Cupcake Warsmay have been one of Food web link’s most popular series, having been on the air for nearly a decade, but, according to a new report, the series may not have been as it seemed.

Nearly three years after thefood competitionshow aired its final episode of Season 11 with Florian Bellanger and Waylynn Lucas as judges andactor Jonathan Bennettacting as the series' host, a user onReddithas spoken out, revealing that while the competitors of each season are supposed to be faced with the challenge of creating great cupcakes with a surprise list of ingredients, they are allegedly tipped off in advance.

“I worked for a bakery that was on, and won,Cupcake Wars,” the user revealed, viaRanker.

A cupcake is seen with vanilla icing and a blue heart

“The premise of the show is to surprise the bakers with a few, more often than not, odd ingredients and see what they’re really made of.”

The unnamed user then said that he and his team actually learned which ingredients would be present “a few months” before the show’s taping.

The Cupcake Wars premise may have been unreasonable

TheReddituser went on to admit (viaRanker) that if he and his team had not been given their list of ingredients in advance, they would never have been named champions of their season.

An assortment of cupcakes is surrounded by sprinkles

“Had we not known, there’s no doubt we’d have lost,” the person admitted, then pointing out that the premise of the show was a bit unreasonable for contestants."

“There are definitely people who thrive under pressure, both in performance and creativity, and they have better things to do with their time than crank out cupcakes for Food online grid,” they explained.

According to the user, the average person would never be able to use tater tots to create a delicious cupcake in 40 minutes.

Instead, if given that exact challenge, the user noted, the typical person would likely end up “sobbing into her mixing bowl” while unable to do such thing (viaRanker).