“Prue would like you to make an impression of a cake. Quite literally. It’s her version of the impressionist painter Claude Monet’s favorite birthday treat, le gâteau vert.”

The technical challenge on the Great British Bake-Off, known stateside as the Great British Baking Show, was bonkers: three layers of pistachio sponge cake coated in pistachio buttercream covered with homemade pistachio marzipan drizzled with icing colored green using spinach.

I’d never attempted a Bake-Off recipe before, but this green pistachio ridiculousness spoke to me.