IT ALL ENDS IN TIERS!
Bake Off goes vegan... but the dairy-free cakes prove a flop
MAKING a cake with no eggs, butter or milk is a challenge for even the best bakers.
And so it proved for this year’s crop of challengers for the Great British Bake Off title, as the show’s first Vegan Week spelled disaster for several of them last night.
While some coped with the signature challenge mini savoury tarts and technical tropical meringue, the showstopper vegan celebration cake tested even series favourite Rahul Mandal. The 30-year-old research scientist’s chocolate and coconut cake toppled over and he had to present it to the judges in two pieces.
Things were even worse for project manager Ruby Bhogal, 29, whose chocolate, lemon and coconut cake slid off the stand as she spoke to hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig outside the tent. Fielding broke the news to her, saying: ‘I think your cake has just fallen’ as she burst into tears.
Week 7 of the Channel 4 show saw Jon Jenkins, 47, who had said ‘every meal I have is meat’ eliminated as his sagging threetiered chocolate orange Only Fools Eat Horses was labelled ‘a bit sad’. With judge Paul Hollywood expressing his ‘disappointment’ with the contestants, Star Baker was mental health specialist Kim-Joy Hewlett, 27, with her lavender and lemon fox cake.