Season 2 - "The Finale: I Need a Drink!" - August 14, 2023
There are no safety bakes.
There will be two bakes and the winner is the team that performs best across both bakes.
First Bake: A cruffin (sometimes spelled croffin) is a hybrid of a croissant and a muffin. The pastry is made by proofing (also called proving) and baking laminated dough in a muffin mould. The cruffin is then filled with a variety of creams, jams, crème pâtissières or curds, and then garnished.
Two of three teams guessed the correct bake of cruffin with a strawberry jam and vanilla cream cheese filling.
Yas & Amber: Cruffin - the judges said the dough was dense.
Camille & Laissa: Cruffin - looked great from the outside, but the ladies did not have enough time for the dough to cool before filling it and the cream cheese filling sort of melted into the dough. I though they won this bake.
T & Fadi: Croissant - filled with strawberry jam and cream cheese filling.
Final Bake: A Dark and Stormy Cake with alternating tiers of ginger and lime and ginger cake, soaked in dark rum syrup, with a lime curd buttercream filling, decorated with safer paper leaves, modeling chocolate bamboo, and sugar flowers.
The teams were given 3 minutes in the Crime Scene Kitchen for this final bake and were given 5 hours to make the cake. No teams guessed the correct bake.
Yas & Amber: Were making a Dark and Story Cake but could not detect any ginger so switched over to a three tier vanilla Pina Colada cake with citrus curd and lime & coconut buttercream.
Camille & Laissa: Three tier Pina Colada cake with alternating layers of pineapple + coconut + pineapple soaked with a dark rum syrup with lime buttercream. One of the ladies did not check her side of the kitchen. Really but this time in the game the teams needed to have a plan how they attack the crime scene and communicate the clues to their partners. The ladies really missed the decorations. While they had the sugar flowers they fell apart, and they included items of decoration that had nothing to do with the clues given.
T & Fadi: Three tier Mai Tai cake with cherry and pineapple layers with lime curd with cherry and pineapple chunks on each layer and rum buttercream.
Summary:
T & Fadi were totally out of the running for winner with two wrong guesses although they did get the wafer paper leaves correct for the final bake.
I really thought Camille and Laissa won because their cruffin was better than Yas & Amber's. They seemed pretty even on they cake except that Y&A had more of the cake decorations cake in regard to the chocolate bamboo and sugar flowers.
There were two graters in the sink one had lime zest on it and the other ginger. The contestants are given rules that they have to follow when examining the crime scene. Some items they can taste and the others they have to smell. They were not allowed to taste the ginger only smell it if they thought of it.