JOEL: It's the Crime Scene Kitchen Season Three
$100,000 Finale.
So, go ahead and scream.
(Screaming)
All season long, our 12 teams
of friends and teams of family members have competed...
- Where do we even start? - Ooh, God, I have no idea.
JOEL: Investigating the latest food crimes.
What's this? What's this? Okay.
KAI: That's just flowers.
This is the hardest Crime Scene Kitchen
I've ever seen on this show.
- Oh, my gosh. - That was tough.
The highs were high.
It's the smoothest piece of cake I've ever eaten.
Oh.
- And the lows were... - (Blowing raspberry)
JOEL: Dear God.
Let's not freak out.
Well, you tell 'em, Curtis.
I hate to call it inedible, but it is.
- Yep. - We were wrong.
Wow.
I don't like this game anymore.
Nine teams were eliminated,
blowing their chance at the grand prize.
I'm gonna get emotional now.
Dang!
Tonight...
BOTH: It's the finale!
Only three teams are left
to put on the oven mitts and fight it out.
Have you got an idea what we're making?
- Not really, no. - What does this say?
This is a $100,000 puzzle and we need to crack it.
This is the finale.
We expect execution, presentation, flavor.
Two teams will go home empty-handed.
My heart is racing right now.
- ♪ I'm so nervous ♪ - They're blackened.
KEIRON: It's gonna be down to the wire again.
Aah!
While the winners will bake their way
to the six-figure prize.
- For the final time... - Ready?
Confectionator 3000,
which team has won Crime Scene Kitchen season three?
No time to waste.
This is the Crime Scene Kitchen finale!
♪
DIRECTOR: It's finale time.
Three, two, one.
Welcome to the Crime Scene Kitchen finale.
We started the season with six teams of family members
and six teams of friends.
Now, three teams are battling it out
for $100,000.
Let's meet them now.
Partners in pastry,
the Canadian baking phenoms who've grown stronger
with every round of competition.
It's Lenore and Jessica.
(Applauding)
BOTH: It's the finale!
JESSICA: We've been working so hard all season to get here
and we've really shown our skills.
LENORE: We have proven that we can find
all of the clues in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
And those other teams better be quaking in their boots.
Our European powerhouses with great baking skills,
but questionable fashion choices, Janusz and Keiron.
- Guys? - (Applauding)
$100,000 is just life-changing.
So, the pressure is really on.
Winning a competition like this,
I get hot just thinking about it.
If you win, will you cry?
Yeah, I will definitely cry.
Here we go.
The comeback kids, our brilliant brother and sister bakers,
who've proven blood is thicker than water,
but slightly thinner than corn syrup.
It's Becky and Daniel.
A few rounds ago, I honestly don't think
I could have told you
that we'd be the last family team standing.
BECKY: We are in the finale, we're here.
Nobody can stop the Rosales train.
We are coming for that $100,000.
JOEL: Teams, welcome
and congratulations on making it to our final test.
We know you teams have been watching past seasons.
So, we had to up the ante
and make these the hardest crime scenes yet.
Getting the clues right is one thing,
but this is the finale.
We also expect great execution,
and making a bad dessert will count against you,
even if you guess right.
KEIRON: They're not messing around with the finale.
This is make or break. It's pretty stressful.
There are two bakes tonight, but here's the finale twist:
there will be no safety bake.
You will be judged
on your skills across two separate bakes.
The team that performs the best overall
will be our champion and take home $100,000.
This first bake is just as important;
we have to nail both bakes tonight.
Close is not good enough.
You will now have two minutes to search
the Crime Scene Kitchen.
Becky and Daniel, start your search.
LENORE: Let's go.
JANUSZ: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Pot of water on the stove. Lots of eggs.
The egg yolks is telling me that maybe they were used
to make some type of curd.
I don't know yet. I don't have enough clues.
There's a bunch of little tart rings.
These tart rings are a big, big clue for us right now.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Whatever the mystery bake is,
we need to make it in the form of six tarts.
But there's so many different tarts that you can make.
KEIRON: Okay, so, what is this?
We have a receipt. Um...
I fish down and there's a receipt in the bottom...
JANUSZ: Look, Keiron.
...and there's a load of coupons on the table.
- The receipt... - The receipt.
...said that fruits were bought and that nuts were bought.
KEIRON: One of them was 15% off and one of them was for 25% off.
Okay, so, it's lemon and 25% pistachio.
So, we're thinking lemon and pistachios being used somewhere.
We just need to look for more clues.
Listen, sweetened condensed milk,
white chocolate, different colors.
Okay. Jess, it's a bomb.
- Bomb. - Oh.
LENORE: We found two silicone molds.
A silicone bomb mold is used as a vessel to hold panna cotta
or mousses, chocolate,
anything that you wanna set in the shape of a sphere.
Whatever is in our smaller hemisphere is gonna be hidden
inside our other hemisphere.
So, it's a bomb in a bomb.
Oh, crust.
Look.
Babe, crust.
There's a little piece of something here.
Something that says "crust" on it.
Whenever there's something with writing on it,
it's usually really important in the Crime Scene Kitchen.
Okay.
Oh.
Oh, my God, it's a puzzle!
So, on the other counter, I find another triangle of paper.
LENORE: What does this say?
This is a $100,000 puzzle. We need to crack it.
There's another piece here.
LENORE: Oh. Um... Oh, boy.
Fridge, nothing. Okay.
There's another piece somewhere, where is it?
You looked in all the drawers?
Is there just, like, one missing piece?
Is there a floor clue? Found it.
- (Grunting) - JESSICA: Oh, my God.
- LENORE: I can't. - JESSICA: Okay.
- Bring it here. - Here it is. Here it is,
here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is.
The nuts are in the ganache and the crust.
Fruit, mousse and curd. And there it is.
We know that the nuts are in the ganache
and in the crust.
We also know that the fruit is in the curd and the mousse.
JESSICA: Ten seconds.
Ten seconds, babe. What's this was used?
What's this? What's that?
- JANUSZ: That's crust. - What does that mean?
- 25% saved. - Where's the damn...
JOEL: That is time.
We didn't find that last piece of the note,
and I think that might've been the key
on how to assemble everything.
We knew it was gonna be hard, but this is a lot.
Bakers, you will now have three-and-a-half hours
to recreate this first mystery dessert.
Let's do it, hon.
Ready, guess, bake!
(Beeping)
That was an... interesting kitchen.
Yes, okay.
I found the triangular piece of paper
and it has the word "crust" on it.
What is a crusty triangle? What does it even mean?
Those ones?
- So, it's an insert. - It's an insert.
I think we're making six tarts with a mousse dome on top.
And obviously, a mirror glaze was made.
A mirror glaze has been made
with the white chocolate and the condensed milk.
So, because we saw six tart rings and then silicone molds,
we're making lemon
and pistachio dome tarts
with this joconde sponge
and a green mirror glaze.
It's a mirror glaze because you can almost see yourself in it.
You feeling confident?
I mean, I'm feeling fabulous in my fabulous shirt.
Are you sweating?
We're making a mirror glaze.
Okay, that's what I thought, as well.
So, are we making a white chocolate ganache tart?
White chocolate and pistachio
go well together, but so does dark chocolate.
Did you see dark chocolate?
I didn't see any dark chocolate anywhere.
It would read so sweet to me to do a white chocolate.
I know, that's why I would prefer to do a dark chocolate.
And I just think it tastes better.
Because we saw tart rings...
LENORE: The puzzle.
...and the coupon for Meyer lemons and pistachios,
we are making pistachio Meyer
lemon bomb tarts
filled with a dark chocolate ganache
and a yellow mirror glaze
and edible flowers.
Using the dark chocolate
instead of the white chocolate that we saw in the kitchen
is a gamble, but we know it's gonna taste really good.
Lenore and Jessica.
- LENORE: Hi, Joel. - JOEL: Guys, here we are.
If you won Crime Scene Kitchen,
if you got the $100,000,
how do you think it would change your life?
Well, I really wanna go on a honeymoon with my husband.
We haven't had a chance to do that,
and my husband, he's been supporting me for so long.
So, I want to, you know, use this money
to help him with his small business, as well.
Owning my own business,
we haven't taken in a salary in almost two years.
And I would love to be able to
treat my husband as much as he deserves
and treat ourselves a little bit too.
Yeah.
Lenore, what about you?
Oh, my gosh, my parents are so chuffed
for me to be in this competition.
They were the most incredible parents
you could have ever asked for.
They never put themselves first.
They always put my brother and I first.
My dad was an accountant in Jamaica,
and he had to come and work here as a security guard.
My mom was a teacher and she had to come and be a domestic worker
until she was able to go to school again.
My greatest hope is to now give them
a little glimpse of what their sacrifice has yielded.
He gets to live vicariously through me
and I think it just makes him exceptionally proud.
That's amazing.
You have the perfect parents.
I do.
BECKY: You look really in your element here.
DANIEL: I feel in my element. I do this kind of stuff a lot.
Daniel and Becky.
- BOTH: Welcome back. - How are you feeling?
- Like $100,000. - JOEL: You hear that?
(Laughing)
Okay, so, two minutes, big finale.
You walk into the crime scene. What are you seeing?
First thing we find are these random
ripped-up pieces of paper.
One of the pieces said "fruit," one of them said "crust,"
another one said "nut." The last one we could not find.
So, I think it was either ganache or a glaze.
- Hoping it's a glaze. - JOEL: I have no idea.
I don't even go through the Crime Scene Kitchen.
(Laughing) You should.
I just sort through turtlenecks
and figure out which one I'm gonna wear on camera.
Uh, what are you guys making?
So, we are making lemon pistachio domed tartlets
filled with lemon curd,
topped with pistachio mousse
with a pistachio insert,
glazed in a yellow mirror glaze,
and garnished with crushed pistachios
and gold leaf.
Do you think this will be the best bake
you've had so far, guys?
Really hope it is.
We're here. We're going for the gold.
Don't doubt us.
(Clock beeping)
CURTIS: Baking in a finale,
compared to any other bake, is completely different.
Our teams know that they could walk out of here
having changed their life forever,
and it's a pretty exciting feeling,
but it's also very stressful.
- JESSICA: I got them. - LENORE: All right.
They're nicely browned.
Yeah, that's good.
That is very nice. It feels baked. It's brown.
The tart shells look great.
BECKY: That's pretty.
But I try to take them out of the rings...
BECKY: They look snug.
DANIEL: Oh, they are.
...and they are stuck.
This is not what I was expecting to happen.
BECKY: We only made six.
DANIEL: There's no extra tart shells.
We cannot afford to have any of these
crack or break or crumble.
Uh, maybe they were pressed too far inside.
(Sighing)
I cannot let a broken tart shell keep us from $100,000.
I wouldn't touch it. Don't--
- All right. - Yeah, don't touch it.
(Beeping)
Oh, to pop it up?
DANIEL: I need to be very gentle.
Don't touch it, Becky. Don't touch it.
Try another one.
We need six and we only made six.
$100,000 is riding on whether
I'm able to get these tart shells out of the rings or not.
If I break even one, we will be behind in the competition.
We don't have time to make more right now.
We got this.
This is the final tart ring.
I think I need to loosen the edges a little bit.
My heart is racing right now.
We cannot afford for this to get stuck.
Here we go. We're budging. Here we go.
- Phew. - Okay.
- Good job. - That was a close call.
That was like, "Ugh."
Here we go, guys. Judges, this is the first of two bakes.
Curtis, what's going on?
All three of our teams are making some kind of variation
on a lemon pistachio domed tart.
The fact that they were making quite similar desserts
is gonna make the details even more important.
So, you're gonna do what you guys do best,
which is nitpick, huh?
We are nitpick professionals.
When God gives you a gift, Joel...
you use it.
So, Lenore and Jessica, how are they doing?
Lenore and Jessica are making
pistachio Meyer lemon bomb tarts.
I think they're the only team to be using dark chocolate.
Some people like dark chocolate with lemon, but--
- I sure do. - Do you?
- JOEL: Mm-hmm. - All right.
Well, you're gonna have some.
We're running down to the wire.
Becky and Daniel lost a lot of time de-shelling their tarts.
Now, they're lagging behind the other teams
that have already started glazing.
This is not what we had anticipated time-wise.
CURTIS: Mirror glazing doesn't take a minute.
It's a process.
LENORE: It's gonna be down to the wire again.
Look at Keiron, he's gone for a Kermit frog green.
Do you have a problem with the Muppets?
YOLANDA: It's yellow versus green,
two very different presentations.
It's hard to do something in three hours...
(Beeping)
One minute!
I'm so nervous.
Put it on, put it on. Thank you.
HOSTS: Five, four, three....
- Yeah, that is it Becky. - ...two, one.
JOEL: And that is time.
- Time's up. - That looks beautiful.
Step away from your bakes, put your hands on your hips,
in victory ...
- In victory! - ...or bummed out resignation.
Becky and Daniel,
would you mind bringing us
what you thought was made in the Crime Scene Kitchen?
CONTESTANTS: Oh!
- Gorgeous. - Pretty.
Man, this dessert is just as flashy as you guys are.
- (Both laughing) - That was the goal.
We've prepared lemon pistachio domed tartlets.
Maybe.
The tart shell is filled with a lemon curd,
and then the dome on top is a pistachio white chocolate mousse
with a pistachio insert
that is covered with a mirror glaze
and then garnished with more pistachio.
Was there anything in the Crime Scene Kitchen that stumped you?
We found three pieces of a ripped up card
or note of some sort.
As much as we looked for that fourth final piece,
we could not find it.
They found three different pieces of paper
and there's potentially a fourth one out there.
We've missed something really important.
Finding that clue really makes the difference.
High five.
Yeah!
CURTIS: Let's taste it.
The glaze is well done.
- Thank you. - It's nice and thin and even.
You can see that perfect line over the whole dome,
and I love the colors.
The flavor of your lemon curd is really punchy. It's great.
The execution's there,
and if this is what was made in the Crime Scene Kitchen,
then you guys are gonna be looking really good
going into your second bake.
Thank you.
JOEL: Keiron and Janusz.
- Oh! - So, beautiful, guys.
KEIRON: Thank you.
- Did you see green? - It was green.
We decided to go with a pistachio mousse,
and then we have an insert of lemon curd,
and then it's glazed with a white chocolate mirror glaze.
And then, we have a lemon and pistachio joconde.
YOLANDA: Ooh.
DANIEL: Joconde?
Is that what we were missing?
In terms of presentation,
for the mirror glaze, you have chosen green.
Yeah. Because the colors of a pistachio, I've thought green.
We like when the outside of the food
matches what's in the inside.
The mousse is really tasty.
The flavor of the pistachio and the lemon,
I think, is balanced really nicely.
The mousse is so luscious. The joconde, that's wonderful.
I love multiple different textures in one mouthful.
This is our second tart with lemon and pistachio,
which is both good and bad for you guys.
So, we're really gonna be just looking at
the execution and the flavors.
- Yep. Thank you. - Thank you.
JOEL: Jessica and Lenore.
CONTESTANTS: Ooh.
Yellow.
It's yellow.
We have made six Meyer lemon pistachio bomb tartlets.
And then, the top is lemon mousse.
What clues did you find in the Crime Scene Kitchen
that led you to make this dessert?
We found a puzzle clue and we found all of the pieces.
Underneath fruit, it said "curd" and "mousse."
And underneath "nuts", it said "crust" and "ganache".
BOTH: Ganache.
LENORE: So, we did the ganache with pistachio
and dark chocolate.
Despite not seeing dark chocolate
in the Crime Scene Kitchen,
we thought that dark chocolate would be a better choice.
That just confuses me.
CURTIS: Hmm.
Regarding the lemon insert,
great idea and very tasty.
The lemon is so lemony.
The curd is really well done.
And I love the light consistency of the mousse.
But the trouble I'm having
is the dark chocolate ganache on top of a crust
that is slightly overbaked means that you have a base of the tart
that is very rich and very hard,
and then a very light, airy mousse and curd.
So, one gets a little steamrolled by the other, sadly.
That was definitely a kick to the confidence.
When we're talking about making a ganache,
I'm like, "Yeah, let's do dark chocolate."
And now, and I wish I hadn't.
But because we're the only team that solved that puzzle,
hopefully, we got those components
that maybe other people's missed.
(Lenore groaning)
Welcome back to the Crime Scene Kitchen $100,000 finale.
Here's where things stand.
All of our teams made some form
of pistachio and lemon dome tarts.
Now, our bakers are praying their particular version
is what comes out of the Confectionator.
Confectionator 3000,
bring forth the mystery dessert.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Confectionator 3000, show us...
Show us a joconde, please.
Here we go.
(Exhaling sharply)
BOTH: Dark chocolate ganache,
dark chocolate ganache, dark chocolate ganache.
Is it green, is it green, is it green?
Yellow?
JOEL: The mystery dessert is...
lemon pistachio dome tarts.
Crispy pistachio pastry crust, filled with pistachio ganache,
topped with a dome of lemon mousse,
with a lemon curd insert,
covered in a yellow mirror glaze.
Here's how you should have got that answer.
The tart rings, silicone molds,
receipt and coupons told all of you
that lemon pistachio domes had been made.
The key clue to the tart structure was the recipe card
ripped into four pieces and scattered around the kitchen.
How did we miss three triangles?
CURTIS: When put together,
it showed that the pistachio should be used in the crust
and ganache,
while the lemons should flavor the curd and the mousse.
The sweetened condensed milk suggested a mirror glaze
and the lack of green coloring present
told you the most likely glaze color would be yellow
to match the lemon flavor in the tart.
This was a fascinating challenge.
All of you teams essentially delivered the right dessert,
but none were perfect.
Lenore and Jessica, you read the clues from the kitchen the best,
but for some reason, you added dark chocolate to your tart,
which changed the flavor profile hugely
from pistachio and lemon.
Keiron and Janusz, your tarts were light, precise,
and pretty, and used the curd correctly,
but you added a joconde layer that no clues led you to
and got the mousse and color of the tarts wrong.
Daniel and Becky, your tarts had none
of the key flavor elements in the right place.
But guess what? Yours were the best tasting tarts overall.
There are no teams here
that delivered well enough
to take a strong lead into the final bake.
In many ways, that's good news for you all,
as no team is so far behind
that they don't stand a chance of winning the $100,000.
Make this next bake your best. Good luck.
BECKY: Right now, it's anybody's game.
We need to capture every single clue.
This $100,000 is definitely still up for grabs.
Bakers, it's time for the final bake of the season.
You have two minutes to search the Crime Scene Kitchen.
Janusz and Keiron, start your search.
- JANUSZ: Let's do it, babe. - KEIRON: Last chance.
- Last time. - Last time.
LENORE: Let's go.
JESSICA: Oh, pretty.
There's milk and eggs.
BECKY: AP, baking powder.
All right.
Two sheet pans, three eight-inch cake pans.
Once again, the dish rack is full.
Ooh. Two large square cake pans.
We have three eight-inch cake pans in the drying rack,
two ten-inch square cake pans in the dishwasher.
I think we're gonna make a two tier cake
with a square cake on the bottom and a round cake on top.
Now, we need to figure out the flavors and the design.
JANUSZ: Listen, orange extract. Random oranges.
So, we see a zester and it has orange zest at the back of it.
Maybe orange cake was made.
And look! Look. What's that?
KEIRON: We saw an illustration that had...
- Orange. - ...oranges in it
with some foliage.
There's modeling chocolate.
You've got those colors that were used.
And I'm thinking this was made out of chocolate
and placed on the cake somewhere.
JANUSZ: Keiron, taste it.
- Lemon curd. - Lemon curd.
On the island, I see a rolling pin
and there's some sort of dough stuck to it.
It smells like a sugar cookie dough.
JESSICA: Ooh, I find a note.
"I love your new kitchen renovation.
"We should make a cake inspired by it."
Right beside this note are, like,
12 different types of tiles.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
I think we're doing some cookies.
Stencils.
Beside the tile,
I also see a parchment paper where it's been airbrushed
with blue and orange.
So, it looks like we're only using orange and blue.
There's something in a spoon here to taste.
Royal icing.
Royal icing is normally used to decorate cookies,
which makes sense because we're in the middle
of some kind of tile cookie making station.
Why is semolina used, Keiron?
The semolina is on the thingy.
There's semolina flour and I'm just thinking,
"What is the use of it?"
Why is semolina used?
I don't know.
Semolina changes the texture of your bake.
KEIRON: Semolina flour
is different than all-purpose flour, it's more coarse.
LENORE: Semolina, olive oil.
Okay, but what's this?
I think that's for the pattern that's along the side.
We're doing this on the side of the cake.
LENORE: We have ten seconds left.
Oh, my gosh.
- Ten seconds. - Ten seconds, Keiron.
Have you got an idea what we're making?
- Not really, no. - Oil.
- Look at this pattern. - Yeah.
Are we putting cookies on the cake?
- We might. - Stenciled cookies.
And that's time!
- Okay. - Okay.
I'm not sure what to think right now.
There's a lot going on in this cake. Aah!
Bye-bye, Crime Scene Kitchen. I'm not gonna miss you.
(Both laughing)
There are so many elements.
Everything needs to be perfect.
KEIRON: This is make or break.
There's $100,000 on the line and it's no joke.
We really need to nail it.
JOEL: Bakers, you will now have five hours
to recreate the mystery dessert.
JANUSZ: Come on, babe.
For the last time of season three--
ready, guess, bake!
(Beeping)
And that was a lemon curd that you tasted?
Yeah, I got lemon.
Now, that I remember the drawing,
I thought I saw, like, one orange.
One orange?
Is that weird to have lemon?
We're a little confused because we tasted lemon curd.
LENORE: But it could have been orange curd.
Is it lemon or orange?
Do we wanna go with orange curd because it's consistent?
I think we should go with orange.
Fine. So, orange semolina olive oil cake.
Because I saw olive oil in the measuring cup,
semolina, and orange rind on the zester,
we are deciding to make
an orange semolina
olive oil cake with orange curd
decorated with oranges
and mosaic tile decor.
Orange you gonna be glad it was oranges?
- She hates wordplay. - Mm-hmm.
The pressure's on to just get stuff in the oven for sure.
We need to figure out what semolina was used for.
I feel like it was used in the cookies.
What do you think, is it semolina-based cake?
I feel like it's an orange-based cake
with... a lemon curd.
Maybe the cookies had the semolina in it?
- I do feel exactly the same. - Yeah?
JANUSZ: So, we are making
two-tier orange and lemon cake
decorated with cookie tiles.
KEIRON: And the top tier
is covered with fondant.
We need to airbrush this thing.
We need to model oranges and leaves out of chocolate.
Like, it's crazy how much we have to do in so little time.
$100,000 cake. (Grunting)
We must get it right, Keiron.
I think I'm gonna throw up. (Laughing)
JOEL: Janusz!
- Hey, hey, hey! - Keiron!
Hello!
JOEL: Look at this! Here we are!
Can you believe it?
Can you believe I'm baking in leather? No.
I can.
Can you believe I'm sweating? I am.
Can I towel you off a little bit?
Oh! Wow!
I feel special.
(Laughing)
- So, if you get this... - KEIRON: Mm-hmm.
$100,000, what is the first thing you're gonna buy?
We're gonna buy a patisserie.
Wait. You guys would go into business with each other?
I would love to work with this guy every day.
We're a good team.
If we opened a patisserie, would you come?
- Yes. - Yeah?
This guy is just like a little beam of sunshine.
We've grown so close together.
I'm so proud of us.
Oh...
- Go away! - (Both laughing)
Aww...
Why are we emotional wrecks? What's going on?
Is this the cake that's gonna win you $100,000?
- Yes. - KEIRON: I think it is.
Now, get out, so we can make it.
Yeah. Okay. All right, you guys, carry on.
- Bye. - Thank you.
Becky, how many cookies do you think you've made total
since you started baking?
BECKY: I've made a few thousand cookies.
This is the perfect challenge.
I am getting to make cookies, this is my love and my passion.
This is where she one-ups me.
Semolina flour, do you think that was a red herring?
I don't know why you would put semolina flour in a cake.
I mean, would it even go with lemon and orange?
Not really. You don't normally bake with semolina flour.
It's very unusual.
So because we saw all-purpose flour,
orange extract, and lemon curd, we know we need to make
an orange and lemon
two-tiered cake with lemon curd,
and then covered in Becky's
decorated mosaic tile
sugar cookies.
♪ Becky and Daniel ♪
BOTH: Hello.
Guys, we are here.
We made it.
Have you guys grown closer with this competition?
Oh, 100%.
We have felt all the emotions. We've cried, we've laughed.
Never did we imagine, when we were kids,
baking in my mom's kitchen, that we'd be here.
We've come together and united,
and now that we are closer,
to win this competition with my brother
would be very difficult to top.
I mean, if you want me to talk about the money, I can,
but I just want to win to say that we did it.
I want to be able to go home and make everyone proud.
This is it, guys.
DANIEL: It's the finale, go big or go home.
Okay, babes, the cookies are in the oven.
I'm starting the oranges and the leaves.
This needs to be the right shade of orange.
So, as the cookies are baking in the oven,
I'm coloring modeling chocolate to make the oranges.
(Buzzing)
Oh, (Bleep). I need to take the cookies out.
Oh, babe, they're blackened.
And I forget about the cookies.
They're black. How did that happen?
When I go to check them, the edges are too dark.
Any of them savable?
JANUSZ: I don't know, babe.
I don't have time to redo everything.
We have to put cookies on this cake.
We know they were on there.
It needs to be perfect.
Keiron, I think they are very overbaked.
Do you think we can save them?
KEIRON: Any of them savable?
There's a bit of a cookie catastrophe going on here.
We're gonna have to serve the judges some overbaked cookies.
Not good.
JOEL: 60 minutes left!
I will cut the edges off and hope for the best.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
Guys, here we are, it's the last bake of the season. This is it.
This is where you get the money.
How are our teams doing?
All of our teams are making a two-tiered cake
decorated with a mosaic tile cookie.
There's so many different techniques used.
There's sculpting, there's icing,
and different sorts of decor, baking cookies.
There's literally everything that you could imagine.
JESSICA: Almost there.
$100,000. Gotta do it.
Whoever masters all of those techniques
is a worthy champion and they deserve the $100,000.
(Beeping)
Make sure they're going all the way to the edge.
They are.
I put the first cookie on, something is not quite right.
They're the wrong size.
This is my absolute worst nightmare.
(Exhaling sharply)
We did the math, but these cookies are too big.
All right, so second layer you want?
- Aye-yi-yi. - YOLANDA: Oh, no.
These cookies are hanging over the edge by inches.
DANIEL: Gotta make it fit, Becky.
All right.
JOEL: One minute...
- Oh! - For $100,000!
BECKY: Gotta hurry up.
DANIEL: We just need to get these on.
We got no time to stress, babe.
I'm definitely feeling the pressure.
HOSTS: Six, five, four,
three, two, one.
And that is time! Time is up!
I like it.
(Giggling)
Ooh! Went out with a bang.
(Laughing)
Daniel and Becky...
for one final time,
will you please bring us what you thought was made
in the Crime Scene Kitchen?
- Oh, wow. - Oh, pretty.
- KEIRON: Wow. - JANUSZ: Ooh!
Do you think they did orange and lemon?
JOEL: Wow.
We have made an orange two-tiered cake
with lemon curd and a sugar-cookied
mosaic tile design.
We saw a bag of semolina flour in the kitchen,
but we didn't see any other evidence of it used anywhere.
Right.
On my mama, there was semolina.
I trust you.
YOLANDA: Ooh.
CURTIS: Look at that.
Wow.
That cake is delicious.
- Thank you. Thank you. - Wow. Good job.
CURTIS: It is moist. The curd is delightful.
It's really bright and it's acidic.
The orange and the lemon go so well together.
Becky, are you happy with how the cookies came out?
Obviously, the cookies
are bigger than we wanted them to be.
Mmm.
Becky, the cookies are delicious.
Thank you.
But I think what you needed
is to properly measure the cookies against your cake
and get them just the right size.
Considering the first bake, the flavor of this
could well see you grabbing onto that $100,000.
- Good luck, guys. - BOTH: Thank you.
Jessica and Lenore.
BECKY: Wow.
JANUSZ: Gorgeous.
So beautiful.
We brought an orange semolina olive oil cake
with orange curd and mosaic tile decor.
Olive oil cake.
The top half is unbelievable.
YOLANDA: The toppers are gorgeous.
- I wanna rave all day. - (Both giggling)
But the cookies do look a little bit disheveled.
JOEL: Look at that.
Gorgeous!
It's a really good cake. The olive oil,
the orange, it's delicious.
The layers of cake are even
and there's an even layer of filling.
CURTIS: Mmm.
The cookie tiles do look rustic, but they taste delicious.
- Very pillowy. - JOEL: Thank you very much.
- Wow! That's impressive. - Thank you.
CURTIS: Great job.
(Sighing)
Keiron and Janusz.
JESSICA: Oh, so pretty, you guys.
So pretty.
Wow.
- Hello. - Hello, hello, hello.
Hello.
We have a two-tier orange
and lemon cake decorated with orange
and semolina tile cookies.
You guys really know how to make a curd.
(Giggling)
It's a really yummy cake.
The flavor of lemon really comes through.
The crumb is nice and tender.
I'm more concerned about the fact that the cookies are burnt.
That's all you taste.
Look, we've tasted all three cakes now.
The big question for your cake, is it worth $100,000?
The answer lies in,
is the cake meant to be lemon and orange
or is it meant to be orange?
And where was the semolina used, if at all?
Best of luck to you both.
- Thank you. - JOEL: That's so tasty.
JANUSZ: Ooh...
I don't even know where to start with how I'm feeling right now.
JANUSZ: Oh...
(Exhaling sharply) We are all on such
an even footing that it's really anyone's game right now.
Okay, guys, here we go.
Ready?
Confectionator 3000,
reveal the final Crime Scene Kitchen dessert.
Here we go.
Oh, babe.
Wow!
LENORE: Oh...
Oh, wow.
What is it?
JOEL: The mystery dessert is...
A two tier orange semolina olive oil cake
covered in Italian buttercream, filled with orange curd.
The square bottom tier
is covered in iced sugar cookie tiles.
The cake is topped with a modeling chocolate
orange blossom.
Judges.
YOLANDA: The semolina flour and olive oil in a measuring cup
pointed to a semolina olive oil cake.
The orange extract, zester with orange peel
and orange curd in the tasting bowl
indicated an orange flavoring for both the batter
and the filling.
CURTIS: The kitchen tiles, modeling chocolate,
and orange illustration,
hinted at how the cake should be decorated.
For the finale, the winning team
is the one who did best across both bakes tonight.
Judges, can you sum up the performances of each team?
Keiron and Janusz, the flavors
and details of your delivery across these two rounds
were incredibly consistent
and the cake you gave us was delicious.
Thank you.
Jessica and Lenore, despite using a rogue ingredient
in the first round, your detective work
across this whole finale has been excellent.
On top of that, the cake you just delivered
was spectacular in execution
and was a huge accomplishment in the time you were given.
Daniel and Becky,
while you had some structural problems in this bake,
in both rounds, the flavors you produced have been amazing.
When challenged, you really delivered
on taste and execution and showed just what you can do.
- Well done. - BOTH: Thank you.
Bakers, we now have one last mystery to reveal.
For the final time, Confectionator 3000,
which team has won Crime Scene Kitchen season three?
♪
Congratulations, Lenore and Jessica.
You are the champions
of Crime Scene Kitchen Season Three
and the winners of our $100,000 prize.
(Cheering and applauding)
Oh, holy Hector!
(Cheering and applauding)
You did it!
(Cheering and applauding)
- LENORE: Yeah! - JOEL: You did it!
Yeah!
(Laughing)
Lenore and Jessica,
how does it feel to win season three?
I'm just so grateful to Lenore for taking me on this journey,
and I love you.
LENORE: I love you more.
This has been the adventure of a lifetime.
I'm just gonna keep crying and you guys just keep going.
- I'm so proud of you. - I'm so proud of you.
I love you. What a fun adventure!
Oh, my God.
You're gonna have to keep pinching me and be like,
"Yes, it actually did happen."
- Yeah. - "That wasn't a dream.
"We actually did it."
- (Sighing) - Nailed it.
Keiron and Janusz, you got so close.
- I'm really proud of us. - I'm very proud of us.
Would we have liked to have win? Of course we would.
But I wouldn't change this journey for anything.
We can say, "Yeah, we've done it."
It was our journey.
We're gonna share this memory forever
and I'm gonna cherish it.
Oh, babe, you're gonna make me cry.
- I'm gonna cry. - Oh, stop it. Aww...
Daniel and Becky, what was it like to take a journey like this
with your sibling?
This has been the most absolute
amazing experience that I've ever had in my life.
There's nobody else that I would rather be here with
than my big sister, and I'm so proud of us.
I love you.
This experience exceeded the monetary prize.
Just getting to be here with him
is priceless and worth to me a lot more.
- LENORE: Wild! - This is it.
As they say with cakes, don't drop it.
Thank you.
DANIEL: Oh my gosh!
Congratulations to Lenore and Jessica
on their well-earned victory.
And congratulations to all our wonderful teams.
That's gonna do it for Crime Scene Kitchen Season Three.
I'm Joel McHale. Good night.
(Cheering)