

Over the years she’s designed cakes decorated in motifs that celebrated Minnie Mouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney’s “Cars” movie. “Īndreacchio has also gained renown as one of the artisan bakers of Icing Smiles, who sweeten the lives of terminally ill children with elaborately decorated cakes tailored to their own whimsical fantasies. They don’t tell you what flavor you have to pick but it’s supposed to represent something you did in the snow, when you were a little kid or a little older. We were told we had to make a cupcake on an activity you do in the snow and you have to make enough for the judges to tastes. Then another team gets eliminated, so there’s two teams for the third and final round.

There are four teams … everybody does round one and then one person gets eliminated, so there’s three teams left for round two. So, if you can get your cupcakes done in an hour, and the second in an under an hour, then you have an extra hour to carry over for round three, if you get that far. You try to use as little time as possible so you can bank the remaining time for round three. For the first two rounds you get three hours. The remaining two teams compete to win $10,000. “One team gets eliminated after the Cupcake round, another team gets eliminated from the Frozen confection round. “The first round is Cupcakes, second round is Frozen confections, third round is Main cake display,” Andreacchio noted. While not revealing too many details about the shows, she said the competition is divided into three categories, with an assigned theme of “Snow Day.” It shouldn’t take you an hour to get a dozen cupcakes in the oven.” You’re not in your home baking, and the clock doesn’t stop. “If you think you don’t have to practice your timing, you really do have to practice your timing. It was incredibly fun and eating the cupcake was a really memorable part of the episode.Still, competing with the pros in a Burbank studio is vastly different than baking in your own kitchen, Andreacchio allowed. “Overall, it was a pretty cut-throat and the team that won definitely came there to win,” said Renteria. To save time the bakers added extra gelatin to their strawberry mousse and were eliminated because the texture suffered as a result. Unfortunately, the time deficit caught up with Alex and Ivan in the confection round where they were tasked with creating desserts inspired by the northern lights. Despite the cake-tasting catastrophe, the Cake Bros confidently advanced to round two. They appreciated the cooling effect of the peppermint filling, complimented the adorable macron garnish and appreciated the cakes’ connection to the North Pole theme. Though it took longer than intended, the judges loved their cupcake offering. “We literally lost 20 minutes waiting for one cupcake to bake, but my brother was very nice about it.” “I know the importance of a baker’s dozen, but my head wasn’t clear in the spotlight,” said Renteria. “They ate one of their cupcakes and they need 12 cupcakes,” said host Hunter March, during the show. The Cake Bros were on track to complete the complex cakes quickly, but all that changed when Alex tasted a cake to determine if they had added enough chili powder and cayenne pepper. They created chocolate Mexican spice cakes filled with white chocolate peppermint ganache topped Swiss meringue, cinnamon buttercream and garnished with a walrus macaron.
