(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: The Rebellion is at the tipping point.
The evil Galactic Empire has chased the Rebels
across the galaxy to their secret base on the fourth moon of Yavin.
The odds are against the Rebellion and their...
Hey! You know how we feel about our odds around here.
NARRATOR: Never tell you them. Yes, I know but...
There's no time. The Imperial fleet will be here any minute
and the horizontal boosters on that bucket of bolts
are on the fritz again. If you got a second,
I could really use some help on those sub-light engines.
NARRATOR: I'm no help when it comes to engines,
but maybe there's something else I can do?
Let's see. Our fleet is pretty thin.
You don't happen to know where we could get our hands
-on some more ships, do you? -NARRATOR: As a matter of fact, I do.
Oh, that would be huge. We've really got our backs against the wall here.
NARRATOR: I know just the people to talk to.
Three exceptional teams of the world's best food artists.
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Introducing the Carving Queens,
a team of food artists who admire each other from the food art world.
The Sculptinators, a team with many skill sets.
And...
the Pink Pandas,
cake artists hailing from various parts of Asia.
They'll be competing for the coveted Disney Foodtastic pin,
a prize that Jabba himself would drool over.
And it's all happening at a Rebel base on Yavin 4.
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHEERING)
A princess goes toe to toe
with the most frightening villain in the galaxy.
A young man on a desert planet yearns for adventure.
A rogue smuggler takes a job to pay off a vile gangster.
That's how the story of Star Wars began.
Star Wars!
And it's continued to amaze generations of audiences
for over 40 years,
with films, collectables, games, books, television, and now, art.
Food art, to be exact.
(CHEERING)
Hello, all of you beautiful people, and welcome to Foodtastic,
where you, some of the best food artists
-in any star system have gathered. -(GIGGLING)
(R2 UNIT BEEPS)
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
-CONTESTANT: Oh, my God, what! -(SQUEALS)
-I want one. -KEKE: R2 unit,
-what are you doing in the pantry? -(BEEPING)
Now, today, we're happy to have not one
but two masters of food art with us on this amazing adventure,
Benny Rivera and Amirah Kassem.
(CHEERING)
Food artists, your task.
Build an all-new original ship
that would be a powerful addition to the Rebel fleet.
And please know, any food you do not use in your builds
will be donated to charity.
Benny and Amirah, what is expected of them?
I want to see what techniques you are going to use in your design
and how well-executed these techniques are going to be.
I will be looking for creativity.
How creative you get with your materials can make you the best team in the galaxy.
Now, normally, we like to tell time here the old-fashioned way, using the sun.
But here, on Yavin 4,
it's the red gas giant Yavin Prime that this moon revolves around.
When the red gas giant dips below the horizon, you are out of time.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh!
-(GIGGLING) -KEKE: Now, get to work.
Our Rebel mechanic needs that ship or all is lost.
You are her only hope.
(CLAPPING)
-MIKO: So, our challenge is... -LIU: All right.
...we're gonna build a spaceship for the Rebel mechanic.
So, we're gonna pattern it from the Millennium Falcon,
so it's gonna be, like, circular.
-LIU: Yeah. -I should say,
-sugar dome. -Yeah!
-Do a sugar dome. Yeah. -Made out of sugar. It's clear,
it's fragile, it's something different. Okay.
So, what's gonna be inside the dome? The Rebel mechanic?
ANA: Yes, perfect.
You know, we are from an Asian background,
so we want to definitely add, like, some Asian ingredients.
I am from the Southern part of the Philippines.
I grew up in Mindanao.
ANA: I am from the Visayas region.
LIU: I'm actually born in China
in a small town in Guangdong, and I came here when I was five years old.
The fact that we're Asian, we're very proud to be Asians.
The fact that we actually made it in America, like, we are living
-the Disney dream. You know what I mean? -Exactly.
But, I also wanna add, like, different kind of elements.
I want to be able to bring all the nature stuff,
so let's, with the brown rice, um, some kind of, like,
the five elements, you know? We'll do some kind of, like,
-very oriental Asian design for that. -Exactly.
-The Pink Pandas! -Hello!
-Hi! -BENNY: Hi, guys.
So nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you too. My God. It's... -I'm freaking out.
-Oh, God. -(LAUGHING)
Now, guys, I see an awesome draw here.
-Yes. -Can you please explain us
a little bit about the concept that you wanted to bring to life?
ANA: The majority of the spaceship will be out of cake.
Yep. And we're gonna feature a sugar dome in the center.
We're gonna shape it with a ring and then build it from there.
-JUDGES: Ooh. -Yup.
You have to be very careful with that technique.
-I know. -Extremely careful.
-Sugar is scary. -It will break easily.
-Yeah, that's true. -Yep, definitely.
All right, guys. So, Rebel ships.
-Yes. -We have those letter wing ships, right?
-We love those. X-wing, Y-wing. -Right, right. X-wing, Y-wing. V-wing.
Yep, Carving Queens, we're gonna do a C-wing.
-Yes. -Definitely.
After the Battle of Endor, we have all those pieces
from X-wing and the Y-wing that fell out of sky,
and then we're gonna put those all together...
-JENNA: I love it. -...and refurbish it into our ship.
-I love it. I love it. Refurbish. -Yes.
The food carving industry is actually pretty small.
So, we all met
because we are individual fans, actually, of each other.
All right, in the center, we're gonna have our astromech, that's our R2 droid.
-JENNA: Yes. -MELANIE: Okay, yeah, yeah.
-JENNA: Astromech, look at you go. -ANNIE: I'm a huge Star Wars fan.
My husband and I, we went to Galaxy's Edge opening week.
And I've watched all of the Star Wars movies many times.
So, I'm very familiar with all of the characters
and what the droids are supposed to look like.
BENNY: What elements are you using
-to create this? -This is the canopy, right?
We have to be able to see in there. We want to see the pilot.
-Correct. -JENNA: So I'm gonna attempt
to make this entire canopy out of gelatin.
Have you guys ever done this before?
-Anything... No? -No.
And we just thought, visually, like, if we can pull this off
and it's clear and see-through, and you can see the pilot inside,
-like, it would just look stunning. -Yeah.
Go big. Give it your all. And we... We wish you guys the best of luck.
-Thank you. So nice to meet you. -All right. See you guys later.
OBA: The Rebel mechanic has asked us
to make a ship to help with the Rebel fleet.
Why not make a humongous ship that's like a cargo ship,
and we put smaller ships inside the ship
and the carrier that will open in the back?
So what we're trying to do is, we're trying to save the day, right?
So, we gotta have something with, um, like, a big weapon.
OBA: Turrets. We need turrets.
ELAINE: Are we going to do this out of cake?
If you think about it, everybody's gonna be using cake.
Gingerbread.
We could use isomalt,
which is like, when you eat a lollipop, that hard texture.
'Cause in gingerbread, we can just make panels
and cut it like you would with, like, wood work.
OBA: I am an electrician/food and vegetable artist.
DUSTIN: I'm a sculptor. I do a lot of fiber glass work,
wood work, steel sculptures.
ELAINE: I actually have a bakery.
And then, I also used to be a glass blowing instructor.
DUSTIN: We each have our own individual skill sets.
And I think part of our strategy to win
is using those different techniques.
What if we did an eight-foot-long ship?
ELAINE: That's a lot of gingerbread panels.
It's gonna take at least 20 minutes per round.
No worries, Elaine. No worries at all. Jack of all trades.
-Okay. -DUSTIN: Yeah, and I'll jump in there too.
Let's go to the pantry, guys.
-Cake, cake, cake. -We're going, we're going. We're going.
MIKO: Okay, let's go.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(TEAMS GASP IN AWE)
My God. It's so beautiful!
-MELANIE: Holy cow. -ANNIE: This is amazing.
Definitely. For, like, gears? Like, gears?
-Get the graham crackers first. Yeah. -Which ones? Okay, sure.
We wanna make some R2-D2s.
-JENNA: We need a cart. -MELANIE: We do need a cart.
Let's just get started. You're gonna work on Styro.
You're gonna make a bunch of breads.
And I'm gonna work on the mold.
Liu, you can heat up the modeling chocolate to prepare it.
So, we need to bake.
ELAINE: So, to make our foodscape, we're doing an assembly line of baking
and just producing as much as we can.
ELAINE: Right now, I am melting the isomalt.
Isomalt is crystallized sugar that you can heat up
at a high temperature and then it'll fuse.
Oba is mapping out all of the panels so that it's easy for Dustin
to cut the actual gingerbread.
And then, we will encase that in isomalt.
To give it that stability to be a panel,
it will take a long time for that to cool,
and that's why the panels need to be done first thing.
Sculptinators!
-OBA: Yes! -Hi, guys.
-How are you guys doing? -Pretty good.
AMIRAH: I see you have your face shield on,
are you about to carve into that gingerbread?
DUSTIN: Yeah, I'm using a steel cutting wheel.
-Wow, that looks amazing. -Yeah.
-That looks... -I might need to order one of those.
-I have to say, it's a smart use for it. -AMIRAH: Wow.
How many panels are you guys looking to make?
We have, like, 40 of them or something.
-Oh, wow. -ELAINE: Yeah, we need at least 40.
AMIRAH: So, I'm gonna let you guys get back to it,
-and we'll see you soon. -OBA: I appreciate it.
ELAINE: Okay. I'm waiting for those to cool.
Waiting for panels.
So, I better hurry up and get started on these LED lights.
Okay, okay, okay. What do we have here?
Don't know if I can pick 'em all up at the same time. (GRUNTS)
OBA: I'm gonna go ahead and string these lights
through the interior of the ship,
through the exterior of the ship. And these lights will not take me long.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
MIKO: Let's do the beet one first,
-to soften it. -LIU: We're gonna... No, yeah.
So, we're making the flames out of rice paper
to put on the back of our ship.
We were just really brainstorming
and thinking about what will give most color,
and every time we eat beets, it always kind of stains everything.
So, I'm like, this is perfect 'cause it's so rich in color.
LIU: So, we have some golden beets here and we actually have some red beets here.
And then, right now, we have rice noodles
soaking so they can really get the rich yellow color.
This is a technique we've never tried. But, it will give us the ombré effect of,
like, the yellow, orange, and red.
And then, maybe we can go ahead and throw some of the graham crackers.
NIKO: With the graham crackers to give texture.
-LIU: Yeah, definitely. -And we can actually
mix some of the desiccated coconut. So it gives, like, a lighter color.
That's a great idea. I'm gonna go grab that right now.
LIU: We coated the bottom of the ship with the desiccated coconut
and also the graham crackers, just so we can get... have the texture,
you know, of the vintage feel and like it's been through a war already.
What's up, my Pink Pandas?
-Hey, Keke. -MIKO: Hi, Keke.
-R2, doesn't this look so cool? -(BEEPING)
-KEKE: Can I touch? -LIU: Yeah, absolutely, help us out, man.
They're letting me help.
So, tell me what this process is that you guys are doing and why?
So, we are basically texturing it,
we're taking the colors from the X-wing starfighter.
-Yep. -LIU: Where it's off-white
and then has a hint of orange.
So, we're really just trying to mimic that.
Now Miko, I heard you had a nickname.
-Tell me about your nickname. -(LIU LAUGHING)
Oh, God. Well, my friends used to call me "Disherella."
-Disherella. -MIKO: Well, until now,
they called me Disherella. Ana and I used to...
we had our internship.
-Okay. -MIKO: And part of it is actually
-washing dishes. -But Disherella, you must've been
a fabulous dish queen,
-because Disherella, honey. -MIKO: I know.
-(MIKO CHUCKLES) -(LIU CHUCKLING)
KEKE: This is so fun, I could do this with you all day.
I know you wanna do it too, R2, don't you?
-(BEEPING) -(TEAM LAUGHING)
All right, I'm gonna leave you guys to it.
-MIKO: Thank you so much, Keke. -KEKE: Good luck.
-MIKO: It was a pleasure. -Please. It's my pleasure.
-Come on, R2-Unit, let's bounce. Bye. -MIKO: Bye.
(R2 BEEPS)
-(SMOKE DETECTOR BEEPING) -(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
LIU: Is something burning?
So we encountered a little bit of a problem here.
The rice paper caught on fire.
Oh, my God. The flames are literally on fire.
Nothing to see here, nothing to see here.
So we have to do it again. But this time, we're not gonna put it in the oven,
we're just gonna let them dry naturally.
It will dissipate. Sorry, guys.
Let go there a little bit. See how you have this.
JENNA: In working with gelatin, all I've really used
is gelatin in smaller quantities.
I've never made anything as big as what we now need
to make for this canopy.
This structure that I'm making right now
is essentially a liner for our canopy mold.
So this is going to go inside of the foam core,
which is gonna hold it tight.
And the liner is gonna keep it from leaking. Ideally.
I'm blooming the gelatin, I'm gonna get the water boiling in a sec.
JENNA: So, this is a massive mold. It's near 11 or 12 liters of gelatin,
which is probably close to 20 to 30 pounds of gelatin.
So it's one of the bigger risks that we are taking
-on this ship right now. -(CHUCKLES)
ANNIE: All right, here we go.
So, I am gonna start carving this watermelon into, the pilot's helmet.
And it's gonna be floating inside of that gelatin cockpit canopy mold.
Just drop it in. Please float.
AMIRAH: What they're doing, is they're building it backwards,
which is very smart to the helmet and to the watermelon.
ANNIE: Let's move this into the fridge.
But what I worry for so much, is then once that sets,
that watermelon rind is really heavy.
It could literally shatter the gelatin when they're flipping it over.
So that weight needs to be distributed in some way to the other areas.
-Otherwise... -Yes. Absolutely.
With Yavin Prime high in the sky,
we're at just about midday here on Yavin 4.
I need to eat something 'cause I know I'll pass out.
(BEEPING)
-Oh! Hi, R2. -Oh, my God. Look at R2-Unit.
MELANIE: Is that for us?
-JENNA: He is so cute! -ANNIE: That's awesome!
-Hi! -JENNA: How do you like our ship?
-What do you think? -(BEEPING)
-No? -He doesn't like it.
-Oh! -Oh!
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
-It fell again. -LIU: So while we're carving the cake,
the modeling pieces on the bottom are falling off
along with the desiccated coconuts.
LIU: Oh, no. There's, like, cake in my hair.
-(MIKO CHUCKLING) -Cake everywhere. Oh, my God, I feel it.
The modeling chocolate is actually falling off in pieces.
So, I'm trying to melt more white chocolate
to basically use as a glue. And hopefully that will work
a little bit better than the shortening that we used. I hope.
-(SQUEALS) -Oh, God.
-(MIKO CHUCKLES) -Oh, my God, it's not working.
Oh, my God.
ELAINE: Do you have any other panels cut...
-OBA: That's... -ELAINE: ...for me?
OBA: No.
ELAINE: Oba is losing focus and concentration.
I find it really frustrating 'cause when I look over
at the other teams, we literally have no food on our substructure.
And that's getting scary.
I can't pour anymore panels, because there isn't any gingerbread cut.
-We can put a triangle in there. -ELAINE: Well, since I'm not going to be
pouring isomalt, I'm turning off the burners then.
KEKE: Well, Yavin Prime is continuing to rise
and our teams are continuing to build.
I mean, honestly, do you think they're gonna be able to finish this?
With the time that we have left? The Sculptinators?
Listen. I'm still worried for him because they definitely are behind.
I feel like they are not working together.
But some of those techniques they're using
and some of those things that they are creating,
are things I've never seen before. And if they can pull it off,
I'm going to be blown away.
-Yeah. -Listen, if they're able to catch up,
that's a team to watch out.
They need to come together and have that same goal.
Let's get food on this ship and let's work from there.
ELAINE: You guys understand that the isomalt takes a long time,
like, we have no food on our ship.
Come on, man. Lights are not coming on.
I'm trying to not be too bossy, 'cause they aren't my kids. But...
OBA: We are way behind.
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, as the Sculptinators struggle
to get food on their bed,
the Rebel Mechanic encounters a problem of her own.
There you are. Where'd you run off to?
NARRATOR: Checking on your new ships, and they're coming along great.
They better be. If they deliver, we'll be able to save the Rebellion.
(SIREN WAILING)
What now?
NARRATOR: It's the Death Star.
And soon it'll be locked onto our location.
Well, our fleet doesn't have the firepower to attack an entire space station.
Hey, can you modify those ships and add more firepower?
-NARRATOR: We can try. -Hey, do or do not.
NARRATOR: There is no try, I know. Let me see what I can do.
Hurry! And may the Force be with you.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(SIREN WAILING)
-Oh, God. -Oh, my God.
(MIKO CHUCKLING)
ANNIE: Oh, my God!
Now that the Death Star has shown up, the Empire has arrived,
which means the plot has thickened.
-LIU: Oh, what now? -Oh, God.
KEKE: Your ships are now going...
-(BEEPING) -...to need to destroy
that fully armed and operational battle station,
which means you've gotta build your very own Death Star to blow up.
-Oh, geez. -We have to build a Death Star?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEEPING)
You've got your marching orders.
Let's blow this thing and go home!
Okay. Here's the good news, guys.
We already have lasers. That's what's gonna blast the Death Star.
Let's just cover it in modeling chocolate.
-'Cause we already have it, so go get it. -Let's go.
Hello. I just needed to grab some modeling chocolate.
Definitely no Rebel sympathizers here, promise.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Thank you. (CHUCKLES)
ANA: What do you want to achieve?
LIU: Like once we pull this out, so it's gonna be empty, right? And then...
-ANA: Yeah. -But everything else will be covered
with the sesame seeds. And then we're gonna take a brush
and then we're just gonna dust it
with a little bit of silver, but we gotta be very careful
so it doesn't go everywhere, like this.
-ANA: Yeah. -Definitely we are worried
about the time. Because there are a lot of details that we have to put on
our spaceship, and at the same time, the Death Star.
This stuff is... It's hard.
-ANNIE: I know, I'm like... -We're gonna be here forever.
ANNIE: ...trying to break this off.
You think that I should use fondant instead?
This is definitely new for me,
but I'm learning from great masters.
So, they gave me all the tips and tricks that I need, hopefully,
to pull this off. (CHUCKLES)
I just listen to whatever you guys tell me to do.
DUSTIN: So, if we gotta make a Death Star...
-I think the easiest way... -ELAINE: I think we should
also have a ship.
I think you guys should just focus on this.
And for the Death Star, I will get royal icing and make a ball.
And all we gotta do is make a fondant satellite and stick it on it.
Stop with the lights.
-Just... We need food! -(OBA GROANS)
Since this is a foodscape competition, we need to get food on our ship
and right now, all we have is electronics.
Me waiting on you guys, I am not doing anything else.
We're getting templates made and cutting the gingerbread, kind of like,
I'm gonna try to do that right after I get the template.
Okay, you guys just figure it all out. I'm gonna take a break.
Time is running out, so the pressure is getting real.
I'm getting really stressed trying to get the food on our foodscape.
The first thing I said was, we need to do the panels
because they take a long time to cool.
I get the sense that they are not managing their time correctly.
AMIRAH: As much as we can be impressed with the lighting and the architecture
that's going into this, I came here to see food.
Correct. So, they have to come together as a team and catch up.
Because the other teams are way ahead of them.
They're working well as a team and you can see it.
There was doubt coming from all angles, but I'm always confident.
I have no doubt that we're gonna finish this ship.
(MELANIE GASPING)
What are you gasping about?
MELANIE: I don't even realize I did it, sorry.
I thought you did it because maybe the Sculptinators
actually started putting food on their piece.
MELANIE: They don't have no food on their stuff.
You know, everyone has their issues, Luke and Han had their issues.
I think the Sculptinators are gonna have
-some pretty cool effects though. -Yeah.
-JENNA: Yeah, probably gonna be... -I'm kinda worried about that.
-Justin is like... -Yeah.
-...a special effects, like, genius. -ANNIE: And we keep hearing all these,
like, power tools going on over there. We don't know what's happening.
Hello! Hello! My Sculptinators.
-OBA: Hello, Keke. -KEKE: Hi.
Okay, so I have to admit,
I'm a little bit scared that I don't see anything on this substructure yet.
OBA: That's the best part of the competition.
Issues, you're gonna run into issues and we adapt it.
Elaine doesn't seem to like the issues. (CHUCKLES)
The whole theme of Star Wars is hope. So, that's why I'm not saying anything.
I'm gonna go check in with you directly, Elaine.
You're keeping your opinions to yourself.
How has that been going when it comes to everything
you and the team gotta do?
I explained, the gingerbread's gonna take forever to cool down,
we can't pour isomalt on it until that's completely cooled.
The isomalt's gonna take forever to cool down.
-This is what we need to do first. -Well, I know it might be difficult.
You have to assert yourself because this isn't just their build,
this is your build too. So, tell 'em and don't be afraid of that.
'Cause everybody wants to win, I can tell by the energy,
everybody wants to win. So, just work together
and don't be afraid to say what you feel.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Go Carving Queens!
ANNIE: So, I do a lot of sourdough bread art.
I've always been a huge Star Wars fan
and I'm obsessed with all of the droids in the Star Wars Universe.
I really wanted to make sure I could rise and proof
all of my dough using my own sourdough starter.
Um, his name is Chewy. Chewbacca.
Sourdough is super time and temperature-sensitive,
so I'm taking a really big risk here,
but I think it's gonna be totally worth it.
-How is your bread behaving? -ANNIE: It seems okay right now.
I'm hand drawing a stencil of all of the little gadgets
that go onto the R2 droid head.
And I am actually using silver luster dust to powder that stencil together,
and then I'm also using a razor to score.
So, hopefully I get the score deep enough
that it can still release all the steam it needs,
but not bust through that stencil design on his face.
MELANIE: It looks awesome.
ANNIE: I really wanna get this guy to look right.
I hope that the R2-Unit is pleased with what I make. (CHUCKLES)
(BEEPING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay guys, in the next ten minutes, we need to finish the dome
'cause that's the most important part.
The sugar domes are a huge part of our ship
but very difficult.
Just that.
N-- (CHUCKLES) Oh, my God, Miko!
The Pink Panda Team are pouring the sugar, trying to make the sugar dome.
And that isomalt dome is so crucial to their piece,
I just really hope it doesn't crack.
LIU: (GASPS) It's working. Oh, my God.
-(SCREAMS) -(BUZZING)
Oh, God. What happened?
MIKO: My first attempt, making the sugar dome, it just collapsed.
That's why we need to add more cling wrap to the sides of the bowl.
That way it's more secure and no air is gonna come out.
I just hope that they have enough of that sugar left,
because I don't think there's enough time to start from zero.
Start making that sugar again. Crystalizing it to get that burnt look.
And start over again.
(MIKO SPEAKING IN TAGALOG)
-LIU: I can see the... -ANA: Yeah, the expanding.
-LIU: Is it hardening? -MIKO: Think it is.
LIU: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Don't... don't budge.
I can't even breathe right now. I'm, like, literally holding my breath.
MIKO: Let's try to remove our hands.
ANA: Okay, release?
-I'm scared. I'm gonna trust Miko. -MIKO: Yeah.
AMIRAH: Oh, my gosh, Benny.
-They're pulling it out right now. -Yes, yes.
-MIKO: There. -LIU: (GASPS) I thought it was...
-No. -...deflating.
-BENNY: They did it! -(AMIRAH EXHALES SHARPLY)
-I feel a little bit relieved, now. -Relief.
AMIRAH: Okay, look at this color, it's amazing.
The shine they've been able to achieve, and you have a dome.
DUSTIN: We have to do the wings,
I was going to basically make triangular pieces
that we can set our panels on top of.
Is there a reason why we can't just take a piece of the sheet cake
and just put cake here and cut it. It's way faster.
-Yeah. -ELAINE: After Keke came over
and gave me a little talk, I felt more at ease.
That's when a lot of pressure was relieved.
-I took your advice. -How you feelin' about it?
I feel better now. 'Cause I was just suggesting things
instead of just doing it.
And it's so good. It looks really good. And it saves all that time.
Looks like Yavin Prime is getting ready to set before the horizon.
We gotta get these weapons on the ship.
What I'm using now is actually daikon radish,
and I'm gonna use the daikon radish as cannons.
We're gonna add a little more color, throw some carrots on 'em.
So, it kinda gives it more contrast, gives it some separation.
Give the Rebel Mechanic something to fight with.
You know what I mean?
(BEEPING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEEPING)
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
KEKE: Okay, just one hour left!
So hurry up artists, the Death Star isn't gonna blow up on its own.
Disherella, can you go get me another rag, please?
-Thank you. -Really?
Thank you.
So, now that the sugar dome is done
time is almost running up and we still have a few more things to do,
like we're trying to put on the last-minute details.
I'm using rice on the top of our ship
to create the five elements, which is earth, wind, fire, rain, wood.
And just going with the whole Chinese designs and everything.
MELANIE: Hey, Annie. I need to take the gelatin out.
This gelatin is definitely our biggest risk yet.
This is our wow factor. It's front and center in this ship.
It has to work.
We're going around this way because there's too much stuff over there.
AMIRAH: Oh, my God, the gelatin's coming over.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
-(GASPS) Oh, my gosh. -JENNA: Jesus! Oh, my God.
-ANNIE: Drama for your mama. -MELANIE: (CHUCKLES) I think I...
I think I just died. Oh, my God.
The idea is, now we have this upside-down canopy
and we need to flip it over.
My, like, stomach hurts right now. I don't know if I can flip it.
Gelatin is a very fragile medium.
-They have to be extremely careful. -Okay.
Jesus.
I am going to vomit on this gelatin.
-I am so nervous. -Don't! If you vomit, go over there.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Ready?
-The board is gonna slide. -Ready?
-I got it. -The board is gonna slide.
-JENNA: You can do that? -MELANIE: Ready?
One, two, three.
-MELANIE: All right, go back. Go... -JENNA: Oh God, you guys!
(ALL CHEERING)
JENNA: Oh, my God.
(ALL CHEERING)
MELANIE: It's amazing.
Don't jiggle it too much! Stop! Stop touching it.
-BENNY: Breathe. -AMIRAH: Okay.
ANNIE: We did it. We did it.
(MUFFLED LAUGHTER)
They're putting on their panels.
-ELAINE: There we have it. -DUSTIN: Cool.
BENNY: How awesome is that?
-Awesome techniques that they are using. -AMIRAH: So unique.
ELAINE: See, all of the lights that you put on. You can see one.
OBA: You'll still see 'em poppin' in there,
-so it's okay. -ELAINE: We should've did the panels
and then put the lights in the seam.
-Unfortunately, we can't do that now. -We didn't.
-(OBA CHUCKLES) -Yeah. Sorry.
KEKE: All right, you guys it looks like
Yavin Prime is dipping closer to the horizon.
-Which means time is running out. -Hurry!
I've never done this so fast before in my life. Oh, my God.
The vines, let's put the vines on. Where are the vines?
-They're right there. -Oh, come on.
-Dustin, can you move? -Right there.
DUSTIN: Yeah, you just tell me when. Now? (CHUCKLES)
Oh, my God. Well, that's the moving part.
Okay, I got the lights. Okay, okay.
-Don't drop it. Don't drop it, please. -Yup.
-This is it, everyone. -Quickly, quickly.
My hands are shaking.
Three!
-LIU: Miko, you almost done? -MIKO: Yes.
-KEKE: Two! -LIU: Miko, you almost done?
-Okay, we got this,... -You got it?
-...we got this, we got this. -One!
Yavin Prime is down which means time is up.
(ALL CHEERING)
I finally get to do my happy dance!
(ELAINE CHUCKLING)
-DUSTIN: Looks good, guys. -OBA: Looks amazing.
-LIU: I don't know! We did it, we did it. -ANA: We did it!
-(MIKO CHUCKLES) -(LIU CHUCKLES)
ANNIE: We did it. Look at that.
JENNA: It looks so good, like what were we doing?
I'm not that tall.
(BEEPING)
Today, all of you had to answer the call of the Rebellion,
and you all far exceeded expectations.
It's time to show us what you've got.
Pink Pandas, please step up.
Pink Pandas, how are you feeling? What are your thoughts now,
you know, seeing the foodscape done?
We feel so relieved, but at the same time sad that it's over.
'Cause we enjoyed working with each other.
So, walk me through the story of your foodscape.
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
So, the story behind our foodscape is that we are from the planet Adnap.
And we have sent our most powerful spaceship
to help the Rebel Mechanics in their fight against the Empire.
On the left side, that's a Chinese character
that means hope, and the one on the right side
is the three stars, and a sun.
That means "revolution" in the Philippines.
So, it symbolizes the fight or the cause that the Rebels have.
And then the main part of the body was actually the sugar dome,
and for the wings we used carrots, piping gel, modeling chocolate, fondant.
LIU: And then, obviously in the back we have our rice paper,
and we used golden beets, and red beets, and we extracted the colors
and we used that to dye the rice paper.
ANA: And we used rice on the top of our ship to create the five elements
and the five symbols basically represent harmony and balance.
Yes! So, I wanna ask you, Amirah,
how do you feel that it all comes together?
-First of all, wow. -Thank you.
You guys really tied it together, and I wanna talk about the color palette
that you guys chose for this. It's so warm.
You did go for the gold, and the warmth, and I also just really appreciate the fact
that you took the time to find elements that naturally are staining,
and you extracted the color from the beets and you used them together
to create something completely different.
There's a lot of food elements in this design, which I love.
I know you were struggling in the beginning
trying to make the main dome, so be proud of it
because the domes are actually beautifully done.
Thank you so much.
BENNY: I can see the rice, which gives this unique texture.
AMIRAH: Totally. It takes so much time to individually grab one little grain,
and start making a design.
-LIU: Yes. -And I think that this created
so much character.
Overall, I think you guys did an amazing job.
-Thank you so much. -Thank you.
And then, the plot thickened, and you guys had to create a Death Star!
When it comes to creativity you guys blew it out of this galaxy.
I love that you have black sesame seeds.
And that onion, it looks very realistic...
-So cool. -AMIRAH: ...And very cool.
I'm wishing you the best of luck.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Sculptinators, how do you feel?
-Relieved. (CHUCKLES) -KEKE: Yes!
-That's a common one that we hear. -Yes.
I can definitely say, I feel real good about what we've accomplished.
I want you guys to walk us through the story of your foodscape.
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
We're the Sculptinators from planet Sculpton.
And when the Rebel Mechanic reached out to us
to help them build a ship,
we figured we're not just gonna build a fighter ship,
we're gonna go ahead and build a cargo ship that carries fighter ships.
So, we gotta make this thing on a massive scale
that intimidates the Empire when the Empire sees it coming.
DUSTIN: The skin of our ship is comprised of gingerbread
with isomalt coating on top of it to give it a glossy look.
OBA: We went with daikon radish and carrot for the laser cannons.
And we also incorporated moving turrets
that are actually done out of bread and fondant.
I think that this is so creative in the use of technique,
and the use of ingredients that we've never seen before.
I have to say that the panels looks great.
I saw you guys through the process of building this ship,
and I was just amazed with your isomalt and gingerbread technique.
Because I have never seen that type of tool
being used to cut isomalt.
You and me both. (CHUCKLES)
All of us.
And then I know you spent a lot of time on the lighting.
I mean, when I came up to this thing, it was a Christmas tree.
-(CHUCKLES) -But you covered all the lighting up,
so I'm just a little confused
on why you spent so much time adding the lights.
That was a little communication error there.
Also wanted to mention, this is more of an Imperial ship.
And it just feels cold and it looks angular.
But I think that overall these are some techniques
that are very unique. It blew my mind.
-Thank you. -And finally,
let's talk about the Death Star.
Well, when the Death Star came into play, Elaine, she did a couple of layers
of cake icing and then passed it over to me,
and I got to break out my sculpting tools.
-AMIRAH: I think you nailed it. -KEKE: Thank you so much, Sculptinators,
wishing you the best of luck. And next up, let's see Carving Queens.
KEKE: First thing's first, you guys,
you know, kind of admired each other before
but you never had actually worked together.
So, how do you feel about that?
Oh, my God. It was a dream come true.
I mean honestly it couldn't have gone any better.
-I learned so much... -I agree.
...from these two and we just somehow made it
-all work, like really well. -MELANIE: Yeah.
Well, now the fun part. Walk us through the story of your Foodscape.
ANNIE: Our ship is actually built from a bunch of salvaged different parts
from the ships that have fallen out of the sky from the Battle of Endor.
So, our ship is really pieced together with all of these different parts
and components. On the top of the cockpit,
we have a droid, and that's made out of sourdough.
JENNA: And the cockpit canopy was made out of ultra-clear gelatin
with the carved watermelon as the pilot's helmet.
You can see we have all these laser beams,
we have the exposed engines from the Y-wing.
MELANIE: The lasers are covered in a mixture of wild rice and black sesame.
And of course, we had to be sure that the Empire
wasn't aware of what we were doing,
so we had to get our Ewoks to help us hide the ship.
So, the look we were going for was that it had been sitting in the forest.
There's so many things that I love about this particular design.
I mean, the beautiful technique
that you used to kinda, like, paint the bread before it was even baked.
This particular technique is tricky. I never seen it before.
I have to say, you guys took me to an anxiety trip
when I saw you guys placing that beautiful gelatin work
on top of the ship.
There were so many things that could have gone wrong.
-Yes. -But, hey, it paid off at the end.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
It's so impressive that even though you're creating your own story,
you used so many realistic things from the Star Wars films.
One thing I would've probably done a little bit differently is the produce.
I almost wish that maybe it had some wire running through it
and so it looks like it's in the wind.
-It's like flying off of it. -Yes.
Giving the illusion that the ship
-was taking off. -Right.
Just those tiny little details could have taken it to the next level.
-Thank you. -What do you guys think of the Death Star?
AMIRAH: I love that you spent the time to score that and give it that texture
that is more accurate to the Death Star.
Well, one thing that Death Stars are really, really good at is exploding!
-So, let's get into it. -Yes.
Goggle time.
-DUSTIN: Okay. -KEKE: Let's get into it.
-(MIKO WHIMPERING) -Let's do this.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
KEKE: The anticipation is killing me.
(CHEERING)
-(SHRIEKING) -(GIGGLES)
-(SQUEALS) -Oh, my God.
-KEKE: Now, that was crazy! -JENNA: It almost hit me.
-Whoa! -Oh, boy!
Yeah, it turned out way cooler than I could've even imagined.
-Yeah, absolutely. It was so cool. -It was cool. It was really cool.
(CHUCKLING)
This has gotta be difficult for you guys
because every single piece here is absolutely gorgeous in its own way.
The Pink Pandas, it's such a beautiful display.
They were the ones who added the most elements into their whole design.
(WHISPERING, GIGGLING)
For the Carving Queens, they were just so accurate, so spot on.
I mean, Annie's love of the trilogy
and just how she actually incorporated a pilot and an R2 unit,
that was just so impressive.
Take it all in, it's the last time
-we'll see all this. Yeah. -See this crazy setup.
But, you know, I'm still in awe of the technique that...
-KEKE: Yeah. -...the Sculptinators used.
And I think that it does look so much like a Star Wars ship.
It's just on the wrong side.
-KEKE: You guys ready? -Yeah.
-Let's do this. -KEKE: Okay.
Oh, it's time, y'all. It's time.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Aww!
It's the Disney castle.
Princesses.
As you can tell, we love your creations and we think the Rebel Alliance
would be thrilled to fly any one of them.
But... only one can win.
-(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) -(BUBBLING)
-(GASPS) -ALL: Bubbles!
-What? -Oh, hey!
Oh, my God. That's awesome.
The team that created the most Foodtastic Rebel ship is...
CONTESTANTS: Oh, my God!
Carving Queens!
(CHEERING)
Yay!
-(CHEERING) -(ALL CLAPPING)
Congratulations, ladies. Congratulations.
-Oh, my gosh. -Thank you.
KEKE: Your beautiful Foodtastic champion pins
that you can't get anywhere else.
CONTESTANT: Thank you.
ANNIE: To have Keke award us
and say that, you know, we are the Foodtastic Champions.
Like, I could have never dreamed of this happening.
We're still in shock.
(ANNIE SQUEALING)
-I love you guys. -Oh, my God, we did it.
We are everyday people who come home to our families
and come home to our kids and followed what we loved and it's paid off.
-Dreams come true. -Yeah.
My hands are shaking. I don't know. Oh, my God there's Mickey on the back.
Please, you guys all did so well, come up here and join us.
-We're so happy to have had all of you. -Yeah.
-KEKE: Truly. -OBA: Congratulations.
(FIREWORKS BANGING)
Well, may the Force be with you. And never stop playing with your food.
NARRATOR: Now that the teams have successfully saved the Rebellion,
let's see how our Rebel Mechanic made out with her ship.
(CHUCKLES) We did it. Thanks to you, we took out the Empire's secret weapon
and dealt a crushing blow to the Emperor's diabolic plan.
NARRATOR: There's definitely no way they've got the time or resources
-to build a second one. -Not a chance.
Now let's say you and I hit the Coruscant clubs.
I hear Max Rebo is playing at that new cantina in the Arts District.
Whoo! (CHUCKLES)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES)