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Spring Baking Championship Season 11's latest episode premiered on March 31, 2025. The fourth episode featured the remaining bakers competing through pre-heat and main-heat challenges. One of the participants, Mary-Frances Bahun, shared about the dessert dish she was preparing during the main heat challenge.
For the main heat, bakers had to make a "dessert deception" dish, as instructed by the Spring Baking Championship host, Jesse Palmer. She was preparing: Sausage Pizza with Spinach & Red Onion.
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The twist was that the dish was supposed to look like a savory dish, while it tasted like a dessert. While she was preparing her version of the dish, she shared:
"I'm going to make the crust out of chew-and-puff pastry in the oven. A strawberry pastry cream will be the tomato sauce, uh, crumble for the sausage and coconut for the red onion. And then I'm doing the spinach out of this apple puree and then dehydrate it. I've never made this before. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed."
Spring Baking Championship Season 11: Mary-Frances Bahun prepares her unique version of dessert deception that looks like a "Sausage Pizza"
The fourth episode of the Spring Baking Championship featured an exciting main heat challenge. Bakers were given assignments where they had to bake a dessert dish resembling a savory one while tasting like a dessert.
Mary-Frances, from Calgary, Alberta, shared what she was making for the main heat challenge:
"I'm working on my Genois sponge. It's for the inside of my pizza."
Her menu card read: Sausage Pizza with Spinach & Red Onion. For that, she was working on a dessert deception dish that would look like a sausage pizza but taste like a dessert dish.
The female baker was making a dish that would look like a "Sausage Pizza," but originally, it would be a - Pate A Choux with Sponge & Strawberry Pastry Cream.
Spring Baking Championship host Jesse Palmer came to Mary-Frances and asked her what she was making. Seeing her "sausage pizza," which was actually a "Pate A Choux with Sponge & Strawberry Pastry Cream," he was impressed.
"The pre-heat - it went well. But I've never made a dessert that looked like a savory dish before, which makes me really nervous," she confessed.
Later, she shared that whenever she made a "pizza" it was a "pizza." It was not pretending to be anything else.
"I think the most difficult part of this challenge will be making sure that my flavors are still balanced. But with ingredients that look exactly like a pizza."
She shared with the cameras her plans on making the pizza crust and more. She confessed that she had "never made" anything like that before.
Mary-Frances' bio on the Food Network describes her as:
"Though her mother might have had other dreams, baking has always been Mary-Frances’ passion. The culinary instructor, now based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, grew up around delicious food and knew she wanted to make it her career. 'I enrolled myself into baking school and my mom was so sad, because [according to her,] I was supposed to be a dentist,' she says with a laugh."
Mary-Frances Bahun hails from Calgary, AB and is a baking and pastry instructor.
Viewers can learn more about the fourth episode's main heat challenge by streaming the Spring Baking Championship on Food Network.
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