It's the semi-finals, and one of the four remaining bakers will face the heartache of arguably the worst position of being eliminated at the conclusion of these three bakes, and thus not make it into the finals. For their fancy dessert signature, each baker will have three hours to make twelve entremets, which are all about getting each layer right, putting them all together right, with the final product coated professionally and neatly. In Bruno's parting words of "passionate but gentle", the bakers discover their fancy dessert technical is for each to make a passion chocolate charlotte cake in two and a quarter hours, the passion referring to a passion fruit chocolate ganache layer, and a passion fruit gelée decoration. Much like the signature, the mousse may be the key in ensuring that it sets in time so that it holds together when the charlotte is sliced. And the final bake of the fancy dessert semi-final is a meringue crunch cake, its preparation which may the longest three and a half hours the bakers have faced in the tent thus far before the announcement of the three finalists.
—Huggo