[dramatic music playing]
[speaking Elder]
[thunder rumbles]
And that's all the Elder speech I know.
It's time for the baking competition we want to be blessed by destiny
but end up cursed by reality.
Today, three amateur bakers will compete in challenges
inspired by the spooky world of The Witcher.
You smell of death and destiny, heroics and heartbreak.
It's onion.
At stake, $10,000. Let's meet our bakers.
[spooky music plays]
[cat snarls]
My name is Norman Collier.
I like cosplay and Renaissance fairs and stuff,
so I love Halloween.
I have been baking for a number of years, and I am completely self-taught.
Ha ha!
Not just for pizza.
Unless it doesn't work, in which case it was just for pizza.
Between trick or treat, I will almost always go for the treat.
But I should probably, uh, cut back a bit.
[scream]
My name is Audra Frend. I live with my wife, my seven-year-old son
and a goat that's trying to usurp my place in the household.
[horror music plays]
My wife nominated me to come to Nailed It! because she thought it'd be hilarious.
I know they say baking's a science, but I like magic more than science.
I want to prove I am, like, a sorceress in the kitchen.
This is about revenge in a very loving marriage sort of way.
I'm Marcus Miller, and I'm a deputy sheriff.
One thing about us cops, we love pastries.
A cop tell you he don't like baked goods, pastries, or anything like that,
he's telling a lie.
I recently made a cake for my wife. It was a box cake.
She thought it tasted like notebook paper. She just got horrible taste buds.
Look at those aprons.
-[Nicole] Wow. -It's real and it's happening.
Oh boy, I'm sorry to make you wear that silly outfit.
Oh no, my spouse and I go to Renaissance fairs.
This is, like, half as much leather I'm used to wearing.
[laughing]
[Norm laughs] Okay.
-Bakers, today is all about The Witcher. -Yes.
Please clap your hands as we hear the musical tale
from our pastry chef, chocolatier, and Nailed It! bard,
Jacques Jaskier Torres. Sing for us!
[singing]
Oh, Jacques, that was so moving.
-[Jacques] That was for you, Nicole. -I loved it. It was so beautiful.
And as a prophecy foretold, we have the arrival of my good friend
and host of Drink Masters and handsome comedian…
-Is it okay I said handsome? -Yeah. I appreciate that.
It's Tone Bell!
[applause]
Very nice to be here. Uh, thank you.
-A very beautiful curtsy. -[Tone] I've been working on that.
Paid off.
[upbeat music plays]
Well, bakers, the continent of The Witcher is like Halloween every day.
It's full of haunted places,
cursed beasts, and full of curious creatures.
But what I really want to know is, do they taste good?
Well, I'm gonna find out when you make these…
3D creature-face cupcakes!
Whoa!
[Nicole] We got the very generous Torque,
and then we got the gracious Duny.
And then the cursed and lonely Nivellen.
No.
[Jacques] Each of these 3D creatures are made with cupcake base.
Then a thick layer of buttercream is spread on top.
The fondant covering is pressed and shaped
to create the 3D effect of the creature faces.
Ha!
You better pick the right one. Audra!
I'mma take Duny.
-Marcus? -I'll choose Torque.
Norm? You better not fight destiny.
You are meant for Nivellen.
-Captain tusk tooth over there. Let's go. -[chuckles]
Okay, bakers. There's 45 minutes on the clock, and guess what?
-What? -What?
-[Nicole] The time starts now. -Oh God.
[laughs]
[thunder rumbles]
Okay, let's go. Let's go. Let's see what we got.
Eggs, melted butter, vanilla, milk.
Cake mix.
Hey, Jacques, how would you go about making a 3D creature cupcake?
The way to do it will be to first make the cupcake batter.
While the cupcakes are in the oven, make the buttercream
and add to the cool cupcakes.
Then cover with fondant and mold the facial features.
Finally, finish the creature detail for a Witcher 3D cupcake
that will get everyone under your spell.
-That's a lot of steps. -It is.
Forty-five minutes, you know, it's not much time to do that.
I feel like you say that every day.
[laughs]
Cake mix.
Two eggs each. Boom, boom.
Mix.
-[Marcus] How you guys doing? -[Audra] Um, not great already.
Oh my God, why don't I know how to do things?
Halloween is my all-time favorite holiday.
I love all the witches and the magical elements
because I am an honorary Massachusetts witch.
[witch cackles]
I have no doubt that the judges will fall under the spell of my baked goods
because there'll be a little magic sprinkled in.
Oh, frockaduck.
[chimes jingle]
Spatula, spatula, spatula.
But also because it's legitimately delicious,
and not just 'cause of the spell. [laughs]
Oh, shazarak.
[chimes jingle]
Yikes.
Do you believe in witches?
I just know, like, I manifest things that happen, so, like, maybe I am a witch.
-Oh. -[laughs]
[Norm] Add spice mix.
Norm, how's it going over there?
Um, so far so good.
I've got my batter going, sort of like a pumpkin spice.
I've got nutmeg. I've got some cinnamon. I got some walnuts.
Okay, that's a lot of flavor.
It's the season for this sort of thing.
I don't make a lot of cupcakes,
but I want to win this thing.
My spouse and I foster a number of kittens,
so winning $10,000 would go a long way.
Kitten food and litter ain't cheap.
-Marcus, have you ever made cupcakes? -No, this is the first time.
But they say it's like making a cake, so I'm just hoping that it's right.
[both laugh]
It's all whipped up.
I mean, you know, you gotta go on a wing and a prayer.
If I were to make some cupcakes, all right,
and I got the little skirt that the cupcakes wear,
how high do I go inside the skirt?
-Two thirds is enough. -Okay.
You don't need more. They are all overfilled.
[buzzer sounding]
When you fill the mold too much, it will take longer to make.
-Makes sense, more volume. -These are not good.
I don't know.
[laughs]
Okay.
-Those look ready for the oven. -[Audra] Okay.
[Marcus] All right.
Boom.
All right, buttercream time.
"Beat the butter until fluffy. Add…" Wait did I say two sticks of butter?
Don't make a mistake. Four cups powdered sugar.
Come here, you.
All right, let's do something a little different.
I plan on adding some extra flavor and flair to my buttercream.
Coffee extract. That smell like coffee.
I do not like coffee, but being a cop, I would not turn down a donut.
Oh yeah.
Twenty-nine minutes remain!
Audra, what's going on with that buttercream?
I'm making campfire buttercream.
Toasted marshmallow.
Ooh.
Do that.
-That was a lot of sugar. -[laughs]
[Norm] That's gonna have to get chilled a bit.
-Oh, wait. Yours are out, Marcus? -[Marcus] By no means.
[Audra] No. Oh, okay.
[Jacques] Every time he open the oven, heat come out.
-They have no color. -I don't know.
So I need a face piece. Oh, he has a chin butt. That's exciting.
Warm sand modeling chocolate. That'll work for tusks.
The one thing I do notice about Nivellen
is that he and I got a lot of facial features in common.
The beard, sort of screwed up teeth, but it's mostly the hair and hair.
[laughs]
Cool. Eyebrows.
Come on.
It's me, your boy Nigel.
Hey, Marcus, what are you doing?
[Australian accent] Whenever I like to concentrate on what I'm doing,
-I like to use a nice Australian accent. -[laughs]
So I have an alter ego while I'm baking. His name's Nigel.
[original accent] Batman has Bruce Wayne. Superman has Clark Kent.
[Australian accent] Me, I have Nigel.
So today,
I'm going to blow every last competitor out of the water.
Nigel's cool, smooth, and he knows what he's doing.
He's in control, and I like to be like Nigel in high-pressure situations.
[laughing]
So funny.
[Marcus] Oh my gosh. I did something wrong. It's wet.
Oh, crap.
-Oh boy. -I probably got too much batter. [groans]
-They should be ready by now. -Those look wild.
-[Marcus] They're liquidy and they sunk. -[Norm] Oh God, they're still liquid.
-Nicole, Norm also has sunken cupcakes. -[Norm] I'm gonna be one of those.
[Audra] No! Mine have all sank. What does that mean?
Audra cupcake too.
We literally all overfilled.
[Jacques] Look, chefs make mistake all the time.
We learn, by making mistakes, how to fix them.
Trial and bake better. You know?
Yes, instead of trial and error. I see what you did.
-See what I'm saying? Feel me? -That was nice.
Ooh, baby. ♪ Ooh, what a nice one, Tone Bell ♪
♪ Appreciate that ♪
-That was little baritone for you. -I liked it.
Oh, those are raw.
-Shasbutt. -[chimes jingle]
Okay.
Eighteen minutes.
Oh my gosh. Okay.
Pocky stick hair, almond-y eyes.
I have to guess because cupcakes are cooking still.
Norm, is this little doodad you're wearing comfortable?
Oh yeah, I have no problem with the spaulders.
[both] Spaulders.
Pauldrons are also a shoulder armor, but pauldrons actually cover your armpit.
Wow, I feel like you are just like a well of knowledge.
I'm just a super nerd.
Do you own some of these, Norm? Do you have some at home?
No, I don't, but after this, I might have to get a pair.
[chuckles]
So, all's well that ends well.
-[Nicole] Are those cupcakes done? -[Jacques] Look at those cupcake.
-Hey, friend. -Wow.
Is that liquid in the middle?
It looks solid enough.
[laughs]
That looks solid enough?
[Marcus] It don't have a jiggle to it. Yeah.
Okay, yeah, they can cook a bit longer.
[Nicole] Oh, 12 minutes remain!
Please.
Please, for the love of God.
Oh! They're a horrible sunken mess!
-Okay. -[laughing]
It's not jiggly but it's sunken.
It came out clean. It came out clean!
[Audra] Ooh.
Oh my God, they smell terrible.
[squeaking]
I'mma try to deal with that divot situation.
Graham cracker dust will be like a little magic sprinkled into my cupcake.
Although, now it's probably gonna be super dry.
So the way to fix that is to put a big dollop of buttercream
on top of the cupcake to fill the cream.
[Norm] There's gonna be a lot of buttercream.
[Marcus] Oh.
Okay. Okay, that's burnt. I got to get that out.
-They do have some color. -Oh, yikes.
Oh boy.
[Norm] My fondant's too thin.
[Audra] Oh God, this ear. What am I gonna do about this?
One minute remains!
Ah! His face is cracking open with buttercream.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.
[Norm] My hands get very shaky when I get nervous.
[Nicole] Thirty-two seconds.
No!
How do I get this to stay?
[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
Oh my God. Thanks. [laughs]
All right, Norm.
Let's remember the Nivellen cupcake you were trying to make,
and let's see what you made.
[Norm] Nailed it!
-I'm confused. -[laughing]
[Jacques] Yeah, I cannot see the 3D person here.
[Nicole] Can you spin it?
[Norm] Absolutely.
I don't know if you can tell if it's upside down and right side up.
Now it makes sense. I see the eyebrows, the eyes.
The tusks are supposed to go like that. Wild that I understand it upside down.
[laughs]
I think my son will tell me, "Papa, someone fell in the lava." You know?
-Ah! -Uh-huh.
-The word "abstract" is, uh, right there. -[Nicole] Sure. Hmm.
[laughing]
All right, Jacques, let's taste this.
It's a lot of buttercream.
[sighs]
What flavors can I expect?
I went with sort of a fall seasonal spice mix.
-I'm not mad. -I'm not mad.
All these spices really went really nicely together.
I thought it was pretty moist. Norm, this is not the norm on the show.
[Norm laughs]
I think that you didn't have time to cool them down completely,
so the buttercream moist everything.
So, in a way, it work in your favor.
Maybe not for the decoration, but for the flavor.
-I think this cake is good. -[Norm] Yes!
You know, I'd give you about a $1.50
if you were selling this at a counter in a store.
Time is difficult. You can raise that to three dollar.
-Yeah, inflation. What year are you in? -Three dollar for a nice cupcake.
-I'll give you 2.89. -All right. I'll take it.
Don't be cake shaming me.
[laughing]
Goodbye, Norm.
Goodbye.
[Nicole] All right, Audra,
let's remember the Duny cupcake you were trying to make.
-Let's see what you made. -Nailed it!
[laughs]
Hey. Oh.
Wow.
[laughs]
[Nicole] Boy, this is fun.
Okay, the hair…
[Audra] Uh-huh.
-Pretzels? -[Audra] Mm-hmm.
[Nicole] The ears?
-[Audra] Tragedies. -The eyes?
-[Audra] Almonds. Yes. -[Nicole] Scared.
This gives me, like, Witcher Muppet.
Oh, sure. Yes.
-[Tone] Know what I mean? -Yes, that's a crossover I will enjoy.
-Can he talk? -Why not.
[Audra]
Oh no, my ear's falling off. [laughs]
[Nicole] Let's taste it.
Oh, wow, a lot of powder in there.
[Audra] Oh God.
-[Jacques] Wow. -Oh no.
[Jacques] So the powder didn't dissolve, huh? That's interesting.
Nicole, you see the powder?
You keep saying it like it's narcotics.
Marcus, it's not. I swear. It's just graham cracker.
[laughing]
[Nicole] What flavor should I be expecting?
I'm hoping it tastes like a s'more.
Marshmallow, buttercream, graham cracker, vanilla, and the chocolate hair.
I do think your cupcake's a little dry,
and then maybe putting graham cracker dust in it maybe absorbed some moisture.
Yeah.
I want to find marshmallow because you put marshmallow in?
-I did. -[Nicole] I don't taste it. Do you?
[Jacques] No.
Something in there is very sweet for me.
Yes, I agree the buttercream's a little bit sweet.
I got really confused about measuring, apparently. [laughs]
I'm going back in.
[chuckles]
Well, thank you so much. We have one more cupcake to taste.
Thank you.
All right. Marcus.
Let's remember the Torque cupcake you were trying to make,
and let's see what you did.
Nailed it.
No, Marcus. What?
[laughs]
[Nicole] Oh boy, what the face?
Okay, a nose. I see eyes.
[Jacques] Uh, maybe a little bit more details would be better,
but I see the struggle of putting a little bit too much batter
into your mold, and they take a long time to cook.
-So, you know, you didn't give up. -Yeah.
[laughs]
What should we expect when I cut it?
[Australian accent] What we have here… So, the cake is vanilla cake.
[English accent] But the buttercream is a coffee and vanilla buttercream.
So it's more so like a coffee drink.
-A latte? -[Marcus] Yeah.
-And Nigel's Australian? -[Marcus] Yeah.
-He seemed English there. -Really?
So, Nicole, the cupcake is… I think it's baked through, which is good.
My queen.
[Nicole] Ah, thank you.
Coffee, you said. Okay. Mm… Mm… Coffee. Hmm.
It is a little spongy, but it is still pretty moist.
You keep opening your oven, and every time you open the oven, heat come out.
-So they cannot bake normally. -[Marcus] Right.
[Tone] The flavors, I feel like they work together.
I like the crispiness of the bottom of the cupcake though. I do like that.
Honestly, I think for your very first cupcake, that's nice.
[Australian accent] It's nice.
Well, now we have to figure out who won this first round.
My queen.
Jacques, which of our bakers impressed us?
Bakers, you all impress us.
And I think that the Witcher will be very proud.
But one of you went the extra mile.
So the winner is…
Norm!
Yes!
Tone, tell Norm what he's won.
Well, Norm, be ready to protect your kitchen from monsters
like a true Witcher when you go home with this cake decor set, baby.
-[Nicole] Ooh, yes. -Yeah. Wow.
All right.
And, of course, you get the golden baker's cap.
Swag.
Bakers, it's time to move on.
[upbeat music plays]
♪ Oh, oh ♪
Bakers, it's time for "Nail It or Fail It."
This next challenge will transport you to an exalted moment that is legendary
in the history of The Witcher.
Was it Fila-- [clears throat]
Was it Filavandrel--
[laughing]
Was it Filavandrel's uprising?
Could it be…
Oh. [chuckles]
Could it be the Battle of Sodden?
The next cake will take you back so hard,
you'll be able to smell the moment when you make…
-That's wrong. -[laughing]
Vanda-the-Wheel?
This cake will take you back so hard,
you'll be able to smell the moment when you make…
[speaks Elder]
-[gasps] -[Nicole] Geralt in the bathtub cake!
Oh Lord.
Yes, the legendary moment that was forever implanted
in memes and GIFs is now something you can legitimately eat
in the presence of polite company.
No.
This Geralt in the bathtub cake is carved and stacked
from a round cake covered in buttercream and then lined with fondant.
Geralt is sculpted out of modeling chocolate
and added to a tub topped with mirror glaze to look like water.
Then, Halloween decor finish off this great relaxing bath.
Now, Marcus, since you struggled a little bit in the last round,
we want to give you a little bit of help.
On your station, you'll see the chaos button.
You hit that and something bad will happen to your opposing bakers.
[chuckles]
Ten thousand coins for the winner. You have 90 minutes and it starts when?
-Now! -Yeah, Jacques! Now!
Yes, you did the kick! I love it!
Cake.
One container cake mix.
I can't do math. What is one and a third if I just have thirds?
Where's the vanilla? Okay, okay, okay. Uh-oh.
Okay, Jacques, how would you make a Geralt in a bathtub cake?
First, I will make the cake.
Then make the buttercream.
While that is mixing, sculpt Geralt and make a mirror glaze for his bathwater.
Next, stack the cake with layer of buttercream
and add fondant to the side of the hot tub.
Finally, after pouring on the mirror glaze,
add all the little detail to complete your hot Witcher in the hot tub cake.
-[Nicole] Wow, he does have big old pecs. -[laughs]
Norm, what flavor are you doing?
I'm going for a chocolate cake,
and I'm going to try to do a proper peanut butter buttercream.
-Oh my God, you're such a show-off. -It's not showing off!
Marcus, are you doing a flavor?
I'm gonna try to go for, like, an orange-sicle kind of thing.
Oh my God, you guys are making me look bad.
I really have to up my flavor game.
I'm gonna attempt a coffee flavored cake that is not gonna resemble coffee cake.
Trying to manifest, like, don't-fail cake vibes.
[Norm] What are you adding in your cake?
My, um, coffee flavor for my not-coffee-cake coffee cake.
[Norm chuckles]
Cake mix.
I'll admit, I feel a little bit special in the hat.
I look good in this cap.
Oh no, spilling out.
I took a risk with my flavors in the first round,
and because they're expecting that from me,
I gotta do even better in the second.
It looks chocolate. I'm on the right track.
Ooh, look what Marcus is doing. We got some orange zest going.
-Oh, yes. -Yeah.
-Marcus, are you zesting? -[Marcus] Yeah.
Y'all told me I had to bring flavor, so I'm trying to bring it.
You know, I love that people… They listen.
[Nicole] Yes.
Okay, so this is dry. I might need to add more milk to that.
After the first bake, it motivates me to try to push myself
because I don't like to lose, so now I got a point to prove.
I'm gonna show I can. Like Martin Luther King said, "I have a dream."
Uh…
It's not runny. Like, it's very thick, which is scary to me.
This seems like a pancake batter.
Again.
Crap.
Crap. That's why. That's why.
Crap. I messed up. I set my milk to the side.
Oh no.
I add some milk but not a lot.
Look what's going on there.
Marcus is adding milk into his batter inside the mold already.
He's removing the spray and overmixing his batter by doing that.
-Oh! Oh no. -Ah.
I hope it doesn't stick to the pan.
[mysterious music plays]
Let's get buttercream started.
Marcus, you gotta pay attention to the instructions.
God, is a cup of peanut butter this whole thing?
You're measuring your peanut butter? You have a mental recipe
for peanut butter icing?
Basically, just substitute butter for peanut butter.
I'mma attempt a hazelnut icing.
Nice!
-You're getting nuts. -[laughs] Yes, I'm getting nuts.
Don't sweat the small details. It ain't over till it's over.
This cake, I'll be going for an orange-sicle flavor,
so my buttercream is vanilla flavor.
[Australian accent] It's gonna be one word: nice.
Yeah.
Powdered gelatin?
Wait, where?
-I'm looking at the mirror glaze. -Ugh. Why are you there already?
[Jacques] The glaze is very tricky.
They are using gelatin.
You bloom it in water, and then you add the other ingredients.
So now you have something shiny, translucent, but it's hot.
It will melt the chocolate.
You really have to use it at the right temperature,
and it's a little bit tricky.
[Norm] This is going to be the least reflective mirror glaze ever made.
-I'll tell you something. -[Tone] Tell me.
Wouldn't do it.
I would color some buttercream, and I'd call it a day.
[laughs]
All right, I'm gonna try to use dark rum and make dark rum mirror glaze
to go with my coffee cake.
I think my cakes are somewhat okay.
Henry Cavill is never going to have looked worse than he is about to.
He's not going to have fingers. It's just gonna be Muppet Geralt.
[Nicole] Those are some long arms.
They should cut it because the wire is so long.
They look like spiders.
-Ouch. -It would not occur to me to cut it.
I'd be like, "Obviously they gave me the right length."
[laughs]
Oh, that's close enough. All right.
Thirty minutes remain!
[Norm] All right, cakes out.
[Audra] Okay, I need to make this shaped like a bathtub.
Oh, no, no, no. Don't do this. Don't do this.
-Uh, Marcus has a problem right now. -Oh no.
All the stirring, no spray.
Man, I have a botched cake. Great, great, great, great, great, great.
-Marcus, man, how you doing? -It's falling apart.
Falling apart? When it's falling apart, you keep it together.
I think when I had to re-add that milk, it kind of sort of messed up.
I'm way behind the other competitors. Unleash the chaos.
Chaos!
-Marcus hit the chaos button. -[groan]
Oh no!
[Nicole] Everyone, take a look at the monitor
to learn about the chaos button.
Did somebody call for chaos?
Oh my God, that's amazing.
[Audra] Fringilla from The Witcher appears.
I love chaos, but all I can think about is how much work I have to catch up on.
Now, even though I'm stuck in this tiny box,
that doesn't mean I can't create chaos from afar.
Marcus, you pushed the advantage button. You get to keep on baking.
But to the two unlucky bakers, for the next three minutes,
you will have to bake as slow as a turtle. That means in slow motion.
-What? -All right, three minutes.
-[judges laughing] -I mean…
Norm is… taking this very slowly.
Oh man. Norm, you got a good slow-mo, man.
Almost as if you practiced it. Have you, Norm?
[judges laughing]
Is this hard for you, Norm?
[judges laughing]
Audra, how's it going for you?
[in slo-mo] Great.
[laughing]
[in slo-mo] This sucks.
[Marcus] All right, let's do it. Let's do it.
Three, two, one. Now you can go back to normal motion.
[in slo-mo] Audra and Norm, wonderful slow motion.
Very good slow motion.
And that's why I hate chaos.
[laughs]
Twenty minutes left.
All right, that's sort of roundish.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay.
It's such a waste of cake.
-Uh. -[laughs]
What? What is that… How is that…
Ah!
What? Marcus, man, whatever's happening over there, keep your head up.
Pray for me.
[laughing]
Oh no! Geralt down.
-Oh no. -Oh man.
I'll tell you something. I have fallen out of many a hot tubs before,
and it's embarrassing each and every time.
[laughs]
[Norm] That is some lumpy crap.
Geralt is gonna have some coconut hair, like, 'cause I'm running out of time.
[Marcus] Add some kind of concoction I made.
-Marcus's taking steps. -Yes.
-They've been slow. -[Nicole] Very slow.
-[Tone] He didn't have to go slow-mo. -No, he didn't.
He could have done regular-mo.
[Audra] Geralt is having a lava mud bath right now.
It's horrifying.
We're gonna pretend the rat is the crow.
I need a little witchy magic desperately.
Frikafrack.
Sorry, Geralt, you're getting ramen hair.
[Nicole] Five minutes remain!
Why am I looking at that? It does not matter at this point.
He's got eyeballs in his forehead.
Marcus is working.
Try to stay in…
[Norm] Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles.
Eyebrows and a nose and a mouth.
Where's the marker? Where is the marker? There we go.
-I'm excited to see your Geralt cakes. -Okay.
[laughing]
Instead of pumpkins, we get candied ginger.
[Tone] What is he throwing on the side?
He's trying to do the decoration of pumpkin.
I would've gone with candy corn on the side.
I'mma hit the orange. I'mma hit the sweet, and it's Halloween.
-It's Halloween. -Right?
It is Halloween.
[Marcus] There. Here.
-Hey, Norm, can I borrow some of those? -Yeah, take whatever you need.
Thanks, man.
-Going Ramen hair? -Oh, yeah.
-What other things have to go on? -One minute left, you guys!
Candy grass. There's grass on the outside.
[Audra] Oh my God.
Green for grass. I'm low on grass. Crap, crap.
That hurts my hand.
Five, four, three, two, one.
-You're done! -[alarm blares]
[cheering]
Oh my God. Wow. High five, guys.
[Nicole] All right, Norm, this is the Geralt bathtub cake
you were trying to make. Let's see what you made.
Nailed it!
Wow! Those eyes are haunting.
-Oh, I wasn't expecting that. -[laughing]
[Nicole] And then the hair kind of works.
I'm flabbergasted you chose eyeballs
to put in the water with him.
I think that with age, your muscle become a little bit smaller…
-Atrophied. -…a little bit more flappy, maybe.
It looks like he's been in the tub for months.
-Yeah! -[laughing]
You know, you get wrinkly, but… but he's clean.
Sheesh. Yeah.
-[Nicole] Can you spin it around? -[Norm] He's cracking in the back.
-[Nicole] Oh no. -[Norm] Cracking and lacking.
-That's where you want the crack. -Yeah.
[laughing]
Norm, thank you. We have more cakes to look at.
All right. Thank you.
All right, Audra, come on up.
Let's see the Geralt bathtub cake you made.
Nailed it!
Oh boy. Oh ho!
[laughing]
[Nicole] Lot of hair!
Maybe some dandruff?
There's a lot going on there.
I like the grass. These little yellow nuggets you threw on there.
I think there's a snake up in there.
-[Audra] That would be a rat. -A rat?
You know, sometimes you don't pick who you bathe with.
[laughs]
[Jacques] He has very long arms.
You know, he's reaching out, like I want all those candy.
-[chuckles] -I did not see this coming.
[laughing]
It's got a kind of a Patrick Swayze from the '80s kind of look going. Right?
-Yes, very Point Break. -[Tone] Right?
[Nicole] The more I stare at it, the more I like it.
-Audra, thank you. -[Audra] Thank you.
-Okay, toodle-oo. See you later. Bye. -Bye!
All right, Marcus.
Let's see what you made.
Nailed it.
[Nicole] Marcus…
[Marcus] Yes.
[laughs]
-I'm sorry. -Marcus…
I'm sorry.
I like it.
[Nicole] Yo. I love that dance you did.
This little tub sucked the soul out of this man. He white.
[Marcus] I got pumpkins. I got grass.
-Those are pumpkins? -I got a skull. Yeah.
They didn't form out right.
-Did you have fun making it? -No, I did not.
[laughing]
If I don't win, I can't come home. At least I tried.
My wife said I gotta win, and I like my house.
-Well, Lord willing. -And the creek don't rise.
-The what? -And the creek don't rise.
-I've never heard that. -It's Southern.
-The creek don't rise? -Lord willing the creek don't rise.
-What happens when the creek rises? -I have no clue. I only say it.
Well, you better get back before the creek rises.
And then everybody's gonna cut up the cake before the creek rises.
[laughing]
We have to go sit before the creek rises.
Ooh, the creek.
[Marcus] I think I have a shot based on flavor, not looks.
So I might have this. I might get it done.
I'm trying to get rained on by thousands of dollars.
-Norm, you're first. -All right.
[Nicole] Mm-hmm.
It smells very peanut buttery.
-Yes. -[Jacques] Good.
Oh, this cake is moist.
The chocolate's not overpowering, so it's a hint of chocolate.
This cake is nice.
I commend what you did. You really enhanced the peanut butter flavor.
I agree because that peanut butter hits you.
But a very moist cake. You did good, bro.
Awesome. Thank you so much.
[Nicole] All right. Audra.
[laughing]
That was a mistake.
I wish the buttercream was a little sweeter,
but I do think it's like a great texture.
I'm a big fan of this buttercream. What kind is it? Hazelnut?
Hazelnut chocolate.
I don't know if I'd be able to tell that if I was blind taste test.
-But I do like it a lot. -If you go for coffee, go for coffee.
I want to say, "Wow, this is rum and coffee."
I cannot really find it.
Got it.
Marcus?
You're up now.
I think your cake's, like, a little dry,
but I do think your buttercream helps it along.
I'm, like, very happy. It's, like, a creamsicle for me. I really like it.
And everything you said you was gonna do, you did it.
It's way better than I even thought it'd be.
I like the flavor. I can taste the orange. I'm happy with that.
But we see you struggling with the milk that you forget.
And then overmixing a cake batter,
you get a funny texture and elasticity into the cake.
Well, is the mages' council ready to announce the winner?
Remember, whoever wins this challenge gets $10,000 and…
[whispers] …the Nailed It! trophy. Wes!
-[Audra gasps] -[laughing]
[Audra] Oh my God, yes.
Hell yeah.
That's funny. Don't walk too close to fire.
That synthetic wig will go up in flames.
Ooh, Tone, are you ready to channel your chaos and unleash the cash?
I shall unleash it.
Jacques?
Bakers, you did three very unusual cakes,
and we enjoyed them a lot.
But there can be only one winner.
So the winner is…
-Norm. -Yeah!
[cheering]
-[Nicole] Congratulations! -Look at it.
[Norm] It feels amazing.
Ten thousand dollars is gonna go a long way
to find some kitties some great homes.
I won!
-[laughing] -Ah!
I'm so happy!
[laughing]
Get together for your picture!
-[scream] -[cackle]
That's it for Nailed It!
Always remember, there are no limits, only power and potential. Ha ha.