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Some of the bakes look simply incredible. The mallard duck! Nicky’s beaver. Although thoughts and prayers to Matty’s dog – which looks like it has fallen into a concrete mixer.
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Matty at the start of Bake Off: “I never want to use buttercream again.”
Flashforward to now: Matty during his third buttercream fail this episode alone. Babes!
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Rowan: “I am not sure if it is going to freak out the judges. ‘Hi Rowan. What have you made? A dead lobster.’”
Well all the animals here are dead, Rowan.
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Matty failing twice on his buttercream and now making a black dog with grey buttercream. Hilarious.
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Disaster! Amos’s bake has tipped over, just before the ad break.
Yes! Another ad break! Gosh, there’s been a lot in a very short space of time. Bring back the 9.15pm finish immediately.
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Josh is baking a Highland cow in honour of his Mum.
Meanwhile, there’s this narration from Noel: “Amos is trying to build his killer whale without any support.” Is this as surreal to read as it is to write?
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Me in 2000: “I wonder what the future will be like.”
2023: “I am baking a 3D animal cake of a killer whale.”
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Rowan is making a lobster that tastes like a cosmopolitan. Welcome to Bake Off 2023.
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Prue, who once infamously said, “quite often, I need two holes so that I can squirt,” during a doughnut challenge, has just informed Nicky that she has not ever seen a beaver.
Nicky is leaning into the weirdness of it all by calling her beaver Norman.
Aaaaaand the Norman nostalgia is flooding back:
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Amos is not baking a dog, but a killer whale.
And he’s brought a photo of a killer whale as inspiration.
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And now with Dan, who is immortalising his dog Bruno in icing, we are up to THREE cakes in the shape of dogs. This is the best showstopper in ages.
Won’t be good as the time someone made a cake bust of Freddie Mercury, but we’re close.
Also love Alison constantly adding pressure by saying “Wow, the expectations on this are so huge on you” to every baker.
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Dana: “I am baking my dog Gracie.”
You might want to try saying that again, Dana.
