Overview
- Danni, a 25-year-old service centre administrator from Dorset, was the first baker sent home after Tuesday’s biscuit-week episode when judges called her Snickerdoodle cookies powdery and over-spiced.
- Biscuit week tasked contestants with making 30 identical American-style cookies, recreating iced gems in a technical test, and building a visually striking biscuit mosaic as a showstopper.
- Tom, a hairdresser from West Yorkshire, was named Star Baker despite running out of time on his Burn Book–inspired mosaic made from more than 70 raspberry biscuits and finishing the bake in an emotional state.
- Judges Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood repeatedly praised flavour and texture even when presentation suffered, with Nigella saying she adored Tom’s flavour and Paul giving ticks for bake and texture.
- The episode, the series’ second after a no-elimination cake week, sharpened focus on time management and challenge design and leaves the tent’s contestants facing early attrition and tighter margins next Tuesday.