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The Great British Baking Show ™

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Pear Tarte Tatin with Caramelized Walnut Ice Cream
Pear Tarte Tatin with Caramelized Walnut Ice Cream

Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood are looking for a tarte tatin that has beautifully crisp and laminated pastry. They want perfectly caramelized pears alongside a smooth caramel walnut ice cream.

Time Allowed for this challenge:

3 hours

How the bakers performed

Georgie

Ranking

1

"This looks nice."


"I like this. I don't mind it catching on the sides."


"No, no, I don't mind that at all."


"Yeah, it's got a lovely flavor to that one. A lovely caramel flavor to it. That ice cream is lovely as well. Nice and creamy."


"I think this is quite a success."



Sumayah

Ranking

3

"This is a nicer colour."


"You can see the lamination in the pastry. Do you know, I think it could have had a little longer in the oven. Lovely creamy ice cream."


"Yeah, it is nice and creamy."


"Pretty good."



Dylan

Ranking

5

"This looks quite doughy. It's just needs a little bit longer, perhaps, in the oven for this caramel."


"Needs to be a tiny bit darker. Pastry needs another five minutes, but it's very pleasant."


"It's a good ice cream."



Mike

Ranking

7

"This looks a bit pale."


"Very pale. Really doughy middle."


"Yeah, it's definitely under baked. The flavor of the caramel is not bad, but it's under baked."


"I like the ice cream."



Andy

Ranking

9

"This one looks too dark."


"Again, very dark. Wow. There's a bit of lamination on there. It's burnt, you can taste it."


"I think the caramel went too far on both of the tarte and the ice cream.".

Christiaan

Ranking

2

"This looks a nice color and the pastry looks nice and crispy. I love the way it's been put to bed properly."


"A good bit of lamination on the side."


"Both of the flavors are great and it's very nice ice cream. It's just very good flavor."



Illyin

Ranking

4

" I quite like the colour of this one, but is it too much?"


"There's a bit of lamination, but it's not the best, is it?"


"It's not, no. It's more of a short crust. I'm not sure about that. I'm not getting great flavour from that."



Nelly

Ranking

6

"This looks pale, but I like the way the fanning of these pears." 


"I like the pears have been done, too." 


"Good lamination, though. Problem is, there's not much of a taste of caramel because it's not been taken far enough, ironically, the taste pf caramel is all in the ice cream."


"Ice cream is lovely."



Gill

Ranking

8

"The caramel has turned to molasses and is all over it."


 "But I must say, the pears are nicely arranged."


"Not much flake in there. Pastry lost its lamination. The caramel's just gone too far. But the ice cream's okay. A lovely flavor."



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