I mean, come on, even the claws are edible almonds.

After unnerving Flora over the amount of liquid and flour in her recipe, bread expert Paul Hollywood moved on to worrying Alvin over the use of his manchego.

“I expect them to know how to get a great crust on bread”.

“I found the form online, filled it in and thought that was where it would end”.

Failing to recognise her mistake, Mary insisted: “Yes we have”.

She said: “The only moment it really dawned on me that I was actually in the Bake Off tent was when the chocolate cake went wrong in episode one”. There’s a lot of standing around in bread week as you wait for your dough to prove.

The gateau disaster was nicknamed the “Mudslide” on Twitter, but Dorret was delighted to receive sympathy from the Bake Off audience: “I got incredible support, which was great because at the time it was quite traumatic!”

But it was Mary Berry who had some stinging criticism for the fact that Dorret had not attempted to practice the piece at home.

She might not have won the 2013 series but Ruby has just been voted Bake Off’s favourite ever contestant by readers of Radio Times.

During an interview with Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2, Mary mentioned the names of three bakers who had exited the show.

“I’d been watching the show for a couple of years and been taking most of my bakes into work, it kind of started as a joke that I should have entered last year”.

Listener JamieHT wrote: ‘Poor Mary. I remember Sue Perkins saying that Richard Burr, who was behind me, was copying everything I did.

The humble baguette was the subject of the technical challenge – surely a keen-minded contestant would have smuggled a shop-bought one in down their trouser leg?

She added: “I think it’s the best team we have ever had”. John also plans to open his own cookery school at his family’s farm in Lancashire.