WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

THE new series of the Great British Bake Off continued with Halloween Week for the remaining seven bakers.

The bakers had to tackle a signature of baking an apple cake a technical of making s’mores and making a lantern with sweets inside showstopper for their three challenges. Dawn went home and Syabira was voted star baker in this week’s episode.

Here is Sandy Docherty’s verdict of this week’s sixth episode, as she continues her weekly Telegraph & Argus column which will be online each Wednesday morning while the 10-week series is on.

 

On Halloween Week, Sandy says: “I didn’t like what they had to do with last night’s challenges.

“But the apple cake and the s’mores tested their skills and their knowledge.

“I just found the lanterns slightly wasteful. They went to all of that effort and then they were smashed. I don’t think the true Bake-Off core would consider it baking. Wass it truly baking?

“Sandro’s showstopper was outstanding.

 

“I feel a lot of the challenges this series are a bit more inspiring. Like they used to be.

“People will go and try the s’mores.

“The star baker for Syabira was very well deserved. She was on the way right from the get-go. She was on it. She was focused.

 

“Dawn is a tremendous woman. She represents a core section of the British public that say ‘don’t write us off, we have a lot to offer. I was sad to see her go. She kind of knew it. She just got on with it.

“It takes out that age bracket that I like to see for as long as we can on Bake Off. They are a young group now. I don’t think there is anyone under 40 now.”