Ok my only take away is WEDDING!!???

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I had to google it. Seems like most of them use real flowers, which is pretty but I dunno, kind of messy because then you have to remove them and put them where? on the edge of your plate, I guess?

So pretty with the fruit and flowers:

The first time I heard of what is probably a table cake was when I was reading this article this morning about GBBO. It mentions a 4-foot long cake. I could not imagine!

THE ARTICLE REVEALS THE WINNER. IF YOU CARE, DO NOT READ. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.

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Wow, that is gorgeous. Id be sneaking tastes of the icing during the entire meal.

I went to a wedding where each table had a cake as the centerpiece. The bride’s parents baked all of them. Ours wasnt very good, unfortunately.

WEe have a local newscaster who has alopecia. She wore a wig for a long time. I think she looks very pretty now.

Sorry, Funky, but this is more form than function.

There will be tons of leftovers, who will serve it and how, are guests to pass family style platters of food overtop of it, and then the sneeze factor. I still have the brain of a caterer and If a bride brought me this pinterist pic I would cringe. Oh yeah, storing in a fridge during production and what tray or material is to be used for display? Transporting and carrying (up a stairwell?) a nightmare.

It is rightly a tours de force for competition and perhaps stops there..

The cake components are normal cake size for storage/transport and could be assembled/fine tuned at the table (or nearby if you choose).. but I do get your logistical complaints, Lisa. Not likely something I'd hoist onto a caterer.

Still, I love it .. I love that it is a canvas for something interesting. I have always had a thing for lonnnnng tables for parties. I will find a reason to have one (maybe not quite as long as the competition cakes). I just dont know for what occasion as yet .. good news is we don't serve any meals family style so no passing over the top. I also trust family to not sneeze on any food.. including the cake. :)

Having seen too many movies, my first thought was that the new puppy somehow gains access to the table top with predictable consequences.

I like it too. It is part cake, part decor. We are used to throwing flowers away, hopefully this cake is taken home by the guests. It would be hard to donate.

I kinda like it for certain events. Would definitely consider having someone, or maybe 2 people…1 at each end, on hand to cut and serve rather than have a free for all self-serve that would destroy it in seconds.

Sorry, doesn't appeal to me in form or function.

I looooved Tom’s cake.

Wasnt't it, bpath?! I loved the mix of fruit and flowers. The cakes themselves all sounded lovely too.

Those are lovely, Dani .. perfect for the right audience

I don't think the cakes have to be floral -- but I prefer that to loads of icing and buttercream embellishments. I was never the kid to eat frosting out of the can or bowl lol.

I think it is a cake you can do once ... only for the right occasion .. one with enough people to consume it. I will squirrel it away for the right moment in time (which admittedly may never come).

It's not a couple of pansies on a salad kinda thing, though. When people say a rose is edible, they are not suggesting you'd gnaw on a blossom, e.g.

True lol ...

Bunny, those cakes don’t appeal to me either. It looks like a sheet cake with a second story 😁 But I’m not much of a cake person, they are always too sweet for me, which may be why I don’t find them very attractive.

As to the finale of the GBBO, no surprise there!

Just watched the episode. I looooove icing. And those cakes had a good inch or more of it. I just wanted to drag my finger over top of it and chow down.

Tom's was beautiful. Jasmin's bakes are usually so stunning (neat as a pin as Prue would say). I was disappointed with her table cake.

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I also went to a wedding with cake centerpeices (round cakes on cake stands), but they were from a bakery. Luckily, it was an in-law family wedding so I could go to another table and ask for a slice of theirs, since my table had chocolate (that I don’t eat). My vanilla piece was very disappointing, but maybe the chocolate was better?

Since it was the first time seeing that and I’m a weddings-are-all-about-the-cake*, it seemed fun. But there was so much waste! At the end of the night they had multiple cut into cakes and tons of leftovers. We left before the very end of the event so IDK how they got rid of them. I didn’t think they were good so I wouldn’t have taken any home.

*I was at another wedding and the minister said we, the guests, were all tasked with fostering the bridal couple to a happy and successful marriage. Yo, I’m just here for the cake (which was not a cake but really fabulous vanilla cupcakes. I did take some leftovers home.).

Hhireno, I think the leftover cakes went back to the bride’s parents hotel suite. They had a brunch the next day for their friends who had come from out of town, to which, by the way, I was not invited! I was there for the groom, but staying in the same hotel, having driven from Philadelphia to Cincinnati.

The couple ended up having a nasty divorce.

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I had not finished watching the GBBS so was annoyed with the NYT. Of course, it has been hers to lose basically. I loved Tom. I have such a crush, which could not be more fruitless LOL.

I prefer savory rather than sweet and, looking at the pic, all I could think of was that it would be divine if it was a party sandwich loaf and the outside was a type of cheese spread instead of icing. Yum!

Daisy, yes Savory > Sweet.

Kswl, same with cake. Now if it had been a table PIE I would have cheered.

I prefer savory rather than sweet

me too, but obviously this is in the context of a dessert.

When I do have cake, I prefer a naked cake

Same .. but I agree that there are occasions when a cake is expected! I do think a table cake would lend itself to a whipped cream or otherwise lighter and less sweet "frosting".

Daisychain-- also love the idea of a long sandwich! Of course long hoagies are not new .. but I do love the idea of embellishing one as a centerpiece .. maybe framed with with charcuterie style little dishes and mini spreads.

All along DH and I assumed who the winner would be, but in the final we started wondering, will they judge based on the last day? or the entire bake-off? It seems to me in the past, they have weighed the last day more heavily than they did this time.

ded, I was complaining to my stylist about something with my head and the best solution would be to shave it. But she and I agreed that the reason I would shave it, is the exact reason why I should not shave it. And we talked about people with beautiful heads, and Jasmine is certainly one. At the Kips Bay GT several years ago (was it really that long ago?) I saw Sheila Bridges, did not know who she was, but I thought she was stunning.

@bpath I don't recall seeing anyone with a shaved head, but I thought I recalled the name. Did she do a powder room in dog paper. I vaguely seem to recall you saying that name in that room... IDK, it has been a long time!

I looked her up, and this is really a wonderful apartment! I like evey thing I see here.

https://blog.onekingslane.com/sheila-bridges-home-tour/

@bpath, I agree that the judges didn't weigh the last day the way they have in the past. I actually think it's fairer to take the whole series into consideration because there have been times when the most consistent baker throughout lost because they weren't the best one in the final.

Based on past years' decisions, Tom should have won. However, I think the judges were overwhelmed with Jasmine's excellent performance through the series. She's only 23 years old! Amazing!

I prefer savory also. I am the kind of person who tries to avoid as much of the icing as possible when eating a piece of wedding cake. I don't like sweets very much - except for ice cream!

@mtnrdredux_gw - I love naked cakes also - I made several of them + placed them on cut wood slices (sealed with food safe finish + a pretty silver cake board between the wood and the bottom of the cake) + made little woodland animals for the tops of the cakes + greenery + raspberries and blueberries some for my grandson's 1st birthday (plus, a special tiny naked layer cake just for him without any decorations - at the time I didn't know that it was called a "smash cake").

A lighter whipped filling - without being covered in frosting = a much better cake for me!

This is an interesting bridge to the debate about wedding cake. My mom was a cake decorator and they tend to be very protective about wedding guests being served from the decorated, displayed, tiered cake vs sheet cakes that are easy to cut and serve. Here you might have both? Still the cake shown would serve many times the number of people sitting at the table. Beautiful display, innovative idea--practical fail.

Frankly, to me, there is no question that Jasmine was head and shoulders above everyone else. She rarely made a misstep. In fact, she may have been lauded even more but for the fact that you need some suspense and it would get boring to just praise her for all 10 shows.

I didn't think any of the table cakes were as pretty as some I have seen on line. The scale of the decorative elements was too miserly for the scale of the cake IMHO. I'd love to try a strawberry basil cake.

I think borage petals (blue) may be edible.