Great British Bake Off star Flora has turned the hit programme into reality TV for her Perthshire neighbours.
Friends of the Shedden family in Dunkeld have been holding weekly parties to support the 19-year-old as she progressed through the rounds.
Sally Robertson revealed that on two occasions Flora has recreated one of the dishes from the show so those gathered can sample her baking alongside Great British Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry.
She said: “We have a party every Wednesday and call it Bake Off Central. We get together and we’ve had up to 50 people here.
“We set ourselves a baking competition based on each episode.
“We have two WI members as judges, Joan Brookes is Paul Hollywood and Hether Gamble is Mary Berry, and they judge them blind.
“This week it was a tart. I didn’t win apparently it was underbaked.
“Flora doesn’t come but she has sent down dishes for us to try.
“Once it was a frangipani tart and we could try it as we were watching it being judged.”
She added that all the neighbours were backing the teenager to win.
“It’s really caught people’s imagination,” she said. “Lots of us had watched it before but I hadn’t. For some of us Flora has introduced us to the programme.
“We were delighted each time she made it a bit further.
“We are all biased she should have been Star Baker.
“She’s always baked and she’s always done the most fantastic cakes.”
Despite living a stone’s throw from Flora’s family home, Sally said she was none the wiser as to the show’s final result.
“I haven’t asked,” she said.
“They are not supposed to tell people so nobody wants to put them in a difficult position.”
Flora squeaked through in the semi-final of the BBC One show on Wednesday night despite having a cream horn disaster in the first round.
The St Andrews University history of art student was criticised by Mary Berry for spending too long on making decorations and not enough on the pastries themselves, while Paul Hollywood claimed not to be able to taste any of the flavours in her Religieuse a L’ancienne showstopper.
However she came third in the technical round, which saw the contestants make Mokatines.