Great British Bake Off Launch Sees Twitter Imagine Classic Books As Cakes

#LiteraryCakes Hashtag Gets Britain In The 'Bake Off' Mood
EMBARGOED 0001 FRIDAY MAY 18 Paul Hollywood from the BBCs Great British Bake Off, launches Vintage Inns Vintage Summer Cake - a triple-decker sponge cake with raspberries, blackcurrants, summer fruit syrup, cream and blueberry fruit - to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, at The Lion pub in Farningham, Kent.
EMBARGOED 0001 FRIDAY MAY 18 Paul Hollywood from the BBCs Great British Bake Off, launches Vintage Inns Vintage Summer Cake - a triple-decker sponge cake with raspberries, blackcurrants, summer fruit syrup, cream and blueberry fruit - to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, at The Lion pub in Farningham, Kent.
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The Great British Bake Off is back, causing the country to grind to an incredibly tasty halt every Wednesday night for the next two months.

To celebrate the launch, Twitter imagined classic literary works as tributes to cake - and the results were hilarious.

From Moby Spotted Dick to All Ado About Muffin, here's the best of #LiteraryCakes...

Shaken then stirred.

Proof was in the pudding for the Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford though.

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