It all comes down to this week’s final bakes for the contestants under the tent competing to win this season of the Great British Baking Show. The elaborate showstopper challenge, which calls for the final contestants to create an edible structure of our beautiful planet,” shows off Abdul, Sandro, and Syabira’s creativity. But it’s the technical elements that highlights their skills, and this week, it comes in the form of a summer pudding bomb.
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To the American ear, this dessert sounds confusing, but both summer pudding and bombs are specific types of desserts (the latter often referred to with the French term “bombe”). The desserts are related—each a version of molded parfaits, and the use of both terms indicates precisely what the bakers should make—without any precise instructions.
