The Great British Baking Show ™

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The Great British Baking Show ™ Season 14

Signature Dish:

Chocolate Torte

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Voice-over: "For your chocolate week signature challenge, Paul and Prue would like you to make a luxurious chocolate torte made without wheat flour.

Paul Hollywood: "When we think of a chocolate torte, it's usually quite a rich cake, a bit more dense and luxurious. And that is what we want the bakers to think of. But it must not have any wheat flour in it. They could use chestnut, they can use ground almonds, whatever they wish, but it tends to make the cake quite heavy. And so the bakers have got to be really careful on the fillings. Something light. Raspberries, strawberries, fruits."

Prue Leith: "Chocolate Torte is an opportunity for the bakers to show off their piping skills, their spinning skills, their molding skills. They can show off a bit, and they should."

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Matty: "So we're making mousse with a little bit of praline going through it and then a chocolate cremeux and a glaze. Hopefully I'm not doing too much."

Voice-over: "Matty's ambitious chocolate torte will be topped with a chocolate and hazelnut praline mousse and chocolate cremeux, all coated in a chocolate mirror glaze. He's hoping that a crown of carefully tempered chocolate shards will give him the edge."

Matty's Hazelnut and Chocolate Torte

Voice-over: "Nicky's topsy turvy chocolate torte is flavored with vanilla rum and will perch upon her chocolate mousse piped ganache and tempered chocolate shards will complete her precarious bake."

Nicky's Dreamy Chocolate Torte

Voice-over: "Dana's towering three layered almond based tart will be filled with cherry compote, white chocolate, mascarpone, buttercream, and candied almonds."

Paul Hollywood: "Is it going to taste of cherry or chocolate?"

Dana: "I hope both. There's a cherry compote in the middle."

I Cherry-ish You Chocolate Torte

Cristy: "So I'm making a cherry brandy cream filling. When I was younger, my mum, after Sunday lunch, used to always buy a black forest gateau, so I got the inspiration from that."

Voice-over: "Recreating her favourite childhood flavours, Christie's almond, chocolate and cherry tart will be updated with a cherry brandy chantilly cream and finished with a white chocolate collar and intricate decorations."

Cristy's Cherry and Chocolate Torte

Dan: "So I'm going for a Mexican chocolate torte this week. I'm putting a Mexican liqueur in there, which is a guanabana fruit."

Voice-over: "Dan's boozy Mexican chocolate torte will combine hazelnuts, dark chocolate, and guanabana liqueur, topped with fresh fruit and chili chocolate truffles. He's hoping to tickle the judges taste buds."

Dan's Chilli and Chocolate Torte

Voice Over: "Josh's pecan based torte will layer chocolate cremeux, raspberry, chantilly cream, and fresh raspberries from his garden, surrounded by delicately piped chocolate leaves."

Prue Leith: "Chocolate and pecans and raspberry. They are a very classic combination. I've not seen ground pecans used in the sponge before."

Josh's Raspberry and Chocolate Torte

Tasha's Ginger, Almond and Dark Chocolate Torte

Tasha: "I'm doing a ginger torte with a good amount of booze, so I've got amaretto and ginger wine inside the torte. Weird combination on its own, but in cake, it works really well."

Voice-over: "Tasha's unusual ginger cocktail would be combined with dark chocolate and ground almonds. And for an even stronger spice kick, she'll decorate the torte with piped praline ganache and ginger mascarpone."

Prue Leith: "What I like about this is you're really pushing the boat out, because to put ginger with chocolate is clever."

Tasha's Ginger, Almond and Dark Chocolate Torte

Saku: "I am making a saku torte. It's like sachertorte, but instead of apricot jam, I'm using raspberry jam. Instead of writing sacher, I'm going to write saku."

Voice-over: "Saku's personalized twist on the classic sacher torte will see raspberry jam sandwiched between cakes of dark chocolate and ground almond. Finished with her own name, handpiped onto dark chocolate ganache."

Saku Torte

Voice-over: "Hoping to perfect a flawless, flowerless sponge, Rowan's adding espresso and cocoa powder, and he's giving his chocolate torte an extra caffeine kick with a coffee swiss meringue buttercream filling."

Rowan: "I'm a coffee fiend. I can't function as an adult without my forest."

Mocha Chocolate Torte