[suspenseful music plays]
[screams]
Oh! Oh!
Somebody's scared! And they should be!
Because it's time for Nailed It! Halloween,
the baking competition where cakes start out as beautiful eats
but end up taking some beats.
It's gonna be a Halloween party, and I'm your host, Nicole Byer,
and… Wes! Wes! There's a strange woman back there.
Oh, it's Mary Mouser from Cobra Kai. Mary, you're in the wrong Netflix.
Sorry, Nicole. I took a kick to the head, and I woke up here.
-Is this is a dream? -[laughs]
Have you seen the cakes I have to eat? This is my nightmare. Hoo.
-It's also my job. -[chuckles]
Today, three home bakers will compete in Halloween challenges
inspired by Netflix's smash hit show, Cobra Kai.
At stake, the chance to win $10,000.
You know what? Let's go meet our bakers.
Let's do it. [chuckles]
[suspenseful music plays]
[cats snarl]
My name is LaJeanne McKinney, and I am a computer science teacher
at a middle school. I also am the dance team coach,
and I'm also the Black History Month chair.
So, I got a lot on my plate, but I like to bake.
My issue is the decorating part of it.
It's gonna be plain, but it's gonna taste good.
[howling]
My name is Candice, and I am currently re-evaluating my life choices.
At home, I have chickens, cats,
one little squirrel that I carry around, and my house rooster.
[rooster calls]
Whoo. This is great.
I enjoy baking when everything goes as planned, which is never.
[laughs]
I'm Gianni DeCenzo, and I say words for a living.
You know what happens to snitches?
They get immunity.
Snitches get stitches.
I have stitches.
I've got several stitches.
Apparently people want to hear me say them,
so I'll keep doing that, I guess.
[bell dings]
All right, let's bake.
But the reason why I'm on this show today
is because it's just so much fun to make terrible cakes,
and that's what I'm good at.
Hi, Mary.
-Oh my God, Gianni, hi. -[judges laugh]
-Hi. -Oh my gosh.
Did you not know I was here?
-[laughing] No. -Well, I'm here.
Bakers, we know that you are big fans of today's guest judge.
She plays Samantha LaRusso on Cobra Kai.
Say hi to Mary Mouser.
Hi, Mary Mouser.
Mary, you know Gianni from your show, Cobra Kai,
so you know he can act.
But can he bake?
I sure hope so…
-[laughing] -…because I have to eat it. [laughs]
[Nicole] Mary, Gianni, you may fight for the same fictional dojo on TV,
but here in the Nailed It! kitchen, there will be no alliances.
Yes, sensei.
-Ooh, "sensei." I liked it. -[laughing]
Standing to my left is a man whose hands are highly trained weapons
that make treats to die for.
Pastry chef and chocolatier, Mr. Jacques Torres.
-Bonjour, everyone. -Bonjour.
Defeat do not exist in this kitchen, so be ready.
[laughing]
[Nicole] Well, first up is Baker's Choice.
This Halloween Baker's Choice challenge will send shivers down your spine
and fear in your heart.
Keep that anti-venom handy when you make these…
Cobra soft pretzels.
God, okay.
[laughs]
These sneaky pastries will make you twist in terror.
Each snake has a different flavor.
There's the Cobra Cool who delivers a powerful black licorice bite.
The red Cobra Calamity is caramel.
And lastly, the very sultry Cobra Cosmic is a marshmallow flavor.
This is your fault.
[laughs]
Sorry.
Gianni, which one would you like?
I like purple, and I've been told I'm sultry by no one.
[laughs]
So I'll take the purple one.
-You're sultry. -Thank you.
Okay, LaJeanne.
I like caramel. So, I'm gonna go with Cobra Calamity.
That leaves Candice. Your face, wow.
You seem upset.
I hate black licorice.
-[Nicole] You hate it? -[Candice] I do.
-But do you like snakes? -Oh, yeah.
Okay, well, that's a win!
-[bell dings] -[chuckles] Yeah!
[laughing]
Okay, bakers, there's 45 minutes on the clock. So go, start, do it.
[Gianni] All right!
Candice, come on. Let's go.
[rock music plays]
-[LaJeanne murmuring] -[Gianni] Ha, ha, ha.
Cup.
I'm a genius.
Coming through with the pot. [chuckles]
Jacques, how would you go about making pretzels?
[chuckles] Nicole, we give them the raw dough,
but they must do everything else.
So first, they must shape the pretzels,
then boil them in a mixture of baking soda and water.
As the pretzels bake to a golden brown,
sculpt the cobra faces using fondant and modeling chocolate.
Next, dip the pretzel in melted chocolate
mixed with just the right amount of flavoring extract.
And then, finally, assemble and decorate,
making their cobra pretzel worthy of any dojo.
-I'm excited. This is gonna be good. -Pretzels, that's a classic.
-[Nicole] Right? -Like Halloween-time treat.
-Wait, really? -Yeah, I think fairs.
I think fall. Do you know what I mean?
Like popcorn.
You went trick or treating, someone said, "Here's a soft pretzel for you."
-And you were like, "Thank you." -[laughs]
Okay, read the whole thing. Candice, read the whole thing.
"Shape the pretzels. Remove the dough from the bowl."
I feel like my pot's not big enough.
A little late for that.
Uh, make poaching liquid. Okay. Okay, all right.
Okay, where are the…
Where's the pot?
I am a little intimidated.
There's so many steps, but I'll figure that out, I guess.
Ha ha ha! Baking soda.
Half a cup of that. Easy-peasy.
The difference between Nailed It! and Cobra Kai
is I don't get kicked in the face.
Must not make mistakes.
At least I hope the competition doesn't do that.
All right.
I, apparently, had some sort of double-double boil and trouble
or whatever the crap that is.
This could not be worse.
I have made pretzels that are frozen,
and then you would put them in the microwave,
and those are great.
-[witch laughing] -Okay.
[Gianni] Is that half? That's about--
Ooh!
[judges laughing]
Gianni, what happened?
I forgot that baking soda reacts to things.
-That's not even baking. That's science. -This is bad!
I quit.
Is that an option? Can I quit on the first round?
All right. "Shape the pretzels."
Come on. Come on.
[Gianni] Okay.
How do we make a pretzel shape?
Muscle memory. Muscle memory. Muscle memory.
Hmm-mm.
I used to work at a pretzel shop back in high school,
so I have, like, an ounce of experience.
Nope.
[Gianni] It's tiny. I feel like it's too tiny.
You're gonna admit that?
[laughing]
I mean, it's obvious.
I love an honest man.
[laughing]
I'm gonna plop both in.
Okay.
Uh, you know--
Can't use that anymore.
[judges laugh]
It won't roll out.
Candice, how you doing?
Doing absolutely fine, Nicole!
-I mean… -[laughs]
Don't get mad with your dough.
Jacques, why would you think I'm mad?
[laughing]
"Simmer the pretzels for 30 seconds each side."
[Gianni] I think it's been 30 seconds.
[Candice] This is just disgusting is what it is.
Ugh.
I misread the instructions that you have to make the shape first,
and then put it in the boiling water.
I just threw those suckers in there like they were sausages.
Another one.
Ah.
Oh Jesus, this looks like something the dog threw up. Seriously.
"Remove from water and place on a lined baking sheet."
I'm gonna flip it.
Wax paper? That's "lined."
Great.
Does everyone else look like a pretzel?
I don't know. Top or bottom. We'll find out.
Oh, yeah.
For how long?
"Until done?"
How the hell am I supposed to know that?
Thirty-five minutes remain!
Okay, we got this.
We're gonna make his head, right?
Gianni, what are you trying to open?
-Um, molding chocolate? I don't know. -Ah.
I have never in my life even heard of molding chocolate.
Is it childproof?
"Is it childproof?" Yeah. Karate chop it open.
-Yay! -Oh, Gianni.
It did nothing.
I can work with molding chocolate.
Trying to get the general structure of the face going here.
We're gonna give her a little bit of a body.
Why pretzels take so long? Oh, nostrils, nostrils, nostrils.
Pick your nose.
It's okay today.
I had a happy snake. This dude? Not happy.
Not happy at all.
She's got big, sassy lips.
Twenty-seven minutes remain!
All right.
Oh boy.
Candice's pretzels are underdone.
Obviously, that one's gonna be the one.
-Certainly too early. Not long enough. -I'm gonna look up the pretzels.
Ooh, look at that. That looks delicious. This is how bad the food is on this show.
I'm Googling food pictures and going, "Oh, I wish."
[laughing]
[Jacques] Uh-oh. It looks like Gianni's pretzels are also underbaked.
That's hot.
Oh.
Gianni, was your tray on the floor?
It was on the floor. It was hot, and I didn't want to hold it anymore.
Why not put it on the counter or somewhere where feet don't go?
There was no more room, and that was really far away.
[laughing]
Oh boy.
Uh-oh.
Oh no, Gianni!
[Jacques] Oh, he used wax paper instead of parchment paper.
-What is the difference? -One doesn't stick.
If I just peel off half the paper, can you guys just eat one side of it?
[Jacques] Scrape it.
-Just rip it. It's gonna… Oh. -[Jacques] Scrape it! Uh-oh.
Do we have to eat it?
Oh! ♪ Your girl's pretzels looking brown ♪
♪ Pretzels looking brown Your girl's pretzels looking brown ♪
♪ Pretzels looking brown ♪
You gotta come out, 'cause I got some decorating to do.
"Melt colored chocolate. Add the desired flavor."
Marshmallow. Oh my God. They have a flavor for that.
Less is more.
Candice is very entertaining.
-Oh no. -[Jacques] Look.
-[Mary] Are we adding more licorice? -[Jacques] Usually, it's drop by drop.
-[Candice] Whoa! That's a lot. -Oh boy.
Oh yeah!
[Mary] LaJeanne? Did she just not put any flavor?
-Ooh. -[LaJeanne] There you go.
-Ugh. -[chuckling]
-There's so much frantic energy over here. -Yeah, it's pretty wild.
-I feel like we got smiles. -Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
We have like, fear and panic.
[Gianni] Uh…
And then we have, like, anger.
-[beep] -[laughs]
Yes. You're right. You're right.
♪ I hate this flavor! ♪
Flavor?!
Oh my God. I forgot to put flavor in my pretzel.
Oh!
Beep, beep!
-[laughing] -[LaJeanne trills]
LaJeanne is getting her steps in.
I forgot the flavor.
And, uh, the caramel…
I grabbed a caramel dust flavor looking thing.
I don't even think it's right.
And we're back over to this bad boy. That's right.
Yeah!
Saved the day!
[groaning]
Don't have time to pick all my little triangles.
This head is way too big!
You know, I'm not stressed.
[Candice] Say, "I love you."
Oh!
♪ Just make sure your head stays on ♪
[laughing]
[chuckling]
[Gianni] There we go. It's not gonna taste good.
But it doesn't look… bad.
Thirty seconds!
I'm nervous.
I have so many diamonds left to add.
Let's set you up
just a little bit.
-[LaJeanne] My head is gonna fall off. -Oh, yeah.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You're done!
-Woo-hoo! -[buzzer sounds]
I stepped on a pretzel on the floor back here.
Well, Candice. Let's remember the Cobra Soft Pretzel
you were trying to make, and let's see what you made.
[Candice] Nailed it!
[laughing]
-[Jacques] Wow. -[Nicole] Candice.
Gotta say, for an animal lover, I don't know if you've ever seen one.
[laughs]
[Candice] This was supposed to be a tail, but it ended up as legs.
A lot of my Cobra Kai opponents, I'd describe them as snakes with legs.
-After you were done, they look like this. -[Mary] I think you're right.
Okay. Should we… chop it?
Jacques, I think you should.
-[Jacques] It's a soft pretzel. -[Nicole] Very soft.
[Jacques] It is underbaked.
Oh boy.
Are you… Are you nervous?
Yes. I keep sniffing it like it's gonna make it better.
[laughing]
Ugh.
[laughs]
You said, "I'll put all the licorice I've ever found ever in the world
in this pretzel."
Essential oil, usually, just put some drops.
Okay.
I'm
so grateful for this lovely little bite I had.
[laughs]
All right, toodle-oo.
All right. I'm so sorry. They don't like you.
-Well, if it isn't Mary's friend, Gianni. -Hi.
Let's remember the Cobra Soft Pretzel you were trying to make.
Gianni! Let's see what you did.
[Gianni] Nailed it!
[Nicole] Hey.
[laughs]
[Nicole] All right.
All right.
-Gianni, I love this. -[Gianni] Mm-hmm.
-[Gianni] Yeah? -[Nicole] I love these lips.
I love that tongue. This is the cutest thing I've ever seen!
Thank you.
The pretzels, I don't really see it. But the head is beautiful.
-Thank you. -Let's cut it.
-[wet squishing] -Ew.
That's wet.
[Jacques] Underbaked. It feel under… Look… Ooh, wow.
-Gianni, ew. -Yeah. Yeah.
Ho! [laughs]
Ew!
[laughing]
Yeah. Yeah.
This comes close to one of the wildest things I've put in my mouth.
It was so wet.
I love marshmallow, and there isn't…
I… can't find it. [laughs]
Gianni, honestly, I really thank you for coming here.
Thank you for having me. I love this show.
Now I have something to talk about with my therapist this week.
[laughs]
Oh, great. [chuckles]
-All right, LaJeanne. -Hi.
Let's remember the Cobra Soft Pretzel you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did.
[LaJeanne] Nailed it!
-[laughing] -[Nicole] Wow.
I cannot believe I'm getting paid.
I love this so much. [laughs]
I really do love how, like, cartoony and adorable your snake is.
[LaJeanne] Thank you.
The pretzel is hiding somewhere. We need to find it.
[Nicole] Let's taste it.
[Jacques] It's less wet.
-It is less wet, which is always a plus. -Okay.
Oh.
This is the most pretzel-y pretzel of the pretzels.
What's the flavoring?
-Caramel. -Caramel?
No. Not at all.
I didn't use extract. I used, like, the powder stuff.
I think it's a lot of that caramel powder.
-You get-- -Play-Doh.
[laughs]
-Yeah, very that. -No!
[Mary] Sorry.
I think we're done.
[laughing]
-Someone's gonna win. Isn't that wild? -That was so much fun.
Let's go, Mary.
Thanks, guys!
[in French] LaJeanne, thank you. It was fantastic!
[in French] Oh, you're welcome.
All right, everyone. Jacques, which baker swept us away?
Everyone did something really special. [laughs]
But one baker beat the competition into submission.
And the winner is…
-LaJeanne! Bravo! -[cheering]
[Nicole] Mary, tell her what she's won.
You will be ready to make your kitchen dojo proud
with this deadly set of bakeware!
[LaJeanne] Oh, nice!
And, of course, you get the Nailed It! Golden Baker's headband.
It is like a black belt but just for mediocre baking.
Thank you!
[judges clapping]
-Ooh. Yes. Serve it to them. -I want that for my dojo.
Yes. Give it to them.
Excellent. But it's time to move on.
[upbeat music plays]
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
This Halloween Nail It or Fail It is one of our toughest yet.
In Cobra Kai season one,
a defining moment for Miguel was his defeat at the hands of Kyler
in the West Valley High bathroom during the Halloween dance.
-No! No! -[Kyler] Grab him! Get him!
No! Let me go! No!
Hold tight!
Pick him up!
-No! No! No! -Come on!
Bakers, this will be your defining moment as you recreate that scene into this…
[Nicole] Halloween Dance Fight Cakes!
-[Gianni] Oh no. -[laughs]
[laughing]
-I have to make my face. -[Nicole] You do!
[Mary] Oh my God.
-Oh, that's your face too! -That's my face!
What do you mean? Who did you think that was?
-We're going down together then. -[laughing]
[Jacques] This Halloween Dance Fight Cake is a single tier covered in fondant.
On the top is the fight with modeling chocolate
used to create Miguel and Kyler and a cookie wall
painted in cocoa butter to make the locker room.
On the bottom is the dance with the face of Sam
and Dimitri made from raised and painted fondant.
[Nicole] Look at that. And just like the scene,
neither of you's in the locker room helping out poor Miguel.
[laughs]
Okay, bakers, there's $10,000 for the winner!
You have 90 minutes. Starts now.
Oh.
[slow rock music plays]
My plan is to follow the recipe… That is just way too much.
A lot of eggs.
Not a lot of time.
I don't know how to crack an egg. One.
-[Nicole] Jacques? -Yes, Nicole.
That is a Halloween Dance Fight Cake. How would you make it?
We'll start with the cake.
First, mix the cake batter and get the cake in the oven.
Then bake the cookies for the lockers and make the buttercream.
After that, sculpt the figurine and Sam and Dimitri's faces.
And then, finally, assemble and decorate
to complete a cake that kara-tastes amazing.
I really like how my hair came out on that cake.
I'm gonna be sad if somebody doesn't do my curly hair.
[laughing]
[LaJeanne] Oh! Oh!
I love LaJeanne's trot.
Oh! [laughs]
I'm gonna win this $10,000. No cake, no scary monster's gonna get in my way.
Tablespoon, schmabel-spoon.
I'm in the process of buying a home,
and $10,000 would help solidify that perfect house for me and my dog.
And then some Jamaican rum.
[chuckles] Mm.
When you add that little spice of rum in there, ha ha, you make a good cake.
Karate chop.
Slow and steady will not win this race.
And now, very carefully, we're gonna figure out a third of a cup. Okay.
I'm not feeling too confident,
but this round, I'm gonna give my baked goods time to cook.
Okay.
I can't fail.
One and a third cup melted butt--
I didn't melt the butter.
Uh…
Here's what we're gonna do go.
-Oh! -That's truly disgusting.
[Gianni] Okay.
Okay.
Gianni.
-[gasps] -He put the eggs in the microwave.
[laughing]
-We're getting scrambled eggs? Mixed in. -I guess so.
This is melted.
Nice and wet.
Like my pretzels.
I'm thinking I got this.
I'm going to go more for taste than I am for how the cake looks.
Oh, that looks… [trills]
The decorations and stuff are kind of freaking me out.
There's… Ugh
is what I thought.
All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. All right.
Should I put parchment paper?
I'm not gonna put parchment paper.
There's one hour and 17 minutes left.
"Roll the cookie dough."
[Candice] In the oven they go.
Look, Candice's cakes are in the oven just now.
-Oh, gosh. -Yeah.
Roll the cookie dough. Roll the cookie dough. Roll the cookie dough.
Maybe this? Will this work?
Let's find out. No.
Do we give them the cookie dough?
-Yes. -Yes?
Not warm enough.
[Mary] Oh no.
It looks like Candice is microwaving her cookie dough.
Why?
[Mary] What's with the microwave?
You didn't see that.
-[dog barks] -[scream]
Cut. Cut. Cut.
♪ One of these gonna be irregular And that's okay ♪
Oh, she's singing a song.
Yay, seven. Mm-hmm. That worked out great. Perfect.
It's a lot of math involved today, and I'm not a fan of this.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
In the world of Miyagi-Do karate, Dimitri, Gianni's character,
was kind of like a little ugly duckling.
-[Nicole chuckles] -I still look at him as my little brother.
[Gianni] Put a couple of sticks in here
like I'm making s'mores only I hate myself.
[Candice] These here. Okay, what's next?
Mary, do you want to teach me how to do some moves on that bag thing over there?
I'm no sensei, but I'm happy to punch out our frustrations.
-So, you have your one, jab, jab cross. -[Nicole] Oh.
Jab, cross, hook.
Oh no.
And for TV, we throw them a little cheated.
-Let's line you up with a camera. -Okay.
If you're right here, that's the camera I'm trying to punch for.
-This just sells real good. -[Nicole] Oh!
[laughs]
-Okay, so she goes one, two… Oh, wait. -So, you gotta jab. Jab cross.
-Hook! -Like that? Why am I single?
[Jacques laughs]
Why doesn't anyone love me?
[laughing]
-Why am I single? -[dramatic music plays]
[Jacques laughing]
Why doesn't anyone love me?
-Acting. Acting. -Thank you, Nicole.
Oh, Jesus. Definitely not. [laughs]
Fifty-eight minutes!
I've never made buttercream before. You know frosting come in a can?
[Gianni] Okay.
Hi-ya.
I want some color in mine. Vanilla's cool, but I want some color.
It's got to get that air in there so it's nice and fluffy.
I do not have fluffy yet.
It's pretty!
This is frosting.
I've made frosting.
Who knew I could do that?
-Are you making your people? -You making your people?
-I'm making my people. -Okay. My people thick.
Okay.
Little spooky boy.
"Spooky boy."
-Is that how you talk to Miguel on set? -Yeah.
-I call him spooky boy. -[Mary] "Come here, spooky boy."
[Nicole] Did you just talk to your figurine and call it spooky boy?
-[Gianni laughs] Yeah. -That's funny to me.
He's a spooky boy.
Thirty-seven minutes remain!
He's got figures already. Jesus Christ.
[Jacques] Nicole, Candice is very behind.
I don't know if Candice did any of the decoration.
Maybe she's concentrating on, like--
-On the cake? -[Nicole] The cake.
I'm about to get this face done.
The problem is, I remember this costume, but this is what I'm making.
[scream]
Hey, G, what color are your eyeballs?
The color of a rainbow on a Tuesday afternoon.
Uh-uh.
-They're green. -Okay, thank you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Gianni] Whoo. Whoo. Whoo.
[Candice] ♪ Piping bag, pushing down ♪
♪ Pushing down ♪
Candice was the last one to put the cakes in the oven.
She's the first one to put the cakes together,
so they have to be hot.
[Nicole] The cake is hot. The buttercream will seep into the cake.
-No, you're right. -An ooey-gooey butter cake maybe? Ooh.
[thunder rumbles]
Twenty-eight minutes remain.
I'm making hazelnut ganache
because I know hazelnut is Jacques's favorite flavor.
[cackles]
Candice just put some type of, I don't know,
ganache Nutella on her layer cake. That's going to be good.
[laughs]
Oh.
[laughs]
[laughs evilly]
I mean, that was a very good witch cackle.
[laughs] Yes.
[cackles]
Girl!
You did that! Yes!
Oh!
[LaJeanne] Okay! Okay.
[Gianni] Part of cake.
[gasps]
Oh! That's pieces of cake.
[Gianni] Should I put parchment paper? I'm not gonna put parchment paper.
I never thought I would die from baking a cake.
This is great.
But I am.
Yeah.
Oh! No!
You have 15 minutes left.
Why is it so holey?
My cake love the Lord.
Oh my God, it looks like a cake.
I'm doing things. Okay.
So many details.
Trying to make lockers.
Oh God.
[laughs] I'm having some sort of problem.
After using the microwave,
the cookie dough is not the right consistency.
I'll use graham crackers.
They look like… lockers.
Three minutes remain!
Okay. We can do this. We can stick this on here.
-Okay. -Oop.
Some orange here.
We're getting down and dirty here. He got a butt!
[gasps] There's tiny little balls all over it!
[Mary] Oh my gosh.
My heart's beating really fast.
One minute, you guys!
Ay, dios mío.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You're done!
[alarm blares]
[Candice humming]
Candice, let's remember the Halloween Dance Fight Cake
you were trying to make, and let's see the Halloween Dance Fight Cake you made.
[Candice] Nailed it!
[laughs]
Wow.
Gotta say, bold choice on the faces. Nothing but eyes.
Actually, it's starting to look like a duck.
-[Jacques] Okay. -[laughing]
-This is you. -I've never felt prettier, first of all.
[laughing]
The little figurines are… You know, I mean, they are here.
[Nicole] They're too close to the sun. They're melting.
This time, I was going for taste over looks.
It's fine, Candice. You're a true delight. I'm gonna send you back to your station.
[laughing]
All right, Gianni.
I'd just like to say I'm sorry in advance.
It wasn't my intentions to hurt you like this today.
Gianni, show us what you made.
[Gianni] Nailed it.
Ah!
-Okay. Wow. -[laughing]
[Jacques] They look like they're fighting on a cloud.
Yes. Mary looks like she got a mustache going on.
-That's her mouth? -Mouth. Yeah. I had to improvise.
-[Nicole] Everything's there. -Oh boy.
When I saw that face make it onto the cake,
I was like, "Boy, he took a stab by doing his own face first."
-But it was me. It was me. -[laughing]
And honestly, that is the version of Miguel that I will remember.
[Gianni] So you agree.
-It looks like him, right? -Identical. [laughs]
Gianni, I'm gonna ask you to wheel back to your station.
[Gianni] Oh my God.
All right, LaJeanne.
Let's see what cake you made.
[LaJeanne] Nailed it!
[chuckles] Hey. These faces. They're great.
[laughing]
-[LaJeanne] It looks just like you. -[Nicole] Sure.
I like the color of your cake. That's fun.
-Yay! -These brows are thick!
[LaJeanne] It was marker, not a brow pencil.
[Nicole] Okay.
-Your cookies look insane. -[laughing]
Gianni looks far more feminine than I.
Um, he looks lovely.
[laughing]
Those two little guys on top, they are completely drunk.
-[laughing] -[Nicole] Hey. Hey.
Well, you guys are going to cut us a delicious slice
of your Halloween Dance Fight Cakes, and I can't wait to taste them.
-Delicious? -Yay!
I don't know. I'm deciding to be optimistic as opposed to a realist.
-[Jacques] Thank you. -[Nicole] It's exhausting.
[Candice] I did step outside of the recipe.
I did some things that were creative.
I'm still thinking maybe I'll win on taste?
Candice, you're up first.
I think you put your buttercream on while it was still hot,
so the buttercream, like, soaked into the cake
and made the cake a little sweeter. I'm into it.
I love that you went off-script.
-You add some hazelnuts with it. -Hazelnut, yeah.
I like that we have layer into the cake. Overall, you know, it's pleasant to eat.
I don't know why I'm getting, like, marshmallow cereal.
-Like when I was a kid. -Oh, yeah, yeah.
The texture confuses me, but that's not a bad thing… necessarily.
-Candice, thank you. -You're welcome.
Moving on to Gianni.
Oh God.
Oh.
Did you try your face?
I did.
There's a sentence people don't say often.
I ate my nose.
Again, another sentence.
So, the cake part, it's, like, kind of moist in some parts.
Crumbly in other parts, crunchy in others.
-Some bites are good and some are bad. -Yeah.
Do you remember Gianni put eggs and butter into the microwave
at the beginning to melt it?
-Yes, I do. -And maybe crumbled the eggs a little bit?
Maybe you came up with something totally new.
Can we name it the scrambled egg cake?
But does that mean it's necessarily good or…
[all laugh]
No, it's okay. You don't have to answer it.
Thank you, Gianni.
LaJeanne.
Oh my God. It's cake.
-Mm-hmm. -[Nicole] Like it's, like, actual cake.
Oh my God.
What's happening on Nailed It!?
We're supposed to have bad cake all the time.
I am so excited to have cake right now,
and I like the texture, and I like the taste.
This is wild. I've been hosting this show, I believe, for six whole years.
I truly think this is the first time I've ever had, like, cake.
[laughs]
Like, an actual cake that I'm like, "This is cake, no questions." You know?
-You're right. -Oh my goodness.
[Jacques] The cake is good.
Now, what I will say is it's kind of light flavor.
Cooking is all about making it yours.
So, I did put a little powdered rum in the cake mix.
Yeah, I would've done a bit more,
but I think you're asking for a lot. She actually made a cake.
[laughing]
It's just that with a little extra step,
it will be really outstanding. That's what I mean.
Thank you, all.
Well, remember, whoever wins this challenge gets $10,000
and the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes!
-[rock music playing] -[laughing]
-[Mary] That's your Binary Brother. -I'm having flashbacks, man.
Okay, Mary, do you have the money-chucker ready?
I so do. [laughs]
Jacques?
Bakers, you all made a very interesting cake.
So, the winner is…
-LaJeanne. -Whoo!
[LaJeanne screaming]
I nailed it! I nailed it!
-[Nicole] Yes, LaJeanne! -Yeah!
I'm so ready to get home to my puppy and tell her that she's gonna get a yard.
My dog can have a yard. [chuckles]
I'm gonna take a picture.
Oh, that's the one!
[screaming]
[giggling]
Well, that's it for this Nailed It! Halloween.
In the wise words of Daniel LaRusso, "We kicked the competition."
[upbeat Halloween music plays]