As the nights draw in and the weather turns colder, it's also time for an annual autumnal comfort – the Great British Bake Off! In 2018, we thought it would be fun to join in with this most British of institutions. We asked all of you to take part in an art bake off.

Each week had a different artistic theme, and you can see some of the results below.

We started with Pop Art in week one – from Andy Warhol to Keith Haring.

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And then it was the turn of the Old Masters – from frescoes to Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.

The first cake here is by our Art Detective Officer, Marion. The idea was to recreate the cartoon for a fresco of the Madonna and Child at San Domenico, Fiesole, painted by Fra Angelico around 1430.

From left: Madonna and Child at San Domenico, Fiesole, c.1430, fresco by Fra Angelico (c.1400–1455); a cake simulating how the fresco would have been pricked onto the wall using a cartoon, baked by Marion Richards; the cake partially eaten (by Art UK staff)

Marion painstakingly pricked out the design, just as a cartoon would be pricked onto a wall. As you can see, the cake went down a treat!

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci was also tackled as part of the Old Masters theme – by my exceedingly talented wife Sophie, seen here painting in the detail.

Sophie Shore painting Leonardo's Vitruvian Man on a cake

Vitruvian Man cake alongside the inspiration in an art history book

Week three saw bakers tackling British artists – from George Stubbs and Edwin Landseer to the more contemporary Tracey Emin.

Stubbs' portrait of the horse Whistlejacket was recreated in fondant.

Whistlejacket (after George Stubbs, and after being partly eaten)

...while staff at Royal Holloway depicted a detail from a work in their collection – Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) by Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria's favourite animal artist. The picture imagines the lost Franklin expedition of 1845.

The Landseer cake by staff at Royal Holloway

The level of talent and creativity was amazing – and Art UK's own Oli Pitceathly did his own take on Tracey Emin's My Bed, made of ciabatta... A bread bed, if you will.

My Bed (My Bread?) by Oli Pitceathly after Tracey Emin

Here's the original for comparison.

Week four was Cubism, and this three-dimensional cake wonder by Ksenya Blokhina, which is apparently the first thing she's ever baked!

Striking similarities to this work by Georges Braque.

Glass on a Table (Le Verre sur la table)

Week five was Impressionism/Post-Impressionism, which saw Van Gogh and others in fondant and buttercream. This submission for the by Freya Spoor is a culinary recreation of Vincent van Gogh's 'Almond Blossom', painted in 1890. We wonder if it tastes like almonds?

Van Gogh Almond Blossom cake by Freya Spoor

Here's a video of the original in the Van Gogh Museum.

Week six featured self portraits (although the contestants on the actual show did biscuit selfies earlier in the series!):

Art UK's very own Ferren Gipson and her self portrait in biscuit form

We then moved on to the weird and wonderful world of Surrealism. Dali and Magritte featured heavily!

First up is this cake is by one of our Sculpture Coordinators, Christine Blackburn – inspired by Magritte, you can see it says 'C'est ne pas un gateau', ('this is not a cake') like the famous 'C'est ne pas un pipe' on his famous 1929 painting The Treachery of Images.

Our Head of HR, Lauren, baked this Surrealist mash-up inspired by Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory and Rose Meditative, and René Magritte's The Treachery of Images and The Son of Man.

What could be easier than making a cake of abstract art? Apparently it's quite hard! We'll leave this video here to inspire you to make your own...

But does it look like a Pollock?

The penultimate week of the competition saw budding artists tackle De Stijl so Piet Mondrian) featured inside this star bake by Scott Colley. What a puzzle to put together!