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Great British Bake Off 2015 (Mod Warning: Post 1)
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Anyone else feel a little let down with the finale last night?
After watching the recap of the 2014 series, the 2015 GBBO just wasn't up to the same standard.
First task of iced buns - there was nothing to wow about them - plain enough looking, think one had a slightly different coloured icing. They all looked kinda ordinary. No fancy icing, no designing, no coloured pastry, bells, whistles?
Technical - none of them got the pastry right, I think some of them weren't too sure what they even were, they looked messy apart from Ian's.
Showstopper - British cakes
Ian's looked like he thought of it the night before. Ok he baked 5 carrot cakes, but there was nothing show stopping about them - standard carrot cake icing and some sort of weird carrot piping on it. Didn't like how it was presented.
Tamal - I thought his looked wow for a show stopper but the cake didn't look very British if I may. Sticky toffee pudding cake - is that even a cake type? But he's such a sweetheart!
Naydia - Well she was as deserving winner!
I love lemon drizzle cake! And I was welling up when she explained the story behind the cake, getting in the British-ness of if they had married in the UK that's the cake they would have had! But would marshmallow fondant go with lemon drizzle cake - I would normally have a lemon flavoured icing on top of a lemon drizzle? Thought her cake was beautifully presented although I thought it was coloured fondant wrapped around the bottom of the cake but my work colleague told me it was a stand she had. (My husband was interrupting me last night).
Lastly, did anyone else notice that it was lashing rain for the first two tasks and then as soon as it stopped raining all the friends and families arrived and were all sitting out on picnic blankets and playing on the lawns?!0 -
Sunny Dayz wrote: »Anyone else feel a little let down with the finale last night?
After watching the recap of the 2014 series, the 2015 GBBO just wasn't up to the same standard.
First task of iced buns - there was nothing to wow about them - plain enough looking, think one had a slightly different coloured icing. They all looked kinda ordinary. No fancy icing, no designing, no coloured pastry, bells, whistles?
Technical - none of them got the pastry right, I think some of them weren't too sure what they even were, they looked messy apart from Ian's.
Showstopper - British cakes
Ian's looked like he thought of it the night before. Ok he baked 5 carrot cakes, but there was nothing show stopping about them - standard carrot cake icing and some sort of weird carrot piping on it. Didn't like how it was presented.
Tamal - I thought his looked wow for a show stopper but the cake didn't look very British if I may. Sticky toffee pudding cake - is that even a cake type? But he's such a sweetheart!
Naydia - Well she was as deserving winner! I love lemon drizzle cake! And I was welling up when she explained the story behind the cake, getting in the British-ness of if they had married in the UK that's the cake they would have had! But would marshmallow fondant go with lemon drizzle cake - I would normally have a lemon flavoured icing on top of a lemon drizzle? Thought her cake was beautifully presented although I thought it was coloured fondant wrapped around the bottom of the cake but my work colleague told me it was a stand she had. (My husband was interrupting me last night).
Lastly, did anyone else notice that it was lashing rain for the first two tasks and then as soon as it stopped raining all the friends and families arrived and were all sitting out on picnic blankets and playing on the lawns?!
The cream buns, lemon drizzle and carrot cakes are all easy to make, it's making exceptional cakes that is the really difficult thing, that's why they are there on TV and why we are here on the internet! The lemon drizzle was a simple bake but importantly it was faultless. I personally preferred Tamal's showstopper myself, but Nadiya was better over the three tasks.
About the rain: the first two tasks are filmed on a Saturday, the last one on a Sunday. There is a huge stately home beside the tent anyway, so there is plenty of shelter from the rain if needed.0 -
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They did mention how lucky it was that the rain stopped before the friends and family arrived.
I was delighted for Naydia; she was so thrilled, it was lovely to see her so emotional and happy.
This was the first year I've watched GBBO (although I heard all about last year's ice cream cake incident of course!) so I'm looking forward to next year's already!0 -
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Bookies never take bets on things like this.
Once upon a time Paddy Power kept taking bets on Who Shot Mr Burns after the episode had aired in the US though
https://web.archive.org/web/20080820004240/http://www.paddypowerplc.com/cms/history_20th_century
They do take bets. There was a scandal over this years show and BBC employees placing bets on it after the final was recorded.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11913626/Great-British-Bake-Off-rocked-by-10000-betting-scandal-allegations.html0 -
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Only got to watch the finale at the weekend so I've been avoiding this thread :pac: Getting a bit emosh reading back over it, I was a bit damp of eye watching the finale when Nadiya won
Crying over cake :rolleyes: lol. I'm delighted Nadiya won, she was great.0 -
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hopefully you all enjoyed last episode of masterclass :rolleyes:The Christmas Masterclass is on tomorrow night, Thursday 17th, at 9pm on BBC2 and it'll be repeated on the 21st.
I've got the mixer they use in the show so I'm kinda all set to go
for those who missed it, here is what happened behind the scenes
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