(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Our story begins at the top secret laboratory
of a brilliant physicist, where an overworked lab tech...
-(SIGHS) -...desperately needs a nap.
-You know, she works hard. -(YAWNS)
NARRATOR: She deserves a good dream.
And behold, our scientist has been transformed into Micro-Girl.
That's what I'm talking about. (LAUGHS) Wow. Look at how tiny I am.
NARRATOR: Easy there, Micro-Girl. That's the newest version
of your super suit, and there's still bugs to be worked out.
You need to be careful you don't go subatomic.
Okay, look, I don't know about going subatomic,
but I'm definitely about to go viral.
-Hashtag Ant-tastic. -(ALARM BLARING)
-NARRATOR: Oh, no. -What's that noise?
NARRATOR: Yellowjacket and Ghost, and they're on their way here.
We need help, don't we?
NARRATOR: We need more than help, we need Ant-Man,
and I know just the people to help bring him here.
Three exceptional teams of the world's best food artists.
Introducing Crumb Coat, a powerhouse team of cake artists.
Veteran foodscape artists, Baker and the Beasts.
And Project Alchemy, former competitors turned teammates.
Whichever team can summon Ant-Man for Micro-Girl the best
will take home the coveted Disney Foodtastic pin
which is more rare than a Pym Particle.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
-(LAUGHS) -Hello there.
-(ALL CHEERING) -Keke! (CHUCKLES)
There are times in life where we've all felt small.
Take Scott Lang, the man who becomes Ant-Man.
His story began with him trying to be a good father.
And ended with him joining the Avengers, saving billions from the evil Thanos.
-(CHUCKLES) -And now being immortalized in food art.
(ALL LAUGH)
Now, while our own Foodtastic judges may not be able to, you know,
put on super suits, they are sure to prove just as valuable to you all.
Amirah Kassem and Benny Rivera.
-(APPLAUDING, CHEERING) -AMIRAH: Hey, Keke.
-Watch out for the ants. -AMIRAH: Ooh. It's foggy up here.
Your task today is to build Ant-Man fighting off Yellowjacket
or Ghost in an everyday environment, before they get to Micro-Girl.
-So, what are you guys looking for? -Technical ability.
I want to see the tiny details
on your build, that make Ant-Man such a cool superhero.
-Yes! -AMIRAH: Also, storytelling, though.
Where you put Ant-Man, and how you have him
interacting with his environment can show me how creative you can truly be.
And please know, any food you do not use in your builds
will be donated to charity.
Now, each team of artists has until the sun sets
to finish their foodscapes.
-Oh, my gosh! -KEKE: Uh-Huh!
What are you waiting for? Jump into action and save the day!
-MATT: All right. -Set it up, Mike.
-All right, let's get started. -All right.
-AMILYE: What are we doing? -ELAN: Okay, so it's gonna be
a fight scene so I feel like we gotta get messy.
-We're cake people... -Absolutely.
...so if it has, like, cupcakes in there.
-Like a bakery. -Like a bakery. Yeah.
-Fridge of a bakery, let's do that. -Yeah.
ELAN: We're choosing Ghost. Why are we choosing Ghost, girls?
-FEMALE VOICE: Women. -AMILYE: We're an all-women group.
-Why wouldn't we choose Ghost? -ELAN: We're the only
-all-women group here. -AMILYE: Women should...
-FEMALE VOICE: I think she's hot. Done. -ELAN: Done.
-Okay. -AMILYE: Yeah.
For me, this is Crumb Coat's coming out party.
We finally have the opportunity to show what we can do.
We're definitely gonna be pulling all the skills
that we've been holding for years,
into this one thing. It's gonna be something amazing.
JESSICA: Well, they're obviously fighting.
-Yep, in a picnic. -Beautiful.
-JOHN: We need an anthill definitely. -TAI: Absolutely, anthill.
-Maybe, like, an apple core? -JOHN: We...
-Apple core? Genius. Love it. -Apple.
TAI: Our storyline is Ant-Man intercepting Yellowjacket
before he gets to Micro-Girl, and it's a whole picnic dreamscape.
You got gigantic ants, giant blades of grass.
-Okay. -Ant-thony?
Yeah! Absolutely. We have to have Ant-thony.
-Definitely Ant-thony. -That's his boy.
-Of course. -So, Yellowjacket has stolen the journals.
-LIZ: Mm-hmm. -We wanna have those journals on a desk...
-Right. -...so you can see it.
LIZ: So, this is his, like, office, right?
This is Yellowjacket's office. Yeah.
-His desk specifically, yeah. -Yeah.
-LIZ: Okay. -Baker and the Beasts!
-Hey, hi! -AMIRAH: I think
-I know how you two know each other. -(BOTH LAUGH)
But I would love to know how you guys know each other.
-(ALL LAUGH) -Mike and I have worked
-on competitions before. -Yeah.
And he's been trying to get all three of us together for a while.
-MIKE: Finally got it. -There, you got it.
Being here with my brother by my side is really important.
Yeah, how cool to be lovers of Disney and what Disney represents,
and to actually be able to do a competition together.
BENNY: So, what do you guys do?
Well, I started out as a pumpkin sculptor. And I've been doing that for, like,
-seven years. -LIZ: Oh, you...
He's way more than just a pumpkin sculptor.
He has the Guinness World Record for largest carved pumpkin.
-BENNY: That is amazing! -What?
-MIKE: Yeah. -LIZ: How heavy was it?
-I think it was like 2,077 pounds. -And I have a cake decorating school.
-I teach people how to... -AMIRAH: Wow.
...make stuff like this, but on, like, on a smaller scale. Yeah.
How about the challenge? What's your plan?
LIZ: So this is Ant-Man battling Yellowjacket here.
The only way to portray Ant-Man as Ant-Man is to make everything
-around him really big. -Correct.
So, Mike, in his previous life, is an architect.
So, he has really helped us
kinda figure out how to build something that is normally this big,
and make it look, like, proportionately huge.
Right. I wanna see some specialty carving going on.
-Oh, boy. -Literally, do not shy away
-from what your skill is. -Yeah.
-BOTH: Yes. -Good luck.
-Thank you. -Thanks, guys.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELAN CHUCKLING)
Oh, okay.
Look at all of this...
JESSICA: Okay, we definitely...
-Definitely melon. -Let's just take this whole thing.
Ooh, egg yellow. That's actually perfect.
See that aloe vera? Boom. Let's get those, guys.
All right, yeah. Let me take one of these.
Ooh. Prickly.
JESSICA: I am loving how there's a huge tree above the pantry.
-I feel like we're in Ant-Man right now. -JOHN: Big boy watermelon over here.
There's so many ingredients for us to choose from.
-JESSICA: What else is around here? -JOHN: Hey, what are those?
TAI: Coconuts, and squash, and fruits, and berries.
JOHN: There's just so much in there. Gelatin sheets, Jess.
-JESSICA: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. -Grab those.
TAI: I need isomalt crystals.
-JOHN: Yes. -JESSICA: Ooh.
JESSICA: You know, really gets you thinking,
like, what can we really transform out of this?
Oh, my gosh. I love that.
Okay. So, I think that we should change a couple of things.
So instead of doing chocolate for the Wasp
I think we should try and incorporate some sort of other food.
Because she was, like, making a big deal
-about you being a carver. -Yeah.
-So... -MIKE: We could look at doing
some stuff for the bees.
So, to address what Amirah said to us, we're trying to figure out,
you know, the insects.
-What about these eggplants? -There's sweet potatoes up here.
MIKE: I don't know. I think those are too big.
We need something that's solid. That we can actually carve.
-Squash? -MIKE: Yeah, the squash would be good.
KEKE: The sun is showing us, guys, that it's still mid-morning,
and there's so much work to do.
Now, when it comes to Ant-Man, scale is the whole thing.
I mean, you could either go really, really big,
-or you can go really, really small. -BENNY: Yeah,
nothing matters more than proportions.
When you build something in an oversized scale,
you have to measure.
-So it's kind of like a math problem. -Yeah, listen. When you create these type
of designs, you have to be an engineer, you have to be a little bit of everything.
-How were you in school with math? -Oh, horrible. I hate math.
-(ALL LAUGH) -(MILD-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
Excuse me.
-Where are you going? -Thank you.
MIKE: We're gonna put chocolate in the pan,
-and then coat the structure. -Oh, it'll fit.
Yeah, it'll fit. Let me cut it real quick.
JOHN: Jess, I'm gonna start dyeing the pink.
-TAI: You're gonna start what? -Dyeing the pink for the blanket.
The story and concept behind our build is Yellowjacket and Ant-Man
kind of fall out of a helicopter into someone's picnic.
Just trying to get these colors mixed up, you know,
-so we can get them out of the way. -What are you working on first, Tyler?
TAI: I'm doing... starting on my Yellowjacket.
-Oh, nice. -I'm using a black modeling chocolate
-for this guy. -Oh, sweet.
TAI: But first, I built the head around the LED lights,
-and then built up the body based on that. -You might wanna just bulk up
-his shoulders just a little. -TAI: Yep.
JOHN: As far as scale of the build, we are starting with ants.
We're taking their measurements, and just increasing it times 15.
We have a coconut, we have a melon, we have a squash.
And we're gonna build it up with modeling chocolate,
and make it into an ant.
JESSICA: At the moment, I'm melting all of my white chocolate
because I'm gonna be casting a huge apple core.
So, I need to try and carve that out, which means I need it to set up.
Yeah, Jess. This will be really easy to get rid
of the hot glue, once it's done.
-JESSICA: Thanks for doing that. -Of course.
JESSICA: I'm actually gonna fill a cement tube
with the chocolate that's melted.
I probably won't un-mold it for at least, like, four to six hours.
So, kind of risky, but I feel like I can handle it.
-Jess, how's it looking? -It's looking great.
-You giving him some chestuses. -You like the body?
-(CHUCKLES) -Chest and abs and shoulders.
-What a hero should have, right? -The works.
Is this Ant-Man or is this Jonathan?
-(BOTH LAUGH) -I wish it was me.
AMILYE: So, I'm gonna start with some ganache.
Okay. I'm making these sprinkles, you guys.
-Elan, what are you doing? -I am trying to get this gelatin
to soak up this water, so I can put it into the microwave.
Ant-Man and Ghost are gonna have, like, this fight scene inside of the fridge.
So, one thing we thought would be a really good idea,
would be, like, to have a cracked egg
on the bottom of the fridge, like, on the flooring.
AMILYE: I'm excited about this egg thing, actually.
-ELAN: I really hope it sets up, man. -(AMILYE LAUGHING)
-Like that is... I'm... -It's going to. Wait.
-...a little worried. -Wait. (CHUCKLING)
ELAN: All right, I definitely need to make some more.
LIZ: Make sure you bend that, so that they look like real legs
-'cause we want realism. -MIKE: I mean, this is looking kinda...
-kinda creepy, guys. -LIZ: It only has six legs.
Like an ant.
-Right? -So, is an ant not an insect?
-MIKE: Isn't it? I don't know. -I thought you had
to have eight legs to be an insect, or is that just to be a spider?
-(CHUCKLING) I'm an architect, Liz. -(ALL LAUGHING)
Yo, Amilye, do you see who that is?
-AMILYE: I've been trying not to notice. -That's Liz Marek.
-So nervous. -ELAN: Sugar Geek.
AMILYE: Are you guys talking about the fact that Liz is over there?
ELAN: Yes, like, right next to us,
-we're competing against Liz. -AMILYE: Liz Marek? Like, Liz Marek?
-I'm so nervous. -AMILYE: That's fine.
Seeing Liz from across the way, it is intimidating to say the least.
If I suggest another project with ten things made out of chocolate,
just be like, no. (CHUCKLING)
ELAN: She's a seasoned veteran.
We've watched her grow over the years
into this amazing juggernaut of a cake artist.
And us starting our own bakery is something very new.
And us jumping into this big competition is something even newer.
Like, we're the underdogs.
We're new and we're doing this right next to her, like, that's a big deal.
But we still have a chance, fam, we can do this.
I think we can kill it.
But knowing that that's gonna be our competition,
we have our hands full.
You know what, team? As much as I'm used to competing against you guys,
I much prefer being a team, you know.
TAI: This is way better. Definitely preferred.
Plus, you guys are tough competition, I'd rather you be with me than against me.
-TAI: One hundred. -(CHUCKLES)
-Our powers combined, we are The Avengers. -JESSICA: We met on a food competition.
We're, actually, all going against each other.
And through this competition,
we actually ended up enjoying each other's companies.
And also respecting each other’s skill sets.
TAI: This is pretty early, so everything's pretty chill.
But I know that once dawn starts to come, we're gonna be like,
-"Oh, my God," and freak out. Yeah. -JOHN: Freak out or go home.
-What's up, Project Alchemy? -What's up, Keke, how you doin' girl?
So, I wanna ask you guys, why did you pick this name?
'Cause alchemists used to take kind of, like, regular objects
and try to turn them into gold. So that's what we're trying to do
with this amazing Disney build we're doing right now.
Now, what you building over here? It looks like a little voodoo doll.
TAI: No, so, this is actually Yellowjacket
-'cause you know... Yes. -KEKE: Ooh!
And then the cool thing about this guy is that,
-when you hit the switch... -(KEKE GASPS)
We're trying to go for the whole experience, boo.
I paint with food. I've only been doing food art for... It'll be five years now.
I love working with sugars, love working with chocolate.
I really just love utilizing food as much as possible.
KEKE: Make sure you keep an eye on that sun,
because you've got a lot to do.
-Thank you. -Thank you. See you later.
LIZ: What is the question that people ask you the most
-when you're carving a pumpkin? -MIKE: Really, it's...
-"How long did that take?" -Yeah, "How long did it take?"
-Or "How long will it last?" -Hmm.
So, like for this, as soon as you take that skin off,
it will start rotting fast, so we're gonna have to...
keep that from happening.
Time is a huge factor in this competition, and subtractive carving,
carving that you do with pumpkins and fruits and vegetables,
it takes more time than additive sculpting.
Yeah, especially large-scale, or going into detail.
MIKE: Yeah. So, to address what Benny and Amirah said to us
about me being a pumpkin carver,
the Wasp head is pretty simple. So, the head, the pincers,
is something that can be created with a butternut squash.
-Liz... -LIZ: Oh, you did it!
-Did it. What do you think? -LIZ: How did you do that?
-Magic. -BOTH: Twin magic.
(LIZ LAUGHING)
MIKE: Our whole team approach is to create characters
that are realistic. And as an architect, that's what I do.
I mean, I'm creating three-dimensional spaces
for people to interact with.
AMILYE: How's the cupcake going?
ELAN: I mean, it's coming along. Once I get to the middle,
I think it should be pretty easy, pretty quick.
AMILYE: We decided to incorporate more baked goods
-into the fridge 'cause like... -We're a bakery.
-...that's what we are. Yeah. -Definitely representing who we are.
-Yes. -Yeah, but when you think
about little details, sometimes it's easier on a smaller scale.
But when it's literally the size of yourself
I don't even know what to say about it.
-FEMALE VOICE: Ready? -Yeah.
-FEMALE VOICE: One, two, three. -ELAN: It is very intimidating.
-FEMALE VOICE: I'm tilting it. -ELAN: Okay. Okay.
Ooh! I really need to start working out. This is crazy.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
ELAN: This is a very rough sculpt. Just wanna let you know.
Just don't even look at this cake then.
ELAN: One of my specialties has always been sculpting,
and in terms of scale of, like, our cupcake,
we're not getting that right.
-It's a little weird. -Yeah, it's a little wonky.
AMILYE: I think we just need to go. Like, we haven't even started on Ant-Man.
(EXHALES HEAVILY)
-(MILD-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) -KEKE: I am so excited.
So, you guys went around, been talking to some of the teams, yeah?
-AMIRAH: Oh, you should be excited. -BENNY: Yeah.
-Oh, my gosh. -(AMIRAH CHUCKLING)
Let's start with Baker and the Beasts. What are your first thoughts?
AMIRAH: They have just such a unique team.
I mean, they have a professional pumpkin carver.
BENNY: But I haven't seen the skill, like,
if you have an awesome sculptor like this guy,
I will expect to see more details.
AMIRAH: I'm hoping that maybe they're going large-scale,
and then he's gonna come in with the details.
Yeah, yeah. Now, I'm so excited to talk about Crumb Coat,
because we've got a whole lady gang.
-Oh, yeah. -That's really, really cool.
AMIRAH: Yeah. And you know, they're inside of a refrigerator.
That's such a unique perspective.
I can't wait to see what colors they're using for a cake slice,
for a cupcake, macaroons, cookies.
ELAN: How you doing on the back of that cake?
AMIRAH: Two of them have started their own bakery.
And I love that they've really pulled their experience, their lives.
-KEKE: Yes. -And I can relate to this.
I mean, if someone came in and attacked my bakery before it opened,
-it's actually crazy. -(ALL LAUGH)
-JOHN: How's it going, team? -BOTH: Good.
AMIRAH: Project Alchemy continues on this apple core.
I'm having a very difficult time visualizing their entire concept.
JOHN: I feel like this arm is a little long.
They're planning to sculpt such a big chocolate piece.
They basically melt the chocolate,
and then just put it into this container. It's not set.
-KEKE: Yeah. -I'm worried about how long
that's gonna take. Maybe at some point,
they're just gonna start putting all the pieces together and surprise us.
-Yeah, I'm very excited for... -But, you know, but...
-...that puzzle to come together. -Yeah, so am I.
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, Micro-Girl is still working on her moves
-to impress Ant-Man. -Take that!
(GRUNTS)
(CHUCKLES) See? We got this, I think we're good.
NARRATOR: You know Ant-Man would find something better
than a pencil to defend himself.
Okay, you know what? I think it's cool that you and Ant-Man are, like, BFFs
and everything, but you gotta chill with all the name-dropping.
NARRATOR: I never said Ant-Man is my BFF. But he did just send me a follow request.
-So... -I know. And did you see
that Sonny Burch liked that picture of us from last weekend?
-NARRATOR: Mm-hmm. -He cannot take a hint...
NARRATOR: Yeah, let's back-burner that for the time being,
and instead make a call for some backup.
Oh, go ahead. Name drop, you know you wanna.
NARRATOR: Thanks. I'm gonna get the Wasp here.
Oh, I love her. Yes!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
All right, artists. Listen up, the plot has thickened.
-It's time to add to your build. -Oh, gosh.
It's time for the Wasp to make her grand entrance.
I hope this added element doesn't make your problems
too big to handle.
-Good luck. -Oh, my God.
ELAN: I can't handle this.
We now have to add the Wasp, which is actually a little stressful
because we are really struggling on time anyways.
Run!
I thought, "Oh, my gosh, I love the Wasp."
And then I went, "Oh, no. I gotta make the Wasp."
I'm thinking about, you know, making her small, obviously.
MIKE: Really small.
Can you use, like, skin from an orange or something?
-ELAN: What about something like this? -AMILYE: For her what?
-For her body. -Body.
(BOTH LAUGH)
-All the rest of our figurines are so big. -Yeah.
Like, we don't have time.
LIZ: This is almost like what her front looks like, right?
Oh, lots of different cereal, by the way, too.
MATT: Right? We're gonna use all the cereals.
LIZ: I mean, we have such a solid story, I don't want it to be like,
-"Why is she here?" You know? -Okay. Game plan?
What are you thinking?
MIKE: We already have Yellowjacket shooting lasers at Ant-Man.
We could position her in a way where he's maybe shot...
-LIZ: Okay, okay. -...towards her and then missed her.
TAI: I don't think we have enough time to do a full body, John.
-JOHN: That's a lot of work. -TAI: Yeah.
So we're gonna have to do like half a body or like a head and...
JOHN: I mean, look how long it took me and Tai to do our guys.
-JESSICA: Of course. -TAI: And we still have to finish him up.
What if, like, she somehow got, like, stuck?
JOHN: Yeah, what about if we do the cheese and she's in it,
and she's trying to get out. So half her body...
-TAI: Out of one of the little... -JESSICA: Yeah. Like, she's, like...
-Yeah. -...in motion.
I'm kind of looking at our platform,
and we still need to put the blades of grass up,
we still need to add all the dirt.
And of course, like, we have all of our projects everywhere. (CHUCKLES)
And then looking around, and everybody's structures
are all built up, and we're the only ones with nothing.
We've got a lot of work to do. (LAUGHS)
-Absolutely. -A ton of work.
The day is getting shorter. Don't forget, you only have until sunset to finish up.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Why don't we put her... She's coming out of something?
-ELAN: Okay. -Then we don't have to do the whole body.
-Yeah. She's kind of like... -FEMALE VOICE: Perfect.
Do you wanna bottom shelf or top shelf?
I feel like maybe we should do top shelf, just because Ant-Man is up there,
she's gonna be helping Ant-Man.
-So, maybe inside of the s'more square. -FEMALE VOICE: Yeah.
-We gotta make it... Yeah, yeah. -AMILYE: We can shove her
in the marshmallow fluff.
There's so many components to doing a large-scale build like this.
So, I'm gonna start the Wasp later.
Let's just focus on this body. That's number one, we have to finish that.
LIZ: I decided to make the Wasp's body based off of a little pepper,
so that's gonna be her gold armor. And then I'm gonna put modeling chocolate
all around the rest of her armor.
KEKE: How's it going, Baker and the Beasts?
Hey! How's it going?
You guys have to now add the Wasp. How are you feeling about that?
-How's that working into your plans? -Well, first, we were like, you know,
"Oh, my gosh." (CHUCKLES) But then, after talking about working her in,
we actually think it's gonna make our story better.
-So, I mean... -Ooh, I like that.
...we went from like, "Oh, no" to like, "Okay, all right."
So we're back up here again.
-Well, good luck, good luck. -Thanks, guys.
Go ahead, get back at work. Wishing you the best.
I'm gonna go get some wire real quick to make some wings real fast.
LIZ: So, I'm going to make gelatin wings for all of the wasps.
So, it's just gelatin?
It's gelatin and glycerin, so that it doesn't get too brittle.
-'Cause gelatin is just like plastic... -Okay. Yeah.
...basically. We want it to be a little bit more flexible.
MIKE: So, have you done this before? Like, this technique?
-Not like this big. -You think... it's gonna work?
-(MIKE CHUCKLING) -LIZ: You know me, I like to innovate.
Now's the time to do it, right?
-What are guys making over there? -LIZ: Oh, you know, my worst nightmare.
-(ALL LAUGH) -That's your worst nightmare?
LIZ: No, it's gonna be a giant donut.
MIKE: The donut is two layers. It's gonna be made of rice cereal treats,
and then the top layer is gonna be made of cake.
-You have a template? -MATT: No, I'm just winging it.
MIKE: We'll stack it out further.
-MATT: Like this? -No. I think it will be a lot faster
to go the other way. Why don't you just trim the...
Is it supposed to be off-center?
-MIKE: Yeah. -Okay.
LIZ: This is gonna be really thin once we carve it down.
We're stacking cake on the top. So the cake's really heavy,
and we have to have good support, but we don't have enough room
around the bottom for our rice cereal.
-Rice cereal is not super stable. -Yeah.
So as soon as we start getting thin, it's just gonna wanna, like, collapse.
-So, you wanna use a full sheet? -LIZ: It should be at least half.
MIKE: This is half, longways. So you're saying half short ways?
I mean, filling half of the donut, so it has more stability.
Yeah, but for speed, we're gonna need to just... Probably use a full sheet.
This is gonna take forever
LIZ: Competition is really about competing with yourself.
When we have changes that hit our team, we immediately go
into problem solving mode.
We don't waste any energy on, "Well, I wanted to do this,"
or "This isn't fair." And it's just like...
No, let's figure out the solution. Let's make it even better.
-Just that good attitude helps a lot. -Oh, my gosh, it's a donut.
-LIZ: You okay? Sorry, it's stressful. -MIKE: Yeah.
-I just wanna make sure it works. -Mm-hmm.
We have our Baker and the Beasts,
who are working on a donut that seems to be,
like it's gonna be about three to four thousand pounds of cake.
I mean, that thing is one heavy donut.
I just hope they're using a very set and dense cake
that is able to support the amount of layers they're stacking together.
I'm hoping that structure is strong enough to hold
-that donut. -BENNY: It seems...
LIZ: Matt, what color pink did you get?
I have soft pink.
-LIZ: Do electric pink, please. -MATT: Electric pink.
-I'll change it. -LIZ: Soft pink gets kinda orange.
It reminds me of, like, being a kid
and you lay in the inner tubes, and go down the river.
Gonna hit me with a jawbreaker, Liz?
-LIZ: Work faster. -(MIKE LAUGHING)
KEKE: What's going on, Project Alchemy?
Now I see you've been making these leaves for hours. Is that what they are? Leaves?
-Grass! Blades of grass. -They're grass.
-Yes. -And so you can create the picnic
out of the grass. And what are you about to do, Jonathan?
I'm making a Cola can. It's gonna have cola spilling out into a puddle,
and she's making these cool raindrop cakes.
It needs to be 30 inches high to be true
to 15 times the size of a can of cola. So...
Oh, my gosh. Now, this is so cool. Enjoy, guys. Good luck.
-Thank you. -TAI: Thank you, Keke.
JESSICA: All right... (GRUNTS) ...it's time to get messy.
JESSICA: So, to make the anthill, there's this whole internet phenomenon,
fixing things with ramen, and I've been obsessed with it.
And so, I'm actually gonna be using this for my anthill
because it has, like, great texture to it.
Just like with bricks and cement, I'm gonna shellac
some of my edible glue with the ramen and press it on,
and then we'll be dousing it in a bunch of chocolate.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
The moment of truth.
Project Alchemy is starting to take the chocolate out.
-There you go. -(IN SPANISH)
-Yes. Hulk out! -Hallelujah!
Got you. Here, I'll hold it open.
Good.
-Got you. -(IN SPANISH)
-(JOHN GRUNTING) -(CHUCKLES)
I'm working on a huge apple core. I need to create this silhouette shape.
Because, you know, when you're eating an apple,
you have, like, the top intact, and then you're attacking the insides.
So, I'm kind of just chipping away. I would rather take my time
than to accidentally crack it and break all of the work that I had already done.
(GRUNTS) Mm.
Please don't fall off. For the love of God, I'm praying.
ELAN: We don't have that much time left. We gotta get all these details on.
We still have this entire Wasp figurine to do.
You're still working on the guy up there, like, these are the two, like, main pieces
that really have to, like, look as realistic as humanly possible.
FEMALE VOICE: That's right.
I'm freaking out.
AMIRAH: Looking up at that sun, and it's already telling us
that it's gonna get dark very soon.
AMIRAH: We have the Crumb Coat girls over here.
They're working on their characters,
which you know is so important to keep it realistic
-to the movie. -Correct.
Okay, Amilye, after I finish these gloves, I'm gonna hop over
and do the Wasp real quick.
We have so much to do, and we have no time to do it in.
Look at the Baker and the Beasts.
-LIZ: Can you do me a favor? -MIKE: Yeah.
Just hold underneath his head, so I can push down
without making him wobble so much? I'm afraid it'll snap.
AMIRAH: It's all about balance here.
Correct. They have to be completely careful,
because you're working with two different pieces
within one structure support.
LIZ: I just didn't cover his head in modeling chocolate
because his head's getting really heavy.
-BENNY: That particular piece... -AMIRAH: Stunning.
...looks perfectly sculpted.
If they drop that, I mean, it's the main character.
AMIRAH: I just hope it stays up.
But speaking of heavy, we have Project Alchemy,
who is making really, really heavy pieces of grass out of pastillage,
and they're attached to a rod.
And I don't know, but screwing in a rod into a wood structure
with such a fragile sugar...
I'm just really hoping that they don't start to chip away
too much at their grass.
(IN SPANISH)
KEKE: Food artists...
look up in the sky.
It's almost sunset. I know you're all working with small designs,
but if you're not done in an hour you're going to be cut down to size.
-What else do we have to do? -TAI: A lot.
-We're gonna have to hurry really quick. -(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
All right, guys. Wasp is almost done. I just gotta put these wings on her.
-JESSICA: Perfect. -And she'll be ready
to go into the cheese.
-JESSICA: All right. -JOHN: Okay.
I think the diversity of mediums is extremely important.
We have a lot of really cool things. For, like, our soil,
quinoa and like puff rice, chocolate, like, pebbles
and stones and stuff since we're outside.
Okay, guys. I know that the time is coming close.
I'm finally getting around to working on Wasp.
-FEMALE VOICE: Nice. -ELAN: Yes.
Since all of the other figurines are so large,
I'm doing her teeny tiny. And making her out of a hot pepper.
The sun is starting to set. We have so much to do.
Can we put a cracked egg just right there?
FEMALE VOICE: Yep.
But at the end of the day, we're artists. And we came here with, like,
a mission and a goal.
ELAN: Make it messy. Make it so she actually looks like
she's slamming into a slice of cake.
We have to complete this build and we have to accomplish our goal.
And that's finishing, and just being able to stand
next to our competitors. And I think that we can do that.
ELAN: This is actually very therapeutic.
Yeah, move over. Start painting fast.
-LIZ: We gotta put her on there. -MIKE: Go fast.
-MATT: Mike, I'm trying, man. -It's all right, it's all right.
I do get a little bossy when I'm under stress.
Don't freak out now.
Don't panic now? Wait, you've been panicking the whole time.
I always panic.
We all understand each other, so it's fine.
-Yeah. -Thank you.
LIZ: How about one person paints, and the other person
starts putting stuff on the thing?
I feel like this is that part in the action movie
where you're just waiting. Are they gonna make it?
Is the superhero moment gonna happen?
-Is Thanos gonna come and kill us? -Yes!
ELAN: Girl, I'm two seconds away from, like, breaking. (CHUCKLING)
MATT: Hey, guys, I'm starting to work on the eraser.
-LIZ: Oh! -With the ham.
-Pretty good color, right? -(CHUCKLES)
-MIKE: Looks like an eraser. -JESSICA: Is it cracking?
JOHN: I already fixed the crack. There was a crack.
Okay, just wrap it over it
-and just squish it. -Wrap it? All right.
This is the point where they just have to rush and put those last minute details.
Forgot his...
JOHN: Grass, grass, grass.
-KEKE: Three. -Just put it down.
-Two. -Plug.. plug that up.
-One! And that's it. Sun down, time is up! -(CHEERS)
-Great job. Great, great job. -TAI: Good job, guys.
KEKE: It's time to show us what you've got.
-What's up, Baker and the Beasts? -Hi!
So, Mike and Matt, please tell me, how was it?
We've worked together on so many projects,
and this was just something that I knew we would do well with.
And it was lot of fun.
-No fights between brothers? -MIKE: No.
-They got a little tense, but... -BENNY: See.
(ALL LAUGH)
Well, walk us through this beautiful build.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
LIZ: So, the story of our piece is Darren Cross has stolen the technology
from Dr. Pym. He's using it to control wasps.
Ant-Man's like, "I'm gonna stop you before you can get to Micro-Girl."
The wings, it's a mixture of gelatin and glycerin.
So it's strong, but still flexible.
MIKE: The heads for the wasps were vegetables,
some butternut squash, some avocados.
MATT: The ants, they're made of chocolate.
MIKE: The donut is rice cereal treats and cake.
This really looks like action in motion.
And even the Wasp. These wings, I mean, who's not cheering for her?
You do bring a very colorful desk. You chose to use a vibrant pink.
You chose to incorporate the eraser and the pencil to sort
of create that pop of color. I personally would have probably put
the blue book or a green book on top.
Because Yellowjacket and his wasps,
they're getting a little bit lost on the orange.
They would have really popped
if they were on that blue or on that green.
But overall, I think that you did an amazing job in incorporating vibrancy,
and not only that, but shading.
Now, there are a lot of different things going on here.
What do you feel about the skill that's been displayed?
BENNY: I love the piece, guys. It just tells the story.
Specifically for me, this space here, it screams Marvel.
Ant-Man is on point. The colors, the textures,
the movement. I mean, you can even see the wrinkles
of his costume well placed.
I am really, really impressed in the way that you guys were able
to balance the paperclip.
And I know we have an amazing carver here.
Yes. Can you take me again through the carving work that you did
-through the piece? -We have a ham eraser...
-(LIZ LAUGHING) -...on the end of the pencil.
Working on the chocolate as well on the ants and sculpting the ants.
But primarily, it was squash heads for the wasps.
I would have loved to see a little bit more of your skills on the piece.
-Because I know you're great in that. -Specifically on a pencil.
Because a pencil has such a specific shape.
In terms of skill, I think they took the time
to make sure that the scales on each element was right.
You're smiling, Mike. Is that 100 percent true?
-Architect. So, you know... (LAUGHS) -He's an architect.
He literally was like,
"So the ants are exactly one and a half feet long."
-(LAUGHS) -You're like, "Okay." (CHUCKLES)
Well, I wanna thank you so much, Baker and the Beasts.
It was so much fun hanging with you guys. Happy about your build.
-I hope you are, too. -Yeah, we are.
-Oh, yeah. -And wishing you the best of luck,
-all right? -AMIRAH: Thank you so much, you guys.
-AMILYE: Hi! -KEKE: Hi, hello!
-Okay. This is absolutely beautiful. -ALL: Thank you.
But before we get into the build, I wanna ask you guys, how do you feel?
-Relieved. -Yes!
We were down to the last minute. But we figured it out.
KEKE: Well, now the fun part. Walk us through the story of your foodscape.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
ELAN: Basically, they're supposed to be inside a fridge.
Because Ghost is looking for her healing particles,
which are actually found in the mobile lab.
So they're frantically fighting to find this lab in all of these baked goods
all over the place. Little do they know, it's actually in the cupcake.
For this cookie, it was actually sculpted underneath with ramen
topped with peanut butter.
The cake itself, the actual layers, they're fondant
texturized with crumpled up foil.
And then Ant-Man and Ghost are made out of cake, Rice Krispies, fondant.
This is amazing. I mean, I love the eggs. Can you tell me how you make that egg?
Yeah, that was actually a jelly egg. I had actually gotten the idea from Liz.
-(ELAN CHUCKLING) -BENNY: Oh, stolen idea.
-I had taken... -AMIRAH: Inspired. Inspired.
Inspired. Exactly. (CHUCKLES)
KEKE: Amirah, what are your thoughts on the story?
When I walk up to this, at a glance, there is just no question.
I'm looking into a bakery fridge.
I love that you guys took something so personal to the three of you.
But working it in with
the actual storylines of Ant-Man and Ghost.
My only thing that I would do different is that, it's very hard to find Wasp.
I wish I could see the action more.
It seems a little bit like an afterthought of,
"Just put her front and center cause we don't have a lot of time and she's small."
So I wanna ask you, Benny, about the technical aspects of the build.
BENNY: Technically, I see that you guys were able to reach the characters.
I mean, holding that position, it's really hard.
The faces of the characters looks great. I would have spent a little bit more time,
especially on Ant-Man.
For the slice of cake, I would have use a cleaning brush. You just press.
Pressing the cleaning brush into the medium
and it creates those little pockets that gives a natural look of the cake.
Now, I'm having a little issue with some of the items in terms of scale.
The characters looks great. But then, when I put the cupcake
next to the slice of cake, it's not the right proportion
for the cupcake.
Also the cookie could have been a little bit bigger, too.
But apart from that, the overall appearance
of the piece is great.
It's a beautiful, beautiful build, and I'm very excited
for you guys to have come here and held it down.
So I'm gonna have to come check out y'alls bakery
-when I leave this place. -Thank you, guys.
What's happening, Project Alchemy?
-What's up, guys? -What's up?
Before I get into this incredible build, I want you guys to tell me
-how you're feeling. -Relieved.
(ALL LAUGH)
What was the funniest part about creating this build?
-Oh, definitely working with these guys. -Yeah. Working together.
-Hundred percent. -So you guys think you're gonna make it
a kind of a consistent thing?
-Hopefully. -I think so.
Hopefully, not too often because, girl, I'm tired, but yes, definitely.
Well, here comes the fun part.
Please walk me through your story and build.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
TAI: So, this is like a typical Ant-Man movie scene.
You know, Marvel's really good at kind of putting Ant-Man
into lots of precarious situations in really ordinary places.
So, this moment in time is a picnic that Ant-Man and Yellowjacket
are doing battle before he gets to Micro-Girl.
Ant-Man has his posse of ants kinda coming out
of the anthill structure right here. Ant-Man decides to open up
the Keke Cola right there
in order to distract him, because all Yellowjackets love,
you know, like sugary things like that.
You know, so it's kind of like a diversionary tactic.
-So Ant-Man's really, really smart. -(LAUGHS)
JOHN: We have 55 different types of food ingredients, maybe more.
In the ant bodies, the head of it is a coconut,
the middle is squash, the back is a watermelon.
And then the booty of the Wasp is a loaf of bread that Tyler carved.
TAI: The strawberry is actually rice cereal covered
with a little gum paste. And the seeds are actually pumpkin seeds.
Anthill is completely constructed out of ramen.
That's foodtastic!
-Yes. (CHUCKLES) -KEKE: Amirah, I wanna talk to you
about creativity and color. I know you gotta lot to say about it.
-Yes. -So how do you feel
about that balance here?
AMIRAH: When we're talking about the color here,
when we go into the greenery,
I actually like that there's so many different shades.
Also, even just some are stiff and some are softer.
It's very obvious that the Yellowjacket is being drawn to this sugar.
That's like one of the first things we saw, and, I mean, Keke Cola, come on.
(ALL LAUGH)
But, you know, the fact that I'm seeing the action of them crawling out
of an anthill, it just makes it so realistic.
But then, when I get to Wasp, I'm a little bit lost.
Wasp was actually part of "the plot thickens."
Can you walk me through how you incorporated her into the story?
So, Yellowjacket actually was fighting Wasp
before Ant-Man showed up. He actually shot her inside of the cheese.
So that's why she's in there right now.
So, you know, Ant-Man is just trying to save his boo.
You guys did a really good job overall with the story.
-Thank you. -We asked you for a food art piece
and you gave us a lot of food there.
The grass in the back, I mean,
you guys used pastillage, which is a very delicate
and heavy medium to use.
You guys should be proud of it because it looks amazing.
The apple, that was the big column
-with the white chocolate? -Yes.
BENNY: I was worried because I don't know if it was gonna get dry.
But hey, I love the effect.
-AMIRAH: It looks fabulous. -The characters, they're really cool,
but there's some issues with the proportion,
especially in the torso, I see that it's really long.
To help build the right proportions,
you can create a template with the actual dimension
that you're gonna use and always go back and forward
between the template and the piece when you're working,
so that all the proportions stay correct.
To me, personally, I feel like the ants are a little bit too big
in proportions to the can. So I would probably have built
the ants in a smaller scale.
And I'm not a judge, but the one thing I will say
is that the "Keke" on the can could have been bigger.
(ALL LAUGH)
From your craftsmanship to your great attitudes,
it definitely captured the storytelling of Marvel.
I couldn't be any more proud of you, and I just met you today.
So, I mean, this is hard for you guys.
-Very hard. (CHUCKLES) -Yes.
They all did an excellent job.
Baker and the Beasts, the details are spot on.
AMIRAH: We have Project Alchemy, who... They are using so many different things.
They have pastillage, they have white chocolate,
they have ramen.
BENNY: The Crumb Coat team, I mean, the characters are... I like that.
-You guys know? -Yeah.
-Good. All right. -Awesome.
KEKE: Let's go.
-FEMALE VOICE: Oh, wow. -That is a really cool backdrop.
It looks so magical.
KEKE: As you can all tell, we love, love, love your creations.
And we think Ant-Man would be honored to be in any one of them.
But only one can win.
(MILD-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
-MATT: Oh, that's cool. -(EXCLAIMS)
-Disney magic. -Wow.
The team that created the most foodtastic Ant-Man action sequence is...
Oh, my God. There's a bubble. (CHUCKLES)
-Baker and the Beasts! -Yeah!
-(LIZ EXCLAIMING) -KEKE: Please come up
and receive your Foodtastic pins.
-(CHEERS) -Party with you. (CHUCKLES)
-Thank you all so very much. Thank you. -Thank you so much. Thank you.
MATT: I think it's something that,
you know, we'll always have and it'll be cherished forever.
-Congratulations! -Amazing!
NARRATOR: And Micro-Girl still has a lot to show, as well.
Let it be known across all realms, normal or particle size,
that wherever trouble calls, Micro-Girl will answer that call.
Micro-Girl, Micro-Girl, Micro-Girl, Micro-Girl.
Micro-Girl, Micro-Girl, Micro-Girl...
(SIGHS) Micro-Girl...
NARRATOR: Hopefully, your blissful afternoon dreamworld
-is coming to an end... -...Micro-Girl. Micro-Girl...
NARRATOR: Because your lunch break is almost over.
(GASPS)
(EXHALES) Guess I fell asleep.
Oh, man, that was awesome.
NARRATOR: You realize it was just a dream, right?
Oh, hey, you call it a dream, but I call it an aspiration.
Lab tech by day, Micro-Girl by night.
-(LAUGHS) -(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)