After a rocky week in the tent last week for our favourite Bracknell baker, Alvin Magallanes, things were looking up in last night's offering of the Great British Bake Off.

The remaining seven amateur bakers were set the daunting challenge of whipping up bakes with alternative ingredients: a signature bake without sugar, gluten-free pitta breads for the technical, and a dairy-free ice cream roll for the show stopper.

Alvin, a nurse at Heatherwood Hospital, got off to a good start with his pineapple upside-down cake, finishing his signature bake with 30 minutes to spare.

However, seeing everyone rushing around adding the finishing touches to their creations, he looked visibly anxious and wondered if he had done enough, but breathed a huge sigh of relief when the cake got a thumbs up from both Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry. 

Things took a bit of a tumble in the technical challenge when Alvin ended up in last place as his pitta breads more closely resembled naan breads.

In fact, it was clear from the start that the baker was a little out of his comfort zone when he mistakenly thought a pitta bread was shaped like a triangle. 

In the signature challenge, Alvin touched on his Fillipino heritage, creating an ice cream rolled flavoured with mango, passion fruit and Buko pandan, made from young coconut and screwpine leaves. 

His two children are big fans of his dessert of the ice cream's bright vibrant green colour.

Fellow baker Paul Jagger had to come to the rescue to help Alvin roll his sponge as it wouldn't actually roll as it was filled with too much ice cream. 

Although the judges found the coconut flavour a bit too much, the dessert was a success.

Tune in next week to see how Alvin fares in pastry week, when the bakers will be making frangipane tarts, a traditional Cypriot cheese-filled pastry, flaouna and the 70s classic, vol-au-vents.