\n The first elimination of the latest season of the Channel 4 baking series was announced on Tuesday night\u2019s episode \u2013 where the bakers were tasked with making American-style cookies, recreating iced gems and creating a \u201cvisually striking\u201d biscuit mosaic.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the three rounds, hairdresser Tom, from West Yorkshire, was named star baker while Danni from Dorset was told they would be leaving the tent.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following their elimination, the 25-year-old said: \u201cThank you so much, it\u2019s been so lovely, it has! Oh my goodness, I am really happy that I was the first one out because I know everyone in there has more skills than me.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut I think I\u2019ve learned something about myself, which is that in the right circumstances I can make quite a few friends. Finding love in a group of strangers \u2013 that\u2019s just beautiful.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite being the first baker sent packing, Danni said they felt the \u201cwriting was on the wall\u201d and it \u201cwasn\u2019t a surprise at all\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOf all the bakers there I was easily the weakest, which isn\u2019t bad at all \u2013 it means I have 11 other people to bug about baking questions now whenever I want!!!\u201d they said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Danni added that competing on Bake Off gave them \u201csome of the best advice about how to improve something that I love\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The first challenge of biscuit week saw the bakers tasked with creating 30 identical American-style cookies, which could have different flavours, but needed to be decorated uniformly.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe most important thing about the decoration is that is doesn\u2019t overwhelm the cookie \u2013 it should enhance the cookie. What is mustn\u2019t do is compete with it,\u201d judge Nigella Lawson advised.\n<\/p>\n
\n Being a vegan, Danni told Lawson and fellow judge Paul Hollywood they were not going to be able to try their \u201cSnickerdoodle\u201d cookies with cinnamon and a topping of peanut brittle that included cream and butter before presenting them.\n<\/p>\n
\n Although Danni was making a biscuit with some of Hollywood\u2019s favourite flavours, they joked: \u201cIf I get it wrong, he will decapitate me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n When it came to the tasting, Nigella said the cookies had \u201ctoo much cinnamon and bicarb\u201d while Hollywood called it \u201cpowdery\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to know what you are baking if you don\u2019t taste it,\u201d Lawson added.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, praise came for Clara\u2019s tiramisu inspired biscuits, with Hollywood leaving her shocked after saying he \u201cwould have given a handshake for that\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhy are you not giving me one?\u201d she questioned.\n<\/p>\n
\n He replied: \u201cThe cookie is spot on \u2013 perfect. The topping flavour \u2013 perfect. There\u2019s just too much of it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Lawson added that Clara had \u201cslightly swamped it in the mascarpone\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other creations were told they had \u201ctoo much salt\u201d and that the bakers had gone over the top with the toppings.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tom\u2019s almond praline, salted peanuts and chocolate cookies were called \u201cbang on target\u201d by Hollywood.\n<\/p>\n
\n The hairdresser from West Yorkshire then had another success in the technical challenge where the bakers had to recreate iced gems \u2013 with his biscuits being singled out as the best.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, when it came to the showstopper challenge, he hit a hurdle.\n<\/p>\n
\n The bakers had been tasked with creating a \u201cvisually striking biscuit mosaic\u201d which had to depict an image or pattern and be created using an array of smaller biscuits and edible glue on a biscuit base.\n<\/p>\n
\n Designs ranged from a computer, clock, and sunflowers \u2013 while Tom\u2019s was inspired by the Burn Book from the 2004 movie Mean Girls.\n<\/p>\n
\n Created from more than 70 individually baked raspberry biscuits, Tom was left close to tears when realising he would not have enough time to complete it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to look rubbish,\u201d he said in the final minutes.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think they are going to be disappointed in the way that it looks. It just feels so humiliating that I couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d he added through tears.\n<\/p>\n
\n Although Hollywood questioned whether he had \u201cdropped\u201d his creation, Tom received positive comments on the flavours of the biscuit, which Lawson said she \u201cadored\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite it being called a \u201cmess\u201d, Tom\u2019s efforts throughout the three challenges saw him awarded star baker.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Great British Bake Off continues next Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first elimination of the latest season of the Channel 4 baking series was announced on Tuesday night\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}