The Great British Bake Off

Proofing makes perfect as contestants mix and knead their dough into cottage loaves, cream-and-jam Devonshire splits and artfully braided centerpieces.

The remaining hopefuls try to avoid a meltdown while making tortes sans wheat flour, cheesecakes and chocolate boxes with cake and bonbons inside.

For Pastry Week, the bakers roll out savory picnic pies, rough-puff pithiviers with onion and potato and sweet pies.

Flavors from the garden bloom when contestants dig into spiced buns and lemon and thyme drizzle cakes; a technical challenge leaves one baker in tears.

During cake week, contestants create a Swiss roll with an inlay design, make fondant fancies and produce a landscape cake for the showstopper.

The bakers make 'slice and bake' Signatures, classic Hobnobs and showstopping memento time capsules. Whose keepsake crunch will see them hobnobbing as star baker? And whose time has crumb to an end?