'The Great British Baking Show' Season 7 Episode 6 Recap: Desserts Week

The tent is finally down to a manageable amount of bakers on The Great British Baking Show, as the Top Seven pile in for Dessert Week. This theme week has been a standard since the second series (which Americans haven't seen), only getting dropped once during Series 8 (Netflix's Season 5), the first year it aired on Channel 4.

Dessert Week has fluctuated though on where it falls on the schedule, sometimes coming as early as Week 4, while other times appearing as late as the quarter-final. That's because it's such a flexible proposition. Series 6 (Season 3), for instance, featured dishes as easy as creme brulees and cheesecakes. While the very next season had bakers struggling over family-sized roulades and dacquoise.

This season looks to be on the harder end of the scale, coming as late as it is in the season (though viewers still have a week or two before we get to the quarter and semi-finals.) For this Signature Bake, it's the yearly meringue challenge, one of the show's favorite torture devices desserts. It's a Layered Meringue Cake, which must be a minimum of three layers and, even more terrifying, "large enough to share with friends."