This 'Bake Off' fail made us all yell 'noooooo' at our screens
It's a feeling many of us can relate to. You work hard on something that requires a painstaking level of precision. And then...it breaks.
During the Season 10 premiere of The Great British Bake Off on Tuesday, contestants were asked to make a fruitcake as their first challenge during Cake Week.
GBBO contestant Henry made an intricate house out of piped royal icing to put on top of his fruitcake — and his epic fail made the entire viewing public grimace in horror.
The finished house looked beautiful. Just one final step remained, however. Henry needed to place the rather fragile icing house atop the cake.
Just as he was about to adorn the cake with his painstakingly-crafted creation, Henry's hands shook and he dropped the house, crushing it in the process.
"Oh balls," he said.
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We felt that.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
