Bake Off 2021, Caramel Week: A Flock of Baguettes

The Jurgenator has entered Sleep Mode.

This week we see the return of Caramel Week – a theme last seen on the inaugural Channel 4 series of Bake Off and there’s a bit of a reason it was banished for several years considering The Stroopwafel Incident of Yore.

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Bake Off 2021, Pastry Week: Bacon-eating Cat Burglar

In order to save himself from elimination George uses an ingenious disguise to cloaks himself as Prue Leith.

It’s pastry week where obviously we have to ignore the years of general advice being “just buy the ready made stuff, Jus-Rol has perfected the artform.”

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Bake Off 2020 – Dessert Week: Suet Induced Breakdown

Point of View: you’re Dave’s latest victim.

It’s Dessert Week – a fixture that I have been sceptical of ever since that time they tried to convince us that making a trifle was baking and this week did nothing to dissuade me of my anti-jelly prejudices. What part of BAKE OFF does jelly not understand?

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