Richmond’s Caron Lau has survived the second week of the Great Canadian Baking Show.
The 26-year-old occupational therapist is one of eight remaining bakers in the CBC contest after “Cookie Week” which was broadcast Sunday evening.
Each week, the judges select the star amateur baker and also eliminate one of the contestants, based on several baking tasks.
Cookie Week saw the bakers create an icebox sandwich, cookies with a multi-coloured design rolled into the dough.
Lau wowed the judges with her passionfruit-shaped cookies that were laced with a chocolate ganache.
The next task was to execute a delicate pirouette, a lightly-rolled wafer cookie filled with chocolate and hazelnut.
Lastly, for the “technical bake, the bakers created a cookie mosaic, with colourful cookie tiles atop a cookie canvas.
In next week’s episode, the eight remaining bakers will be getting into the Halloween theme.
The show will air on CBC on Sunday, Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.
