How ‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Season 2 Winners Took Home the $100,000 Prize Despite Baking the Wrong Mystery Dessert

variety.com:

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of Fox’s “Crime Scene Kitchen.” While the final bake of Fox’s “Crime Scene Kitchen” Season 2 turned out to be a “Dark and Stormy” cake, inspired by the cocktail of the same name, it was a light and sunny treat for contestants Amber Croom and Yassmeen Haskins.

The classically trained baking duo beat out the other two teams competing for the Joel McHale-hosted mystery baking competition’s second-season trophy in Monday’s finale episode, titled “I Need a Drink.” And they did it without even making the exact right recipe, as they had first decided to make a “Dark and Stormy” cake, they pivoted to a piña colada-flavored version when they started to doubt their detective work. “The hardest one was the finale cake bake because there was so many elements to it,” Haskins told Variety. “And we did spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the clues are.

We knew kind of how it was decorated, but what is this flavoring? Because we couldn’t remember the drinks!” Croom added: “You would have thought I had a drink trying to figure out the drinks.” “Crime Scene Kitchen” judge and social-media-famous cake artist Yolanda Gampp hadn’t expected Croom and Haskins to be the winners towards the start of Season 2 — and neither did the friends and family she spoke to when the show was airing.

No, at first, Gampp says she assumed self-taught bakers Steph Hsu and Sin Yi Cherry Lau, who had a crazy weeks-long safety-bake streak, would take home the $100,000 prize. “Everyone thought Cherry and Steph were a sure win, because they’re such good detectives,” Gampp told Variety. “And as you know from Season 1, it’s not just about your ability to.