SEASON #9: HOLLY.
EPISODE #1: Welcome to Henson Carnival. Start 12 Players
HOST: John Henson.
PRIZE:
JUDGES: Carla Hall,
Stephanie Boswell,
Zac Young.
PLAYERS (12)
1. CHRISTA AYLWARD Home Bakery Owner Dublin, OHIO
2. CHAD CONKLIN Culinary Teacher Dayton, OHIO
3. JAMES COX Pastry Chef Chicago, ILLINOIS
4. STACY DAY Executive Pastry Chef Nashville, TENNESSEE
5. MANDI DEL TORO Home Baker San Antonio, TEXAS
6. ADESUWA ELAIHO Bakery Owner San Antonio, TEXAS
7. HOLLIE FRASER Bakery Owner Port Moody, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Canada)
8. PHOEBE MARTINSON Bakery Owner Olympia, WASHINGTON
9. RYAN MCCORD Senior Pastry Chef Nashville, TENNESSEE
10. SHEFALI PATEL Home Cook Coppell, TEXAS
11. DAN PIVOVAR Pastry Chef Onalaska, WISCONSIN
12. MIKE YU Head Baker Napa, CALIFORNIA
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Tiramisu inspired by the Tarot card design in 2 hours.
TOP 2: Hollie & Ryan
WINNER: Ryan - won an advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Design an over-scarier clown than "Cranky" in the form of a cake in 3 hours.
NEW TWIST: Create an iconic fried carnival treat.
RYAN'S ADVANTAGE: Get your first choice of ingredients.
JUDGING:
TOP 2: Hollie & Ryan
WINNER: Ryan.
SAFE: Mandi, Christa, Shefali, Phoeba, Stacy, Dan, & Adesuwa.
BOTTOM 3: Mike, Chad, & James
ELIMINATED: Mike.
EPISODE #2: Do-Nut Ride This Carousel. 11 Left.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE:
- Bake Bloody doughnuts in 2 hours to bake or fry 12 filled doughnuts.
TOP 2: James & Ryan.
WINNER: James - won the advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Carousel
- Create a Merry-Go-Round cake, 2-sided design should tell a story of Joy and doom in 3 hours.
JAMES'S TWIST: Make a cookie Cake Topper.
JUDGING:
TOP 2: James & Ryan
WINNER: James.
SAFE: Stacy, Hollie, Dan, Mandi, Shefali, and Adesuwa.
BOTTOM 2: Phoebe & Christa.
ELIMINATED: Phoeba.
EPISODE #3: Pavlovas and Alien Oddities, 10 Left.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Honor the hot-headed fire eater in his/her Australian roots by baking a tasty, charred pavlova that will be flambeed LIVE in 2 hours.
TOP 2: Ryan & Hollie
WINNER: Hollie.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Create an alien head Charlotte royale cake that oozes in 2 1/2 hours
TWIST: None.
JUDGING:
TOP 2: Hollie & Mani.
WINNER: Hollie.
SAFE: Ryan, Stacy, Shefali, Christa, & James.
BOTTOM 2: Dan & Adesuwa.
ELIMINATED: Adesuwa.
EPISODE #4: The Fantastic Fondate. 8 Left.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Make a bar dessert that represents Henson's sister, "Bloody Mary". Make 2 parts: One how she looked in the past & the other as a ghost.
WINNER: Hollie - won the advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Working in pairs. Create cakes that fuse 2 body parts together. DOUBLE ELIMINATION. The judges put you in order :
Hollie, Ryan, Stacy, James, Mandi, Dan, Shefali, Christa.
The Pairs: Hollie & Mandi, Ryan & James, Stacy & Christa, Dan & Shefali. in 2 1/2 hours.
JUDGING:
TOP 2 TEAMS: Hollie & Mandi,
Ryan & James
WINNER: Ryan & James.
BOTTOM 2 TEAMS: Dan & Shefali,
Stacy & Christa.
ELIMINATED: Dan & Shefali.
EPISODE #5: Heads Will Roll. 7 Left.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Make a Trifle showing his brother, Jack, attempting to cheat death, one last time in 2 1/2 hours.
TOP 2: Hollie & Stacy.
WINNER: Hollie - won an advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Shrunken Head Pie.
- Bake up some shrunken heads & use them to decorate the top of your pie.
TWIST: create eyeballs with fruit.
JUDGING:
TOP 2: Ryan & Stacy.
WINNER: Ryan.
SAFE: Hollie & James.
BOTTOM 2: Mandi & Christa.
ELIMINATED: Mandi.
EPISODE #6: Sword Swallow Your Pride. 5 Left.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Bake a Blondie, then encase it in chocolate skull in 90 minutes.
WINNER: Stacy - won the advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Create a dessert that has swallowed another dessert, including an edible sword in 2 hours.
STACY'S ADVANTAGE: she will have 10 minutes head start.
JUDGING:
TOP 2: James & Hollie
WINNER: Both.
SAFE: Ryan.
BOTTOM 2: Stacy & Crista.
ELIMINATED: Crista.
EPISODE #7: A Smashing Good Time. 4 Left.
FINAL 4: Hollie, Stacy, Ryan & James.
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Tattooed Torta Della Nonna's.
- Is a sweet short-crusted pastry with an Italian custard inside. 2 hours.
PORNELA - Hollie, ORANGE - Stacy, KUMQUAT - Ryan & LEMON - James.
WINNER: Holly -won the advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: Create a dessert that mimics Brawny Bob & smash it in front of the judges during the presentation. Included a chocolate, a sauce, & a baked element.
HOLLY'S ADVANTAGE: an exclusive use of any type of chocolate.
TWIST: a secret ingredients.
JUDGING:
WINNER & GOING TO THE FINALE: Holly.
ALSO, GOING TO FINAL: James & Ryan.
ELIMINATED: Stacy - the cake was too soggy.
EPISODE #8: Step Fright Up. 3 Left.
THE FINALE
THE THRILLER CHALLENGE: Commemorate the Henson's relatives by creating a flourless dessert, it should be black & decorate it with dead flowers in 2 hours.
WINNER: Hollie - won the advantage.
THE KILLER CHALLENGE: 3 New attractions are appearing in the Henson's new re-opening.
NEW TWO HEADED MONSTERS - James,
NEW HAUNTED FUNHOUSE - Holly,
NEW HALL OF LOST SOULS - Ryan.
- Create not just a cake but a cake cape depicting one of the new attractions.
HOLLY'S ADVANTAGE: pick her attraction & assign the others.
THE WINNER IS HOLLIE & WON THE $25,000.
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