Well - something is just simple to us. We just like Group B of the bakers better. We like each team in their own way, but we like them all. We all have a special affection for George and Geanina as well. In terms of our adventures. Meredith makes some killer compote and jams, she shares it with the family and they end up keeping it all! Don’t worry she can make more :-). Alison talks about her amazing M&M cookies and how they barely last a couple of hours at the office. Sheldon makes ugly “macarons” that taste pretty good… but actually he’s never had one for reals so who knows. He also talks about his joy filled trip to Williams Sonoma.. which starts a conversation about oven thermometers. Spoilers for E5 below. It’s illusion week. The bakers are asked tight of the gat to make a cone dessert that must include a sponge or biscuit as well as three elements and an illusion dessert that looks like a carrot but doesn’t taste of one. An interesting thing about this show… they appear to spend almost all of the time on the cone dessert and we don’t understand why… as it turns out the carrots are almost all disasters. Some people took liberty of the word “cone and one made a pine cone… using pine essence…how the heck do you make a delicious dessert that tastes like pine? Derrick and Lennicker take a path making a Christmas tree and Keiron and Rebecca go the traffic cone route. One definitely executed better than the other.A lesson learned y one group - don’t promise something you can’t deliver! This sound left a couple of groups on the ropes, but on in particular would need a great day 2. Day two brought us something that Alison remembered was once asked for on her favorite season of traditional GBBO. The “religious a l’ancienne” - aka the Old Nun. It’s a tower of eclairs and choir buns. It also had to have a time travel theme… again… why overcomplicate? Os it the old nun or is it time travel? The bakers had to make the entire structure of something edible and had to have 2 flavors of eclairs. During the golden hour most prepared the structure - of which all used sugar… except Lerrick and Lennicker who went with chocolate again. Some chose to prepare their choux dough in advance. Interesting themes, all three of us really loved what George and Geanina did about what their 50th anniversary would be - and the roses they made were amazing! Sheldon really liked the steampunk theme throughout there was a little discussion about one of the eclair flavors - coffee coconut caramel - Sheldon was a little weary of it, but the others felt it could work. A smoked peanut eclair also drew some attention of our crew. Lots of issues with structure and some lairs falling off. The team that went home just blew it with over using their extracts and missing on flavors - their choux wasn’t even right. The team that got the nod as best totally deserved it, and we look forward to chocolate week next week! Our assessment of the episode. Mixed. Both Alison and Meredith rated it high - 4 to 4.5. Meredith just had a lot of joy from it. Sheldon didn’t love the challenges posed and felt execution was lacking so fave it a middle of the pack rating of 3-3.5.