Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episode 5, which features a school pudding signature, a molten chocolate pudding technical challenge, and a trifle terrine showstopper. The custard for Kate’s “Mr Darcy's Steamy Lake Scene' Steamed School Pudding is “embarrassing,” Julia is baffled by British puddings, and Yan reveals her modus operandi: “if you’re going to serve a cake, send it phallic.” andrea’s first bajillion attempts at trifle terrine fail miserably, but they prevail. 

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episode 4, which features a millionaire’s shortbread signature, a stroopwafel technical challenge, and a sugarwork-y caramel cake showstopper. Liam makes a Tetris-themed salted caramel peanut butter millionaire’s shortbread, somehow no one in the tent has gotten stoned and eaten stroopwafels in the Netherlands, and Yan bakes an entire jungle around a river of caramel. andrea goes their own way with a mystery bake this week. 

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episode 3, which features a teacake (the bread roll-ish kind!) signature, a cottage loaf technical challenge, and a multicoloured bread sculpture showstopper. Tempting the bread gods, Flo says she is unworried about this week. Not everyone fingers their cottage loaves properly, and Julia creates a very evocative-looking snail. andrea attempts the showstopper, baking a bunch of beets. 

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episode 2, which features a sandwich cookie signature, a fortune cookie technical challenge, and a biscuit board game showstopper. Chris puts chia seeds in his cookies, Sophie’s lemoncino and yuzu biscuits win over the judges, and andrea and Kim need to figure out how to set aside their biases against overly gimmicky showstoppers. andrea bakes a cardamom icebox cookie sandwich with strawberry rhubarb ginger jam using produce from their allotment—sorry, garden.

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episode 1, Cake Week, which features new hosts and a new judge. The bakers tackle a fresh fruit challenge, a chocolate mini roll technical challenge, and an illusion cake showstopper. James makes a raw rhubarb mud cake, Peter puts five teaspoons of baking powder into his cake (!!) and Yan’s illusion cake applies science to make an amazing ramen bowl. andrea bakes two strawberry cakes, one modern and one traditional, to visually serve up to Kim. 

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To take a break before watching season 8 of Great British Bake Off, Kim and andrea recap a show they did not expect to enjoy as much as they did — Is It Cake? Season 1, Episode 2, “Phony Fashion.” The bakers get eight hours to bake a hyper-realistic shoe, clutch, and bucket hat. Too much fondant features. Kim eats Samyang fire chicken ramen because andrea cannot.

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Kim and andrea—and Emily!—recap Great British Bake Off Series 5 Episode 10, the Finale, which features a viennoiserie signature, a set of mini classic British bakes technical challenge, and a pièce montée showstopper. Nancy and Richard somehow both end up making windmills for their pièce montée, and a show favourite chooses the worst possible timing to have an off weekend.

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 5 Episode 9, Pâtisserie, which features a baklava signature, a Schichttorte technical challenge, and an entremet showstopper. Richard makes mouth-watering baklava, Luis’s Schichttorte hits the spot, and Mary calls Chetna’s entremets “bulbous.” andrea attempts something they never thought they’d try: gluten-free phyllo dough.

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 5 Episode 8, Advanced Dough, which features an enriched fruit loaf signature, a Povitica technical challenge, and a doughnut showstopper. Luis makes a black forest cherry tree with brandy-soaked sugar cubes, Chetna gets a leg up in the technical challenge, and neither Kim nor andrea can pronounce “maraschino cherries.” andrea attempts Boston cream doughnuts! 

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Kim and andrea recap Great British Bake Off Series 5 Episode 7, which features a savoury parcels signature, a Kouign Amann technical challenge, and an eclair showstopper. Chetna and Luis make amazing-looking parcels, Kim thinks this technical was rude and pointless, and Richard somehow nails lavender and rose flavouring in his eclairs. andrea oven-bakes their gluten-free samosas instead of setting fire to their house and restarting a new life elsewhere (they also bake pistachio chocolate eclairs). 

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