Pastry Weekthe Great British Bake Off : Season ... Official

By the —a terrifyingly obscure 18th-century French fruit tart with no instructions for the lattice—the heat in the tent had risen. Prue Leith watched from the gallery as bakers wrestled with "shortcrust shrinkage." One baker, a bubbly schoolteacher named Sarah, accidentally used salt instead of icing sugar for her glaze. The resulting "pucker" on Paul’s face during the blind tasting was enough to trend on Twitter within minutes. Finally, the Showstopper : a 3D Pastry Landscape.

Elias went for broke. He attempted a "Botanical Cathedral" made entirely of puff pastry, held together by caramel glass. For four hours, the tent was a blur of rolling pins and frantic cooling fans. With ten minutes to go, Elias’s central spire began to lean. Pastry WeekThe Great British Bake Off : Season ...

"The pastry is looking a bit... relaxed, Elias," Paul Hollywood noted, poking a finger into the dough with a squint that could curdle cream. "If it doesn't have that snap, it’s just a soggy sandwich." Elias swallowed hard. "It'll snap, Paul. I promise." By the —a terrifyingly obscure 18th-century French fruit