Cake Week’s show-stopper challenge was a bit of a… bust.
An exquisite-looking David Bowie. | Netflix
An exquisite-looking David Bowie. | Netflix
Some good news: The Great British Baking Show is back!!! In today’s socially distanced world, the show tried something a little different, sequestering all 12 contestants — plus judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, and hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas, replacing Sandi Toksvig — on site for the seven weeks of competition to keep quarantine. And they seem to have pulled it off, starting up a new season with episodes dropping every Friday on Netflix for us Americans.
Collection 8’s Week 1 was, as is tradition, Cake Week, and the contestants were charged with baking a Battenberg sponge cake, mini pineapple upside-down cakes, and a fondant-covered bust of their celebrity hero. The first two challenges are pretty standard, but the third… well. There’s no winner here, least of all any famous person unlucky enough to be honored by any of…
