Great British Baking Show ™
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Tasha's Ginger, Almond and Dark Chocolate Torte
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Tasha: "I'm doing a ginger torte with a good amount of booze, so I've got amaretto and ginger wine inside the torte. Weird combination on its own, but in cake, it works really well."
Voice-over: "Tasha's unusual ginger cocktail would be combined with dark chocolate and ground almonds. And for an even stronger spice kick, she'll decorate the torte with piped praline ganache and ginger mascarpone."
Prue Leith: "What I like about this is you're really pushing the boat out, because to put ginger with chocolate is clever."
Paul Hollywood: "I'm not sure that finish looks as good as it could."
Prue Leith: "Come on. I'm dying for the bite of ginger."
Prue Leith: "Ginger's lovely and strong, I like it, but the texture of the cake is very puddingy. Too moist."
Paul Hollywood: "The ginger brings the heat, but what I do get is a ton of amaretto. For me, it's drowned it."
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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.
