The Great New Year Bake Off
Mark (S11), Maxy (S13), Maggie (S12), and Jürgen (S12) make stacked choux buns for a religieuse in the Signature before they face another fiendish Technical and then make a ‘Smash Cake’ inside a chocolate shell for the Showstopper. The episode concludes with a performance by Jürgen's trombone quartet Bone-Afide.
signature challenge: 12 decorated religieuses
who made what: [Spoiler (click to open)]
Jürgen - German chimney sweep choux buns with coffee & kirsch crème diplomat (body), tea & rum crème diplomat (head), cinnamon chocolate ganache (hat), chocolate ladders
Maggie - sparkly naughty nuns with chestnut & brandy cream, cranberry & port cream, chantilly cream collars, chopped hazelnuts, craquelin
Mark - boozy relig-eusey mini Christmas puddings with orange American crème pâtissière, chocolate craquelin, marzipan holly
Maxy - nativity scene with coffee crème légère, cinnamon caramel center, white chocolate wings, marzipan halos
https://instagram.com/p/C1mO6z5MOTz
technical challenge: galette des rois
rankings: [Spoiler (click to open)]
1 - Maxy
2 - Mark
3 - Maggie
4 - Jürgen
showstopper challenge: New Year's inspired smash cake
who made what: [Spoiler (click to open)]
Jürgen - Mount Fuji and monk face cake with génoise sponge, joconde sponge, strawberry bavarois, yuzu bavarois, matcha biscuits
Maggie - chocolate, chili, & coffee cake with orange, rum, and vanilla curd, cake pop figurines, dessicated coconut snow, chocolate collar, chocolate dome
Mark - tropical Cuban honeymoon with rum & ginger cake, lime buttercream, mini meringue snowmen, white chocolate snowman dome
Maxy - phoenix smash cake with lemon joconde sponge, mango passionfruit coulis, meringue hearts, white chocolate dome
winner: [Spoiler (click to open)]Maxy
https://instagram.com/p/C1kJgtYsExD
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