The Great British Bake Off: Has Halifax baker Tom made it through to the semi-final?

*Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of the Channel 4 show*

This week saw the bakers tackle caramel, trying to impress Paul Hollywood and Nigella Lawson with treacle tarts, millionaire shortbreads and nougatine structures.

At the start of the episode, Halifax baker Tom said: “I cannot believe I’m in the quarter finals of the Great British Bake Off. Wild.”

The signature bake was for a treacle tart where Tom shared that he had made a treacle tart with his nan but never did it again because he didn’t like it.

The judges were impressed by the decoration and the uniqueness of the flavour of his PB & J treacle tart.

In the millionaires shortbread technical Tom was the leader of the pack.

He said: “I was surprised to come first because when they tried mine there were things that were off.”

Before the showstopper Tom had already cemented himself in the next round, with Paul saying “Tom’s gone, he’s already in the semi-final. He’s almost disappeared into the distance”.

The showstopper saw the bakers create a nougatine structure for caramel week.

Tom created his structure to look like a pub on the Otley Run with the judges commenting that he had chosen something “over-ambitious”.

Leaving the tent feeling “deflated”, the rocky showstopper didn’t impact Tom’s path to the semi-final after his top work in the first two challenges.

Next week the bakers will take on patisserie in an effort to make it through to the final.

The Great British Bake Off is on Channel 4 at 8pm on Tuesday (November 17).