Bitter sweet end for Dorset's Great British Bake Off contestant as she leaves on Dessert week
Maggie from Poole forgot to put flour in her sticky toffee puddings
Last updated 14th Oct 2021
Dessert week wasn't so sweet on the Great British Bake Off for our Dorset contestant as she has become the latest baker to leave the show.
In the fourth episode of this series, which aired on Tuesday night, 70-year-old Maggie from Poole found herself in a bit of a sticky situation.
The retired midwife missed a step while making a pavlova, forgot to put flour in her sticky toffee puddings and her show stopper imploded.
Since leaving Maggie has been gifted lots of flour from friends and family, luckily she sees the funny side of it.
"I have been given loads of bags of flour from people saying Maggie we have brought you some flour because we know you forgot it.
"So I have got lots more flour than the supermarket at the moment.
"The technical challenge I could do in my sleep, it was meant to be one of my strengths. But, for some reason I hadn't turned the page over on the recipe.
"And Paul Hollywood said come on Maggie everyone knows a sponge has flour, well I did a flourless sponge for my mini rolls, so not necessarily.
"I had mixed it all up and put it all together and I thought it doesn't look right but then when they cooked and I splodged them out, I thought oh something major is missing and I still didn't know.
"Then somebody came over and said Maggie did you put the flour in and I said, no I didn't see the flour. I could have thrown them away and I thought no I shall go with it and splodged them out on the tray."
On leaving the show she said, she felt devastated at first as it is a year of fun and filming, however she was up in London last week, filming extra slice.
"That brought back all the fun of it, without any of the stress, it was absolutely brilliant.
"The whole thing is such fun really and just to be part of it, is just such joy."
You can watch Maggie on tonight's episode of the Great British Bake Off: Extra Slice at 8pm on Channel 4.