Louise left on a very sad note, jokes aside I felt really bad seeing what happened to her showstopper. Her wedding next year and she tried to construct the church she is getting married in and I hope its not a bad omen that the building was not holding up and kept collapsing
I almost wish she had constructed something else and even if it fell and wasn't holding up and she left at least it wasn't to do with her marriage/upcoming nuptials.
For the showstopper I liked Candice's pub with all the intricate detailing outside and as well as everything inside she thought about and it came off, everyone from Mary and Paul incl. thought she had taken on too much of a challenge but she proved them wrong they had to give her star baker for proving them wrong for doubting her. I like her she's a look alike to the actress that played Queen Margaery (Game of thrones) and Anne Boleyn (The Tudors) the actress's name is Natalie Dormer (just looked her up...
) now I know who she looks like
Also I felt Kate the one that bakes things from her farm or garden most of the time is coming into her own and she seems to be up there with the best, although I noticed she gave a smug look to others whose bakes didn't come out well like hers. I don't know if that's only editing, others have mentioned it on here but maybe its just the way it was edited to show her with that look. But she also did a lot for her show stopper 3 types of gingerbread and the design was amazing it didn't collapse I don't know how she managed to glue it together in the end because during construction the trees kept collapsing, whatever glue she used worked in the end, although apparently the taste of ginger bread wasn't coming through on all three gingerbread flavors she made so that's what let her down from getting star baker.
Andrew was equally ambitious and his construction how he was putting everything together was very organised, really he put his engineering career to good work there...lol
Well done to him!
The others were average, and Val just scrapped through, I know she is not as good as everyone else but she's really a good watch, I wish they could allow her to stay, but then again its a competition and if she isn't good next week and no-one else fails then she will have to leave.
By the way forgot to mention the Viennese whirl biscuits in the technical is from Mary Berry's recipe book and Benjamina, Kate and Selasi all said they had attempted them prior to the competion just because they know that Mary's technical challenges come from her recipe books that she's published, all though Paul does set technical challenges too I'm not sure if he has any recipe books out but this is a way the bakers can try everything before hand from Mary Berry's books and then ace the technical challenges.
That's how Kate and Benjamina decided to freeze the piped biscuits before putting in the oven to keep them firm and upright and they didn't collapse with the butter in the oven like everyone else. Well I think Jane who also was in the top 3 equally practiced from those books even though they didn't show her say like the other 3, but Selasi despite practicing he said he hoped he could remember how the recipe went exactly and he forgot the freezing element, did you hear Mary in the tent as they had the Viennese whirls with tea that there need to freeze the dough first prior to baking so she even knew by not incl. that information in the sketchy recipe she gave them to work with in the technical that's where most of them would become unstuck.
Thoroughly enjoying the series so far, although sad for Louise and the church wedding collapse.
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