E6 - Dessert Week - Pudding is Cake... Sorta
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Welcome to the week that confuses Sheldon every year - Dessert Week - which are puddings... which in the UK are kinda like cake.. wet cake.   Started off talking about the scrummy delights our week as brought us. Sheldon hit up New Orleans for beignets and his mother in-law whipped up a special Chex Mix.  Meredith tackles her grandma's carrot cake and learns what oleo is.  Alison takes on a 4-proof bun challenge and the results are delicious!   To make things more fun for the finale, we decided to add a bonus for the winner.  Random number generator will award between 1 and 20 points for the winner.  Felt it could be a great way to add some fun flare to the contest.   Noel's sweater is amazing.  Does he design them you think? Alison gives an update on something she learned about Pain d'raisin.  Paul calls it a pastry in his own book... yet introduced it for bread week. Note:  Below will contain spoilers for the episode details.  read at your own risk! In the Signature - lot's of steamed puddings.  Carole... burning things and making the dreadful error of not using hot enough water... the results were expected.  Kevin, dude, wrong recipe for this.  Sabirya...just. keep. it. simple. And as Alison says, "just say no to essence".  Sandro's looked delicious.  We learned Paul loves orange and apple from Dawn's recipe.  Maxy's looked like a delish sticky toffee pudd.  Carole and Kevin probably were at the bottom.  Moving to the technical... we debate if this is even qualified for dessert/pudding week.  It's a dang pie.  Yet Prue calls this "her favorite pudd".  The instructions were a little brief... "Make a lemon meringue pie".  Sabirya had no idea how to do this so watched others and was doing fine... until she went on her own.   Almost all of them cracked.  Kevin's was a mess when they cut into it.  Dawn... despite making in her own words "500" of them.... acted like she'd never made one.  Disaster.  Janusz took the technical with a pretty decent version.   Showstopper was to be a "surprise" dessert.  Lot's of interesting work here.  Abdul had an absolutely beautiful cake.  Taste, wellllllll.  Lots of great efforts noting especially Sandro, Janusz, Maxy, and even Kevin with his "buried bone" cake.  Gelatin seemed to be the element that tipped the scales this week.  Alison does a great job of explaining the difference how it's used between US and UK.   No disagreements with whom went home, but the team all kind of felt maybe Star Baker could have went another way pretty easily.   Score update: Alison: 16 Mere: 20 Sheldon: 3
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