The Great British Bake Off - An Extra Slice (2014) s06e01 Episode Script
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The Great British Bake Off is back.
Which means we're back too, and we can't wait to get started.
Can we, Tom? Where's Tom? BAND PLAYS: Tequila by The Champs Hey! Whoo! Whaa! Tequila? LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Time for an Extra Slice! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello and welcome to a brand-new series, following all the highs and lows of the Great British Bake Off.
All our favourite bits are back, including the pictures you've sent us of your baking at home.
Luke from Basingstoke has done just that.
Aiming to make this .
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he actually made this Can't wait for more of those.
Plus Tom Allen will be here to take a closer look at the home baking you've brought along.
And, as we know, he never has anything but praise to offer.
So let's have a first glimpse of your Cake Week efforts.
Show us your bakes! CHEERING So, to mark Bake Off's tenth anniversary, there are 13 bakers this year.
Honestly, there are so many of them, they had problems fitting them all into the tent.
Here they are waiting to be judged in the Technical.
And if we look at the wider shot See what I mean? I'm sure they were all very much looking forward to once again hearing Noel and Sandi utter those unforgettable words.
On your marks Oh, get set.
Bake! LAUGHING: Forgot that one bit.
It's not every year we get a baker who's a Spanish, Halloween-obsessed, former professional poker-playing goth who once lived in Las Vegas with a family of Mormons.
And Paul soon had a nickname for Helena.
Right, fruitcake, what have you decided to do? Henry isn't just a talented baker, he can play the church organ and sing as well.
But he's yet to pass a basic proficiency test in how to sit on a stool.
Well, it's not easy, is it? So 13 bakers entered the tent, with proving 13 unlucky for some.
And by "some", I mean Dan.
AUDIENCE: Aww.
But we haven't seen the last of that tattoo and topknot, as Dan will be here later in the show.
CHEERING OK, let's meet our trio of celebrity Bake Off fans.
Here to tell us what they thought of the new batch of bakers, will you please welcome Stephen Mangan CHEERING .
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Scarlett Moffatt CHEERING .
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and Frank Skinner! CHEERING Hello, hello.
Hello.
So how excited are you to have Bake off back? Stephen? Excited.
This is such a warm show, and it's nice to meet those 13 bakers and to realise this country is full of really nice people.
Cos the news is full of relentlessly horrible people! So it's such a joy to see them, yeah.
Do you know what? Like, I can't believe that it's been ten years that it's been on.
I feel like I've, like, grown up with it.
I honestly care about some of these people more than my own family members by the end of it, cos you get really drawn in, don't you? Frank, what are you hoping to see in this series? Um I wish they would have a lemon meringue section.
Have they done that yet? I used to be a runner for, umChrissie Hynde.
Did you? And she used to send me out for cake.
And, as I left the door, she always used to say, "Don't get meringue.
" Don't get me-ringue LAUGHTER AND GROANING I've known crowds who would have got that without me having to sing it.
You're on tour at the moment, aren't you? I am.
Do you find yourself eating more cakes and biscuits in your dressing room? People do send me cakes on occasion, into the dressing room.
Do they? Could you redirect them in my direction? But, you know, they always You must have heard this saying in show business, "Never eat fan food.
" Yes, I have heard that.
Cos somebody might be trying to kill me.
Can you not just get someone to try it first, before you? That seems That seems a bit unfair.
Yeah.
Also, that could be quite a high turnover of staff.
Although, Stephen, do you like a chocolate finger while you're waiting in the wings? I never say no to a chocolate finger.
Never.
So, with a baker's dozen added to the mix, let's remind ourselves what happened in Cake Week.
13 fresh bakers took on the tent What?! It's just insane.
My belly's in knots.
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and Cake Week got off to a gentle start It's happened again.
What a disaster.
D'oh! .
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with a seemingly simple fruitcake Signature.
Can't say there's no fruit in there.
Ah! That's raw.
LAUGHING: Oh, my God.
Before Prue's devilish angel cake slices I think that's pretty cruel.
You like a bit of cruelty, though.
I do, yeah.
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put feathering finesse to the test.
It's pretty awful.
Thank you.
HE LAUGHS Childhood dreams came true Hee-hee! .
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for some CLIPPERS CLICK Oh, my God.
Argh! .
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in the fantasy birthday cake Showstopper.
I think it's wonderful.
It's faultless, actually.
But it was a nightmare for Dan, who left the tent.
While Michelle was crowned Star Baker.
So the very first Signature Challenge was to make a beautifully-decorated fruitcake.
In the past, people believed that if you put a fruitcake under your pillow, you'd dream about your future partner.
And if you found that the lump in your bed was annoying and stopped you getting to sleep, you were probably already married.
Scarlett, you a fan of the fruitcake? Yeah, I am.
I do I wouldn't normally put those two words together, but I do like eating fruitcake.
But the thing that got me is And it got me a little bit upset.
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is that everyone had family recipes.
They were like, "This is my grandma's, this has been passed down.
" Like, if I had to make something that was passed down Like, at my nanny's, we used to just eat digestive biscuits with a bit of butter on and sugar.
I couldn't go in and say, "This is a family recipe," could I, and stick it all on? I prefer that to be fruitcake, to be honest with you.
Yeah.
When I went to my auntie Doreen's, she used to do Smarties in custard.
Scotch eggs with chocolate spread.
Ugh! AUDIENCE GROANS That's lovely.
No, no, no.
I like fries in strawberry milkshake.
Stephen's looking suicidal there.
Honestly, Scotch eggs dipped in chocolate spread Stop saying that! It's beautiful.
So there you are, family recipes.
OK, well, as the challenge got under way, Paul put the bakers at their ease with a bit of friendly chitchat.
SHE MOUTHS Really hard this year.
I know, he does psych people out.
He does.
Henry's cake featured an ambitious design of piped chocolate trees and an extremely delicate house made of royal icing.
Noel had a question for Henry.
I just need to get this on top of the cake now.
How you going to do it? Um Just Just pick it up? Just pick it up.
Well, they say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do.
Let's see how Henry got on.
TENSE MUSIC PLAYS Oh AUDIENCE: Oh! Oh .
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balls.
I mean, I am not a shrieker, but I shrieked when that happened.
Did you? Yeah, that was awful, cos it was so delicately made.
It was beautifully made.
But he dealt with it so calmly, didn't he? If he'd have been as old as me, he could have put it on the cake and said it represented the wrecking of the Blue Peter garden.
Even though he's 20, I mean, what an old soul he is.
It's like he's been teleported here from 1695.
OK, onto David, who had a lovely surprise for Prue when she asked him about his fruitcake.
My fruitcake has no fat.
AIRHORN BLARES GLASS SHATTERS For his healthy fruit cake mix, David swapped fat for carrot and squash and added dried prunes and figs.
The bake went down well with the judges - that would be the prunes.
In fact, Paul said it was almost perfect.
Scarlett, what did you make of David's decision to kick off with a health-conscious cake? I mean .
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a healthy cake's a vegetable, innit? So it's not a cake, is it? It is really, yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely right.
You know my mum Can I tell you, my mum used to work in a cake factory, and they to give her stuff.
They wouldn't give her cakes, but she would come home with a plastic bag over her shoulder and open it - it would just be icing.
And we would all sit round it AUDIENCE GROANS I mean, the marzipan nights were awful, but then the icing And really a giant bag of icing for the whole family.
Like a sort of cardiac arrest Santa.
Now, the bit of the show that stood out for me was that footage of Rosie the vet combining her two loves of animals and baking.
Here's a reminder.
SANDI: She proves dough in the warmth of her pet python Minnie's vivarium.
Perfect temperature.
Stephen, would, um? Would you ever put dough that close to your python to get it to rise? I mean, why have a python for starters? What was that other thing crawling around? Was that an iguana? I'm not good on lizards.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bearded dragon.
Really? Bearded dragon.
Oh, right.
That's what my husband calls me occasionally.
Anyway For her Signature, Rosie baked a spicy chai tea loaf.
Here she is giving Prue a bit more detail.
Well, you see, I didn't want to do really fancy icing on it, cos it is a tea loaf.
You don't have a decorated tea loaf, that's not really a thing.
So I went for flavour - I'm doing a French buttercream and a strawberry and mango jam to serve it with.
There'll be a bit on the cake, with a bit of candied peel, just to make it look a bit nicer.
But it's mostly on the side.
You'd have a slice, spread your butter, but it's French buttercream instead of butter, so it's butter but better.
AIRHORN BLARES GLASS SHATTERS "Butter but better.
" Absolutely.
Now, the bakers were eager to know what their first Technical Challenge would be.
Prue set them the task of creating six identical angel cake slices.
It's fair to say Michael's decorative feathering wasn't the best.
Good.
Getting worse.
Worse, worse, worse, bad.
But the reason may lie in what he kept doing in the Signature.
Ow! I need a plaster from somebody.
My mum texted at five this morning, saying, "Be calm, be slow, be confident.
" It's going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
I just Ow! My God.
I've done it again.
I'm so sorry.
This has to be the last one.
I don't have many left.
By the time he got to feathering his angel cake slices, no wonder his decoration wasn't too precise.
Ooh Er Oh! Urgh It's going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
I just Ow! My God.
Oh, no! I've done it again.
I'm so sorry.
Argh! Michael, he's obviously a good baker.
I worry, on a programme that lasts for ten weeks, if there's going to be any of him left by week ten, if he keeps slicing bits of himself off.
I'm worried that Helena will be driven crazy by the smell of blood.
It's not a good You shouldn't put them together, should you? .
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and go for his throat one week.
Well, shall we move on to Helena? Because she was very critical of her own genoise.
Um, I think it looks the way it's supposed to.
I doubt very much it tastes the way it's supposed to.
I think if it fell on the floor, it would bounce right back.
Come on, Helena, think positive.
I'm sure that's the last thing Paul will say.
It's like rubber.
If I drop that on the floor, it will bounce up and hit me in the face.
Jamie came last, having never really got his head round the angel cake Technical.
What was the point of making them when you can get them at the corner shop for 50p? I know that he's not the greatest at baking, and he forgot to put his eggs in, which was a vital part of it and stuff, but when you look at him, I feel like He looks like he could be on Love Island, rather than Bake Off, doesn't he? And I think that's wonderful.
I think I sound like I'm old, but get the young people cooking! If he was in Love Island, do you think you'd forget to put his eggs in? So, to round off the Technical, here's a bit of unseen footage where Henry speaks for all the bakers.
Angel slices can sod off.
For their Showstopper, the bakers had to create the birthday cake they dreamed of as a child.
Now, we must mention David's fantastic snakey cakey birthday Showstopper.
The judges loved everything about it, from the incredible detail to the chocolate and citrus flavours.
Were you impressed by David's snake, Scarlett? I loved his snake.
It was actually my favourite.
It was fantastic.
I've got three boys, they would love a cake like that.
Would they? Especially the gory eating-the-infant-baby cake the unbornsnakelets, whatever they're called.
Raw from the egg.
But it had a bit of You know, it was exciting.
It was exciting.
It reminded me of when I had a tapeworm.
Let's move on.
We have our first Star Baker of the series.
Huge congratulations to Carmarthen-born Michelle, who put a Welsh twist on two of her bakes.
In the signature, she produced her family's take on a bara brith before wowing the judges with her Ty Tylwyth Teg Showstopper.
Michelle couldn't wait to phone her son so she could share her joy.
Alf? Hello? Guess what.
What? I had Star Baker this week.
What's that mean? Coming up, a peek into kitchens around Britain and beyond, as we take a look at your home baking.
Be warned, it's not always pretty.
And Tom Allen will be terrorising our audience bakers.
Back in a bit.
CHEERING Welcome back to a brand-new series, where I'm joined by celebrity Bake Off fans Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffat and Stephen Mangan, who can't wait to meet the first baker to leave the tent - although they'll have to, because that's not till later in the show.
Right, brace yourselves - it's time to meet Bake Off's biggest fan.
Will you please welcome Tom Allen? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE MARIACHI BAND PLAYS Thank you, that's enough.
You can go now, you can go.
You can go.
Muchas gracias, senores.
Gracias.
Si.
Hello, Jo.
I brought you this.
Everybody's talking about how it's Bake Off's ten-year anniversary - well, it's Extra Slice's six-year anniversary, so, congratulations! I made you a cake! It took me a lot of time.
I was worried about how it would turn out - but I think, actually, we can all agree, I think it was worth all my effort.
AUDIENCE: Aww! APPLAUSE Hi, Rahul! How are you doing? I'm OK, how are you? Very good, thank you.
I just came here to find out, did you like the cake I made for you? Rahul, I told you to stay in the kitchen! Sorry What are you doing out here?! Get out, get out! You shouldn't be here! Sorry! So sorry, everybody.
I knew that wasn't yours.
It was a good gag, wasn't it? It was a good gag.
Lasted a bit too long.
Right, back to the tent, then.
Sorry.
Yes? Back to the tent.
Back to the tent! Well, they say I'm camp.
It is so lovely to be back, Jo, and, first things first, let's get the cakes out of the way, because week one, nobody cares about the cake, do they? I mean, fruitcake? No, thanks, Grandma.
The thing we want to know about is the bakers - and, as we saw, there were over 8,000 of them, and as they all walked into the crecheer, I mean the tent .
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we realised just how young they were, and, for their Showstopper Challenge, they were asked to complete a children's birthday cake, or, as most of them would call it, a birthday cake.
Because most of them are children - and what better way, as well, to get to know the bakers then by looking at their back story VTs? We started with Rosie, the intriguing vet.
I think baking and being a vet do complement each other.
You've got lots of needles and syringes, catheters, bits and bobs.
LAUGHTER Rosie, what the hell are you talking about? When was the last time you had to cathetise a cake? Then - then we met spooky Helena, the Spanish Goth, who did seem to have a bit of a meltdown once things went over to the dark side.
It's crystallised the caramel.
What a disaster.
I've never had a problem with caramel.
Helena, you're supposed to be embracing the chaos if you're in the league with our dark lord Satan - not having a meltdown because your bat wings didn't crystallise.
Then we met David.
David is a fitness fanatic.
There's always one.
How does he like to keep fit? Is it through CrossFit? Is it through marathons? Is it through spin classes? Let's have a look.
Oh, it's just through two bounces on a trampoline, is it? OK, fine.
Well, David, I had a go on a pub bouncy castle the other weekend, and I don't go around telling people I'm Iron Man.
Then there was the one who was so desperate to distinguish himself that he chopped off his hands .
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and not to be shown up, of course, Paul continued his commitment to wearing moody winter coats by wearing a new moody winter coat.
Oh, Paul, it's so sexy - but why are you wearing a coat in the middle of summer, Paul? Did you buy it at the end of the sales and think, "I'll get a couple of wears out of it "before I put it in the wardrobe for next winter"? And let me say, what a wonderful week one it was.
There was literally blood, sweat and tears, and, quite frankly, I can't wait to see it all again next week.
Thanks, Tom.
Thank you, Jo.
Not all of the country's best amateur bakers are in the tent - they're in their own kitchens creating some quite extraordinary bakes - and, even better, some of Britain's worst amateur bakers are doing that, as well.
Let's ease in gently with something lovely from Insia and Emily in Northamptonshire who have baked a beautiful homage to a Bake Off staple.
Ooh! Yeah, some orange zest bunting biscuits.
The detail there is very impressive.
Great work.
Detail was also top of the agenda for Sue in Banbury as she set out to capture the likeness of her daughter Isabel's favourite soft toy, Gina the giraffe.
Let's have a look at the real Gina ALL: Aww.
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and here's Gina in cake form.
LAUGHTER Now, the moment nobody has been waiting for, after a year in hibernation, your hedgehog cakes are back.
Woohoo! AUDIENCE CHEERS Emily's workplace was so inspired by the hedgehogs on Extra Slice that they have their own hedgehog bake-off.
Here is Emily's entry.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! SCARLETT: Wow! Excellent.
FRANK: Now, that's a hedgehog! That's brilliant, isn't it? She's even made edible leaves and soil - and here is Emily's colleague Esther's hedgehog.
LAUGHTER It's not bad, not bad.
Yeah.
Great to see a different take on the hedgehog, there, Esther - and finally, their colleague Graham's attempt.
Graham went for a version using low-fat cream cheese.
Let's see what a healthy hedgehog cake looks like.
LAUGHTER No, thanks, Graham.
That's the roadkill version.
Absolutely.
Now, Karl in Cambridge has sent us the most realistic hedgehog cake ever seen on Extra Slice let's take a look.
AUDIENCE: Aww.
Yeah, that's a real hedgehog.
Nibbling a cheesecake base that Karl left in the garden to cool.
Now, if you recently ate a slice of cheesecake at Karl's house, we wish you well.
Meanwhile, Julie in Newquay spent hours painstakingly capturing every detail of a hedgehog for her cake - even down to its sweet little face.
LAUGHTER Sorry, Julie, even the hedgehog is furious that you made him.
We'll have a look at a few more of your pictures later in the show.
If you fancy sending us a picture of your baking efforts, I'd love to see it.
Use the hashtag ExtraSlice or go to channel4.
com/extraslice.
Details at the bottom of the screen - and thanks to all those bakers for being such good sports.
APPLAUSE OK, it's time for Tom to take a closer look at the bakes the audience has brought along.
OK, thank you, Jo.
Now - get over here, Rob, quickly.
Now, we're gonna start with Carmen.
Now, where's Carmen? Carmen? Oh, you're right here at the front! Hello, Carmen.
Get up! Hello, Carmen, welcome to the show.
How are you? Fine, thank you.
Good.
Now, what have you brought us, here? I have brought in Paul Hollywood's favourite breakfast.
What are you talking about? So, Paul Hollywood once tweeted Mm.
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that his favourite breakfast was sourdough toast, two crispy back bacon rashers Right.
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and a poached egg and a good cup of coffee.
Quite an innocuous tweet, you might have said.
Yes.
Do youhave a restraining order? So, you've got a sourdough loaf - what's that made of? That is, again, Paul Hollywood's favourite cake, which is apparently the Austrian Sachertorte.
I mean, you dismayed because Paul Hollywood likes it.
Yeah.
I mean, are there other things that Paul Hollywood's making you do? He hasn't sent you out to do some sort of errands, or? No.
OK.
I don't actually have contact with him.
You don't have - which is I think .
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which is enforced by law.
Yeah.
That's lovely.
Thank you, Carmen, for bringing the same.
That's very detailed work - if a little terrifying.
Thank you, Carmen.
APPLAUSE Now we have Shamim, Kausar and Fatima.
Where are you? Shall we? Ah, hello! Shamim, Kausar and Fatima.
Stand up, stand up, you guys, stand-up.
Lovely to have you here.
Now, how are you guys connected? Mother, daughter, daughter.
Oh! Mother and daughter, OK, fine.
Yeah.
And tell me about your cake this instant.
What is it? Kid in a sweet shop.
Yeah.
It's a kid in a sweet shop, who's fallen into the display, is that what happened here? Yeah.
Now, did you guys all bake this together? Well, I do the baking, she does the baking, she does the decorating.
I did the decorating.
You do the decorating? I just throw the sweets onto the cake.
Sure.
LAUGHTER After chucking all the sweets, I got a bit tired, so LAUGHTER After chucking on all the sweets, you got a bit tired.
Yeah, yeah.
You got a bit tired? Yeah, yeah.
After chucking on all the sweets you got a bit tired? Yeah.
What did you do then, have a sit down? A little break.
A little break.
Tea break.
A tea break.
Yeah.
For how long? In between.
A couple of days? About two hours.
Two hours? How long did it take you to put the icing on the first place? What, seven minutes? No, about five.
Five? Yeah.
Minutes? Yeah.
Five minutes to put the icing on.
Yeah.
And the sweets? Um, one minute.
One minute.
Six minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
Two hours sit down.
Yeah.
Two hours sit down, and then, what, was it time for bed? Um Another tea break.
Another tea break.
Watching the football.
Putting the football? Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
Liverpool are winning, so Liverpool are winning.
Sorry, I don't know I am talking to you.
OK So, you are both a great team, and then somebody is not really pulling their weight in this.
Have you thought about this? I do the cleaning.
You do the cleaning? That's a lie.
That's a lie? That's a lie! Lazy and a liar! Oh, my goodness.
This is a terrible family argument.
They say they cancelled Jeremy Kyle.
Thank you very much.
APPLAUSE OK.
Now we move on to Where's Rachel? How are you? Good, thank you.
Good, good.
Where have you travelled from today? Gerrards Cross.
Gerrards Cross, where's that? Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire, that sounds posh.
Now, tell me, what is this? This is a chocolate cake with little macarons, which are flavoured with coconut, chocolate and raspberry.
They seem to all look like farmyard animals, is that right? Yeah.
Has it a got a theme or a name? Just down at the farm.
Down at the farm! Emotionally? Mm.
And, um LAUGHTER So, why have you made it a farm themed cake? Well, we just returned from Singapore, where All right, all right.
Showing off about your travels.
OK.
You've been around the place, yeah.
That's where we used to live.
Used to live? Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry, why didn't you say? Oh, yes, you used to live in Singapore.
So, you made a cake about animals because you lived in Singapore? It doesn't make any sense.
We didn't see any farm animals, so You didn't see any farm animals? Yeah So, you made them in cake form.
We were so excited to be back in the UK, seeing all these farm animals.
So, you made that into a cake.
Yeah.
When you were in Singapore, you didn't think of just going on the internet looking up farm animals? Maybe just treat yourself - import some Percy Pigs? Should have done.
That's what you could have done - what a fool you are.
OK, give them a round of applause.
APPLAUSE Where is Sheron and Janet? Sheron and Janet? Over here, stand up, you two.
Stand up.
Sheron - which one's Sheron and which one's Janet? I'm Sheron.
You're Sheron - Sheron, is that right? Sheron.
Sheron.
Sheron.
Like Sharon, but Sheron.
Not Sharon.
Not to Sharon, Sheron.
No, definitely not.
Sheron.
You look wonderful.
Are you in Calamity Jane? I love it.
So, Sheron, now, this is a Look at this, everybody.
Rob, you've got to get in and see it.
Now, this is a work of art, isn't it? So much better than some of the ones people have brought in.
Now, tell me the story behind it.
What's it all about? About four years ago, my husband and I moved over from Australia, and we used to live on the beach up in Darwin, which is very, very top Where people from Neighbours went to die? People are neighbours always went to Darwin if they weren't in any more, did you know that? Yeah, most Is it sort of like Harold Bishop and people like that? So, we moved to Bristol.
You moved to Bristol! Sheron, that's a bit of an extreme.
Do you like it there? Yeah, we do like it.
Yeah.
We do, we really do like Bristol - except there's no beaches.
There's no beaches.
So, our friend said, "You've got to go down to Weston-super-Mare.
" Oh, my God! I know Haven't you been through enough? Stingers, and now Weston-super-Mare? They said, oh, it's a beautiful beach, you've got to go down, so No, it's not! .
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so, on our days off, we went down there, and we found blood and we found mud flats and donkeys on the beach Yeah, it's horrifying.
LAUGHTER And so, that's what the other side of thisthis cake is.
That's what the other side is, yeah.
Oh, no.
That was the side that got damaged.
And you brought with you your friend Janet.
This is my cousin.
Oh, cousin Janet! Hello.
Hello, Janet.
How are you? Fine, thank you.
Where do you live? Bournemouth.
Ugh.
Er LAUGHTER Wonderful, Sheron, thank you so much for bringing it.
Thank you.
We'll see what the barn dance later.
APPLAUSE Claire, where is Claire? Quickly, Rob, quickly, over here.
Sorry, excuse me.
What a lovely scarf! Claire! Which one are you? That's me.
Oh! Fine.
Oh, sorry, did I tread on your toe? Sorry.
Claire, get up! Oh Oh, you've got Oh, no, Claire, what's happened?! Oh, I fell off my bike.
Oh, how embarrassing! I know.
So, I had to bake to, like .
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find a new hobby.
You had to bake to find a new hobby? That's not That's not a good one if you got What you got, a broken arm? Yeah - I've had assistance.
You had assistance - this is the team, Claire.
This is the team.
OK, fine - and what is this cake? So, it's a campsite cake, because I loved going camping when I was a kid.
I love going camping, as well, darling.
I went travelling this summer to Malaysia, and Oh, again.
Somebody else just wants to show off about their holiday! We get it, you've been abroad.
You went to Malaysia, OK, yes.
Yes.
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and in Malaysia, a lot their desserts have sweetcorn in, so, I made a sweetcorn cake Mm.
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and the filling's marshmallow, because you toast marshmallows and corn on the campfire.
OK.
So, we're going to take this up to the panel to taste.
Is that all right? Yeah, that's fine.
OK? We're gonna cut through your tent.
Go ahead.
Will there be people inside toasting marshmallows? No, just a cardboard box! A cardboard box.
So, one second.
I'm gonna leave that there.
So, we're gonna take this up.
So, thank you - oh, it looks lovely.
It had an earthquake.
Oh, it's got fault lines, as well! Yes.
Oh, you've got to have Was that deliberate? Yeah, yeah.
Fault It's a fault line cake.
Everyone's talking about it on Instagram.
OK, so, try this one.
Try this one.
STEPHEN: Thank you, thank you.
SCARLETT: So, the sweetcorn's just in there? Yeah, so I pureed the sweetcorn, and it's in the batter.
Oh, so there's not a bit with less sweetcorn in it? Probably not, no! Just checking.
Is it all right if I cut the guy ropes? Yeah, yeah - that's dental floss.
LAUGHTER SHE GAGS Sorry.
JO: Can I just say? Sorry! It looks a bit Don't take this the wrong way.
It looks a bit like if your arm had gone gangrenous.
Don't take it the wrong way, though.
LAUGHTER Yeah Yeah, the hint of sweetcorn does come through.
Can you taste it? Yeah.
LAUGHTER It looks great, though.
Yes, it does look good.
I think the way it looks is .
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misleading in the extreme.
Mm.
But I think it's interesting to useunsuitable ingredients.
Fine.
These are good bits.
Well, Claire, you hoped that baking would cheer you up with your broken arm It has.
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and I think what we've done is made you feel worse.
Anyway, Claire, thank you so much to bringing that in.
You're welcome.
We appreciate it.
Give it up for Claire, thank you.
APPLAUSE No, it is my great privilege to announce today's Star Baker, and this week's Star Baker is .
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Rachel, with her down on the farm cake! Give it up for Rachel.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE She used to live in Singapore, you know.
She doesn't like to mention it.
She's had a charmed life, and it's just got better.
Now Now it falls to me to announce who will be leaving the studio this week.
SAD PIANO LAUGHTER The baker leaving the studio this week is .
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Kausar, cos she didn't do anything, she just sat down and had a tea break! She's lazy APPLAUSE Of course it's Kausar.
Thanks very much, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting the first baker to leave the tent - Dan will be here! Join us after the break.
Welcome back to An Extra Slice, where I've been picking over the crumbs of Cake Week in the company of Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffatt and Stephen Mangan.
And, as ever, the highlight of the bakers' first week was finally getting to meet Mickey the talking microphone.
Oh, dear.
Hiya! LAUGHTER I'm delighted to say it's time for the highlight of our show now, as we get to meet our very first baker.
A man with a big laugh and a gigantic tattoo whose topknot was top notch and who will be sorely missed from the tent.
Will you please give a warm welcome to Dan.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Hi, Dan.
Hello.
Firstly, massive congratulations for making it onto The Great British Bake off.
Some would say you're already a winner.
Oh.
You might not.
No, I don't think I would say that.
Well, listen, let's just have a quick look at your reaction on seeing the Bake Off ten for the first time.
The first time I saw the tent, I just thought, "Whaaat?!" Now, you seem quite shocked.
Were you expecting a small wigwam? LAUGHTER I mean, I say that when I see a flasher, not when I see a tent.
LAUGHTER Especially if they've got a big tent.
No, I just really Because you've been watching for so long on TV, and really, really wanting to get there, and then, finally getting there and seeing it, it's just crazy.
Let's just have a little look at how you got on, once you were in there.
On your marks Get set Bake.
Oh, my God.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
HE LAUGHS Oh, God.
Bakers, your time is up.
Oh, my God.
LAUGHTER What a mess.
Now, Cake Week kicked off with the fruitcake signature, and I think it's fair to say, you took an enormous risk because you decided to double the amount of fruit that you put into your Jamaican rum cake.
I mean, what actually made you do that at the last minute? Erm Well Practising the cake, I had a really hard time.
So, every single time I practised it, I changed the recipe.
So it was never the same cake.
Obviously, including in the tent.
How many times did you make it at home, then? It was about four or five times, and that, like, that was hard because there wasn't a lot of time to practise with random recipes and everything.
So, yeah, it sounds crazy but, like, that doubled the amount.
But there was room for it.
And then they said, they wanted a sizeable amount, so I thought, oh, Shove it in then.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I wasn't quite sure what it was you piled on top of your fruitcake, by the way of decoration.
Let's just There was a general vote here that it might have been earwax.
Yeah, it looks like that, yeah.
What was it? Well, it was So, it was supposed to be brittle but, obviously It wasn't brittle.
It wasn't brittle.
OK.
Aside from your fruit cake being raw, Paul did say that the alcohol you had in there tasted nice, and your flavours were good.
So it wasn't all doom and gloom.
Well, yeah, if the taste is there, then that's just If I had time to make it look like it tasted Did your heart sink when they prodded it and said it was raw? Yeah, because I feel like they made it look a lot worse.
They really, really went to town, smushing it up.
Did they exaggerate it? That's raw, that's really, really raw.
LAUGHTER You did a scary face then.
I was channelling Bob.
Now, the technical challenge was to make angel cake slices.
You did all right, you came ninth, which, I mean, that's .
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in the top three quarters.
Yeah.
Pru said the buttercream looked beautiful.
Had you ever feathered icing before? Because your decoration looked great.
No, I'd never feathered it.
See, look at that, perfect.
I know.
It was all right, that.
FRANK: It looks like a heart monitor.
It dies at the end.
Exactly.
It's raw.
Beeeeeeep! Let's move on to the Showstoppers.
I think it's fair to say you enjoyed putting the wind up your fellow bakers.
Here you are just five seconds into the challenge.
Right, it's going in oven.
You're kidding me! DAN LAUGHS Not funny! For the Showstopper challenge, you made the pirate island cake of your childhood dreams.
And all the bakers had their own ways of constructing their cakes.
Here's Steph delicately placing one layer on top of another.
Here's Alice also taking a lot of care.
And here's, you, Dan.
LAUGHTER There's no other way to do it.
It looks really aggressive.
Such precision.
It made a really nice thumpy sound.
I know.
I noticed that, yeah.
But technique aside, the judges were impressed by the design of your Showstopper.
Pru said it was beautifully done and Paul said the design was very, very good.
And, of course, you presented the cake to the judges complete with working waterfall.
How did Yeah, how did you create that magic? Er, dry ice.
Oh, OK.
I just carved a little bit out of my cake, put some tinfoil in, filled it with dry ice pellets, and water and ta-da! Well, it looked It looked amazing.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Now, when it came to the judging, Paul struggled to taste the passion fruit curd but you weren't going to give up trying to convince him that it was in there.
Where's the passion fruit? It's in the curd.
It's there, it's so slight.
There's more of it in the middle.
It's not there either.
LAUGHTER If you go further up, there's more.
Get it? Not really, no.
He was never going to taste it, was he? He chose to go down that path.
He were never going to I could have poured passion fruit into his mouth and he still wouldn't have been getting it.
LAUGHTER There's another sentence on the charge sheet.
LAUGHTER I thought you were going to say at the end of it, you were clearing up, you know, upset, and you saw the jar with a passion fruit.
Yeah, I never put it in.
LAUGHTER OK, now, Dan, as you know, here on Extra Slice, we invite you to have another attempt at a bake that didn't go so well for you in the tent.
Is it passion fruit? Well, if it were, you wouldn't taste it.
LAUGHTER What have you gone for? I've gone from my signature, the Jamaican rum cake.
Oh, OK.
Righty ho.
Excellent.
Can I ask a question? Yes, Frank.
Dan what is your chest tattoo? LAUGHTER What do you think it is? I think it's a pirate island cake.
LAUGHTER SCARLETT: Is it a deer? Can I see I can taste the passion fruit.
Is it really a deer? Yeah.
Are we allowed to have a look? Yeah No.
Yeah, go on, then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go on, then.
It's really agonising watching it on the show, I just want to see the whole thing.
Wow.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! Wow.
Oh, thank you.
STEPHEN: Bambi.
That's amazing.
Now, look at the tattoo.
You are like a real-life pirate.
Like, with your tattoos and your Jamaican rum.
I was rather hoping it'd be Long John Silver but Yeah, have you got any more? LAUGHTER Anyone else got a LAUGHTER APPLAUSE I'll show you later.
Have you got the whole cast of Bambi? LAUGHTER Looks good, though.
I'm going to just give a slice, and can you all dip a fork in? SCARLETT: Yeah.
It has been in the fridge, which isn't ideal.
Dan, look at your brittle, it's It's gone into hard earwax.
LAUGHTER It's an interesting linguistic point, though, what you call brittle when it's not brittle? It must have a different name.
Limp.
LAUGHTER You can have a look there, guys.
Oh, you can taste the passion fruit.
LAUGHTER Delicious.
- Mm.
- That's lovely.
That reminds me of Christmas.
Oh, thank you.
It's lovely, isn't it? STEPHEN: Yeah, I'm having some of that.
Thumbs up? - Yeah, they've made a mistake.
- Yeah, they have.
They've made a mistake.
Aw, thank you.
There we are, it's fantastic.
Well done, Dan.
Thank you very much.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Time for a quick break.
Dan's staying with us and we'll be presenting him with a special memento of a time in the tent.
Join us in a bit.
Welcome back.
Everyone's still here - Tom, Dan, Frank, Scarlett and Stephen.
And there's just time to enjoy a couple more pictures of your home baking.
First up, here's Georgie from Gillingham, busy making biscuits.
Yes, Georgie AUDIENCE: Aww Yeah, Georgie's a dog.
And owner Louise claims that he made these doggy biscuits.
AUDIENCE: Aww Oh, shut up! Nicola from Shropshire recently celebrated her birthday with two cakes made by her husband John.
He wanted to recreate their dogs, Boomer and Rolo, in cake.
Let's see how it went.
AUDIENCE: Aww Yeah, looks good to me.
But what do Boomer and Rolo think? Oh, Boomer looks thrilled, and Rolo less so.
But well done, John.
They're not bad likenesses.
They're very good.
They're pretty good, aren't they? Yeah.
Now If they went missing, those dogs, you could use those cakes .
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to identify them for the police.
People walking into a bar saying, "Have you seen these two?" Louise in Cardiff has also been busy trying to recreate a soft toy in cake - her son Woody's favourite monster toy, Ginger.
Let's have a look at Ginger.
That doesn't look easy to turn into cake.
Lets see how Louise did.
Ooh, amazing job, Louise.
And here's Woody making a few minor adjustments.
Much better.
Keep them coming.
Details at the bottom of the screen.
And thanks to everyone who sent their pictures in this week.
OK, Dan, back to you.
Dan's got a party trick involving grapes.
Eh up.
I'm Dan.
And I'm a grape-catching kind of man.
Ooh! DAN LAUGHS CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And remember, everyone, don't try that at home, because not everyone's as talented as Dan.
So, Dan, what memories will you take away from your time on Bake Off? It was very short, so .
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so it's not hard to forget.
Literally three things.
Yeah, just .
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everything about it.
Mainly, like, the friendships.
That was Just, everybody bonded very quickly.
So that's the hardest part as well - leaving everybody behind.
Well, shall we find out from Tom what he'll take away from your time in the tent? Finally, "What does Tom think?" Well, Dan Dan, it's been short, and you've been sweet.
And we'd like to thank you for bringing to the tent chest tattoos - I don't think we've ever seen that before - also for bringing dry ice to a cake.
Dry ice reminded me, I think, of Stars In Their Eyes.
I don't know if you remember that programme.
Oh, yes, I do.
"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be a giant pirate cake!" Also, thank you for introducing us to Prue's newest passive-aggressive slam down.
Let's have a look at it here.
It certainly does look a bit rustic.
Ugh I tell you, that woman has gone before you've realised you've been eviscerated.
Shame about your signature bake.
Just remember - it does have to be cooked, Dan.
That's why it's called Bake Off, not Mix Off.
But you're a lovely guy, and we are very sorry we don't get a chance to spend more time with you.
But thank you so much for coming in today.
It's been lovely to meet you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dan.
Thank you.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Now, Dan, it has been an absolute pleasure to have you on the show, and we've had one of our special cakes made for you, which Stephen is bringing over.
You're looking confident, Stephen.
Well done.
Ooh, it's quite heavy.
Wow.
Ooh Don't want to drop it.
Wow.
Okey dokey.
Thank you.
There we go.
Aww APPLAUSE Oh, my Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And, of course, Dan, that's you holding your pirate island cake, complete with waterfall.
Ladies and gentlemen, please give Dan a great British send-off.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And that's it for this week.
A big thank you to Dan, to Tom, Rahul, the Mariachis, all our studio bakers, and our celebrity panel - Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffat and Stephen Mangan.
So, one baker down, 12 to go.
Join us at the same time next week when we find out which baker loses the battle with biscuits.
Until then, goodbye.
The Great British Bake Off is back.
Which means we're back too, and we can't wait to get started.
Can we, Tom? Where's Tom? BAND PLAYS: Tequila by The Champs Hey! Whoo! Whaa! Tequila? LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Time for an Extra Slice! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello and welcome to a brand-new series, following all the highs and lows of the Great British Bake Off.
All our favourite bits are back, including the pictures you've sent us of your baking at home.
Luke from Basingstoke has done just that.
Aiming to make this .
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he actually made this Can't wait for more of those.
Plus Tom Allen will be here to take a closer look at the home baking you've brought along.
And, as we know, he never has anything but praise to offer.
So let's have a first glimpse of your Cake Week efforts.
Show us your bakes! CHEERING So, to mark Bake Off's tenth anniversary, there are 13 bakers this year.
Honestly, there are so many of them, they had problems fitting them all into the tent.
Here they are waiting to be judged in the Technical.
And if we look at the wider shot See what I mean? I'm sure they were all very much looking forward to once again hearing Noel and Sandi utter those unforgettable words.
On your marks Oh, get set.
Bake! LAUGHING: Forgot that one bit.
It's not every year we get a baker who's a Spanish, Halloween-obsessed, former professional poker-playing goth who once lived in Las Vegas with a family of Mormons.
And Paul soon had a nickname for Helena.
Right, fruitcake, what have you decided to do? Henry isn't just a talented baker, he can play the church organ and sing as well.
But he's yet to pass a basic proficiency test in how to sit on a stool.
Well, it's not easy, is it? So 13 bakers entered the tent, with proving 13 unlucky for some.
And by "some", I mean Dan.
AUDIENCE: Aww.
But we haven't seen the last of that tattoo and topknot, as Dan will be here later in the show.
CHEERING OK, let's meet our trio of celebrity Bake Off fans.
Here to tell us what they thought of the new batch of bakers, will you please welcome Stephen Mangan CHEERING .
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Scarlett Moffatt CHEERING .
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and Frank Skinner! CHEERING Hello, hello.
Hello.
So how excited are you to have Bake off back? Stephen? Excited.
This is such a warm show, and it's nice to meet those 13 bakers and to realise this country is full of really nice people.
Cos the news is full of relentlessly horrible people! So it's such a joy to see them, yeah.
Do you know what? Like, I can't believe that it's been ten years that it's been on.
I feel like I've, like, grown up with it.
I honestly care about some of these people more than my own family members by the end of it, cos you get really drawn in, don't you? Frank, what are you hoping to see in this series? Um I wish they would have a lemon meringue section.
Have they done that yet? I used to be a runner for, umChrissie Hynde.
Did you? And she used to send me out for cake.
And, as I left the door, she always used to say, "Don't get meringue.
" Don't get me-ringue LAUGHTER AND GROANING I've known crowds who would have got that without me having to sing it.
You're on tour at the moment, aren't you? I am.
Do you find yourself eating more cakes and biscuits in your dressing room? People do send me cakes on occasion, into the dressing room.
Do they? Could you redirect them in my direction? But, you know, they always You must have heard this saying in show business, "Never eat fan food.
" Yes, I have heard that.
Cos somebody might be trying to kill me.
Can you not just get someone to try it first, before you? That seems That seems a bit unfair.
Yeah.
Also, that could be quite a high turnover of staff.
Although, Stephen, do you like a chocolate finger while you're waiting in the wings? I never say no to a chocolate finger.
Never.
So, with a baker's dozen added to the mix, let's remind ourselves what happened in Cake Week.
13 fresh bakers took on the tent What?! It's just insane.
My belly's in knots.
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and Cake Week got off to a gentle start It's happened again.
What a disaster.
D'oh! .
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with a seemingly simple fruitcake Signature.
Can't say there's no fruit in there.
Ah! That's raw.
LAUGHING: Oh, my God.
Before Prue's devilish angel cake slices I think that's pretty cruel.
You like a bit of cruelty, though.
I do, yeah.
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put feathering finesse to the test.
It's pretty awful.
Thank you.
HE LAUGHS Childhood dreams came true Hee-hee! .
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for some CLIPPERS CLICK Oh, my God.
Argh! .
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in the fantasy birthday cake Showstopper.
I think it's wonderful.
It's faultless, actually.
But it was a nightmare for Dan, who left the tent.
While Michelle was crowned Star Baker.
So the very first Signature Challenge was to make a beautifully-decorated fruitcake.
In the past, people believed that if you put a fruitcake under your pillow, you'd dream about your future partner.
And if you found that the lump in your bed was annoying and stopped you getting to sleep, you were probably already married.
Scarlett, you a fan of the fruitcake? Yeah, I am.
I do I wouldn't normally put those two words together, but I do like eating fruitcake.
But the thing that got me is And it got me a little bit upset.
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is that everyone had family recipes.
They were like, "This is my grandma's, this has been passed down.
" Like, if I had to make something that was passed down Like, at my nanny's, we used to just eat digestive biscuits with a bit of butter on and sugar.
I couldn't go in and say, "This is a family recipe," could I, and stick it all on? I prefer that to be fruitcake, to be honest with you.
Yeah.
When I went to my auntie Doreen's, she used to do Smarties in custard.
Scotch eggs with chocolate spread.
Ugh! AUDIENCE GROANS That's lovely.
No, no, no.
I like fries in strawberry milkshake.
Stephen's looking suicidal there.
Honestly, Scotch eggs dipped in chocolate spread Stop saying that! It's beautiful.
So there you are, family recipes.
OK, well, as the challenge got under way, Paul put the bakers at their ease with a bit of friendly chitchat.
SHE MOUTHS Really hard this year.
I know, he does psych people out.
He does.
Henry's cake featured an ambitious design of piped chocolate trees and an extremely delicate house made of royal icing.
Noel had a question for Henry.
I just need to get this on top of the cake now.
How you going to do it? Um Just Just pick it up? Just pick it up.
Well, they say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do.
Let's see how Henry got on.
TENSE MUSIC PLAYS Oh AUDIENCE: Oh! Oh .
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balls.
I mean, I am not a shrieker, but I shrieked when that happened.
Did you? Yeah, that was awful, cos it was so delicately made.
It was beautifully made.
But he dealt with it so calmly, didn't he? If he'd have been as old as me, he could have put it on the cake and said it represented the wrecking of the Blue Peter garden.
Even though he's 20, I mean, what an old soul he is.
It's like he's been teleported here from 1695.
OK, onto David, who had a lovely surprise for Prue when she asked him about his fruitcake.
My fruitcake has no fat.
AIRHORN BLARES GLASS SHATTERS For his healthy fruit cake mix, David swapped fat for carrot and squash and added dried prunes and figs.
The bake went down well with the judges - that would be the prunes.
In fact, Paul said it was almost perfect.
Scarlett, what did you make of David's decision to kick off with a health-conscious cake? I mean .
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a healthy cake's a vegetable, innit? So it's not a cake, is it? It is really, yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely right.
You know my mum Can I tell you, my mum used to work in a cake factory, and they to give her stuff.
They wouldn't give her cakes, but she would come home with a plastic bag over her shoulder and open it - it would just be icing.
And we would all sit round it AUDIENCE GROANS I mean, the marzipan nights were awful, but then the icing And really a giant bag of icing for the whole family.
Like a sort of cardiac arrest Santa.
Now, the bit of the show that stood out for me was that footage of Rosie the vet combining her two loves of animals and baking.
Here's a reminder.
SANDI: She proves dough in the warmth of her pet python Minnie's vivarium.
Perfect temperature.
Stephen, would, um? Would you ever put dough that close to your python to get it to rise? I mean, why have a python for starters? What was that other thing crawling around? Was that an iguana? I'm not good on lizards.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bearded dragon.
Really? Bearded dragon.
Oh, right.
That's what my husband calls me occasionally.
Anyway For her Signature, Rosie baked a spicy chai tea loaf.
Here she is giving Prue a bit more detail.
Well, you see, I didn't want to do really fancy icing on it, cos it is a tea loaf.
You don't have a decorated tea loaf, that's not really a thing.
So I went for flavour - I'm doing a French buttercream and a strawberry and mango jam to serve it with.
There'll be a bit on the cake, with a bit of candied peel, just to make it look a bit nicer.
But it's mostly on the side.
You'd have a slice, spread your butter, but it's French buttercream instead of butter, so it's butter but better.
AIRHORN BLARES GLASS SHATTERS "Butter but better.
" Absolutely.
Now, the bakers were eager to know what their first Technical Challenge would be.
Prue set them the task of creating six identical angel cake slices.
It's fair to say Michael's decorative feathering wasn't the best.
Good.
Getting worse.
Worse, worse, worse, bad.
But the reason may lie in what he kept doing in the Signature.
Ow! I need a plaster from somebody.
My mum texted at five this morning, saying, "Be calm, be slow, be confident.
" It's going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
I just Ow! My God.
I've done it again.
I'm so sorry.
This has to be the last one.
I don't have many left.
By the time he got to feathering his angel cake slices, no wonder his decoration wasn't too precise.
Ooh Er Oh! Urgh It's going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
I just Ow! My God.
Oh, no! I've done it again.
I'm so sorry.
Argh! Michael, he's obviously a good baker.
I worry, on a programme that lasts for ten weeks, if there's going to be any of him left by week ten, if he keeps slicing bits of himself off.
I'm worried that Helena will be driven crazy by the smell of blood.
It's not a good You shouldn't put them together, should you? .
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and go for his throat one week.
Well, shall we move on to Helena? Because she was very critical of her own genoise.
Um, I think it looks the way it's supposed to.
I doubt very much it tastes the way it's supposed to.
I think if it fell on the floor, it would bounce right back.
Come on, Helena, think positive.
I'm sure that's the last thing Paul will say.
It's like rubber.
If I drop that on the floor, it will bounce up and hit me in the face.
Jamie came last, having never really got his head round the angel cake Technical.
What was the point of making them when you can get them at the corner shop for 50p? I know that he's not the greatest at baking, and he forgot to put his eggs in, which was a vital part of it and stuff, but when you look at him, I feel like He looks like he could be on Love Island, rather than Bake Off, doesn't he? And I think that's wonderful.
I think I sound like I'm old, but get the young people cooking! If he was in Love Island, do you think you'd forget to put his eggs in? So, to round off the Technical, here's a bit of unseen footage where Henry speaks for all the bakers.
Angel slices can sod off.
For their Showstopper, the bakers had to create the birthday cake they dreamed of as a child.
Now, we must mention David's fantastic snakey cakey birthday Showstopper.
The judges loved everything about it, from the incredible detail to the chocolate and citrus flavours.
Were you impressed by David's snake, Scarlett? I loved his snake.
It was actually my favourite.
It was fantastic.
I've got three boys, they would love a cake like that.
Would they? Especially the gory eating-the-infant-baby cake the unbornsnakelets, whatever they're called.
Raw from the egg.
But it had a bit of You know, it was exciting.
It was exciting.
It reminded me of when I had a tapeworm.
Let's move on.
We have our first Star Baker of the series.
Huge congratulations to Carmarthen-born Michelle, who put a Welsh twist on two of her bakes.
In the signature, she produced her family's take on a bara brith before wowing the judges with her Ty Tylwyth Teg Showstopper.
Michelle couldn't wait to phone her son so she could share her joy.
Alf? Hello? Guess what.
What? I had Star Baker this week.
What's that mean? Coming up, a peek into kitchens around Britain and beyond, as we take a look at your home baking.
Be warned, it's not always pretty.
And Tom Allen will be terrorising our audience bakers.
Back in a bit.
CHEERING Welcome back to a brand-new series, where I'm joined by celebrity Bake Off fans Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffat and Stephen Mangan, who can't wait to meet the first baker to leave the tent - although they'll have to, because that's not till later in the show.
Right, brace yourselves - it's time to meet Bake Off's biggest fan.
Will you please welcome Tom Allen? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE MARIACHI BAND PLAYS Thank you, that's enough.
You can go now, you can go.
You can go.
Muchas gracias, senores.
Gracias.
Si.
Hello, Jo.
I brought you this.
Everybody's talking about how it's Bake Off's ten-year anniversary - well, it's Extra Slice's six-year anniversary, so, congratulations! I made you a cake! It took me a lot of time.
I was worried about how it would turn out - but I think, actually, we can all agree, I think it was worth all my effort.
AUDIENCE: Aww! APPLAUSE Hi, Rahul! How are you doing? I'm OK, how are you? Very good, thank you.
I just came here to find out, did you like the cake I made for you? Rahul, I told you to stay in the kitchen! Sorry What are you doing out here?! Get out, get out! You shouldn't be here! Sorry! So sorry, everybody.
I knew that wasn't yours.
It was a good gag, wasn't it? It was a good gag.
Lasted a bit too long.
Right, back to the tent, then.
Sorry.
Yes? Back to the tent.
Back to the tent! Well, they say I'm camp.
It is so lovely to be back, Jo, and, first things first, let's get the cakes out of the way, because week one, nobody cares about the cake, do they? I mean, fruitcake? No, thanks, Grandma.
The thing we want to know about is the bakers - and, as we saw, there were over 8,000 of them, and as they all walked into the crecheer, I mean the tent .
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we realised just how young they were, and, for their Showstopper Challenge, they were asked to complete a children's birthday cake, or, as most of them would call it, a birthday cake.
Because most of them are children - and what better way, as well, to get to know the bakers then by looking at their back story VTs? We started with Rosie, the intriguing vet.
I think baking and being a vet do complement each other.
You've got lots of needles and syringes, catheters, bits and bobs.
LAUGHTER Rosie, what the hell are you talking about? When was the last time you had to cathetise a cake? Then - then we met spooky Helena, the Spanish Goth, who did seem to have a bit of a meltdown once things went over to the dark side.
It's crystallised the caramel.
What a disaster.
I've never had a problem with caramel.
Helena, you're supposed to be embracing the chaos if you're in the league with our dark lord Satan - not having a meltdown because your bat wings didn't crystallise.
Then we met David.
David is a fitness fanatic.
There's always one.
How does he like to keep fit? Is it through CrossFit? Is it through marathons? Is it through spin classes? Let's have a look.
Oh, it's just through two bounces on a trampoline, is it? OK, fine.
Well, David, I had a go on a pub bouncy castle the other weekend, and I don't go around telling people I'm Iron Man.
Then there was the one who was so desperate to distinguish himself that he chopped off his hands .
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and not to be shown up, of course, Paul continued his commitment to wearing moody winter coats by wearing a new moody winter coat.
Oh, Paul, it's so sexy - but why are you wearing a coat in the middle of summer, Paul? Did you buy it at the end of the sales and think, "I'll get a couple of wears out of it "before I put it in the wardrobe for next winter"? And let me say, what a wonderful week one it was.
There was literally blood, sweat and tears, and, quite frankly, I can't wait to see it all again next week.
Thanks, Tom.
Thank you, Jo.
Not all of the country's best amateur bakers are in the tent - they're in their own kitchens creating some quite extraordinary bakes - and, even better, some of Britain's worst amateur bakers are doing that, as well.
Let's ease in gently with something lovely from Insia and Emily in Northamptonshire who have baked a beautiful homage to a Bake Off staple.
Ooh! Yeah, some orange zest bunting biscuits.
The detail there is very impressive.
Great work.
Detail was also top of the agenda for Sue in Banbury as she set out to capture the likeness of her daughter Isabel's favourite soft toy, Gina the giraffe.
Let's have a look at the real Gina ALL: Aww.
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and here's Gina in cake form.
LAUGHTER Now, the moment nobody has been waiting for, after a year in hibernation, your hedgehog cakes are back.
Woohoo! AUDIENCE CHEERS Emily's workplace was so inspired by the hedgehogs on Extra Slice that they have their own hedgehog bake-off.
Here is Emily's entry.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! SCARLETT: Wow! Excellent.
FRANK: Now, that's a hedgehog! That's brilliant, isn't it? She's even made edible leaves and soil - and here is Emily's colleague Esther's hedgehog.
LAUGHTER It's not bad, not bad.
Yeah.
Great to see a different take on the hedgehog, there, Esther - and finally, their colleague Graham's attempt.
Graham went for a version using low-fat cream cheese.
Let's see what a healthy hedgehog cake looks like.
LAUGHTER No, thanks, Graham.
That's the roadkill version.
Absolutely.
Now, Karl in Cambridge has sent us the most realistic hedgehog cake ever seen on Extra Slice let's take a look.
AUDIENCE: Aww.
Yeah, that's a real hedgehog.
Nibbling a cheesecake base that Karl left in the garden to cool.
Now, if you recently ate a slice of cheesecake at Karl's house, we wish you well.
Meanwhile, Julie in Newquay spent hours painstakingly capturing every detail of a hedgehog for her cake - even down to its sweet little face.
LAUGHTER Sorry, Julie, even the hedgehog is furious that you made him.
We'll have a look at a few more of your pictures later in the show.
If you fancy sending us a picture of your baking efforts, I'd love to see it.
Use the hashtag ExtraSlice or go to channel4.
com/extraslice.
Details at the bottom of the screen - and thanks to all those bakers for being such good sports.
APPLAUSE OK, it's time for Tom to take a closer look at the bakes the audience has brought along.
OK, thank you, Jo.
Now - get over here, Rob, quickly.
Now, we're gonna start with Carmen.
Now, where's Carmen? Carmen? Oh, you're right here at the front! Hello, Carmen.
Get up! Hello, Carmen, welcome to the show.
How are you? Fine, thank you.
Good.
Now, what have you brought us, here? I have brought in Paul Hollywood's favourite breakfast.
What are you talking about? So, Paul Hollywood once tweeted Mm.
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that his favourite breakfast was sourdough toast, two crispy back bacon rashers Right.
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and a poached egg and a good cup of coffee.
Quite an innocuous tweet, you might have said.
Yes.
Do youhave a restraining order? So, you've got a sourdough loaf - what's that made of? That is, again, Paul Hollywood's favourite cake, which is apparently the Austrian Sachertorte.
I mean, you dismayed because Paul Hollywood likes it.
Yeah.
I mean, are there other things that Paul Hollywood's making you do? He hasn't sent you out to do some sort of errands, or? No.
OK.
I don't actually have contact with him.
You don't have - which is I think .
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which is enforced by law.
Yeah.
That's lovely.
Thank you, Carmen, for bringing the same.
That's very detailed work - if a little terrifying.
Thank you, Carmen.
APPLAUSE Now we have Shamim, Kausar and Fatima.
Where are you? Shall we? Ah, hello! Shamim, Kausar and Fatima.
Stand up, stand up, you guys, stand-up.
Lovely to have you here.
Now, how are you guys connected? Mother, daughter, daughter.
Oh! Mother and daughter, OK, fine.
Yeah.
And tell me about your cake this instant.
What is it? Kid in a sweet shop.
Yeah.
It's a kid in a sweet shop, who's fallen into the display, is that what happened here? Yeah.
Now, did you guys all bake this together? Well, I do the baking, she does the baking, she does the decorating.
I did the decorating.
You do the decorating? I just throw the sweets onto the cake.
Sure.
LAUGHTER After chucking all the sweets, I got a bit tired, so LAUGHTER After chucking on all the sweets, you got a bit tired.
Yeah, yeah.
You got a bit tired? Yeah, yeah.
After chucking on all the sweets you got a bit tired? Yeah.
What did you do then, have a sit down? A little break.
A little break.
Tea break.
A tea break.
Yeah.
For how long? In between.
A couple of days? About two hours.
Two hours? How long did it take you to put the icing on the first place? What, seven minutes? No, about five.
Five? Yeah.
Minutes? Yeah.
Five minutes to put the icing on.
Yeah.
And the sweets? Um, one minute.
One minute.
Six minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
Two hours sit down.
Yeah.
Two hours sit down, and then, what, was it time for bed? Um Another tea break.
Another tea break.
Watching the football.
Putting the football? Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
Liverpool are winning, so Liverpool are winning.
Sorry, I don't know I am talking to you.
OK So, you are both a great team, and then somebody is not really pulling their weight in this.
Have you thought about this? I do the cleaning.
You do the cleaning? That's a lie.
That's a lie? That's a lie! Lazy and a liar! Oh, my goodness.
This is a terrible family argument.
They say they cancelled Jeremy Kyle.
Thank you very much.
APPLAUSE OK.
Now we move on to Where's Rachel? How are you? Good, thank you.
Good, good.
Where have you travelled from today? Gerrards Cross.
Gerrards Cross, where's that? Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire, that sounds posh.
Now, tell me, what is this? This is a chocolate cake with little macarons, which are flavoured with coconut, chocolate and raspberry.
They seem to all look like farmyard animals, is that right? Yeah.
Has it a got a theme or a name? Just down at the farm.
Down at the farm! Emotionally? Mm.
And, um LAUGHTER So, why have you made it a farm themed cake? Well, we just returned from Singapore, where All right, all right.
Showing off about your travels.
OK.
You've been around the place, yeah.
That's where we used to live.
Used to live? Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry, why didn't you say? Oh, yes, you used to live in Singapore.
So, you made a cake about animals because you lived in Singapore? It doesn't make any sense.
We didn't see any farm animals, so You didn't see any farm animals? Yeah So, you made them in cake form.
We were so excited to be back in the UK, seeing all these farm animals.
So, you made that into a cake.
Yeah.
When you were in Singapore, you didn't think of just going on the internet looking up farm animals? Maybe just treat yourself - import some Percy Pigs? Should have done.
That's what you could have done - what a fool you are.
OK, give them a round of applause.
APPLAUSE Where is Sheron and Janet? Sheron and Janet? Over here, stand up, you two.
Stand up.
Sheron - which one's Sheron and which one's Janet? I'm Sheron.
You're Sheron - Sheron, is that right? Sheron.
Sheron.
Sheron.
Like Sharon, but Sheron.
Not Sharon.
Not to Sharon, Sheron.
No, definitely not.
Sheron.
You look wonderful.
Are you in Calamity Jane? I love it.
So, Sheron, now, this is a Look at this, everybody.
Rob, you've got to get in and see it.
Now, this is a work of art, isn't it? So much better than some of the ones people have brought in.
Now, tell me the story behind it.
What's it all about? About four years ago, my husband and I moved over from Australia, and we used to live on the beach up in Darwin, which is very, very top Where people from Neighbours went to die? People are neighbours always went to Darwin if they weren't in any more, did you know that? Yeah, most Is it sort of like Harold Bishop and people like that? So, we moved to Bristol.
You moved to Bristol! Sheron, that's a bit of an extreme.
Do you like it there? Yeah, we do like it.
Yeah.
We do, we really do like Bristol - except there's no beaches.
There's no beaches.
So, our friend said, "You've got to go down to Weston-super-Mare.
" Oh, my God! I know Haven't you been through enough? Stingers, and now Weston-super-Mare? They said, oh, it's a beautiful beach, you've got to go down, so No, it's not! .
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so, on our days off, we went down there, and we found blood and we found mud flats and donkeys on the beach Yeah, it's horrifying.
LAUGHTER And so, that's what the other side of thisthis cake is.
That's what the other side is, yeah.
Oh, no.
That was the side that got damaged.
And you brought with you your friend Janet.
This is my cousin.
Oh, cousin Janet! Hello.
Hello, Janet.
How are you? Fine, thank you.
Where do you live? Bournemouth.
Ugh.
Er LAUGHTER Wonderful, Sheron, thank you so much for bringing it.
Thank you.
We'll see what the barn dance later.
APPLAUSE Claire, where is Claire? Quickly, Rob, quickly, over here.
Sorry, excuse me.
What a lovely scarf! Claire! Which one are you? That's me.
Oh! Fine.
Oh, sorry, did I tread on your toe? Sorry.
Claire, get up! Oh Oh, you've got Oh, no, Claire, what's happened?! Oh, I fell off my bike.
Oh, how embarrassing! I know.
So, I had to bake to, like .
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find a new hobby.
You had to bake to find a new hobby? That's not That's not a good one if you got What you got, a broken arm? Yeah - I've had assistance.
You had assistance - this is the team, Claire.
This is the team.
OK, fine - and what is this cake? So, it's a campsite cake, because I loved going camping when I was a kid.
I love going camping, as well, darling.
I went travelling this summer to Malaysia, and Oh, again.
Somebody else just wants to show off about their holiday! We get it, you've been abroad.
You went to Malaysia, OK, yes.
Yes.
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and in Malaysia, a lot their desserts have sweetcorn in, so, I made a sweetcorn cake Mm.
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and the filling's marshmallow, because you toast marshmallows and corn on the campfire.
OK.
So, we're going to take this up to the panel to taste.
Is that all right? Yeah, that's fine.
OK? We're gonna cut through your tent.
Go ahead.
Will there be people inside toasting marshmallows? No, just a cardboard box! A cardboard box.
So, one second.
I'm gonna leave that there.
So, we're gonna take this up.
So, thank you - oh, it looks lovely.
It had an earthquake.
Oh, it's got fault lines, as well! Yes.
Oh, you've got to have Was that deliberate? Yeah, yeah.
Fault It's a fault line cake.
Everyone's talking about it on Instagram.
OK, so, try this one.
Try this one.
STEPHEN: Thank you, thank you.
SCARLETT: So, the sweetcorn's just in there? Yeah, so I pureed the sweetcorn, and it's in the batter.
Oh, so there's not a bit with less sweetcorn in it? Probably not, no! Just checking.
Is it all right if I cut the guy ropes? Yeah, yeah - that's dental floss.
LAUGHTER SHE GAGS Sorry.
JO: Can I just say? Sorry! It looks a bit Don't take this the wrong way.
It looks a bit like if your arm had gone gangrenous.
Don't take it the wrong way, though.
LAUGHTER Yeah Yeah, the hint of sweetcorn does come through.
Can you taste it? Yeah.
LAUGHTER It looks great, though.
Yes, it does look good.
I think the way it looks is .
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misleading in the extreme.
Mm.
But I think it's interesting to useunsuitable ingredients.
Fine.
These are good bits.
Well, Claire, you hoped that baking would cheer you up with your broken arm It has.
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and I think what we've done is made you feel worse.
Anyway, Claire, thank you so much to bringing that in.
You're welcome.
We appreciate it.
Give it up for Claire, thank you.
APPLAUSE No, it is my great privilege to announce today's Star Baker, and this week's Star Baker is .
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Rachel, with her down on the farm cake! Give it up for Rachel.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE She used to live in Singapore, you know.
She doesn't like to mention it.
She's had a charmed life, and it's just got better.
Now Now it falls to me to announce who will be leaving the studio this week.
SAD PIANO LAUGHTER The baker leaving the studio this week is .
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Kausar, cos she didn't do anything, she just sat down and had a tea break! She's lazy APPLAUSE Of course it's Kausar.
Thanks very much, Tom.
Coming up, we'll be meeting the first baker to leave the tent - Dan will be here! Join us after the break.
Welcome back to An Extra Slice, where I've been picking over the crumbs of Cake Week in the company of Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffatt and Stephen Mangan.
And, as ever, the highlight of the bakers' first week was finally getting to meet Mickey the talking microphone.
Oh, dear.
Hiya! LAUGHTER I'm delighted to say it's time for the highlight of our show now, as we get to meet our very first baker.
A man with a big laugh and a gigantic tattoo whose topknot was top notch and who will be sorely missed from the tent.
Will you please give a warm welcome to Dan.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Hi, Dan.
Hello.
Firstly, massive congratulations for making it onto The Great British Bake off.
Some would say you're already a winner.
Oh.
You might not.
No, I don't think I would say that.
Well, listen, let's just have a quick look at your reaction on seeing the Bake Off ten for the first time.
The first time I saw the tent, I just thought, "Whaaat?!" Now, you seem quite shocked.
Were you expecting a small wigwam? LAUGHTER I mean, I say that when I see a flasher, not when I see a tent.
LAUGHTER Especially if they've got a big tent.
No, I just really Because you've been watching for so long on TV, and really, really wanting to get there, and then, finally getting there and seeing it, it's just crazy.
Let's just have a little look at how you got on, once you were in there.
On your marks Get set Bake.
Oh, my God.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
HE LAUGHS Oh, God.
Bakers, your time is up.
Oh, my God.
LAUGHTER What a mess.
Now, Cake Week kicked off with the fruitcake signature, and I think it's fair to say, you took an enormous risk because you decided to double the amount of fruit that you put into your Jamaican rum cake.
I mean, what actually made you do that at the last minute? Erm Well Practising the cake, I had a really hard time.
So, every single time I practised it, I changed the recipe.
So it was never the same cake.
Obviously, including in the tent.
How many times did you make it at home, then? It was about four or five times, and that, like, that was hard because there wasn't a lot of time to practise with random recipes and everything.
So, yeah, it sounds crazy but, like, that doubled the amount.
But there was room for it.
And then they said, they wanted a sizeable amount, so I thought, oh, Shove it in then.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I wasn't quite sure what it was you piled on top of your fruitcake, by the way of decoration.
Let's just There was a general vote here that it might have been earwax.
Yeah, it looks like that, yeah.
What was it? Well, it was So, it was supposed to be brittle but, obviously It wasn't brittle.
It wasn't brittle.
OK.
Aside from your fruit cake being raw, Paul did say that the alcohol you had in there tasted nice, and your flavours were good.
So it wasn't all doom and gloom.
Well, yeah, if the taste is there, then that's just If I had time to make it look like it tasted Did your heart sink when they prodded it and said it was raw? Yeah, because I feel like they made it look a lot worse.
They really, really went to town, smushing it up.
Did they exaggerate it? That's raw, that's really, really raw.
LAUGHTER You did a scary face then.
I was channelling Bob.
Now, the technical challenge was to make angel cake slices.
You did all right, you came ninth, which, I mean, that's .
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in the top three quarters.
Yeah.
Pru said the buttercream looked beautiful.
Had you ever feathered icing before? Because your decoration looked great.
No, I'd never feathered it.
See, look at that, perfect.
I know.
It was all right, that.
FRANK: It looks like a heart monitor.
It dies at the end.
Exactly.
It's raw.
Beeeeeeep! Let's move on to the Showstoppers.
I think it's fair to say you enjoyed putting the wind up your fellow bakers.
Here you are just five seconds into the challenge.
Right, it's going in oven.
You're kidding me! DAN LAUGHS Not funny! For the Showstopper challenge, you made the pirate island cake of your childhood dreams.
And all the bakers had their own ways of constructing their cakes.
Here's Steph delicately placing one layer on top of another.
Here's Alice also taking a lot of care.
And here's, you, Dan.
LAUGHTER There's no other way to do it.
It looks really aggressive.
Such precision.
It made a really nice thumpy sound.
I know.
I noticed that, yeah.
But technique aside, the judges were impressed by the design of your Showstopper.
Pru said it was beautifully done and Paul said the design was very, very good.
And, of course, you presented the cake to the judges complete with working waterfall.
How did Yeah, how did you create that magic? Er, dry ice.
Oh, OK.
I just carved a little bit out of my cake, put some tinfoil in, filled it with dry ice pellets, and water and ta-da! Well, it looked It looked amazing.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Now, when it came to the judging, Paul struggled to taste the passion fruit curd but you weren't going to give up trying to convince him that it was in there.
Where's the passion fruit? It's in the curd.
It's there, it's so slight.
There's more of it in the middle.
It's not there either.
LAUGHTER If you go further up, there's more.
Get it? Not really, no.
He was never going to taste it, was he? He chose to go down that path.
He were never going to I could have poured passion fruit into his mouth and he still wouldn't have been getting it.
LAUGHTER There's another sentence on the charge sheet.
LAUGHTER I thought you were going to say at the end of it, you were clearing up, you know, upset, and you saw the jar with a passion fruit.
Yeah, I never put it in.
LAUGHTER OK, now, Dan, as you know, here on Extra Slice, we invite you to have another attempt at a bake that didn't go so well for you in the tent.
Is it passion fruit? Well, if it were, you wouldn't taste it.
LAUGHTER What have you gone for? I've gone from my signature, the Jamaican rum cake.
Oh, OK.
Righty ho.
Excellent.
Can I ask a question? Yes, Frank.
Dan what is your chest tattoo? LAUGHTER What do you think it is? I think it's a pirate island cake.
LAUGHTER SCARLETT: Is it a deer? Can I see I can taste the passion fruit.
Is it really a deer? Yeah.
Are we allowed to have a look? Yeah No.
Yeah, go on, then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go on, then.
It's really agonising watching it on the show, I just want to see the whole thing.
Wow.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! Wow.
Oh, thank you.
STEPHEN: Bambi.
That's amazing.
Now, look at the tattoo.
You are like a real-life pirate.
Like, with your tattoos and your Jamaican rum.
I was rather hoping it'd be Long John Silver but Yeah, have you got any more? LAUGHTER Anyone else got a LAUGHTER APPLAUSE I'll show you later.
Have you got the whole cast of Bambi? LAUGHTER Looks good, though.
I'm going to just give a slice, and can you all dip a fork in? SCARLETT: Yeah.
It has been in the fridge, which isn't ideal.
Dan, look at your brittle, it's It's gone into hard earwax.
LAUGHTER It's an interesting linguistic point, though, what you call brittle when it's not brittle? It must have a different name.
Limp.
LAUGHTER You can have a look there, guys.
Oh, you can taste the passion fruit.
LAUGHTER Delicious.
- Mm.
- That's lovely.
That reminds me of Christmas.
Oh, thank you.
It's lovely, isn't it? STEPHEN: Yeah, I'm having some of that.
Thumbs up? - Yeah, they've made a mistake.
- Yeah, they have.
They've made a mistake.
Aw, thank you.
There we are, it's fantastic.
Well done, Dan.
Thank you very much.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Time for a quick break.
Dan's staying with us and we'll be presenting him with a special memento of a time in the tent.
Join us in a bit.
Welcome back.
Everyone's still here - Tom, Dan, Frank, Scarlett and Stephen.
And there's just time to enjoy a couple more pictures of your home baking.
First up, here's Georgie from Gillingham, busy making biscuits.
Yes, Georgie AUDIENCE: Aww Yeah, Georgie's a dog.
And owner Louise claims that he made these doggy biscuits.
AUDIENCE: Aww Oh, shut up! Nicola from Shropshire recently celebrated her birthday with two cakes made by her husband John.
He wanted to recreate their dogs, Boomer and Rolo, in cake.
Let's see how it went.
AUDIENCE: Aww Yeah, looks good to me.
But what do Boomer and Rolo think? Oh, Boomer looks thrilled, and Rolo less so.
But well done, John.
They're not bad likenesses.
They're very good.
They're pretty good, aren't they? Yeah.
Now If they went missing, those dogs, you could use those cakes .
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to identify them for the police.
People walking into a bar saying, "Have you seen these two?" Louise in Cardiff has also been busy trying to recreate a soft toy in cake - her son Woody's favourite monster toy, Ginger.
Let's have a look at Ginger.
That doesn't look easy to turn into cake.
Lets see how Louise did.
Ooh, amazing job, Louise.
And here's Woody making a few minor adjustments.
Much better.
Keep them coming.
Details at the bottom of the screen.
And thanks to everyone who sent their pictures in this week.
OK, Dan, back to you.
Dan's got a party trick involving grapes.
Eh up.
I'm Dan.
And I'm a grape-catching kind of man.
Ooh! DAN LAUGHS CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And remember, everyone, don't try that at home, because not everyone's as talented as Dan.
So, Dan, what memories will you take away from your time on Bake Off? It was very short, so .
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so it's not hard to forget.
Literally three things.
Yeah, just .
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everything about it.
Mainly, like, the friendships.
That was Just, everybody bonded very quickly.
So that's the hardest part as well - leaving everybody behind.
Well, shall we find out from Tom what he'll take away from your time in the tent? Finally, "What does Tom think?" Well, Dan Dan, it's been short, and you've been sweet.
And we'd like to thank you for bringing to the tent chest tattoos - I don't think we've ever seen that before - also for bringing dry ice to a cake.
Dry ice reminded me, I think, of Stars In Their Eyes.
I don't know if you remember that programme.
Oh, yes, I do.
"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be a giant pirate cake!" Also, thank you for introducing us to Prue's newest passive-aggressive slam down.
Let's have a look at it here.
It certainly does look a bit rustic.
Ugh I tell you, that woman has gone before you've realised you've been eviscerated.
Shame about your signature bake.
Just remember - it does have to be cooked, Dan.
That's why it's called Bake Off, not Mix Off.
But you're a lovely guy, and we are very sorry we don't get a chance to spend more time with you.
But thank you so much for coming in today.
It's been lovely to meet you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dan.
Thank you.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Now, Dan, it has been an absolute pleasure to have you on the show, and we've had one of our special cakes made for you, which Stephen is bringing over.
You're looking confident, Stephen.
Well done.
Ooh, it's quite heavy.
Wow.
Ooh Don't want to drop it.
Wow.
Okey dokey.
Thank you.
There we go.
Aww APPLAUSE Oh, my Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And, of course, Dan, that's you holding your pirate island cake, complete with waterfall.
Ladies and gentlemen, please give Dan a great British send-off.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And that's it for this week.
A big thank you to Dan, to Tom, Rahul, the Mariachis, all our studio bakers, and our celebrity panel - Frank Skinner, Scarlett Moffat and Stephen Mangan.
So, one baker down, 12 to go.
Join us at the same time next week when we find out which baker loses the battle with biscuits.
Until then, goodbye.