Joel: Last time we saw our baking buddies...
There's a star. Look.
What does this pattern mean?
Joel: ...They were baking bread
And trying to win $100,000 worth of it.
(buzzing)
It smells like focaccia!
Joel: Whoa. Watch the language.
Janusz and keiron became the stars of the safety bake...
It's going to be a star-shaped bread.
Ah!
Joel: ...And did a little hum dance
Straight past the elimination bake...
(janusz squealing)
...Where the remaining teams engaged in a battle
Of charlotte russes.
- Who is this charlotte? - I don't know,
But I hear she's lovely.
Joel: A dessert, not a french actress.
- Jessica: Oh, my goodness. - Do you have the bottom?
Brandon: I don't think we have enough time for it to set.
Joel: Lenore and jessica's cake looked good enough to eat,
Which, well, we did,
But brando and nikki's mousse slid off the plate
And out the studio doors.
We were short on time.
I'm not feeling good about it.
Joel: And it sent them fist-bumping back to brooklyn,
A triumphant way to admit defeat. Tonight...
What is this? What crumbs are these on here?
Joel: ...The bakers contend
With two fiendishly challenging dishes...
Mm, scary.
Joel: ...And try not to get blindsided
By a bonus clue.
Bakers, can you pause for a moment?
Stop it.
Joel: Which teams of friends will make it
To the merge with the teams of family members?
Oh, boy.
Joel: And which teams will be sent home
To text about it over a crime scene kitchen group chat,
Just like curtis, yolanda, and I?
(shouting) is this too loud, yolanda?
You'll find out after the opening titles.
No dull moment in the crime scene kitchens.
Joel: Yeah, what she said.
♪
Woman on speaker: Last call for the merge.
Send in the friends.
Jessica: I really want to win safety,
Because I want to make that merge.
I want to see what these family teams got.
Lenore: How badly on a scale of, like, one to seven?
Like, five bajillion.
Cool.
- Are you okay? - No, I'm not, clearly,
You know.
Elimination.
Meaning safety is really important now.
Welcome to crime scene kitchen!
Tonight, you,
Our top teams of friends, are competing.
One team will be eliminated.
The three teams of friends left will then merge
With our top three teams of family members from last week
As our best bakers battle it out for $100,000
And my hand in marriage.
- Woman 1: Wow! - Woman 2: Oh! (laughing)
Jesse: Last week, we got some pretty rough feedback.
But we're still here. We're still fighting.
Justin: And there's a chance
We could make it through the merge.
We just have to be scrappy.
Joel: Behind me is the crime scene kitchen.
A spectacular dessert was made there,
But it's gone missing.
Your challenge is to search the remnants left in the kitchen
And then make what you think was baked in there.
And now, here are the two people
Who know the identity of that dessert-- our judges.
A baking genius who can craft a cake to look like any object,
Which is how she tricked me into eating my own phone,
It's yolanda gamp, everyone.
(cheering)
Gorgeous.
And he's a chef awarded a star by michelin,
And they know food,
Because they make radial tires.
It's curtis stone. Curtis?
- Yay! - Man: Whoo!
It's two stars, joel, but who's counting?
- (contestants laughing) - woman: Oh!
Each team will have two minutes
To comb through the crime scene kitchen.
April and samantha, start your search!
- Let's go. Let's go. - Let's go.
Okay. We are investigators.
- Jesse: Let's do it. - Justin: Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go!
Okay.
Okay. There is a pie.
There's, like, a tart, a tart pan here.
April: Our plan is to absolutely make it to the merge tonight.
Gas pedal to the floor.
(samantha laughing)
Samantha: So, we see pie pans
And a tart pan on the counter.
April: I just don't think that the crime scene
Is going to let it be a pie or a tart,
Like, "oh, here's your clue."
No. Y'all aren't that nice.
There's a saucepan on the stove.
I see a pot on the stove,
And it has water in it.
And usually, that means that a double boiler was used.
You put a stainless steel bowl on top
To cook things slowly so they don't burn.
It could be used to make curd,
Just a ton of different things.
A lemon? Lemon in the compost.
What is this?
Egg yolks.
I see a spatula. It has egg yolks on it,
So I know that we're making a curd.
But I don't know what kind, so we have to keep looking.
Okay. Some butter has been used.
Cream has been used.
Eggs and edible flowers. Pretty!
Jessica: Looks like meringue.
I see a baking sheet,
And because I see evidence of meringue,
I'm thinking maybe this could be a pavlova,
Because that is what you bake a pavlova on.
A pavlova is a baked meringue
Customarily served with a custard,
Fruit, and whipped cream.
Okay. Tea towel with some icing sugar.
There's a tea towel on the countertop.
When I open it, it has powdered sugar all over it.
Now, that indicates to me a roulade was made,
Which is a roll cake.
You dust a tea towel with icing sugar,
Turn out your sponge,
And then roll it up.
But it can be more than one roulade.
Is it a chocolate roulade?
Is it meringue roulade?
Now, we need to figure out the rest.
Look. A sheet, pan sheet.
Kieron, what's that?
- Grapefruit? - Is there grapefruit juice
- In the fridge? - No.
But the juicer was used, clearly.
Jess, jess, jess, jess, jess.
- Jessica: What, what, what? - Lenore: What is this?
Receipt. Paid cash. Count.
Oh, my god. Do we actually have to count these?
I have a paper here to check out.
So, I'm looking at this list,
And it has a number next to the type of fruit.
Grapefruit's quantity 10. Holy.
And I look to the dish and say,
"does the number of grapefruits in this dish
Equal the number of grapefruits on this list?"
Same with lemon. Same with lime.
Same with passionfruit.
If it doesn't, it might be a good indication
That that fruit was used in this dessert.
Fruit math.
- (beeping) - janusz: Ten seconds.
- Both: For ten seconds. - Ten seconds.
Two, four, six.
(beeping)
Jessica: Oh, my gosh.
Lenore: I only have six passion fruits.
There should be 13 passion fruits.
That is time!
Ah, we missed that!
I noticed something on the pin board.
All I see is something related to grandma.
My eyes are quite terrible, so I can't really see it that well.
There was a clue right there.
Is it a clue that is so vital
That missing it is a disaster?
Baking friends, you have two hours
To figure out what the mystery dessert is and bake it.
The winner will earn safety
And immediately advance to the merge.
Okay! Ready! Guess! Bake!
(beeping)
Don't hit me in the face.
I didn't look in the dishwasher.
Girl, be so for real.
Of all the fruits that were there,
Everything was accounted for except passionfruit.
- There was 13 on the receipt-- - jessica: That's right.
Lenore: --And only six in my hand.
I'm thinking a curd.
The curd would be lightened with meringue.
And that's how you normally do a chiffon pie.
We are deciding to make a passionfruit chiffon pie
Because of the evidence of meringue
And the missing passionfruit from the fruit bowl.
Lenore: A chiffon pie is a curd lightened with meringue
And chilled in some sort of pie crust.
I'm just worried
That the pie trays may have been a decoy--
- Okay. - And we were instead supposed
To use that baking sheet.
I think we should really get this bake right,
Because, you know, if we don't, elimination round.
- Keiron: Mm-hmm. - Only three couples baking.
One in three chances going home.
Hi. Do you have any grapefruit?
Janusz: Just a couple.
Joel: What are you making?
We're making a grapefruit meringue roulade.
- Do you agree? - I do. I do this time.
Are you going to do some juggling?
Yes.
As soon as I saw the tea towel with powdered sugar,
Grapefruit juice, edible flowers,
I don't know what else it could possibly be.
Janusz: So we're making a grapefruit meringue roulade.
How confident are you
That you saw everything in the kitchen?
We missed a real big clue.
We missed one clue.
There was a notice on the pin board
That said something about grandma's famous something.
Maybe it said, "grandma is a famous murderer."
Oh, hopefully not.
(laughing)
I feel like royalty here, man,
With all these passion fruits.
This is, like, $50 worth of passionfruit here.
(laughing) living the good life.
We are going to make a passionfruit tart
With a meringue topping.
Justin: Because we saw the tart pan on the counter,
The passionfruit used,
As well as the meringue in the sink.
It's something that I hope the judges give us
A little bit better review on.
We're trying to win the safety so that we can get to the merge.
This has to be perfect.
This is much bigger stakes now. (chuckling)
Joel: Oh.
- Oh, man. - Samantha and April.
Don't talk to me right now.
She's feeling a type of way.
Ask her if she opened up the dishwasher!
Did you open up the dishwasher?
That's a no.
We're going to make a swiss roll--
- Swiss roll. - With a lemon curd filling--
- And-- - well, we're also making
A tart.
- You're making two desserts? - Yeah--
- Well-- - because we don't know.
Swiss roll, you have to do it on a quarter sheet pan.
Well, that wasn't in the kitchen.
We didn't open the dishwasher,
So there could be a sheet tray in the dishwasher.
When do you think you'll decide?
I don't know.
She's mad right now.
Joel: Alright, guys. Well, it seems
Like everything is under control here
And you're not questioning anything you're doing.
- No, we're good. - Joel: Great.
- Yeah. - I'll be back.
- Thanks! - April: Yeah. Thank you.
- Joel: Bye. - See you soon. Samantha,
You're killing me today.
That's really good meringue, babe.
Keiron: It looks sexy, no?
Janusz: Ooh!
- Oh, boy. - Justin: Just get it in
- And then patch it up. - I'm trying, buddy. I'm trying.
- (beeping) - joel: Sixty minutes remaining!
There was no evidence of a pie crust
Other than there being--
A pie dish. They were just on the counter.
Jessica: To be honest with you, I don't know.
Okay. You saw a sheet tray?
April: Yes.
I'm thinking about this baking sheet
That was in the dishwasher,
And I'm trying to think, "how was it used?"
Pavlovas with a passion fruit curd?
But then where's your cream?
- Oh, whipped cream. - Whipped cream on top.
Bakers! Can you pause for a moment?
(gasping) stop it.
Please send your team's best detective
To the crime scene kitchen!
You go ahead up there, buddy.
That's you, jess.
We have an extra clue for you all.
We have a extra clue?
- Am I going? - Yes.
- Or you going? - Okay.
You're going.
Jessica: Oh, this is scary!
I am freaking out, but maybe this could be helpful,
Because I'm very worried
That maybe making the chiffon pie is the wrong choice.
Keiron: Good luck.
Have fun!
Curtis: This is season three.
We have really experienced bakers,
People that understand our competition,
And they know what to expect,
So it's up to yolanda and I
To really keep them on their toes.
Ooh, how nerve-wracking.
We were out shopping this morning,
And we saw an item that reminded us
Of something we saw in the crime scene kitchen.
So we took a photo of it
And thought we'd give you a look.
♪
Yolanda: Please decide what you think it means
And how you will use it if it affects your bake.
Okay. You can now go back to your kitchens.
- Good luck. - Good luck.
Okay. Edible flowers.
I guess this would be some sort of decoration,
But I haven't seen that in the crime scene kitchen.
This could be a huge deal.
It's a picture of a box of edible flowers.
There was edible flowers in the fridge.
Oh.
Jesse realizes, "oh, yeah. I did
See that in the fridge earlier."
Any idea, like, what flower specifically?
If it's the same box, it was the far right side
And the middle rows that were missing.
So, I really have to think back.
What was in the middle and what was in the right?
Fingers crossed that we're pulling the right flowers
To top our dessert.
Yellow, orange, purple? I don't know.
- Samantha: Oh, you're back. - April: We're doing
The swiss roll. We're doing the swiss roll.
This definitely was the aha moment.
The way that the flowers were lined up in the picture,
It just reminds me of a rectangular shape,
And this is maybe how they're set on top
To decorate a swiss roll.
It's good that we made it, then. Okay. So--
See? Am I still making the swiss roll?
Hold on. Don't talk to me.
- Sorry. - Purple. Seven. Okay.
So, they show edible flowers
Like on top of a swiss roll.
Do you know what I mean? So let's just go with that.
We're going with a lemon curd swiss roll
Instead of a tart,
Because I saw the bonus clue picture, lemons,
And we think a sheet tray was in the dishwasher.
That's me throwing the hail mary.
(laughing)
Y'all get that?
It was a photo of edible flowers.
So we're decorating with flowers.
Janusz: Which we already decided we're going to do.
Yeah. There was no other connection to a flavor?
There was no connection to a flavor, unless...
Unless?
I don't know. There's no unless.
Well, you just said, "unless."
It's just making me think it's-- now, like, more than ever--
It's a pavlova.
Okay.
Whenever I've seen a beautiful pavlova made,
Edible flowers are always on top.
Lenore: If you want to make a pavlova,
Then let's make a pavlova.
- (beeping) - you just have to tell me
So I can get a mixer on.
- Let's make it. Let's make it. - Okay.
Instead of doing a chiffon pie,
We are now making a passion fruit pavlova,
Because the baking sheet and the edible flowers
Can't be ignored.
Pavlova usually needs to bake
For at least an hour in the oven.
So we're actively deciding to make something
That is not going to bake all the way through.
Jessica: This pavlova is a gamble,
But I want to make sure
That we're actually following the clues that we saw.
Lenore: Mm-hmm.
We got to make a fruit curd really fast,
The meringue really fast,
And just pray to the gods it'll bake.
Welcome back to the triangle table.
It is mayhem out there.
Are we making the complete wrong thing?
- (janusz laughing) - huh?
(laughing)
They're changing their minds left and right.
We've got four completely different desserts coming at us,
And the stakes couldn't be higher,
Because the winner will be moving
Straight on through to the merge.
So, the meringue will stay in until 45 seconds.
Lenore and jessica decided to do a pavlova.
You need to dry it out in the oven,
So I don't even know if they'll get it made in time,
But they're going to attempt it.
Lenore seems to have detached from reality.
Do we think there's too much filling in this?
It is a lot of filling. I'm not going to lie.
Janusz and keiron are the only team
Making a meringue roulade.
- What if it was pavlova? - Mm?
Janusz: What if it was pavlova and we made a roulade?
Thank you, baby jesus,
That this is not an elimination round.
Joel: April's doing a lot of that-- (laughing)
(gasping) "oh, everything's fine."
(laughing)
No big deal.
Curtis: April and samantha are the only ones
Doing a swiss roll. Is it a great pivot?
Or is it a total mistake?
We'll see.
No dull moment in the crime scene kitchen.
They're going to be like, "jesse and justin,
- Again, great job." - again.
Jessie and justin are making a passion fruit tart
With a whipped meringue topping.
What I'm looking for in a tart is different textures.
Curtis: Mm-hmm.
Justin: It's kind of a snotty consistency.
We're seeing some teams using lemon as a base layer,
Some use passionfruit, some using grapefruit.
That's going to play a big part in who gets this correct
And will be moving straight on through to the merge.
- (beeping) - joel: One minute!
(shouting) is this too loud, yolanda?
- No, it's perfect. - Alright!
- Jesse: Let's go. Let's go. - Enough is enough.
Not even one there?
Janusz: Okay. One there.
- (beeping) - curtis: I don't think
They're going to get the pavlova out on time.
- It just came out right now. - This is crazy.
(beeping)
- Get it on. - I'm trying.
- I know. - Do you want the curd first?
Yep, yep, yep. You go, and then I'm ready.
Joel: Ten seconds!
- Oh, my gosh. - (joel laughing)
- What is happening? - What is happening?
Hosts: Five, four, three, two, one!
And that is time!
That is time!
- Janusz: Oh! - (both laughing)
(babbling)
- Jessica: Oh! - Lenore: It's something.
April and samantha,
Please bring us what you thought was made
In the crime scene kitchen.
Oh, a swiss roll.
- Pretty. - Man 1: Oh, pretty.
- Man 2: Oh, yeah. - Woman: Oh.
Samantha: Here you guys go.
We've made a swiss roll for you guys today,
And it has a layer of lemon curd in the middle
And also whipped cream with the edible flowers on top.
April: The way they were lined up reminded me
Of, like, the shape of a swiss roll.
The edible flowers brought them to the roll.
♪
It's a lovely sponge, and it's holding its shape well,
But I do find it a bit dense.
Okay.
I really do love the flavor that you've incorporated in there,
But it could have had a little more of the lemon curd
For sure.
Joel: Justin and jesse!
Jessica and lenore: Oh!
(gasping) stop it.
- Okay. - Lenore: Very beautiful.
Jesse: We made for you a passionfruit meringue tart.
Justin: We saw the fluted tart pan.
That and the curd and the use of meringue,
It kind of made sense.
April: Oh, my god. What if it's a tart?
- Needed to use less meringue. - And we did it.
We had it there. We had everything there.
Jesse: We saw the large fruit bowl
And the grocery list that listed there was
More passion fruits bought than was in the bowl.
That note could change everything.
I know.
Jesse actually saw the rows of flowers that were missing
In the crime scene kitchen.
So, I had to translate back to him,
And we kind of decided orange petals
And yellow, violet color here.
There were missing flowers?
♪
The curd is delicious.
- Thank you. - Yolanda: It's nice and bright.
It's passion-fruity.
Curtis: It is fabulous.
It is really, really flavorsome.
(laughing) this is better feedback than last time,
- So thank you. - (joel laughing)
If this round doesn't show us as good detectives,
I hope it shows us as good bakers.
Joel: Keiron and janusz!
Jesse: Wow.
Okay. A meringue roll?
- Ow! - Sorry.
- A roll. - They saw it!
Like, they saw the same thing!
Here you go.
Joel: Mmm.
Keiron: We have a grapefruit meringue roulade.
Grapefruit.
The first thing we've actually saw
Was a kitchen towel dusted with icing sugar.
Evidence of meringue being made,
That led us to making a meringue roulade.
♪
What you've presented is really nice.
The flavors are great.
- This is delicious. - Okay. Phew!
And I have to admit, grapefruit is my favorite citrus fruit.
- Grapefruit curd. - Grapefruit.
But I do wish you had spread a thicker layer
Of the grapefruit curd.
You'd get more definition.
Keiron: Yeah.
If it is a grapefruit meringue roulade
That was made in the crime scene kitchen--
- Keiron: Mm-hmm. - Then you two could be
On the way to the merge.
Joel: Lenore and jessica!
- Janusz: Oh! - What the hell is that?
- April: Pavlova? - Is it a pavlova?
Well?
Well.
Jessica: We've made a passionfruit pavlova.
We thought pavlova.
We switched gears
With less than 40 minutes to go.
We were going to make a chiffon pie.
That's a big pivot.
It takes forever to bake them.
Every time I've seen those beautiful edible flowers,
They've been on pavlova.
Did you see anything in the dishwasher?
- Lenore and jessica: Yes. - A baking sheet.
Which is why we baked.
With a pavlova.
(laughing)
April: A sheet tray makes me so glad
We pivoted at the last moment and made a roll.
♪
The passionfruit curd is spectacular,
Except it's not a pavlova at this point,
Because it's just so severely under-baked.
If this had that crispy outside and marshmallow-y inside,
It would be perfect.
Curtis: You're the only team who made a pavlova, so--
- Yep. - Even though this is
A disaster, if it's what was made in the crime scene kitchen,
It could see you through to safety.
Yep.
- (sighing) - April: But watch that be it.
No matter if it's a great bake or not,
- They're going to get safety-- - yeah. Got it right.
--Because they got it right,
And that's the game! Aw!
Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
Whichever team wins this safety bake
Gets to skip tonight's elimination bake
And automatically advances
To the merge with our teams of family members.
Confectionator 3000,
Accept our virgin sacrifice
And reveal the crime scene kitchen dessert!
- Pavlova, pavlova, pavlova. - I know. Please.
(shouting) is it a pavlova?
- It's going down. - Okay.
Grapefruit meringue roulade.
Both: Grapefruit meringue roulade.
- Be a tart. - It's-- it's--
Confectionator, it's swiss roll with lemon curd.
Swiss roll. Swiss roll with lemon curd.
Please and thank you.
Oh!
- It is-- - a roll!
Joel: It's a passionfruit curd meringue roulade.
Light and slightly chewy meringue
Rolled around passionfruit curd and whipped cream,
Topped with more whipped cream
And yellow and orange edible flowers.
Yeah.
Janusz: We knew it's roulade, but the flavor was wrong.
It was passionfruit.
Curtis, can you explain how our contestants were supposed
To figure this mystery dessert out?
Curtis: The whisk attachment in the sink
And the sheet pan in the dishwasher
Both had traces of meringue.
The powdered-sugar-covered tea towel suggested
The meringue was rolled.
We saw a tea towel but did not make that connection.
Lenore: Mm.
Curtis: The egg yolk on the spatula
Next to the double boiler saucepan
Suggested a curd was made.
If you compared the amounts of each fruit on the receipt
To the fruit in the basket,
There were seven passion fruits missing,
Suggesting the flavor of the curd.
I really should wear glasses. (laughing)
You really should! You're in the crime scene kitchen,
And you think there's a note from grandma.
Curtis: There was also a grapefruit missing,
But that was used for a glass of grapefruit juice,
Which is shown by the glass and pulp in the dishwasher.
You fell for it.
Curtis: The used cream indicated a whipped cream topping,
And the bonus clue we showed you should have led you to deduce
That the orange and yellow flowers
Were missing from the packet and used on the dessert.
Which one was used.
All these clues should have led you
To the delicious passionfruit curd meringue roulade
With yellow and orange edible flowers.
We felt that the two teams who used meringue
As the base for their dessert were the closest.
They were janusz and keiron and lenore and jessica.
One got the form of the dessert right but had the wrong curd,
And the other got the flavor components right
But the wrong form.
The winners of the safety bake are...
...Janusz and keiron.
(contestants applauding)
- April: Good job, guys. - Whoo! Thank you, babe.
Good work, y'all.
Janusz and keiron,
Congratulations on winning tonight's safety bake.
- Keiron: Thank you. - You've now made it
Through to the merge, where you'll take on the best teams
Of family members that you have yet to meet.
- Congratulations, guys. - Keiron: Thank you.
- April: Yay! - Curtis: Well done.
- Thank you. - Great job, y'all.
Yes, great job.
♪ we're merging, we're merging ♪
Whoo-hoo!
(both laughing)
Gays do not do math.
Now, it is time for the elimination bake.
(exhaling)
The mystery dessert for this round
Was created by yolanda.
Bakers, the crime scene kitchen is now open.
Two minutes are on the clock.
(beeping)
Jesse and justin,
Start your search.
Okay. Looks like you got honey over there.
Justin: Alright.
- Let's go. - Alright. What are we making?
- Not here. - It's not there.
Justin: There's nothing in there.
Here. Oh, there's another proofing bowl.
Oh, there's definitely a yeasted dough here.
In a small container, I smell it.
There's been yeast proofing.
Justin: Three butters gone, lots of eggs, milk.
Based on the butter, dairy, and eggs
Getting used in the fridge,
This is probably an enriched dough.
So, we're thinking something like brioche or a sweet bread.
Like cinnamon buns.
Any obvious flours getting used?
And there is nothing in the apron.
Can you smell this?
Almond. Honey.
Yes.
Okay, but what's-- a vanilla bean?
I look at the paring knife.
This is vanilla.
That's pretty classic when you're making a pastry cream,
To throw that vanilla pod into the milk
In order to heat it to make your pastry cream.
Okay. There's a knife.
Not going to forget this.
- Look. - Flour. Okay, okay, okay.
This looks like there is, like--
- What is that? - Caramelized.
- Is that, like, a-- - something's caramelized on it.
On the spring-form pan,
I see caramel, sugar.
Something was baked in there.
Offset spatula.
What is this? What crumbs are these on here?
There are crumbs on the cutting board.
They're a little bit drier,
And that lends itself to more of a bread--
Brioche bread, a dinner roll.
A sweet bread has
More of, like, a doughy, kind of donut texture.
It's not going to be crumbly like a bread.
April: What kind of bread gets made in a spring-form pan?
- (beeping) - both: Ten seconds.
- Ten seconds. - What does this look like?
- (beeping, buzzing) - jessica: In there?
Lenore: Anything else in the dishwasher or in the sink?
I don't see anything on the floor.
- Okay. - Joel: That is time!
What's on the knife?
Samantha: We missed something,
Because it's very on brand for us.
This is the toughest season, and I'm not just saying that
Because I'm on it.
Good job, clue people.
Joel: Bakers, you will now have three hours
To recreate the mystery dessert.
The team that does worst now will be eliminated
And miss out on the merge.
Ready! Guess! Bake!
(beeping)
For sure, we know we're making a dough.
- Yes. - Yeast dough.
- Yes. - I'll get the proofer box out.
- Yes. - We're going to put that in.
Yes, yes.
I'm thinking it was some kind of brioche.
- Great. - There was a cutting board
That had a large knife on it.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
What was that cake that we thought
Was really heck-ing weird?
And it was german, and we couldn't say the name of it.
As soon as jess mentions
That there's a cutting board and a knife,
I remember this yeasted bread that had been cut in half
With pastry cream in the middle.
Do you remember what I'm talking about?
It makes sense with the vanilla bean
For there to be pastry cream.
Because we saw the bowl that had honey and almonds in it...
Lenore: The vanilla bean and the serrated knife
And cutting board,
We are making a honey almond brioche
Filled with pastry cream.
- What are we going to call it? - Kukructhunkrm.
- Good. - Kukrantchekrum?
That's the pronunciation that we will need.
Kuh... Uh...
There was a knife. There was a paring knife,
But I don't know if that was used to, like, take it out,
To, like, rim it and, like, get it free.
- Samantha: There was, like-- - April: The candied almonds.
- Samantha: Mm-hmm. Here. - April: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- April: So maybe-- - the thing and then when you
- Take it out-- - do you-- and you flip it over?
Let's do that. Let's do that.
We feel like candied almonds were on the sides,
And there's really no way to get it on the sides in the pan
And bake it without baking it upside down.
So we are going to make an upside down brioche bread
With honey candied almonds.
I do want to braid it, because I feel like it's going
To make it look pretty.
This brioche bread is taking us to the merge.
It has to.
One thing about bread-- you either (bleep) up
Or it's really amazing. You know what I mean?
Let's not mess it up.
- April: Well, yeah. Let's not. - Let's not do that.
Do you think, because this is a rich dough--
Do you think it could be, like, brioche?
Could. So, would we bake it in spring-form?
We bake it, release it,
And then cut it,
And then fill the layers of it.
I keep coming back to that.
Kind of like a saint-tropez tart.
Jesse: Okay.
Justin: It's, like, a round brioche.
You dissect it with some sort of filling.
Normally, you have that pearl sugar on top.
- Okay. That sounds great. - But we can do
The honey almond.
We're making our take on a saint-tropez tart.
- How's your gut feel about it? - It's a reach.
It's reaching, man. I'm telling you.
Oh, jesse and justin.
- Hey, man. - Hey, joel. How are you?
You're one bake away from being a part of the merge.
Actually pretty proud that we've got this far even.
Joel: Yeah. How did you guys first bond?
Back when I first met jesse,
I was, if you can believe it, much smaller than I am now.
Jesse was still huge, and I was like,
"hey, man. Like, look at me.
Like, how do I get bigger?
Like, how do I start gaining some of this muscle?"
So, bodybuilding was something that we were kind of into.
But he also competed at one point.
I couldn't even believe it was him.
Yeah.
Jesse: Tanned-- you know, the orange spray--
With, like, a 12-pack, man.
The guy was ripped.
Joel: But it started out with you going, like,
"hey, how do I get in shape a little bigger?"
- Oh, yeah. - Cut to you in a competition,
Spray-tanned with a six-pack?
It was all about getting the speedo on, really.
(laughing)
- (beeping) - joel: One hour remaining!
No, no, no, no.
Samantha: I don't know how to braid hair!
April: Okay. Oh, my god.
How do you have long hair and I have short hair?
This one should go over.
Is this culinary school?
Listen, girl. I don't know if you want me
As your instructor right now, okay?
♪
Baking brioche or any type of bread is tricky,
Because bread requires a lot of time.
Under-baking is often a risk,
Because you won't know until you cut through it
And at that point it's too late to change.
You ready, jess?
We definitely want to make the merge.
We definitely don't want to go home.
Jessica: And because the pavlova--
- Lenore: Mm-hmm. - Was raw and under-baked,
We are not giving the judges
Something that is raw again.
Nope.
That feels... Interesting.
Jessica: Mm-hmm.
- Dun, dun, dun! - Duh!
Yeah, it's still raw inside.
- It's raw inside. - She raw.
We're a little panicked right now, so...
We don't have enough time. It's not baking.
There is nothing that we can do besides wait
And hope that our little baby pulls through
And is fully baked.
Jessica: It needs more time in the oven.
Lenore: Go faster!
It's absolute torture.
♪
Joel: Welcome back to the elimination bake.
The crime scene kitchen has got our teams
Going down similar paths.
One is making a honey almond brioche with pastry cream,
One is making an upside down brioche,
And another is making a saint-tropez tart--
Justin: It's a bit flaky.
--Easily identified by its lack of tan lines.
Let's get back to the bake.
So, what's going on?
Curtis: The stakes just couldn't be higher
For these three teams, because two of these teams
Are going to make it through to the merge
And one of them's being sent home.
Yolanda: Lenore and jessica are making
A honey almond brioche with pastry cream in the middle.
They're basing it off a german cake
That they can't remember the name of.
Curtis: And they're not happy with how it's baked.
I wonder if they're going to be able to salvage it.
Yolanda: Even if it bakes in this time,
- How are they going to cut it-- - right.
And fill it with pastry cream?
You could cut the tension with a knife.
April and samantha are making
An upside down brioche bread with candied almonds.
They braided their dough.
You want me to flip it? Or are you going to flip it?
You can flip it if you want.
Curtis: They're going to try and invert it.
- Yolanda: See, why are they-- - but it's a spring-form pan!
Yolanda: I don't understand. The beauty of a spring-form is,
- You release the side-- - pop it off.
--And it's free.
Curtis: Now, this is the only team that's done
Pretty much a straight bread.
They're not filling that like the other two teams,
Which will serve them really well
If this is what was baked in the crime scene kitchen.
- Yo. - Hey, dude. It's a bit doughy.
What should we do?
Curtis: Hold on. Look at what justin and jesse are doing.
They're cutting their brioche while hot.
They're continuing to use that leveler.
They're cutting more layers.
I don't think that they're happy with how that's baked.
- Yolanda: No. - Curtis: It's underdone.
It's going to be small, man.
It's okay.
Oh.
It's okay. It looks better.
Yeah. Take that out.
(babbling) oh, wow.
Curtis: Oh, look at that brioche. It is dark.
Oh, that brioche is overdone now.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Get it from both sides.
- (beeping) - joel: One minute remaining!
April: You want to put the glaze on her?
- Get it in there, jessica. - I'm trying. I am trying.
Curtis: Look. They're putting the pastry cream on.
- Both: Oh, god. - I would stop.
All: Five, four, three, two, one!
- (beeping) - time's up!
Time's up!
Justin: Who knows, man?
Ah, it's okay.
Janusz and keiron,
Come to your stools without a care in the world.
(contestants chuckling)
Justin and jesse, please bring us what you think
Was in the crime scene kitchen.
- Oh. - What is that in the middle?
Yeah. What's in the middle?
Hello, judges.
Joel: Look at that.
Jesse: This is our take on a saint-tropez tart.
- What's a saint-tropez tart? - I don't know.
It's a enriched dough with a pastry cream with--
Pearl sugar is kind of commonly on top,
But based on the clues in the kitchen,
We feel that honey and almonds kind of made the most sense.
With the whisk and vanilla bean, we thought pastry cream.
Where was the vanilla bean?
It reads a bit like a hamburger bun.
Both: Oh.
Oh, no.
♪
It's a really dense dough.
Yolanda: You used the cake leveler and cut away
The entire middle of your brioche,
And so what we're left with is sort of the crusty top.
Curtis: And I would have loved it if there was some color
On those almonds,
But if a saint-tropez tart with honey and almond topping
Was baked in the crime scene kitchen
And you're the only ones to do it,
Then you're going to be safe.
And you'll make it to the merge.
- Sweet. Fingers crossed. - That'd be amazing.
Fingers crossed.
Joel: April and samantha!
- Lenore: What is it? - Justin: Ooh.
- Oh. - Oh, snap.
- Joel: Hi, guys. - Both: Hi.
What did you bring us?
Samantha: An upside down brioche with candied almonds.
Candied almonds.
Why did you think it was an upside down brioche?
Well, because the spring-form pan--
Yeah. The caramel looked like it was on the bottom,
And so that's why we went that route.
Was your braid more visible when the cake was right side up?
Yes, it was more visible.
Shall we?
♪
I would just like a lot more of these candied honey almonds.
Joel: Mmm.
It's light and airy and delicious,
And that is exactly what you're hoping for with a brioche.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yolanda: If it was an upside down honey almond brioche,
You guys will make it to the merge.
- Fingers crossed. (laughing) - crossing fingers.
Joel: Lenore and jessica!
Ladies and gentlemen.
- Oh. - Okay.
Jesse: Okay.
Yeah.
Fine details matter.
We have a little bit of concern
That we didn't bake the almonds.
Jesse: Is that going to be the difference
Between us going home or making it to the merge?
Joel: Well, look at this.
Lenore: We are calling it a honey almond brioche
With a pastry cream filling.
There was a german bread cake that we had researched,
Which was called a krukrukshen.
(laughing)
There is a very traditional dessert made in germany.
Okay.
What makes honey?
Bees.
Oh, is it a bee sting cake?
- Yes. - Bee sting cake.
(laughing)
I'm very good at trivia. (laughing)
Oh, my gosh!
Bienenstich is the pronunciation
That I can get as close to correct as possible.
♪
I think it really is a beautiful, beautiful flavor,
But there's some really soft parts of that brioche
That resemble it being slightly under-baked.
Yolanda: The pastry cream definitely was affected
By some of that heat. It feels a bit softer.
- Yeah. - Okay.
But if a bee sting was made in the crime scene kitchen,
I think you guys will be cruising straight on through
- To the merge. - Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Justin: If we're going down tonight,
I'm taking this whole kitchen with me.
I'm feeling saucy.
April: This is the merge. Do or die.
You make it or you don't.
Both: Buckle up.
Welcome back to crime scene kitchen.
We're about to find out which of our teams of friends
Will be joining our safety bake winners, janusz and keiron,
In advancing to the big merge
And which team will be going home.
Confectionator 3000,
Reveal the mystery dessert!
Both: Come on!
- Please be a bee sting! - Bee sting, bee sting!
- Please be a bee sting! - Bee string, bee string!
Mm! That's a bee sting.
Ugh!
April: Confectionator, I would just like
To vibe with you today.
Just bring me what I baked. It's fine.
- Lenore: What is it? - Jessica: Oh!
Joel: The mystery dessert is...
Bienenstich or bee sting cake,
A yeasted cake filled with creamy vanilla pastry cream
With caramelized honey almond topping.
Wow.
Yolanda, take us through the clues
That should have pointed the bakers in this direction.
Yolanda: The glass measuring cup with yeast and milk
Plus the bowl with cling wrap in the proofing drawer
Suggested a yeasted dough was made.
Okay.
Yolanda: The almond and honey remnants
Baked onto the sides of the spring-form pan
Suggested they dripped down from the top during baking.
The vanilla bean on the knife next to the stove
Indicated the flavor of the pastry cream that was made.
Wow.
The knife?
Neither of us smelled it!
Yolanda: The serrated knife with crumbs on the cutting board
Suggested the cake was cut horizontally
And likely filled with pastry cream.
All these clues should have led you
To the german delicacy bienenstich or bee sting cake.
Bienenstich!
Bienenstich.
Congratulations to jessica and lenore.
You got it exactly right,
Though the execution could have been better.
- Sure. - Agreed.
It's such a shame to say goodbye to any of you right now.
You've all proven that you deserve to be
In this competition.
So, which team is going home?
♪
April and samantha.
- Yeah. - (samantha chuckling)
Yolanda: We're so sorry to see you go,
But unfortunately, missing out on the pastry cream
Was the deciding factor for us.
Yep.
It's really hard.
Yeah, but we had so much fun.
So much fun.
Well, you've been awesome, and we would wish you
- Nothing but the best of luck. - April and samantha: Thank you.
- Bye, guys. - (jesse speaking indistinctly)
- Bye, guys. Thank you. - Y'all go kill it.
Y'all go kill it.
I love this profession.
I love the art that comes out of it.
This experience just reminded me
Why I went to school in the first place--
To make these things that I am so passionate about.
Sorry. I really did.
Stop!
I couldn't have done it with anybody else.
Bring us back. Crime scene all stars. Let's do it.
What round do we have to make to get to that?
We bring the vibes, okay?
Maybe not the clues, but we bring the vibes.
Congratulations.
- You three teams of friends-- - yay!
Joel: --Have made it to the next step.
You'll merge with our top three teams of family members,
Who you have yet to meet.
New blood, new people to send home.
(laughing) oh!
Jesse: Making it to the merge--
Couldn't have asked for any more.
Let's ask for a little more.
(jesse laughing)
Get ready for a frosting-filled run
Toward the $100,000 finale,
Which promises to be just as messy as it sounds.
Great. Love that.
See you next time on crime scene kitchen.