JOEL: It's been literally years since we laid eyes
on our teams of family bakers.
- No. - No.
My bad, it's been two weeks. I lost my phone.
Great job. You're doing so, so good.
Thanks! I'm trying.
Six teams combed for clues
and came to staggering conclusions.
What if it was two different bars?
Girl.
Ronan and Katelyn's pickpocket instincts
pointed them to raspberry lemonade bars.
We found extra recipes in the apron.
- Oh, no. - (Imitating explosion)
Then, they did a cute little dance,
as they were flung to safety.
The rest of the teams were plunged
into the thick of the elimination round.
It all boils down to this.
That's not gonna bake up right. I'm trying not to mess up.
Yep, pretty thick.
Emotions ran high, as tropical fruit led some bakers astray...
My mother got very into the mangoes.
...making them the first team of family members
to have an awkward car ride home.
KAREN: No more crying.
I've got a lot more crying to do.
Please save the tears for our big reunion episode.
- Tonight... - KATELYN: Okay, we got this.
The five remaining teams return
and have their minds and menus blown.
I'm looking in the fridge. What is happening?
What's this? What's this?
This is the hardest Crime Scene Kitchen
I've ever seen on this show.
Two brand new mysteries
and one opening title sequence lay ahead...
Oh, my God.
And you just stir like your life depends on it.
(Squealing)
I'm scared.
...here in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
♪
PRODUCER: Okay, rolling.
Three, two, one. Send in the bakers.
Being here tonight, I feel like we're back for redemption.
We don't want to be in the bottom two again.
That was not a good feeling.
Because we won the safety bake last time,
I'm really nervous we have a false sense of confidence.
You can go from winning the safety bake to going home
right in the next round.
Welcome back to Crime Scene Kitchen,
the baking show that lives at the intersection
of gluten and gluttony.
This season, we have two groups of bakers.
Last week, our teams of friends competed.
Tonight, we're back with you, our family members.
Behind me is the Crime Scene Kitchen.
(Contestants cheering)
A fantastic bake was made there.
You'll have to take my word for it
because it's gone missing.
Your job is to search the remnants left behind
for helpful clues.
Then, you recreate the bake,
I eat it, feel guilty, and that's the show.
(Laughing)
And now, our judges.
She's truly a baking wunderkind,
a Canadian term that translates to...
(Slight Quebecois accent:) "...Really good, eh?"
Yes, it's Yolanda Gampp.
That was my French Canadian.
He has the name of a private eye,
but the eyes of a private dancer.
It's Curtis Stone.
- (Contestants applauding) - RONAN: Yeah!
(Contestants applauding)
There are two bakes tonight. The first is the safety bake.
The team that comes closest in this round
gets to skip the next challenge,
our elimination bake, which determines
which team gets sent home.
Every team gets two minutes in the Crime Scene Kitchen,
where you'll discover clues to help you
recreate the mystery bake.
Is everybody ready?
CONTESTANTS: Yeah!
Becky and Daniel... start your search!
BECKY: Yes.
DANIEL: All right.
BECKY: Okay, we got this.
DANIEL: Yeah, okay.
(Giggling)
BECKY: Nothing in the apron.
Stain on the apron. Some type of sauce.
All-purpose flour.
Heading in the fridge.
Green onion, mushrooms. There's also bell pepper.
It looks like there's a whole vegetable garden in the fridge.
Those aren't typically ingredients you would find
in a cupcake or a dessert or anything like that.
Not a cupcake I'd be eating.
Cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers.
All the peppers were used.
What is happening? This is possibly something savory.
Any recipes? Recipes. I'm looking for recipes.
Smell this. Yeast? Yeast was bloomed.
To bloom your yeast means
that you were activating the yeast,
so that it may feed and rise your dough.
As soon as you smell yeast, you think bread.
Pizza?
COURTNEY: Oh, I already see tomatoes.
And there's a trashcan.
DANIELLE: Tomato and green onion.
I'm seeing tomato, garlic, shallots.
We got a tomato sauce on our hands.
Oh, wait, wait. Wait. There's a bowl in here with oil in it.
I pull out this drawer and I see a bowl
covered in oil and plastic wrap.
This drawer is for proofing dough.
When you're proofing, it has to be in a space
that's not too hot, not too cold.
That'll just help it rise later.
It could be...
It's a proofed bread.
It might be a pizza.
- KATELYN: Trash. Okay. - There's salsa, black olives.
KATELYN: Tomato sauce?
First thing I see is the trash.
There is a little container with remnants of tomato sauce.
Cheese in the disposal.
There's a couple remnants of mozzarella cheese.
I'm thinking this could be a pizza.
It's not unheard of.
No, and we know that there have been savory dishes
in the Crime Scene Kitchen before.
Oh!
Chicken parm in the freezer.
So, maybe not pizza.
There is a chicken parm with red sauce and cheese.
That means the sauce and the cheese, total red herrings.
Pizza is out the window.
- That's a cute picture. - RONAN: Yeah.
Oh, pretty picture.
Olive oil, onions, tomatoes.
Anyatta, what do you think? Some type of an Italian dish?
Maybe some focaccia.
I feel like the picture is a clue for the focaccia design
because that's the way that I do mine,
with fresh vegetables decorated on top.
It's a work of art.
KATELYN: Okay, ten seconds.
- Ten seconds, ten seconds. - Ten seconds.
What was this used to cut?
Ten seconds. What's this? What's this?
- That's just flowers. - Some flowers.
What is this? What is this from?
- Cherry tomatoes. - Cherry tomatoes?
That could have been for that chicken.
- Oh, here go a bowl. - ANYATTA: Let me see.
(Alarm sounding)
Olive oil. Focaccia.
And that is time, everyone.
Bakers, you'll now have three hours to do your baking.
Oof.
Ready, guess, bake!
STARLETT: I saw pizza sauce and I--
Where'd you see pizza sauce?
In the garbage.
ANYATTA: You see that picture on the ice box?
I did, I did.
It's focaccia bread that you can make
to make it look like flowers.
- A focaccia bread. - Yes, with marinara.
- With marinara dipping sauce. - That's right.
- Yes. That sound good? - Okay. That sounds good to me.
That sounds good.
Because we saw the picture on the refrigerator,
as well as the bowl
and the measuring cup with the olive oil,
we're making a garden
vegetable focaccia topped
with a beautiful floral design
with a marinara dipping sauce.
You don't think that that picture is a decoy, do you?
Let's stick with what we said.
I saw mushrooms.
- I didn't see them open. - Cheese makes it a pizza.
Without the cheese, then it turns into a focaccia.
- Yeah. - Originally,
I thought we were making a pizza,
which makes sense because we had pizza ingredients.
It's not a pizza. Voila, focaccia.
- I saw the sauce, though. - Yeah.
It was on the apron and it was in the trash.
Would it be on the side?
Because we saw...
Tomato sauce.
...bell peppers, and the proofing bowl,
we are making vegetable focaccia
with fresh tomato dipping sauce.
My mission for this safety bake
is to get Yolanda's taste buds going,
get me a little dancey-dance.
We want the safety and we want the compliments.
To be honest with you, Uncle Courtney,
I'm feeling really confident about this.
- JOEL: Ronan and Kaitlyn. - KATELYN: Hi!
- Hey, Joel. How you doing? - Oh, hi.
Guys, what's happening?
- We are making focaccia. - Yeah.
Because we saw bell peppers, and olives, and olive oil,
we're making a focaccia
with shallots,
olives, and peppers.
And then, we're going to garnish it with green onions.
Mmm. Have you made this before?
We've made bread before, but not focaccia.
Never had it.
- Never had focaccia. - No, never had focaccia.
RONAN: No.
Growing up, when did you discover
that you wanted to be a baker?
You grew up in the spotlight,
helping your dad with his shows.
- Yeah. My dad's a magician. - Oh.
So, one of my earliest memories was being in, like,
this dark box, watching swords come in,
and then popping up as, like,
a three-year-old, being like, "I'm fine."
He calls me the kitchen magician.
Does your father ever use dark magic?
- No. - Okay.
RONAN: At least not anymore. She does.
No!
What do your parents do?
They work nine to fives. Yeah.
If someone is making the same thing as us,
we have to make sure that ours is better.
It's going to come down to execution.
DANIEL: Yes, absolutely.
Because we saw all of these different vegetables,
our proofing bowl and the drawing on the fridge,
we're going to make a focaccia
with a floral vegetable pattern.
Our dough's going to go in the proofing box now.
Okay, we're starting our first of two proofs.
Proofing is giving your dough
time to rise to wake up the yeast inside.
Poof!
Daniel, Becky, what are you making?
DANIEL: This is our focaccia. After our first proof,
we're going to shape it in our sheet pan
and then proof it again.
Okay. Do you think, being brother and sister,
you have an advantage over the teams of friends?
I think we absolutely have an advantage.
We have a much closer bond.
We're here to do our thing that we do best, we're going to show
everybody else, not just our friends' teams,
but the other family teams, too,
that the Rosales family is not to be messed with.
We hope to make our family very proud
and all the Guatemalans out there watching.
It's Team Rosales.
(Rolling 'R':) Rosales.
I wish I could do that so bad.
(Rolling 'R')
Me rolling my tongue is, "dur...'
All right, guys.
(Rolling 'R':) Resume baking.
- Thank you. - I'm so jealous.
When I saw the yeast
and the olive oil, I was like, "Oh, yeah."
I got excited to see savory.
Yeah.
That made me feel a little good.
Kai and Starlett.
- BOTH: Hi, Joel. - What are you makin'?
STARLETT: Because of the marinara sauce in the trash
and the cheese in the sink,
also the picture of the flowers on the refrigerator,
we are going to make a floral
cheese and herb focaccia.
You know, I almost burned down
my first apartment burning focaccia.
Okay.
Kai, seriously, could you please?
- It's beautiful already. - Thank you.
I'm arranging it. Why are you saying... Okay.
- Well, I'm saying... - She's directing you.
- I can't do anything right. - JOEL: She's the mom.
How much side-eye do you give your mom each bake?
- Like that. - All the time.
Would you like her to take over?
No, no, no. That's fine.
No, no. That's okay.
All right. Carry on, you guys.
I can't wait to try it. It already looks great.
KAI: Thank you.
STARLETT: All right. Thank you.
(Beeping)
90 minutes remaining!
But I promise my repeated shouting
will make that feel like an eternity.
BOTH: 90 minutes!
Hopefully, some magic will happen.
It'll be fine. It'll be fine.
- Yeah, fingers crossed. - I hope so.
I hope so. I hope so.
Curtis, you set this challenge in motion.
Tell us how it's going.
All five of our teams are baking focaccia.
STARLETT: That looks so pretty.
We've got five teams that are all baking the same thing,
so we get to really judge them as bakers,
look at all the details.
This is a work of art.
CURTIS: Because it's a yeast-based dough,
the proofing is so important.
If you don't get the proofing correct,
the bread can be very dense, very heavy.
RONAN: Wow.
There's one team, Becky and Daniel,
that have double-proofed their dough.
Oh!
CURTIS: They will get a beautiful structure
to the focaccia by doing that.
It's a smart move, I've just got to say it.
The marinara's coming along real good, Anyatta.
YOLANDA: Anyatta and Sonjii and Danielle and Courtney
have made a marinara dipping sauce.
I think the dipping sauce could be a key factor
in who is closest to the mystery bake.
Yes. It looks fantastic.
Wow. Look at this.
Courtney and Danielle didn't use much oil,
and that's a big problem for focaccia
because you're not going to get that crispiness
on the outside that you really need.
To me, that's a staple in focaccia.
CURTIS: Kai and Starlett are making a floral cheese
and vegetable focaccia.
They're the only ones that have actually added cheese
and marinara sauce to the top of their focaccia.
If the cheese and the marinara sauce
are part of the mystery bake, they'll be safe.
Ronan and Katelyn are making a shallot, black olive,
and pepper focaccia.
It doesn't have the quite dimples that I want it to.
Right.
CURTIS: I heard them say
that they've never actually made focaccia before.
If you haven't made focaccia before,
this is a hard thing to do for the first time
because it's quite wet when you're handling it.
That's from using lots of olive oil.
YOLANDA: They sprinkled their veggies on top
and dimpled it in,
but it doesn't look as if their focaccia has risen.
Did they proof it at all?
We'll soon see because you know what they say?
The proof's in the pudding.
Oh...
ANYATTA: It's going in the oven.
Ooh...
DANIEL: All right. Should be enough time to bake.
- Yeah. I think so. - Yeah.
This smells so good.
That's just me, baby.
(Laughing)
I smell basil. I smell thyme.
I smell fresh herbs.
The fan's on high, right?
Mm-hmm.
Then, all of a sudden, I smell smoke.
Oh, my God, we just set the oven on fire.
(Gasping)
- It's smoking. - KAI: Oh, no.
We do not have enough time to restart this focaccia.
We cannot serve burnt focaccia to the judges.
No.
STARLETT: Oh, my God.
I open up the oven
and a huge puff of smoke comes out.
Please tell me our focaccia is okay.
I might cry in a second.
STARLETT: I think we should put a pan below it.
KAI: Okay.
It's the olive oil from the focaccia
that's dripping into the oven.
The smoking stopped, so I think we're good, right?
KAI: I don't want the cheese to cook too much.
- But I think it'll be okay. - Okay.
It'll be okay. Be cool. Be cool.
JOEL: Ten minutes.
- Looks great. Looks good. - It looks good.
SONJII: So, we're going to put it on there,
but we're going to already have it pre-cut.
I want them to see the presentation.
SONJII: You're not going to cut the bread?
No.
I only want to cut it to make it convenient
for them to pick up and dip, as well.
Anyatta...
ANYATTA: But they won't get the picture in it.
Okay.
Ooh, can't you just picture them saying,
"Mmm, safety bake"?
That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
JOEL: One minute left.
STARLETT: I hope that's not sticking.
30 seconds!
DANIEL: Okay. Go, go, go.
Just lift it up and help slide it out.
JUDGES: Five, four, three, two, one!
And that is time! That is time!
Hey, hey, hey.
- That's time! - I was just--
JOEL: Stop touching your bakes!
Kai and Starlett,
please bring us what you thought was made
in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
- CONTESTANTS: Ooh. - Wow!
Maybe we were supposed to use the peppers to create flowers.
I'm nervous now.
KAI: We have a floral cheese
and herb focaccia with marinara sauce in the focaccia.
They had cheese on theirs?
I'm still fairly confident
it was for the chicken parmesan.
The biggest clues that stuck out to me was that picture.
Oh!
Were you trying to copy the design
from the picture you found on the fridge?
Yes.
(Crunching)
In terms of flavor, I really like the focaccia.
The cheese also gives it a nice finish.
CURTIS: You've proofed it well.
You can see how much rise you've gotten.
You've got really nice texture on the top and the side.
Sadly, the same isn't true on the bottom.
It's quite spongy and soft.
But all in all, it's a good focaccia.
If it is a garden design
of vegetables on top with cheese and marinara sauce,
then you might be sailing right on through to safety.
JOEL: Ronan and Katelyn.
CONTESTANTS: Ooh!
BECKY: They don't have the floral design.
They don't have the floral design.
RONAN: We have shallot, black olive and pepper focaccia.
We found the sauce in the garbage,
and then, I found the mozzarella cheese, and I was like,
"This has got to be pizza," until we opened the freezer.
Once we found the chicken parm, it was pretty clear
that we're going with focaccia.
We didn't catch the chicken parmesan.
(Crunching)
JOEL: Mmm.
(Crunching)
I'm not getting a lot of rise out of your focaccia,
and I definitely expect focaccia to be at least an inch.
KATELYN: We might have over-proofed it.
But it's a nice,
light focaccia, and that tells me
that it wasn't the over-proofing.
It was probably too much liquid in your recipe.
The good news is it still tastes good.
- Oh, thank you. - Thank you.
JOEL: Becky, Daniel.
- CONTESTANTS: Ooh. - (Laughing)
- They did the flower thing. - Did the flower thing, too.
STARLETT: The same design.
I cut it
because she just kept saying,
"You know, they need their individual pieces."
But I think we should have just let it stay whole.
I'll just keep my two cents to myself.
Mm-mm.
JOEL: Look at that.
We have prepared a focaccia with a vegetable floral pattern.
The inspiration for our pattern on our focaccia is based
off of the drawing that we found on the fridge.
I don't think that flower meant anything.
♪
Because you've proofed the bread twice,
you can see these beautiful big pockets.
That's exactly what you're looking for in focaccia.
But then also, you don't have a nice crisp base.
If a focaccia was baked in the Crime Scene Kitchen,
it's going to come down to the smallest details.
- CURTIS: Good luck, guys. - Thank you.
JOEL: Danielle and Courtney.
- DANIEL: They cut it. - CONTESTANTS: Ooh!
Okay.
Ramekins.
KATELYN: Is that dipping sauce?
It looks like it, yeah.
JOEL: Well, well, well...
COURTNEY: We have focaccia bread with a tomato dipping sauce.
We incorporated the veggies that we found
from the Crime Scene Kitchen into the focaccia bread.
KAI: We did see the tomato sauce that was in the trash.
Clearly, some sauce was used somewhere.
But there's no sauce.
- All right, shall we? - CURTIS: We shall.
Well, I'm going to start by saying it's delicious.
- Yay. - It is really, really good.
The flavor of the vegetables are there.
My problem is it's much denser than a focaccia should be.
I do want to compliment your dipping sauce.
It is packed with flavor. It's a perfect accompaniment.
(Whispering) She said she liked it.
♪ Yolanda likes our food ♪
JOEL: Anyatta and Sonjii, you're the last ones...
CONTESTANTS: Ooh.
STARLETT: Ooh, okay.
Great minds think alike.
- Everybody made focaccia. - Yeah.
ANYATTA: We have a garden vegetable focaccia
with a marinara dipping sauce. When I looked in the dishwasher,
I saw the pan
and the portrait on the refrigerator.
Why did you decide to cut it up to serve it to us?
She was very adamant about not cutting it.
It was peer pressure from me.
I feel like it's a culinary jigsaw.
(Laughing)
There's an edge right there, yeah.
Oh, my God. Is he going to put it back together?
BECKY: It kind of defeats the design.
Right?
♪
I think your focaccia is a bit tight.
It almost eats like more of a flatbread.
If you had to let it proof for longer,
you would have gotten a much airier focaccia.
Okay.
We've seen five focaccias.
So, every detail and every choice you made
in the bake is going to count.
- Okay. Thank you. - Yes.
I think I should have just said, "I'm not going to cut it."
Yeah.
Oh...
Welcome back to Crime Scene Kitchen.
Whichever team wins this safety bake
gets to skip tonight's elimination bake
and earns a guaranteed spot in the next round.
Here we go.
Confectionator 3000,
please engulf us in your toxic fumes and unmask this mystery.
- What is it? - There it is.
STARLETT: Ooh...
Please let it be some cheese on it.
Focaccia bread, dipping sauce. Focaccia bread, dipping sauce.
CONTESTANTS: Ooh!
- Let's see it. - Oh!
KATELYN: Come on, come on, come on. Show us.
JOEL: The mystery bake is....
garden focaccia-- a light, pillowy,
olive oil-rich bread
baked with a garden vegetable floral design.
- Floral design. - Oh, shoot.
Uh-uh.
Cutting up the design was a big no-no.
Here's how you should have got that answer.
The measuring cups with yeast remnants
and traces of olive oil.
Plus, the bowl with plastic wrap in the warming drawer
suggested a yeasted olive oil bread was made.
While there was evidence of marinara sauce
and mozzarella cheese,
the homemade chicken parm in the freezer told you
those ingredients were used in that dish,
not in the mystery bake.
The clue to the design of the bread
was staring you right in the face
when you entered the kitchen, the drawing on the fridge.
All the flower shapes on it
could have been created using the vegetables
present in the kitchen and told you the toppings to use.
Good detective work should have led you to the savory
and delicious garden focaccia.
Because there were so few differences
between the five focaccias presented,
the winning team tonight will be the one who came closest
to every detail in the mystery bake.
The winners of the safety bake are...
♪
...Becky and Daniel.
- Oh, my God! - (Cheering)
BECKY: Oh, wow!
Yes!
- This is a great win. - Right?
I wouldn't want to share this with anyone else than Daniel.
There's nobody else that I would rather be here with than Becky.
Sorry, other siblings.
Definitely regret putting the marinara
and the cheese on the focaccia.
JOEL: Becky and Daniel, you've automatically secured entry
into the next round.
Now, it is time for the elimination bake.
The mystery dessert
for the second bake was dreamt up by Yolanda.
Bakers, the Crime Scene Kitchen is now open.
There are two minutes on the clock.
Kai and Starlett, start your search!
- KAI: Let's go. Apron. - STARLETT: Apron, apron.
KATELYN: All righty, I got the trash.
RONAN: Okay.
KAI: Butter.
We got two cake pans sitting here, but we got cupcake.
I'm seeing the cupcake pan and two cake pans sitting together.
This could either be cupcakes with the cupcake pan
on the counter or, now, it could be a two-layer cake.
Lavender.
Smell.
I see a pot on the stove.
Is some type of residue in the pot?
Some kind of curd.
SONJII: What's this?
- What is that? - That looks like lime zest.
- Lime zest. - Some kinda green lime zest.
I'm looking at the strainer, and there is key lime zest.
Maybe a key lime lavender curd or something.
What is this? Hey, look at this. Look at this.
Um... that looks like a curd.
RONAN: Okay. There's like a drizzle of some sort, or...
- I think it's chocolate. - White and purple.
There's green powder and all-purpose flour here.
On the counter, I see a sifter with a white powder
and a green powder.
I don't know what this green powder is.
- That could be matcha. - RONAN: Okay.
Matcha.
I have no idea what matcha is.
Green tea flavoring.
Focaccia first and now matcha?
RONAN: Oh, let's see...
A tea bag.
Ooh, plastic wrap.
"Chill for 30 minutes."
DANIELLE: There's... Wait, wait, wait.
Something has to be chilled for 30 minutes.
These are those little melty things?
Um, candy melts.
Yeah, candy melts.
There's the other piece of this chocolate melt.
It's purple and white.
I pick up the chocolate, and I look at it.
There are ridges in the shape.
Candy melts are literally just little pockets of chocolate,
and you melt them down for dipping or coating.
COURTNEY: It looks like matcha.
DANIELLE: There's AP flour and matcha.
Look at this. This note was there.
BOTH: "Thanks for letting me borrow both your pans."
DANIELLE: Wait a minute.
This note could mean so many things.
CURTIS: We got notes about pans that don't help us.
We got notes about chill time that don't help us.
There's random clues that are not adding up.
This is the hardest Crime Scene Kitchen
I've ever seen on this show.
- RONAN: Ten seconds. - KATELYN: Ten seconds.
RONAN: Ten seconds.
Ten seconds. Ten seconds, Anyatta.
White chocolate, purple and white.
The cake pan shouldn't matter then.
But I don't know what the muffin pan is for.
STARLETT: Pastry bag.
That's a cupcake. We gotta pipe something.
And that's time.
This was one of the hardest crime scenes I've ever seen.
It's elimination,
and I don't know what we're supposed to make.
I'm completely stumped. (Sighing)
JOEL: Bakers, you now have two hours to make what you think
is the mystery dessert,
based on the clues you found in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
Now, bake, damn you, bake!
- RONAN: Oh! - Ah!
(Beeping)
This has got me puzzled. I am lost for words.
I don't think it's a cake.
There's nothing in here that insinuates a cake.
There's not even frosting.
STARLETT: There was lavender extract
and it was a very small measuring spoon,
so we know that it's not a lot.
I feel a little panicky because I'm not sure what this is.
There was matcha, and then there's lavender used.
- Plastic wrap... - RONAN: The piping bags.
I want to make sure we utilize the piping bags,
and I think they were used to pipe the cookie dough.
What cookie has chocolate on it?
- Dipped. - Dipped.
With a tray like that, you usually pour.
I know I want to incorporate this coating chocolate we saw.
The question is, what are we covering with chocolate?
So, maybe it's like a piped spritz cookie.
Perfect.
KATELYN: We're making lavender
and Earl Grey and matcha
spritz cookies
with chocolate flowers.
We're going with a spritz cookie
because it's typical for this dough to chill for 30 minutes,
and they can easily be piped and molded.
My goodness.
JOEL: Oh, Anyatta?
- Hi. - JOEL: Hey, guys.
- Hi, Joel. How are you? - Oh, hello, Sonjii.
It's the elimination bake.
- Yes. - SONJII: Yes, it is.
We do hate to be in the elimination round again.
We're not ready to go home.
No.
We just hope we didn't miss out on anything.
What are you guys making?
Uh, we're going to do a vanilla sable cookie.
Is there anything in the Crime Scene Kitchen
that you are still confused by?
I saw white and lavender chocolate.
Are you using the chocolate?
Uh...
- No. - No.
It doesn't go in a cookie.
We make cookies with all sorts of stuff,
but we decided to go with the vanilla sable.
(Laughing)
Because we saw lavender extract, we saw key lime zest,
and we also saw plastic that said "Chill for 30 minutes,"
we are making vanilla
sable cookies with a key lime
lavender curd.
Well, guys, some of these teams that are a lot younger than us,
do you think they are making the same thing?
I mean, we're older than the rest of them,
but we haven't lost the sauce.
(Laughing)
There was lavender on the counter.
There was also a sifter.
Yep. Definitely had matcha powder in it.
I think that the mystery dish is a green tea something,
but I don't know if it's a layer cake or cupcakes.
If we did, like, cupcakes, how would we incorporate the melts?
Typically, when you have the chocolate melts,
you melt them down, and then you go around the cake
and you just make drips on it.
So, that's what's making me think
it's got to be a layer cake.
Because of the candy melts on the counter,
green tea powder, the lavender extract,
we're going to make
a green tea lavender cake.
Are we really sure it's not cupcakes?
YOLANDA: The Crime Scene Kitchen is very difficult.
It really doesn't matter how good of a baker you are.
If you miss one clue,
it can make all the difference in the world.
We also place a lot of misdirects in the kitchen.
So, you don't want to throw
all the ingredients you find into one dessert
because it's probably wrong.
JOEL: Danielle.
- Hi. - JOEL: Courtney.
- COURTNEY: Joely-Joel. - JOEL: What's going on, guys?
Right now, making a Bavarian cream
to go inside a chocolate-covered matcha cream puff.
Mmm...
How confident are you guys
that that is what was in the Crime Scene Kitchen?
We did find eggs. We did find butter.
I saw something that insinuated
a dough needed to be chilled for 30 minutes.
What doughs get chilled?
Pâte à choux dough gets chilled.
Pâte à choux, that means small cabbage.
Small cabbage is what a cream puff looks like.
Pâte à choux makes cream puffs.
Because we saw compound chocolate, matcha powder,
eggs, butter, plus piping bags...
DANIELLE: We're making chocolate-covered
matcha cream puffs.
I will say, the thing you described
sounds very tasty.
COURTNEY: Right. But this is not simple.
Baking under pressure, Joel McHale beaming down on you...
(Beeping)
I don't feel confident.
All right.
Ah, I feel like we're missing something.
I'm worried that we got the spritz cookie totally wrong.
We saw baking powder,
but I chose to omit it
because baking powder's not used with cookies.
- (Exhaling sharply) - RONAN: It's all good.
Hey, it's okay. It's all right.
It's not at all. No, you're doing great.
(Sobbing)
JOEL: 30 minutes remaining in the elimination bake.
You're doing just fine. Seriously, it's all good.
It'll work out how it needs to. It's all good.
I'm just worried it was pastry
or something like that and we're way off.
(Exhaling sharply)
This one tripped us up.
I feel like I missed a key piece.
It's just cookies.
(Both laughing)
Well, guys, there's a lot happening.
- Yeah. - JOEL: What's going on?
CURTIS: This is one of the few times
in Crime Scene Kitchen history
that we've had four bakes completely different.
After the safety bake, where everybody guessed correctly,
it feels like our teams have really spiraled.
Maybe the pressure's got to them.
Maybe you set a really hard Crime Scene Kitchen.
I did. This is season three,
and I want to make sure we're challenging them.
JOEL: Well, let's talk about Danielle and Courtney.
Danielle and Courtney are making cream puffs
that they're filling with a matcha pastry cream.
They might be the one team that's actually figured it out.
The pastry bags that were seen in Crime Scene Kitchen,
obviously, you need those to make a pâte à choux.
JOEL: Anyatta and Sonjii.
They're making a vanilla sable cookie
with a key lime lavender curd.
ANYATTA: Perfect.
CURTIS: They identified
something green in the Crime Scene Kitchen as lime.
They're the only ones to be using lime in their bake.
YOLANDA: Ronan and Katelyn are making
Earl Grey lavender and matcha spritz cookies.
But Katelyn really feels like she's wrong today.
They just have to go with what they've decided to do.
Oh, I really hope this is not going to send us home.
Kai and Starlett.
YOLANDA: They decided to bake a cake because they saw evidence
of dripped chocolate on a cooling rack,
and they assumed that it's a chocolate drip around the cake.
Give me the pastry cream.
CURTIS: Look at this.
- That cake is warm. - Oh, my God.
YOLANDA: Starlett needs to ice this cake perfectly
and get some chill on it before she applies the drip.
It's melting.
I'mma put it back in there for like three minutes.
Five minutes left!
Okay, we can do this.
RONAN: Coming down to the wire.
DANIELLE: I'm just going to fill these real quick.
I'm prayin'.
STARLETT: All right, cool.
30 seconds!
Grab those out of the fridge. We've got to place them.
- RONAN: Yep. Okay. - COURTNEY: All right.
Oh, this is burning my hand.
Oh, my God. Give it to me.
No.
JOEL: Ten seconds!
You're doing great. You got it.
- JUDGES: Eight, seven... - I'm going.
...six, five, four, three...
Put it on the board. Put it on the board.
- ...two, one! - JOEL: And that is time!
The elimination bake is over.
Please set down your piping bags
or fling them angrily at your kitchen's camera operator.
I'm worried that they're not going to like it,
and it's not what was made in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
(Inhaling and exhaling sharply)
Sonjii and Anyatta,
could you please bring us
what you thought was made in the Crime Scene Kitchen?
Those are beautiful.
COURTNEY: Perfection.
ANYATTA: We made a vanilla...
SONJII: Lavender.
...lavender sable cookie with a key lime lavender curd.
KAI: Curd?
I'm about to leave.
We saw a strainer. It looked like key lime was in there.
Oh! Oh!
There was also a lavender extract,
as well, on the counter.
This cookie is delicious.
- Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you.
YOLANDA: And the texture of your cookie is divine.
As soon as I have a bite, I feel like a cup of tea.
It really is a well-executed sable.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
If a sable cookie was made with lavender, lime curd,
then you guys should be safe.
- I hope so. - I hope so.
JOEL: Kai and Starlet.
CONTESTANTS: Ooh.
Yeah.
(Sighing)
KAI: We have a green tea lavender layer cake.
The clues that we found were two cake pans by the dish rack.
We also saw matcha powder in the sifter.
Oh...
No, we're good.
There was a key lime zest in there for sure.
YOLANDA: It's a little bit messy and the layers don't look even.
This is not a representation of what we do.
YOLANDA: Hm.
I'm glad it's not too heavy.
The lavender that you've used
in the pastry cream, I find really pleasant.
Same with the matcha.
I think you got your ratios pretty on point.
Thank you.
I'm nervous because
it really doesn't matter if it tastes good,
if you don't get the clues.
JOEL: Danielle and Courtney.
CONTESTANTS: Ooh.
This here is a chocolate covered matcha cream puff.
We saw the cake pans,
but Uncle Courtney had found a note that said,
"Thank you for letting us use your two cake pans."
So, we knew it wasn't a cake at that point.
What note?
RONAN: A note. Where was that?
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The choux pastry is good.
There's a lot of air inside, and it's not too heavy.
Okay.
CURTIS: You've got a beautiful texture on your pastry cream,
but I can see little lumps of the matcha
still hasn't been completely mixed through.
But all in all, it's a good job.
- Yay! - Thank you, sir.
JOEL: Katelyn and Ronan.
Oh, another cookie.
Oh, how pretty.
Today, we've made Earl Grey, lavender,
and matcha spritz cookies.
We found the plastic wrap.
I immediately thought of a cookie dough
that needs to be chill because of some type of design
that it needs to hold.
YOLANDA: Hmm.
I'm sorry, guys. This is a hard cookie to eat.
It's extremely sweet.
But you did do a good job of melting the coating chocolate,
it's smooth, it maintains some shine.
If this is an Earl Grey, matcha, and lavender spritz cookie
that was made in the Crime Scene Kitchen,
you guys aren't going anywhere.
- Thank you. - Okay.
Oh, man...
This is our first time being up for elimination,
and I worry we're a one-trick pony.
(Voice breaking) I'm scared.
Welcome back to Crime Scene Kitchen.
We've tasted all four desserts. And now...
Confectionator 3000,
reveal the mystery dessert!
- Okay. - Oh, come on, come on.
Come on, cake! We need a cake!
Please be cookies. Please be cookies.
Please be a flaky dessert. Please be a flaky dessert.
Show us some cream puffs, please. Please!
- Okay, okay, here we go. - RONAN: Please be cookies.
JOEL: The mystery dessert is...
What is that?
JOEL: Earl Grey, lavender, and matcha Madeleines.
Oh, my God. They're Madeleines.
JOEL: Two flavors of delicious, light,
buttery Madeleines dipped in chocolate.
What?!
- (Sighing) - Madeleines?
Oh, my gosh.
I feel like we should have nailed it,
the one cake batter that needed to be chilled.
My hands are sweaty.
Eww, they are.
(Starlett laughing)
The baking powder, eggs,
and flour should have led you to a cake batter.
And the chilling instructions
on the cling wrap in the trash implied
it was one of the few batters that required chilling.
Of course. Of course.
YOLANDA: The note by the calendar
said that two pans had been borrowed,
telling you the Madeleine pans used to make the mystery dessert
were not present in the kitchen.
COURTNEY: Wow.
We didn't know what the note meant. Mind blown.
YOLANDA: The key clue was the scalloped shape
of the chocolate fragments found on the cooling rack.
- BOTH: Mm-hmm. - YOLANDA: This,
along with the piping bag,
suggested you should have made Madeleines.
The Earl Grey tea, lavender extract, and use of matcha
suggested the two different flavor profiles
of the Madeleines, which were dipped in the colored
and white chocolate.
Golly.
DANIELLE: We all failed the challenge.
Nobody was close.
This is the first time on Crime Scene Kitchen
that all of the teams have completely failed
to identify the mystery dessert in the elimination bake.
In making our decision,
we've looked at every detail of the bakes
to see which team got the fewest elements
of the mystery bake correct.
The team that's going home tonight is...
...Anyatta and Sonjii.
I'm so sorry. Your cookies were truly delicious.
But the only thing they had in common
with the Madeleines was lavender.
You also added lime curd as a flavor
when there was no evidence of it in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
CURTIS: Clearly, you guys are fantastic bakers.
But today just wasn't your day in that Crime Scene Kitchen.
SONJII: I don't count every loss as a loss.
- So, it was an experience. - I enjoyed it.
- It was an experience. - Yeah.
- (Contestants applauding) - JOEL: Thank you so much.
SONJII: I would never take back the experience
competing with my sister.
We've always wanted to be detectives,
but I think we need to go back to school.
(Starlett sighing)
I, for sure, thought we were going home.
I know now that we have got to step up our game.
There is one more round before the merge.
(Exhaling sharply)
Congratulations. You four teams of family members
are one step closer to that $100,000 prize.
And to help you hone your detective skills,
we're moving you to a motel off the interstate
known for its real-life crime scenes.
Well, that's it for tonight. Join us next week
when our teams of friends return to the kitchen.
We'll see you next time on Crime Scene Kitchen.