Great Chocolate Showdown season 3 episode 3: Candy and vegetables

Great Chocolate Showdown was back with the third episode of the third season and things got even more difficult than ever.

This week’s episode started off with judge Steven Hodge showing the bakers how to make taffy and hard candy. Hot sugar is never easy to deal with and making and pulling taffy is one of the hardest. Especially when you have to use your own strength to pull it.

But the technique test wasn’t just making hardy candy and taffy. It was also making a chocolate mold to put the candy in. For only being the third episode, I thought this seemed like an extremely difficult challenge, but some bakers did extraordinarily.

The judges only tasted five of the creations and with Lexi giving herself immunity with the Golden Whisk, there were only two spots left for bakers to win immunity. Those two bakers were Gavin and Maile.

This week’s Great Chocolate Showdown was about candy and vegetables

Gavin made a delicious-looking chocolate heart with birthday cake taffy and cherry cheesecake hard candy and Maile made a very cute chocolate Russian doll with blueberry lemon hard candy and chocolate Irish cream taffy.

On to the elimination challenge! For this challenge, the bakers were given a vegetable and then had to incorporate it into a chocolate dessert. The vegetables included corn, beets, parsnips, fennel, and pumpkin. Just the thought of trying to make a chocolate dessert with these is giving me anxiety.

But the bakers really showed their creativity and made all kinds of gorgeous desserts. The question is: who came out on top? This week, it was Amber! The judges loved her ruby chocolate mousse with parsnip caramel.

And that brings us to who went home. Unfortunately, it was Ian. He just couldn’t get his ideas together and it was what ultimately sent him home.

Next week, the remaining bakers have to make handmade chocolate pasta and a brunch dish inspired by their favorite childhood dessert.

What did you think of this week’s episode of Great Chocolate Showdown? Do you agree with who went home? Let us know in the comments below!