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This week, the lovely bakers of The Great British Baking Show faced the scariest competition of all: Halloween Week! According to the theme, the remaining seven competitors had to create a trio of autumnal bakes, from apple cakes to creepy swinging lantern cookies. Both the signature and showstopper challenges went off without a hitch—but, for the third week in a row, the technical was the real monstrosity.
After Mexican Week’s taco fright fest and Dessert Week’s nightmare lemon meringue pie, we were all warily heading into the technical challenge today. Yet again, The Great British Baking Show floundered, heaving a real mess of a bake at its poor bakers. Can these unlucky batch of pastry chefs catch a break?
Not today. Paul Hollywood demanded the bakers make a handful of perfectly trim s’mores, an American dessert these Brits had no business making. The example s’mores that Paul and Prue nibble on in the judges’ tent look nothing like the smokey s’mores you’d see at a campfire—they look like ice cream sandwiches. Worse: They’re not even a burnt golden brown, the whites of the marshmallows still intact.