Bake Off Final Is Here
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Alas, The Great British Bake Off final is here. Weeks of sponges, biscuits, not turned on ovens and failing to set jellies have all led us to this one single crescendo. Indeed, years of cakes, biscuits, breads and pastries have brought us here; to what is the last ever episode of Bake Off as we know and love it. Knowing that is the last episode of the last series of the nation’s favourite to air on the BBC, and therefore the last time we will see Paul and Mary along with Mel and Sue leading the show, has given the final an even more morose tone than is usual.
The reality of this fact hasn’t quite sunk in yet; in fact I am still too busy grieving the loss of Selasi in the semi-final to even begin to approach the prospect of never actually being able to watch Bake Off again. Since all of my favourites have fallen away over the past weeks (Benjamina, Selasi, Rav, lovely Val), the best I can hope for is to see Jane win. Or Andrew, even. But I will be outraged if Candice wins, purely because I feel she is nowhere near as skilled as some of the other bakers who have left, and her place in the top three is not as deserved as (yes, I feel very strongly about this) Selasi’s would have been.
Burying Bake Off will be a difficult farewell for many who have loved the show, and even if Channel Four do their absolute best with it, it will never be the same. I have shed many tears over Bake Off and deflated sponges, and I am not the only one: the whole country seemed to collectively sniffle with Mary’s in the last Bake Off final. So I prepare myself for tonight’s tearful goodbye, and hopefully to say not goodbye but au revoir.