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The Great British Baking Show Recap: Fancy a Shag?


A season of carefully inoffensive theme weeks continues with a throwback to the 1970s.

Christiaan has a bit of a stumble when his choux doesn’t rise like he wanted, and he has to restart his Black Forest gâteau–inspired buns filled with something called namelaka, which is a Japanese-inspired mousse. Then, when she’s doing some dance moves, she gets up on an unused counter and careers off of it in a sort of breakdancing accident that hasn’t been seen since Alfonso Ribeiro supposedly broke his neck doing a head spin. Georgie’s cake is equally garish and brilliant and inspired by her auntie’s bathroom, which had a carpet and, most likely, one of those little dolls with a crocheted skirt to hold an extra roll of toilet paper.

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