ATTENTION: This article contains spoilers for the final episode of Fox‘s “Crime Scene Kitchen” Season 3.
The Confectionator 3000 has made its decision: Jessica Harrison and Lenore Johnson, a dynamic Canadian baking duo, emerged as the champions of Fox’s mystery-baking competition “Crime Scene Kitchen” Season 3.
The duo, however, almost missed out on their $100,000 prize during Thursday’s finale episode of the Joel McHale-hosted series, due to their individual preferences for chocolate types.
In the finale episode’s first bake, they created Meyer lemon pistachio domed tartlets topped with lemon mousse, a dark chocolate and pistachio ganache — regardless of the absence of dark chocolate in the Crime Scene Kitchen — and a lemon curd insert.
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It was later revealed that the actual dish they were supposed to have baked was lemon pistachio domed tarts featuring a crispy pistachio pastry crust filled with pistachio ganache, topped with a dome of lemon mousse with a lemon curd insert covered in a white chocolate yellow mirror glaze.
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“Oh, man, we got inside our heads so bad,” Johnson admitted to Variety. “They explicitly told us, not only will you be judged on how close it is, but it will also be on your overall execution. And we’re like, oh, execution has never mattered before. So like, let’s make sure that we’re executing everything perfectly all the time. Jessica and I made a decision based on our own palettes. We were like, nobody in their right minds would put a white chocolate ganache in a tart. And yeah, they would. We decided to go in another direction and it was the wrong one.”
Contestants Lenore and Jessica in “Crime Scene Kitchen.”
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However, in the season’s final mystery dessert, they outperformed their fellow finalists — Janusz Domagala and Keiron George Murphy, and Daniel and Becky Rosales — by nearly replicating the unveiled a two-tier orange semolina olive oil cake covered in Italian buttercream filled with orange curd and a square bottom tier covered
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