- The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a renewed focus on baking, something not lost on the season 4 batch of contestants. This, the first week, is cake week, as the judges believe cakes will provide a good initial test to gauge the bakers' overall skill level. The signature challenge is to make an elevated version of a traditional bundt cake with a drizzle or glaze, it most defined by the intricate pattern of the pan - the cake served inverted to show off that pattern - with the hole in the center. The contestants have an hour and forty-five minutes to complete the challenge. The seemingly easy challenge will be to see who actually understands what about baking, aside from the one issue of getting the cake out of the pan without the cake falling apart. For the technical challenge, the bakers are required to make in two hours a vertical striped red velvet cake on a cupid theme for Valentine's Day, the cake itself a roulade set on its side so that when cut in wedges it shows off the vertical stripes. The judges are looking to see if the bakers can make all the vastly different components, from the cake for the roulade, to the Swiss meringue butter cream filling and icing to the tempered ruby chocolate decorations, and if the final product has an appropriate ratio of cake to buttercream. And for the showstopper challenge which they are provided three and a half hours, the bakers are required to make a multi-tiered cascading mirror glaze cake. This challenge is not only to see if the bakers know the technicalities of the mirror glaze, in which they should indeed be able to see their reflection, but if they understand cake construction, as the bottom layers may compress if the top part of the cake is too heavy, and the top layers may collapse or tilt if they do not have the necessary supports.—Huggo
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