Gordon: Previously on "MasterChef Junior"...
Gordon: All of you are going to have to turn this crab
into something truly magical.
Visually, it looks unfinished.
The individual leaving
the MasterChef kitchen tonight is...
Ciara.
- Good night, Ciara. Bye, love. - All: Bye!
Tonight, it's a bittersweet team challenge...
- We're having a bake sale. - Aarón: Yeah!
It's the best day of my life.
...as the top eight battle it out.
- I need help. - My shortbread dough is not coming together.
- I know what everybody is doing. - The towel! The towel, Ivy!
- Let go, let go. - How come you're on fire there?
- Am I missing something? - This is not going well.
My dough didn't come together.
Gordon: We are in danger.
That's what red means for me right now.
That's almost like an insult to the word cookie.
Let's hope it tastes better than it looks.
It just looks like a giant piece of dog poop.
Terrible.
( music playing )
Look at this.
This is my kind of day. Mm-mm-mm.
- Oh, yes. - Gordon: Come on.
- Give me a break. - This is what makes me excited about being British.
What is that monstrosity there?
- This here? - That, yeah.
It's a beautiful chocolate cornflake surprise.
( cheering )
- Welcome back, guys. - Oh!
Grab yourselves a plate and help yourself.
Grayson: Walking into the kitchen,
there's so many desserts in front of us.
Gordon has desserts from England,
and Daphne has desserts from America,
and Aarón has desserts from Mexico.
And it's really cool because we get to eat
all of these tasty desserts.
- Victoria sponge! - Battenberg cake.
Eva: I've never seen so much sugar in one place.
I mean, cupcakes, cakes, churros, candied apples, caramel apples.
There's cinnamon buns. There's literally anything a kid would ever want.
Gordon: How delicious are they?
- Are they good? - So delicious.
- Gordon: Really good, right? - Yeah.
- Cruz, you can take another Victoria sponge. - Okay, you know what?
I'm just taking the whole thing. Thank you.
Gordon: In case you guys haven't guessed it,
today, for the first time ever,
we're having a MasterChef Junior bake sale!
- Aarón: Yeah! - Gordon: Yes.
Today is the very first MasterChef Junior bake sale,
and the very first bake sale I have ever been to.
At this point, it's the best day of my life.
Well, guys, do not be fooled by all the tasty treats.
Bake sales are a tough business,
especially when an elimination is on the line.
You're not going to bake alone.
This is your next team challenge.
- ( cheering ) - And after it's over,
someone from the losing team will be going home.
Abir: Having won my last two team challenges,
I feel good about team challenges now.
I know how they work.
But I know that someone's gonna be going home at the end of today.
So I have to bring whatever knowledge I have
from desserts and baking into this bake sale.
Aarón: All right, here's the deal.
You guys will be split into two teams of four.
Each team will be responsible
for four baked goods.
So that's one per person.
We want to see your version of the most incredible cookie,
cupcake, a profiterole--
otherwise known as a cream puff-- and a bar.
Gordon: And you'll only have 75 minutes
to make 20 portions of each
of those four delicious different desserts.
Now, here's the good news. Today we'll be joined
by a crowd of very, very special guests,
- and they all love sweets. - Kids?
- Kids?
That's right. They're kids just like you guys.
( cheering )
The kids won't be buying your food,
but they will be eating it
and telling us what they think.
Today, we will be the ones judging.
We will taste all of your baked goods
and talk to all of the kids, too.
But, ultimately, we will be the ones deciding
- who wins and who loses. - Gordon: Right.
- Are you guys ready? - Yes, Chef!
We are looking for some volunteers
- to become captains. - Oh, please, please.
Excellent. Ivy, your hand went up first.
You are gonna be the captain of the red team.
- Yes! - Yay, Ivy!
You got this.
And guess whose hand went up second?
- Cruz. - Cruz, that's right.
Cruz, you're gonna be the captain of the blue team.
Two youngest contestants as captains today.
Now, both of you, please come up here.
Ivy: I think that I would be a great team captain
because I know how to lead a team to victory
because I've been on a soccer team,
a lacrosse team, and I've actually won a lot on team challenges.
So I think that I've shown the judges
that I can run a team
no matter what age I am.
Looking sharp, everyone.
I'm gonna show them that the youngest one here
can be a team captain and cook like a pro.
We're going to make it fair. We're gonna flip a coin to pick teams.
You're gonna call it in the air. Heads or tails, okay?
- Ready? - Mm-hmm.
Tails.
Daphne: She calls tails.
Gordon: You said tails.
And tails it is.
- Wow. - Yes!
So you get to pick first.
Ivy: I'm picking this person
because they are really good with sweets.
- So, I'm choosing Eva. - Gordon: Eva, wow.
Ivy: I want to build a really strong team,
so I'm gonna pick the strongest people that I can.
Because it's a bake challenge, I'm gonna choose people
who are strong bakers, like Eva.
- Gordon: Right, Cruz. - I'm picking this person
- because I know they can work as a team. - Gordon: Smart.
- And that person is Grayson. - Gordon: Grayson.
- Gordon: Wow. - Good job, Grayson.
- Liya. - Wow. Liya, welcome to the red team.
- Daphne: Mmm. - Gordon: Excellent.
- Cruz? Abir. - Abir.
- Eva: Good job, Abir! - Gordon: Well done.
Welcome to the blue team.
So, Ivy, this is it. Final pick.
- I'm choosing Molly. - Gordon: Molly.
- Hey, it's the girls versus boys. - Wow.
Gordon: Which means, A'Dan, please, welcome to the blue team.
Cruz: I didn't want A'Dan to be on my team
because A'Dan is very difficult to work with.
The thing you have to do to manage a team,
especially A'Dan,
is to keep charge and never let anyone else
be team captain besides me.
Captains, a lot of responsibility on your shoulders,
but drive your team to victory.
Let's have 75 minutes on the clock, please.
Right.
Your time...
starts...
- ...now. - Let's go, guys.
- Come on, we got this.
- Come on, come on, come on. - Let's go! Let's go!
We have to make dainty pastries
- and prove the stereotypes wrong. - That's right.
I'm very excited to be team captain today.
Even though I'm young, I know how to handle a lot of people.
Today, the boys will take down the girls.
I'm thinking that we should do, like, a chocolate cupcake.
- No! - Vanilla.
- We should do red. - No, vanilla.
- Let's do rainbow. - No.
- That takes too much time. - Red velvet! Red velvet!
- Yes! - Red velvet.
- What kind of cookies? - Peanut butter--
Let's just do a classical chocolate chip cookie.
- Yeah, that'd be good. - Wait, what about the bars?
- Brownies! - We need something like brownies
- that's not brownies. - Blondies!
Something lighter. Profiterole?
- I think that chocolate-- - Chocolate, chocolate.
Chocolate, because I feel like kids would like that.
- Eva, you're making profiterole. - Yes.
Molly, you're doing cookies.
Liya, you're doing the cupcakes,
and I'm making the blondies, okay?
I think that kids will really like ours
because kids like a lot of sweetness.
Hands in. Red team on three.
Girls: One, two, three, red team!
I'm gonna do cupcakes, so I think we could do
something maybe like a lemon cupcake?
- No. - Grayson: I have an idea.
Since you were into those Victoria sponges,
we could do a play on a mixed berry Victoria sponge cupcake?
- Yeah, we could do that. - What do you think?
- What kind of bar? Like-- - We could do a lemon bar.
- Let's do a cookies and cream bar! - Okay, but, no--
I think we should stay, like, refined, you know?
We're talking about kids here.
But in the end, the judges are gonna be the ones
that are gonna decide who's winning.
You can do your cookies refined.
We can make everything else really refined
- and let him do what he does best. - Okay, fine. Fine.
- Cookies and cream. Okay, great. - Okay, so, cookie?
- Yeah, snickerdoodle. - No, no, because we already-- we wanna be refined.
Something refined. Something that kids will like,
but that also the judges will like.
- Maybe, like, Linzer cookies. - A Linzer cookie?
- That would be great. - A Linzer cookie.
Grayson: And then cream puff.
What flavors do you want to keep this refined thing going?
- Just keep it simple. Vanilla? - No.
- Matcha? - A matcha!
A'Dan: I don't agree with Linzer cookies
and matcha cream puffs.
We know we're cooking for children.
Why would we do something that children don't know?
Like, that's like giving a two-year-old a T-bone steak.
Okay, the cookies and cream brownies, it's gonna be A'Dan.
Mixed berry Victoria sponge cupcakes, it's gonna be me.
- And I do cream puffs? - Yeah.
Matcha cream puff for you. Linzer cookies for Abir.
- Yeah. - Blue team on three.
Boys: One, two, three, blue team!
- Let's do this, guys. - Get what we need.
All right, so the idea of a bake sale,
I'm interested to see if they can channel
something so nostalgic,
something intrinsically American, right?
20 portions across 75 minutes, and at the end of it,
somebody from the losing team will be going home.
We gotta get our batters and doughs done as fast as we can.
- Okay. - Yep.
Gordon: Profiterole, for me, it's one of the most difficult.
It takes at least 15, 20 minutes to make that batter.
And what kind of flavor are you gonna put inside?
How are you gonna glaze them on top?
They need to be identical in terms of shape
- so they cook evenly. - What are you doing so far?
I just really need this butter to melt
and then I can get my flour in.
Second most difficult, Daphne, what would you say?
The cupcakes involve a double sort of process.
You have to make the batter and make it well
so you don't get dense fudge cupcakes.
And then you have to nail the butter cream frosting
and then you have to decorate them.
How's your batter coming, Cruz?
My batter's going well.
I mean, the third most difficult has to be that bar, right?
- Daphne: I think so. - Just to make them look attractive,
because we look at desserts
- with the eye first, right? - Aarón: Absolutely.
Cookies are pretty straightforward, but because it is people's favorite
- comfort food, you need to nail it. - Sure.
Gordon: Guys, just over ten minutes gone.
64 minutes remaining.
Let's go.
I'm good. I'm gonna spread this out.
- Right, Cruz, we good? - Yes, Chef.
Give me an insight into who's doing what, please.
Well, for Grayson, he's doing our matcha profiteroles.
And, Abir, he's starting our Linzer cookies.
Linzer cookies. Why so difficult?
'Cause that's an amazing cookie, right?
We want to show that we can sort of challenge ourselves.
- What's A'Dan doing? - A'Dan's doing a cookies and cream brownie.
- A brownie? - Yeah.
I'm doing the mixed berry Victoria sponge cake cupcakes.
- Oh. Okay. - Cruz, do you need help with anything?
- Um, not really. - Have you got all your bars in?
- Yes, Chef. - You got one tray in here.
- Yes, Chef. - Can you get 20 portions out of that?
I need to do another tray.
- Do you wanna win? - Yes, Chef.
- I just wasn't thinking. - Let's get a second tray in.
- Yes, Chef. - Now. Quickly, yes?
Young man, you've got 54 minutes.
Everything should be coming out in half an hour to be decorated.
Let's go.
Ivy, what are you making today, girl?
I'm making the blondies.
It has M&Ms, and I'm gonna chop up some walnuts
and put them in here.
Eva is doing the cream puffs,
and Molly is doing the cookies,
and Liya's making the red velvet cupcakes.
- Mmm. - And then we wanna have a lot of color
because we want to make sure that kids think it's appealing.
Yes, eye-catching, like your outfits. I get it.
Okay, well, we're gonna let you work on getting this into the pan.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Molly. - Molly McMollerson.
What flavor are you making? What cookies?
I'm just gonna go classical chocolate chip
'cause I think that's, you know, what kids love.
But my dad says, you know,
if it's really simple, it makes it harder.
Yeah, that's true, because you can't hide anywhere, right?
- No. - All right, good stuff. Good luck, Molly.
What do you think about this platter
- for the cookies? - Maybe.
Abir: I picked a Linzer cookie for the kids,
and I feel like I definitely have
one of the toughest desserts right now on our team.
But I have to embrace this and make sure that Gordon sees
that I can bake and cook.
So I have to figure it out fast.
My shortbread dough is not coming together.
Am I missing something?
I've never made a Linzer cookie before,
but I've made shortbread dough
and I know how it's supposed to feel and taste.
It's way too sandy. Should I start over?
- I'm really worried. - My shortbread dough
is still not coming together, guys.
My mind is just exploding. I don't know what went wrong.
I definitely do not want to go home tonight.
My shortbread dough is still not coming together, guys.
It's still not coming together.
So I have to add some more butter,
and hopefully this can come together.
Because if it doesn't,
I'll just have to completely start over.
- Trying to add a little milk to bind it. - Yeah, cream.
Cream or milk is going to help.
( clicks tongue )
At this point, I don't wanna help Abir,
because I tried to tell them let's do snickerdoodle cookies.
It's a kid-friendly cookie and it's not very hard to make.
But they didn't listen to me, so that's their fault.
Abir: All right, it looks better.
Gordon: 50 minutes remaining. Let's go!
- Blue team a little bit fragmented at the moment. - Yeah?
A'Dan is not on the same page.
That chocolate brownie? It's only ten portions.
- No, we need 20 minimum. - Minimum 20.
So he's gonna another batch.
Grayson's on it with the choux pastry.
Cruz has already got his cupcakes in the oven.
- Wow. - Abir's bitten off too much than he can chew.
Daphne: They decided to do these Linzer cookies,
which are two layers of cookies around jam.
They're very precise, they're very refined.
Little beautiful cutouts in the middle.
They cut out twice as many perfect cookies.
It's a very complicated, skill-intensive cookie.
And most importantly, I'm not even sure
it's something kids really love.
- I know. - Could you get another sheet tray for me?
Another sheet tray, okay.
Abir is really struggling with the shortbread cookies.
I'm supposed to be making my ganache for my profiteroles,
but instead I have to step in and help Abir.
Here, I'll roll, you get the parchment, okay?
It's chaos, because he needs so much help.
Guys, we have to get back on track.
All right, mine are getting ready to go into the oven.
I'm just gonna add my chocolate and my walnuts.
I'd rather be on the grill than handling the oven,
but I am killing it on this cookie batter.
I almost have all of my cookies into the oven and ready to go.
Yeah, I'm going into the oven in, like, a couple minutes.
Eva: Ivy, I have to start over.
- My dough didn't come together. - It's okay.
Put your butter on, like, high heat and just, like, stir, okay?
Yep. I got this. I'm not falling back.
Eva: I don't really know
what's happening with my profiteroles,
but there's no time to be like, "Oh, my God. Oh, my God."
I have to keep going so I have some kind of dough to serve.
- Okay! - Cruz: Come on, guys.
Grayson: Cream puffs are in the oven. What can I do to help?
- Abir: Cruz, I need help with these. - Cruz: Grayson, help Abir.
They're all over the place right now on the blue team,
'cause the cookies are way behind.
Look at Abir now. He's still rolling out cookies.
Abir, how many you got more to roll out?
Uh, let's see. 13 more, Chef.
Unbelievable.
Daphne: Less than 45 minutes left
to get cookies into the oven,
let them cool, put the jam filling
and decorate them, get them on the table.
And look at the jeopardy now. Now Grayson's on there.
Daphne: When your whole team's coming together on one dish,
you're running the risk of sacrificing the other three.
There's really no excuse for a cookie to take you down.
- Gordon: No. - We need to start focusing.
If we wanna beat the girls, we have to focus and listen to each other.
The saving grace of the blue team is the captain.
- Yeah. - He may be the youngest but, boy, is he packing a punch.
Guys, if you're done with the thing that you're making,
try and make sure to help out your friends.
He seems very confident and assured of his movements.
- I love that. - What do we have done and what are we waiting on?
- Molly: Cookies are done. - So, I'm waiting on the-- the cupcakes.
Okay. One batch of my blondies
I'm thinking is almost done, okay?
You know what? Talking about leadership,
the red team is really strong with Ivy leading the ship.
She's very firm, but also she's working and leading by example.
Liya: How are they going?
Eva: Really good. My dough is perfect.
Ivy: Good. We're doing really good.
At first, I was a little scared because we were behind,
but now we really came back.
The red team is doing really well.
I don't know what's going on on the blue team,
but I feel really strong about the red team.
Oh, gosh, there's no space in this oven.
There's no space in this oven. Get it in your oven.
- Get it in your oven. - Abir, how many cookies you got left to go in the oven?
- Two more. - Gordon: Unbelievable.
Make some extras. Let's go, young man. Move.
Abir, how long is that gonna be in my oven?
- Uh-- yeah. - Set a timer.
It's all right, just go off color.
Abir needs to calm down and focus.
Baking is like science, because you need to make sure
that you're very precise and exact.
Otherwise it's going to fall apart.
Come on, guys. 37 minutes.
- Halfway, guys. Let's go! - All right.
I'm getting my first batch of blondies out.
- Fantastic! - Good job, Ivy!
Gordon: Let's go. Right.
Abir, look.
- These cookies are out. You're still rolling yours. - Yes, Chef.
Young man, speed up.
- Yes, Chef. - Now. Unbelievable.
Right, Ivy, are you in control of the red team?
Do we know what we're doing?
- I know what everybody's doing. - Watch out. Watch out.
The towel. The towel, Ivy! Let go, let go.
How come you're on fire there?
Turn that gas down.
How'd you--
How'd you set an oven cloth on fire?
Ivy: Fire doesn't really scare me.
- ( giggles ) - What's left to cook?
- What are you cooking there? - My profiteroles.
They're still not out yet?
- No. - They're not out yet?
- No. - Oh, boy.
- They're not. - Oh, boy.
Gordon: What happened here?
Just feel the weight.
Feel the weight. Why are they so heavy?
- I don't know. - Huh?
What's happened to the mixture?
- I have-- I have no idea. - Did we whip up the eggs?
Yeah, I did everything right.
She said that the batter was perfect.
Gordon: We need to crank up the oven.
- Another hundred, yes? - Yes.
- All right, let's go. - I got this.
Gordon: Uh, so, listen.
I'm worried. I'm worried.
Inside the oven there, the profiteroles,
we got 27 minutes left to go and they're nowhere near cooked.
They need to cool down, and then you need to stuff them.
- Are you sure you got the right person doing that? - I think so.
She said that she was really good with profiteroles and she's made them a lot.
Okay, but make sure they're cooked before
they come out of there, okay? Let's go, girl.
- How you doing? - Liya: Good.
Gordon: Yeah? So, that's raw there.
Captain, come here. Touch it.
Touch it, captain.
So why are we taking this out?
Liya's cupcakes are raw, and that's not good.
I'm a little bit overwhelmed
because everybody's having problems
and the red team is falling apart.
This is stressful.
Gordon: We are in danger.
That's what red means for me right now.
Touch it, captain.
So why are we taking this out?
- I want to help you... - Yes, Chef.
...but they're not cooked. They're liquid in the center.
- I thought you wanted to win this challenge. - I do, Chef.
Hurry up. Get them back in the oven.
- Yes, Chef. Okay. - Yes?
I don't want to let my team down,
and right now I feel very, very bad.
I'm going to step up my game
and make sure I'm doing everything right
and make sure my cupcakes are ready on time.
Wow, red team all over the place at the moment.
They're running out of time. Here's the bad news.
Liya took out two trays of cupcakes.
One were cooked beautifully. The others were undercooked, liquid in the center.
The strongest one right now on the red team, would you believe, is Molly.
Those cookies are beautiful, but the profiteroles are still in the oven.
The oven wasn't cranked up, and so they're spongy and doughy in the center.
Guys, I got all the cupcakes done.
Grayson, is that looking good?
- Yes, it is. - Okay, good.
- Grayson: Abir, how are your cookies? - Good.
- Hey. - Do they look all right?
Grayson: We're gonna have to make do.
Abir: They look pretty burnt.
So this is unacceptable,
because our desserts have to be consistent.
They have to all look the same.
22 minutes remaining, guys.
Abir, we need these Linzer cookies done.
Put them in the blast chiller so that they cool.
- Yeah, I know. - Hurry.
I have to salvage what I can because I don't have time to restart.
Someone is going home.
I just hope that I did enough to stay.
Abir has only just now pulled out the first half of the batch--
- Just? - Just now.
- I don't see any jam in sight. - Wow.
They were too ambitious.
Abir thought that this would be something
that would be whimsical and presented beautifully.
- It's backfiring big time. - Yeah.
My cupcakes are finally cooked,
and they are all fluffed up and they are pretty.
The red team is back on track.
Everyone's getting everything close to being ready.
I'm starting to think that we can maybe win this.
Voilà.
We have less than 22 minutes to go
and I just need to pipe these and fill them.
And so I'm a little worried, but I think we're gonna do fine.
- Hey, does anybody need help? - Eva: Yes! Yes! Yes!
- Yes! - Eva.
Okay, so, I need to pipe.
- Pipe? Yeah. - Can you help me?
60 minutes gone, 15 minutes remaining.
Now we should start decorating them.
- Eva: How many do we have? - Did you not count?
Gordon: Come here. Come here.
Now they don't look very nice.
I don't know why you're doing this.
I, honestly, don't know why we're doing this to each other.
Where has this teamwork gone? If you're gonna pipe on there,
- can you pipe with some finesse, please, yes? - Okay.
- Yes, Chef. - You got this, Molly.
- Okay. - Pipe them prettier.
I only have 18 shortbread. Two broke in the oven.
Guys, you gotta move. You guys keep talking.
- I got one shortbread done. - You didn't make any extras?
- Put them on the tray. - No, Chef.
I didn't have enough time.
They wouldn't have cooked in time.
Ten minutes to go.
If these don't get finished,
I don't know what I'll do.
I don't know if I did this wrong. I need help.
What do you need help with?
I don't think my brownie dough is turning out right.
- What's wrong with it? - It doesn't look right.
Abir: You weren't supposed to actually coat
the entire brownie with the cookies.
- A'Dan: I wasn't? - No.
You're just supposed to sprinkle some on top.
- Some? Oh, my-- - Yeah. Come on, A'Dan.
Well, we can't do anything else. I ran out of ingredients.
Abir: I don't know. Are you sure?
You can get more. There's still time.
I wanted you to see this brownie.
I mean, it's just pure crumble on top.
Yeah, yeah.
- Look at that sand on that. - Yeah, it's just sand.
It looks like chocolate sand on top.
- Cruz, we have a problem with the brownies. - Yes?
Cruz: Oh, no. What happened?
So he's put too many cookies on top of the brownie itself,
so it's not going to cook in time.
We need to restart both batches of brownies.
- Where in the heck is A'Dan? - He is in the pantry
- getting more equipment. - Cruz: A'Dan, what happened?
- My brownies got messed up. - Please, you got to hurry up.
- Abir: A'Dan. - ( groans )
A'Dan has messed up on the brownies,
but I don't want to stop what I'm doing
because I gotta get those cupcakes going.
Someone from our team might have to go home because of that.
Daphne: What kind of brownies are you making?
They look kind of crumbly on top. Is that intentional?
A'Dan: No, I messed up.
I'm freaking out right now.
Both batches of brownies are ruined
and we're trying to make another batch and get this done.
I'm in real, real trouble.
They might be a little underbaked,
and I'm just now figuring that out.
Daphne: Your brownies are not gonna happen.
You need to think of a different kind of recipe.
That needs to happen right now, because you have ten minutes
to make bars happen or they're not gonna happen at all, okay?
This is not going well.
I don't know what to do.
We have to come up with an idea quick.
We only have, like, ten minutes left.
We have to figure something out.
I'm going home.
Cruz: Guys, everyone stop what they're doing.
- Grayson, stop what you're doing. - Yes, Cruz.
- We're wasting time. - No, we're not.
This is important. What are we gonna do with the brownies?
We have to make a different idea.
Can someone come up with a bar idea
- that we don't have to bake? - A'Dan: Wait, I got an idea.
Chocolate bars with Frosted Flakes.
Cruz: Yes, that's what we do.
Okay, guys, come on, hurry.
It's a snack I made before at home
like 18,000 times.
So, I'm gonna try to get this done
and just hope it's good.
Gordon: I think the problem with the blue team
is that the easiest execution of dessert
seemed to be the most difficult tonight.
- Yep. - The bar and the cookie
seem to be ones that are most long-winded.
The cupcakes are on track and the profiteroles are on track.
Six and a half minutes to go. Come on.
- I just can't-- - I know. They're hot.
Can you get them out? And I'll cut them.
In the blast chiller, right now my bars look like dog poop.
It doesn't look great, but it might taste great.
If there's one thing I learned in this competition,
even if it doesn't look good, it's got to taste good.
These don't look very pretty on the right, right?
Molly: No, they look fine.
Aarón: Three and a half minutes, everyone.
Grayson: Guys, come on, we gotta hurry.
I think these don't look too bad.
Okay, we have all 20.
Come on, guys, we have two minutes. We gotta start plating.
- All right. - Pick the prettiest ones.
Try to plate them like this.
- Don't drop the cupcakes. - ( squeals )
Okay, okay, okay. They're done?
Abir: I need the powdered sugar, too.
60 seconds to go. Come on, guys.
Final minute, you guys. Final minute.
- Oh, man. - These are the only ones that don't look amazing.
- What are these? - These are "brownies."
- Just leave it. It's gonna be a mess. - We don't have time to--
- Ten, nine, eight... - Zest on here.
- seven, six, five... - Guys, just leave it. Just leave it.
- ...four, three, two, one. - It's gonna be a mess.
- And stop. Hands in the air. - That's it. Hands in the air.
- Well, they still look nice. - No. No.
Right, all of you, very carefully,
carry desserts out to the patio.
I don't even know what to say about A'Dan's bars right now.
They look, like, very bad.
They better taste good
or we're facing elimination for sure.
Who wants to eat some?
I mean, these kids better love our desserts.
I mean, we worked really hard on them,
and we kind of adjusted all these desserts
to what they would like.
Let's go, guys. Good luck.
- Kids: Yes, Chef. - Thank you, Chef.
( music playing )
( cheering )
These kids are like a stampede of rhinos.
I mean, they're coming everywhere and they're grabbing their desserts
and then they're just storming off.
- This is a lot of kids. - Help yourselves, guys.
These are lemon blackberry cookies
with a lemon glaze.
Abir: I look over at the girls' station
and most of their desserts look really nice.
They look like something that you would find at a bake sale.
They went really classic, we went upscale,
and I feel like that might hurt us in the long run.
( chattering )
You got the cupcakes.
Which one do you think you prefer,
the red team or the blue team?
- ( laughing ) - Mm...
- ...the blue team's? - Gordon: Interesting.
Now, out of the cookies, which one do you think you prefer,
- the red team of the blue team? - Um, the red team.
- Yes. - Daphne: You tried both cookies.
What do you think of the red team's chocolate chip cookie with frosting?
I liked it because it tastes like a regular cookie,
but then it had the frosting on it.
I liked that more than this one because it had a--
this one had a tangy flavor.
- It was hard to chew. - Daphne: It was hard to chew.
- To, like, bite. Yeah. - Aarón: A little dry, right?
- Which one do you prefer? - I like the presentation of the red one,
but I think I like the blue one more because I like how it's crunchy.
- Right, so you like the chocolate log. - Yeah.
( muttering )
It's okay. Look, it doesn't matter.
( music playing )
So you had the profiteroles from the red and the blue team, right?
Which one do you prefer?
- I think the red team. - The red team.
That entire table liked the red team better. Every single one.
I just thought that the red team had more flavor in it.
I liked the way that they put chocolate.
Gordon: Chocolate always wins, doesn't it? I love chocolate.
Both: Yes.
Grayson, I don't think they really like any of our stuff.
I'm scared.
Gordon: Okay, it's time for the judges to taste your baked goods.
Right, Captain Cruz, please,
come up with the blue team. Let's go.
Cruz: I'm sort of concerned for the blue team right now
because everything doesn't look good,
but hopefully it tastes delicious.
My heart is beeping really fast right now
because of how intense this is right now.
Right, Cruz, describe your first dish, please.
Today, I made a mixed berry Victoria sponge cupcake.
- Nice crust on there. - Daphne: Mmm.
The actual cook looks lovely. Your frosting looks nice.
Fruits a little bit skew-whiffed.
Do you have any fruit inside the mix?
The cupcake itself, it has some like blueberries
- and raspberry in it. - Right.
- Oh, boy. - Daphne: Whoa.
It's like the Victoria sponge filling inside.
Smart.
Daphne: Thank you so much.
I love the flavor. The flavor is there.
And does taste like a Victoria sponge.
What it needs is more frosting.
But overall, it's a beautifully cooked cupcake.
Daphne: Really tender cake. The pink frosting
I think was a good touch 'cause it sort of symbolized
what you're getting underneath.
- What you have on that plate is delicious. - Thank you.
- I don't even know what to say. I just think it's perfect. - Thank you.
Now, the cookie.
Abir made a lemon blackberry Linzer cookie.
So, it looks a little bit sort of overcooked underneath.
And then I've got a smaller one on top, yeah?
And it feels really hard.
Yeah? Let's get it--
Oh, boy. See?
- Oh, man. - Daphne: Put your back into it.
Gordon: Can you hear that?
Oh, boy. You need to taste it.
Thank you.
Wow.
- That's way overcooked. - Yeah.
And it's almost like an insult to the word cookie.
Gordon: Wow.
That's way overcooked, and it's almost like
an insult to the word cookie.
Cruz, now you're the captain of the blue team.
What happened?
Cruz: Well, it's on me and Abir,
because I should have helped him more.
Yeah, but at the same time, you have to have ownership
- in what you do in a team. - Daphne: Did you and Abir
talk about what he was gonna make
for his cookie before he decided on this?
Yes, we sort of talked about this for a little bit,
and then we decided to do a Linzer cookie
because we wanted to challenge ourselves.
Look, I think the biggest mistake
was deciding on that cookie in the first place.
I think it was really challenging to nail.
I didn't spit it out because I'm a lady,
but it was not a cookie
- I would ever eat again. - It's dry, it's mealy,
and there's nothing really redeeming about it.
- You did it good, okay? - I'm going home.
- Don't say that. Be confident. - Abir, calm down.
- You're not going home. - Maybe nobody's going home.
Right now I'm just hoping that the rest of the team
did well enough to cover up my big mistake.
Because if we don't, I'm scared that I might be the one that's going home.
- Right, profiterole. - Grayson made a mini matcha cream puff.
- Let's get in there, shall we? Oh. - Daphne: Ooh.
Gordon: It's cooked beautifully.
The only issue I've got with the matcha
is that it's an acquired taste.
You have to be careful and know your audience.
I told you in the beginning of today's challenge,
it's kids your age that's tasting this today.
I think there was a hint of citrus something in there.
I would've liked a little bit more punch from that,
but the profiterole was cooked well.
Yeah, it just needed it to be a bigger profiterole.
I think it would've really kind of mellowed out
the intensity of the green tea and the matcha.
But other than that, I mean, so delicious.
Thank you.
Now, the final bar, right?
A'Dan made a chocolate cornflake bar.
Let's hope it tastes better than it looks,
but it doesn't blow me away, put it that way.
It just looks like a giant piece of dog poop.
Daphne: Gonna leave you the big piece. Here you go.
Do you know what? It actually tastes better than it looks.
But at this stage in the competition, we're expecting a lot more.
I'll be honest with you, if I ate that with my eyes closed,
I would have no problems with it.
Yeah, but it's very challenging to look at.
Okay, thank you, Cruz.
I'm sort of concerned for the blue team right now
because they loved my cupcake and Grayson's cream puff,
but they were not happy with Abir's Linzer cookies or with A'Dan's bar.
So, I feel like we might not win this challenge.
- I'm proud of myself. - Calm down.
Gordon: Ivy, please, bring up your desserts. Thank you.
Ivy: I'm really proud of my red team.
Everybody worked so well together.
Our plates looked amazing and I hope that the judges like
that they're really yummy and really colorful,
and we win and nobody from our team has to be eliminated.
Gordon: Right, describe your first dish, please.
Liya made a red velvet cupcake with a cream cheese frosting.
Visually, looks nice.
Yes!
- It's cooked beautifully inside. - Daphne: Beautiful.
- Gordon: Beautifully. - Yes! Yes!
Aarón: Thank you.
So, the cupcake is nice.
- Daphne: Mmm. - Frosting is delicious.
Daphne: Yeah, you got beautiful crumb.
I mean, it's really lovely and fluffy.
I could've had a little bit more of that cream cheese.
A little bit more of that tartness which is so nice with red velvet cake,
but a very delicious cupcake.
It's reading a little too sweet for me.
I would've loved maybe a little bit of salt on top.
- Daphne: Ooh. - Maybe sea salt would've taken it to the next level.
- Daphne: Like that idea. - Gordon: Nice.
Now, describe that cookie, please.
Molly made a chocolate chip cookie with walnuts
and an orange drizzle.
Never eaten a cookie with a knife before. Here we go.
Gordon: So, the flavor's nice.
Unfortunately, the cookie's a little bit overcooked.
They shouldn't be so crunchy like that. Should be more gooey.
Daphne: Yeah, you know, part of why people love cookies so much
is that gooeyness on the inside that makes it so crave-able.
Really nice balance of chocolate, but just very overcooked.
I think the fact that you have so much chocolate in there
is the only thing that's saving you from this being a real difficult bite.
Gordon: So, profiterole.
Eva made a chocolate cream puff with more icing.
Visually, looks nice. Lot of height on there, which is lovely.
The filling is literally oozing out of there.
The filling is delicious. The finishing, that's the bit that lets it down.
The inside is delicious, the cookie's really good, the height is amazing.
It's just the way you finished them.
Daphne: Maybe a little too much chocolate coming out.
It was exploding a little bit too much for my taste.
But the profiterole itself was very well done.
Yeah, I agree. I think the lack of execution on the frosting
is really taking away from a beautiful profiterole.
Gordon: Right, blondie. Describe that one, please.
I made a blondie with M&Ms and a purple fluff icing.
So, the cook looks nice.
The one thing that concerns me about this is that splodge.
Whose idea was it to put the frosting on top?
It was my idea, but then I didn't like how I did it.
The blondie is nice, okay? It tastes very good.
What it doesn't need is that splodge of frosting on the side,
because it's just sweet on sweet on sweet.
Daphne: Yeah, the bit that I got had, you know,
a little bit of the frosting on, and even that was too much.
But the cook on it is beautiful.
Stay away from frosting on blondies from here on out.
Aarón: I love the idea of M&Ms in it.
- Frosting's not necessary. - Thank you, Ivy.
Ivy: I'm really proud of my red team.
Our feedback was really good from the judges,
we worked really well together,
and we didn't have that many problems.
I really hope that the red team is safe.
Gordon: Give us a moment to discuss this very,
very important decision.
This is a tough call, this one.
It's like the easiest ones tripped them up,
- the cookie and the bar. - Isn't that wild? I know.
Gordon: The blue team, I mean, I couldn't eat that cookie.
- It was so hard. - Yeah.
Also why would you attempt to do something
that is not manageable in 75 minutes?
But I think the blue team's cupcake tasted better than the red team's.
- Aarón: Yeah, yeah. - Beautiful. Oh, my gosh.
I think that was the best cupcake we tasted today for sure.
Gordon: The blue team, you know, their bar was a shocker, right?
- Aarón: Yeah. - I think the profiterole from the red team tasted better
- than the blue team. - Beautiful.
- And I think-- - No, I disagree.
I think the blue team had a lot more
interesting elements than the red team.
I think a part of this challenge
is to know your audience and to play to that.
And I think the blue team took a lot or risks,
and I think some of them, unfortunately, did fall flat.
Look who you're cooking for. Kids their age.
- Aarón: And they speak the truth. - They speak the truth.
I'd like all of you now to give both teams
an amazing round of applause, please.
- Yeah! - Thank you.
Honestly, all of you, thank you so much for coming
and being part of this incredible challenge today,
because you tasted our first ever
MasterChef Junior bake sale.
- Did you guys have a good time? - All: Yeah!
I'm thinking that it might be closer than we thought.
If there's anything that could save us right now,
it's probably Cruz's cupcakes
and maybe the fact
that my cream puffs are cooked well.
Now, today we talked to all of you.
And after tasting everything,
we've talked it over at length
and we decided that...
based with your feedback,
the team that will not face elimination,
congratulations goes to...
The...
...red team!
I won! I was the only eight-year-old
to actually lead a team to victory.
This is amazing.
Blue team, we have a very, very tough decision to make.
Sadly, somebody is going to be going home.
Both teams, please head inside whilst Miss Daphne,
Aarón, and myself debate. Off you go.
Give them a round of applause, please, all of you.
- Thank you. - Good job, ladies.
Aarón: Good job.
Right, all of you, great job. Well done.
- Thanks for coming, guys. - Gordon: Thank you.
- Bye, now. - Daphne: Bye, guys.
- Bud, high-five. Boom, let's go. - Well done.
Right now, I'm really wishing that I was on the red team.
- Later, dudes. Later, dudettes. - Let's go. Boom.
I'm just gonna have to hope that the judges
see past the fact that I burnt the cookie
and know that the Linzer cookie is really hard to nail.
Blue team, let's be honest,
I mean, Cruz did a good job as a captain.
- He did. - His cupcakes were, for me,
- the best cupcakes of the day. - I agree.
Grayson made that beautiful profiterole.
Aarón: It breaks down to the failure of the cooking
and then the atrocious appearance
- of the chocolate bar. - Abir picked a really challenging cookie.
Couldn't pull it off in that time.
And A'Dan struggled throughout the cook
and his bar looked terrible.
But he managed to deliver something that tasted good
and the kids actually liked.
Who was responsible for the most epic failures on the blue team,
and that's the answer to who needs to go home.
- Shall we? Please. - Let's do it.
A'Dan: I'm a little worried right now.
I have lost three team challenges.
It doesn't feel good to be on the losing team again.
There's a lot going through my brain.
I might be eliminated because my dish
didn't look good. But it tasted so good,
I just hope I can get up on that balcony.
Gordon: Blue team, although this was a team challenge,
each of you were individually responsible
for your own desserts.
And one of you, sadly,
is about to leave the MasterChef kitchen.
- Cruz. - Yes, Chef.
Today, you were the captain of the blue team.
You were a strong leader.
Your cupcake was delicious.
Cruz, head upstairs.
- Thank you. - Please.
Good job, Cruz.
Cruz: I feel very sad right now
because I was the team captain.
And I don't want anyone to go home,
but I'm really happy to be safe.
Grayson, your profiterole had some sophisticated flavors.
And though it didn't fit
to the taste buds of today's diners,
it was one of the standout desserts in your team.
Thank you.
Therefore, you're also safe.
Please make your way to the balcony.
- Thank you. - Good job, Grayson.
Grayson: I'm very sad that blue team lost,
but I think I deserve to stay
because my cream puffs were okay,
and I have so much more
to show the judges in this competition.
That leaves A'Dan and Abir.
Now, let's be honest, one of your desserts tonight
looked like something I'd pick up after walking the dog.
The other dessert was somewhat overcooked
and completely missed the mark.
A'Dan, Abir, this was a very tough decision.
We've discussed it at length
and we feel the person
that will no longer be continuing
in this competition is...
Abir. I'm sorry, young man.
A'Dan: I'm mad at myself
'cause I know I could show the judges better.
But I am super happy to be safe from elimination.
Gordon: Abir, you know, young man,
you tried to pull off something tonight
that a lot of professional pastry chefs couldn't do.
But let me tell you, throughout this competition,
you've wowed me with your flavors.
You're only ten, right?
And if you're this good at ten,
can you imagine how good you'll be at 15?
Daphne: Abir, we've been so impressed with you along the way,
and we tasted your tough cookie this evening.
But we've seen you be a tough cookie from day one here.
Yeah, Abir, I love your sensitivity and your thoughtfulness with food.
Because those are signs and very reflective of a great chef,
and I think you need to continue to cultivate that and pursue that dream.
Because you're gonna get there no matter what.
Come and say good-bye, young man.
I'm gonna miss you, bud.
Huh? Come on. Oh, boy.
I'm really disappointed that I have to go home
a lot earlier than I wanted to.
I wanted to make it all the way to the end.
But, I mean, top eight is amazing.
I beat out so many other chefs to be here.
( all shouting )
And I'm definitely really proud of what I've achieved.
I am never gonna give up.
I still want to open up a little ice cream shop.
It was just a great experience being here.
Gordon: Next time on "MasterChef Junior"...
( all screaming )
- What the heck is that? - Oh, my God!
- Cruz: An ostrich? - feathers fly...
Each of you will have to cook with a different type of egg.
- Whoo! - ...in egg-streme battle for immunity.
Oh, wow.
Hammer time.
And it's a beefy elimination that sends one young cook home.
Aarón: This is what happens when you touch the side.
( buzzer )