Lots to talk about at the beginning - Alison has some fantastic bakes in the realm of whoopie pies, but also stooped by a mini donut shop for a gift...and boy she had a fun story for us. Mere had a birthday! Her mom made the ever delicious Texas Sheet Cake so we dive into this delectable treat and what makes it unique. Sheldon tackles carrot cake and a GBBO contestant's "Cadbury Egg" cookies ...which were ok. THEN Sheldon mentions he has a protein "pop tart" he picked up to try - Alison stops the press and makes him taste it then and there. Just... I can't even write about it I'm so traumatized.

Then we eventually dive into the show! We start off with the announcement then next episode we are going to "wrap up" the Professionals. We are just bored of it frankly and feel you probably are too. So next episode we are going to consume the remaining shows and wrap it up in a bow and move on. Alison has some great ideas on avenues we can go down that we hope is more entertaining.

As for this episode - they started off with savory brioche and the straight forward "make a pithiviers" (a puff pastry with an almond filling. What shocked us most was the epic failures on much of the puff pastry... some were very raw which is mindblowing. Then there was some issues with under proofing of brioche... Recognizing that there is a time crunch and that they can't bake 2 things at once (we assume a good reason for this) - why not make and bake the pithivier first and let the brioche proof longer? We didn't get it... Lots of interesting flavors of the teams with all of us liking the thought of Michael and Andrew's Chorizo and manchego the best. Julien and Elise, Lerrick and Lennicker, and Keiran and Rebecca put themselves in the most danger in this round.

The showpiece was all about sugar work. Theme was Jungle and required to have blown and ribbon elements. Also had to make 2 kinds of confections - one with alternative to sugar, the other with an herbal flavor. Results were all over the place issues with sugar molds, pieces breaking, some confections not setting... made for a couple of major issues. Then there were flavors - peppermint and lime... no thanks. One that (maybe intentionally) tasted like cough syrup, failed Turkish delight. There weren't many that sounded great - we all wanted to try the coconut and pine nut toffee Kevin and Maria V had though.

One team definitively stood out as bad though... their showpiece ended up more like a stand and it sent them home.

Our rating of the episode - 3.5 on average... and only that high because Mere was excited about the sugar work!