The best Huddersfield cake creations: show off your showstoppers

Tonight’s reappearance of The Great British Bake Off will only increase the focus on cakes.

“You can’t be luckier than doing what you love doing every day”, says Edd.

“I am still wincing after Sue Perkins asked Paul, the prison governor, whether all of his cakes needed x-raying #GBBO”, said user Paul Murphy.

Despite the steely glares and his tough judging style though, Hollywood isn’t without a sense of humour about himself, and chuckles when his leather striptease – after peeling off his bike gear, he’s left sporting sensible jeans and a shirt – is brought up in a later conversation. I still remember a lot of it now.

“This year’s contestants are a cracking bunch”.

M: It’s always me saying something I don’t understand, and they are in fits. At least, he would have had his glaze not overheated in the pan – ironically, it wasn’t cool enough. It’s a well-loved cake, but which of our bakers will try to impress by reinventing this classic, and who will play safe in a bid to get ideal Madeira with its traditional crack?

Some would say that really took the biscuit… No they shouldn’t and no they didn’t.

I wasn’t particularly good at school as I never bothered revising and didn’t concentrate as much as I should have. She was really mining that “crack”. It’s basically when you the pastry at the bottom goes a bit soggy. Despite this, he recovers incredibly to finish second, beaten only by baking bodybuilder (bakybuilder?) Ugne, who coasts through the challenge so serenely, she has time to make a sugar nest to put on top too.

At the end of the disastrous challenge, he had to physically present his bin to Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry as his submission, and sadly exited the competition. “It’s quite bitter”. I’d take one of those single wooden desks with a chair attached and move it round the room when the teacher turned away.

M: You talk to Ian or Diana and Ian will tell you that it was a huge mistake and he got it. It was runny, it was in the freezer for such a short time. Like these five scandalous moments from previous series…

Mary: “Could there be a nicer job than working with these three?”

What scandals and controversies do 2015′s contestants have in store for us? Caramel can stick it.

Alongside fellow judge Mary Berry, the Wallasey baker has had an eventful time of it since GBBO started in 2010, from, to accusations of flirting with contestants. Immediately Stu unicycled in, twirling his beard and chomping on a bowl of novelty cereal, promising to add beetroot to his. I did feel that Flora made a good accounting of herself during the first challenge despite forgetting to switch her oven before she began making her sponge. Sensing overconfidence, the judges floated into view.

Despite this she made it all the way to the final and like James, Ruby has published a cook book – called crumb – where she discusses her favourite simple recipes.

Dorret’s ability to bake immediately curdled in her hands.