Melanie Bjork-Jensen can sum up her debut on Food Network’s “Halloween Baking Championship” in three words: “Everything went bad.”
The baker from West Jordan, Utah, knew early on things weren’t going to go great when she wound up having to use a pear for her featured fruit in the season premiere dessert challenge (she really doesn’t like pears).
She hated pears even more after she accidentally cut herself and drew blood.
And the chaos didn’t end there.
Her cake batter didn’t have the right look, and her buttercream didn’t have the right smell. It didn’t take long for her to figure out the problem: She had forgotten the sugar.
It was at this point Bjork-Jensen fell to the floor in her self-described “meltdown,” which is featured prominently in a teaser for the season premiere.
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