The Great British Bake Off left fans were unimpressed as Prue Leith made a "cruel" change to the technical challenge tonight.
The Channel 4 show returned for dessert week this week, as Prue and Paul Hollywood set some more challenges for the remaining bakers. Hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas led proceedings, as the bakers took on three challenges.
The first was to create eight perfect steamed puddings, whilst the showstopper was a sponge cake with a surprise.
However, the technical challenge caused the most furore online due to a slight change Prue made ahead of the lemon meringue pie round.
As the technical challenge returned, fans were very divided by Prue's decision to not give them a method for making the pie. Viewers claimed there was an unfair disadvantage for those who weren't sure what a lemon meringue pie is - or how to make one.
One angry fan wrote on Twitter : "Really isn't fair to not give the bakers a recipe for the signature its not professional bake off. #GBBO," as another penned: "If I opened up that recipe and it had no method, I would simply walk out the tent #GBBO."
A third shared: "Basically they've been given a non-existent recipe. Uh oh. #GBBO," as a fourth wrote: "I don't understand the really scant instructions. It's not really indicative of baking talent, being able to memorize recipes. #gbbo."
"Might of been better if they had given them a recipe!! #GBBO," a fifth wrote, as a sixth penned: "Oh so, the baker who hadn’t made lemon meringue pie before, and didn’t have a recipe to do so, is last place. What a surprise! #GBBO."
However, others felt it was an easy round - and a recipe was unnecessary.
"They should know how to make all 3 of these elements without a recipe. We’re a few weeks in now. #GBBO," one fan suggested, as another added: "Even I can make a lemon meringue pie without a recipe and I'm a rubbish baker! #GBBO."
A third shared: "Ha this might be the first ever technical I could actually do without a recipe #GBBO."
Carole was booted from The Great British Bake Off tonight after her steamed pudding went horribly wrong.
Following her exit, she said: "I'm very proud of myself because I came here to achieve something as I get older. Even to get through and walk through that tent, that is an achievement in itself, and those bakers, what a great bunch of people."
