Was This The Hardest First Week in ‘Great British Baking Show’ History?
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Last Friday gave us the premiere of this year’s The Great British Baking Show , and at the risk of sounding dramatic, this may be the most stressful first week yet. The first week’s challenges, usually designated as “Cake Week,” typically falls on the soft side of advanced baking skills range, a combination of introductory bakes (a cake using a mold, for instance) with an upper level skill folded in to start the process of separating the wheat from the chaff. This formula varies, of course, but general consensus is that subsequent weeks are intended to be more difficult until the climactic finale.
What the first week doesn’t do is nearly give me a heart attack, yet this premiere induc