Cake Wars

I love this show almost as much as I love Cupcake Wars. (I sure wish Food Network would bring it back!) Waylynn and Richard are not enjoyable judges to watch or listen to. I'm sure Waylynn is a nice person and doesn't intend to come off the way she does but it is painful to watch her judge. She is often so discouraging and critical. I am sitting here watching a rerun of an episode. Waylynn just told a contestant that their cake "is just as unappealing and unappetizing on the inside and it is on the outside." Wow - It isn't fun to watch someone get crushed. Richard Ruskell comes off as a complete jerk. It's hard to enjoy the show when I spend a major portion of it feeling sorry for the contestants. The host is annoying. He tries to hard to be goofy and quirky but it is too forced and the judges don't "play along". It's so awkward. If he would just be cheerful it would be a thousand times better. -- Cake Wars should take its cues from Sugar Rush. Candace Nelson is a perfect judge. So kind and encouraging even when she has to give negative comments. The host is fun but not overly so. He's friendly and has a good rapport with the judges.

FOOD NETWORK - Please listen to the reviews! We've been telling you for years. Get kinder judges and tell Justin to tone it down or get a someone else.

The title says it all. I can't stand it when they tear apart beautifully made cakes because "there's too much detail" or "they don't understand the story" then award simple and boring cakes the title of winner. Can you imagine if people actually used that to critique other types of art? "Sorry, Pieter Brugal, your painting is beautiful and all, but Icarus is kind of hard for me to spot and it feels like there's a lot of focus on the other characters in the painting and I personally just don't get it."

Also, I'm just saying, if a judge came up to me and they were like, "Oh, that cake might not work because there's a chance it could collapse. I wonder what you're gonna do because you've already spent half this time making it and now you've only got two hours so you probably don't have time to make another one. Anyways good luck." I do believe I would show them my cake from a different perspective via slamming their head into it.

The two regular judges are way too judgemental for the time constraints. I believe high standards and perfection are certainly the goal. However the two regular judges are way beyond too critical. The walk around in the 2nd round is unnecessary.

Then don't say anything at all and that's exactly what Waylynn Lucas should do. I've never met before a more judgmental judge than her in any other show. Same goes for mr. Bowtie and his always sourpuss face by the way. I'd like to see them being contestants on this show and creating one of these enormous cakes in ridiculously small amounts of time. I'd bet they would be voted off in the first round!

Jonathan Bennett, although nice to look at, is just annoying and acting like he's hosting some sort of ridiculous game show. He'd come off a lot better just standing there quietly.

All in all, nice concept but very poorly executed.

These cakes have to be made in a ridiculously short amount of time with weird ingredients; and these bakers bring us some amazing cakes.

These judges are just snarky, they make stupid faces (Waylynn Lucas), offer no helpful criticism, and are very difficult to watch. During their mid-episode walk around their goal seems to be to discourage and demotivate the bakers.

Get rid of these snobs!