Giuseppe’s buns were neatly iced and perfectly shaped. However, Giuseppe decided to leave his in the oven for longer. Crystelle and Chigs pulled their buns out of the oven quite early to leave themselves with enough time to cool and decorate them. However, the turning point in this challenge came down to how long to leave the buns in the oven for. The way he rolled his buns meant that they were very tall and did not have enough spirals. At first, it seemed like Chigs was going to come in last place due to rolling his dough the wrong way. The judges particularly loved the fig flavor.Ĭrystelle seemed to be at a slight advantage because she had made a curd in the signature challenge and she knew what Belgian buns were. Despite this, his cake was pretty but more importantly it was delicious. The heat also meant that the jam and cream cheese had soaked into the hot sponges, making the judges question at first whether the cake was underbaked or stodgy. As a result, his icing had melted slightly and his cakes had shifted a little. This meant that his cake took a lot longer to bake and didn’t have much time to cool. Whereas Crystelle and Chigs had made the challenge easier for themselves by baking individual sponges for their layers, Giuseppe made one large cake that he then sliced up. This was then decorated with orange cream cheese icing, candied walnuts and fresh figs. Giuseppe made an orange-zest infused carrot cake sponge, sandwiched with fig and walnut jam. However, they thought his cake was rubbery and stodgy due to the large number of carrots he had used. The judges loved his decoration and his pipework and also enjoyed the flavor of his pineapple jam. His sponges were sandwiched with star anise infused pineapple jam and topped with classic cream cheese icing. However, they loved her flavors and thought they were very well-balanced.Ĭhigs, who only started baking 18 months ago, was making his second ever carrot cake. Crystelle even had to use dowels to keep her cake upright. This meant that her sponges had moved and were slightly wonky. Due to it being so tall, the sponges had retained some heat and so her curd and frosting had melted slightly. Her four-tiered cake didn’t go down too well with the judges though. Her cakes were sandwiched with orange curd and decorated with pistachio and mascarpone frosting and pistachio praline. Crystelle decided to be ambitious and made a four-tiered spiced carrot cake.