It’s the final round in week one of the new Great British Bake Off and Georgie, a paediatric nurse from rural Wales, has stepped forward with a cake that took her four hours to make. This is the moment presenter Alison Hammond has been waiting for. As the show’s judges, Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, solemnly take a bite, Hammond turns to them and asks: “How does Fanny taste, guys?”
Let me hastily explain. The showstopper round this week requires bakers to make a realistic “illusion” cake. Previously we have been told that Georgie is the owner of a hen named Fanny. Georgie has chosen to make a cake that looks like her pet chicken. Everything has been set up for the archetypal Bake Off moment: an innuendo so filthy it would be unthinkable on primetime TV if it weren’t being said in a marquee on a fine English lawn, among nice people munching on nice food. The Great British Bake Off is officially back.
