‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Season 3 Winners on the Chocolate Mistake That Almost Cost Them the $100,000 Grand Prize

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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER WARNING: This story includes spoilers for the finale of Fox‘s “Crime Scene Kitchen” Season 3.

The Confectionator 3000 has spoken: Canadian baking duo Jessica Harrison and Lenore Johnson are the winners of Season 3 of Fox’s mystery-baking competition “Crime Scene Kitchen.” But the pair, who were revealed as the third-season winners on Thursday’s finale episode of the Joel McHale-hosted series, almost didn’t land their $100,000 victory, thanks to their own personal preference in types of chocolate.

For the first bake of the finale episode, they made Meyer lemon pistachio domed tartlets with lemon mousse on top, a dark chocolate and pistachio ganache — despite not seeing dark chocolate in the Crime Scene Kitchen — and lemon curd insert.

It was then revealed that the actual dish they were supposed to have baked was lemon pistachio domed tarts including a crispy pistachio pastry crust filled with pistachio ganache, topped with a dome of lemon mousse with a lemon curd insert covered in a white chocolate yellow mirror glaze. “Oh, man, we got inside our heads so bad,” Johnson told Variety. “They exclusively told us, not only will you be judged on how close it is, but it will also be on your overall execution.