I made banana pudding and put it on top of a thin slice of roast beef in the shape of little yellow roses. It tastes salty and sweet at the same time.

Common ingredient: chocolate
Inspiration: cars
Uncommon ingredient: ruby red grapefruit

Oh man, I love Sweet Genius. XD  Ben Israel cracks me up.  "Cake is light, fluffy... your ganache... decadent and creamy.  But where is inspeeration?  A few sprigs of green do not create a summer field for me.  In this test, you were no sweet genius!"

Sweet Genius has 3 rounds: dessert, chocolate, and baked.  Soooo, I think for the chocolate round I made a plate of 3 bonbons.  They were milk, dark, and white chocolate; filled with a caramel filling and finely minced pieces of bacon for salty contrast to the sweet.  The pieces of bacon represent little meteors in the space of caramel and the bonbons are like planets with little swirls of marbled chocolate. 

Common ingredient:  blueberries
Inspiration:  a peacock
Uncommon ingredient:  blood orange

XD Yep, candy round.  I have an overactive imagination, but I'm imagining Chef Ron twirling your plate, looking at the peacock.  (Sorry, no one else I know watches this show.) 

For the cake round, I lost my shit.

I made a butterscotch-infused short-stack of cakes with rich vanilla/peppercorn icing.  Inside the cake is a crumble of the chicken-fried steak, treated with molasses to make it not too jarring.  The pepper was meant to heighten the seasoning of the steak, and is the "kick" of the kung-fu movies.  On top of the cake is a melted butterschotch candy art-piece, sticking upwarde; it is just some transparent swirls to represent the fluid fighting motion of those movies. 

(Dude, I'm so tempted to give you the same three ingredients to see what genius you can come up with!)

Common ingredient:  cinnamon
Inspiration:  laughter
Uncommon ingredient:  cucumber

Batman?  Batman?  Do you have any idea how long it took me to come up with an idea for the last challenge?   Ah, I'm loving it.  Maybe, by the time I can think of something, someone else will have come up with an idea.  (should be getting ready for work.)

As far as this game goes, finding a fellow fan is ruining my low-post count.  The more the merrier, but I'm glad you started this.

Until someone can do Batman justice, I really did want to comment that yes, I couldn't stop laughing when he jumped up on that conveyor belt and rode it all the way down, like he was a fragile piece of swan egg or some junk.    Half the fun of the show is watching the chefs that volunteered look at the host like, "... Is he serious?"  And that moment, just wow.  Props for all of them tactfully and gently poking fun at both his absurdity and bald head.  In my opinion, it was just about as good as the show where the inspiration was a bonsai tree, and at the last moment that one chef just clipped pieces off the tree and stuck it in his pie.  It was like the host lost his mind in an angry way, instead of the usual jubilant, "I am geenius!"

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