Ep 13. Big Ben and Wearable Hat Cakes

In Crazy Cakes season 3 episode 13, viewers are in for a treat as the show takes on two unique creations – Big Ben and Wearable Hat Cakes. The episode begins with the show's host, pastry chef Ryan, introducing the audience to the day's challenges and showcasing the ingredients and tools required to make the cakes.

The first challenge is to create a cake model of the iconic London landmark, Big Ben. Ryan introduces the bakers to the task and shares his expectations for their designs. The bakers, all accomplished cake artists, get to work and start molding fondant dough to create the base, pillars, and clock faces of the Big Ben cake. They use a variety of tools such as spatulas, rakes, piping bags, and cutters to create intricate details on the cake. The bakers also employ a range of coloring techniques to achieve the authentic grayish-brown color of the tower.

As the bakers decorate their cakes, they run into a few challenges, such as keeping the intricate pieces in place, ensuring the cake structure is stable, and figuring out how to make the clock faces and hands move. Ryan is on hand to offer guidance, and the bakers work through the issues with diligence and creativity. As the cakes take shape, Ryan is impressed with the bakers' efforts and comments on the attention to detail, and the precision required to achieve a realistic Big Ben cake.

Next up is the challenge to create wearable hat cakes, a task that showcases the bakers' creativity and resourcefulness. Ryan presents the bakers with hats of different shapes and sizes and tasks them with designing edible replicas of these hats. The bakers work on creating the structures of the hats, shaping cake layers into the right shapes, and covering them with fondant dough. The hats come alive with intricate patterns, colors, and details, such as feathers, flowers, and buttons.

As with the Big Ben challenge, the bakers face some hurdles and have to figure out how to make their hats stable and comfortable to wear. They come up with solutions such as using edible adhesives, adding supports inside the cakes, and creating a light foundation under the hats. The bakers also have to work on making their hats delicious and marketable, ensuring that the flavors, textures, and presentation are on point.

As the bakers put the finishing touches on their hat cakes, Ryan tells them to step back and take in the beauty of their creations. He is impressed with the diverse interpretations of the hats, from classic fedoras to elegant top hats to funky fascinators. He comments on the bakers' use of color, textures, and decorations, and how they have managed to make the cake hats look like real accessories.

The episode concludes with Ryan announcing the winners of the challenges, based on factors such as creativity, technique, and flavor. He congratulates the bakers on their efforts and encourages them to keep pushing their limits in their craft. The audience is left in awe of the incredible cakes, inspired to try their hand at cake artistry, and eagerly awaiting the next episode of Crazy Cakes.