[upbeat music playing]
No way.
[exclaiming]
[Taylor] You're kidding.
[Sara] Yay.
I'm gonna die.
Bakineers, are you ready to discover
who lurks in the shadows for this mission?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Behold.
[cheering, laughing]
- Say hello to your former competitors.
- [Taylor] Oh God!
[Justin] They're bakers,
they're engineers.
[all cheering]
Bakineers, today's mission is
the first ever
Baking Impossible fashion show.
And these bakineers right here,
they'll be your models.
- Ooh!
- [Sara laughs]
But it won't just be any fashion show.
It will be
a costume party on the runway.
And in case you haven't guessed,
those costumes will be made of
- [contestants exclaim]
- [Justin] Mmm.
something sweet and delicious.
Your mission today will be
to create edible outfits
for a costume party,
and your models will have to
walk the runway.
Ooh!
In the last mission, Steve and Renee,
you had the winning miniature golf hole,
so you'll get a massive boost
for this mission.
You will get first pick
of your bakineer model,
and that person will also be able
to help you with your bake and build
for three hours.
Wow.
[Justin] You just let us know
when you want us to launch
that three-hour clock.
For the rest of you,
your model's only job will be
to wear your edible costume
in the stress test fashion show.
Steve and Renee, you have a big,
strategic decision to make here.
You'll pick a baker or an engineer.
It's completely up to you.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Who do you choose as your model?
- Vanessa.
Hi.
Hey.
Now it's time for the rest of you
to find out
which models you're going to get.
- Justin?
- Yes, sir.
- Please do the honors.
- I would be honored to. Okay.
We'll just do this at random.
Rodolfo and Sara,
your model will be Edwin.
Cindy and Taylor? Hannah.
- Yeah!
- Yay!
Hi, guys!
Brandi and Menuka, Sierra.
- Yay!
- Oh!
That means Randi and Jacob, Shanice!
[cheering]
Bakineers, you will have 14 hours
until your designs have to be
runway-ready.
Teams, hittin' it.
All right.
[woman] Mission launch in three, two, one.
- Go.
- Go.
[clock ticking]
- All right.
- Oh, my God. I'm so happy you're here!
I can't believe you're here!
- I'm so excited.
- Oh, my God.
- Excited to have you here, man.
- Okay.
All right.
We need to make an edible costume.
[Taylor] One human model.
[Randi] Four engineered confections.
- [Jacob] That's our dessert.
- That's our dessert.
[Menuka] Forty feet is pretty long.
[Taylor] Model walks in edible costume,
and costume must serve judges.
We have a perfect model
for a cyborg samurai.
[Edwin] I love it.
- You ever seen cuckoo clocks before?
- That would be cute.
You are a raspberry.
- No way! [laughing]
- You are a raspberry.
This is the first ever
Baking Impossibl e costume party.
What are you looking for today?
These remaining five bakineer teams have
to create an edible engineered costume.
Ingenuity and creativity
are really the name of this brief.
I look forward to seeing
something we haven't before.
- It has to be flexible.
- Yeah, like fruit leather or something.
Wow! What made you think of that?
That's cool, I like that.
I don't know, it just popped in my head.
From an engineering perspective,
this is really tough.
What they create is gonna have to survive
walking down the runway,
and that's a lot of wear and tear
on edible clothing.
But on top of that,
looking good isn't enough.
These costumes are gonna have to
incorporate an engineering function
that will somehow
serve us their confection.
So, in many ways,
it's a materials engineering problem.
This is gonna be a tough mission.
For the engineering,
I can actually make butterflies.
I mean, I can make robotic butterflies.
That would be awesome,
because I'm a robotic engineer.
- It's what I should do.
- That'd be gorgeous.
Cover the whole body in pasta
with beads and wire.
- And then maybe go like
- How about, like, a steampunk
Yeah, with wires? Play it up?
[Steve] The edible portion,
how about we do a dark chocolate ganache
with Grand Marnier?
Okay.
I love this mission.
Can't wait to see what they come up with.
They have to execute their costume concept
using exquisite, edible ingredients,
and they have to present to us
amazing confections
that are somehow incorporated in the
design. We're on the fifth mission,
and I think this is
the most challenging one yet
from a culinary perspective.
Maybe the fruit,
not necessarily look like
a fruit you've ever seen before.
Like enchanted forest.
What would be good for that is a macaron.
- [Menuka] Macaron would be nice.
- A macaron with a passion fruit filling.
I'm thinking we do
We need something that's got that shape.
Let's see when we play
with the fruit if they hold the shape.
I'm thinking a puff pastry
with raspberry and cream cheese.
Ooh.
Get to baking, you get to building.
See you shortly.
One, two, three.
- Yay!
- Okay, bye-bye.
[clock ticking]
- So if we could do 20 inches
- That's perfect.
What are you trying to do to Edwin?
Poor Edwin.
You're gonna walk into the store,
"I need a watermelon that's exactly
the same shape as this guy's head."
[laughing]
- We can do your neck, for the necklace.
- Yeah.
[Taylor] Oh, that's an awesome color.
So awesome.
[Sara] What do you think
they're doing with those?
- I have no idea.
- [Cindy] I feel like a scientist.
[Taylor] You are a scientist.
You're hydrating gelatin.
Yeah.
We wanna build something
that screams, "I am fashion."
Something so out there.
For this mission,
Cindy and I are making an edible costume
that is a raspberry dress,
made of 100% gelatin.
You got a leaf headband,
to the stem collar,
to the drupelets
that go down to the waist,
the shoes with little raspberry leaves.
We've got the handbag and matching ring.
From head to toe, it's all gelatin.
That's so cool.
[Cindy laughs]
Our pastry is located
inside the raspberry's drupelets,
and when it's time to present the dessert,
those drupelets will light up,
and then we can reach inside
and present them to the judges.
[Cindy] My dessert is a puff pastry
with cream cheese
baked in the middle,
with a raspberry on top.
- [Taylor] We're gonna blow their minds.
- [Cindy] I'm really excited.
I want people to be like,
"I need that costume
for Halloween this year."
When people say, "Oh, fashion?"
- They'll think Cindy and
- They'll think Cindy.
Okay, I'm gonna go experiment
with laser cutting gelatin.
- Laser cutting gelatin?
- Yeah, to make a purse.
- That looks beautiful.
- Right? Won't this be a gorgeous purse?
[clock ticking]
[upbeat music playing]
Solidly a purse.
I just feel like
it should be smaller at the bottom.
[Jacob] Just the bottom?
Because remember, you're gonna have
a skirt coming out, and
Girls like to show off their figure.
Where did you learn to do that?
My mom makes some jewelry,
my aunt makes some jewelry,
so I'm trying to use the same techniques.
That's great.
What do you think?
- Hello, Rodolfo and Sara.
- Hello, guys.
- How's it going?
- How you doing?
Which costume are you making
for the Baking Impossible costume party?
Talk us through the various elements
that you're making.
We're going for a samurai cyborg barista.
That's three very different things.
It's a lot of melding going on.
I'm making a covering,
so I've got a lot of rigatoni right now.
And so, we're going to be starting
with kind of a chain mail weave,
that we're going to attach some armor,
which will be made
of different types of fruits
with an awesome headpiece helmet as well,
made of a watermelon.
[Rodolfo] So, for the dessert,
I'm thinking to do a chocolate shell
with a mousseline coffee flavor
and a sea salt,
chocolate chip cookie on top,
and a lot of cookie crumbs.
So how are you engineering
your presentation today?
Our engineered function
is actually gonna be
a whipped cream container
that's constructed into the back,
and operate the whipped cream container
with a whipped cream arm for the top.
On the dessert.
We're having the hydraulic piece come
down through here, and into the back.
You're doing hydraulics
going all the way
- That's right.
- That's quite bold.
- Hopefully no cream explosions.
- Hopefully no, not too many explosions.
We're playing a little bit with magnets
as a part of our presentation as well.
Are you confident you'll be able to attach
everything well, that side of engineering?
- Absolutely.
- Best of luck.
- Wonderful.
- Thanks very much.
Bye-bye.
[clock ticking]
[Randi] This is our fruit leather.
It's so pretty.
Damn, passion fruit.
Let me just get this in here
before it sets.
[Renee] So good.
Hello, Steve, Renee.
Hi, Steve.
Are you on a high from your big win?
- Uh, absolutely.
- Yeah?
Oh, yeah.
It was a great win to have,
and having Vanessa on our team
is gonna take us to a different level.
- So, what is your costume?
- She's a sassy, like, underworld
But enough about Renee.
Literally, it's, like,
about me, which is kind of sad.
This is a two-piece costume,
which is basically a corset and tutu
made of isomalt, fondant and gumpaste.
Like gothic,
underworld type of fairy. Badass.
She'll have an isomalt five-foot staff,
and a dagger, and
- You're kidding.
- An isomalt five-foot staff?
- It's gonna be a group effort.
- Wow.
I've never done it before,
so my hands will burn from isomalt.
- Yeah.
- But that's okay.
[Joanne] Tell us about the dessert
that you'll be making.
[Steve] Candied orange with Grand Marnier
and a hint of cayenne,
and then we have
an outer shell of couverture,
which has been toned down
with cocoa butter.
Coating of hazelnut feuilletine
back to it. Then it'll be decorated on top
with some candied orange
and a little sea salt.
Sounds incredibly ambitious.
Can't wait to see the staff.
- Thanks.
- Good luck.
I'll be a magician.
Gonna pull it out of nowhere.
[Justin] Bakineers, eight hours left.
[electropop music playing]
We're making a giant raspberry.
Ah! That's cool.
How about you?
- We're building a tree.
- [Taylor] A tree?
[whirring]
- Menuka, come look.
- [gasps]
Holy moly.
Wow.
For this mission, we are going to create
an enchanted forest-themed tree
made of a brown marbled fondant.
I'm going to lay rice paper
over top to make it crack
to really look like tree bark.
The branches will be made out of wires
covered with dark chocolate.
That looks really good, Menuka.
- Yeah, that looks really good.
- It's strong too.
[Brandi] We'll also have
some really bright pink,
wafer paper flowers,
and then inside will be
a raspberry dusted macaron
with a passion fruit filling.
We will clip the branch
to serve the judges,
and then adorning her branches,
Menuka's amazing butterflies
fluttering around.
- I'm making the butterfly right now.
- Okay.
I think I'm going to make the wings
out of rice paper.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I actually designed a backpack
to hold the electronics,
and also support for the tree branches
with the metal wire,
and also wire running through
with those wires to power my butterflies.
I'm over the moon
to show my robotic butterflies.
Ten years ago,
I sent this musical greeting card
to my mom back home, and she's like,
"It's great, but your sister
is asking about the music."
Because my sister is deaf.
So it's given me inspiration,
like I want to make something moving
so she can enjoy it.
That was the moment that I decided
to make animatronic greeting cards.
And after four years I have my own company
and I have the patent for the technology,
and I consider myself
one of the top engineers
working on that field.
Probably making
the most complex electronic
for any fashion show.
[clock ticking]
- Sara?
- Yes.
I'm gonna do some in black,
and a few in pink, for the Mohawk.
[electropop music playing]
- Steve, how's it going over there?
- Not so good.
- Not enough?
- No.
So for me, creating the five-foot staff
from isomalt is a challenge.
Although I know about isomalt,
I really don't work with it that much.
So this is a little bit
of a new area for me to go into.
Oh, wow!
Removing the sugar and pulling it,
adding air into it.
I'm actually managing to pull this,
so I'm, like, stuck.
It's not an area I'm normally in,
but I am now.
So it's a really good feeling
that I'm pushing the edibles on this one,
especially with isomalt.
Steve, I don't even have words.
You literally just made
a five-foot pole of sugar.
It's just an illusion.
Don't worry about it.
- Hey, Justin.
- What's up, Randi?
Hi, Jacob. Look at Jacob's
rolling out gingerbread there.
- [Randi] He's amazing.
- Look what you've done to him.
- I've domesticated him.
- Did you say domestica
- [Justin] Yeah.
- I domesticated you.
I am an aerospace engineer.
I work on things that fly.
My mom would say I'm a rocket scientist.
She really likes to brag.
Someone'd be like,
"What is your son, a rocket scientist?"
And it's like, "Oh, he actually is."
This is familiar to me.
- Fruit leather.
- Fruit leather.
I've been doing this my whole life,
and I'm completely self-taught.
I was in the financial industry,
and when my daughter was 13 years old,
I decided to get back into baking
and I have never looked back since.
Now I run my business
out of my home kitchen.
I don't have a brick-and-mortar shop,
because when I got back into cakes,
my kids were still young,
and the most important place
for me to be was at home.
I guess I'm doing this for me,
'cause I really worked so hard
for everything
that I've accomplished so far.
And then to be able to accomplish this?
Wow.
What are you making?
This is going to be
the body of a cuckoo clock.
Where does the inspiration come from?
We were thinking of enchanted objects,
where the enchanted objects
were everyday items.
I am really excited about this mission.
We're doing a cuckoo clock
because it's fun,
it's exciting, it's expressive.
I'm making the skirt,
which is wafer paper covered in Flexique.
The body of the clock
is going to be structured
out of PVC covered in fruit leather,
and then on the front
we're gonna have an actual clock face
made out of white chocolate.
When the clock strikes the hour,
the doors on the front of the clock will
actually open up, presenting our dessert.
- And the dessert with this is so spot-on.
- Do I get a hint?
The dessert is
actually a hummingbird cake.
Amazing.
And the hummingbird cake
is a really nice cake
made with pineapples, and bananas,
and cinnamon, and nutmeg, and allspice,
with a delicious, light,
cream cheese frosting.
I'm gonna be molding eggshells
to put the cake inside,
and the eggshells
will be from white tempered chocolate.
- Thanks for stopping by.
- I'm happy Happy to stop by.
I'll just I'm gonna saunter this way.
- Okay.
- You got it.
- Off I go.
- Saunter back.
[Renee] It's like hazelnut cornflakes,
but lighter.
- That's how you could explain it.
- It's good.
Yikes.
Now, I will remove this tube from you.
The magnets are cute and small.
So it should work great.
And then, when she puts it on,
it's probably gonna be out, and in
- In between we can add
- [Taylor] We can cut Yeah.
[Justin] Tyra says
just to walk with confidence.
Yeah, you're doin' it.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Five hours.
- What?
- Justin, you're k*lling me.
You got this, Justin. Second career.
You got Okay, a little slippery there.
[Randi] Jacob, where are you at
with the clock?
What do you have left to do?
Right now I'm attaching the stepper motor.
What do you have to do?
I have to finish covering the cage.
[electropop music playing]
Oh! That didn't work.
[chuckles]
[exclaims]
So, are we ready
to bring Vanessa in right now?
- Yeah, I think we're ready.
- Let's do it.
Justin and judges, I am ready
for my fashion emergency help, please.
- Fashion emergency?
- Yes.
- [mimics siren]
- Vanessa.
- Yeah.
- Yay.
- You guys are awesome!
- [Justin] There she is.
- All right.
- How's it feel to don the apron again?
- I'm glad. Super excited.
- The orange apron.
Okay, you've got three hours
with team Steve and Renee.
Thank you.
So where we're at right now,
I'm finishing up the tutu.
This is what I'll need the most help with.
I cut out different types of leaves,
and we were just gonna airbrush and glue.
- Okay.
- Put it all on, then airbrush
I think that would be cool,
and then we can Flexique that whole thing.
- Flexique it, like, brush it. Yeah.
- On this?
- And then luster dust it. Perfect.
- Luster dust it.
All right, well,
it's a huge advantage they're getting.
- [Andrew] Doubled the bakers on the team.
- Yeah. True.
What Steve does,
Vanessa knows is not her forte,
and what Vanessa does,
Steve doesn't mess with.
That looks cool.
A team of complementary skills,
is what it sounds like.
[clock ticking]
[Brandi] Perfect.
[Sara] I think
this is gonna come up like this.
- Eight sized, right?
- Eight, yeah.
[Hannah] I love it.
- You like that?
- Yeah. It's not too heavy or anything.
It's cozy, I can still move around.
I love the tail. [laughing]
Yes!
- Sara, Rodolfo, Edwin.
- Hey, Justin.
- Hello.
- How's it going?
What have I strolled into here?
Edwin, I feel like
you can rock any costume.
[Rodolfo and Sara] There we go.
Wow. Something tells me, though,
Edwin's worn a watermelon as a helmet
before today.
Can I see Just foreshadow, the prequel,
but show us your fiercest runway look.
[music building]
[music peaks]
[Rodolfo and Sara laugh]
- [Sara] I love it.
- That's pretty good. Okay.
[clock ticking]
- Another guy will go here.
- We'll do a filler. Yeah.
- [Steve] Fire and ice.
- Yes.
All right.
Look at you guys go.
We'll be home for a beer.
- [Rodolfo] Sara.
- Yes, sir.
- I'm gonna start covering the helmet.
- Right on.
Two hours!
Put it straight. Straight on your head.
- How's it going there, girls?
- Good.
Good.
- [Renee] What else could we add?
- That Flexique right there.
So, okay, look.
Let's make Flexique,
like, lay a few of those down.
Hannah will have two pieces of
To connect, and then this happens.
[Cindy] Wow!
- Love it.
- [Taylor] Yeah, that's awesome.
[Cindy] Those lights are cool.
[Renee] She's teaching how to do Flexique.
So, if you need to add
anything extra along the top,
you can literally throw these in there.
- Okay. Good for that.
- Are you teaching him Flexique?
- Yeah.
- Sweet. Okay.
Steve and Renee,
your three-hour advantage time
with Vanessa is up.
You're back to being a duo.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Bye.
High five, Steve.
[clock ticking]
Teams, one hour left.
- Yeah.
- Oh! It's dripping.
You're working too slow, Jacob.
Come on. I got stuff to do.
- I don't wanna screw this up.
- You're not gonna screw it up.
[Steve] I don't know why
it's going in the same direction.
Instead, they should both go
in the opposite direction.
Yeah, it's flipped,
so I'm wondering why I didn't see
that they were in the same direction.
I don't want to break the pasta, though.
- Might wanna do it at the end.
- It's fine.
If we could put one more here,
it would do a lot.
Yeah. Totally.
- Can you imagine if we frickin' win?
- [Menuka] Right?
We took such a huge gamble too.
[Justin] All right, bakineers, your judges
are heading off to get the runway ready.
You have 15 minutes left.
[Renee] I need these to dry
before I can hot glue 'em on.
I like this.
I've never put electronics in a dress.
- [Rodolfo] I'm gonna airbrush everything.
- [Sara] Good idea.
Five minutes.
Hurry, Menuka.
All right. I am pumped.
- Welcome to your piece.
- Sweet!
Over there. In the bin. Right there.
- [Rodolfo] Gonna bring the desserts.
- Please work.
[gasps]
Oh, my God, I love it.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
Time is up.
Needles and nougat down.
[Sierra speaking indistinctly]
Oh, God.
Bakineers, are you ready
to walk the red carpet?
- [Jacob] Yeah.
- 'Cause I brought one.
Join me, come on.
I wanna see what you got.
Menuka, what are you working with?
- Yeah, Menuka.
- [contestants] Yeah!
Nice strut. Yeah.
Well done.
Nice!
[contestants cheering]
Well done!
All right, bakineers, are you ready to see
where the fashion magic is gonna happen?
- [Taylor] Yes!
- [Jacob] Yeah!
[contestants exclaiming]
Wow. That looks slippery.
[Sara] That's cool.
Head on in. Check it out.
[dramatic music playing]
Welcome, bakineers,
to the Baking Impossible
costume party fashion show.
For your Baking Impossible stress test,
each of your bakineer models
will have to wear
the ingenious,
edible costumes you've created,
walk them down the runway,
and serve up your delicious confections.
Any fashion failure could result
in an actual fail in this mission.
And, as you know, if you win this mission,
you'll earn a big boost in the next one.
Are we ready
for some costumed cake craziness?
- Hell yeah.
- [Jacob] Let's do it.
First up on the runway, Steve and Renee.
- The runway is yours.
- [Menuka] Yes.
Please welcome to the stage
Steve and Renee's model, Vanessa.
[Justin laughs]
[electropop music playing]
[Taylor] Yeah!
Work it!
[cheering]
Oh, my gosh.
[Renee] This is Strenessa,
an awesome, beautiful leader queen
of the fairy underworld.
A strong, powerful leader.
- That's impressive.
- I don't like that dagger pointing at me.
The edibles?
Well, this is a two-piece costume.
The corset is Flexique,
isomalt, fondant and gumpaste roses.
The tutu is edible rice paper product.
- See the sugar work on the shoes?
- Oh, yeah.
[Steve] The headdress is isomalt,
the necklace being red licorice
woven into a choker.
- Look at the headdress.
- Wow.
[Steve] We have an isomalt staff.
Staff. That's really nice.
[Steve] We have an isomalt dagger.
That dagger could k*ll a man.
[Steve] The wings on the back
are made of wafer paper,
and they're mechanical.
There is a circuit in the back
that has two servos
that are running the wings.
Can we see the wings in their full glory?
[dramatic music playing]
- Thank you, Vanessa.
- Great.
All right, Steve and Renee,
serve us your confection.
So it's a simple latch mechanism.
I pull out the pin,
and out come the desserts.
Wow.
[Steve] One. Two.
And I'm gonna close up the box.
- The best fanny pack I've ever seen.
- And you can eat it.
Here we have a ganache-filled,
hazelnut praline,
milk chocolate feuilletine,
dark chocolate ganache
with a little spice in it,
and then that is encased
in a white chocolate shell.
[Andrew] There it goes.
And a little touch of sea salt
to cut the sweetness.
Steve, you have presented us
with a stunning confection.
- Really delicious.
- Thank you.
The ganache is well-emulsified and smooth.
But unfortunately,
it does have a very thick outer shell.
Yes, it could be thinner. I agree 100%.
The shell makes it just hard to enjoy
in the way that I think you'd want us to.
Mmm-hmm.
Steve and Renee. I wish that the motion
of the wings had been more pronounced.
You know, they were in sync,
but the wings moved in a strange way
due to some faulty programming.
But I absolutely loved
your beautiful box or purse,
and you had that locking mechanism,
I thought that was ingenious.
It was very simple, it was very secure.
Wonderful job.
Steve and Renee, your outfit was
straight out of a fantasy fashion show.
It was utterly enchanting.
Steve, in previous missions we've seen
your fantastic chocolate work,
so it was a delight today to see
your isomalt intricacies on full display.
That five-foot isomalt staff
that you created, amazing.
You were working really well
to get that wafer paper detailing done,
and I thought
the end result was really spectacular.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. Well done.
Rodolfo and Sara,
it's your turn on the runway. Come on up.
Please give it up
for Rodolfo and Sara's model, Edwin.
[contestants cheering]
This is amazing.
[Justin] I don't think
I've seen Edwin so serious.
[Sara] Edwin is
our samurai cyborg barista.
- Looking great!
- Yeah.
[Sara] We have some of the armor
in pineapple, as well as his corset.
We've got a lot
of different kinds of pasta as beads.
- [Joanne] Look at
- Shin guards?
- The shin guards.
- Yeah.
[Sara] Got a watermelon helmet
covered in fondant.
- Look at that helmet.
- [Dr. O] Wow.
[Justin] What're the spikes made of?
Candele pasta.
Candele pasta, yeah.
And the flags?
[Rodolfo] Wafer paper.
Oh!
- [Joanne] Unbelievable.
- [Justin] Wow.
[Joanne] Wow. [chuckles]
Work it.
I love the cyborg and the samurai.
Let's see the barista part in action.
Serve up these confections.
[Sara] The dessert, it's going to be
in an inside-out cantaloupe
that we've attached to the kilt.
[tense music playing]
[all laughing]
[applause]
I did a sea salt, chocolate chip cookie
with four kinds of chocolate,
with coffee mousseline,
and on the layers I have cookie crumbs.
Rodolfo, this cookie was scrumptious.
I like the tempered chocolate shell.
It's really well done.
It's not thick, it's easy to break into.
The mousseline seems
a little broken to me.
It's a little bit rough.
And, typically, when I think mousseline,
I do think creamy.
I think I overmixed a little.
- Was it overmixed?
- Yeah.
Usually, Rodolfo, I see you
during these missions busy baking,
or working with chocolate,
or doing something
to showcase your pastry skills,
and in this mission,
I didn't see that quite as much.
I feel like you guys did a great job
on your engineering,
from the macroscopic perspective,
in many dimensions.
Your barista element,
the engineering of that,
worked as it was intended to.
I really enjoyed the incorporation
of the pressurized canister
to dispense the whipped cream,
and, you know, Edwin totally sold it.
And I think your materials engineering
was pretty ingenious.
It was divergent
from anything that's ever been done
in this kitchen before.
Weaving together a pasta,
I think, was just genius in a way.
I really liked your use of edibles
to achieve different textures
on your final design.
The star of the show today,
for me, was that watermelon helmet.
When I looked up close,
I saw beautiful details.
I thought the use of the penne on there
was so skilled and ingenious,
texture-wise,
but when I zoomed out,
it was a little bit jumbled.
So perhaps it's worth thinking about
going for one theme and really going well,
rather than perhaps
choosing too many things
and there being
too many details to look at.
Rodolfo, Sara, thank you very much.
Well done. Randi and Jacob,
it is your time to shine.
[contestants cheering]
[Justin] Please welcome to the stage,
Randi and Jacob's model, Shanice.
Yes.
Hi.
[techno music playing]
[Joanne] Oh, my goodness.
[Randi] Our cuckoo clock is very special,
and time is very important
to all of us bakineers
when we're in the kitchen.
Our cuckoo clock top is made out of
gingerbread with a fruit leather roof.
On top is a bird's nest
made out of ramen and white chocolate.
Oh, wow.
[Jacob] The body of the dress
is actually made from fruit leather.
That's amazing.
The leaves are made of fondant,
and then we have a wafer paper skirt
coated with Flexique.
The doors on the front of the headpiece
will open up, presenting our dessert.
It should be when it gets to the 12.
- [chimes]
- [Joanne gasps]
[all cheering]
- [Dr. O] All right.
- [Taylor] Wow.
Amazing.
The time has come
to serve that confection.
[Justin laughing]
Looks like brain surgery.
[Renee] I made you today
a hummingbird cake.
We thought it was so befitting
of a cuckoo clock.
It has a cream cheese frosting
with toasted pecans
served in a tempered chocolate
eggshell too.
Randi, the flavors are really great.
- The cream cheese frosting is perfect.
- Thank you.
The addition of the toasted pecans on top
adds a nice little crunch.
For me, it's a little bit dense.
It's almost like it's chilled,
and it shouldn't be.
It's not quite what I was expecting.
I expected it to be a little bit lighter,
a little bit more moist.
I did think it almost looked like
two separate outfits.
I was curious why you went with
such different colors and patterns
in each layer.
It was a little bit confused as a theme
and I think even if it had been
a consistent color running between them,
I wouldn't have maybe noticed
the gaps in between
or where it was changing
from one section to the next.
But I really enjoyed
how clean-looking your design was.
There was no exposed edges,
and also it was a very fun theme.
I felt like you had
three impressively engineered,
separate pieces, right?
The Flexique skirt,
the middle piece that had the clock on it,
as well as the headpiece.
Now, we're all familiar
with cuckoo clocks,
and when those doors open,
something comes out.
So, maybe you should've thought
of some telescoping mechanism
that would've presented us
with our confection.
That could've taken it to the next level.
That sort of, like, threw me off
in how they were engineered.
- Randi, Jacob, well done. Thank you both.
- [Jacob] Thank you.
[Justin] Up next on the runway,
team Cindy and Taylor.
- Give it up!
- [Taylor] Let's do it!
[Justin] Please welcome to the stage
Cindy and Taylor's model, Hannah!
[contestants cheering]
Yes.
[techno music playing]
[Jacob] Yes! Serve up some salad!
[Jacob] Wow. She is on the move.
Yes, girl! Work it!
[all laughing]
So our look is Met Gala meets
material science, meets agriculture,
and, hopefully,
that really razzle-dazzled you.
This is our fully edible,
avant-garde, raspberry dress.
I really wanna make a smoothie
all of sudden.
[Taylor] We've really pushed
a single edible medium
as far as it possibly can go.
From head to toe, it's all gelatin.
From the stem headband and stem collar
to the drupelets
that go down to the waist,
the decor on the shoes,
and of course accessorizing
with the totally gelatin handbag.
Look at the collar.
- Oh, wow.
- It's all gelatin.
[Taylor] We've pushed gelatin
further than we knew it could go.
[cheering]
- Hi, girl.
- You were amazing.
Cindy, Taylor, we'd love to see
how this sassy raspberry
serves up some sassy confection.
Hannah, can you light up for us?
[Joanne] Ohh!
- [Cindy] All right.
- Wow.
I made you a puff pastry
with a cream cheese filling
and a raspberry baked on top.
I do love raspberries,
and I love raspberries
with a pastry like a puff pastry.
And then to cut it
with the creaminess of the cream cheese,
it's a really great flavor combination.
I just wish
it had been baked a little bit longer.
I love your approach
to the materials engineering.
For the lights for the serving,
did your model just have
something to complete a circuit
on her hand, is that the idea?
[Taylor] The little ring that
Hannah's wearing was actually a conductor,
and when she touches
the drupelet by her thigh,
it completes the circuit
that activates LEDs.
Wow, so you added
some clever electrical engineering
along with your materials engineering.
- Very good job.
- Thank you.
Seeing your raspberry, it was like
something from a different planet.
It was a piece of walking pop art.
So I have to applaud you, really,
for the illusion,
it really does look
like Hannah was a massive berry,
which is what you were planning to do.
You certainly delivered on that.
Your use of the gelatin
was really ingenious,
and I think you've used gelatin
in ways that I've never seen before.
It's the kind of thing I was looking for
in this challenge, using those materials,
making those discoveries.
And I think you've done that today.
- Thank you.
- Cindy and Taylor, thank you very much.
Team Brandi and Menuka, join us.
Please welcome to the stage
Brandi and Menuka's model, Sierra.
[contestants cheering]
[mellow music playing]
Wow.
Yes, girl!
[Rodolfo] Oh, my goodness.
Wow, it's gorgeous.
[Brandi] So we went with
an enchanted forest design.
The dress is done with marbled fondant,
and I added wafer paper to the top
and then rolled it
with a rolling pin to make it crack,
to get the tree bark effect.
Look at those butterflies.
Oh, my gosh, look at them.
It's alive.
[Menuka] The butterflies' wings
are made out of rice paper.
[Brandi] The flowers are wafer paper,
the leaves are also wafer paper,
and all of the tree bark
is tempered chocolate.
A kinetic, edible structure.
Yes!
[contestants cheering]
How are these butterflies coming to life?
What's the engineering behind it?
So, basically, I have
a central control unit in her backpack,
and send electric pulses
to those butterflies.
So then, every time you pulse it
and the wire get heated
and push the lever down,
and lift the wings up.
They're thermally triggered,
not electrically triggered.
- Exactly. Thermally triggered.
- That's brilliant.
We would love to see how your costume
serves up our confections.
- A little trimming.
- Wha
[Justin] Wow.
Doesn't hurt, does it, Sierra?
[all laughing]
I decided to bake a macaron,
dusted with freeze-dried raspberries
on top and a passion fruit curd
in the middle.
And obviously the wafer paper is edible,
but really it's just a serving mechanism.
Brandi, the macaron itself
is perfectly done.
It's got the eggshell interior,
it's delicate,
and then the inside is a nice, fine,
almost crumb.
It's not really a cake crumb,
but it's really well done.
The filling to macaron ratio is perfect.
Typically, there is
a little buttercream inside
to cut through the richness
of the macaron,
but you've done a really lovely curd,
because it's creamy enough
that you don't miss having cream.
- It tastes really great.
- Thank you.
Brandi, Menuka, when I saw your outfit,
it looked like a designer was involved.
I really liked how you left
the main body quite sparse,
so your eye was drawn
to all the right bits,
and we could see
that amazing butterfly going off
at the top and all your lovely foliage
you put on there.
So I think from a design perspective,
that was really very savvy.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Menuka, my man.
This was the challenge
for you to display
your engineering talents.
And the fact that the very same branches
that were supporting
your delicious confections
also were the current-carrying branches,
that's beautiful bakineering,
if I'm not mistaken, sir.
- That is right, yep.
- That is right.
Great job on that one, Menuka.
Thank you, appreciate it.
Brandi, Menuka, thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- Well done.
Well, that was quite a costume party.
Let's have one final walk
from our bakineer supermodels.
Please, give it up, everybody!
[contestants cheering]
[Taylor] Yeah!
Thank you, supermodels.
The costumes were fierce,
but the competition is fiercer.
So, judges, you have
a tough decision to make.
We'll leave you to it.
I'm gonna work on my smize.
[Sara] I'm feeling pretty nervous.
Judges, I don't think they were
as impressed with the costume
as we were hoping that they'd be.
This is the hardest decision
we've had to make. For sure.
- Absolutely.
- And on the dessert part, I feel terrible.
Like, I never broke a mousseline before.
I feel a little scared
that we can go home.
[tense music playing]
Five teams of bakineers are left,
but, as you know,
only four teams will be moving on.
Steve and Renee
Brandi and Menuka
I have some bad news.
Unfortunately,
only one of you
will be the winner of today's mission.
So, congratulations.
We're five missions in,
and it was incredibly close.
But there can only be one winner.
That winner will be revealed
by the greatest supermodel
the world has ever known.
[Renee laughing]
[Justin] My old friend is back.
Oh!
[Taylor] Yes, Petey.
Oh, very nice.
Congratulations
Brandi and Menuka.
[Andrew] Congrats. Well done.
I thought your design looked like
it had come out of a fashion house,
and what you achieved
with those butterflies
and the design effect
was really enchanting.
- So, very well done.
- Thank you.
What this means, of course,
is you will earn an incredible advantage
in the next mission.
Steve and Renee,
this of course means you're safe.
Which means we have two teams
who are one step closer
to the $100,000 prize.
That also means,
of the three remaining teams,
one of you will be going home.
Cindy and Taylor
you're also safe.
[Cindy, softly] Oh, Jesus.
That leaves Randi and Jacob
and Rodolfo and Sara.
Judges, which team is going home today?
The team going home today is
Randi and Jacob, I'm sorry to say
this has been your final mission.
I loved how you used edibles
in your design,
particularly the fruit leather,
but it did feel a little bit jumbled
and not one cohesive costume.
And, Randi, your cake was a bit too dense.
But we've really enjoyed
your bakineering creations while here.
I can't wait to see
what you do in the future.
- Congratulations for making it this far.
- Thank you.
[Jacob] It sucks to go home.
But at the same time, this has been
an amazing journey of discovery
and I still think
the pieces that we made
are absolutely incredible.
[Randi] Moving forward,
I'm always going to
consider myself a bakineer,
because I learned the importance
and the magnitude
of how wonderful cake design can be
when you truly marry
engineering and baking together.
- I'm proud that we made it this far.
- [Jacob] Yeah, exactly.
And it was really hard,
and really difficult, and a lot of work.
- But a lot of fun.
- But a lot of fun.
Well, four teams remaining.
You are all one step closer to the finale
and the $100,000 grand prize.
Our brain trust here thought long and hard
about what you're about to face,
and I must say it is quite a tall order.
You guys ready to get this started?
- Yeah.
- [Justin] Yeah?
All of the money
and the limited fame is on the line.
You are truly the architects
of your own fate.
I'm dropping clues here, okay?
I'm approaching the button.
- You ready for this to happen?
- Smash the button.
[Justin] Let's do it.
[woman] Mission launch
in three, two, one, go.
[Justin] It is time to bake and build
something bigger
than you have ever made before!
[Renee] Uh-oh.
[theme music playing]
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01x05 - Cake on the Catwalk
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Each episode presents a cast of contestants with a challenge that combines baking with engineering, often described using the portmanteau "bakineering".
Each episode presents a cast of contestants with a challenge that combines baking with engineering, often described using the portmanteau "bakineering".