Summary
In 2014, the hopeful contestants bake their signature savoury crackers for cheese, prepare Mary Berry's Florentines, and create European cakes, including a Swedish princess torte.
The Great British Bake Off
- Season 2014
- 17 episodes
- Food
- Lifestyle
Episode 4: Desserts
Summary
Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood assess the remaining contestants' dessert-making skills, beginning with a signature challenge of a sponge containing a gooey sauce filling or a saucy surprise at the bottom. The technical round involves creating a tiramisu cake, before the contenders have to prepare a baked Alaska for the showstopper. Plus, presenter Sue Perkins explores the origins of Paignton pudding, a heavyweight version of which caused a riot in the Devon town in 1859
Review
Well, here’s a first; the tent of dreams, habitually a millpond of equanimity and even temper, erupts like Krakatoa when we witness a disaster and a flounce. How very un-Bake Off.
But you might have some sympathy with the infuriated contestant when one of his creations slithers to its doom like something from The Quatermass Experiment – the hottest day of the year is not ideal for making ice cream. Just to add to the stew of emotions under the broiling canvas, you may think that the mishap wasn’t entirely the baker’s fault…
Before we all turn into Miss Marple and hunt for clues, it’s still dessert week and there is much baking to be done. The nine remaining hopefuls have to make a Mary Berry tiramisu cake in the technical challenge round, which should look like a pillow for a choir of angels. “I’ve never made this and I can’t even spell it,” says one.
How to watch
Next showing
| channel | time | status |
|---|---|---|
Food Network  | - | |
Food Network | - | |
Food Network +1  | - | |
Food Network +1 | - |
Details
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- Formats
- Colour | HD | SUB | WIDE
Credits
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Mel Giedroyc |
| Presenter | Sue Perkins |
| Judge | Mary Berry |
| Judge | Paul Hollywood |
| Executive producer | Anna Beattie |
| Series producer | Samantha Beddoes |
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Episode 4
Desserts
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Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood assess the remaining contestants' dessert-making skills, beginning with a signature challenge of a sponge containing a gooey sauce filling or a saucy surprise at the bottom. The technical round involves creating a tiramisu cake, before the contenders have to prepare a baked Alaska for the showstopper. Plus, presenter Sue Perkins explores the origins of Paignton pudding, a heavyweight version of which caused a riot in the Devon town in 1859Review
Well, here’s a first; the tent of dreams, habitually a millpond of equanimity and even temper, erupts like Krakatoa when we witness a disaster and a flounce. How very un-Bake Off.
But you might have some sympathy with the infuriated contestant when one of his creations slithers to its doom like something from The Quatermass Experiment – the hottest day of the year is not ideal for making ice cream. Just to add to the stew of emotions under the broiling canvas, you may think that the mishap wasn’t entirely the baker’s fault…
Before we all turn into Miss Marple and hunt for clues, it’s still dessert week and there is much baking to be done. The nine remaining hopefuls have to make a Mary Berry tiramisu cake in the technical challenge round, which should look like a pillow for a choir of angels. “I’ve never made this and I can’t even spell it,” says one.
How to watch
Next showing
channel time status Food Network
-Food Network
-Food Network +1
-Food Network +1
-Details
- Languages
- Formats
- Colour | HD | SUB | WIDE
Credits
Crew
role name Presenter Mel Giedroyc Presenter Sue Perkins Judge Mary Berry Judge Paul Hollywood Executive producer Anna Beattie Series producer Samantha Beddoes
