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Families battle for the chance to be crowned the nation's best family of home cooks.

Competitive food show celebrating the families who make ordinary food extraordinary, presented by Angellica Bell and Tommy Banks.

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Family Cooking Showdown: Series 2: Episode 13

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Episode 13

BBC Two - Family Cooking Showdown, Series 2, Episode 13

It is party time as the families create their ultimate children's birthday cake.

Competitive food show. It is party time as the families create their ultimate children's birthday cake.

The competitive food show that celebrates the families who make ordinary food extraordinary is back! Over three weeks, 16 family teams battle it out in the showdown studio kitchen. They face a series of challenges based around family cooking, and they are judged by presenters Angellica Bell, herself a Celebrity MasterChef winner and cookery book author, and Tommy Banks, Britain's youngest ever Michelin-starred chef. In each episode, the teams are given two tasks - one they have had time to practise at home, the other a complete surprise, testing their collective ability to work together and think on their feet. 

In the last episode, one of the remaining families was fast-tracked to the final, leaving two families fighting it out for the other place. The day's surprise task is to prepare and cook a guard of honour - an impressive lamb rib centrepiece - whilst also choosing and making complimentary side dishes. Then it is party time as they create their ultimate children's birthday cake. With rainbow cakes all round, will the judges be able to separate the two families?

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