Top Chef Just Desserts: Season Finale

This past week was the finale of the Top Chef Just Desserts Season 2.

After 10 weeks of difficult challenges and eliminations we were down to Three Final Cheftestants, Chris, Matt and Sally. Chris has been a front runner from the very first episode with both Matt and Sally proving their worth as the competition went on.

I was really happy with the 3 remaining contestants feeling they all deserved the chance at the prize, all they had to do was create a show piece, an entremet, bonbon, bread course and a plated dessert, all of which that was inspired by something important to each of the chefs. All three chose to use their families as inspiration. Each chef was allowed 2 helpers and their pool of choices came from the eliminated contestants.

Sally ended up with Van and Orlando as her assistants and she immediately put Van to work helping with menial tasks and Orlando to do what he does best, her show piece. While her work looked wonderful and got rave reviews she received much criticism from both her fellow competitors and the judges for not actually working on her show piece even though it was constructed off of her designs.



Matt, like Sally, was not comfortable with the idea of a show piece but instead of shirking off the build to one of his helpers he took the challenge on first hand and really experimented with sugar work. I have to admit I thought this was a really dangerous move and while it looked very nice it wasn't the quality that we have come to expect from Orlando and Chris. I did want to try his bon bon the most, it visually reminded me of what I once dubbed a "chocolate love button" which was one of the best desserts I have ever had.



Now as you can guess the ultimate winner of Top Chef Just Desserts Season 2 was Chris. As it was expected his show piece was above and beyond completely incorporating all elements of the challenge. He had one snafu which was a bon bon that had fallen off of the show piece but in the end he had the most comprehensive dessert table. All of his desserts visually linked back to one another and obviously were the most well developed from a flavor standpoint.



I think the judges picked the best man but I would be delighted to eat anything from any of the final 3 contestants!

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