Follow us on Instagram: Scrummyhandshakes Lots of baking - cookies 3 ways and an 8 egg yolk vanilla cake with swiss buttercream... Sheldon gives himself a B to B- New Season of The Professionals! No Tom! New host is Ellie Jane Taylor - a comedian, TV host, and author joins Liam, Cherish and Benoit. I am not familiar with her, but she looks like she could be a lot of fun! Follow her on IG: @elliejanetaylor In this episode the three finalists from Season 1 take on a wedding cake challenge. SPOILER ALERT - we reveal the S1 finalists below and in the episode! There were two challenges: Create a "traditional British" wedding cake, and then create your own "modern cake". They had 11 hours for the first one (which to me would just feel exhausting... but that's not a ton of time for a 3 tiered wedding cake), and five hours for the second. For the first cake: Miranda: Wrapped her tins in brown paper. Made one continuous batch. Decorated with 200 sugar paste (which we know as fondant these days) primroses. Overall it looked delicate and spring like. I felt her decorative beads were mayyyybe a little wonky. Ruth: separate mixes for each layer. She is VERY fast in her work - impressive. Made Sugar paste roses which were beautiful and made the surface look a bit pillow like. Hers was my personal favorite. Romantic and elegant. Edd: Non-traditional - no nuts, lighter cake. Decorated with very neat looking sugar paste daisies. He had to level things up inside with some almond paste. He brought it all together with some ribbon and a nice looking "band" around the cakes. In this round - Mary liked Miranda's cake - boozy and rich. Paul leaned more to Ruth's even though in one of the layers it looked like the fruit had sunk a bit. Some fun history of the British Wedding cake. The originals were more "bread" like, sugar only for the very wealthy. Paul does a little trip and shows us the way they were made. 3 tiers: One for the day, one for first anniversary, one for first child christening. Original idea thought to be of a baker who saw St. Brides church and modeled it after that. Queen Victoria created the modern decorated wedding cake - the "royal icing" comes from this. Traditional cakes used fruited cake as they had to sit several days to allow the royal icing to set. WW2 was a time of rations and we learn of some of the history. Also dive into how in the 1980's we started to see a turn away from "tradition" and why. The second "cake" let the bakers go wild: Miranda went with w white chocolate rose cake with 4 toppings: white chocolate ganache, buttercream, sugarpaste roses and real roses. Hers was the closest to a "wedding cake". Incidentally - white chocolate ganache can be a real pain as white chocolate has only cocoa butter so is finicky. A very pretty cake but still a little what looked like non-straight lines when I saw the result. Ruth went all in on lemon meringue pie. Using short crust, lemon curd, a lemon drizzle sponge, and italian meringue she had some complex elements and despite some shaky moments with the italian meringue - tricky element that requires 115C sugar syrup on the nose. Overall hers looked fantastic - especially once she pulled out the glitter. Edd went what I consider an odd route... he basically just made a bunch of macarons and stuck them to a styrofoam cone. They looked really good but was this a wedding cake? I'm not so sure. So then came the end... which was weird... Paul and Mary each had their overall favorite... but no winner was chosen. 16 hours worth of baking and ... that's it. Super weird.