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In the technical challenge, bakers were asked to make a shortcrust base with a set white chocolate ganache, topped with their choice of complementary ingredients.

Even seasoned bakers find it difficult to fully bake their cakes.

High street baker Greggs is set to raise prices on its breakfast meal deals and biscuits in response to growing cost pressures, the company's chief executive has said.

Other familiar model organisms include mice, fruit flies and baker's yeast.

The signature challenge asked bakers to make a batch of monkey bread, a sticky pull-apart bread made from balls of dough layered and baked in a Bundt pan.