Great British Baking Show ™
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Pina Colada Meringue Nests
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Voice-over: "Illyin's meringues will have all the classic pina colada flavors. Pineapple, lime, and a non alcoholic rum, along with coconut in both her fillings and meringue nests."
Judge: "How are you going to make the meringue coconutty?"
Illyin: "The meringue has desiccated coconut in it and you get a really nice kind of crunch in the meringue and then the flavor also comes through from that."
"It's a shame about the overall look of them. They could have been much, much neater because they've cracked really poorly."
Illyin: "They are a coconut meringue with a lime gel, a pineapple curd rum cream with rum caramelized pineapples."
Paul Hollywood: "The curd's really sharp. I mean, it's delicious because it's that sharp. It is like having a pina colada."
Prue Leith: "So good. I'm amazed you managed to get so much coconut flavor into the meran. I should have thought of that myself. I think it's lovely."
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About The Great British Baking Show ™
The Great British Bake Off ™ (often abbreviated to Bake Off or GBBO and referred to in the United States as The Great British Baking Show ™) is a streamed British baking competition, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, hoping to impress the judges with their baking skills. One contestant in The Great British Baking Show ™ is eliminated in each round, and the winner is selected from the three contestants who reach the final.
The Great British Baking Show ™ operates on a weekly elimination process to find the best all-around baker from the contestants, who are all amateurs. In each episode, the bakers are given three challenges based on that week's theme: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper. The bakes are assessed by the judges who then choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a contestant is also eliminated. In the final round, three bakers are left and a winner is chosen from the three.
