The Stylist Cake Off returned this week at the Stylist office for an epic battle of the buns, but did the competitors bite off more than they could ‘choux’?

Following the crowning of deputy production editor, Amy Adams, as the office’s new-found ‘biscuit queen’, the stakes were high for this week’s bread competition. With the brief to create a loaf "of any kind", the Stylist team set off on Monday evening, prepped and ‘bready’ to mix, knead and push their doughy hands to the limit.

When Tuesday morning came, the smell of freshly baked bread wafted down the corridors, transporting us from our desk full of paperwork to memories of quaint patisseries in the fifth arrondisement of Paris, sipping on café au lait while reading Caroline de Maigret’s How To Be French. Sadly, when it came to tasting the breads, we were brought back down to reality with a bump.

The Stylist Cake Off competition Week Two: Bread