One year on after making it to week six of the Great British Bake Off, Amanda Georgiou is still baking multiple delicious treats every week. As a mum of two, with daughters now 27 and 16, she had always been in the kitchen whipping up fairycakes for school bake sales and showstoppers for kids' birthdays.
But her passion for baking intensified when her father became severely ill, and sadly died after a two-year battle with lung cancer in February 2020. Baking for others was her coping mechanism and became something she could focus on.
She would create her dad's favourite desserts in a bid to get him to eat something. "Baking was my release really, just my time to be in my own headspace," Amanda tells The Mirror.
