The Great British Baking Show ™
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Episode:
Challenge:
Banoffee Pie
Paul and Prue are looking for crispy, short pastry filled with perfectly set caramel, topped with bananas and delicately piped chantilly cream.
See our recipe for a home-friendly Banoffee Pie.
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How the bakers performed
Georgie
Ranking
1
"I like this."
"That's the classic petal."
(The banoffee pie is cut.) "Yeah. Oh, that was a good sound."
"That sounded right. Yeah."
"Very crumbly pastry. I know, it's lovely."
"Nice flavor on the caramel. It's very good."
Dylan
Ranking
3
"Interesting pipe work. It's sort of all over the place, but it's a nice decoration. Bit of a soggy bottom there."
"Pastry is a bit tough as well. It's been worked a little bit too much."
"Yeah. Caramel is perfect."
Gill
Ranking
5
"That pastry looks a bit sad, doesn't it?"
"Nice and neat."
"It's quite dark, that caramel, isn't it?"
"But it's the right texture, I think."
"Weirdly, the pastry is under mixed because it literally just crumbles like an apple crumble. And that caramel is freakily dark. It's gone too far."
Christiaan
Ranking
2
"I quite like this banoffee pie."
"Yeah, it's beautiful, isn't it? The top's lovely. Nice and crisp."
"The caramel is not quite there. It probably needed a little bit of cooking out more. And pastry is really crispy."
"Mmmmm. Lovely."
"The caramel is nearly there, actually, but the overall flavor is lovely."
"Very good."
Illyin
Ranking
4
"Okay, this looks like a classic 1970s Banoffee, actually, doesn't it?"
"It's a bit tough again."
"Yeah. The pastry is definitely a bit hard."
"It's been overworked again."
"The whole thing is a little bit clumsy, but it tastes delicious. And the caramel was perfect."
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