The Great British Baking Show ™
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Episode:
Challenge:
Lemon and Thyme Drizzle Cake
Alison Hammond: "The judges would like you to make a beautifully decorated lemon and thyme drizzle cake. They're looking for a light, moist sponge that is soaked with lemon and thyme syrup and a sprinkling of crystallized lemon and thyme."
Paul Hollywood: "So, Prue, tell us all about your lemon and thyme drizzle cake."
Prue Leith: "It is just a cream sponge baked in a fancy tin, but the difference is it has a lot of thyme in it. What I'm worried about most is I think the bakers won't put enough thyme in it. If you only put a bit in, it'll just be a lemon drizzle cake."
Prue Leith: "I mean, obviously they've got the bundt tin. If they don't grease it properly, that cake will stick. For me, it's all going to come down to the flavor of the balance between the thyme and the lemon."
Time Allowed for this challenge:
1 hour 30 minutes
How the bakers performed
Dan
Ranking
"The definition on this one is pretty good. It's got a strong color, I think."
"Could have been a little thicker or not allowed to run right off. The crystallizing. Looks okay, doesn't it? Yeah, there's a lot of drizzle."
"The texture is very good."
"It's very light."
"It's not got enough thyme in it."
Saku
Ranking
"Moving on to this one, a bit irregular on colour. Darker one side than it is on another. It's broken a bit here."
"The lemon isn't properly crystallized. It's very raw."
"I got more thyme than I did lemon."
Josh
Ranking
2
"I like the look of this. Pretty neat on the baking as well."
"I like the way that icing is confined to small ribbons down the runnels. I can see the time, but I can't really taste it. We could have a bit more."
"It could have a bit more. The lemon's tangy enough and the bake's good."
Tasha
Ranking
7
"Bit dark. This one, it's almost overflowed on the top."
"And I really think that icing is a bit clumsy."
"Definitely get the thyme and the lemon."
"A lot more thyme."
"I do think it's slightly over baked."
Matty
Ranking
"A little bit weird with the colouring on this one. See how light dark? It's like it hasn't been mixed properly. Quite an open looking cake."
"Far more lemon than thyme, which I don't mind."
"I quite like the sharpness of the lemon against the hint of thyme."
"Yeah, I think I'd have put a little bit more crystallized lemon and thyme on top, but it's very nice."
Cristy
Ranking
1
"The icing on this is quite neat into the grooves."
"It's quite clever because the baker has put thyme in one and lemon in the other. It's very neat. Definitely getting the thyme and the lemon. Nice balance. I think it's very good."
Dana
Ranking
5
"I like the decoration of this. This is a thicker icing."
"There's a few little marks here, like it's coarse after cake's probably being left on the mould."
"I can tell you now, there's not enough thyme in there."
"Not a lot of lemon or thyme."
"I think that texture's a bit coarse too."
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