Episode reviewed:  Juniors S7E7 - Heat B Biscuit Week

Start off with bakes - It was Ghirardelli baking week for Sheldon. Brownies, White chocolate macadamia / cashew cookies, and straight up chocolate chip.  Oh and Ovens are the devil.

11:37: where are they now.  S12 finalist - Crystelle Pereira IG: @crystellepereira has been doing great it appears since her finalist appearance on season 12 of GBBO whee she, Giuseppe, and Chigs battled for the win. Her instagram is full of fun and tips - most recently she has been doing unique fruits and veggies. She has a new book - Flavor Kitchen (yes the US version has no “u” hahaha)

15:42 - Covering of the episode.

Biscuit week after no-one was sent home last time. 

Technical: Snack-cessorie - sable biscuit sunglasses with boiled sweet lenses and a “surprise between the lenses.  Some issues with some bakers on their shaping of the biscuits.  Mia dropped most of her tray and was only able to deliver one pair vs the three in the brief. Olivia was put at a bit of an unfair advantage - one task was to bash up the sweets and she was a bit too tiny to do this effectively.  Set her back on the bake but she still managed to be 6th. Nice work by Frazer and Aisya on this one

Showstopper: Cookie box about your life. The big takeaway was “neatness was tops” - a lot of comments made when there were gaps in edges. Mia’s was all beat up and her lemon poppyseed biscuits needed more lemon. Frazer- proving he is 45 and not 15 - used self-harvested hogweed as one of his flavors but it looked amazing as did Aisya’s. Salma had five different flavors which were all pretty good but didn’t necessarily complement each other. Olivia had some uneven bake and maybe too much clove in her gingerbread. Tomos was a bit untidy and used orange extract that tasted artificial.  He and D’vonte didn’t chill their dough which led to some wonky edges.

It ended up that Fraser was Star - well deserved, but then Olivia was sent home.  Now granted, I didn’t taste the bake, but I felt Mia overall had the worse day… and Olivia was almost star on day 1… I felt that “feats of strength” candy smash unfairly set her back, so I disagree with sending her home. But alas - I’m not the judge! 

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