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Twelve homebakers are tested on every aspect of their baking skills.

Twelve homebakers take part in a 'bake off', which will test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle it out to be crowned the Great British Bake Off's Best Amateur Baker.

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The Great British Bake Off: Series 4

Sue Perkins

Mel Giedroyc

Mary Berry

Paul Hollywood

Anna Beattie

Amanda Westwood

The Great British Bake Off: Series 4: Episode 3: Desserts

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Having survived cake and bread, the remaining 11 bakers now face desserts.

Having survived cake and bread, the remaining 11 bakers now face desserts. In this round the bakers have to multi-task across several different baking skills.

It's round three, and the heat in the kitchen is already too much for some, as the remaining 11 bakers get ready to deal with desserts.

Mary and Paul are upping the ante. Having survived cake and bread, this is the first week we see the bakers having to multi-task across several different baking skills at the same time; a signature trifle combining biscuit, cake, jelly or custard in perfectly distinct layers; a technically difficult task of making floating islands, which result in various forms of unrecognisable landmass by the end of the bake and a showstopper that pulls out all the stops, getting the bakers to juggle 24 petit fours that the judges might finally deem acceptable. They are taking no prisoners, and for the first time ever, there's a baking burglary in the Bake Off tent and it becomes a crime scene.

Mel explores the origins of the trifle and discovers how it was transformed in the Georgian era from an elitist dessert for the aristocracy to a dish that was accessible to the masses.

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A baker's dozen of Britain's home bakers battle it out to be crowned the country's best.

A baker's dozen of Britain's top home bakers battle it out to be crowned the country's best.

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