Jonathan: "Baking is my obsession. It's what I'm about all the time. You know, it's my hobby, it's my love, it's everything to me really. I adore it."

Mary Berry: "Now there's something, I guess marmalady going on in the pan."

Jonathan: "Marmalade. Part of my orange cream for the top of my carrot cake that I'm making. The first lot of eggs, they were bad because I left them on the heat too long so they curdled. That's what happens when you try and do too many things at once."

Voice-over: "25 year old research analyst Jonathan Shepherd lives in St. Albans with his girlfriend Jenny. Baking is in his blood. His grandfather owned a successful bakery in Bristol. His signature bake is a triple layered classic. A carrot cake with a lime and cream cheese icing and handmade carrot decorations.

Mary Berry: "You've got three cake tins there. Why did you choose to do it in three?"

Jonathan: "I'm really bad at slicing cakes in half, so I feel more comfortable putting them in three separate tins."

 

Mary Berry: "And also if you bake them in three separate tins, it's rather easier because they take shorter time." 

Jonathan: "Exactly. And they're cooked all the way through. A deep one is 25 minutes instead of 50 minutes. Sometimes it takes an hour if I've got it really thick."