The Great British Baking Show

It is apropos that the twelve new bakers to the tent are asked to make, in their first challenge, the signature, in Cake Week, twelve individual cakes, namely sandwich cakes. They are given free reign on almost aspects of the challenge in the judges wanting to see who they are as bakers, the only item in the brief being that all twelve should be identical to each other. For the technical, they are moving across the pond in being asked to make one of the most iconic of American cakes, the red velvet, this one to be towering at six layers sandwiched with cream cheese frosting. The biggest issue may be the amount of food coloring each will use as the judges have not specified the amount but are looking for a specific coloration. And the bakers are figuratively going home in each being asked to make as the showstopper a three-dimensional representation in cake of a home in which they have lived. They will have to choose a sponge that will be conducive to the weight in some of the structures being tall, yet ensure that the cakes cool completely before they carve and/or stack, denser cakes which may provide that structure but take longer to cool.