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Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

The Great British Bake-Off roundup: is this the worst Dessert Week ever?

"I like dessert," Saku says at the start of Week 7. "I like anything sweet, anything savoury. Any food.” Well, after the events of Dessert Week, it might have put her off for life.

This week, the bakers had a panoply of Seventies-inspired desserts to tackle: crème caramels to start, steamed sponges with custard for the Technical and a meringue ‘bombe’ (the non explosive kind, a sphere of meringue filled with a pudding) for the Showstopper.

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