now, back in '80s Week,
the tent sweltered in a heatwave
so how would that sound to you,
Jools? Well, I think...
Let me try and get a bit of
sweaty music if I can.
Something a bit steamy.
SULTRY BLUES PIANO
Ahh. Ahh.
Poor Lottie. I know, I know.
Now let's hear you accompany, if you
will,
one of the most dramatic
scenes in the tent this series.
It's always, I think, the joy of the
people who do music for films,
doing something dramatic.
Yeah. Yeah.
So here comes some drama. OK, then.
SLOW, DRAMATIC PIANO
Oh!
Go away! Ugh!
SHE GASPS
PIANO SPEEDS UP
I'm so sorry.
Oh, my God.
Finally, what about when the bakers
have to leave the tent?
It's very sad. The blues, I think,
comes into it, really doesn't it?
You know, cos it's goodbye
and there's going to be tears, so...
I'm afraid to say the baker going
home this week is...
SOMBRE BLUES PIANO
..Mak.
I was expecting that.
Thank you very much.
Rowan.
These boots are made for walking.
Mark L.
Oh!
HE SNIFFS
I'm going to miss you all.
I'm so sorry - it's Marc.
That was absolutely brilliant.
Thank you very much, Jools Holland.
A pleasure.
OK, now, Tom's on his way with
the sweet trolley.
We'll be back in a bit.
APPLAUSE
Welcome back to the final
part of the show.
Marc is here alongside
with Kathy, Sophie and Jools,
and we've just got time
for another peek into your kitchens
at home.
Mandy baked a cake for her
mother-in-law Jackie's birthday
with some help from daughter Amber.
Jackie spends hours carefully
tending to her garden in Derbyshire,
so Mandy decided to recreate the
whole thing in sponge and fondant.
Looks wonderful.
Well done, Mandy and Amber,
that's brilliant.
We've got a very exciting bake next
which was sent in
by a celebrity. Ooh!
Panel, want to have a guess
who it's from?
Boris Johnson,
he's been doing naff-all else.
LAUGHTER
Absolutely, but let's have a look.
It's Brian Conley, of course.
Lovely to see you, Brian.
Now, Greta in London tried
making a chocolate cake
based on a simple recipe
she found online.
This is how the recipe said
the cake should look,
light, fluffy and with a great,
spongy texture.
And this is what Greta
extracted from the oven.
I'd still eat it, though.
Thanks to everyone who
sent their pictures in this week.
Keep them coming,
details at the bottom of the screen.
OK, I'm delighted
it's time to welcome Tom back
with the dessert week trolley.
Come on, Tom.
APPLAUSE
So many gateaux, Viennetta,
maybe some fruit.
Actually, my first job
was pushing a dessert trolley
around a golf club in Bromley.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Oh, hello, Marc! Hello, Tom.
So, tell me, what will you take
away from your time in the tent?
What will I take away?
Well, I made some great friends,
they'll be friends for life.
But I think for me, it was the fact
that I could take my two
daughters with me
so they could
share the whole experience.
The fact that all three of us
have shared that experience
is quite special.
Oh, Marc, that's lovely...
..but what will I be taking away
from your time in the tent?
Marc,
maybe we don't know you at all.
It turns out Marc's just been
wearing someone else's glasses
to seem more interesting.
Gosh, I can't see a thing out of
those.
Oh, Marc, you don't need glasses,
you'd still look like an
adorable woodland owl without them.
More than that, we've loved
the calm sense of Zen and
mindfulness you brought to the tent.
You've shown us that baking is
not just about the things we make,
but also the journey
to the kitchen as well.
Marc, it's dessert week and now
it's time for you to desert us
and return back to your home in,
where was it again? I forget.
Cornwall. Where? Cornwall.
Corn... Cornwall. Corn... wall.
I see. Never heard of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Marc!
APPLAUSE
OK, Tom. Hopefully,
there's a cake under there
if you could do the big reveal?
Of course.
DRUM ROLL
Ah! Thank you.
There you are, Marc, with your
Hamish Kawaii cake,
chocolate celebration cake
and Star Baker-winning Dharma bread.
Let's give Marc a great
British send-off, everyone.
APPLAUSE
Now, Marc, let's just take a look
back at your time on Bake Off.
Bing, bing, bing, bing.
Mmm. Good God. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
If Fanny Cradock was going to do
a Battenberg, that'd be it.
Is that a compliment?
Aaagh! I love that. Really?
Mmm, it's a nice loaf.
Very surprising, very original
and very delicious. Brilliant.
Um... That's a load of rubbish,
isn't it?
It looks brilliant.
You've done an amazing job.
Slippery little buggers.
It's really neat.
It's a great-looking cake.
Marc, I think you've done a
fantastic job.
Very professional, you'd expect
to see that in a bakery, for sure.
Whoa! That's hot.
Considering that that's an ice
cream cake, it's quite impressive.
Star Baker is... Marc E.
We have a wibble-wobble.
HE LAUGHS
Yikes!
APPLAUSE
I hope you enjoyed that, Marc.
You've been a brilliant part of
this year's Great British Bake Off.
That's it for this week.
Before Jools plays us out,
a big thank you to Tom, Marc,
all our studio bakers
and to our celebrity panel,
Kathy Burke, Sophie Duker,
Jools Holland.
We'll be back at our regular time
next week, Friday at eight.
It's the semi-final and the Bakers
face patisserie.
Goodbye! Take it away, Jools.
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