"All season long, the big white tent calls out for bakers to join it. It sits out there in the field, waiting: its ovens preheated, its ingredients dolled out, its cameras set up. Only on the weekends do the bakers arrive and fill it. They try so hard. They dash back and forth. They get handshakes and they get sent home."
"The technical challenge presented for the final episode of this season of The Great British Bake-Off, the tent's final insult, was a monstrosity assigned by Prue Leith. She wanted the bakers (and us) to make a white chocolate and lemon madeleine tower. The contestants were asked to make 31 individual madeleine cookies, soft and buttery and lemony. Then these beautiful madeleines were to be disgraced by being dipped into vats of white chocolate that were dyed various shades of pink."
Kelsey and Chris attempt the final Great British Bake Off technical challenge at home under the show's time constraints. The assignment calls for a white chocolate and lemon madeleine tower composed of 31 individual madeleines. Each madeleine must be soft, buttery, and lemony, dipped in white chocolate dyed in varying pinks, injected with lemon curd through a special tip, and affixed to a tall cone finished with a ribbon. The home kitchens become chaotic while attempting the precise assembly. The challenge evokes both admiration for its visual ambition and frustration at its needless complexity and impracticality.
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