No lack of crimp hre! GBBO 2020 thread 2

[lettingthedaysgoby]

Time for a new thread

I was sure Dave was going but he managed to produce a cake that looked like a cake and tasted like it should. It really only was the ice cream on top that let it down a little.

I though Laura would go, she’s more chaotic than Lottie and has been struggling for weeks. Last week’s star baker was a fluke but it saved her I guess. By the look of next week’s preview it’s not getting better for her...

Hang on both of Dave's quiches were thumbs down and his doughnuts were burnt!

His ice cream cake was solid but the appearance was slated. I can't remember what they said about the flavour?

I think Mark had a lucky escape there but Lottie and Laura did mess up in the end.
How was Hermine’s son there? I’m sure it’s been covered but has he been isolating with her there? What an amazing time he must have had if that’s the reason!

Just watched my recording of this and catching up with the thread. Crazy thread but the judges' decisions were right imo.

I usually call it, but this week I was sure it would be Hermine for star baker and Dave to go home.

So pleased that Laura's still in it though - she's a delightful woman with a wicked sense of humour.

I think Laura is hanging on by the skin of her teeth and could go next week.

Just watched my recording of this and catching up with the thread. Crazy thread but the judges' decisions were right imo.

Laura's getting a much better edit now. Maybe due to fewer contestants left but the personalities are being showcased

Laura's getting a much better edit now. Maybe due to fewer contestants left but the personalities are being showcased

@CaptainMyCaptain

I think Laura is hanging on by the skin of her teeth and could go next week.

Alas, I fear you may be right.

@BrieAndChilli

Wow! baker for you! Those rubix, pacman and tape cupcakes are fab. Shame Lotti messed her tape up. Can you imagine how good a rubix type rainbow cake outside layer a la Marc would have been?!

I am boring and would have done a quiche lorraine personally. I did have tesco mint and pea quiche last month and it was...erm...interesting.

Dave was so so lucky on this one - I was sure he was a goner.
Laura, I'll sympathise with a smidge cos going home due to not pressing a button would have been harsh. Her using brownie would still have been critiqued though? (Was that in the icecream itself? Paul wouldn't like Ben and Jerry's cookie dough icecream or birthday cake ice cream presumably).
Marc's was fab apart from that huge pear plonked on top.
Well deserved win for Hermine.
Peter's decoration awesome.

I would have done two baked alaska and then sprayed it silver like a but no idea how to put them together or suspend it so I'd be going home. Unless I just served a showstopper trio of arctic roll, oreo cake and a normal baked alaska: would that be enough do you think if done well?! I cannot see how making neon fluroscent 80s socks cake or homage to my sequin boob tube would be better than classics done nicely. Surprised noone went for a blackforest gateau with icecream instead of cream or was Lottie's blackcurrant meant to simulate that?

I was saddened by her exit: only because I wasn't expecting her to cry. I thought she'd shake it off but Laura summed her up well and I was quite choked up seeing her vulnerable side. Adding Hermine's son to the mix finished me off entirely!

I think you all have all called Laura then Dave going, unless another has a one-off shocker.
Top 3 for me:
Peter - winner Hermine and Marc worthy second place.
I would not mind any of those three taking the title though.

Peter's decoration was absolutely amazing but, personally, I didn't fancy the cake.

Blimey what went wrong on here last night? Was MN doing it's office\site work\clearing or was a hacker trying his luck ?

I'll watch the recording today, I like to 'spoil' GBBO for myself by reading this thread first!!

Yes I first heard of ice cream cakes in the late 80s (we had birthday treats for our dds at The Trocadero and had to order them in advance.) There was baked Alaska of course.

I thought Arctic roll came out earlier than that. I remember having it as a child, as a treat in the late 60s or very early 70s. I never tasted Baked Alaska until I made it myself in the early 90s but it probably was an 80s thing. Viennetta doesn't count, as far as I can remember it has no cake in it. Just swirly rubbishy ice cream.

From Wikipaedia:

"An Arctic roll is a British dessert made of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of sponge cake to form a roll, with a layer of raspberry flavoured sauce between the sponge and the ice cream.[1] The dessert was invented in the 1950s by Dr. Ernest Velden, an immigrant from then Czechoslovakia.[2] He set up a factory in Eastbourne producing Arctic Roll in 1968, and the dessert soon became a successful product.[2] During the 1980s, more than 40 kilometres (25 mi) of Birds Eye Arctic Roll were sold each month.[2] However, sales slumped during the 1990s and eventually the manufacturer of Arctic Roll, Birds Eye, stopped producing the dessert.[2] The 2008 economic downturn saw the reappearance of Arctic Roll as consumers increasingly looked for low-cost foods.[2]"

So it did come out in the late 60s but became popular in the 80s.

I don't understand by Libby went over Dave or Laura!!

Mind you what do I know, despite being a child of the 80s I have never eaten artic roll. Just didn't appeal to me.

Noel was behaving usually in the final summary bit with the judges wasn't he? Does he usually express such stong (negative) thoughts?

Viennetta doesn't count, as far as I can remember it has no cake in it. Just swirly rubbishy ice cream

YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!

I've also never eaten Viennetta.

Awww why did Lottie have to go? Really love Lottie !will miss her chat back to Paul. Thought Laura should have gone first or Dave who had a unexpectedly poor week Agree with others It was a stupid ice cream cake challenge, the only way these kind of bakes will work is if they move the tent to Scotland even in July I’m sure it never gets as hot as it looked last night!
Love Peter, he is very Edinburgh posh! Love it that he had never deep fried anything! His ice cream cake looked lovely as did Hermines think these two will be in the final hopefully.

The thing is, Lottie's idea was fundamentally rather stupid. Poor cooling in the tent is not a new issue. And it plainly wasn't insurmountable - Mark and Hermine produced beautiful cakes in the same circumstances.

Laura made a mistake in following a good plan, which is better than making a bad plan altogether.

I always go for a bake structure/style etc that makes life easy for me. Do that well, and you have less stress and more time to embellish in other ways.

I've absolutely given up on watching GBBO, Japan week being the final nail in the coffin.

Doesn't anyone else see the problems that theme created? Pandas are not Japanese ffs. Japanese isn't shorthand for any-old-non-traditional-Western ingredient. Mixing distinct cultures and cuisines, and passing them off as one is ignorant at best but actually racist IMO.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bake-off-racist-japan-week-china-pandas-indian-hermine-gbbo-b1392727.html

Well Edith ANYTHING could be called out for being racist, what about all the Japanese, Chinese, etc. etc, restaurants all over the world?

Isn't globalisation what it's supposed to be about nowadays?

(I didn't read the link) btw.

I think the racist element was describing anything vaguely 'Eastern' as Japanese.

I must admit, I did think why on Earth is Hermine using the national animal symbol for China in Japanese week. I could ignore the char sui as the Japanese allegedly have chashu pork which seems similar but it was nonetheless a weird kind of week.
Might have been better just using the continent and saying Asian week.
As for mixing cultures, is that not the whole point of fusion cuisine? (sorry, am not a foodie really)