Make a cake fit for a king. Some whoopie pies. Make galettes. Produce macarons. Chocolate puddings, please. Some sugar craft. Choux pastry. Use this mystery box to create a baked item. Now decorate and present them, all in just six hours.
Most cooks would wilt under the pressure, but Taupo baker Sarah Asher thrived.
Sarah cruised to the title of TV3 baking competition Chelsea New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker during last Thursday's final episode, completely unflustered as she produced eight baked items inside the time limit - and a couple more, just because she could.
The results - a layered cake, whoopie pies, galettes, chocolate pudding, a nougatine bowl, two types of choux pastry, mini-pizzas, cupcakes and macarons, all on the theme of a summer tea party - so impressed judges Julia Crownshaw and Dean Brettschneider that Sarah walked away the winner.
She won a week's trip to Singapore to train under Dean Brettschneider, a new kitchen filled with appliances, a sink and tap, bakeware, a computer and Chelsea products.
With her and partner Nick about to start building their new Taupo home together, a new kitchen couldn't have come at a better time.
"It's going to be a pretty cool kitchen, and on top of that I get to go on holiday too," Sarah said.
"I'm hoping it's just going to be a whole week of just puttering around and learning about baking with [Dean] and his staff."
Sarah said since the final episode aired she has had texts, phone calls, emails and people calling in.
"My computer crashed with the volume of it so I'm still getting through them because it just takes so much time, but it's lovely, it's really nice."
She said what viewers saw on TV was mostly what happened in the studio, although what didn't come across was just how much pressure there was.
Another thing that didn't make the final edit was that Sarah badly cut her hand in the first episode. She completed the first challenge wearing an oven glove to disguise the bandages and when filming was over, she had to go to accident and emergency to get the cut stitched.
Sarah had to stay in Auckland during the filming in February, and said missing her family (partner Nick and children Cheyenne, Ali'itasi and Te Waiariki) was the hardest thing. "It was a very long two weeks."
It was during the pie and pastry challenge, about halfway through the competition that Sarah realised she could win if she kept her nerve. In the final, she decided she was just going to try to enjoy herself, and she did.
"I just thought, 'I can do this if I bake really well', it didn't really matter who was on the other side of the kitchen ... I'm going home either way so I'm just going to have a good time and bake."
She baked and baked and baked, and even had time to produce two different jams and a few extra items, as well as decorate it all and present it before the six hours were up.
"It was the sort of challenge that's made for me, because almost everything they said, I knew how to make and had baked a million times before."
When the filming was over, homesick Sarah leaped in the car and headed home, although she was so tired she only made it a short distance before she had to stop and sleep.
She was allowed to tell her immediate family and all of them, including 7-year-old Ali'itasi, kept it hush-hush until after the final episode aired.
Sarah said while she'll continue with her job as a business consultant, it's still a dream to open a bakery, because that's what really makes her happy.
"I like producing really nice yummy things ... you bake something for someone or turn out a piece of pastry, and people smile. It's very rewarding in that way."