James Acaster on The Great Celebrity SU2C Bake Off - Series 2 Episode 2

stand-up comedian james a caster never baked before let alone competitively let alone on bake off the worst idea anyone's ever had is absolutely ludicrous making bakewell flapjacks oh lovely the texture of your flapjack is on the top it looks a bit wet oh yeah that's because it's not baked yet i can explain this to you before it goes in the oven it's often a lot soggier because and then you bake it and it then gets harder yeah so don't you worry when you eat it it won't be like this it won't be sorry is the texture okay good joke topped with a cream cheese icing and scattered with almonds james is confident his bakewell tart inspired flapjacks will be no laughing matter try to shake my hand now or later up to you you can shake it now to save yourself the bother you can shake it later on and eat humble pie as well as these flapjacks come on be magically done the mixture is still liquid this is meant to be encouraging people at home to get involved in bake for charity so what's experiencing my life concerned about how it was going to bond together and bake i remember you're saying that yeah yeah you came out and you dropped some hints yeah i thought you were throwing me some red herrings i thought i'm not gonna fall for that but it turned out you were double bluffing you knew this would happen i sort of did um a bit of a small bit yeah up to him the reason why i cut the end bit is because actually where it's browned and caramelized with the butter it's absolutely gorgeous yeah it is great flavor not very well executed story of my life you've made one horner you're baking it standing up yeah where are the rest oh let's be realistic i'm gonna do a deconstructed cream horn nice and full i'm just gonna use these chocolate drops here as a damn that's our personal favorite um well there's the all the elements are here you mean the ingredients we've got the chocolate we've got the orange i don't think that's been in i think it may have been in the oven briefly all the butter's poured out of it you're right you've made scrambled egg all right i don't know what to say about that um in fourth place we have this one who is responsible for this well all i can say is it does have the ingredients we gave you there what more could you ask the ball should be able to be tipped upside down without the mixture slipping that's what people watch bake off for that's confidence isn't it i shouldn't really go in freehand should i but with someone who plays by the book do this james main attraction will be a meringue version of the park's famous roller coaster adorned with a tuckshop's worth of retro suites leaves a roller coaster bits do you draw it i don't really ever do that dude do you do that yeah big face big face emotionless you know when you get the photo yeah there's nothing happening wow there's not much difference between that and you being judged for bake off no that's the same face same amount of suppressed glee icing a raw egg does the name true mean anything to you the roller coaster in moran it's sweet egg flavor sweet egg ah now see if you can spot the secret ingredient in the in the water knows the answer i put loads of salt on it for a laugh you're right i like it actually it's like salted caramel um your meringues are all a little bit under baked they're all a little bit soft i'm surprised it stayed up actually semi yes the idea is sound enough i think it's brilliant james thank you very much paul thank you very much what a showstopper paul kind of gave me a look during that showstopper but let me know obviously we can't give it to you but you are star baker

Channel: Just an Acaster Fan

Views: 4,302,664

Keywords: James Acaster, The Great Celebrity SU2C Bake Off, The Great British Bake Off, SU2C, Stand Up To Cancer, Paul Hollywood, Comedy, Baking, British, TV Show, Celebrity Bake Off

Id: AlGQYd6vUnI

Length: 4min 31sec (271 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 13 2019

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[u/LordByrum]

Go buy and watch his recent special where he explains this was an actual mental breakdown

cold lasagna hate myself 1999

[u/7CoolCoolCool]

That dude is just one of the funniest, most interesting people out there. You should check out his appearances on “would I lie to you?”

[u/khaostello]

Make sure to watch him on taskmaster! All free on YouTube!

[u/VestigialHead]

James A Caster Sugar is not a great baker?

What sort of a backwards world are we living in?