We reflect about the last 3 episodes for The Professionals and how the Showpieces were better than most of the other ones. We felt the judging was fair for these episodes as well. Before that though we talk a out bakes! Meredith baked garlic knots. They were pre-made, but hey, there was an oven involved! Alison took on 2 cookie recipes - her standard lemon sugar cookies, and then a blueberry white chocolate chip cookie for her friend's son. She used the best blueberries (Maine) and they were VERY blue. Sheldon had 2 adventures - one in decorating where he ALMOST went and piped a logo, Alison surmises that may have been ... challenging... but he opted instead for a stencil and sprinkle approach that was a hit. Then it was "what do I do with the buttercream I bought?" The answer - chocolate chip cookie sandwiches! Back to the episodes. We don't get into too many of the details, but there were some highlights and low points... savory petit fours.. no. So much tonka bean... no. Hidden jelly.... no. But then we started to see some more skills come out in these last few episodes. We lost our favorite couple in the semi-finals though, but we all felt it was fair. Their petit fours were more like petit eights. Teddy bear Picnic was Mere's favorite... but gave Alison the shivers... Alison and Sheldon both enjoyed the awards show show pieces the best. Some nice moments in the final episode with the family messages... but we noticed Elise didn't have one. we were also surprised to hear that Maria V was not originally Kevin's partner but was a last minute sub... we also suspect that they didn't really know each other based on the comment she made during the personal story segment. As far as the overall winner - we did feel it was deserved, but we also never would have picked them to win. We also made the announcement that Mere has decided to move on from the show - she'd got some other focuses right now and is going to put more time into those. We will miss her! Next week - we are going back to some classics! Alison will be selecting one and we will discuss!