Time to whip out the cayenne pepper and cumin; it’s spice week and our contestants were tasked with creating ‘a tricky Arabian pastry’

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Poor Terry, he’s in bits. This experience has clearly meant a lot to him after the loss of his wife. Karen sheds some tears too, I’m gutted for them both.

Final results time! This week’s Star Baker is...KIM-JOY (yaasss)!

But sadly we have to say goodbye my friend to two bakers, because tonight is the night where 9 becomes 7.

Leaving Bake Off this week are…KAREN AND TERRY. Ah, that’s a shame. They both had a rough weekend in th Bake Off tent, but it’s the right decision.

So who will it be? My guess is Karen and Terry to go home, and Kim-Joy for a well-deserved Star Baker. Daft challenge though; biscuits are for eating immediately, can’t be doing with stringing them up.

Time for Showstopper judging! Prue’s not there, but Paul isn’t usually interested in what she has to say anyway.

Manon’s chandelier looks amazing, but Paul isn’t getting the spice he wants. The pattern on Dan’s butterflies is exquisite, but the biscuits don’t have enough cinnamon. Ruby’s peacock looks like it’s been drowned in a swamp, but her cardamom biscuits are delicious. Rahul’s chandelier is wonderfully colourful, albeit a bit messy in places. The flavour is great though. Karen’s biscuits are a bit chunky, and the flavours aren’t quite working. Briony’s biscuits are unusual - Paul has never had anything like it, but doesn’t say if this is a good thing.

OMG, Kim-Joy’s chandelier is spectacular - it’s got icicles and snow scenes and everything, and her biscuits are perfection. Terry’s Christmas scene can’t really follow that, sadly. Jon’s birthday chandelier is a bit messy, but his biscuits taste great.

Assembly time! Biscuits are being strung to the biscuit structures. Jon’s biscuits are breaking, Ruby’s ganache isn’t holding, and Terry’s turtle dove has broken its neck. It’s chandelier carnage.

Karen is having a terrible day - one of her biscuits has broken on the floor, and Terry’s swans are a-burning. Not sure these two can survive spice week.

Kim-Joy is piping individual snow scenes on her biscuits. I think she might be one of my favourite Bake Off contestants ever.

Ruby’s making a peacock chandelier, featuring cardamom. DRINK. Meanwhile Briony’s chandelier is turmeric latte flavour. DRINK. More cardamom from Rahul, who is making 150 biscuits, because he loves nothing more than being under pressure.

Is Briony’s chandelier sponsored by Vodafone?

Like Kim-Joy, Terry is going for a 12 days of Christmas theme. He’s working on the maids-a-milking right now, presumably his swans will be a-swinging.

Jon’s chandelier features raspberry and chilli jam, and is designed to celebrate his daughter’s 21st birthday. Dan has declared the entire challenge ‘ridiculous’, which isn’t endearing himself to Paul. Loving Dan’s sass.

Kim-Joy is making a festive chandelier, with snowflakes and festive scenes. Manon’s gone for an Art Deco theme, which reminds her of growing up in France, because Manon is actually 100 years old.

Karen is making her biscuits from liquorice and cardamom. I hate liquorice, and anything that tastes of liquorice or aniseed - dill, fennel, ouzo and their evil friends all make me boak. Don’t think I could even smell that without heaving.

Showstopper time! Prue has been throttled by her own jewellery, so Paul is on his own.

This week’s Showstopper is a fiddly one - our bakers have to make a spiced biscuit chandelier that can be hung as a centerpiece over a table. This is not a thing, but I’m already thinking of knocking one out for Christmas. Won’t actually do it, obvs, but it’s a nice thought all the same.

The internet tells me that a mamool is a mamool, a mamoul or a ma’amoul. Either way, it’s a warm-blooded vertebrate that gives birth to live young.

So what did the judges think? They all look like Play-doh to me. Jon’s have too much flavour, and if we’ve learned anything in life, it’s that too much of something is bad enough.

Karen came last, Terry 8th. Ruby comes first!

There’s a lot of great style in the tent today. Prue’s nails, Ruby’s lipstick, Kim-Joy and Manon’s rainbow hair, Karen’s spotty top. Go Bake Off ladies.

Terry’s fig rolls have melted, and they’ve only got one minute left. Karen’s aren’t looking too special either. Those two are in trouble this week.

Nobody knows what they’re doing, but it seems to involve pushing a walnut-filled ball into a mould. Karen has used the wrong one, and she’s not having a great day.

Not sure what the tongs are for, other than to make a pretty pattern. Quite a niche kitchen tool, mamool tongs.