The Great Irish Bake Off

amdublin

Did no one use a raising agent? Or raising flour?

BabysCoffee

The young girl is great - very upbeat!

amdublin

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Anna doesn't have the same appeal as Mel & Sue, for me.

She does her best copying them though!

BabysCoffee

Poor Ailish.

wyrn

They keep showing Damien, it's not looking good for him

EDIT: Just saw the other cakes. Not looking good for most of them

amdublin

Ailish looked like the stress got to her poor lady

liam7831

Wow to say the standard is crap is being kind to them

Toto Wolfcastle

Ah lads, most of them are rubbish.

amdublin

Ha ha the state of that slanted one!

BabysCoffee

One coffee bean missing!!

amdublin

liam7831 wrote: »

Wow to say the standard is crap is being kind to them

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Ah lads, most of them are rubbish.

They're all rubbish! I love this program

Thargor

That lineup looks like a home economics class learning how to bake a cake for the first time, the standard is so low compared to British and Australian Bakeoff.

Toto Wolfcastle

amdublin wrote: »

They're all rubbish! I love this program

It's hilarious. I'm going to watch it again when I'm with my husband because he has to see it.

amdublin

Lily sounds very like her sister Maeve sometimes

amdublin

Thargor wrote: »

That lineup looks like a home economics class learning how to bake a cake for the first time, the standard is so low compared to British and Australian Bakeoff.

I know! It's great isn't it :pac:

BabysCoffee

This is like a skit of the British Bake Off!

wyrn

Paul: one coffee bean missing *sigh*

Ehhh Paul, have ya seen the rest of the cakes?!

harr

What's going on, surely there most be a standard ...a coffee cake should not be that hard for people who bake regular ..most of them look lost

touts

Why ask who baked each of the top two BEFORE revealing who was first and second? Surely that defeats the idea that it is completely anonymous.

A_Sober_Paddy

The difference between his and the British one is massive...its like watching El classico and Lincoln vs Grimsby in the conference national...

Thargor

BabysCoffee wrote: »

This is like a skit of the British Bake Off!

Its just like the pisstakes that Mitchell and Webb do, that slanty cake was pure comedy

BabysCoffee

harr wrote: »

What's going on, surely there most be a standard ...a coffee cake should not be that hard for people who bake regular ..most of them look lost

I'm wondering were there even auditions held for the show???

amdublin

Ah it's gas

BabysCoffee

Love Louise Lennox! She was fantastic on the Restaurant.

BabysCoffee

Will Ailish make it back for Cake No. 2?

dee_mc

I wonder if the time given for the first challenge was a bit short? Looked like there was a lot of icing onto hot cakes.

Michellenman

What happened with ailish? I missed the start. I just heard that they were only judging 10, did hers not turn out well?

amdublin

Anna you fibber they were frighteningly bad!!!!!


Poor Ailish hope she was ok.

wyrn

I can only bake a lemon cake. I fully admit, I am totally inept in the kitchen. I would have thought though that a coffee cake would be pretty ok. It's a pretty standard cake and not some fancy one from an island off Cyprus that Paul Hollywood set or a Mary challenge of making a fancy Belgium princess cake.

Also, so many of them were missing icing. How is that possible. It's icing. Did they all mess up the mixtures or measurements?

ANNA! WTF! Only have that sentence of "frighteningly good" is correct. Frighteningly god awful more like it.

foreverandever

That Darina one seems good but they seem harsh on her? i feel the commentary doesn't reflect the scores then

amdublin

Michellenman wrote: »

What happened with ailish? I missed the start. I just heard that they were only judging 10, did hers not turn out well?

She had to redo her icing so apparently was a little behind. But then she just left the tent feeling unwell. So she did not finish her cake/take part in the judging. I thought she might make it back for day 2 but she obviously withdrew completely.


Hope she is better if she's reading!

amdublin

dee_mc wrote: »

I wonder if the time given for the first challenge was a bit short? Looked like there was a lot of icing onto hot cakes.

Dee you should enter next year!

BabysCoffee

It's like they've decided to get rid of Damien already.....

amdublin

Please don't make a Black cake! It's not going to look good.

touts

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

The difference between his and the British one is massive...its like watching El classico and Lincoln vs Grimsby in the conference national...

Its not that bad. If it was 12 stern faced ICA women mass producing perfect home baked cakes we wouldn't watch it. This is about the personalities of the competitors and the presenters. And fair play to them for going into the tent. No way I'd do something like that on National TV. You could tell Lilly herself was nervous and tense last week but has loosened up a lot this week.

amdublin

BabysCoffee wrote: »

It's like they've decided to get rid of Damien already.....

Which is Damien?

BabysCoffee

That was a bit condescending of Paul asking whether he knew how to temper chocolate

BabysCoffee

amdublin wrote: »

Which is Damien?

Black Cake

amdublin

Someone is making a black velvet cake

Michellenman

amdublin wrote: »

She had to redo her icing so apparently was a little behind. But then she just left the tent feeling unwell. So she did not finish her cake/take part in the judging. I thought she might make it back for day 2 but she obviously withdrew completely.


Hope she is better if she's reading!

Thanks!

Hope she's feeling better!

wyrn

amdublin wrote: »

Which is Damien?

The one that keeps mentioning hurling and is from Laois. Once I heard this, I had him pegged to go

BabysCoffee

Ooooh Darina's Guinness Cake sounds great!

Toto Wolfcastle

BabysCoffee wrote: »

That was a bit condescending of Paul asking whether he knew how to temper chocolate

Yeah, it's not like he just decided to do it on the day. Paul is a dope.

amdublin

Plain flour in a cake hmmm

stargazer 68

Their halloween designs look fantastic. Execution might be a different tale though.

BabysCoffee

Cathy's cake seems impressive

touts

Guinness Bailys buttercream icing. So no chance for the alcohol to cook off. I wish this was on last week. I'd have had great craic handing out home made cupcakes with "buttercream icing" to the trick or treater's last night and sending them home to their parents.

Red Kev

Michellenman wrote: »

What happened with ailish? I missed the start. I just heard that they were only judging 10, did hers not turn out well?

Looks like panic, adrenalin rush, then a fall in blood pressure left her feeling faint.

She presented nothing on Day 1, so no point in going on. Pity, as she probably put a load of prep into it.

BabysCoffee wrote: »

That was a bit condescending of Paul asking whether he knew how to temper chocolate

He comes across as a bit of a prat. Doesn't have the charm of Paul Hollywood.

memorystick

BabysCoffee wrote: »

It's like they've decided to get rid of Damien already.....

I worked with him for a while. Really sound guy and got on great with all of the students and staff. Fair play to him.

Toto Wolfcastle

memorystick wrote: »

I worked with him for a while. Really sound guy and got on great with all of the students and staff. Fair play to him.

He seems like such a nice guy and you can tell that he's a great teacher.