The Great British Bake Off: did you spot this error in the opening titles?

Fans have been raging over the crumby mistake

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by Anna Sky Hulton |
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Cast your mind back to the summer of 2017. It was, in many ways, a simpler time.

Pippa Middleton married James Matthews making Made in Chelsea's Spencer Matthewsalmost royalty, Kem Cetinay and Amber Davies won Love Island, James Argent returned to TOWIE...

But, in among all the good vibes, there was the earth-shattering shift of The Great British Bake Off moving from BBC One to Channel 4. Remember how we all got our knickers in a twist? How three core cast members LEFT? Seems mad to think about now.

And that wasn't the only crime against cake perpetrated by the still very popular indeed baking show.

Despite the move to Channel 4 and an almost clean slate (plate?) of judges and hosts, show bosses, in their infinite wisdom, kept an opening credits' gaffe very much in the mix.

And viewers were fuming.

CHECK OUT: The Great British Bake Off's greatest fails (relatively speaking)

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Bake Off's biggest fails - sloppy slider

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Bin Gate

Let's kick off with the obvious, shall we?There's not been a more tense moment on Bake Off since 2014, when series five contestant Iain Watters was left with no choice but to throw his entire Baked Alaska in the bin after Diana Beard removed it from the freezer in order to make room for her own. Iain was left with nothing to present to the judges and Diana left the show weeks later amid "health issues".

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Rude biscuit

Back in 2018 viewers left in stitches when baker Dan Beasley-Harling attempted a touching portrait of himself meeting his new surrogate baby during biscuit week. Sadly, viewers (and the judges) didn't exactly see what he saw and the moment went down in history as one of the show's biggest fails (a funny one, though).

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy on SU2C

On 2019's Stand Up 2 Cancer Bake Off Special, esteemed Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy lost his characteristic cool when his lemon drizzle cake ended up as more of a crumble, thanks to the 'help' of host Sandy Toksvig.

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Custard-gate

An oldie but a goodie, one of the show's classic fails has to be when a prolific desert thief in the form of 2013 contestant Deborah Manger STOLE the custard Howard Middleton had made for his own pud. Then-host Sue Perkins called it "either a terrible error or the most incredible case of baking espionage".

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Freddie Cakemare

This episode in 2020 was frankly FULL of the most hilarious bakes, with bakers tasked with making 3D busts of famous faces. Among the fails was a David Bowie and Blink-182's Tom DeLonge (who later paid homage on his own social media), but Laura's chinless Freddie Mercury one really took the cake (sorry).

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Pineapple Upside Down cake-gate

Another glorious fail from the 2020 series, who could forget when Sura Selvarajah accidentally knocked Dave Friday's pineapple upside down cakes off the table moments before presenting them during the technical challenge? Sura was DEVASTATED but Dave went on to place runner up, so all is well that ends well.

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Rosie's toppled custard tart

Poor Rosie Brandreth-Poynter. Her 1920's inspired custard tart in the 2019 series was looking so good, until her shaking hands meant one layer slid off the oven tray as she was assembling it in the final stages and ended up "unsalvageable" on the floor.

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KSI's cherry pie attempt

Another SU2C classic, YouTuber and rapper KSI was left red-faced during his attempt at making a cherry pie in 2021. It wasn't exactly going well to begin with, but when he upended his cake tin onto his stand jam-side-down (as you would for a sponge) it was game over.

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Maggie's sticky toffee 'puddings'

We've all been there - but forgetting to add flour to your bakes isn't the kind of mistake you should be making in the famous Bake Off tent. When 2021 contestant Maggie forgot to add this KIND OF essential ingredient to her sticky toffee puds in dessert week, she tried to play them off as "gluten free" versions. Sadly it wasn't enough and she lost her place on the show.

The opening credits sequence ends with a fit looking chocolate cake decorated with raspberries, but there is a problem. A RASPBERRY IS MISSING.

If you haven't spotted the gaffe then check it out below.

Taking to Twitter, one viewer said they were hoping that the move to Channel 4 would 'fix' the raspberry, but sadly it hadn't.

Another viewer griped, "The only thing I was disappointed by on GBBO was that the blasted raspberry is still missing off the cake in the opening titles #GBBO."

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In the name of investigative journalism, we watched the opening titles again and can report that still (STILL!) in 2021, the error remains unchanged:

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New judges, new presenters, same mistake in the raspberry cake ©Channel 4

And now you've seen it you will never be able to unsee it, consider that our gift to you.

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Mary Berry, who was a judge on The Great British Bake Off until 2016, was awarded Outstanding Contribution to TV Award at the TV Choice Awards in 2017 in recognition of her decades in the industry.

She spoke to heat on the red carpet of the event and we asked her what she thought of the series that had then just moved to Channel 4 because, frankly, we have no sense of tact or decorum.

She described it as a "wonderful format" and claimed that Prue Leith would have been her first choice to take her place in the series.

Bet she was secretly fuming inside though...

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