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* UpToEleven: It's become a trend for at least one competitor to try and incorporate ''all'' the ingredients during the Taste challenge, as opposed to the required two or three. Results vary.

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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: In one episode, a challenger decided to make their "Blue Velvet" cupcakes (many bakers on the show make red velvet in the hopes that Florian will enjoy it, since he has said he hates most red velvet). However, one of the reasons Florian hates red velvet is the food coloring used to make them red, with blue velvet just basically being a red velvet recipe with blue food dye in it (making the reason Florian hates it even more obvious).
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: In one episode, a challenger decided to make their "Blue Velvet" cupcakes (many bakers on the show make red velvet in the hopes that Florian will enjoy it, since he has said he hates most red velvet). However, one of the reasons Florian hates red velvet is the food coloring used to make them red, with blue velvet just basically being a red velvet recipe with blue food dye in it (making the reason Florian hates it even more obvious).
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** The sweet ingredients on a sweet-and-savory inspiration table in the first round. Even though it is a taste challenge, the judges will call bakers out for taking the easy way out if they do not choose one of the less appealing ingredients.


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** One episode had a Chinese New Year theme. For the second round, not only did one of the bakers ignore the theme entirely for flavor (carrot cake and banana pudding flavors, for example, without even trying to, say, add Chinese Five Spice to the carrot cake or something), her decorations were based not on Chinese culture or new year celebration, but on Chinese ''take-out'' (such as a fortune cookie and take-out box). The judges called her out on the offensive stereotype. She went home that round, even being beaten by a baker who had not been able to get a single decoration on her unfinished cupcakes.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, the second round was not a tasting round. Instead, the three remaining teams had to give the judges a grade school-style presentation about the cupcakes and display they would create for the third round. So one of the bakers was eliminated based on their description and presentation ability rather than their baking ability. Thankfully, that was quickly scrapped, and the very next episode featured the familiar format used from then on.

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