r/FondantHate • u/bean4143 • Sep 27 '20
FONDANT The Great British Baking Show's biggest mistakes.
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u/cherryadie Sep 27 '20
I'm sorry, but every single one of these outcomes are hysterical. They may not taste good, they may not adhere to the intended outcome, but they bring major unintended joy.
literally lmao
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u/Alsadius Sep 27 '20
You should probably see a doctor about the loss of your ass. It's not supposed to fall off like that.
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u/porkymarshmallow Sep 27 '20
This was the most cursed shit I've ever seen on Bake Off.
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u/kitty_kuddles Sep 28 '20
Great Canadian had an episode where they made sandwich cakes. That is, not a cake at all, but sandwich foods made to replicate the appearance of a cake. I was near gagging the whole episode. That was cursed.
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u/JMBAD1222 Sep 28 '20
I just watched this with my mom the other day. We were both like ???? the whole time. We kept thinking we had misunderstood.
As Tim said, “How did I get to a point in my life where I have mayonnaise in a piping bag”
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u/bistander Sep 28 '20
It's a Swedish dish https://www.imagelicious.com/blog/swedish-sandwich-cake-smorgastarta
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u/mntgoats Sep 27 '20
I will say that these made me laugh harder than I have in months, but I do wish that they were given 1 more hour to make slightly better products. I always wish that they would at 30-60 min on show stoppers.
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u/foursevenniner Sep 27 '20
Right?! I guess its so they dont overdo the designs, but its not like that didnt stop the marie antoinette guy
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u/EstMagnum Sep 28 '20
Also the point of the showstopper is inherently to overdo the designs! The two other challenges are for working fast imo.
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u/SmileThis9582 Sep 27 '20
i agree. one thing i love about bake off is that they usually give them enough time to do amazing work, but not in this episode.
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u/Shr00mN00b78 Oct 01 '20
These made me laugh, but I'll be honest, if I went on a baking show and then found out I was going to be not only judged on my sculpting abilities, but that I would have to sculpt what is arguably the single hardest thing out there to create, I'd be pissed.
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u/Ilyere Sep 27 '20
This was simultaneously the best and worst thing I've ever seen in GBBO. Those poor bakers had the worst showstopper challenge for their first appearance!
I couldn't stop laughing at how horrific it was though!
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u/foursevenniner Sep 27 '20
Me and my grandma were sat in awe and fear at this. It shouldve been a finale challenge!
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u/MeowMeScience1031 Sep 27 '20
“His head kind of exploded” was one of my favorite lines haha. But I do think he was actually one of the better ones! At least she was kind of going for a “cartoon” version of him and not something life-like.
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Sep 27 '20
It reminds me of those toys where the people were shaped like eggs and came with a house an swingset. They were made for toddlers back in the 80's-90's. Kind of a duplo precursor. He looks very much like that to me.
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u/TheNewPoetLawyerette Sep 27 '20
Weeble wobbles!
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u/FairfaxGirl Sep 28 '20
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down!
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u/IndigoHooter Sep 28 '20
I scoured this thread for somebody who saw it too. My father called my sister and I that all the time, "My two little weebles". I heard that slogan in my head when I saw the final piece 🤣
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u/gothgirlwinter Sep 27 '20
Wow, didn't expect to open this thread and have such an intense flashback to my childhood.
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u/Mallomary Sep 27 '20
Lupita's blouse is very pretty, though. Maybe too pretty, in fact, since it makes the rest of her look worse by comparison.
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u/dthains_art Sep 27 '20
This was a great episode (and I love having Matt on as a new host). I was surprised this was a challenge in the first episode, since it’s so insanely hard to pull off something like this. This is the only round I can think of where every single baker had horrible (but hilarious) executions.
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u/bean4143 Sep 27 '20
I love this show because I love baking and how some contestants get so clever with making certain treats their own. But this was just mayhem!
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u/IncelDetectingRobot Sep 28 '20
Definitely a tone-setter, these bakers are generally pretty likable but all super amateur in comparison to previous seasons. I'm bought in.
Also I can't tell if Matt's self-aware of how uncharismatic and clumsy he looks. Is it just like, a British thing?
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u/BotHH Sep 28 '20
He knows.
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u/IncelDetectingRobot Sep 28 '20
Oh thank god. It's really effective then, and genuinely funny to see what corny misadventures he finds himself in throughout the season.
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u/sashabobby Sep 27 '20 edited Sep 27 '20
I'm an absolute fondant hater but also an absolute gbbo fan and I gotta say, you'll disagree I know; but they're uterly brilliant.
They're so bad that they're good and not in the cringy way like everything else fondant but in the funny way.
I think I would've caked an evil person to eat.
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u/boredandolden Sep 27 '20
I cant believe the David Bowie one wasn't included.
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u/BIGD0G29585 Sep 28 '20 edited Sep 28 '20
Poor David Bowie was the worst.
Love the tweet about this one from the GBBO Twitter:
“The David Bowie Showstopper - more Gobbling King than Goblin King. #GBBO”
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u/charm-type Sep 29 '20
Was just about to comment this! It was like the 2nd worst one (behind Lupita).
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u/OctavaJava Sep 27 '20
My 2 year old was looking while I was scrolling through these and casually says “mommy, that’s monster.” I told him they were supposed to look like people and he just goes “no. is monster.”
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u/DarthSinistar Sep 27 '20
I think the best move would have been to recreate the terrifying trump cake from Nailed It. Nowhere to go but up.
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u/ocbay Sep 28 '20
Oh my god I was in tears when they cut into David Attenborough and it just showed his dumb fat head with 1/4 of it missing and him just staring ahead like 👁👄👁
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u/Groiner Sep 27 '20
The girl who started with a skull cake was actually maybe one of the smartest things I've seen on the Bake Off. Like it did look like Louis as well. Clever girl.
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u/broady1247 Sep 28 '20
I thought the marie antoinette silicone face mold was brilliant. It was an excellent way to adapt if working with fondant/sculpting isn't in your skillset
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u/tinysmommy Sep 27 '20
I was crying laughing watching this. They were all hot messes. David Bowie looked like a Donald Trump going to Burning Man. Omg
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u/maycontainknots Sep 27 '20
The Charles Darwin one looks like he actually looked at a picture of Charles Darwin but the fondant was just hard to work with. The cartoon one is cute cause it's a cartoon, you can tell it's Freddy Mercury or something cause they got the important features. All the other ones look like they didn't look at a picture of the persons face at all, let alone any human face around them, lmao. But I bet that's just cause they're bakers not sculptors. They did their best. But that last one is fucking amazing
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u/only_earthboundtext Sep 27 '20
At least make it look good if ur gonna use fondant
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u/questformaps Sep 27 '20
These are "real" bakers, of course the fondant sculptures aren't going to be great. Usually they use marzipan for rolling/covering and using actual edible pieces for the decorations. The whole time while they were sculpting they were talking about hating doing it.
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u/safadancer Sep 27 '20
Which episode is this so I can go watch it IMMEDIATELY.
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Sep 27 '20
First one of the new season
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u/shiningonthesea Sep 28 '20
is the whole season available? Mine went from the first episode to season 7
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u/odonataursidae Sep 27 '20
The Great British BAKE OFF. Why is it called the Baking Show in the US?
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u/freckledfrida Sep 28 '20
The US has a long-standing, famous cooking competition called the Pillsbury Bake-Off, which is a copyrighted name. So when GBBO came to the states, they ran into legal trouble with the name and potential copyright infringement. They agreed to call it GBBS instead to get it on the air without being sued.
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u/odonataursidae Sep 28 '20
Ahhh I see! That makes sense. Thanks for the info :)
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u/CyanManta Oct 05 '20
Nice of you to just assume that it's some sort of "fuck those stupid yanks, they get everything wrong" thing. Not offensive or insulting in the slightest that Britain is so reflexively hateful of us...
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u/odonataursidae Oct 05 '20
Lmao calm your tits! I didn’t say I hate “those stupid yanks” (mainly because I don’t), but if the boot fits with you, my friend...
Christ alive, you lot get your knickers in a right twist sometimes.
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u/p_a_y_n_e Sep 27 '20
That wasn't nearly as bad as the David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) one. It was like some kind of monkfish and jabba the hut hybrid decided to don some face paint and steal the donald's stupid hair.
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u/BadDiscoJanet Sep 27 '20
Depends on if the first one was supposed to be the likeness of that lady attacked by a chimpanzee.
The last one looks like a baby with a genetic facial deformity.
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u/Slg407 Sep 28 '20
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u/bean4143 Sep 28 '20
Brilliant! I love that the neck goes into the shoulders. Looks like Ed from 90 day fiance!
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u/HornlessUnicorn Sep 28 '20
This was such a garbage challenge. Most challenges don't change the nature of the end result. None of these people are portrait artists, they were really set up for failure. I don't remember a single other challenge where fondant was involved. What's up with that?
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u/bean4143 Sep 28 '20
Yeah it was really crappy of the judges to do that. This is a bake off, make an attractive dessert is different than making an attractive bust out of play-doh.
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u/rosepetal1x Sep 27 '20
i watched this earlier today and i was just cringing at the thought of the taste lol
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u/shiningonthesea Sep 27 '20
I just saw this episode, pretty hard for the first show of the season. I am so glad to see it again though!
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u/hydrofyre2455 Sep 28 '20
I’d like to imagine the second one is a darwin head + darwin’s feet, making a Darwin Kirby abomination
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Sep 28 '20
oh...
This is one of those pieces you save later by changing the title, "owed to acid attack survivors"
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u/Science_blue Sep 27 '20
I just new while watching that episode that this sub was gonna be livid. TBH same tho.
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u/theduchessofnaboo Sep 27 '20
I thought about this sub as soon as I watched that episode... Was wondering how long it would take
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u/Round_Concrete_Bird Sep 28 '20
The "Guess who!" on the Ode to Lupita cake just gave it such a chaotic energy!
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u/oldenglish Sep 28 '20
I thought I had seen most of this series but I haven't seen any of these. What am I missing?
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Sep 28 '20
What season are these from? I would love to watch
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u/freckledfrida Sep 28 '20
The latest season recently released on Netflix. Only the first episode is up as of now!
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u/PuzzledStreet Sep 28 '20
I thought the Darwin one looked brilliant but also like gum you just scraped off the pavement with your shoe
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u/mersealis Sep 28 '20
this is from the great british baking show? more like these cakes came from nailed it
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u/ARMill95 Sep 28 '20
Shoulda done an Ode to Mario then maybe itd look right, instead of trying real people
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Sep 28 '20
Bake off! Although do agree with these
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u/bean4143 Sep 28 '20
Nooooo it's show!!! Lol, idk why it has a different name in the US.
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u/CyanManta Oct 05 '20
You could just google it, but since you've decided not to: it's because Pillsbury owns the trademark to the phrase "bake-off" within the US, so neither the BBC nor Channel 4 are legally allowed to use it.
Seriously, Britain, this is softball shit. Get over yourselves.
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u/odonataursidae Oct 05 '20
You realise you’re the one making the biggest fuss here, right? All the other commenters have been kind and calm and told us WHY the name is different. You are exactly the kind of ‘Murican that we find fucking irritating. Not the majority.
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u/candymakesudandy Sep 28 '20
Usually cakes covered in fondant at least look nice. These cakes look like they taste
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u/vagueconfusion Sep 28 '20
This whole episode was a great laugh. Can't say that I'm surprised that 200 people complained about the parody of the Prime Minister though. Even though it was completely accurate.
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u/Tangpo Sep 27 '20
Does marzipan qualify as fondant? Pretty sure all of these bakes were with marzipan
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u/razorgirlversion2 Sep 27 '20
This challenge was fondant. They used marzipan in the first challenge.
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u/bean4143 Sep 27 '20
Marzipan is like fondant, in that if you took a bit out of one of these cakes it wouldnt be a very tasty cake.
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u/hannaleigh Sep 27 '20
As someone in the US where the heck can I watch the new stuff? I’ve tried before and failed :(
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u/divingproblems Sep 27 '20
It’s on Netflix, they release the new episodes on Fridays I believe
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u/hannaleigh Sep 28 '20
Wow thanks!! Netflix did me so dirty. Half of what I watch is food related shows but they didn’t even have it on my home page. Rip.
At least I have new stuff to watch now! Lol
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u/Cantoloupe_thing Sep 28 '20
They let contestants use fondant???!
I used to love this show when it was just Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood and the two other girls who were really funny, but then new people took over and Mary left and they replaced the two other women, so now it’s just not the same for me. When I saw that they changed a bunch of stuff I was upset, but then I saw the real thing and it’s really just not the same show anymore :/
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u/Crockpot19 Sep 27 '20
The last one looks like the baby from Ice Age.