Nice British Baking Present’s Prue Leith Defends These S’mores

Who knew marshmallows may trigger this a lot controversy?

On The Nice British Baking Present‘s Halloween Week episode, which dropped Oct. 21 on the streamer, the remaining bakers have been requested to make eight s’mores for his or her technical problem—wherein the contestants are offered with all the needed elements and a really fundamental recipe.

Appears easy sufficient, proper? Oh, fairly the opposite.

It grew to become instantly clear that the tent’s thought for a s’extra wasn’t actually a s’extra in any respect. The recipe known as for “digestive biscuits” as an alternative of the normal graham cracker and a large marshmallow sandwiched between the biscuits and two layers of chocolate ganache. 

Followers of the present took to social media to voice their shock and horror, with one viewer tweeting, “Nice British baking present calling THESE s’mores makes me really feel actual patriotic and defensive,” and another remarking, “Was there actually not a single American round to educate them on correct marshmallow/chocolate/cracker ratio?!”

Let’s simply say the specified completed product would not be caught useless round any campfire. So, what went fallacious? 

“We do very often get into bother as a result of we do not fairly perceive the cultural references,” Nice British Baking Present decide Prue Leith solely defined to E! Information. “It is all good-humored. No person minds different individuals wanting a little bit of an fool. I am completely not an knowledgeable on s’mores. I’ve all the time although they have been a form of snack and so they might be any taste.”