The Great British Bake Off

We have missed you.

We've also missed the Great British Bake Off, which is going to be on our screens very, very shortly, the 22nd of September here in the UK, and also very shortly for our friends across the pond in the States and everywhere else.

But Bake Off's back, which also means there's another series of the Bake Down podcast.

Yay! Yay! very very exciting thank you so much to everybody over the years who has supported our podcast and sent in questions and sent in nice kind comments and thoughts if you want to support our podcast by signing up to a bake with a legend class we would love to see you there you can also buy us a coffee from a link in our bio which is most appreciated as you support a small podcast so thank you very very much and with me i have the lovely howard hello

It reminds me of the cake that the fairies make for Sleeping Beauty, for Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, because when it slightly melts and it's all...

Because they can't decide if it's blue or pink and it's all slightly dripping down the side.

If anybody wants to know what we're all about, please go to the Great British Bake Off website and go to Meet the Bakers of 2026.

And this cake that Paul Yanis is holding is just a nightmare.

All right, Paige, what's making you happy this week?

The Great British Bake Off is coming back for its new season next week, and I am very excited for that.

It's a great show.

I love it because all the bakers are amateurs, and a group of my friends and I do a fantasy food ball, which is our version of fantasy football, but for bakers, where we pick a couple bakers and they get points for winning things like you know getting the best bake of a particular round or getting a hollywood handshake from one of the judges or different things like that so there's it's all for bragging rights but it's very fun to have a particular set of bakers to root for every week uh just to see who's the best

Honestly, I don't know how she made it this far.

Yeah, it's like watching Great British Baking Show, having never baked a single thing in my life and thinking, oh, they mixed that for too long.

You're just letting it sit in the oven.

Take it out.

There's a clip of an establishing shot of that cooking show.

Bake Off.

If you're curious, just search Squirrel Bake Off.

I forgot about that.

And that is what Evans looks like.

think.

Number 85, The Great British Baking Show.

I watched a lot of that one when we were in

pandemic.

It's coming back, too, I

think.

Number 85, The Great British Baking Show.

I watched a lot of that one when we were in

Would you rather win Michelin or Eurovision? Eurovision.

Would you rather win the Great British Bake Off or Best Vanilla Slice in Victoria?

Would you rather win the Pulitzer Prize or the Norm Smith Medal?

I think your Pulitzer.

But I would say that, for sure, he would love the Democrats to win because the show has to fail after him.

You don't want to have a great replacement, OK? This is not like Nigella going on to Bake Off after Prue, OK? I love

it.

I love the fact you bring that in and

So I don't think we'll be seeing her anytime soon.

Maybe we'll leave it to Great British Bake Off, perhaps a Ready Steady Cook, Reignition, who knows, but...

Yeah, no baking tips, unfortunately.

Very good, very good.