Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 winners toasted to a sweet victory

As Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 comes to a close, the three remaining baking teams have proven to be both keen confectionery detectives and proficient pasty chefs. While only one team raised the coveted trophy in victory, the Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 winners found a way to decipher the clues to sweet success.

From the first episodes to the Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 finale, this FOX baking competition is more than presenting the perfect bake. It is a game. Although not quite as strategic as Next Level Chef, there is a learning curve to the process. Some great bakers might have presented the best tasting dessert. But, when the dessert went down the wrong path, the baking teams’ time was cut short.

The Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 finale has two bakes that could earn victory. With two professional baking teams taking on one self-taught team, it seemed relatively even. After the floating island from the previous episode, everyone better closely examine every minute detail.

For the first challenge, the bakers had to make a laminated pastry dough. Although all the teams understood the type of pastry, the professional bakers seemed to have an advantage. Given the time crunch, making the dough, letting it rest, and finalizing the details in the limited time was a tough task.

Even though Faddy and T made some of the best filled croissants, the correct answer was a cruffin filled with cream cheese pastry cream and strawberry jam. Laissa and Camille as well as Yassmeen and Amber presented the correct pastry. But, Yassmeen and Amber had a better executed one. From the lovely layers to the fillings, it was well done given the parameters.

Although there was no advantage for doing well in the first round, it would weigh into the final decision as to whom will become Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 winners. Given the competition is so close, the baking teams need to carefully scrutinize, remember, and apply the clues.

While the teams had three minutes to look, that time might have been a bigger hurdle. The teams seemed to be frazzled with all the clues as well as the scenario of making a three tier cake in five hours. It is definitely not a task usually accomplished in that short period of time. Yolanda Gampp admitted that she made the challenge hard on them. Maybe the bakers needed to sip on a cocktail while tackling this challenge.

Overall, everyone struggled and picking the Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 winners was not simple. The cakes might have been straight and decorated but the presentation was a little wonky. Laissa and Camille had sad décor. Faddy and T tried to bring the boldness, but it was slightly loud. Yassmeen and Amber had nice décor and it was well-decorated, but it wasn’t completely finished.

While all three teams knew that the cake was based on a cocktail, a first for Crime Scene Kitchen happened in the finale. No one got the correct dessert. All three teams picked the wrong cocktail. It was not mai tai or pina colada. The correct cocktail was the dark and stormy. Given the mistakes, everyone was feeling that the title was drifty away like the dingy during a dark, stormy night.

Yassmeen and Amber almost went with a dark and stormy cake. It was their initial take, and they might have wished that they went with their first instinct.

Overall, the cakes’ flavors were good. There were a few mistakes along the way. But, as seen all season long, it is about the clues not necessarily the execution.

In the end, Yassmeen and Amber had the best décor that fit the clues in the Crime Scene Kitchen. They missed the ginger in the Microplane, but they picked up on all the design elements. When grading on the curve, they got the high score.

The Crime Scene Kitchen Season 2 winners are Yassmeen and Amber. The professional bakers were quite emotional about their win. Even though their final bake was not perfect, it was worth of earning the title.