The Great British Bake Off had everything you would want from a Dessert Week, covering the gamut from the classic retro blancmange to a magic Showstopper that saw one part of the pudding disappear. Hey presto.
It also had a few aspects we didn’t want and even more no-one expected.
Just when you felt we’d seen it all on GBBO Dessert Week demented delights included ‘a galaxy-themed chocolate ball filled with space turtles’ and ‘meringues that make you think of dreams - like clouds.’
Top notch: The Great British Bake Off had everything you would want from a Dessert Week, covering the gamut from the classic retro blancmange to a magic Showstopper that saw one part of the pudding disappear. Hey presto
When one opera cake presented to Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood for judging was dressed in a flowing full-sized pink tutu, as was the contestant who’d baked it (Jon).
On the one hand, it was a surprise and a relief that Paul Hollywood resisted the urge to compliment Ruby on her ‘perfect wobble’ the way he did Rahul (for his blancmange).
On the downside, Prue Leith’s continued dislike of Ruby was quite unseemly.
Out of this world: Just when you felt we’d seen it all on GBBO Dessert Week demented delights included ‘a galaxy-themed chocolate ball filled with space turtles’ and ‘meringues that make you think of dreams - like clouds'
Hitting all the right notes: When one opera cake presented to Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood for judging was dressed in a flowing full-sized pink tutu, as was the contestant who’d baked it (Jon)
‘I am basically doing a golden egg sitting inside a birds nest,’ Ruby told the judges about her Showstopper. ‘Inside you’ll have a sweet short-crust pastry base, pistachio crumb, white chocolate coconut ganache and a passion fruit curd with a mango meringue on top.’
‘So quite a complicated little tart...’ muttered Prue, with unnecessary harshness. (Ruby wasn’t that bad.)
Admittedly the fact Ruby had elected to make the task even harder (by using white chocolate instead of dark) could have been considered irritating/attention-seeking.
Here we go (again): It was a surprise and a relief that Paul Hollywood resisted the urge to compliment Ruby on her ‘perfect wobble’ the way he did Rahul (for his blancmange)
After all, Paul Hollywood fiendishly: ‘what we’re asking for is the most delicious dessert inside a chocolate globe. When you pour the sauce on top, you want the chocolate to melt away to reveal the perfect dessert within.’
This would prove to look more like a David Copperfield trick involving a CGI of a bowling ball that melted than cooking.
‘They didn’t want much,’ you thought and, as if to prove it, Hollywood added that the flavours of the dessert, the chocolate globe, and the sauce ‘all had to ‘blend together well too.’
Recurring theme: On the downside, Prue Leith’s continued dislike of Ruby was quite unseemly
What was wrong with just having Viennetta for pudding?
The recipes the various Bakers had planned sounded both delicious and architecturally impossible.
Dan’s globe was ‘a giant peach-shaped dark chocolate sphere with alternating layers of peach mousse, hazelnut biscuits and honey & vanilla poached peaches.’
Jon topped this with an eleven-layered opera cake and Rahul went even further using TWO balloons to craft an ornate Kalash – ‘a Hindu symbol of abundance said to contain the elixir of life’ - in this case a seven-layered coffee and chocolate opera cake.’
Stunning: The recipes the various Bakers had planned sounded both delicious and architecturally impossible. Dan’s globe was ‘a giant peach-shaped dark chocolate sphere with alternating layers of peach mousse
The ‘galaxy-themed chocolate ball filled with space turtles’ was Kim-Joy’s (obviously).
‘Turtles? Because...’ wondered Prue.
‘Because why not?!’ beamed Kim-Joy, which you suspect was her answer to most things.
The beauty of this Showstopper (and the agony for the Bakers) was the tension as they poured on the sauce – like the chocolate equivalent of a champagne fountain - and waited to see if the exterior would melt away either magically, gracefully, or not remotely.
In the mix: Rahul went even further using TWO balloons to craft an ornate Kalash – ‘a Hindu symbol of abundance said to contain the elixir of life'
... in this case a seven-layered coffee and chocolate opera cake'
Rahul had not quite made enough sauce, prompting Hollywood to start hacking away at the Kalash with a huge carving knife, which looked decidedly sacrilegious.
Briony’s globe had collapsed into a white chocolate puddle or an albino stingray.
‘What’s she’s spent three hours doing is make a tart!’ growled Paul.
Prue matched him for cattiness when Ruby presented her sphere, which had shattered.
‘Do you understand the word ‘sphere’?’ sneered Prue elegantly. Miaow!
Getting involved: Bryony opted for an ambitious blood orange and sticky toffee sphere
... but her globe collapsed into a white chocolate puddle or an albino stingray
Unimpressed: ‘What’s she’s spent three hours doing is make a tart!’ growled Paul
‘What happened was it cracked so I had to do a bit of a jigsaw…’ began Ruby haplessly, failing to realise that Prue wasn’t interested.
‘It’s quite sickly,’ she sighed. Thanks Prue. You’re all heart.
It seemed churlish to suggest that when Kim-Joy’s swirling, starry, globe oozed away to reveal the turtles stacked up inside (without shells) that they looked more like baby space hedgehogs.
Miaw: Prue matched him for cattiness when Ruby presented her sphere, which had shattered
Futile: ‘What happened was it cracked so I had to do a bit of a jigsaw…’ began Ruby haplessly, failing to realise that Prue wasn’t interested
‘Those turtles are amazing!’ gasped Prue, changing her tune.
They were ‘delicious’ to eat too, added Paul callously.
Karen’s creation concealed a raspberry liqueur chocolate brownie layered with mascarpone and raspberry syllabub.
‘Absolutely delicious! Hugely decadent!’ cooed Prue, an endorsement that was better than a hundred Paul Hollywood handshakes.
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Main photo article The Great British Bake Off had everything you would want from a Dessert Week, covering the gamut from the classic retro blancmange to a magic Showstopper that saw one part of the pudding disappear. Hey presto.
It also had a few aspects we didn’t want and even more no-one expected.
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