The Great British Bake Off season 5 ends Wednesday

Compulsory viewing of late, has been the 5 years running of 'the Great British Bake off' although modified to run in your local and culture it just don't seem the same as watching these British rolly polly babes wobble around this circus tent mixing in the sweetest shit, ever into more lashings of refined sugar, a warning should be posted to those who may consume cannabis watching this show


The British never hesitate to add lashings of sugar to their sweets, and theres no disappointment here, every conceivable sweet dish has been made on this program, to every broke dentists delight ...lol

To the fans of this show there has been some great moments more so than any other cooking show on any tv, network, I suspect that their is enough of a fan base for another 5 years of tarts, cakes and sponges to come and yes cannabis is just a herb ,,..apply lightly with taste to match ...lol

link: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/oct/07/every-great-british-bake-off-contestant-ranked-in-order-of-greatness

ps I couldn't resist ..to add my favorite baker
1. Mary-Anne Boermans (S2)
Mary-Anne didn’t win her series of the Bake Off, but she managed to smash an indelible hole through it nonetheless. She had swagger. She roared with laughter at the slightest provocation. She looked, in the best possible way, like a Game of Thrones character, like she was genetically unable to finish a drink without hurling the glass against the floor immediately afterwards. But there was more to her than that – she broke the nation’s heart when she absent-mindedly iced her daughter’s name (Sacha) onto her Sachertorte.

He was the hottest favorite in the programme’s history but builder Richard Burr was beaten to the Great British Bake Off crown by Nancy Birtwhistle and her homebaked evocation of the Moulin Rouge. Birtwhistle, a retired GP practice manager and grandmother of eight from Lincolnshire, triumphed in the final of the BBC1 show on Wednesday, which was expected to be watched by 10 million viewers. Judge Paul Hollywood described the winner, who applied to go on the show last year but was turned down, as “close to perfection” while his judging partner, Mary Berry, praised Birtwhistle’s “quiet determination and the fact she never really lost her cool”.

It also helped that Birtwhistle – nicknamed “Fancy Nancy” – avoided the catastrophes in the final suffered by both Burr, whose tarte au citron was described by Berry as “sort of sweet scrambled egg”, and the third finalist, graphic designer Luis Troyano. Recalling the moments before she learned she had won, Birtwhistle, 60, said: “We were all pretty exhausted – Luis was close to tears and Richard looked the same. “I took a big gulp, and realised that this moment was like knowing the snowman is going to melt and it will never be the same again. So it was quite a poignant time for all of us. “Then the judges said my name, and I can’t really remember what happened … it was all a bit of a fog. There is nothing so scary as the final. Without any doubt whatsoever, it is one of the best things I have done in my life.
Birtwhistle, who had been labelled the show’s queen of consistency, earned top marks in the final’s technical challenge with her tarte au citron – described by Berry as her “piece de resistance”.But Burr, who had never made a tarte au citron before, said his plan was to “whack it in the oven and hope for the best”. It turned out to be the worst, as it did for Troyano, whose tarts were also overdone and left Hollywood momentarily lost for words. Burr, with his trademark pencil tucked behind his ear, admitted: “I would love to have done better, I am not going to beat myself up about it.” Birtwhistle’s final challenge, the pièce montée, was a ginger and orange biscuit take on the Moulin Rouge in Paris, complete with mini shortbread decorations and sails made out of red-dyed caramel.

link: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/live/2014/oct/08/the-great-british-bake-off-final-episode-10-as-it-happens