The Great British Bake Off fans are all saying about pastry week already - 'absolute madness'
The Great British Bake Off’s pastry week has viewers in unison already 😨📺
- Pastry week has arrived on GBBO.
- All of our favourite bakers are facing three tricky challenges.
- Viewers have been left saying the same thing about Bake Off.
One of The Great British Bake Off’s most infamous themes has arrived and viewers couldn’t be more excited. It is pastry week and Prue quickly declared it perhaps the “most important” of all.
The remaining bakers will take on three pastry-based challenges starting with a tricky plait task. Bookies have tipped this amateur to be sent home at the end of the episode.
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The Great British Bake Off fans all say same thing about pastry week


It is the one week that every fears and dreads in the Bake Off tent - pastry. None of the amateurs will want to end up with a “soggy bottom”.
The phrase is an iconic and terror inducing part of the GBBO lexicon, perhaps as iconic as the Hollywood handshake. Unsurprisingly, fans were quickly taking to social media to simply declare “soggy bottom” in anticipation.
One person simply wrote: “Soggy bottom time!” Another added: “It’s time for a soggy bottom.”
Others were quick to comment on Toby’s ambition with his goal of doing a full puff in the signature bake. A fan said: “If Toby pulls off that slaggy fancy plaid AND full puff then he shouldn't have to do the other challenges, he should just get a pass to next week and start baker.”
Another wrote: “The nerds amongst us gasped when Toby said he was going full puff. Madness. Magic if he pulls this off.”
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