Joel mchale: For those of you not keeping score at home...
Don't be stressed out!
Fadi: (laughing) oh, my god, joel.
Joel mchale: This season,
We're pitting self-taught bakers
Against the classically trained in a sugar-dusted slaughter.
And last week, the six teams of self-taught bakers
Investigated the crime scene kitchen.
Donovan: This was used, and we got some crumbs inside.
Steph: It's smell like saltines.
Cherry: Oh, yeah.
Joel mchale: Based on clues
And old-fashioned baker's intuition...
High five!
They tried to recreate the mystery dessert.
T: We have made for you
A graham cracker crust lemon meringue pie.
Dayveon: A citrus curd pie.
Cherry: A boardwalk pie.
Steph: The crust is actually
Made out of saltine crackers.
I looked in the food processor,
And when I sniffed it, it smelled more savory.
Joel mchale: Some triumphed.
(cherry squealing)
All right, calm down.
Cherry: We're the only people
That used saltines in their crust!
Joel mchale: Others missed the mark.
Donovan: We got the clues a little too wrong.
Joel mchale: And their fist bump.
All of it made for pretty good tv.
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.
Tonight, six new classically trained teams...
Dj: I went to the top pastry school in rome.
Camille: I'm classically trained
In a baking shop in paris.
Joel mchale: Defend their exorbitantly priced
Culinary education.
Christina: Please let this be right.
Joel mchale: They'll clash in a baking thunder dome.
Vikki: We're not in new york anymore.
We're in the crime scene kitchen.
Joel mchale: Their job is to duplicate
The two mystery desserts from the clues left behind
In the crime scene kitchen.
Reveal the mystery dessert.
There, now you know exactly what's happening...
Jenae: Oh, what is that?
Joel mchale: And have no excuse for being lost.
Welcome to crime scene kitchen.
(dramatic music)
Producer: All right, rolling.
Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Send the bakers.
Sally: Look, look, look!
Christina: Oh, yes!
There's colors, there's lights,
There's flashing, there's fog.
Jenae: So many pretty colors.
Amber: The stage itself is so grand and so bright.
It's beautiful.
We have been preparing for this moment our entire career.
This is season two, so we're ready to crush it.
Joel mchale: Welcome to an all new season
Of crime scene kitchen.
Last week, our six teams of self-taught bakers competed
And one went home.
This week, it's you, our classically trained bakers,
Who will compete.
Teams from both sides will merge halfway through the season
Where they will be dumped into a bowl
And blended with a giant mixer.
(contestants laughing)
Yass: We are classically trained kitchen sister friends.
Amber: Kitchen sister friends.
Yass: Yeah, I like that.
And we're bakers from baltimore.
Amber: Do we say it together?
Amber: My bad.
My bad.
Yass and amber: And we're bakers from baltimore.
Amber: After culinary school,
We have worked in restaurants, hotels,
Even done things for some of our favorite people,
Barack and michelle.
No need to say the last name.
Camille: I'm so excited to get in there.
I'm so ready.
I'm classically trained in a baking shop in paris.
I moved to new york city seven years ago.
When it comes to the french pastries, who can beat us?
We're french!
When it comes to american cake, we're doomed!
Joel mchale: Behind me is the crime scene kitchen.
A short time ago, a remarkable dessert was created in there.
Your job is to recreate the mystery dessert as best you can
Using just the evidence left behind.
So who knows the secret of the mystery dessert?
Our honorable judges.
She's an amazing cake artist, baker, youtube star,
And she does it all while being canadian.
(contestants laughing) yolanda gampp.
Yolanda gampp: Hello.
(contestants applauding)
Joel mchale: Welcome to your show.
Yolanda gampp: Thank you.
Joel mchale: And he has the voice of an angel
And the name of a professional wrestler.
It's michelin star-awarded chef curtis stone.
(contestants applauding)
Curtis stone: Hey, guys.
Bob: These guys are amazing in their field.
I want to show curtis and yolanda, just like, listen,
I'm here, I can do this.
We're going to throw that italian flare on it and impress you.
We're here to win.
Yolanda gampp: You guys are classically trained bakers,
So we'll be expecting the highest standard from the outset.
Curtis stone: The first thing we'll judge you on
Is how close you are to the mystery dessert.
But of course, taste and execution
Will be a huge part of the final decision.
Joel mchale: Every week, the worst performing team
Will be asked to leave.
The last team standing in our finale wins $100,000.
Sherry and sally: Oh, my lanta! (laughing)
Sherry: The fact that we both did that at the same time.
Sally: We live with our parents, our husbands,
And our little brother under one roof.
Sherry: Our parents came from vietnam
During the vietnam war with nothing.
Winning $100,000 means the world
'cause we would use that money
To buy a house for our parents.
Joel mchale: There will be two
Crime scene kitchens tonight.
We start with the safety bake.
Whoever wins that is safe and automatically advances
To the next stage of the competition.
The remaining five teams will then face off
In tonight's dreaded elimination bake,
Where one team will be sent home.
Yolanda has set the first challenge.
You will have two minutes to investigate.
Each team will rotate through the crime scene kitchen
One at a time to inspect the same clues.
Your job is to create a dessert just from those clues,
And, if you have time, a sandwich for me.
Christina and jenae, start your search!
(dramatic music) (timer beeps)
Jenae: All right, we have April 22nd.
Christina: We've got oil.
The first thing I see walking into the kitchen
Is that big pot of oil.
We're frying something.
Jenae: There's maple syrup.
Got some bacon.
Christina: Bread, donut?
And then right next to it,
I see like a little remnant of a dough.
Brioche?
Maybe a brioche donut?
Bob: What do you got over there, vik?
We got piping tools.
We're filling something.
In the drain, I see two piping tips
That are used to fill donuts.
Vikki: Right.
And then all of a sudden, I see a note.
Recreate the donuts you bought two days ago.
And I'm like, "two-day-old donuts?
"do I make old donuts?"
Dj: We have three different jams.
So we're definitely doing donuts.
Ricky: Bacon, maple.
I see maple syrup
And then a jar of bacon and three preserves.
So we're thinking it could be two different donuts,
One maple bacon, and then one wildberry jam.
Yass: Blueberry jelly, maple, bacon, raspberry.
Amber: So we find a receipt on the fridge,
Three different donuts,
A blueberry, a raspberry, and a maple bacon.
So automatically, I'm like, ding.
I know what kind of donuts we're making.
Bam.
How you like me now?
Yass: There's nothing.
There's nothing in the freezer.
Amber: Nothing there.
This feels too easy.
Sally: I see a receipt.
It was two of each item,
Blueberry, maple bacon, raspberry jelly.
So I know we're making six donuts.
Sherry: And we feel really confident
About the flavors we see in the crime scene.
Camille: Note to self.
Recreate the donuts you bought two days ago.
Laissa: The note says two days ago,
And the kitchen, it's April 22nd.
Look, look, look, blueberry jelly.
Camille: We saw something on the fridge
With three different flavors.
Laissa: Maybe it's two of each one, look.
Camille: But on this paper,
It was the date of the eighth.
At this moment, I'm confused.
Because of the date, the list on the fridge was wrong.
Bob: 10 seconds, 10 seconds.
Yass: Taste that.
Amber: Brioche, brioche.
Cherry: 10 seconds, 10 seconds.
Jenae: Ah, 10 seconds!
Oh, my god!
Laissa: Oh, wait, look, look, look, look.
And then I see the trash.
It looked like a box of donuts.
This say 4/20.
Camille: I saw the box of donuts dated 20th.
Laissa: So it's two days ago.
Joel mchale: That is time!
Camille: According to the note,
The donut that had to be recreated
Were the one that were in the box in the trash.
We have that feeling that all the clues were in this box
That we didn't have time to open.
Laissa: (sighing) so close.
Joel mchale: Bakers, you will have two hours
To recreate the mystery dessert in this safety bake,
And your time starts
Now!
Vikki: I don't know where anything is.
Ah!
Cherry: It's definitely a donut, I feel like.
Jenae: We are definitely thinking donut.
Christina: And with that maple and that bacon.
Jenae: Here's the thing.
I didn't see a cutter.
There's no special cutter for a shaped donut.
So based on seeing bacon and maple syrup on the counter,
We decide to take a gamble
And go with making a bacon maple donut.
Jenae and christina: Bar.
Jenae: It freaks me out that we may have missed a clue.
Christina: Yeah, that's what is kind of scaring me.
Joel mchale: Guys, welcome to the show.
All right, so are you guys friends?
Do you like each other?
Christina: Sometimes.
Jenae: Sometimes?
Christina: We're friends.
Jenae: Petitors.
Friend-petitors. (laughing)
Christina: But we have competing businesses.
We both make wedding cakes.
That's what we do for a living.
Jenae: We make beautiful wedding cakes.
Christina: Yeah.
Joel mchale: When you met,
Who was a better cake decorator?
Christina: Me. (laughing)
Joel mchale: We're going to find something they agree on.
I swear.
Camille: On the note, it says
To recreate the donut I bought two days ago.
Laissa: It's the flavor from the box...
Camille: In the box.
Laissa: In the trash.
I didn't open the box.
Camille: I didn't open the box either.
I just saw the date.
That was the only clue that I saw.
Laissa: (beep)
(camille laughing)
Through the window of the box, I think I saw chocolate,
Pink, and maybe there was sprinkles.
Camille: Raspberry, strawberry, chocolate.
Laissa: So we decide we are making six donuts,
Two with strawberry jam, two with raspberry jam,
And two covered with chocolate ganache.
I have never done donuts.
When I worked in a michelin star restaurant,
I used to fry, but it's definitely not dough or donuts,
So it's something that I'm doing for the first time.
Curtis stone: Our classically trained bakers
Have to get the mystery dessert correct.
Your dessert and the mystery dessert
Pretty much have to mirror each other,
And then it also has to taste good and be beautiful.
Joel mchale: Sherry.
Sherry: Yes.
Joel mchale: Sally.
Sally: Hi.
Joel mchale: This is the safety bake.
Do you know how important this is?
Sally: It's very important.
This clue was easier than I thought it would be.
On the fridge, the receipt had two, two and two,
So we're doing two of each.
Today, we're making a strawberry jam-filled donut,
A maple bacon donut, and a blueberry-filled donut.
I don't even like donuts.
Sherry: I love donuts.
Joel mchale: What's with the cat ears?
Sherry: We pretty much got reincarnated into cats,
And that's why we wear cat ears.
Joel mchale: Uh-huh.
Now, how do you guys know each other?
Sherry: By mistake.
We do everything together.
We even shower together.
Joel mchale: You guys really shower together.
Sherry: Yes, we do.
Sally: Yes, we showered this morning together.
Joel mchale: Can I get human resources here
For whatever question I ask next?
Are you guys dating anyone?
Sally: We're both married.
Joel mchale: Do your husbands shower together?
Sally: No, of course not. Sherry: Try this?
Joel mchale: No, that's, that would be weird.
Amber: Ooh, look at that bacon.
Yass: Smells delicious.
Amber: Girl, my mama going to be real proud of me
'cause I baked this bacon so good.
Because of the receipt on the fridge,
We are making two raspberry jam donuts with pink glaze,
Two blueberry jam-filled donuts with sprinkles,
And two maple bacon with a chocolate glaze.
I'm a little nervous that we got it wrong.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass.
Amber: Hi!
Yass: Hi, joel mchale.
Joel mchale: It's me, hi, the host of the show.
How's it going, you guys?
Yass: It's going.
Amber: Going fast.
Joel mchale: But it's not like
It's making a meal for, you know,
The president of the united states or anything.
Yass: No, I mean, have we done that?
I've done it.
Amber: I did it too.
Look at that.
Joel mchale: So it's true,
You made a meal for barack obama.
Amber: You made it for barack obama.
I made it for michelle.
How many people get to say they've given things
To the first lady and the president of the united states.
We do.
Yass: We do. (chuckling)
Joel mchale: Are you nervous?
Amber: It's a whole new kitchen, so...
Joel mchale: Where you've got a bunch of cameras.
Yass: Yes.
Amber: $100,000 on the line.
Joel mchale: A hundred grand.
Yass: Just a hundred grand.
Amber: No pressure.
Joel mchale: Well, thanks for being here.
Amber: (laughing) thank you, joel.
Dj: You know what they taught me in pastry school?
To always give a nice little tap on the dough.
You know why?
Ricky: Why?
Dj: To show it a little love.
Ricky: Do I?
Dj: No.
I went to the top pastry school in rome
Where I learned the craft of patisserie.
I love entremets, choux, and viennoiserie.
In rome, we don't make a lot of donuts.
Because of the clues on the counter
In the crime scene kitchen...
Ricky: We're doing two different donuts.
Dj: Maple bacon donuts
Topped with a donut hole embellishment,
And wildberry jam-filled donuts
With a white chocolate and vanilla glaze.
Ricky: For us both, it's like super exciting
To like elevate any dessert.
Like, that's what we love to do.
Dj: You're feeling pretty awesome
About the choices, aren't you?
Ricky: Feeling pretty good.
Vikki: You know, you tend to be
A little slow in the kitchen, bob.
Bob: Yeah, I know.
Perfection has its cost.
We're italian.
Vikki: Now, could we use our hands when we talk?
(both laughing)
Bob: Seven years ago,
I decided to leave corporate america and open a bakery
And I've never looked back.
Vikki: You're the master baker and I'm the assistant.
Bob: I'm in the kitchen.
I see bacon, I see maple syrup.
I see two tips for a filled donut.
So based on the clues on the counter,
We're making six petite mixed berry-filled donuts
With a maple bacon glaze.
Joel mchale: One hour, everybody!
One hour remaining, and that is eastern time.
Vikki: Just go faster.
Bob: Oh, my god!
Worry about what you're doing, not what I'm doing.
Vikki: I'm pushing him along, and then I don't know.
Bob: You're in my head now,
And I'm like, I'm screwing up this recipe.
You're driving me crazy.
Vikki: You drive me crazy.
Bob: You're driving me crazy.
Look, you want to mix it, mix it.
Go ahead, and then I can blame you when we go home.
We're running out of time.
If vikki doesn't stop telling me what to do,
I'm going to tell her to get the (beep) out of my kitchen.
Vikki: Just make the donuts, please.
Bob: I'm frying them.
They don't take long.
I'm getting a little worried now
Because my dough is not reacting like it should be.
Vikki: What is the problem?
What's the problem?
Bob: It's not going up.
I forgot my baking soda and baking powder.
Vikki: How are those coming?
Bob: I might be able to break a window with it.
Vikki: It's going to be a mess.
Bob: Oh, my god.
Bob: This is a disaster.
Joel mchale: Welcome back to crime scene kitchen,
Where the clues have set our classically trained bakers
On a donut trail.
The team that does the best in the safety bake
Skips the dreaded elimination bake.
They don't literally have to skip,
Although wouldn't that be cute?
Jenae: Are they puffing?
We need them to puff.
Christina: We might be professional bakers
But I've literally not made donuts in a decade.
Jenae: We need to hightail it
And get going on these maple bars.
Christina: Just like the worst thing you can have
Is undercooked dough.
Jenae: I know.
Do not present judges with underbaked.
Joel mchale: Ok, yolanda, you set this challenge.
What are you seeing from the classically trained bakers
So far other than bacon.
Yolanda gampp: Well, they're all making
A different variety of donut,
And they can't see what the other teams are making.
Curtis stone: Assuming donuts is the right answer,
It's going to come down
To who's closest to the mystery dessert.
Yolanda gampp: Laissa and camille
Are making three different donuts than everybody else.
Joel mchale: They're the only team not to include bacon.
Yolanda gampp: And although they're classically trained,
They've never made donuts.
So right off the bat...
Joel mchale: They're behind.
(camille speaking french)
Laissa: Yes, I can smell the bacon.
I'm worried that we are not doing the right flavors.
Camille: We're not sure about anything anymore.
Laissa: I was so optimist, and now I'm just like, oh.
Joel mchale: Five minutes, everybody!
(camille speaking french)
Laissa: At this point, I'm so stressed.
I'm so disappointed.
(camille speaking french)
Christina: How are we feeling?
Jenae: Girl is liking the donut.
Christina: Yeah, but it's not a donut without the glaze.
Dj: Is it good?
Do you want to probe it on the inside?
Ricky: I just want to feel it.
Oh, no, it's in.
Camille: It's going to be mess.
Sherry: Does that look pretty?
Joel mchale: One minute remaining!
Bob: Hurry up, come on.
Too much, too much, too much.
That's good, that's good.
Dj: Is it good?
Ricky: Just don't let the strawberry fall.
Camille: Eh.
Joel mchale: Three.
Two.
One.
And that is time, everyone!
That's time!
Step away from the donuts!
Time to be judged.
Jenae: So scared.
(camille speaking french)
Laissa: I'm so upset and frustrated.
Camille: We're good.
Laissa: Ok.
Camille: We got something that is edible, ok?
Laissa: Yeah.
Camille: It's a lot of stress.
We're not happy with the decoration,
And the result is not good enough.
Curtis stone: These guys
Have found this challenge really difficult,
And you can see the stress on their face right now.
Joel mchale: Ok, let's get to those desserts, guys.
Bob and vikki!
I hope you've made a dessert.
Bob: I hope so too.
Bob: I'm feeling incredibly nervous.
I forgot two ingredients in my donut dough, so here we are.
It's a donut filled with a mixed berry jam
And a maple bacon glaze.
Yolanda gampp: What specific clues
In the crime scene kitchen led you to present these donuts?
Bob: I saw the bacon, then I saw the maple syrup.
Vikki: Then I saw the berries.
Curtis stone: They look very rustic, don't they?
It's like a home baking project.
Yolanda gampp: The mixed berry jam inside is really nice,
But the dough is quite tough to bite through.
Curtis stone: From a flavor profile,
There's a lot going on,
And that makes it a less successful donut.
But look, guys, all is not lost.
At the end of the day,
If what was baked in that crime scene kitchen
Was a jam-filled maple bacon donut,
You guys could find yourself skipping the elimination round
And going straight through.
Yolanda gampp: Thank you.
Bob: Thank you, guys.
Yolanda gampp: All right.
Joel mchale: Ricky, dj!
Laissa: Two kinds, two kinds.
Joel mchale: Oh, my lord.
Yolanda gampp: Wow.
Ricky: So we made two types.
This one is a white chocolate vanilla glaze,
And then a maple bacon.
And then we did a little donut hole on the top.
Curtis stone: I've never seen a donut hole
Placed on top of the donut.
Was that just something you thought of,
Or was there a clue that you...
Dj and ricky: No.
Ricky: I just thought it was cute.
Curtis stone: If you did watch the last season...
Ricky: Oh, gosh.
Curtis stone: You may realize
That we don't often improvise.
You've really got to try and figure out
Exactly what was cooked in that crime scene kitchen
And then recreate it.
The flavor's good.
I like the maple, I like the bacon.
Dj: Awesome.
Yolanda gampp: The white chocolate and vanilla glaze
Is a great combination.
Ricky: Good.
Dj and ricky: Thank you.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass!
Jenae: Oh, wow.
Vikki: Some cool-looking donuts.
Bob: Yeah.
Amber: We made you three types.
We did a maple bacon, a blueberry jam-filled donut,
And then a raspberry jam-filled donut.
Yass: On the refrigerator, there was a receipt.
Jenae: What?
Dj: Oh.
Amber: It had three types of donuts on there.
Ricky: We completely missed the fridge.
Yolanda gampp: The maple glaze is fantastic.
Amber: Thank you.
Curtis stone: Guys,
These are really well-executed donuts.
You should be proud of yourself.
Joel mchale: So good.
Curtis stone: And if the donuts listed on the fridge
Are the ones that were made in the crime scene kitchen,
You've probably just won yourself safety.
Joel mchale: Christina and jenae.
Yass: See, they did logs.
Christina: We made a maple bacon glazed donut.
We didn't see any round cutters,
So we were thinking maple bars.
Yolanda gampp: Ok, let's take a bite of these bars.
The glaze is crystallized.
It's very gritty, and it's very matte.
The dough is a little dark on the outside,
And in my case, it isn't fully done.
Curtis stone: Look, despite the problems of execution,
If the mystery dessert was a bar-shaped donut
And you guys are the only ones to have done it,
You could still win safety this round
And skip the elimination.
Jenae: Everybody else had circular donuts.
Our only hope is that they are all misguided
And we are going to come out victorious.
Joel mchale: Sally and sherry.
Vikki: Wow.
Jenae: Oh, those look amazing.
Joel mchale: Oh, my gosh.
Guys, look at this.
Sally: So today, we made yeasted donuts,
A strawberry jam filled, a blueberry jam filled,
And a maple bacon.
Laissa: Every team that comes
With this bacon maple thing, I'm just,
Oh, no, again and again.
Sally: On the fridge,
The receipt had three different flavors,
And it said two of each.
Jenae: I cannot believe we missed that clue.
Curtis stone: There's two of them, two of them,
Two of them, and two of you.
Sherry and sally: Yes.
Curtis stone: This is amazing.
The symmetry is just perfect.
The presentation's gorgeous.
The execution here is really wonderful.
Joel mchale: I murdered a donut.
Sally: That's a crime scene.
Yolanda gampp: I can tell that you're classically trained
While eating these donuts.
And this maple glaze is delicious.
Sally: Thank you.
Curtis stone: If this is the type of donut
That was made in the crime scene kitchen
And you guys are the only ones to have done it,
You've probably just won yourselves safety.
Joel mchale: Camille and laissa.
Jenae: Oh, wow.
Camille: At this moment, if the mystery dessert
Is maple and bacon donut, we're doomed.
Yolanda gampp: Hello, hello.
Joel mchale: Hello.
Camille: We have six donuts,
One that is covered with chocolate...
Camille: A second one that is filled with raspberry jam
And sprinkles.
And the third one is a strawberry jam donut.
Camille: We actually opened the garbage
And we found a box of donuts.
Sherry: (beep) there was a trash can.
Amber: Where was the trash can?
Yolanda gampp: Are you confident
You've made the right decision?
Joel mchale: Is that a french term?
(jenae and christina laughing)
Curtis stone: Clearly, you guys
Come from a french background.
I guess you didn't learn much about donuts
In culinary school.
Camille: First time making that kind of donut.
Yolanda gampp: All right, here we go.
Joel mchale: Here we go.
Curtis stone: Let's see how they taste.
(dramatic music)
Yolanda gampp: The chocolate glaze is beautiful.
It's nice and shiny, smooth.
Curtis stone: They're very light donuts.
You know, the dough has risen nicely.
Camille: It's ok.
Curtis stone: It seems like you've staked everything
On that one clue in the trash, and you're the only team
That didn't make the maple bacon donuts
Described on the receipt on the fridge.
And if you're right, then that's wonderful.
And if you're not, then you might be in trouble.
Camille: We really hope we have the right flavors
So we can win the safety bake.
Joel mchale: We've seen all the desserts,
We've tasted them, and most thrilling of all,
We talked about them.
(contestants laughing)
Now, judgment.
We reveal the mystery dessert
Right after the break.
See what I did?
Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
We're about to find out
Which of our classically trained bakers
Got the clues right with their donuts.
Here's where things stand.
We have six teams who made six different variations
Of yummy yum yum donuts.
You will be judged on who got closest in all details
To the mystery dessert.
It is time to reveal the crime scene kitchen dessert.
Jenae: Please be bacon maple, bacon maple, bacon maple.
(dramatic music)
Amber: Oh, look at that.
Joel mchale: Two strawberry jelly-filled sugar donuts,
Two chocolate-topped boston cream donuts,
And two pink sprinkled donuts.
Jenae: It was not bacon maple.
Christina: No, not even close.
Joel mchale: Yolanda, tell us about the crucial clues
That should have led the bakers to this dessert.
(suspenseful music)
Yolanda gampp: The note on the island
Said to recreate the donuts bought two days ago.
The date on the counter said April 22nd.
While there was a donut receipt on the fridge,
It was dated two weeks ago.
Amber: Damn.
Yolanda gampp: So the donuts listed
Were not the mystery dessert.
Had you checked the trash,
You would've found a donut box dated two days ago.
Camille: Yeah.
Sally: Damn trash can.
Sherry: We missed the big clue in the trash can.
Yolanda gampp: A close examination of the box
Showed remnants of the three types of donuts needed.
Jenae: Of course.
Of course.
Joel mchale: So judges,
Who came closest to the mystery dessert?
Curtis stone: While you're professionally trained bakers,
Your work as detectives was amateur.
Five of our six teams didn't even look in the trash.
Yolanda gampp: One team got much closer than anyone else.
The winners of the safety bake are
Camille and laissa.
(contestants applauding)
Camille: Yes!
Unbelievable.
Laissa: Yes, it's a miracle.
Joel mchale: You guys get to skip the elimination bake.
Laissa: Yes!
Camille: Wow.
Joel mchale: And you automatically advance
In the competition.
Laissa: We're safe!
Heck, we're really safe!
Camille: Yes, we're safe for real.
Laissa: Yeah, we're safe for real.
Joel mchale: Now it's time for the elimination bake,
Which is by far the meanest of all the bakes.
Whoever does worst this time will be eliminated.
Curtis, you decided this mystery dessert.
Bakers, the crime scene kitchen is open
And ready for your anxious snooping.
Ricky and dj, start your search.
(timer beeping)
Each team will have two minutes in the kitchen
To examine the same clues.
Christina: Be sure to look for that garbage.
Jenae: We cannot miss the garbage can clue this time.
It's imperative.
Ok, I've got parchment, three parchment rounds.
There's three parchment rounds.
Christina: Ok, ok, ok.
Jenae: Three sheet pans.
Christina: Three sheet pans, ok.
Jenae: Three pans, three parchment with rounds.
We're dealing with a dessert that was going to be layered.
Christina: This looks like a meringue.
This looks like a meringue.
Jenae: We've got a meringue of some sort.
Christina: But there are so many
Different types of meringues.
Jenae: So many.
Christina: Like, it could be a pavlova.
It could be...
Jenae: French macarons.
Christina: It could be dacquoise.
Jenae: We have some work to do.
Dj: All right, ricky,
We have two pieces of parchment with circles.
Ricky: Ok, it's some like stacked dessert.
I see whipped cream.
Dj: Hey, yes, we have meringue.
Ricky: Meringue.
Blackberry, raspberry.
Dj: Ok, it could be a pavlova.
Ricky: Beautiful.
Dj: A pavlova is essentially a big ole meringue,
Generally topped with a whipped cream
And some type of berry.
Wait, the almond flour is open,
So it could also be a dacquoise.
Christina: Oh, but the almond meal is open.
Amber: Almond flour is open and been used.
Yolanda gampp: We know that it's meringue.
We also see almond flour.
We're thinking a dacquoise, a macaron.
Amber: Macaron and a dacquoise
Both have meringue and nut flour.
So there's a container of cocoa powder here.
What are we going to do with it?
Yass: I mean, we could be a macaron.
Amber: Could be a macaron.
Bob: Almond flour is open.
I'm pretty sure it's dacquoise.
Vikki: Almond flour open.
Bob: I see the almond flour.
This has got to be a dacquoise.
Dacquoise is meringue and almond flour
Layered with some whipped cream.
100% sure it's going to be an almond dacquoise.
Sally: I am allergic to nuts.
Sherry: Wait, allergic to nuts?
Sally: It says I'm allergic to nuts.
I have severe food allergies.
Please check the back of this card.
We are not using any nuts in this bake.
(buzzer blaring)
Ricky: 10 seconds.
Bob: All right.
Vikki: Anything in these drawers?
Sally: Ok, egg, strawberry.
Christina: Five seconds, five seconds.
Let me smell this again.
(buzzer blaring)
Joel mchale: That's time!
Bob: In this round, if we don't get this 100% correct,
We could be going home.
Joel mchale: Bakers, you have two hours and 45 minutes
To make what you think is the mystery dessert
Based on the clues you found in the crime scene kitchen.
Dj: All right, let's go.
Ricky: Ok, come on, let's go.
Yolanda gampp: Didn't you say there was almond flour?
Amber: So the almond flour was open
And there was residue.
Almond flour, what uses that?
Dacquoise, macaron.
And then I saw a jar of cocoa powder.
Yass: So a dacquoise usually does not have...
Amber: Ok.
Yass: Cocoa powder in it.
Because we saw the cocoa,
We're leaning more towards a cocoa macaron.
Amber: Because of the clues in the crime scene kitchen,
We're making a large cocoa macaron tower
With whipped cream and fresh berries.
Yolanda gampp: The macaron is a chewy baked meringue
With almond flour.
Amber: So good. (chuckling)
Yass: What is that?
Oh, I hope this is right.
Let the macaron gods be forever in our favor.
Sally: Sherry, we need to get this dessert right
'cause if not, we're going to get eliminated.
I don't want to go home yet.
Sherry: We have our doubts,
But the allergy with the nuts is the key clue.
So almond flour is not used.
It's not a macaron.
There's no way it was dacquoise.
Sally: So these clues are leading to a pavlova
Because pavlova is meringue based with no nuts.
Today, we're making a three-layer pavlova
Filled with fresh whipped cream and fresh berries.
Going to culinary school, I'm pretty comfortable
Making this pavlova because you just make a meringue
And you bake it for a few hours.
A five-year-old can make it.
Sherry: This is elimination round.
Sally: Why would they let us...
Sherry: Why would they give us something
Elementary grade?
Like, we're the best bakers in the united states.
Are you nervous that we're just standing around right now?
Sally: I'm just nervous because that note,
What if that note is a decoy too?
Bob: Don't put anything in that bowl.
Vikki: You got it, bakery bake boy.
Not only are we married, we work together.
And I like things done quick,
And he says I'm pushing his buttons
'cause he likes to do things slow.
Bob: We're like the complete polar opposites.
Vikki: That's how we kind of butt heads.
Getting the bowl cold.
Bob: All right, let me concentrate, ok.
I need silence sometimes.
Vikki: Chatty cathy.
Bob: Yes, you are.
In this bake, we don't want to make the same mistakes
We did in the first round.
We're a totally different team in this bake.
Vikki: We're not doing it in a new york minute.
Bob: No.
Vikki: We're not in new york anymore.
We're in the crime scene kitchen.
Bob: So based on the three pieces of parchment
With the circle and the almond flour,
We're going to go with a three-layered dacquoise
Filled with strawberries and blueberries.
Vikki: You're a good folder.
I wish you folded the laundry as good.
Bob: That's your job.
Jenae: This is terrifying.
Christina: I know.
Jenae: I'm terrified
That we're going to get this wrong again.
Joel mchale: Jenae and christina,
It's me, the host of the show.
Christina: You distracted her last time and we...
Joel mchale: Oh, is that why you guys
Missed all the clues?
Jenae: That is a fair assessment.
(christina laughs)
Joel mchale: What are you making?
Christina: Based off the meringue we found,
The missing almond flour,
We are making three-layer dacquoise
With blueberry, strawberries, and raspberries.
Jenae: He comes in and he distracts us.
Joel mchale: I'm going to borrow this, ok?
Is this distracting?
Christina: No.
Dj: Are you second guessing anything?
Ricky: I am.
We saw the almond flour,
Which is traditionally used in a dacquoise,
But there were no remnants of the almond flour anywhere.
And then we started thinking pavlova.
And it's from australia.
It's like an aussie favorite.
Curtis came up with this, so I'm confident with that.
Just like with the maple and bacon, they tricked us,
But we're not falling for it.
Dj: No, ma'am.
Ricky: Yolanda.
Dj: Sure.
Ricky: Curtis.
Dj: I know.
Because of the clues in the crime scene kitchen,
We are making a three-layered pavlova
With strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries.
Ricky: I feel good about this.
Yass: Right now,
I'm putting my macaron layer cakes in the oven.
Let's see how well they dry out in this oven.
Jenae: Hey, watch the...
Christina: Oh, no.
Jenae: But the parchment is off kilter.
Christina: It doesn't matter
If the fan's going to blow on them.
Curtis stone: Whenever you are making
A meringue-based dessert, the thing you have to understand
Is it's quite delicate.
If you overcook, you're going to get it too crisp
And then it's going to get quite dry.
Vikki: How's it look?
Bob: They look good.
Vikki: Don't get overly excited about it.
Joel mchale: Dj and ricky.
How's the temperature level baking in a sport coat?
Dj: Surprisingly, it's pretty good.
Joel mchale: You're comfortable.
You're not thinking about it.
Dj: I'm coldblooded anyway.
Joel mchale: Hmm.
These seem enormous to me.
Am I wrong?
Dj: No, they're pretty big.
Go big or go home.
(yass and amber laughing)
Joel mchale: 30 minutes remaining!
And I forgot to mention
That I am allergic to eggs and sugar!
Bob, confused?
Bob: I'm always confused.
Curtis stone: I mean, here's where we are.
Camille and laissa won the safety bake,
So they're sitting this one out.
So we have five different meringue-based desserts.
We've got two pavlovas.
Sherry: What if it's not a pavlova?
Cherry: We have two dacquoise.
Bob: Woo, nerve wracking.
Christina: Please let this be right.
And if we're not right, please let it not suck.
Curtis stone: We have one giant macaron.
Yass: Oh, come on, amber, we got to get this done.
Curtis stone: And if it comes down to a taste test,
How much poise, how much finesse they have
In the way they're building these desserts
Are going to mean a real big difference.
Yolanda gampp: If their meringues are too warm,
They could be chewy and tough to assemble.
Curtis stone: The stakes couldn't be higher
Because someone will be going home tonight.
Jenae: I'm so scared
That these are not going to cool in time.
I'm actually worried about that right now.
We're last minute to throw it in the oven.
It needs low and slow bake time,
So we are fighting the timer.
Curtis stone: The consequences
Of their meringue not cooling down
Before they try and assemble that cake...
Yolanda gampp: It's huge.
If you don't let that meringue cool down enough,
You can crack it very easily.
Christina: Give it 15 more minutes in the oven, I mean...
Jenae: That's only 15 minutes to cool and put together.
We have to take it out.
Christina: I know it makes you nervous, but I want to wait.
Jenae: Ahh!
Joel mchale: Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
Our classically trained bakers are feverishly working
On their versions of what they think the mystery dessert is.
Who will go home?
Well, not you.
Odds are you're already at home
Watching the show.
Christina: I mean, they're still a little soft.
Jenae: Ok, but we have to take 'em out.
We have no other option at this point.
Our biggest thing is getting it to cool.
Sherry: Without the gelatin,
Our whipped cream will not be stabilized.
But because I put gelatin in there, it'll stay stabilized.
Sally: Sherry.
Sherry: I did that on purpose.
We should have took more time looking at our whipped cream.
My gut feeling was like this doesn't look correct.
Sally, it's not stabilized.
It's dripping.
The stabilized whipped cream doesn't have enough gelatin.
It's sliding off, and it's not good.
Sally: It looks terrible.
(timer beeping)
Joel mchale: Two minutes!
Sally: Can you stop cleaning the freaking thing?
Help me put these on.
Sherry: And we sat there for so long doing nothing.
Jenae: All right, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Sherry: Hurry up, sally.
(timer beeping)
Joel mchale: 30 seconds!
Jenae: Joel, you're giving me a heart attack!
Joel mchale: That's what I'm trying to do.
It's television.
Jenae: Yeah, it's working.
Bob: Ha!
Now you can hurry me, come on.
Judges: Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Joel mchale: Time's up!
Step away from the dessert!
Step away, bob!
Bob: I stepped away, joel.
I know it looks great and it's going to taste great,
But is it the right dessert?
Joel mchale: Camille and laissa, you are safe,
So please join us to watch the tasting.
Bob and vikki!
Look at that.
Jenae: Oh wow.
Bob: A lot better than this morning.
Everything's on the line here.
We can be the ones going home if we don't get it right.
Bob: What we have here is an almond dacquoise
Filled with blueberries and strawberries.
Ricky: That is a dacquoise.
Dj: It's a pavlova.
Ricky: It has to be a pavlova.
Yolanda gampp: What clues in the crime scene kitchen
Made you decide to bake this dessert?
Bob: First thing, we saw the almond flour.
Almost 100% sure it's a dacquoise.
Curtis stone: As soon as I see that,
I can tell somebody with a serious amount of training
Has put it together.
Yolanda gampp: Let's see how it tastes.
Joel mchale: I hate this part of the job.
Yolanda gampp: What an improvement.
This looks like and tastes like redemption.
Curtis stone: If this is the dish that was made
In the crime scene kitchen,
You guys are in a pretty good place.
Christina: Oh.
Vikki: That's huge.
Ricky: So we have a three layer pavlova.
Dj: We know there was a possibility also of a dacquoise
But we didn't see any almond flour that was actually used.
So we eliminated that.
Curtis stone: While the appearance
Is a little over the top,
The actual execution is pretty good.
(contestants laughing)
Ricky: That was a love tap.
Yolanda gampp: I see a raspberry here and there.
I'd really like to taste the berries throughout.
Dj: True, true.
Ricky: Yeah.
Curtis stone: You decided to make a pavlova,
And if you're right, you'll be safe.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass.
Bob: Beautiful.
Vikki: So pretty.
Yass: Amber and I have created a cocoa macaron cake.
Curtis stone: Were you tossing up between a few things?
Yass: We really went back and forth.
We just questioned the cocoa powder.
Curtis stone: Your flavors are nicely balanced.
It really is a lovely flavor combination
That you've put together.
Yolanda gampp: We didn't see the other teams use cocoa.
Amber: Mm-hmm.
Yolanda gampp: I like the way you've used it.
It's not at all overpowering here.
Amber: I hope it's the right dessert.
Yass: It's got to be the right dessert.
Sally: I'm worried about the dessert
Because it doesn't look up to decor standard.
Sherry: We present to you a...
Sherry and sally: Pavlova.
Curtis stone: Were you trying to make it messy?
Or did it just turn out that way?
Yolanda gampp: What clues in the kitchen
Made you decide to create this dessert?
Sally: I saw a purse.
I opened the purse and I see a note
And it says allergic to nuts.
Sally: So right away,
We knew it can't be anything with nuts.
Curtis stone: My expectations are high.
The entire presentation of it
Just leaves me a little underwhelmed, I'm sorry.
Sherry: Does it taste good at least?
Yolanda gampp: It tastes good.
How did you stabilize your whipped cream?
What did you use?
Sherry: So we used gelatin,
But we didn't use enough gelatin.
Yolanda gampp: What worries me about that
Is the softer the cream is,
The more it's going to absorb into the meringue,
And that's what we see here.
If you're wrong, you're in trouble.
Sherry: As long as we guessed this correct,
Then we should be safe.
Jenae: I'm concerned about what they're going to say.
Our maple bacon bar was less than amazing.
Christina: It was crap.
It was crap.
Jenae: Yeah, I'm trying to be nice and delicate.
Christina: We made a three-layered dacquoise
With fresh whipped cream and fresh berries.
Curtis stone: It's a little tricky to cut through.
It seems like there's a lot of cream in there.
Yolanda gampp: The dacquoise,
It's a little bit chewy and sticking to my teeth.
If you weren't rushing at the end,
Then it might have had a lighter, spongier texture.
Christina: Yeah.
Jenae: Hmm, now you're scaring me again.
Curtis stone: Unfortunately, this isn't your best work.
It seems you guys underbaked your dacquoise.
Jenae: All of our worst fears have come to fruition.
Never going to live that down, christina.
Joel mchale: It's time for the elimination!
Confectionator 3000, reveal the mystery dessert!
Jenae: I cannot help but pray
That it's a dacquoise.
Otherwise, we could go home.
Joel mchale: Here's where things stand.
We have two dacquoise,
Two pavlovas,
And one enormous macaron.
Here we go.
Confectionator 3000, reveal the mystery dessert!
(dramatic music)
Sherry: It was a terrible dessert that we made.
Sally: Let's hope we got it right.
Christina: If this isn't a dacquoise,
I think we're in serious trouble.
Jenae: Oh, oh.
Oh!
Oh, what is that?
Joel mchale: It's a pavlova cake
(contestants cheering)
Stacked with whipped cream and fresh macerated berries.
Sherry: We did it.
Dj: We did it!
We did it, we did it, we did it.
Amber: Damn.
Jenae: Great, we're wrong again.
Joel mchale: Curtis, what were the clues
Our classically trained bakers should have put together?
Curtis stone: The baking sheets
And three circles of parchment
Suggested a three layer dessert was made.
The whisked eggs in the stand mixer indicated meringue,
While the whisk in the sink
Showed remnants of whipped cream.
Remnants of strawberry, blueberry and raspberry
In the compost and recycling
Suggested three types of macerated berries.
The nut allergy card should have told you
Not to use nut flour.
Amber: What are you talking about?
Yass: Where was this note?
Who found this note?
Amber: What are you talking about?
Yass: Did they bring this note in?
Amber: What are you talking about?
Curtis stone: This should have led you
To a three layer pavlova.
Joel mchale: It's time for a big decision.
Yass: Oh, my god.
Joel mchale: Who is going home tonight, curtis?
Curtis stone: Three of the desserts
Really missed the mark tonight
And were all made with almond flour.
Yolanda gampp: When multiple desserts are incorrect,
We judge how far they are from the mystery dessert,
And also, their taste and execution.
Bob: So there's two other teams
That didn't get the dessert right.
I'm pretty sure going to hear bob and vikki.
Jenae: We are deeply at risk to go home.
Amber: This is it.
We're going home.
Curtis stone: Overall, the team that performed the worst
In the elimination bake was...
Jenae and christina.
Amber: Oh, my god.
Jenae: Bummer.
Curtis stone: I'm sorry, guys.
Yours was the least well executed.
Unfortunately, it was underbaked and chewy.
Jenae: Man!
Yeah, I'm disappointed.
You want to show america that you're capable of so much.
Joel mchale: It's been so much fun
Having you guys on the show.
Sorry that you're not going to be here longer.
Thanks, you guys.
Curtis stone: Thank you, guys.
Joel mchale: Bye, you guys.
(contestants applauding)
Christina: We were competitors,
But this has really shown that we are friends.
Wait, I'm turning around 'cause I don't want to cry.
Jenae: Oh.
Joel mchale: Congratulations.
You guys and our safety bake winners, camille and laissa,
Move on to the next stage of competition.
With each mystery dessert,
You'll get one step closer to that $100,000 prize.
That does it for us tonight, but join us next week
For two more crime scenes.
I'm joel mchale
Reminding you to have your cakes spayed and neutered.
Goodnight, everyone.