MasterChef chefs from Maketu Karena and Kasey Bird will be joined by Verena Doolabh and Tanisha Kemp at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic today to show off their cooking skills and talk about their time on show.

The women have made it into the top four after Tauranga sisters Trudie and Shelley Robinson lost their bid to be crowned winners of the 2014 New Zealand MasterChef television series.

Trudie and Shelley Robinson.

Karena and Kasey Bird will be in Tauranga today and tomorrow.

The women are the 11th to leave the television series following last night's screening of the show on TV One.

In their final challenge, Trudie and Shelley knew the pressure was on when they had to say goodbye to their partnership and were given a mystery box filled with dessert ingredients.

The cook's scores would be added to their partners', with the lowest-scoring team going home.

Shelley, an education advisor, knew she was in trouble going into the challenge.

'Trudie was worried about her risotto from the previous night, so I felt the pressure to put something on the plate that was really good.”

Beginning work on a white chocolate and lemon mousse with raspberry sauce and white chocolate toasted coconut, Shelley confessed it was a dish she'd never made before.

With the clock racing, plating the dessert became an issue, leaving Shelley unhappy with the ‘rustic' result.

MasterChef New Zealand judges Simon Gault and Josh Emett were quick to notice, with Josh commenting about how the presentation needed more finesse, and Simon complaining about the lack of berries.

After judging, the duos were reunited and gathered together to learn their scores.

Trudie was singled out as having the worst risotto from the previous challenge, receiving a score of four out of 10 from the judges.

‘I knew I got the lowest score,” she says.

In the bottom two alongside Bec Stanley and Jaimie Stodler, Shelley learned it was the presentation of her dessert that had let her down.

"There were so many different plating options which would have made a massive difference," Josh told her.

Third judge Ray McVinnie gave Shelley a five for her work, taking the duo's score up to nine, but the sisters were devastated when Bec and Jaimie's total scored one point higher, sealing their fate.

Reflecting on their journey, Trudie and Shelley say they are proud of making it to the Top Five, and know their children would also be proud of them.

'They'll be gutted we didn't win it, and they'll be expecting amazing food when we get home, but little do they know - we won't be cooking for six months.”