Great British Bake Off viewers left ‘confused’ after contestants make fruit teacakes instead of chocolate ones

Fans of the show were expecting biscuits and marshmallow not bread and fruit
Cake confusion: Bake Off fans were baffled by the contestants' fruit teacakes
Channel 4
Aime Grant Cumberbatch13 September 2017

Great British Bake Off fans were left ‘confused’ after the contestants made fruit teacakes, rather than chocolate and marshmallow ones.

It was bread week on the Channel 4 competition and the bakers were challenged with tackling teacakes in the first round.

But as both the bread-based snack and the more decadent chocolate treat made by Scottish bakers Tunnocks share the same name, it caused some confusion among viewers.

Many were left bewildered as instead of rustling up biscuits topped with fluffy marshmallow and covered in chocolate, the contestants set about baking buns filled with fruit.

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Fans of the show shared their ‘confusion’ on social media.

And for many, the fruit teacake simply didn’t compare to the chocolate variety.

Elsewhere in the show, the bakers grappled with a fiendishly difficult showstopper challenger which saw them construct flowers, ice creams and even dragons out of bread.

This week’s theme left plenty of opportunity for bread-based innuendo, as judge Paul Hollywood discussed ‘flouring his fingers’ and ‘well-rounded bottoms’.

Great British Bake Off continues on Tuesdays at 8pm on Channel 4.

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