Episode 10 The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice

CHEERING

Mary and Paul have decided, after a lot of deliberation,

that the winner of the Great British Bake Off 2016 is...

Oi! That's mine!

LAUGHTER

Candice!

Time for an extra slice.

Hello, and welcome to the show.

Has everyone enjoyed this year's Bake Off?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

Candice is, of course, the winner,

and here she is looking every inch the champion.

She'll be back with us later

and we'll also be joined by our brilliant runners up,

Jane and Andrew.

After completing his last ever Showstopper,

Andrew took a quiet moment to reflect on how the final had gone.

It's been chaotic!

Everyone was very excited that it was the final.

They even had a celebrity visitor - Darcey Bussell from Strictly.

Although at one point, Mary had to tell her off.

Darcey, don't dig holes.

After a bout of laryngitis,

Paul's voice still wasn't quite back to normal.

-HIGH-PITCHED:

-What do you think of the buttercream?

But he was still able to go ahead with the planned photo shoot

for his new denim collection.

DANCE MUSIC

Meanwhile, Paul and Mary were being interviewed for a magazine.

Mary was asked the question,

"What do you hope viewers say about your appearance when they see you in the tent?"

Her buttocks have become firm.

So let's meet the top-notch celebrity panel joining me this evening.

First up, the brilliant comedian and Bake Off super fan,

Hal Cruttenden.

Next it's the brilliant comedian and Bake Off super fan,

Sarah Millican.

And in the week of a royal-themed final,

please welcome none other than the Queen of Bake Off herself,

Her Majesty, Mary Berry.

There are some familiar faces in our audience as well.

It's this year's bakers. Give us a wave!

I'm afraid Benjamina isn't here,

as she went off to research what a proper maze actually looks like...

And got lost.

Not really, she's on her holidays.

And, sadly, Selasi couldn't be with us, either.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

If you're both watching, a big hello from all of us.

Now, Mary, we're delighted to have you with us.

We saw a fantastic range of skills

from all of the bakers across the week.

A few of the bakers introduced you and Paul to some

exotic and unusual flavours.

There was Matcha tea from Michael,

yuzu fruit from Rav

and fennel-flavoured churros from Tom.

Which of those exciting flavours did you hate the most?

I would rather have tea out of a teapot.

I don't think tea flavours, on the whole, add anything to our baking.

We saw the bakers struggle with some very unfamiliar technicals this year,

like a Bakewell tart.

There was also the tricky savarin,

and who could forget the dampfnudel?

Mary, when Paul showed you his dampfnudel, be honest.

Were you a bit underwhelmed?

Well, I wasn't actually fascinated.

What did you think of the technicals this year, Sarah?

I thought, I mean, I know they're supposed to be hard,

but they also sounded made up a lot of the time.

Like, nobody knows what a dampfnudel is.

And next week, flugelbinders. Nobody knows!

Nobody knows what they are. Was one of them Jaffa cakes as well?

-Cos nobody looks at Jaffa cakes, do they?

-No. Why would you?

You're not going to look at a Jaffa Cake, you just shove it in.

Now, Hal, last time you were on the show,

you said something about Kate's blue mirror glaze cake?

-What was it again? Can you remember?

-Yes.

Well, I didn't know I was going to be asked back. Um...

When she was in the room.

Yes, I said it was a melted Smurf, didn't I?

No, I said things about you being scary. Her eyes do bore into you!

Now, you also told us that Andrew was your favourite.

In fact, you went further by saying he's the son you never had.

He is.

He is.

I've got two lovely daughters, who I love,

but I would swap one for Andrew. No. I really, really wouldn't.

But he's just so capable of everything.

And he's been to Cambridge and an aeronautical engineer and how

he's in Bake Off. He's just fantastic.

I was a bit disappointed at the VT that shows he's got family,

so he's not available for adoption.

And so, out of all the bakes this series, Mary,

-which one stood out for you?

-The one I remember most was the pub.

Candice did her pub that she was brought up in.

And, you know, she had it like a play and there was the

billiard table and the dartboard.

The fact there was gingerbread there as well, but it was,

-for me, fantastic because of all the little stories behind it.

-Yeah.

No, it was stunning.

What was the most unexpected sight for you in the tent this year, Hal?

Apart from Val. Um...

No, no. I don't mean you should have got thrown out! No!

No, it was she was just always... The first week, I thought Val...

Again, I didn't expect to come back.

I thought Val was, the first week, a bit all over the place and

a bit mad and then, in a few weeks, she was just...

You realised what a brilliant baker she was, but a bit mad.

As we've seen over the weeks, many viewers have been inspired by

Bake Off to get busy in their own kitchens.

It's unfortunate, but there we are.

Lydia and her sisters, Holly and Lauren, all in their 20s,

made a birthday cake for their stepmother, whose nickname is Mole.

Using this professional mole cake as a guide, they came up with this.

There are plenty more of your pictures coming up in just a bit.

Now, let's lift back the tent flaps and remind ourselves what

happened this week on the Great British Bake Off.

It was the final, and just three bakers remained.

BABBLING INCOHERENTLY

-The Signature..

-He's putting it on the head.

..was a meringue crown fit for a queen.

-Candice received the royal seal of approval.

-Oh, a Hollywood handshake.

And so did Jane.

It was a bit of a kick in the teeth to have like the double handshake.

In the final Technical, Andrew's perfect Victoria sponge won

him first place.

Well done, Andrew.

And in the biggest Showstopper the tent has ever seen...

LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

..the bakers multitasked on a massive scale.

49 things. Easy-peasy.

And after a nail-biting final,

Candice was crowned 2016 Great British Bake Off champion.

Amazing. I don't know what else to say.

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So, Mary, why did you choose Candice as your winner?

Well, Candice did everything in great detail.

I always thought she over-faced herself,

but she always got there in the end and when it came to the final,

I really didn't think that she would get it all finished,

but she did and she did it with great precision.

I mean, her meringue cake with the crown on the top,

it was absolutely beautiful!

Which got her a Hollywood handshake from Paul.

Why isn't there a Mary Man Hug, or something?

I'd enjoy seeing that, wouldn't you, Sarah?

I think you could have your equivalent,

could be a Mary Berry Boob Honk.

So, if Paul comes over and maybe they don't get the handshake

cos Paul's not impressed, but you're really impressed, you could go,

-"You know what? This is amazing."

-SHE HONKS

-I'd love that.

-You're so naughty!

-I know.

APPLAUSE

I think we all agree that Andrew and Jane were two formidable finalists.

We learned some fascinating facts about them during the course

of the final.

Andrew didn't always have ginger hair.

And Jane used to be Anita Dobson.

EASTENDERS DRAMATIC DRUMS

Jane's Victoria sponge landed her last in the Technical and she

also had problems with her cake collar.

I mean, how difficult are those collars to do, Mary?

It's very difficult to do a collar, and you put it on acetate and

you spread it.

The worst and most difficult is to use white chocolate and it

was warm, it never set, and then when it did set, it cracked.

It was very difficult.

But she grasped the nettle and put a lovely chocolate ganache all

over, which wasn't quite what she aimed at, but she did it properly.

-Better than nothing.

-It's better than nothing.

Is there such a thing as a cake collar?

That you could put around you? Like, we could all just go...

Have a little nibble now.

Finally to Andrew, who's brought precision and an attention to

detail to every one of the challenges.

Judging by the backdrop to this interview with his mum,

I bet he mows his parents' lawn as well.

He surpassed himself in the final,

taking time management to a whole new level.

Got my spreadsheet, which I've got every five minutes planned,

so I know exactly where I am.

Have you ever...? LAUGHTER

Mary, have you ever used an Excel spreadsheet when you're baking?

I don't really know what an Excel spreadsheet is.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Now, contain yourself, Hal, because the moment has arrived.

It's time to meet two bakers who made it all the way to the final,

stunning the judges with their mechanized pies and Tudor swans.

Will you please give a warm welcome to this year's Bake Off

runners up, Andrew and Jane?

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH

Have a seat. I'll look after you.

Welcome to An Extra Slice. Fantastic to meet you both.

And congratulations, both of you, on getting to the final.

I've got a lot that I want to ask you both.

I was a bit worried I'd run out of time, so I've made a spreadsheet.

Right.

But unfortunately, I haven't allotted any time on the spreadsheet

for reading the spreadsheet.

So I'll just press on.

Jane, has it been a relief to get back to making

a mess of your own kitchen, rather than baking in the tent?

It's been perhaps a relief for me, but not for my poor husband,

-who does most of the clearing up in my kitchen.

-Ah!

In all the build-up, I'd be tearing my hair out, going,

"Oh, I can't make this!"

And he'd go, "Just go and have a shower at I'll clean the

"kitchen," and I'd come down and it was just miraculously sugar free.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

APPLAUSE

Has your husband ever got a round of applause, Mary?

No, I'm going home to tell him.

Andrew, are you back designing jet engines and is doing that

less complicated than making a punting scene out of gingerbread?

Yes, I am back at the engineering.

I'd say it was maybe a bit more complicated than the

gingerbread, but I think people in the office are expecting some more complex bakes now.

I can't get away with a Victoria sandwich or the odd bit of shortbread now.

-They're expecting bigger things.

-Are they? Oh, Gawd!

Now, Jane, we know you're a garden designer,

but what I didn't realise until I saw this footage in Cake Week

was that your daughter's actually a tulip.

Now, you couldn't really be more different, you two,

in your approach to baking.

I mean, Andrew, you're all about precision and neatness, Jane,

you do like to go freeform.

I think this really sums up the difference.

Here you are with your timers, Andrew, a whole row of them.

And here you are, Jane, with your one single timer.

Which you can't actually see the time on, so yes.

I started with good intentions and I'd set my timers,

not as many as Andrew, and then I'd forget to press start.

Now, for the final Showstopper, you each had to make a whopping

49 individual bakes, including a chocolate celebration cake.

Now, you attempted a white chocolate collar for your cake,

which didn't go to plan.

What was going through your mind when your collar didn't stick?

-Did you think, "Oh, my God?"

-It was - oh, my goodness! What am are going to do?

I've failed with my chocolate collar a second time!

And I'd got a bit of ganache left over,

so I thought, "I'll slap that on the side," and I'm

a great believer that there's nothing you can't improve with a bit

of glitter, so I just whacked some on the side and hoped for the best.

Now, Andrew, your chocolate cake also went down brilliantly

with the judges, with Mary describing it as out of this world.

You'd used your gran's recipe for the cake.

Let's be honest,

it's not the first time you've raided your relatives' recipe books.

Let's just remind ourselves.

My dad's got a legendary shortbread.

My mum used to make a killer key lime pie.

My dad... My mum... My gran's chocolate cake.

Our definitive family recipe. My mum and gran's recipe.

I'm using my dad's recipe. My dad... My mum... My friend James...

I've a friend who is from Yorkshire who tipped me off.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Did you ever use your own recipes, Andrew?

Well, I like to say I took a lot of inspiration from friends and family.

I think there was a couple of ones which were direct

hand-me-downs from my relatives and friends,

but that's where I got my love of baking from.

We all enjoy our food at home,

so I don't remember mentioning it quite so much at the time.

Right.

Now, back to the final, and in the Signature, Jane,

you received a Hollywood handshake after stunning Paul and Mary

with your red, white and blue meringue crown.

But it wasn't any old Hollywood handshake, was it?

No. It was a two-hander. A Roman clasp.

How did that feel?

There was no way I expected a double handshake,

a handshake of any description from Paul,

so it just completely knocked me off my feet.

I was just thrilled to bits.

I thought, "Yes! The game's still on!"

It's just lovely when they like something.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

-It really is. It's the joy.

-It tasted so good.

-Thank you!

Which was your favourite bake over the ten weeks you were in the tent?

-Favourite bake of mine?

-Yeah, not anyone else's, Jane!

I think it was my mousse cakes.

I set myself a huge challenge and I lost

a lot of sleep over the little fleur de lis wrap on my chocolate

and coffee ones and my blackcurrant didn't quite set.

I think I got good mousses and I was hugely relieved about that

and honestly, the mess, they didn't show the mess,

but it wasn't just a chocolate abattoir, there was blackcurrant...

There was like...

So I think Mousse Week, I thoroughly enjoyed.

I was really pleased to turn out what I did in the end.

Which of your bakes of the ten weeks were you most proud of?

The one I'm most proud of, probably my geared pies because I think that was something

totally new that I brought into the tent and it was

a bit risky cos they'd fallen off a couple of times when I was

practising at home, but that really, I think,

summarised what my approach to baking is.

You know, mixing engineering with baking. It's kind of my two loves coming together.

So that was my proudest one.

That was actually my favourite week,

when the tent went all Tudor, because both

of your March Pain centrepieces were memorable, but for different reasons.

The judges loved your swan design, Jane,

and were really impressed by the skills and perfectly baked sponge,

and of course, Andrew, your jousting knight was the talk of the tent.

-Yes.

-LAUGHTER

-Don't laugh at him!

-It's character building!

They were going to have two lovely shards and one of the shards

was going to go in at arm level, exactly at arm level, but just in that rush at the end,

the nuts had to go on and they just ended up where they ended up.

I had to get them on there and it's very unfortunate,

but it gave everyone a good giggle at home.

Well, I've loved watching both of you over the weeks.

Thank you very much for being here.

We've got a cake for each of you, which Tom and Rav are bringing over.

Thank you, guys

AUDIENCE: Aw!

APPLAUSE

Jane, it's you with your Star Baker worthy mirror glaze cake,

your fleur de lis mousse, March Pain swans and of course, a messy apron.

Thank you.

And yours, Andrew, or course, with your Ferris wheel,

Da Vinci pie, gingerbread bike and precision ruler.

So, congratulations to both of you for being Bake Off finalists.

Let's give them a Great British send off, Andrew and Jane.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE Thank you so much.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Let's have a final look at the spectacular baking efforts

made by viewers in their kitchens around Britain and beyond.

Amanda from Ipswich was inspired by one of the technical

challenges to attempt a giant Jaffa Cake and found this picture

on the internet as a guide.

Like several of the bakers in the tent,

she didn't get the zig-zag pattern on the chocolate quite right,

but full marks otherwise, Amanda.

Eva from Bern in Switzerland wanted to make an owl cake for her

daughter's first birthday.

And a brilliant job she made of it,

especially as it was the very first cake Eva had attempted.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

Meanwhile, in Derbyshire, Chloe and her friend Max were also

making an owl cake.

Here's the birthday cake Max's one-year-old daughter got.

Irene from Shipston-on-Stour also went for an owl cake,

which she baked for her two grandsons, Matthew and James.

Irene tells us it didn't go too well, as the eyes are a bit funny.

Oh, don't be modest, Irene. Let's have a look.

Be honest, Irene.

Did you just stick two fondant eyes on to a piece of toast?

Bakes that depict your pet dogs continue to be popular.

Ella from Hampshire is very fond of her neighbour's dog, Alfie.

Look at the bright shining eyes and panting tongue.

And Ella managed to capture both features perfectly in her cake.

Is Alfie looking eager and alert or possible slightly demented?

Either way, good work, Ella.

Adam from Surrey wanted to bake a Halloween themes cake for his

niece, Lily.

So he decided to use his black cat Hoshi as

a model and here's the real Hoshi.

And here's Adam's attempt to capture Hoshi's likeness in cake.

And here's the real Hoshi next to the cake, looking deeply offended.

It's been a joy to see all your pictures,

the delights and the disasters.

Thanks to all our home bakers for being such good sports.

APPLAUSE

And now it's time to meet the baker who brought

so much to the tent - amazing flavours, exquisite presentation,

and enough second-hand knick-knacks to fill a car-boot sale.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome the Great British Bake Off Champion 2016, Candice.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Candice, congratulations. What a fantastic achievement.

-How does it feel to be crowned winner?

-Crazy, really.

Just in complete shock, if I'm completely honest.

To get in the tent was insane and then this is just...

Yeah, shellshocked, I think's the right word.

When you first entered the tent, you had one aim.

Let's just remind ourselves.

I'm so excited to meet Mary, cos I quite want to ask her to be my

nan a little bit.

So, what was it like to finally meet Mary?

She's just the boss, isn't she? No, she was just everything and more.

Not just cos she's there. But seriously, it was just she was just amazing and every

so often she'd say little things, make sure I was warm enough

and my feet weren't going to hurt too much in my heels.

I was always worried about you cos you had these great heels and

I mean, I would have been on my knees after an hour and she

used to look so very special.

-And we all love the lipstick, of course.

-Wow!

Now, you went with a pearly kings and queens theme for your

picnic hamper Showstopper.

What made you go with that theme?

Well, it was a bit of a homage to my dad's background really.

So I wanted to get that in there, but then I thought, well,

I'm using manchego and olives, but then all I could think of was

Del Boy, saying, "A bit of manchego, some olives..."

So we went with that really.

My little heritage, I think.

Now, the judges loved your mango and strawberry meringue crown and

you got a Hollywood handshake from Paul.

Let's have a look.

-Yeah. I like that.

-Ooh, Hollywood handshake.

Hollywood handshake!

-How did that feel?

-I thought I was quite cool about that.

LAUGHTER

In a way, but you looked very surprised there.

I was really surprised cos there was Jane's,

which was like those meringues, and it was so white and so beautiful,

so that was a good feeling cos I just wasn't expecting it at all.

Let's talk about some of your best bakes.

You first won Star Baker in Biscuit Week when you stunned the

judges with your 3D gingerbread pub,

complete with sticky carpet and pool table.

You set yourself an awful lot to do.

-Were you under a lot of pressure in that challenge?

-No-o, it was fine(!)

Yeah, the practices, I still don't know how I did that.

I don't think I could ever do it again because the practices were horrendous.

One was so big, I think I could have actually gone into it for a pint.

The other one, my boyfriend Liam said, "Oh, you've done a stable.

"That's nice."

It's the pub! And so, yeah, it shouldn't have gone that well.

Cos the practices had been awful.

You won Star Baker for a third time in Tudor Week.

Your March Pain Showstopper was a real highlight.

Were you pleased with that bake?

Yeah, that for me, I think, was a real turning point.

One of my friends, a couple of years ago,

came round to find me crying over biscuits I was supposed to be

making for a baby shower and drinking red wine out of the bottle,

so to make a peacock like that was quite a big step up and that was...

I was proud of that cos that's something I would have never

ever thought I could do.

I think drinking red wine out of the bottle's always

a good solution to problems.

-It made me feel better.

-Isn't it, Mary? Um...

-LAUGHTER

-Don't know what she's talking about.

Now, one of the things I loved about watching you in the tent was

guessing which antique you'd bring out to present your next bake on.

Where did you actually get them all from?

Made quite good friends with various people in antiques shops and

vintage shops.

I love everything vintage,

so for me, that was kind of the route I wanted to go down.

I had a lot of fun researching.

My bank balance and our house,

maybe not so much when I'm getting miniature French 120-year-old

pianos delivered, but what else was are going to put fondant fancies on?

I don't know.

Well, absolutely. Well, you've inspired me, I must say.

Not to actually do any baking,

but to up my game when I present my shop-bought bakes.

I particularly liked your idea of presenting

a mirror glaze cake on a mirror.

So I thought I'd put my own twist on that by presenting

a Victoria sponge on a sponge.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Looks nice, doesn't it?

We've loved watching every minute of you in the tent and you've

done brilliantly to fight off such stiff competition, so we've

made you a special cake, which Andrew and Jane are bringing over.

Mm.

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

Keep going. You're doing well.

-Fantastic.

-Are we on?

-I think you're on.

-Thank you.

-Hello, Candice(!)

Now, this could go horribly wrong.

I'm going to do my best here. Ooh, yay-e-e-e.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

So, that, of course is you with your Showstopping meringue crown

and of course, the King and Queen of Bake Off, Mary and Paul.

Ladies and gentlemen,

it's the 2016 Great British Bake Off Champion, Candice.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

A big thank you to all the Bake Off bakers for being here,

to Andrew, Jane, and Candice. And a huge thank you, of course,

to our panel, Hal Cruttenden...

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..Sarah Millican...

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..and Mary Berry. CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Thank you so much for watching. Goodnight.

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