Joel mchale: We're back with crime scene kitchen.
Please let me in.
(dramatic music)
It's an all new season with all new surprises
To challenge the skills of all new bakers.
This time around, six teams of classically trained bakers
Go head to head with six teams of self-taught ones.
Speaker: What is happening this season?
Joel mchale: Who will win in the end,
The bakers with fancy degrees
Or those with really fast internet speeds?
Fadi: Ah!
Joel mchale: And if you're frightened of change...
Tarsha: I'm going to throw up.
Joel mchale: Relax.
I'm the same old joel.
(cherry groans) (joel groans)
This is the crime scene kitchen,
Where we combine humanity's two loves,
Baked goods and criminal investigations.
Speaker: Oh, my gosh, no!
Steph: There's something in the food processor.
Speaker: Pears, oranges.
Joel mchale: Using only the clues
Left behind in this kitchen,
They must figure out what was baked here.
Tarsha: It's lime curd.
Speaker: It could also be a dacquoise.
Speaker: It could be a brioche donut.
Joel mchale: Then recreate it
In a nerve-wracking race against the clock.
Speaker: Bake, bake, bake.
Joel mchale: 30 seconds!
Speaker: Joel, you're giving me a heart attack.
Joel mchale: The right decisions get them closer
To winning $100,000.
(cherry screams) (contestants applaud)
Joel mchale: Make the wrong moves
And they'll have to buy their bus ticket home.
Dayveon: Oh.
Joel mchale: It's all in the fine print.
(contestant gasps)
Yolanda gampp: Mine is raw.
(cherry gasps)
Speaker: I'm so frustrated.
Joel mchale: More drama, more pressure,
More dramatic lighting effects.
Although I was really hoping this season,
Fox would spring for some fire cannons.
Yeah!
Get ready, america.
This is crime scene kitchen.
(dramatic music)
Announcer: Ok, rolling.
Three.
Two.
One.
Send in our self-taught bakers.
T: (singing) ♪ one, two, three, four, five, six ♪
This is bananas.
We're finally here.
I mean, like, we watched the first season.
It looked incredible.
Fadi and I met, it was just instant friendship,
And we baked together ever since.
Fadi: I was an attorney for almost 10 years.
T: And I'm a circus performer.
(dramatic music)
Fadi: I love that.
And he's very talented.
Kathleen: We're more than just two moms from the midwest.
(laughs)
Hannah: Feedback there. Yeah, you like it? Good.
Kathleen: Are you having such a hard time
Not laughing at us?
Both of our husbands are in the military,
And we bought a bakery together.
We want our kids to like think
They got the most rad moms in the world.
Tarsha: This is my daughter, kristy.
Kristy: I learned to bake from my mother,
Who is self-taught,
So I'm not sure everything I have is correct.
I'm just kidding. (laughs)
Cherry: The kitchen is my happy place.
Steph: I entered my first baking competition
In second grade.
That was for the moms,
And I totally blew the moms out of the water.
Sorry, not sorry.
Cherry: What gets me up in the morning sometimes
Is just like me wanting to bake this pie.
We're driven!
We're passionate!
We're here to win this!
Joel mchale: Welcome to crime scene kitchen,
The baking competition that rolls mystery and butter
Into several thin layers and then turns up the heat.
This season, two different groups go head to head.
It's classically trained bakers versus self-taught bakers.
Next week, the fancy pants classically trained bakers
Will have a chance to show off.
Halfway through the season,
Teams from both sides will merge.
Tonight, we start with you guys, the self-taught bakers.
Behind me is the crime scene kitchen.
Michelle: Oh, my god.
Joel mchale: An exquisite dessert was created in there,
But it's gone missing, and it's up to you
To sniff out the clues left behind
And recreate the mystery dessert as best you can.
The only ones who know the identity of that mystery dessert
Are our judges.
She's an extraordinary cake artist, baker, youtube star,
And a little handsy with the fondant.
Yolanda gampp, ladies and gentlemen.
(contestants cheer)
T: Yes, queen!
Yolanda gampp: Hello.
Dayveon: Seeing yolanda means so much to me
Because being self-taught,
I've definitely modelled a lot of my cakes after her.
I've also learned to have fun in the kitchen like her.
Joel mchale: And he has
A barely convincing australian accent.
Michelin star-awarded chef, curtis stone.
(contestants cheer)
Curtis stone: What's up, guys?
Tarsha: Curtis sone.
Lord, help us. Kristy: Yeah.
Tarsha: Yes, honey!
Kristy: Can we say things like that?
Tarsha: Yes. (kirsty laughs)
Joel mchale: There are two bakes tonight.
This season, it's more important than ever
To win the first baking competition of the night,
Which is our safety bake,
Because whoever wins the safety bake
Skips the elimination bake,
Where missing just one clue could get you sent home.
Each week, one team will be eliminated.
Don't worry, I'm not in charge of the math.
Until we end up with our best team of baking detectives
Who will take home $100,000.
(contestants cheer)
Kathleen: As military families,
We are not financially setting the world on fire.
So winning the money would mean the world to our families.
Joel mchale: But first, it was yolanda
Who decided on the safety bake mystery dessert.
You'll have two minutes inside the crime scene kitchen.
All the clues will be the same for every team,
Just like in a real criminal investigation.
Dayveon and donovan, start your search!
Each team will take turns
Going into the crime scene kitchen.
Steph: All right, let's go.
Fadi: Time to investigate.
Dayveon: Yo, it's some heavy cream right here.
Donovan: We got a mixing bowl.
We got a whisk attachment.
Dayveon: We have a dish here.
We got a pie dish.
When I see the wet pie dish, I know it has to be a pie.
It has to be a pie!
Donovan: Got a zester right here, man.
Lemon zest.
And it looks like we might have some lime zest on here too.
Dayveon: Definitely something citrus.
Kristy: That's lime.
Tarsha: Yeah, that's green.
Kristy: This is lime.
Tarsha: It is lime.
I see a bowl next to the zester, and it has a custard in it,
And it smells like lime to me. Egg whites were not used.
Custard. It's lime curd.
Kristy: Ok.
Tarsha: Nothing in the freezer.
Oh, there's a lime, pie.
Kristy: Ok, key lime pie, key lime pie.
Tarsha: Key lime pie, key lime pie. Kristy: Are you thinking key lime pie?
Tarsha: Yes.
Fadi: There's a compost over here
With lemons and egg yolks.
T: Lemons and egg yolks?
So like a lemon curd?
Fadi: Yeah, I think it's a lemon curd.
T: This is very lemony.
Fadi: Oh.
T: Very lemony, and some eggs are used.
Fadi: Ok. T: We have the lemon curd.
Fadi: Oh, yeah, that smells amazing. Super lemony.
T: The mixer and whisk in the dishwasher.
Fadi: I think we're making like a lemon meringue pie.
T: That has to equal a lemon meringue pie.
The big question is what is the crust?
Fadi: There's a food processor with crumbs in it.
T: This could be...
T and fadi: Graham cracker.
Michelle: There's graham crackers.
Torre: Is it open?
Michelle: But they don't look open.
Kathleen: Oh, this is like for a crust.
Donovan: The processor's used
And we got some crumbs inside.
Steph: There's something in the food processor.
I see inside the food processor that there are crumbs.
Looks like a cracker crumb.
Looks like saltines?
I know it's a saltine cracker,
But in my heart, I'm just like, that makes no sense.
Smell this.
It smells like saltines.
Cherry: Oh, yeah.
(dramatic music)
(buzzer sounds)
Fadi: 10 seconds.
T: 10 seconds, oh, god, ok, ok.
Fadi: Oh, god.
Tarsha: Hurry up.
We got to hurry up.
Michelle: Spices don't look used.
This doesn't look used.
It's some sort of a lemon pie.
Dayveon: What kind of crust is this?
Tarsha: Oh, graham cracker crust.
There's graham crackers here.
Kathleen: Ok, what else, what else?
Joel mchale: That is time!
Go to your kitchens!
Tarsha: Ok. Dayveon: We got this.
Joel mchale: Bakers, you'll now have two hours
To recreate the mystery dessert.
Whoever gets closest will be safe and automatically move on
To the next stage of the competition,
Avoiding the elimination bake altogether.
Kathleen: Ok, ok.
Fadi: Ok.
So what did you see?
What do you think we're making?
T: I mean, there's definitely a lemon curd.
If we win safety, it will be a huge relief
Just to not have to worry about the first elimination.
T: No, we're not going anywhere.
Fadi: Mm-mm.
T: That's not up for discussion.
Fadi: In the food processor, it looked like it was sandy,
Which I'm like,
What?
T: Do you think it's a graham cracker crust lemon meringue pie?
Fadi: I don't know.
T: Because there was a lemon curd,
Some type of crumbled base, a pie plate,
We go to lemon meringue pie
And we're figuring graham cracker crust.
We might be wrong, but it's going to be delicious.
Fadi: Yeah.
Hannah: I've never felt so nervous in my life,
So it's fine.
Kathleen: Maybe we will do better...
Hannah: Ok.
Kathleen: If we pretend like we're at home right now.
Mom, mom.
Get me a drink.
We're like, "don't, get out of here."
Joel mchale: Hannah...
Kathleen: Ah!
Joel mchale: And kathleen.
Hannah: Come on.
We're panicking over here!
Kathleen: Yup.
I am like really struggling to like get oxygen.
So I'm going to be honest.
I'm like a little bit fan girl, star struck right now.
Joel mchale: See. Kathleen: Just a little bit.
I'm a big fan of joel mchale.
I like fan girl.
I like used to watch the soup every night before bed.
I like can't believe he's standing next to me.
First time in my life, I didn't have a whole lot to say.
Joel mchale: So what are you making?
Kathleen: A lemon chiffon pie.
Joel mchale: Right.
Why in the world did you think it was a lemon chiffon pie?
Hannah: Because we saw the lemon juice...
Kathleen: Egg whites.
Hannah: The egg whites in the fridge.
Joel mchale: Ok.
Hannah: And we're going to put the whipped cream on top.
There was the zester, the lemons in the trash.
We are making a lemon chiffon pie with a flaky pie crust
Topped with whipped cream and lemon garnish.
Kathleen: A chiffon is like a cream pie.
It has the meringue folded into the curd.
Oh, I hope lemon chiffon pie is right.
Joel mchale: Ok, guys.
It's going to be fine.
Kathleen: Ok, your hair looks awesome.
Joel mchale: Thank you.
Steph: They had the graham crackers out,
But those food processor chunks like did not look brown enough
To be graham cracker crumbs. Cherry: No, not at all.
Steph: I was looking in the food processor.
I saw a little crumb of what looked like a saltine cracker.
But I've never heard of anybody using a saltine crust
For like a sweet pie. I don't know. It sounds kind of funky to me.
Cherry: I believe I've seen the recipe before for this
And it was called a boardwalk saltine pie.
I had a phase where I literally went to the library
And took out all of these cookbooks that I couldn't afford.
And then I would take it to work and use a big copier
And just copy recipes. (laughs)
So we're making a boardwalk pie
Which has a saltine cracker crust,
Lemon curd with whipped cream,
Garnished with lemon and lime zest.
Steph: It's so out there.
A little sugar to balance the sweet. Cherry: This is traumatizing.
Tarsha: I'm thinking key lime pie.
We are making a key lime pie topped with whipped cream
Because we saw a zester on the counter with lime zest on it,
And it had a smell of lime.
Where are the graham crackers?
There were graham crackers on the counter,
So I'm sure that it's a graham cracker crust.
It needs to be a fine powder, hon.
Kristy: Really?
Tarsha: Kristy, why you got to question me on everything?
(suspenseful music)
Joel mchale: One hour left in the bake.
One hour.
You should already be sweating into your batter.
Donovan: Man, I got my workout in for today, my good brother.
Joel mchale: Dayveon, donovan.
Dayveon: Hey.
Donovan: Yo, what's going on, man?
Dayveon: My favorite guy.
(donovan chuckles)
Joel mchale: Oh, you already won.
What are you making?
Dayveon: A citrus curd pie.
And it's going to be really good.
What don and I are making is a flaky buttery pie crust
Filled with lemon and lime curd, topped with whipped cream.
Joel mchale: Do you guys cook a lot together?
Dayveon: We definitely aren't strangers
Together in the kitchen at all.
Donovan: We're step brothers. Dayveon: We're step brothers.
Joel mchale: Oh, all right.
Where are you guys from? Dayveon: Inglewood, california.
Donovan: Inglewood, california. Inglewood is a family-oriented city.
And at the same time, inglewood is still the inner city.
There's gangs where there's violence and things like that.
For us to be sitting here
And we're about to have a piping bag in our hand,
(dayveon laughs)
Is like a tremendous thing.
Dayveon: We got this.
Hundred thousand.
Donovan: You got to say it loud and proud.
Yolanda gampp: Winning the safety bake
Is really important
Because the winner sits out of the elimination bake
And immediately advances
To the next stage of this competition.
And we're looking to see who gets closest to the mystery dessert.
You really have to scrutinize the tiniest of clues
If you want to be the winner.
Michelle: I think that if it was not a pie crust,
It was a graham cracker crust.
Torre: Graham and lime is not super super like...
Michelle: I know, graham doesn't do it for me.
Torre: Today, we're making a traditional pie crust
With a lemon chiffon filling,
And we're going to top that with lemon zest.
Michelle: I feel very confident
Even though we're both technically self-taught pastry chefs.
Torre and I met
While we were working together in a restaurant.
Torre: The fact that we now own our own bakery
I think is a pretty important thing.
Michelle: First day I met him, I knew I was going to marry him...
Torre: The feelings weren't mutual at the time.
Michelle: I will slap you on camera.
(torre laughs)
Ok, my curd is definitely starting to get very thick. You good?
Torre: Yes, ma'am.
Joel mchale: 30 minutes left!
Tarsha: You want to stir while I try to get that right?
Kristy: If it makes you feel better.
Tarsha: It will.
Just keep stirring it.
Don't let it burn on the bottom.
When you're cooking custard on a stovetop,
You have to let the custard do its thing.
You can't rush it.
Did you turn it up?
Kristy: I think my elbow touched it by accident.
Tarsha: Uh-huh.
There's brown pieces in here.
Kristy: I did not burn it.
Tarsha: You did. Look at that.
Kristy: That didn't happen while I was stirring it.
Tarsha: You turned it up.
It's burnt.
We got to start over.
Lord, please bless this pie.
You were just supposed to stir the custard.
I didn't turn it up.
It didn't do it by itself.
Kristy: When I was working under my mom, I got fired every other day.
Tarsha: Next time, don't touch it.
Joel mchale: Yolanda, you set the first challenge.
How are the teams doing?
Yolanda gampp: I'm really impressed
With how they're working together.
All six teams have made citrus pies.
So we'll be looking at who got the most details right
And who got closest to the mystery dessert.
Curtis stone: In this season,
The first bake is all about safety.
So if they've guessed right and they've executed nicely,
The best team will skip the elimination bake
And move straight on to the next stage of the competition.
Yolanda gampp: Tarsha and kristy burnt their curd,
And now I'm really worried about their time.
Curtis stone: But they're the only team
Making a lime pie.
If they're the ones that have guessed it correctly
And key lime pie is the actual pie,
They're in a really good spot.
Yolanda gampp: With the crust,
Some of the bakers are making a traditional pastry,
Like hannah and kathleen, dayveon and donovan,
And michelle and torre.
But some of the bakers are making a graham cracker crust,
Like fadi and t, and tarsha and kristy.
Cherry: We're absolutely putting it in the freezer.
Steph: Yeah, just to give us some time to sit.
Yolanda gampp: And cherry and steph are the only ones
Making a crust out of saltine crackers.
Steph: Nice, beautiful.
Love your crust work, as always.
Curtis stone: They're making a boardwalk pie,
Which is actually better known as an atlantic beach pie.
Yolanda gampp: The danger of them picking a saltine crust
Is they're the only ones.
So if they're wrong, they won't win safety.
T: I'm a little bit confused.
I'm a little bit anxious.
Fadi: Meringue is done.
Meringue is piped.
Meringue is torched.
Joel mchale: One minute remaining!
One minute!
Fadi: Ah!
Steph: Wah!
Donovan: We got it, we got it.
We're ok.
Joel mchale: Here we go.
Three.
Two.
One.
And that is time.
Time's up.
Time to be judged.
(steph laughs)
Tarsha and kristy.
Tarsha: If we win the safety,
Then we get to sit out the next round.
We don't have to stress like we're stressing now.
(kirsty laughs)
Fadi: Key lime.
They made a key lime pie.
Tarsha: Hi. Yolanda gampp: Hello.
Joel mchale: Look at that. Yolanda gampp: What have you made us?
Tarsha: Key lime pie with a graham cracker crust
And whipped cream on top.
Curtis stone: What was it that led you to believe
You needed to make a key lime pie?
Tarsha: On the zester, we thought we saw lime.
Curtis stone: I think it's a beautiful presentation.
Yolanda gampp: Why did you choose
To make a graham cracker crust?
Tarsha: We saw graham crackers on the counter.
Kristy: We saw graham crackers.
(suspenseful music)
Curtis stone: It's a beautiful color,
But what's nicer than the color is the way it tastes.
Yolanda gampp: The curd is divine.
I just wish there was a nice solid crust underneath.
Curtis stone: If it is tyou could be safe.,
Joel mchale: Curtis, could you keep it down?
I'm eating.
Torre and michelle, please bring us your dessert.
Cherry: Oh.
Oh, that's a beautiful crust.
Michelle: We have made a lemon chiffon pie.
Kristy: Lemon.
Curtis stone: It has the appearance of a homemade pie.
You guys are self-taught bakers
So that's what's to be expected.
Yolanda gampp: And what clues led you to make this pie?
Michelle: We saw what we thought was a lemon curd
That was made in the kitchen.
We saw the lemon zest on the zester.
Curtis stone: Torre, how did you come to this crust?
Torre: We saw in the food processor
Some sort of pastry crust in there.
Yolanda gampp: The filling is light, airy, lemony.
It's delightful.
Curtis stone: I maybe want just a little more complexity,
But it's very, very pleasurable to eat.
Torre: Let's go.
Curtis stone: So let's hope it is a lemon chiffon pie.
Then you could have a very good chance of winning safety.
Joel mchale: Dayveon and donovan.
Donovan: This is intense.
I'm nervous as ever going into this tasting.
(cherry gasps)
Kristy: They put lemon and lime in theirs.
Joel mchale: Look at this.
Dayveon: A citrus curd pie.
Joel mchale: Yep.
Yolanda gampp: Why did you choose
To call it a citrus pie?
Donovan: The zester had lemon.
Then we flipped it over, we saw that it had lime underneath.
So we wanted to make sure
That we incorporated both into the dish.
Hannah: Lime and lemon.
Curtis stone: So do you think that they made a pie crust
In that food processor?
Donovan: I think so.
Dayveon: Yes.
We did see graham crackers,
But it did not look like the graham crackers were crushed.
Curtis stone: It cuts quite nicely.
Your crust is quite lovely.
Yolanda gampp: I do think your filling
Could have been a bit thicker.
Dayveon: Got it.
Curtis stone: This is a good pie,
But it's not a great pie.
But what matters most, is it the right pie?
Joel mchale: Fadi and t!
T: I want to win safety so bad.
To have that moment to just breathe
And not have to be in the elimination bake.
Kristy: Oh, how pretty.
Joel mchale: What is this?
T: We have made for you
A graham cracker crust lemon meringue pie.
Fadi: We went with a graham cracker crust
Because we saw some sort of crumbly bits
In a food processor.
Curtis stone: The crust is very firm.
Joel mchale: Do you want a jackhammer?
(fadi laughs)
Curtis stone: I'm trying for you here, guys,
But you're not making my job easy.
Fadi: I'm sorry.
Curtis stone: I mean, you've bent my cake fork.
That is a good curd.
It is one of the best curds I've ever eaten.
Fadi: Oh, my god. Curtis stone: It really is.
Fadi: Yes!
T: Just don't know if it's right.
Joel mchale: Hannah and kathleen!
Contestants: Ooh.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Kathleen: We have made a lemon chiffon pie with...
Hannah: A flaky pie crust and whipped cream topping.
Steph: Oh my gosh.
Could it have been a butter and flour crust
That we mistook for saltine?
Judges: Whoa.
Hannah: Ok, ok.
Yolanda gampp: Yes.
Hannah: Yeah!
Curtis stone: It's a very light pie,
And the crispness of the crust is very good.
Yolanda gampp: It has a lovely tart flavor.
The crust is nice and crunchy.
But part of me wants just a thicker, more luscious filling.
Joel mchale: Hannah and kathleen,
If you guessed right, you could be the ones
Who win this all important safety bake.
Cherry and steph!
Michelle: What is that?
Is that graham crackers or a pie crust?
Joel mchale: Cherry and steph, what did you make?
Cherry: We made a boardwalk pie,
And we used lemon zest and lime for garnish.
Steph: The crust is actually made out of saltine crackers.
Fadi: Excuse me.
Donovan: Saltine crackers.
Steph: I looked in the food processor,
And when I sniffed it, it smelled more savoury.
And I saw a little piece of a cracker
With some ridges on it, which looked like a saltine cracker.
Tarsha: Where the heck did a saltine cracker,
Did you see saltine crackers?
Curtis stone: Will this crust hold up?
(suspenseful music)
Guys, did you put this pie in the freezer?
Cherry: Yes.
Curtis stone: The cream is frozen in a big lump.
Yolanda gampp: The cream's so cold
That it really distracts your palate.
Curtis stone: You know, it's very hard to enjoy
That lovely luscious texture.
The interesting thing about this competition
Is it isn't just about your baking skills.
It's also about detective work.
So if you've baked the right kind of pie,
Then if you're the only one that's done it,
You're probably safe for the elimination challenge.
Cherry: We thought things were going to go
A lot smoother than they did.
Steph: I'm just hoping
We've just presented the right dessert.
Joel mchale: The tasting is done.
Let's reveal the crime scene kitchen dessert.
(suspenseful music)
Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
Here's where things stand.
There are six different takes on the citrus pie,
Each with different fillings, different crusts,
And handled with different fingers.
Whoever does best
Coming closest to the mystery dessert is safe
And automatically advances in the competition.
And that dessert is hidden inside
This display of smoke and lights we like to call
The confectionator 3000.
Let's reveal the crime scene kitchen dessert.
(dramatic music)
Kathleen: I really hope it's a lemon chiffon pie.
Kristy: Bring the smoke on.
I'm ready to see.
Tarsha: If it's not a key lime, just change it.
Kristy: Just put my pie in there. (laughs)
Tarsha: Just put our pie in there.
Fadi: What is it?
Joel mchale: It is an atlantic beach pie.
(cherry squeals)
It has a tangy lemon and lime filling with a saltine crust,
Topped with whipped cream, lemon and lime zest.
Steph: It's a saltine crust.
Cherry: We're the only people that used saltines in their crust.
Tarsha: I'm only human.
I'm a baker, not a detective, apparently.
Joel mchale: Yolanda, can you explain
How our contestants were supposed to figure that one out.
Yolanda gampp: The glass dish in the drying rack
Suggested a pie was made.
Fadi: Check.
Yolanda gampp: The squeezed lemon in the compost
And the zester with both lemon and lime zest
Suggested it was a mixed citrus filling.
The bowl of filling smelled of both lemon and lime.
While graham crackers were present,
There's no evidence they were used.
On closer inspection of the food processor,
You should have noticed the remains of saltine crackers.
Fadi: I just assumed graham crackers
'cause that's what made sense in my head and I'm like...
T: I definitely didn't see saltines.
Yolanda gampp: The saltines, lemon, lime,
And used whipping cream should have led you
To the atlantic beach pie, otherwise known as boardwalk pie.
(cherry squeals)
The winners of the safety bake are
Cherry and steph.
(dramatic music) (contestants applaud)
Congratulations.
Cherry: Thank you. Steph: Thank you.
Yolanda gampp: You're safe.
Joel mchale: You automatically advance in the competition
And you do not have to compete in the elimination bake.
You could now head off safely.
Steph: So relieved that we don't have to go through
The elimination challenge.
I don't think my heart could handle it.
Joel mchale: For the rest of you,
It is time for the elimination bake
Where your next level skills will be put to the test.
The worst team in the bake will be eliminated tonight.
This mystery dessert was decided by curtis.
Bakers, the crime scene kitchen is now open.
Two minutes on the oversized clock, please.
Hannah and kathleen, start your search.
Each team will take turns
Going into the crime scene kitchen.
Kathleen: Come on, hannah.
Hannah: Oh, here we go. Kathleen: We can do it.
Joel mchale: One team at a time,
You'll each have two minutes to examine the same clues.
Hannah: Ok, we got a cake pan.
Kathleen: It smells like...
Hannah: Batter.
Kathleen: Yeah.
In the sink is a cake pan that has batter in it.
Hannah: And there's only one.
Kathleen: Right.
Hannah: So it is not any kind of large layered cake.
Fadi: Maraschino cherries.
T: Melted butter and milk.
Pineapples.
I mean, that's pretty used.
Fadi: What kind of cake would use pineapples?
So I see the pineapple rings and the juice,
And it's clearly been used.
So we have pineapples, maraschino cherries, butter.
That to me is a strong indication
Of a pineapple upside down cake.
Dayveon: Olive oil was used.
Olive oil.
There's brown sugar, regular butter.
Donovan: I think we're making some type of cake.
Dayveon: There are only a few things that come to mind
When I think of olive oil. Olive oil cake.
Donovan: Hummingbird cake, bro.
Dayveon: It could be a hummingbird cake.
There's pineapple.
It's garnished with maraschino cherries.
Those are the elements of a hummingbird cake.
Hannah: Smell that, what is that?
Ok, a blood orange.
This is red.
Michelle: Oh, yeah, there's blood oranges everywhere.
Ok, so we're definitely blood oranges.
Tarsha: There's juice here.
It smells like orange.
And it's red.
Blood orange?
Kathleen: Strawberries. Hannah: Blackberries are used.
Tarsha: Look, look, look.
This one's used, that one's not. Kristy: Ok.
Fadi: Oh, what is that?
T: I don't know but I think the blood orange zest is in there.
(buzzer sounds)
Fadi: Oh, 10 seconds, 10 seconds.
T: 10 seconds, oh, god.
Donovan: 10 seconds, 10 seconds, 10 seconds.
Tarsha: Brown sugar, white sugar.
Michelle: Have you checked the freezer?
Torre: Yeah.
Joel mchale: Three.
Two.
One.
That is time!
That's time, thank you.
Joel mchale: Head to your kitchens.
Torre: I finally find the garbage can and I see
What I think is the bottom of a lemon that's cut off.
And then time expired, so we couldn't inspect it anymore.
Joel mchale: You'll now have two hours
To recreate the mystery dessert.
Tarsha: I feel like we've missed something.
If we missed something, it could send us home.
T: Ok.
Fadi: Ah.
Joel mchale: Ok, you have two hours
To make what you think is the mystery dessert
Based on the clues you found in the crime scene kitchen.
The team who is furthest from the mystery dessert
Will be eliminated.
Tarsha: We got two hours.
We better figure something out.
Dayveon: I saw pineapples.
Donovan: Yes.
Dayveon: Maraschino cherries.
Donovan: You thinking hummingbird cake?
Dayveon: I'm thinking a hummingbird cake.
Donovan: That makes sense.
For this elimination bake, we're making a hummingbird cake.
Dayveon: There's pineapple. Donovan: Pineapple.
Dayveon: Olive oil.
A classic hummingbird cake, those elements are in there.
I hope we're right. We ain't going to know.
However, I still have some reservations.
Donovan: Are all the elements of a hummingbird cake
Prevalent inside of that kitchen?
Dayveon: Maybe I'm just playing tricks on myself.
I don't know.
Hannah: Please tell me you've got a fantastic idea.
Kathleen: I do, I actually do have an ok idea.
Hannah: You do have a fantastic idea. Kathleen: I do!
Hannah: Ok.
My brain was stuck. I'm like, there's only one cake pan.
Kathleen: I'm thinking it's a blood orange upside down cake.
Don't you think? Hannah: Good idea.
We've decided to make a blood orange upside down cake
Garnished with blackberries.
With an upside down cake, you put the fruit
On the bottom of the pan with your batter on top
So when you flip it over, the fruit is embedded in the cake.
Ok, this is your last chance.
Are we using pineapple at all?
Kathleen: I say, no.
Hannah: We saw the blackberries
And we wanted something to represent
What the cherry would in a pineapple upside down cake.
Kathleen: If we're not going to put pineapple,
I don't see why we would put cherries.
Hannah: Ok.
Kathleen: Do you know what I mean?
Hannah: Right.
Tarsha: Oh, look how pretty that is.
Do you see the juice that comes out of this?
This is the same color that was on the board.
I see purple juice that was just like
What was in the crime scene kitchen, on the cutting board,
And it made me think we're just going to go
With the blood orange upside down cake
And pray to the gods or the judges,
Whichever one will get us out of the elimination,
That it's correct. (kirsty laughs)
I don't have any faith in this whatsoever.
Kristy: That's ok.
Tarsha: I'm going to be sick.
Kristy: I don't need you to be negative around my cake again.
Joel mchale: Well, well, well, well.
T: Hey, papa joel.
Joel mchale: Hey, look, we're back again, guys.
Fadi: Oh, my god.
Joel mchale: Except the stakes have never been higher.
And by the way, I love steaks.
(t laughs)
What are we making, guys?
T: So we're going to make a blood orange zested
Pineapple upside down cake.
We know there's blood orange used.
We are positive pineapple rings were used.
Joel mchale: Are you more confident
Or less confident than last time?
Fadi: I would say less, tbh.
T: I would say we are more confused. (laughs)
Fadi: Yeah.
T: I can't be confident about anything
After the last round, so I'm terrified.
Joel mchale: So now, t. T: Talk to me.
Joel mchale: You are in the circus.
T: I am a trapeze artist.
Joel mchale: You're a trapeze artist.
T: So anything that hangs from the ceiling is my jam.
Joel mchale: And you can do all the flips and stuff.
T: All the flips and stuff.
Joel mchale: How are you applying your circus skills
To the bake?
T: Well, in circus, you are constantly problem solving
Because if you make a drastic mistake, someone dies.
Joel mchale: Well, last year, we had someone die.
Joel mchale: 90 minutes remaining.
90 minutes.
Plenty of time left to choose a new path in life.
Michelle: The only thing we're definitely nervous, babe,
Is about the fact that you saw lemon in the garbage,
And I did not see lemon in the garbage.
Joel mchale: Uh, what are you guys doing?
Did you want to make something?
It's like the elimination round.
Michelle: We definitely want to make something.
Joel mchale: What are you thinking about?
Michelle: We are thinking it is a citrus,
Blood orange upside down cake.
Joel mchale: Ok.
Michelle: We're hoping that our citrus upside down cake
With homemade brown sugar caramel, blood oranges, and lemons
Is the cake that's going to keep us in this competition.
Torre: The biggest problem that we're running into
With the lemon is the fact that I'm not 100%
That that's the fruit that was in the garbage can.
I mean, if we saw something nobody else saw,
That would be a benefit if we get it right.
I just don't want to go home. (laughs)
Joel mchale: One hour left, one hour!
So I'm going to take a bubble bath.
You guys keep baking.
Michelle: Okie dokie.
Get a little bit more on the edge. Torre: Yeah, yeah.
Hannah: Ok.
Get her in the oven.
Curtis stone: Baking under the pressure of elimination
Is extremely difficult.
You're trying to remember all the clues that you saw,
And you're on a clock.
You're thinking to yourself,
"this could be my last bake in this kitchen,"
And nobody wants that.
Dayveon: You think we got this?
Donovan: I know we got this.
It's a cake.
We can do a cake, man.
Dayveon: We can do a cake.
Donovan: We can do a cake.
Dayveon: Oh!
I didn't see cream cheese,
And that's the icing that goes with a hummingbird cake.
Donovan: Yeah, that's true.
Dayveon: So maybe it's not a hummingbird cake.
Donovan: That's true.
Dayveon: I'm just thinking,
Like what if it's a pineapple upside down cake.
Donovan: That's one pan though, isn't it?
Dayveon: Yeah, and it's pineapples, and it's cherries.
Joel mchale: Bakers, you now have 45 minutes left.
Hurry!
I don't want to make you panic!
Dayveon: Scratch the hummingbird cake.
We're not going to do the hummingbird cake.
It doesn't have all those elements that we saw.
I don't feel really confident about that.
I feel much more confident
About it being an upside down cake.
We're going to switch it to a pineapple upside down cake.
Donovan: Do you have a recipe for that?
Dayveon: No.
Joel mchale: It's make or break time for our teams
In the dreaded elimination bake.
Fadi: How does it look?
T: I need like five, seven more minutes on that cake.
Fadi: Great.
Joel mchale: Amazingly, all our teams
Are making upside down cakes.
Wouldn't it be nuts if the mystery dessert
Turns out to be a breakfast burrito?
Dayveon: Cake in.
Oven closed.
Timer.
Donovan: I think we got it.
I think we named the right swap and the right choice.
Dayveon: I think so too.
Joel mchale: Curtis, you set the challenge.
Since they're all self-taught bakers,
Do you think they're at a disadvantage
Compared to the classically trained bakers?
Curtis stone: I think when you're classically trained,
Of course, you have all of those skills kind of built in.
That said, yolanda is self-taught,
And she can do stuff that's way more technical than I can.
It really depends on the individual.
Joel mchale: Look at cherry and steph.
In the last round,
Cherry seemed to know so much about baking.
They're not making anything right now.
Curtis stone: That's right.
That knowledge alone saved them from this elimination bake.
Hannah: Ok.
Kathleen: What, how's it feel?
Hannah: Jiggly inside.
Kathleen: Ok.
Curtis stone: Hannah and kathleen
Keep opening and closing their oven.
As soon as you open that oven,
You lose like 30 to 40% of the heat.
You stand to undercook your cake.
I just wish that they'd have the confidence
To leave that door closed.
Kathleen: It does feel like jiggly inside.
Michelle: I think it's done.
Curtis stone: As a chef,
That moment when you turn that cake out,
It's that moment of truth.
Fadi: All right!
Curtis stone: You pull up that tin
And it either looks perfect...
Torre: Mm-mm.
Curtis stone: Or not.
Dayveon: I'm kind of feeling like it's a little plain.
Donovan: I want to add something to give the wow factor
When we pull it from behind the thing.
Dayveon: We saw butter.
We saw a whole stick gone.
We know that there was butter used.
So maybe we can pipe some buttercream on there
And what we'll call it is maybe we'll just say
It's infused with our glaze.
Donovan: That's why you're the decorator, baby.
(dayveon laughs)
Yolanda gampp: What's so important
Is everything you put on and in your dessert,
You have to truly believe there was a clue
In the crime scene kitchen that brought you there.
Curtis stone: All five teams
Are making their version of an upside down cake,
But each team is using different ingredients.
Dayveon: How does that look?
Donovan: I actually like that.
Yolanda gampp: If buttercream is part
Of the mystery dessert, dayveon and donovan,
They're the only ones doing it.
Curtis stone: Yup.
Joel mchale: Why don't you just say
What the mystery dessert is and then we could all go home?
Yolanda gampp: We like torturing you.
Joel mchale: It's working.
One minute and 15 seconds!
Fadi: Oh, my god, joel.
Joel mchale: Don't be stressed out!
Kristy: Come on.
Tarsha: Ok, ok.
Joel mchale: You've had more than enough time.
Kathleen: Ok. Hannah: Ok.
Fadi: It's the elimination bake,
Like this has to be as perfect as possible.
Dayveon: We going to stand by it.
At least we know it tastes good.
Hannah: It might be ok.
Kathleen: It's better.
Hannah: Yeah.
Judges: Three.
Two.
One.
Joel mchale: Prepare yourself for sweet, sweet judgment.
Kathleen: Ok.
T: Take your glove off.
You look like michael jackson.
Tarsha: I doubt that we got it exactly right,
But I'm just praying we got close enough
Not to be eliminated.
Joel mchale: Oh, cherry and steph,
Please join us to watch the tasting.
They look so happy.
Fadi and t!
Kristy: They did pineapple upside down.
Tarsha: Was that jar of pineapple open?
Fadi: We have made for you a pineapple upside down cake
With blood orange zest sponge.
Curtis stone: Guys, what made you think
That pineapple was one of the primary ingredients?
T: We saw the jar
With not a full stack of pineapple rings.
Yolanda gampp: The cake is incredibly moist.
It almost feels like a steamed pudding.
Curtis stone: That really is a beautiful cake batter.
Fadi: Thank you.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t,
If the mystery dessert is a pineapple upside down cake,
Then you could avoid being eliminated.
Fadi: Thank you.
Joel mchale: Tarsha and kristy!
Wow.
Tarsha: We decided to make
A upside down blood orange cake.
Tarsha: We saw blood orange juice on the cutting board.
We saw blood oranges next to the cutting board,
And I saw some in the compost.
Curtis stone: You know, the piece on the outside here
Is just so delicious.
I'll tell you what, guys.
If the mystery dessert is a blood orange upside down cake,
You are looking real good.
Hannah: We have made a blood orange upside down cake
Garnished with blackberry.
T: Blackberries, what?
Yolanda gampp: What clues in the crime scene kitchen
Led you to make us this dessert?
Kathleen: We saw the blood orange.
And we did look in the fridge
And we thought that the blackberries might have been used.
Curtis stone: There is a problem with the consistency.
Tarsha: I hope, for their sake, that it's cooked all the way.
Kristy: Yeah, it doesn't look done.
Yolanda gampp: Mine is raw in the center.
Dayveon: It's raw.
They said it's raw.
Kathleen: I'm devastated.
I did not want that cake to be raw.
Curtis stone: You guys opened and closed the oven
Quite a few times.
You're going to underbake your cake.
Take a deep breath and make a little prayer
'cause you have to really hope
That this is very, very close to the mystery dessert.
Kathleen: We don't want to go home.
Hannah: Our first raw cake, we baked on national tv.
Joel mchale: Michelle and torre!
Michelle: Hi, guys. Joel mchale: Hi.
Yolanda gampp: Hello.
Torre: We have a citrus upside down cake
With blood orange and lemon.
Kathleen: And lemon. Hannah: And lemon.
Curtis stone: Why blood orange and lemon?
Michelle: Torre thinks that he saw lemon in the garbage.
I did not see it.
Hannah: They thought it was a lemon in the garbage.
Joel mchale: If he's wrong,
Will you hold it against him throughout your marriage?
Curtis stone: I mean, the lemon's very pleasant.
It really is.
It brings a brightness.
Yolanda gampp: The crumb of the cake is beautiful.
And I also love the yellow color of it.
Joel mchale: Dayveon and donovan!
Dayveon: We definitely saw a lot of butter in there,
So we created a buttercream
That we just iced the top of our cake with.
Kristy: Wow, it's so pretty. Fadi: Damn.
Yolanda gampp: Gentlemen, what have you made us?
Dayveon: Our version of a pineapple, blood orange,
Orange upside down cake.
Tarsha: You can't do an upside down cake
And have frosting on it.
Curtis stone: Guys, I look at this
And I don't see an upside down pineapple cake.
I don't see the caramelized layer.
And of course, I don't see the fruit.
Dayveon: Yeah.
Curtis stone: If I close my eyes,
I think I'm eating a hummingbird cake,
Which I really like, by the way.
You're actually the only team
That hasn't made an upside down cake.
And the only team that did the pie with saltine crackers,
They won.
Yolanda gampp: What specific clues
In the crime scene kitchen
Led you towards making a buttercream?
Dayveon: Well, there was butter in the kitchen.
I hope we're right.
Donovan: This has to be the cake
That's closer than anybody else's.
Dayveon: Yeah, or we could really be going home, bro.
Joel mchale: The elimination bake is over
And the tasting is done.
Kathleen: We have sacrificed so much to be here.
We don't want a raw cake sending us home.
Joel mchale: Reveal the mystery dessert!
Donovan: I'm praying right now that I'm not going home.
Joel mchale: Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
Here's where things stand.
Four teams gave us four different takes
On an upside down cake,
And dayveon and donovan baked a pineapple cake
With american buttercream.
Dayveon: Whatever it is that comes out of here,
I am hoping that there's buttercream on there.
Joel mchale: Confectionator 3000,
Reveal the mystery dessert!
(dramatic music)
Kathleen: What is it?
Fadi: My heart's like beating so fast.
Joel mchale: An upside down cake
Topped with caramel, oranges, and blood oranges.
Tarsha: Thank you, god
'cause we just pulled that one out. I swear.
Torre: There was absolutely no lemons so we were very wrong. (laughs)
We are one of the only two teams
That did not make a citrus upside down cake. So yeah, we're...
T: Eh.
Donovan: A blood orange, orange upside down cake. Man.
Joel mchale: Curtis, walk us through the clues
That should have led the bakers to this.
Curtis stone: Here's how
They should have gotten that answer.
Though many fruits were present,
There were no signs that the pineapples were used.
T: That jar of pineapples
Will haunt me till the day I die. Fadi: 100.
Curtis stone: The remnants of blood orange in the compost
And navel oranges in the trash,
Along with the stains on the cutting board
Told you only blood oranges and navel oranges were included.
The cake tin in the sink
Had remnants of caramel in the bottom,
A clue that today's dessert was inverted after baking,
Leading to an upside down cake.
Joel mchale: Ok, guys, who fell short tonight?
Curtis stone: On balance,
The team that performed the worst in this elimination bake
And who's going home tonight is
Dayveon and donovan.
I'm sorry, guys.
And what you baked was actually delicious.
But unfortunately,
You were just nowhere near the mystery dessert.
Donovan: The name is crime scene kitchen,
And I think that we got the clues a little too wrong.
Dayveon: Yolanda, you're everything to me.
Thank you for being you.
Joel mchale: Thank you so much, guys.
A big round of applause for donovan and dayveon.
(contestants cheer)
Dayveon: These tears are not tears of sadness.
I'm just happy right now that I got to do this with my bro.
Donovan: This was the most bonding experience
That we've had since we've became brothers and...
Dayveon: Facts.
Donovan: And I wouldn't change it for the world.
Dayveon: Facts.
Donovan: I wouldn't change it for the world.
Dayveon: Facts.
Joel mchale: All right, you guys
And our safety bake winners, steph and cherry,
Have all survived.
You have next week off so we can challenge the other group,
Your competition, the classically trained bakers.
Good night, everyone, and please enjoy
Whatever show gordon ramsey's hawking after this.
Curtis stone: Well done you guys.