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00:00Oh, look at this!
00:02Where did these treats come from?
00:04Oh, look at that.
00:05Happy Fairtale Week.
00:06Love, Bruno and Kyla.
00:07Aw, they spoil us.
00:09We're basically Hansel and Gretel.
00:11So true, so true.
00:12Discovering goodies in the woods,
00:13like that gingerbread house.
00:14Yeah, and we are the two adorable heroes.
00:17The cutest.
00:18All we're missing is a scary witch
00:20that's trying to overfeed us, so we're tastier to eat.
00:23Unless, of course, Bruno and Kyla are the witches.
00:27Put down the treats, Alan.
00:28Put down the treats.
00:29I knew it, I knew it.
00:30What did I say when I first met them?
00:31Don't trust them, they're probably witches trying to eat us.
00:35Last time.
00:36Oh, just be nice, please.
00:38It was a loaded pastry week.
00:40Driving a crane is way easier than this.
00:42Full of surprises.
00:44Why is she slapping back there?
00:46Joe hustled.
00:47Not running, not running, fast walk.
00:49Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:50And earned another star.
00:51Oh, no!
00:53But Margaret wobbled.
00:54Oh, my God.
00:56And had to say goodbye.
00:58I'm gonna miss ya.
00:59I'm gonna miss this all.
01:00It was such an amazing adventure.
01:03Now...
01:04It's the semi-finals.
01:07The bakers find themselves in a fairy tale.
01:09Once upon a time, there was a baker named Brian.
01:12With an enchanted signature.
01:14Do they look magical?
01:15I hope so.
01:16A storybook technical.
01:17Ha, ha, ha.
01:18Oh, my God, there's so much in there.
01:20Woo!
01:20And a legendary showstopper.
01:22What could possibly go wrong?
01:24Ugh.
01:25Aah!
01:48Five hours of baking today.
01:50Oh my god.
01:51We are in the semi-finals!
01:53We are so close to the finale.
01:56It feels within reach.
01:58Look at that cardinal.
01:59They're the good luck birds.
02:00Are they?
02:00All four of us deserve to be in the finale,
02:02and we're telling ourselves that it's fine if it's not us,
02:06but you know deep down that none of us feel that way.
02:08Yeah!
02:09Standing between me and the finale
02:11is the signature technical and showstopper.
02:14Hopefully, I bring it and knock them out of the park.
02:17I really, really want to win Starbaker this week.
02:20Maybe this week is my week.
02:22And if not, then the finale is mine.
02:25Once upon a time, four bakers made the treacherous journey
02:29to the Fairytale Week semi-final.
02:32And they were led by Prince Charming and a woodland troll
02:36who wouldn't stop playing the whole time.
02:39Okay, I see we've moved on.
02:40Yeah.
02:41Sorry.
02:42Bakers, for your first fanciful challenge,
02:44you will make Fairy Bread.
02:45A hit at kids' parties in Australia and New Zealand,
02:49Fairy Bread is quite simply white bread spread with butter
02:52and covered in sprinkles.
02:54But today, we want you to reinvent Fairy Bread as a bun,
02:58featuring whatever toppings or fillings you like.
03:01While still keeping the sprinkles.
03:03Bakers, you have two and a half hours to make eight buns.
03:06On your marks.
03:07Get set.
03:08Bake!
03:08Oh my gosh, it's the semi-finals.
03:14We're baking for our lives.
03:15Wish me luck.
03:16I read my kids a lot of fairy tales, so I'm stoked.
03:19It's time to give her.
03:20Give her.
03:23Give her, bud.
03:24Semi-final and our first ever Fairytale Week.
03:28This is so exciting because it gives the bakers the opportunity
03:31to be extremely creative in a way that we've never seen.
03:35You're the four main characters and you're trying to find your way up to the castle.
03:39And you're trying to fight the dragon.
03:41You're trying to fight the dragon.
03:43That is Bruno and Kyla.
03:44Our signature bake this week is a fairy bread.
03:47And we want this bake to have all of the whimsy and magic of a fairy tale.
03:52But it still needs to be very technically sound and well presented.
03:57It's going to be a magical day in the tent, I think.
04:01Let's go.
04:03Working on my dough now for my buns.
04:05We never measure vanilla.
04:06Vanilla is a feeling.
04:09I am making brioche style buns.
04:11That's my favorite.
04:12And a really nice glass brulee top.
04:14My grandmother is Australian and she used to make fairy bread.
04:17But this version will be better.
04:21Right now I'm working on the black sesame milk bun.
04:23My mom thinks that black sesame helps regenerate black hair.
04:26So it's kind of for my mom to help her reduce the gray hair she gets.
04:30Hopefully I wasn't the cause.
04:33Jennifer's black sesame fairy buns, crowned with ombre crackle,
04:37will be filled with a bright Thai milk tea custard.
04:40We don't have a lot of time.
04:42So I want to work the dough as soon as possible.
04:45So the judges will get a light, fluffy, airy bun at the end.
04:49I'm making strawberry lemon fairy tail bread.
04:53Almost there.
04:54I'm making a concha, which is a Mexican sweet bread.
04:58It's enjoyed in Mexico mostly for breakfast with a coffee.
05:01Okay.
05:02Going in the proofing drawer.
05:05Okay, we're good.
05:07I'm about to make the filling.
05:12Sugar, sugar, sugar.
05:13Butter on bread no more.
05:15Oh, this smells so good.
05:17The bakers step it up with fanciful fillings.
05:20That's my strawberry lemon compote.
05:22Just a really fresh flavor.
05:23Everyone likes strawberry lemon.
05:25This is the banana part of the banana pudding.
05:27I'm going to make your taste buds go to banana land.
05:31Banana land, eh?
05:31Banana land.
05:32We're going to go bananas for your buns today.
05:35B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
05:37I have my dulce de leche in the pressure cooker.
05:40Not scary at all.
05:44Inspired by a recent family trip, Joe's conchas will brim with dulce de leche and horchata pastry cream.
05:51That is nice and foamy.
05:54Horchata is a rice milk drink from Mexico that has almond and cinnamon.
06:00Oh, shoot.
06:01I'm clumsy.
06:02My husband does a lot of cleaning up after me and I am a lucky woman.
06:06This is my Thai milk tea custard.
06:09Isn't it such a pretty color?
06:11It'll be yummy, hopefully.
06:16Bakers, you have one hour left.
06:19Hour left.
06:22Back to the buns.
06:24Dough is done as proof now.
06:26Nice and jiggly.
06:29I'm just shaping my buns.
06:32It's very fragrant.
06:33Looks like clay.
06:34Definitely doesn't taste like clay.
06:35It's super yummy.
06:38I decided to fill the buns first.
06:40We like ooey gooey, right?
06:41Then it just sits in the sticky glaze and bakes up nice, nice.
06:46Ryan will honor his wife's garden with his ooey gooey strawberry lemon sticky buns.
06:52I want the strawberry to be coming out of the seams a little bit to let them know what's inside.
06:58I'm making ombre style cracklin.
07:01Adds a nice little texture on top.
07:03My goal today is to blow the judges' mind away.
07:06Because I want it to look like a sunset, I'm using three colors.
07:10It's the semi-finals.
07:11We need to bring it.
07:13Where does the time go?
07:15I've got to bake them.
07:16Arrgh!
07:17Should I bake them?
07:18Should I bake them yet?
07:19I don't know how much time I have.
07:20I'll just bake them.
07:21Buns in the oven.
07:23Beauty.
07:24Once upon a time there was a baker named Ryan.
07:26Fill in the rest of this story.
07:27He hopes he's gonna survive sprinkles.
07:28Sprinkles, got it.
07:29Yes.
07:30Only in the semi-finals of the Great Canadian Baking Show would anyone ever feel the need to make sprinkles.
07:44Homemade sprinkles are a mix of royal icing and painstaking patience.
07:50It's time consuming to make sprinkles and tough to pipe.
07:54Stepping out of our comfort zone, as always.
07:57We're just watching you and it's a very unique way of making sprinkles.
08:04Yeah, yeah.
08:05I just wanted them to be uniform and I was like, I don't trust my hand to be that steady.
08:10Zoe's brulee topped brioche fairy buns will encase her famous banana pudding.
08:16Okay, let's do this ten more million times.
08:20It doesn't come to life without these little touches.
08:31Yow.
08:32My arms are tired.
08:37Hustling.
08:38Okay, that's enough.
08:40Oh, my hand.
08:42Give my sprinkles a little moment in the proofing drawer.
08:46Bakers, you have 30 minutes left.
08:49Holy noly.
08:50Where the heck did that go?
08:52They need longer.
08:55Still no color.
08:56I'm subliminally telling them to rise and get nice and tanned.
09:00Okay, we're coming out here.
09:03I'd like to see cooked buns right now.
09:05And they feel really fluffy.
09:08That's good.
09:09Might be a little bit over.
09:11I've got to speed this up.
09:14I've got to cool them as fast as I can because I'm putting them on the left.
09:18I'm putting cream inside of the buns.
09:21I need this to cool down.
09:23I'm not feeling great for time.
09:26My fairytale buns are chilling in the freezer.
09:28So I'm just taking this time to get all the decorating done.
09:31Got my moss.
09:32Got my rocks.
09:33It's so magical, isn't it?
09:36Delicious doodling.
09:37I'm trying to decide if it's safe for me to remove the lid.
09:40We're doing it.
09:41Please don't explode.
09:44Okay, risky business.
09:46It's your fairy godmother giving you a 15-minute warning, bakers.
09:52The magic of a pressure cooker.
10:02I'm going for it until it starts to come back out.
10:04As much as the buns can hold.
10:06Hot, hot, hot, hot.
10:09I'm being as generous as I can.
10:12They're leaking a little from the bottom.
10:14We don't want to underfill it.
10:16We also don't want to overfill it.
10:17It might explode.
10:19That's not good.
10:20The garden is coming together.
10:23I'm probably the most inefficient person ever at chopping up sprinkles.
10:28I worry about that they're not dried enough.
10:31It's nice and brown.
10:33It's ready to dunk.
10:34You should be able to hit it with the back of the spoon.
10:37Lemon glaze, sprinkle glue.
10:40Do they look magical?
10:41I hope so.
10:42Please.
10:43And now it's your evil stepmother giving you a five-minute warning.
10:48My god.
10:49Cutting this one very close.
10:52Ah, what?
10:54Look at that.
10:57It's all about these fine little details.
11:02Ah, let's go, let's go.
11:04Ah, fiddly little things.
11:06Fiddly little things, aren't they?
11:07Ah.
11:08Just stay.
11:09Stay, please.
11:10Stay.
11:1110, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
11:19You're done, bakers.
11:21Hands off your signature bakes.
11:23Down to the last minute.
11:31Bruno and Kyla will now taste the enchanted buns.
11:36Wow.
11:37What a sunburst.
11:38This would get me up in the morning.
11:39The scoring is really nicely done and the little clouds.
11:45The story is right there.
11:48So you can see how bouncy the dough is.
11:51But Joe, you got to squeeze a bit more here.
11:53I'm so sorry.
11:54The almond and the cinnamon in the horchata is excellent.
12:00But look at this dulce de leche.
12:02Beautiful color.
12:03It's so flavorful that we want more.
12:06Okay.
12:10Brian, that looks so bucolic.
12:12The vocabulary it's bringing out in you.
12:14Yeah, I have no idea what that means.
12:15Colorful country.
12:16Understood.
12:17Yeah, it just has that beautiful earthy feel, but it's still somehow light and delightful.
12:24Look at this glass-like butterfly.
12:27Great sense of whimsy.
12:29I love the swirl of the strawberry compote.
12:34The lemon and the strawberry play so well together.
12:37It's not overwhelmingly sweet.
12:39You're really saving the sweetness for those little sprinkles, and I think that was well done.
12:44Beautiful ode to your wife's garden.
12:50They look so polished.
12:52They're absolutely glistening, and you're not hiding behind the caramel.
12:57You can see how beautifully baked the buns are.
13:00And the sprinkles looks like confetti.
13:02Yes.
13:03I mean, that is such a great tip to use a stencil.
13:05I almost forgot they're handmade.
13:07They have some nice weight to them.
13:11Breaking like glass.
13:12Yes.
13:14It's very full.
13:16I love that.
13:17We can see the quality of your baking.
13:19It got all the elements of a classic dessert.
13:23Great flavors, beautiful texture on the bread.
13:26Lots of banana flavor coming through in a really authentic way.
13:30Just the right tone on the dial.
13:32Beautiful.
13:33Thank you so much.
13:34Amazing job.
13:36Jennifer, beautiful display of colors.
13:38I love how soft it is to the eyes.
13:40I love those delicate butterflies.
13:42I'm glad there is no wind because it feels so light and precious.
13:47And the little detail on your sprinkles, to see they're little flowers and you even went so far as to pipe the centers of them.
13:54So it's a sprinkle on a sprinkle.
13:56Yes.
13:57Now when we open it up, beautiful color contrast, but we can see the restraint in the dough there.
14:04Using black sesame crushed inside the dough is so tricky because it makes the dough heavier.
14:08Yeah, it does.
14:09As you can see, the dough didn't prove much.
14:11But the Thai milk tea custard paired with the black sesame, great flavor combination.
14:17It's beautiful and very floral.
14:19I feel a little nervous because the buns are okay, but every fairy tale story has a conflict.
14:25So we just need to resolve that conflict and bounce back and it'll be a great ending.
14:29The technical is next.
14:30I'm sure it's going to be magical, enchanting, not frightening, terrifying at all.
14:35It's fairy tale week.
14:36They can't go hard on us, right?
14:37Every fairy tale has a villain and this week it's us because we'll be announcing your technical challenge.
14:51Bruno, won't you give these lovely bakers a hint?
14:54Fee-fi-fo-fum.
14:56A little swim will make them yum.
14:58Ooh.
14:59Get this guy a beanstalk or something, hey?
15:02All right, judges, we now banish you from the tent.
15:05Be gone.
15:06Where did you get this?
15:08Oh, I sold my soul to an old woman in the woods.
15:11You can't keep doing that.
15:12That's not good for you.
15:13You've seen them referenced in The Nutcracker and The Night Before Christmas and now we'll reimagine them for the tent.
15:20Sugar plums.
15:21Well, not actual sugar plums, but a perfect illusion of the storybook fruit.
15:26Made of soft cookies sandwiched around plum jam and whipped ricotta, these cookies are a sweet fairy tale for the taste buds.
15:33Bakers, you have one hour and 45 minutes to make 10 cookies. On your marks.
15:38Get set.
15:39Bake.
15:40Oh my god.
15:42Only in the storybooks have I heard of sugar plums.
15:45Oh god, this doesn't sound easy.
15:48They're gonna be very intricate and very complicated.
15:51It's never simple. It's never simple.
15:56Bruno, I love The Nutcracker and what a beautiful way to bring the sugar plum fairies to life here.
16:03It's fairytale week, so I wanted to do something magical. So it's a soft crumbly cookie and it is sandwiched around a beautiful filling.
16:12Oh my goodness, Bruno. Is that the pit inside?
16:16Yeah, it's a toasted almond.
16:18Fantastic.
16:19And you have a plum jam and whipped ricotta cheese. They have to make them both from scratch. And for the ricotta, if they don't do it right, it might be too grainy or just too soft.
16:30This cookie, it just melts in your mouth.
16:35But the cookie has to be baked perfectly. If it's undercooked, they will just crumble when you dip it into the colored syrup.
16:42So once again, it's a test of their understanding of baking skills and can they truly make something that looks like a piece of art.
16:49No time to dilly-dally. Where's my butter?
16:55These fairytale cookies begin with grinding freeze-dried plums into a vibrant powder.
17:02Wow. It's very pretty.
17:04Then, adding it to the dough.
17:07Beautiful.
17:08Continue whipping on medium until combined.
17:10It looks okay.
17:13The bakers need to make ping-pong sized dough balls.
17:17This is a ping-pong ball. It's been a while since my ping-pong days. I played the adult version of ping-pong a lot, you know, in university.
17:23Ping-pong.
17:25They're slightly different size of ping-pong balls, but we accept all shapes and sizes, right?
17:31And, uh, put them in the freezer for a bit and then bake them.
17:37All right, all right.
17:40Ricotta.
17:41Making ricotta is not what I had on my fairytale bingo card today.
17:45Can't even remember the last time I had ricotta cheese.
17:48Heat until milk reaches 190 degrees Fahrenheit.
17:52I don't like temperature-related tasks.
17:54Come on. Come on.
17:56Just being patient.
17:58Yeah.
17:59That was a look of agreement from Ryan.
18:01Yeah, the look of this is great.
18:03I'm having a great time.
18:05I've got my ricotta on the boil here, and I'm just pitting plums to make the jam.
18:11You know, the recipe says make jams.
18:13So, really helpful. Super appreciate that.
18:15I love how they're just leaving it totally up to us.
18:18Freedom of expression.
18:20We've made so many jams that I feel confident doing this.
18:22It's just time consuming.
18:24Oh!
18:25Heating it up until it gets to a decent consistency.
18:28I'm working on the sugared plum syrup.
18:31This is the swimming pool that Bruno referenced earlier.
18:34We're working on three things at the same time.
18:37Never a dull moment.
18:39Stir in the plum brandy.
18:41Whew, baby.
18:43It's got quite the kick to it.
18:45I don't taste much plum in it.
18:50That was a lot.
18:52Yummy, yummy.
18:53Oh, absolutely nothing's done.
18:56I've got the plum jam here.
18:57I've got the plum liquor dip going over here.
19:00I've got the frickin' ricotta here.
19:02I've got it all crazy in here.
19:04There's too many things going on.
19:07I feel so stimulated.
19:10Oh, Rapunzel, let down your hair.
19:14Okay.
19:15One hour left, bakers!
19:18Oh my God, already?
19:20Add the vinegar.
19:22Stir gently with a wooden spoon until curds start to form.
19:27Okay.
19:28This is going to turn magically into ricotta, I imagine.
19:31I've seen a nona or two do this.
19:34Oh, my poor, poor cheese.
19:38Just delightful.
19:40I don't even know if this is good or not.
19:44I'm making the ricotta, then bake the cookies, fill the cookies, and...
19:50I think when you dip it in syrup and sugar, oh my God, there's so much to do!
19:53Ooh!
19:54Add to the cookies.
19:57It just says...
19:58Bake.
19:59Bake until baked through.
20:01Ugh.
20:02What do we feel like?
20:05I don't know.
20:06Maybe ten minutes?
20:09Trying to do my isomalt leaves.
20:11I've never worked with isomalt.
20:12I avoid it like the plague because it's so hot and dangerous.
20:18Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.
20:20I hope I did it correct, but to be honest, I have no clue.
20:24Don't touch it with your fingers!
20:27Hot, hot, hot.
20:28You've got to catch them at the right temperature to shape them.
20:31Who needs nerves?
20:32Not me.
20:33But once it's done, it's beautiful.
20:34It's hard candy.
20:35Don't think I'm going to win any awards for my isomalt work.
20:38But we might have ten leaf-ish type things.
20:4120 minutes left, bakers.
20:42Don't have a lot of time.
20:47I don't know how this is supposed to look like, so I can't tell you if they're good or bad.
20:50Let's get our plums in a line here.
20:53It is assembly time.
20:55They are really soft right now, so I ought to be very careful.
20:59Yeah, I better go fast.
21:03Oh, the jam is not looking jammy, let me tell you.
21:05It's looking like soup.
21:11Be careful.
21:12How is this all supposed to fit in here?
21:15I don't know what I'm doing.
21:17Oh, my God.
21:20Quick swim in the old syrup.
21:22That's why Bruno's like, make us swim and it'll taste yum.
21:26That's got to be delicious.
21:28We will give that man what he wants.
21:31This couldn't be any more messy of a cookie.
21:33My hands are going to be permanently blue, just like some sort of fairytale creature.
21:38Dip it in white sugar to fully go.
21:41That is so pretty.
21:43Bippity boppity boo.
21:44Hopefully we can bippity boppity do this.
21:47Bakers, you have two minutes.
21:49Are you kidding me?
21:50Holy cow.
21:53This is just crazy.
21:56The details are always important.
21:58Oh, my days.
21:5910, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
22:12You're done, Bakers.
22:14Hands off your sugar plums.
22:16Oh, my God.
22:18What the heck was that?
22:20Bakers, please bring your sugar plums up to the gingham altar and place them behind your photo.
22:25Bruno and Kyla will be looking for sugar plum cookies dancing with flavor, technique, and consistency.
22:32Bakers, number one.
22:33They're fairly even in size and shape.
22:37And they give a fairly good illusion of a plum.
22:40Now, we can see they're quite soggy on the bottom.
22:43They've been dunked too long.
22:46The ricotta is made properly, whipped properly.
22:49And that plum jam, it's set very nice.
22:51But the cookie could have used just a bit more cooking time.
22:54So close, though.
22:57Moving to baker number two.
22:59Quite uniform.
23:00Nice two-tone coloration.
23:02Overall has the illusion of a plum.
23:06The cookie has a really full structure and texture.
23:08It's firm but crumbly.
23:11The plum jam is a bit thin.
23:12Could have used a bit more cooking time.
23:14The ricotta is properly made.
23:16Nice flavor.
23:17Nicely done.
23:19Moving to our third baker.
23:21Beautiful color.
23:23Nice even sanding of sugar.
23:25I do see a few cookies breaking at the base.
23:28Break.
23:29Break.
23:30Super soft.
23:31Could have used much more baking time.
23:36Jam has the right consistency.
23:37It's cooked perfectly.
23:38The ricotta has a nice texture to it.
23:40But you can see the cookie dough.
23:41You can even reshape it again.
23:43It's so soft.
23:45And to our final baker.
23:47These look much paler.
23:49Maybe they didn't actually dip them long enough.
23:52And you can see the two cookies aren't quite the same size.
23:55And it would be ideal if they're matching.
23:58As you can see, when they're sized differently,
24:01they're not going to bake the same way.
24:02Some of them are actually fully baked
24:04and some of them are under baked.
24:06Jam has the right consistency and has a great flavor.
24:08The ricotta, on the other hand, though, is a bit grainy.
24:11Bruno and Kyla will now rank the cookies from bottom to top.
24:16In fourth place, whose is this?
24:20Jennifer.
24:21Unfortunately, it's very under baked.
24:23In third place,
24:24Zoe.
24:25Inconsistent baking.
24:26And the ricotta needed some work.
24:27In second place, whose is this?
24:28Joe.
24:29Great fillings, but under baked cookie.
24:30And in first place, Ryan.
24:32すher.
24:34Sure.
24:35Let's freaking go.
24:38Two wins in a row.
24:41I can't believe that.
24:42Yeah, I am at a loss for words.
24:44I wish I could...
24:46I don't know...
24:47Give me a thesaurus.
24:49That's it.
24:51So, Ian is perfect.
24:52Everyone is perfect.
24:54Were we crazy, everyone.
24:55I knew he was perfect and perfect.
24:58He lived a life.
25:00They lived a spirituality between them for him.
25:01Yeah, it didn't go too well, but make sure tomorrow
25:06will be the best bake I ever put out.
25:08Hopefully.
25:18Wow, these bakers are really serious about fairytale week.
25:21They're incredible.
25:22They seem to keep bringing us new and more.
25:24It just makes it so exciting.
25:26So where does everyone stand going into the Showstopper?
25:29If we look at Ryan, he was so excited
25:32when he won the technical challenge.
25:34And Zoe's signature was our favorite.
25:36Very tasty, very polished.
25:38And when it comes to Joe, she had a good signature.
25:41There were a couple of technical things about it,
25:43and she was solid in the technical.
25:45And Jennifer, you know, despite having some issues
25:48with the signature, flavors were delivered on the point,
25:52but she did finish last on the technical.
25:54So it sounds like our heroes have some dragons to slay.
25:57And we all know they have the ability to do it.
26:01Bakers, welcome to a Showstopper full of wonder and whimsy.
26:05That's because today you will bring your favorite fairytale to life
26:08with an edible pop-up storybook.
26:10Using cake and cookies, you will design a book that includes pop-up elements
26:14that illustrate a key part of a fairytale of your choosing.
26:18This is your last bake before three of you head into the finale.
26:21So let's make some fairytales come true.
26:24You've got four and a half hours on the clock.
26:26On your marks.
26:27Get set.
26:28Bake!
26:32Semi-finale. Showstopper. Those words don't sound real.
26:36We are four and a half hours away from deciding who's going through.
26:40So going for it today.
26:42Our Showstopper this week is a pop-up storybook.
26:45Ow.
26:46The most successful bakers will really enchant us.
26:49I'm really looking forward to making this cake.
26:51My theme will be Beauty and the Beast.
26:53I hope you'll be a grand showstopper.
26:55The bakers need to be audacious today.
26:58They have to create something unique in terms of display, beauty,
27:01but also in terms of flavors.
27:03They've got to take risks if they want to move to the final.
27:06So many eggs.
27:08Excited to make this cake.
27:11I'm going after the princess and the pea.
27:14You know, it's all about trusting yourself.
27:16That's what I need to do today.
27:18The theme of this cake is Jack and the Beanstalk.
27:21The giant's castle in the sky.
27:23So I'm going to try and suspend this castle from the air.
27:26What fairy tale are we bringing to our edible plates today?
27:30Snow White.
27:31It was the first costume I got for my eldest daughter, Lily.
27:34And, um, apple is the centerpiece.
27:36Ooh.
27:37I'm going to try and candy an apple.
27:38A poison candy apple for the judges.
27:40Okay.
27:41Stop, stop.
27:43Jo will weave her tail through a candy apple,
27:46woodland creature cookies,
27:48and a cake-evoking Snow White's dress
27:50made from sticky toffee pudding.
27:53You've really challenged yourself
27:54because I think if some of the best sticky toffee puddings
27:57I've ever had actually kind of look like a hot mess.
27:59Yeah.
28:00So then you think you're going to place an apple on top
28:02and hold it.
28:03What could possibly go wrong?
28:05Ah.
28:06You tell us, Jo.
28:09I'm adding Earl Grey tea today.
28:11I packed a suitcase full of tea.
28:13I was like, I'm going to use all of them.
28:15The first chapter is cake.
28:17I'm doing a matcha cake.
28:18I got a lot of cake going on today.
28:20And it must tell a delicious story.
28:22I want flavor to be number one.
28:24So I'm going to keep my tropical summery vibes
28:27with lemon poppy seed cake, you know.
28:30Let's get these cakes in the oven.
28:32My babies.
28:34Okay, where was I?
28:36I'm working on my cookie dough.
28:39Normally it's just chocolate, but the orange and hazelnut
28:42is the flourish that the judges deserve.
28:45The cookies need to add detail.
28:47This is going to become one of the mattresses for my little princess.
28:50And dimension to the pop-up books.
28:52That's my miso brown butter chocolate chip cookie.
28:55And what's that going to take the shape of?
28:56The brick road.
28:57Chocolate chunks in there, it's going to look like bricks
28:59and it's going to lay on the ground.
29:00Oh, nice.
29:01My woodland animal cookies.
29:04Aren't they adorable?
29:06I've got the leaves for the beanstalk
29:08and then Jack's cow that he sells for the beans.
29:11So, fee-fi-fo-fun.
29:13Ryan's black sesame lavender cookies
29:17will pair with a matcha, mint, and strawberry cake
29:20for his take on his son's favorite fairy tale.
29:24Oh, how often are you reading this particular story to him?
29:27Every night that I'm home, not working,
29:29or not, you know, yeah.
29:31It's a request every night.
29:32Oh!
29:33But yeah, he's...
29:37Oh!
29:38You know what?
29:39I bet that he misses you so much.
29:42And I can tell you're a great pop-up.
29:44I can tell!
29:45Oh!
29:46Let's go here!
29:49Cakes come out.
29:51This is the sticky toffee part of the sticky toffee sponge.
29:54If I put too much, it's just going to collapse.
29:57And cookies go in,
29:59as the bakers push to get all the elements ready.
30:03This is a peach jam that I'm cooking down
30:05with some orange liqueur.
30:07It's going to be tasty and a little boozy.
30:09I'm going for the win today.
30:11Sorry, Ryan, but that's mine.
30:13What are you going for today?
30:14Nothing.
30:15Zoe will go for the win by using lemon poppy seed cake
30:21and earl grey cookies to tell the story
30:23of the princess and the pea.
30:25Yum.
30:26Will there be layer upon layer of mattress?
30:28Yeah.
30:29And will there be a pea?
30:30There will be a pea.
30:31What's a pea?
30:32Like a green pea.
30:33Ah, green pea.
30:34Because it's a mattress pea, I was like,
30:35what kind of fairy tell you that, you know?
30:37Strawberry compote and mint white chocolate ganache.
30:43These flavors, it really goes good with matcha.
30:46Wow, that's still bubbling ferociously to be on off.
30:50Oh my God.
30:51That's on full.
30:52Jennifer got all the brains on this side.
30:54The brains of BC.
30:56Joe actually helped me develop this recipe.
31:00She's the fairy godmother to my chocolate ganache.
31:03Yeah.
31:06Anne, I found your shoe.
31:07That's not my shoe.
31:08Ew.
31:09I knew this didn't smell like your feet.
31:11Two hours left.
31:12Wait, what?
31:13Stop.
31:14It's like five minutes in.
31:17Coming out of the oven.
31:22Looking good.
31:24Moving on to my decor.
31:25I'm doing a million things at once here.
31:28Lots of decor elements, fondant, wafer paper, all of it.
31:32I'm going to make a giant rose garden.
31:35So there will be a lot of buttercream.
31:37Look at how many eggs I went through.
31:38At home, my mom would kill me.
31:41My wafer paper leaves.
31:42It's a painstaking process.
31:46I'm making her bedsheets.
31:49Ah, stress.
31:52I'm a little nervous.
31:54This is a crucial part of my decoration.
31:56Let it be beautiful.
31:58It looks poisonous.
32:00Oh, don't touch anything.
32:03Okay.
32:04Butterfly time.
32:07This is the beanstalk.
32:14Look at the roses.
32:16Beautiful.
32:18Basically, the more pipe, the more pop-up and wow it would be.
32:24Featuring flavors of earl grey, miso, and raspberry, Jennifer's Beauty and the Beast cake will wow with a piped rose garden and an intricate centerpiece.
32:35This is gum paste I'm working with.
32:38So I'm making the actual fountains like doop, doop, doop with the stick in the nose.
32:42If it works out, it's going to look really cute.
32:46Bakers, you have one hour left.
32:49That wakes you up.
32:52Are we in the final touches of decoration?
32:54Oh, I'm not even close to being done.
32:56No, no, no, no, no.
32:57We got a little bit of a hustle left.
32:58There it is.
32:59A little bit of a sprint left.
33:01My God, there's so much to do.
33:04This is a butterfly pea tea syrup.
33:06I'm going to try to make the caviar with it.
33:09Have to be calm.
33:11Whew.
33:12I don't know where the last three hours went.
33:16Let's get this.
33:18Stressful.
33:21So much to do, still.
33:25Bakers, you have 30 minutes.
33:27Holy cow.
33:29Chapter one in the building and scaffolding process.
33:32Not a lot of time to build a cake like this.
33:35It just takes a lot of patience.
33:36Your hands are shaking.
33:42All hands on deck.
33:46I want it to look like it's an open book.
33:49I'm destroying my work.
33:51Fake pages here.
33:52Give it the illusion it's an actual book.
33:54This is where I need one of the seven dwarfs to help me.
33:58I look a lot prettier if I had more time.
34:01Ten minutes left, Bakers.
34:03Hustle to the end.
34:05My hands are sweating.
34:06Oh my God.
34:08Stencil time.
34:09I don't have time to write a story.
34:10Damn.
34:11I hope it won't be a soupy mess at the end.
34:14This is either a ticket to the finale or a plane ride home.
34:20Oh, beanstalk time.
34:23Stay.
34:24Or you stop falling.
34:26It's not funny.
34:27This is the castle.
34:28A small castle for a giant.
34:30I'm going to try and float it.
34:34Woo.
34:36Princess can't have a bed without a bed frame.
34:38Not in my story book.
34:39And they lived happily ever after.
34:42What's next?
34:44Bakers, you only have two minutes left.
34:46Let's go.
34:48Go, go, go.
34:50Oh.
34:52Hustle into the last second here.
34:55Oh my gosh.
34:57Oh no.
34:58This is really hard.
34:59Oh.
35:01Good enough for me.
35:03Good night, princess.
35:05You caused me a lot of stress.
35:07Ten.
35:08Nine.
35:09Eight.
35:10Seven.
35:12Six.
35:13Five.
35:15Four.
35:16Three.
35:17Two.
35:18One.
35:20You're done, Bakers.
35:21Heads off your story books.
35:23Holy.
35:24Great job.
35:28Could have used like ten more minutes.
35:31Joe, I cannot believe you're able to make such a real looking book out of cake base.
35:52Just the way the little characters pop up, the story just comes alive here and it's just magical.
36:00And the apple detail, you've made it such a dramatic centerpiece here.
36:04Should we have a little cookie?
36:05Cookie first, yeah.
36:06Okay.
36:09Cooked perfectly.
36:11You're getting a chocolate, you're getting a little orange, you're getting a little hazelnut, all in one shot here.
36:14Okay, should we cut into our story book here?
36:19It's holding.
36:21Yeah.
36:22The ganache helped me.
36:26You get that molasses coming through.
36:29And it's interesting because it looks so dense, but it melts in your mouth.
36:36Jennifer, just look at this rose garden.
36:39A lot of great piping skills to create different shaped roses.
36:45And then you have a beautiful fountain.
36:48If you pour that over the top, it should cascade down.
36:54Oh, this is so fun, Bruno.
36:58Oh, wow.
37:00I love how you use a cookie to create a puff.
37:03That miso just adds so much richness to the cookie itself.
37:09But it did need a little bit longer in the oven.
37:12Yes.
37:13We'll try your chiffon cake.
37:17Beautiful cake layers, nice and even.
37:21The chiffon cake is nailed in terms of texture.
37:25Putting Earl Grey tea and chocolate together, they really do cushion each other.
37:29And then the raspberries there just to remind you that it's bright and fun.
37:34That buttercream, you must have whipped the hell out of it because it's so light, right?
37:43Ryan, I cannot believe how you have this actually floating in the sky right up the beanstalk.
37:50The whole story of Jack and the Beanstalk is right here.
37:53This is a particular favorite of your son's?
37:56Yes, yeah.
37:57You can see the love in it.
37:59The worn pages of the book, you know, it's probably been read many, many, many times.
38:04Hey, let's try the cookie.
38:08Putting sesame and lavender together tastes great.
38:12It's a beautiful marriage between something very floral and something quite nutty.
38:16Okay, let's have a look here.
38:18You have that beautiful green color from the matcha.
38:24I think matcha and strawberry, if that was all that was in here, it would have been brilliant.
38:29But when we get into matcha, strawberry, peppermint, and white chocolate, each one goes well together, but not all at once.
38:36Gotcha.
38:40Zoe, we have to be very quiet because somebody's sleeping.
38:43But he's sleeping.
38:44Yes, exactly.
38:45It looks like a dollhouse.
38:47Oh, thank you.
38:48Beautiful.
38:50This is really controlled, tidy.
38:52I love how you have all the different mattresses and each one has a different texture and color.
39:00And the piping with different tips and different colors.
39:04The mark of a good baker, right?
39:07Hey, should we try the cookie?
39:09Take the headboard.
39:10Yeah.
39:11Great tea flavor, very buttery.
39:16Oh, look at that peach jam, like a jewel in the center.
39:28That cake is stunning.
39:30The poppy seeds are popping.
39:32The jam is just unctuous.
39:34It's peach all the way.
39:36This is just a really delicious cake.
39:38Thank you, Zoe.
39:44Stories are very powerful and even more so when they're edible.
39:49I love that each baker gave their own interpretation and brought a little more of themself.
39:53Yeah.
39:54I mean, Ryan is not afraid to push boundaries on what he can do.
39:58Maybe his flavors today were a bit confused, but he took a lot of risk in both challenge.
40:03Yeah, absolutely.
40:05Look at Jo.
40:06She's had a solid week across the board.
40:08The quality of her overall showstopper was really great.
40:11And Jennifer needed to come back with a spectacular showstopper and she did.
40:17That was a lot of fun, yet very well executed.
40:21And then when it comes to Zoe, I mean, her signature was our favorite.
40:25And the flavor of Zoe's cake today was probably the most memorable thing we've tasted this week.
40:30Each one of these bakers brings their own magic.
40:33And this is why it's so difficult to pick a star baker and also who's going to go home this week.
40:39Bakers, thank you so much for an enchanting fairytale week.
40:53I am absolutely thrilled to announce this week's star baker and the person who was guaranteed a spot in the finale.
41:01This week's star baker is...
41:10Zoe.
41:12Yeah!
41:13I knew it!
41:14I knew it!
41:15I knew it!
41:16I knew it!
41:17Oh my God!
41:18Wow, thank you so much!
41:20At this stage of the competition, you've all become family, which makes having to say goodbye so much harder.
41:28The person leaving the tent today is...
41:30Jennifer.
41:40I'll miss you.
41:41You did so good.
41:44You did so good.
41:45I know you're good.
41:46Episode 7.
41:47Seven weeks of Crazy Base.
41:48I'll see you again.
41:49I know.
41:50I know.
41:51I know.
41:52Being able to compete with such amazing people, it puts you in the same level as them, so...
41:58It's an absolute pleasure.
41:59It's awesome.
42:00You know, if I was Jennifer's mom, because I do feel like I am a little bit, I would be so proud of her.
42:07Jennifer is just one in a million. I just love her so much.
42:19Oh, Jennifer, I'm gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss you.
42:23I can walk away knowing I did try my best.
42:27I'm proud.
42:29Yay!
42:30You're an amazing baker, you know that, huh?
42:33I'm so shocked.
42:36It was so good.
42:37It was so good to have been Starbaker and going to the finale.
42:39Congratulations.
42:40Yeah.
42:42All the doubts I had about myself, to get that pat on the back, is everything.
42:46Thank you for today.
42:47That peach cake was so memorable.
42:50Oh, thank you so much.
42:51Thank you so much.
42:52This is my fairytale happy ending.
42:55Congratulations, welcome to the final.
42:57Finals, here we come.
42:59Yeah, it's something, man.
43:02Being away from my family for so long, it's gonna be fun to call them.
43:05And get that little extra boost to get me over the finish line.
43:10Head down tomorrow.
43:11First thing, alarm's gonna go off and we're gonna start planning and preparing and pulling out all the stops.
43:17Back to work.
43:18Next time.
43:19Welcome to the finale.
43:20Oh my god.
43:21Oh baby.
43:22The final three whisk their way to the finale.
43:23Really gotta bring it today.
43:24I'm running on pure adrenaline.
43:25Who will churn out a win?
43:26I want that cake plate.
43:27The season nine winner is...
43:28The season nine winner is...
43:32Who will churn out a win?
43:33I want that cake plate.
43:35The season nine winner is...
43:37That was great.
43:38That was great.
43:39osenk hour.
43:40I..
43:42Last one.
43:43What did I have?
43:44I think that's going to give to the вместе sense of my family.
43:46Just not just one separate person.
43:49With this one, I need to prepare.
43:49Just somehow this thing, no Auswes...
43:52..do I have decided waiting for more times we'll get started.
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