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Topic starter 10/11/2024 6:36 am  

Time for some sweet magic courtesy of Dessert Masters!

 
Tonight was inspired by Cirque Du Soleil, and the contestants had to make a dish inspired by the phenomenon.
 
I couldn't possibly remember all the elements of every dish, I was too mindblown by the spectacle of tonight's contest, but I do have photos of some of the best dishes!
 
Sadly, Alisha's mango cake was considered too sweet and dense, but it looked pretty (although there's no photo for this one sorry). I just hope she does better tomorrow night because it is another elimination where they have to recreate one of co-host Amaury Guichon's desserts. The other co-host Melissa Leong will join the winners of tonight's immunity up in the gantry.
 
Before we get to the best, other interesting dishes included John's chocolate bon bons in different flavours, Jana's unicycle made of sugar with a popcorn and apple ball on top, and Dan's plethora of balls balancing on a cake. I couldn't get photos of these sorry.
 
One of the highlights of the evening was Reece's rhubarb ribbon and sorbet dessert.

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Topic starter 10/11/2024 6:37 am  

Another highlight was Darren's circus platter. Even the dish was edible!

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Topic starter 10/11/2024 6:37 am  

Now for the two winners of the evening. First we have Emelia's toffee apple tarte tartin with rhubarb tuile. The tart is under all the tuile.

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Topic starter 10/11/2024 6:38 am  

The most impressive dish of the night was Christy's black forest cake balanced on a chocolate dish balanced on top of chocolate balls balanced on top of another cake. She even installed real twinkling lights on the dish! I was terrified that she was going to drop it while carrying it to the judges.

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Topic starter 10/11/2024 6:39 am  
Melissa & Amaury couldn't decide who to award immunity to, so they gave both Emelia & Christy immunity for tomorrow night!
 
This means that Alisha, Jana, Darren, Reece, John & Dan have to battle it out in tomorrow's elimination!

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Topic starter 11/11/2024 8:02 am  
Tonight on Dessert Masters was an interesting evening. The contestants had to choose one of judge Amaury Guichon's amazing power tool techniques (that's what I called them anyway) to create amazing desserts. Emelia Jackson & Christy Tania had won immunity last night so they did not compete tonight.


These power techniques included: making a carnation flower using a mechanical cheese curler, water gold leaf dipping, automated turntable ruffle piping; and piping using a hardware drill.

 
Darren Purchese made a fabulous Winter Forest cake with the flavours of pistachio, pear and mint. Amaury’s drill technique reminded Darren of a frozen forest scene, and so he set about taking the judges to a frosty, festive forest wonderland with his pistachio cake, a pistachio and a pear ice cream, to be then covered in a mint chocolate spray coating. He used the drill piping technique for his main tree.
 
Components:

Pistachio Cake
Pistachio Praline
Poached Pear
Tuile Mix
Natural Ice Cream Mix
Pear Sorbet
Pistachio Gelato
Vanilla Mascarpone Cream
Mint Green Chocolate Spray Mix
Mint Dark Green Chocolate Dip
Mint White Chocolate Spray Mix
Mint Chocolate Garnish

 
I also loved Alisha Henderson's magnificent Love Cake. The flavours in each tier are as follows: a butterfly pea cake with passion yuzu curd, a coffee soaked Tiramisu cake, and a spiced chocolate cake with figs, and rum soaked with hazelnut ganache and hazelnut crunch. She nearly got into a little trouble because she only used the piping technique on one tier of the cake and tried to hand pipe the rest for fear of running out of time and she had to redo it properly. Still the look and taste of her dessert saved her - this time. She is still my current favourite.
 
Another stand-out was John Demetrios's cake and chocolate carnation dessert. He very nearly ran out of time, so he decided to cash in his Mystery Box which gave him 20 extra minutes but this also means he no longer has this lifeline. His components included a crunchy hazelnut base, passionfruit and blood orange curd, toasted hazelnut ganache, hazelnut sponge, cognac syrup, praline mousse, passionfruit caramel glaze and the chocolate carnation on top.
 
Another highlight was Jana Lai's chocolate music box with a chocolate doll wearing a dress of piped frosting. There's no photo for this yet though.
 
The bottom two were Reece Hignell whose chocolate carnation and cake design were lacking in flavour and intensity, and Dan Pasquali whose gold rings on a cake pillow showed a lack of finesse and skill in using gold leaf to a desirable standard and his work was extremely messy and unrefined, leading to Dan's elimination.
 
Next time on Dessert Masters involves the magic of bubbles and it is a double elimination.
 
 
I am having a hard time getting the photos to load for this lot.
 
The remaining contestants are:

Emelia Jackson
Reece Hignell
Darren Purchese
Katherine Sabbath (ELIMINATED)
Alisha Henderson
Christy Tania
Dan Pasquali (ELIMINATED)
Donato Toce (ELIMINATED)
Jana Lai
John Demetrios

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