The Great Canadian Baking Show season 2

Thesecond seasonofThe Great Canadian Baking Showpremiered onCBC Televisionon September 19, 2018.Ten amateur bakers competed over eight weeks of challenges throughout the competition for the title. Canadian actor and television personalityDan Levyand Canadian-British actressJulia Chanreturned as hosts, with French-born Canadian chefBruno Feldeisenand Canadian-Australian pastry chefRochelle Adonisalso returning as judges.For the second season, producer Marike Emery stated that the audition process prioritized "skill over personality" and that the tasks would be more challenging than the first season.
After eight weeks of competition,Andrei Godorojawas crowned the winner with Sachin Seth and Megan Stasiewich as runners-up.
This was also the last season for hosts Dan Levy and Julia Chan, as well as judge Rochelle Adonis.
The inaugural Signature Challenge had the bakers make an upside-down fruit cake with any ingredients of their choosing to put "on top," with two hours to create it. The Technical Challenge involved the bakers creating an orange chiffon cake - along with an orange glaze and candied orange toppings - in two hours. The Showstopper Challenge featured the bakers creating a birthday cake - with at least three layers and two different flavours - for anyone of their choosing, all within four hours.
For the Signature challenge, the bakers had to make 24 dessert bars with at least 3 distinct layers in two hours. For the Technical Challenge, bakers had to make 18 digestive biscuits topped with tempered chocolate in 1 hour 30 minutes. In the Showstopper Challenge, the bakers had 4 and a half hours to bake 36 identical cookies to be placed inside an edible and elaborate biscuit box.
For the Signature Challenge, the bakers had to produce two loaves (or 12 pieces) of aquick bread(a bread which does not useyeast) along with a homemade spread in one and a half hours. The Technical Challenge required to the bakers to create 20 uniformhot cross buns, including anapricotglaze, in two and a half hours. In the Showstopper Challenge, bakers had four and a half hours to create asandwich cake, including decorations and a proper balance of bread and filling.
For the Signature challenge, the bakers were given 2 hours to craft 24 hand pies. They could fashion and flavour the hand pies any way they wished, but they also had to accompany the pies with a complementary dipping sauce. In the Technical challenge, the bakers had 2 hours to craft 12daifuku mochi, a traditional Japanese dessert consisting a glutinous rice cake stuffed with a strawberry encased in a sweetened red bean paste. For the Showstopper challenge, bakers had four hours to create a sculpture or diorama of at least two types of Italian cookies.
For the Signature Challenge, the bakers were asked to make a fruit-filled slab pie: a shallow pie that is rectangular rather than round, baked in a rimmed bakingsheet panor jelly roll pan, in two hours and 15 minutes. The Technical Challenge gave them two hours and 15 minutes to create two dozenpalmiers, 12 sweet and 12 savoury, usingrough puff pastry. For the Showstopper Challenge, bakers had four and a half hours to produce a basket of 18 breakfast pastries—sixcroissants, sixDanish, and sixsweet buns.
In the quarterfinal Signature Challenge, the bakers were given two hours to create atartwithtempered chocolatedecorations. The tart itself could be any shape or flavour as long as chocolate was the "star" ingredient. The uniquely time-sensitive nature of the Technical Challenge, one hour and 45 minutes to bake a chocolatesoufflé, required that the bakers' starting times be staggered (in order - Mengling, Sachin, Timothy, Megan, Andrei) and the judges taste each soufflé fresh from the oven. Finally, the Showstopper Challenge required the bakers to create a modern re-imagining of theBlack Forest cake.
ThePâtisserieSignature Challenge had the bakers make amille crêpescake: a cake built of at least 25 layered crêpes with a sweet filling between the layers, in two hours. For the Technical Challenge, they had two hours, 15 minutes to make 12 miniaturejocondes, a cake of layered and filled almondspongeandmousse. The Showstopper gave them four hours to produce 36 savourycanapés: 12 withpuff pastry, 12tartlets, and 12 finger sandwiches.
For the Signature challenge the finalists had two and a half hours to make 24 miniSwiss rolls, in two flavours. The Technical Challenge was to produce a SwedishPrincess cakein two hours and 15 minutes. For the final showstopper, the bakers had to prepare aChoux pastrytower with at least three layers, and a minimum of two shapes of choux and three flavours of fillings, in four and a half hours; it was the hottest day of filming, handicapping the bakers in assembling their chocolate and cream towers.