Illustrated treats from The Great British Bake Off – in pictures
In 2010, with a background in street art and no paid work lined up, illustrator Tom Hovey moved to London. He applied for a job at an unknown cookery show, and two days later found himself working on the first series of The Great British Bake Off. “My job is to illustrate what contestants planned to create, not what they baked in the tent,” he says. After growing up in south Wales, Hovey now lives in Bristol, where he runs his own studio. For the show, he sketches the bakes by hand before adding in colour digitally. Although his own attempts at baking have been ill-fated, he enjoys drawing the contestants’ creations. “I love the detailed cakes that are over the top. Anything that makes me laugh at how bonkers it is.” Ahead of two Bake Off Christmas specials, here he chooses some of his favourites.
Two Great British Bake Off festive specials will be on Channel 4 over Christmas
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Sophie’s ‘Ode to the Honey Bee’ Entremet
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Benjamina’s Floral Tea Cake
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Rahul’s Chocolate Orange Layer Cake
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Candice’s Queen Victoria Mango and Strawberry Crown
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Selasi’s Three-Tiered Ombre Floral Cake
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Terry’s Champagne and Strawberries Eiffel Tower Collar Cake
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Paul’s King Of The Jungle
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Stacey’s Tropical Trifle Terrine
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Kim-Joy’s Orange, Cinnamon and Cranberry ‘Kit-Ovai’
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Liam’s Kneadapolitan Bread Sculpture
Photograph: All images copyright: Tom Hovey