It's the quarter-finals, the remaining bakers dealing with pastry this week, one of the generally more feared aspects of baking. For the signature for which they have two and half hours, they each have to make a strudel, sweet or savory, at least twelve inches in length. They have to be concerned about the lamination in the paper thin pastry and that the filling is not too moist to make the pastry soggy and that will set properly within the time restrictions. The next challenge, the technical, has the bakers each making a British classic, the bakewell tart, in two and a half hours. The bakers will have to work on instinct as Kyla, who set this challenge, has provided scant details in the instructions. They have an additional two and half hours for the their final bake of the weekend, the showstopper, for which they will have to make a vegetable tart. They are provided great leeway in the only stipulation being that it must include at least three different vegetables. And with all three challenges, the bakers have to be concerned with the dreaded soggy bottom.
—Huggo