The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 08 Episode 05 Description
Arts and Crafts Week
For first ever Arts and Crafts Week, the bakers to make a focaccia painting, with the bread as a canvas and the toppings as the painting, in 2 hours and 15 minutes, for the signature challenge. In the technical challenge, the bakers were given 2.5 hours to create two origami entremets. The elaborate dessert is composed of layers of vanilla bean sponge cake, cherry gelee, and white chocolate cherry blossom mousse, encased in a meringue buttercream mould made from a precisely folded paper template, and decorated with tuille, cascading cherry blossom petals, and a paint splatter pattern.For the showstopper, the bakers had 4 hours to bake a cartoon cake, a layered cake decorated to resemble a 2D cartoon image with distinct black outlines.
| Baker | Signature (Focaccia painting) |
Technical (2 Origami entremets) |
Showstopper (Cartoon cake) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jen | Ode to Grandma | 3rd | Sad Little Ice Cream Cake |
| Elora | Proud Peacock Focaccia | 4th | Mojito to Go |
| Pamela | Festive Focaccia | 2nd | Mocha Mug Cake |
| Erica | Focaccia-saurus | 1st | Jiggly Jelly Cake |
| Marcus | Mother Nature Focaccia | 5th | Piggy in Pink Cake |
| Rita | A Neck Above the Rest Focaccia | 6th | Road Trip Zoetrope Cake |
The Great Canadian Bake Show All Seasons
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 1
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 2
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 3
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 4
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 5
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 6
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 7
The Great Canadian Bake Show Season 8
Episode 01 | Episode 02 | Episode 03 | Episode 04 | Episode 05 | Episode 06 | Episode 07 | Episode 08
Kids Baking Championship Summary
THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW is CBC’s homegrown take on hit layout The Great British Bake Off. THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW brings together 10 newbie bakers from throughout the Canada to compete in a chain of themed culinary challenges that celebrate their various backgrounds, families and communities. Each of the eight, one-hour episodes functions three rounds: The Signature Bake, the Technical Bake and the Show Stopper. After the judges taste and critique the bakes, they crown one Star Baker and ask one baker to go away the tent. The final three bakers compete for the Great Canadian Baking Show title. THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW is an affirming, warm-spirited opposition that celebrates personal fulfillment and the pleasure of baking.
