03x03 - Head-to-Head Battle Royal

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic sting]

[eerie rustling]

[whispers] What's it gonna be?

-[organ music playing]
-[eerie groaning]

-Yes!
-[exclaims]

[thunder crashes]

-Oh my God, yes!
-I'm so happy.

-Look at her.
-She's, like, crying.

-[thunder crashes]
-[organ music continues]

-Oh my God.
-"Here lies cake. It was cake."

-[Caitlin laughs]
-[coffin creaks]

Hello, bakers.

[eerie vocalizing]

It's the head-to-head showdown!

[thunder crashes]

Are we excited?

-Yes!
-Yeah.

Jujhar, Julie, you are our two big winners
from Episodes 1 and 2,

and you will be battling it out

for a cash prize of up to $15,000!

So much stress.

[applause]

-Caitlin and Kristen...
-Hey.

The two of you
will also be going head to head today,

but sadly one of you
will be eliminated from the competition.

So you'll be baking...

[echoing] ...for your life!

[thunder crashes]

Now, we're not going to make it easy
for any of you,

starting with an extra scary version

of Find That Cake!

{\an8}[applause]

Now listen up, g*ng,
because the rules are a bit different.

-Oh God.
-Cake wall, spin.

[dramatic music playing]

[Henderson] Oh!

What?

[Mikey] As you can see, there are
four creepy-looking heads up there.

-Three of those heads are cake.
-Three are cake.

-And only one of those heads is a decoy.
-Oh my God.

That's right. We're asking you
to find the one that's not cake.

So this game should be called
Find The Thing That's Not Cake!

[laughter]

When I say go, you will have 20 seconds

to decide which of these spooky heads
is not cake

and make your selection on your keypad.

The baker who finds the decoy head first

gets first pick
of the head they want to cake-ify.

-Oh my God.
-[Mikey] That's right.

-No!
-You'll be baking head to head.

-[Grace] Ha.
-Ha.

{\an8}-[Grace laughs]
-Everybody ready?

{\an8}I'm scared!

{\an8}Go!

{\an8}-The stakes are high.
-[tense music playing]

Oh my God.

[Mikey] Fifteen seconds.

[tense music continues]

Remember, the one that's not cake.

Five seconds, bakers.

[music intensifies]

Three, two, one.

-Time's up.
-[bell dings]

[group cheers and applauds]

{\an8}All right, let's see who's pickin' first.

Please be me.

Now for this one,

let's use something a little scarier.

-[group exclaims]
-Oh, cool.

Jujhar, what head
do you think is the decoy?

Two.

You think it's Number Two. Why?

{\an8}It just gave toy vibes, so... I don't know.
That's the only logic I have.

-Toy vibes?
-[Jujhar] Yeah.

Let's see if this is a decoy.

[suspenseful music playing]

[group] Ooh!

[group moans] Oh.

It's n... I...

This is blowing my mind.
It's not a decoy. It's cake!

Sorry, Jujhar.

Nice guess though.

Did anyone guess it was...

[thunder crashes]

...the Count?

-[Toccata and Fugue in D minor playing]
-Dracula?

No? Wow.

Let's see if you're right.

I'm comin' in hot.

[suspenseful music playing]

[laughter]

-[group] Yeah!
-[applause]

[Mikey] Did you see that cut?

That looks like cake to me.

Who knew? Dracula is orange inside.

[laughter]

So, Caitlin, you picked the Grim Reaper.

What about this looks real to you?

{\an8}It looks like the mouth is plasticky.

And then the eyes look like googly eyes.

The rest look like they could be
fondant or modeling chocolate.

Did anyone else pick the Grim Reaper here?

Oh.

Is it real?

[suspenseful music playing]

-[upbeat music playing]
-Yes! It's real.

[Julie chuckles]

[Mikey] Caitlin, congrats.

-You were fastest to find the decoy head.
-Yay!

So that means you get first pick
when we play Is It Cake?

Each of you will choose one of these
creepy heads up here to make into a cake.

Caitlin, you found the cake the fastest,

so what's it gonna be?

Uh, Dracula.

{\an8}[Mikey] Why?

{\an8}I feel like I can do a good job
on the shading.

Okay.

Our second-fastest baker was

Kristen.

What'll it be?

{\an8}I am going to pick the Grim Reaper.

{\an8}[Mikey] Ooh.

{\an8}[deep voice] Death itself.

{\an8}[normal voice] Why?
What drew you to the Grim Reaper?

I don't have to do any color matching
because it's shades of gray and black,

and there's also the cover on the head,
so I can avoid lots of sculpting.

-Smart choice.
-That was smart. Very smart.

Our third-fastest baker was Julie.

{\an8}-[exhales]
-What are you thinkin'?

{\an8}All right, based on what's left,
I think I'm gonna go werewolf.

{\an8}[Mikey] Interesting. Mr. Wolf Man.

That means...

That means, Jujhar, my friend,

you are stuck with

Frankenstein's French brother.

{\an8}-[accordion melody plays]
-[laughter]

How do you feel about that?

I've never done a head before,
but... it's fine.

[laughter]

Now that everyone has their head,

{\an8}you will have eight hours to bake.

{\an8}Let's do this.

{\an8}-It's time to bake!
-[cheering and applause]

{\an8}-[man] Good job, guys.
-[Mikey] I'll check in on you in a bit!

Good luck!

-[energetic music playing]
-[exhales] Okay.

[Mikey] I already like where this bake is

headed.

[laughter]

Good luck, guys.

-Good luck, Jujhar.
-Thank you.

-Are you are excited, Julie?
-I am excited.

-I think this is a super fun one.
-Yeah.

[Julie] Jujhar and I
are going head to head,

{\an8}and I'm honestly a little bit nervous,
because I've seen Jujhar as a baker.

{\an8}He owns a commercial bakery,

so he is so efficient at baking.

He can whip out a cake so quickly,
so I'm definitely worried about that.

Hey, Julie!

Hey, hey!

Why'd you choose that mask? The wolf one?

Well, I only had two options left,

and I honestly picked
whichever one was smaller.

Just whatever is the quickest possible

so I have the most time
to dedicate to this head.

-Guys, I'm worried about it.
-You'll do great.

So I've decided to make the Wolf Man,
and I'm feeling...

[clicks tongue]

...anxiety at best.

I am so anxious
about having to make a face.

But Wolf Man face is less of a human face,

so I'm thinking
that might help me in this challenge.

It's honestly mostly fur.

What flavor are you making?

I'm just keeping it super simple.

My childhood favorite.
Vanilla cake and chocolate buttercream.

Yeah. What a classic, right?

Neither Jujhar or I
are gonna be up for elimination,

but there's $15,000 on the line.

I wanna win this.

I'm really excited
to see what all of us make.

Never in a million years would I think
I'd be hanging with baking friends

and we're all making heads.

-Yeah. This is a really fun challenge.
-[Julie] Yeah.

You guys have such a, like,
unique opportunity to try something,

especially you,
that you've never done before,

without the risk of getting sent home.

[Jujhar] I have to sculpt Frankenstein.

{\an8}I have never made
a head-shaped cake before.

At my bakery back home,
my primary focus is on wedding cakes

and cutesy sorta cakes.

So I just hope today
that my nose is in the right spot,

the chin is at the right spot,
and the proportions are correct.

-Julie!
-One of these?

-[Jujhar] Whoo!
-[laughs]

Julie is such a talented artist.
She primarily does illusion cakes,

so I'm really nervous
to see how this is gonna all play out.

Just remember he's supposed to look scary.

[Jujhar] When I think of spooky things,

it kinda takes me
to my journey when I was an Air Cadet.

I did a lot of survival camp outside,

and at nighttime,
it would be really, really scary.

I kinda feel like
Frankenstein's kind of weird.

I don't know a lot about him,
but I think he likes fire. Let's hope.

[laughter]

[Julie] What are you doing
with that torch?

I'm burning my meringue.

I feel like the burnt meringue

with the cinnamon cake
and chocolate ganache,

I think it'll pair really nicely.

It's kind of a take on an upscale s'more.

-That sounds unbelievable.
-[Jujhar] Looking beautiful. Toasty.

[rock music playing]

-Caitlin!
-Hey, Caitlin!

-How you feel, like, baking for your life?
-[sighs]

Head-to-head with Kristen?

Going against Kristen's
really intimidating

'cause I know
she's really good at sculpting.

I don't know.
I think it's gonna be pretty well matched,

{\an8}but I really like to do
bust cakes and faces.

{\an8}It's, like, right in my wheelhouse,

{\an8}so I'm really excited
to see how it'll come out.

-[Timmy] For sure.
-Yay!

Cool.

{\an8}I am so glad
that I was the fastest to find the decoy

{\an8}because Dracula will be in my wheelhouse

{\an8}and be the easiest
as far as color matching and texturing.

What flavor are you doing?

[Caitlin] I am doing
a pistachio-cardamom cake

with white-chocolate ganache
and a blood-orange buttercream.

-Ooh.
-Hey!

-Nice.
-See what I did there?

[Kristen] That's super fitting obviously
with the theme, doing a Dracula cake.

My biggest concern
making this Dracula head

is when you do a carved face,

you need to make the cake
much smaller than the finished product,

because you're gonna be adding
a lot of layers on top of it.

So if I need to build up the cheeks
or the chin or the nose,

it's not gonna throw the proportions off.

[energetic music playing]

{\an8}I'm feeling nervous
going head to head with Caitlin.

I know her baking skills
are really strong.

But I am feeling super positive,
because I love making anything scary

and I love making faces.

So this is really up my alley.
I've got this.

Oh, Kristen!

Hey, Raina.

Why did you pick Mr. Grim Reaper?

[Kristen] I just love
anything skull or scary related.

I've always loved Halloween
and always loved dressing up,

but being one of four kids,

I feel like my parents didn't always
give us the opportunity to dress up.

That's why, when it comes to dressing up,
I love sharing that with my kids.

[Julie] I love that.

[Kristen] There's something
about having kids

that really brings out
all the best parts of me,

because I really didn't do
anything artistic until I had my kids.

-What flavor did you end up choosing?
-[Kristen] I'm keeping it simple.

I'm just doing vanilla
with a toffee crunch in the middle.

I know that recipe is good for carving,
so that's my priority.

That sounds so good.

I have made a skull cake before,

so I think
that's a pretty safe thing to make.

And it looks like there's, like,
a plastic hood over the Grim Reaper

and I think, okay, that could maybe
hide some imperfections on the side,

so it's probably a smart decision.

[Caitlin] It smells so good.

{\an8}[woman] Ooh.

{\an8}Guys, the wall is spinning.
The wall is spinning!

{\an8}-Ah, the wall!
-[Kristen] Oh my gosh!

[laughter]

What?

You've never seen a grown man
stroke a vampire's face?

-Hi, bakers.
-Hi.

-Hi.
-I have your decoys.

[upbeat music playing]

The battle is on.

-Jujhar versus Julie.
-[tense music playing]

Kristen versus Caitlin.

Kristen, how are you feelin'?

-Okay?
-Yeah, sure.

[Mikey laughs]

Was that Canadian panic?

[laughs]

The draping over the Grim Reaper's head
that I thought was plastic is fabric,

so this adds a whole different level
to the game.

I'm panicking, because I don't know

how I am going to make
this look like fabric.

{\an8}[exhales]

{\an8}Okay. Okay.

{\an8}I look over at Jujhar's station,

{\an8}and he has
the shape of his head already built.

He's already about to start on the detail,
and I barely even have my cakes stacked,

and I need to begin carving
the entire shape.

Buckle-down time.

I just realized
yours is the faintest gray ever.

It does look like that from far away,
but up close, it's like...

-[Julie] It's more?
-Yeah.

I am not classically trained at art.
I do not have a fine-arts degree.

I really just do trial and error
when it comes to color matching,

but adding in the avocado green
to my gray color is working perfectly.

So happy just now. [laughs]

{\an8}-Three hours left, bakers. No pressure.
-[timer beeping]

Honestly?

[Julie] ♪ Looking good, looking good ♪

[Jujhar] So much cake we gotta make
to make this little monster.

Jujhar, yours is bigger
than I remember it being.

-[Jujhar] Yeah. It's so big!
-[Kristen] It's Jujhar sized.

-[Julie] It's Jujhar sized!
-Yeah. And it even has a mustache like me.

[laughter]

These Frankenstein heads are so funny.

-Right?
-[laughter]

[Mikey] "My favorite French Frankenstein."

-"From monster to monsieur."
-[Grace] Oh, that's good.

{\an8}Timothée Chalamet as French Frankenstein.
He's very cultured.

-[breezy music]
-[sharp inhale]

[French accent] "First of all,
we need to get you some new clothes."

-[laughs]
-"You are a mess."

"We get you some jeans,
get you in some Hugo Boss."

-"You look okay, okay?"
-[laughter]

[normal voice] Walking around France.
[imitates thudding footsteps]

[laughter]

[Kristen] How are you feeling
about your werewolf?

[Julie] I'm feelin' okay about him.

I think all of his texture fur,

like, it'll be easier
to kinda blend stuff in between.

I use molds for his ears,

but I think everything else is gonna
have to be sculpted by hand with tools.

My approach is to carve out
just little lines

to give variations of hair and fur.

Then I just go piece by piece,
blending one patch into the other.

Just gotta get it covered
so I can start painting.

-It's looking really good.
-Are you sure?

-Yeah, and you're freehand sculpting it.
-I just hope I have enough time to paint.

[energetic music playing]

[Kristen] I don't know why this part
makes me so nervous.

[Jujhar] It's, like, so many details.
All the highlights, all the colors.

[Caitlin] The many stages of Dracula.

{\an8}-Here we go.
-[timer beeping]

{\an8}[Jujhar] How are y'all doing, guys?
It's too quiet in here.

I'm doing good.

[Kristen] I'm at that stage
where it's either gonna turn really good

or turn really, really bad,
so I'm on the cusp.

Painting is a strength of mine,

so I am trying to use what I'm good at
to make a great cake,

but having that hood in fabric is just
sitting in the back of my mind constantly.

What am I gonna do to make that work?

I need to put the hood on my Grim Reaper.

There's a lot of strategy
that I haven't figured out.

-What about you, Caitlin?
-I am still sculpting the face.

[Kristen] I have never really made
anything look like fabric before,

so I'm trying to play around
with different techniques

to try to get this to work for me.

It's so heavy.

I like that the reason I chose this was
because the fabric could cover stuff up,

and it's the fabric
that is, like, the bane of my existence.

-You think?
-Yeah.

I try to get out some powdered black dust
to see if I can maybe add some highlights

and that will sell it more as fabric.

Like, even if it looks like a felt,
some type of texture will work.

Pinch that edge. Sharp, sharp, sharp.

Hey, bakers!

{\an8}-You have just one hour left.
-Oh my God.

{\an8}-Una hora.
-Una hora.

-Boom.
-Boom.

[upbeat music playing]

[Jujhar] Frankenstein has some stitches.

Little parts of his head
is kind of busted up.

So I just use crumpled-up aluminum foil,
and I just dab, dab, dab in certain spots,

and it gives it
a really, really cool look.

Looks so much better. Holy crap.

I am so excited,
because all of the details are on there,

all of the paint job is perfect,
and I'm basically done.

It's so relieving.

But something is not right.

-Hey, Jujhar.
-Hey.

[Caitlin] Can you come here really quick?
Is his head too fat?

Do you think it'll fool them?

-Or should I shave down his head more?
-Like on the side?

Yeah.

If you have time.

Now is the time to make the decision
'cause we still have an hour left.

-Right.
-Yeah.

[Caitlin] While it sucks to have to cut
into a fully complete cake,

I really need to take the time
and fix this

or this could be curtains for me.

No time to waste.

I see focus, I see intensity,
and that's good, 'cause

{\an8}thirty minutes, bakers.

{\an8}Thirty minutes left.

{\an8}-Come on, guys.
-[Mikey] Half an hour.

{\an8}[Raina] Let's go.

-[Jujhar] Julie?
-[Julie] Yep?

How are your eyes coming along?

[Julie] I went back to painting.

I originally wanted to make isomalt eyes,
but I'm not gonna have time to do that.

I'm gonna have to use modeling chocolate
and paint the eyes on top of that,

which is frustrating because I know it's
not gonna look as realistic as the decoys.

All the faces look the same dimension.

It's the fabric, man.

I'm feeling good
about the face of my cake,

but I'm still not feeling great
about that fabric.

You can tell in the bright light 100%.

That's k*lling me.

I know that Caitlin
is an amazing cake decorator,

but I do notice that the size of her head
still may be a little bit big.

So at this point,
I just don't know which way it's gonna go.

Stay like that, please.

{\an8}Five minutes. Five minutes left, bakers.

Aah!

I am fighting tooth and nail
to stay in this competition.

If I can't fool them,

I am really hoping the level of detail
I've put into sculpting this

and my flavors are going to save me.

If I'm the losing baker today, I go home.

There is no redemption after this.

{\an8}-Ten seconds, bakers. Ten seconds.
-[Julie] Aah!

{\an8}-[energetic music playing]
-Eee!

[Mikey] Get those heads in gear. Whoo!

{\an8}Five, four, three...

{\an8}-[group] ...two, one.
-[Henderson] Whoo!

{\an8}-Time's up!
-[cheering and applause]

[Mikey] This is it.

-I hope you all fool the judges.
-[Grace] Yay!

So good luck, and I'll see you out there.

Bakers, you finished
your creepy monster-head cakes,

and now it's time
to try and fool our judges.

So let's meet these people.

-[cheering and applause]
-[laughter]

First up, stand-up comedian
and Daily Show correspondent, Dulcé Sloan.

{\an8}[cheering and applause]

{\an8}Hello.

You're also the voice of Honeybee
on The Great North, right?

I am. I am.

You know, all my jobs
are me yellin' at America,

uh, in various... various ways.

[laughter]

-Next up, actor and friend of the show...
-[contestant whoops]

-...who lives behind the cake wall.
-[laughs]

You've seen him on The Bear,

{\an8}but to me,
he's Is It Cake's Chris Witaske.

{\an8}[cheering and applause]

I'm back!

[laughter]

To celebrate your third time here,
we have a three-timers club.

-Ooh.
-Oh.

-I have a gift.
-Get outta here.

The third-time-judging tub of fondant.

[laughter]

-For me? Mikey!
-[fanfare plays]

There he is!

-Oh, I got my own fondant!
-[laughter]

[Mikey] And finally,
actor, host, content creator,

the wonderful Liza Koshy!

{\an8}-Yeah!
-[cheering and applause]

-Hi, Mikey. I'm so happy to be here.
-We are so excited to have you.

And lucky for y'all contestants,
I have poor vision.

-Yes!
-So I brought these.

-[group] Oh!
-That's cheating. Absolutely not!

-[Caitlin] Uh-uh.
-I can see it all!

-Were you looking through 'em backwards?
-I think so.

[laughter]

Judges, you are here
on a very special day.

These are our head-to-head battles.

Our winning bakers, Jujhar and Julie,

will be competing
for a cash prize of up to $15,000.

That's a lot of money!

[applause]

And our two losing bakers,

or our two bakers
who have not won the most...

There we go.

...Caitlin and Kristen,
will be fighting to stay alive,

because one of them
will be eliminated today.

-[group] Aww.
-[Liza] Come on, little women!

Let's go! Let's go!

All right. Jujhar,
you're up for the first spin.

Judges, you will see
five monster-head masks.

-Four of them are decoys.
-Okay.

And one is...

[judges] Cake!

You'll have 20 seconds
to try and find the cake

and lock in your answer
on the keypad in front of Chris.

Let's do this. You guys ready?

-Yes!
-A'ight.

Cake wall, spin!

[tense music playing]

Coming around, judges,
Jujhar made Frankenstein!

-[Dulcé] Wait, wait.
-Whoa!

-Okay.
-Hey!

Let's see if you can find the cake.

-Ooh.
-Oh.

{\an8}Your time starts now!

{\an8}[Chris] Okay, this is hard.

{\an8}Okay. All right, all right, all right.

[Liza] Look at Number One.

He's got not the best skincare routine.
It looks chunky.

[Chris] I think Two.

[Dulcé] Number Two has no neck.
I think it's Number Two.

[Chris] Three looks like it's melting.
I think Three's a decoy.

Ten seconds.

[Liza] Four's got a snarling lip.

-[Dulcé] Four is too smooth, right?
-[Chris] Yeah.

[Dulcé] I'm thinking Number Five
looks too much like a person.

-Five.
-[Chris] What about two?

-There's cake underneath that.
-[Chris] Two. I think that's cake.

-Two got a sexy jaw!
-[Chris] Three!

-One!
-I'm telling you, it's Two.

Can we agree on Two?

-No! One!
-[Chris] I'm going Two!

-[Dulcé] Where are your binoculars?
-[Mikey] Time's up!

-You guys, I went Two.
-It's One!

-Ohhh!
-I went Two!

-Because w... we had very little time.
-You made her step off that box!

{\an8}-I heard "Two" from both sides.
-[Liza] I will fight you! I said One!

That sounded like you guys
were defusing a b*mb.

[laughter]

Let's see how you did.

All right, I heard a lot of debate.

{\an8}What about this looks cake to you guys?

{\an8}The head is shiny. It looks like fondant.

{\an8}He needs to pat with some powder.
It is very shiny.

{\an8}Let's see if you got it. Knife time.

{\an8}I have never been so stressed out
over a piece of cake in my whole life.

{\an8}Jujhar, if you fooled the judges,
you could win up to $15,000.

-Oh, this is stressful!
-[suspenseful music playing]

-[Chris] Chop harder.
-[Mikey] Not cake!

-Jujhar!
-Jujhar!

-Love you!
-[Chris] Wow.

-Jujhar!
-[Chris] Wow.

Jujhar, you fooled our judges, so you are
one step closer to that shmoney, baby.

[cheering and applause]

Shmoney.

Judges, second guess.

-One!
-One!

We get a second guess?

-One!
-I'm not gonna argue with those ladies.

I'm gonna take a victory lap if that's it.
I'mma run in these heels.

{\an8}-Let's see if this one's cake.
-[suspenseful music playing]

{\an8}-[Chris] Ooh, wow, look at that.
-[Liza yelling]

-[yelling]
-[upbeat music playing]

[Chris] All right, all right, all right.

Okay, but it's not a victory lap,
'cause that's not the one we picked.

-[Chris] Right. We didn't... Yeah.
-[laughter]

Jujhar, excellent job,

but Julie also has a shot
to fool the judges,

and she's up.

-[laughter]
-Cake wall, spin!

[tense music playing]

[Mikey] Coming around,
Julie made the Wolf Man.

The Wolf Man.

[Mikey] Let's see
if you can find the cake.

-[judges howling]
-[laughter]

{\an8}[Mikey] You got 20 seconds.

{\an8}Your time starts now!

{\an8}Ooh.

{\an8}[Chris] Oh my God!

Okay. One looks like it could be.

-[Chris] I think One's a decoy.
-Number One has never blinked.

[laughter]

[Dulcé] Uh, number two
looks like it could be cake.

-Yeah, it's cakey to me.
-[Dulcé] It's matte.

Number Three, too shiny.

[Mikey] Fifteen seconds.

-[Dulcé] Okay, Four is matte.
-[Chris] Uh...

-Yeah, it's a little matte-y.
-Four.

[Dulcé] Number Five, too shiny.
[Liza] Number Five is perfection.

That's a good-lookin' werewolf.

-[laughter]
-[Mikey] Ten seconds.

-[Dulcé] It's not Five and it's not Three.
-Okay. You still think Two?

[Dulcé] Two is matte!

-[Mikey] Lock it in.
-[Dulcé] Three? What do you think?

-We can agree on Two? I'm going Two.
-[Liza] Two, two, two!

-[bell dings]
-Time's up!

[Dulcé] Okay, okay, okay.

{\an8}-[Mikey] Confident?
-[Liza] Yeah!

{\an8}-[Chris] No.
-[Mikey] Never?

{\an8}[Dulcé] No, that's a lie.
I'm confident as hell!

All right. Why do you think this is cake?

[laughter]

Listen, I can smell with my eyes,
and it's Number Two.

It's not Two.

-[Liza] I feel it.
-[laughter]

-All right, Julie.
-[suspenseful music playing]

If this is cake,
Jujhar will be the winner.

-Ooh!
-[Mikey] If...

Damn!

...it's not cake,
then you'll both be up for the win today.

-[Chris] Wow.
-[judge whistles]

Line?

Got it. Is it cake?

[laughter]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Chris] Oh!

[all exclaiming]

-[upbeat music playing]
-[cheering and applause]

[Chris yells]

I took out his eye!

-[Jujhar] So cool!
-Julie, congrats.

You and Jujhar fooled our judges,
so you are both up for the win.

-Live to bake another day.
-You have a question?

I... I do.
Um... Which one of these things is cake?

[laughter]

Look at One's neck. You see that texture
on the neck? Could be cake-uh!

-Ain't no way that One is cake.
-It's One.

[Chris] If it's One,
I'll give you my fondant.

-Shut up. Really?
-Yeah.

-[Liza] I will jack your fondant.
-[Mikey] Dulcé says no way.

Liza says yes way.

-Yes way.
-And Chris says?

Do you guys validate parking here?

[laughter]

Let's see. This is for Liza.

[suspenseful music playing]

-Oh. Whoa!
-[Liza exclaiming]

[Liza laughing maniacally]

[man] Wow!

[Mikey] Excellent job, Julie.

Wow, you guys are making this tough.

A little later, the judges will decide
who will be today's big winner

based on your cakes'
up-close appearance and taste.

-Right, judges?
-Yay!

But first, we've got more spins to do.

[cheering and applause]

Let's start with Caitlin!

-[cheering and applause]
-[Mikey] Give it up for Caitlin!

-Okay, everybody ready?
-No.

[Henderson chuckles]

Cake wall, spin.

[tense music playing]

Judges, Caitlin made Dracula.

-Dra-coolah?
-Yeah.

[Mikey] Yep.

Oh my God.

[Chris] Whoa.

See if you can find the cake.

Oh my God.

{\an8}Your time starts now!

{\an8}-[Dulcé] Oh no!
-[Chris] Oh my God.

I don't like none of this!

[Chris] They all look so similar.

-[Liza] Look at them.
-[Chris] One is shiny.

-One looks too perfect, Two is too small.
-I agree.

[Liza] Number Two
looks like the blueprint.

-It looks like the original.
-Fifteen seconds.

[Chris] Look at Three.

Three is kind of big. I think
Three just look like it's full o' cake.

-[Liza] Look at Four. Look at Four's neck.
-[Chris] It's matte. It's more matte.

It looks like fondant!
And I know fondant. I own fondant.

[laughter]

-Ten seconds.
-[Chris] Okay, Five is shiny.

-[Dulcé] Five's missing a tooth.
-Might be a decoy.

-[Mikey] Five seconds.
-We know. We're running out of time!

-[Liza] Three!
-[Chris] We gotta go quick. Four?

-[Dulcé] Three!
-Three. I'm going Three!

-[Mikey] Time's up!
-[Liza screams]

{\an8}[Chris] They all look so similar.

{\an8}I don't know if that's cake,
but this is drama.

-[laughter]
-Ooh.

Okay, judges, let's see what we got here.

Three got a big water head,
so it's full of cake.

-"Water head?"
-Yeah, he got a big water head.

Now just to be clear, kids at home
who might not know, what is a water head?

Somebody with a big ol' head.

[laughter]

All right. Here we go, Caitlin.

If this is cake,
things just got a little worse for you.

-[suspenseful music playing]
-Is it cake?

[nervous groan]

[clears throat]

Come on. Come on.

{\an8}-Cut that sucker. Yes, he's cutting!
-Oh.

{\an8}-[Liza laughs]
-Ah!

[Liza exclaiming]

-[Liza] Yeah!
-[Mikey] You did it.

-I did it!
-[Mikey] It's cake. Mixed emotions.

You did your job, but at the same time,
Caitlin, I'm sorry.

Caitlin, I tried. I thought it was Four.

-[laughter]
-Caitlin, you're not out yet,

'cause it all depends
on what happens with Kristen's spin.

Judges, you know what to do.

Cake wall, spin.

[tense music playing]

All right, judges.
Kristen made the Grim Reaper.

Wow.

-[chuckles]
-Wow. Okay.

[Chris] Shpooky!

[Mikey] Your job
is to try and find her cake.

Don't blink for 20 seconds.

{\an8}Your time starts now.

{\an8}-[tense music playing]
-[timer beeping]

{\an8}-[Chris] Ah!
-I don't like it.

{\an8}-Shpooky!
-At all!

I want whatever One is on.

[laughter]

[Liza] Oh, yeah, he's having a great day.
One's feeling good.

[Chris] But wait, hold on, look at...
Two's kind of shiny.

Two looks like real fabric.

You're focusing on fabric.
I think that's smart.

[Dulcé] Three actually looks like fabric.

-[Liza] Wait, but Three has a crack.
-Yeah. I see that crack.

-[Liza] Right there.
-[Mikey] Ten seconds.

[Dulcé] Four...

Number Four needs to pull that hood down
a little more on that big ol' head.

[laughter]

-[Chris] Okay. My first hunch is Five.
-[Liza] Okay.

-Five looks like fondant.
-Yeah.

-Fondant, not fabric.
-[Mikey] Three.

[Chris] We gotta pick!

-[Dulcé] Five is kinda wonky.
-Four looks like...

-[Liza] Number Five!
-[Mikey] Two.

-[Dulcé] Five, five, five!
-[Mikey] One!

-Time's up!
-[bell dings]

{\an8}[Chris] "Fondant not fabric"
was a good thought.

{\an8}[Mikey] I was about to say,
that's your catchphrase.

-Fondant, not fabric.
-[Dulcé] Not fabric.

[laughter]

[Mikey] You picked Five.

-What about this is cakey to you?
-For me, it was the fold of the fabric.

[Chris] Four and Five
had some fondanty fabric.

-But what sealed the deal with Five?
-That's what we picked.

[laughter]

Some mysteries only a knife can solve.

Kristen, if you fooled the judges,
then you're safe

and Caitlin is going home.

If this is cake, then the judges
will make the final decision

who stays and who goes.

One question.

Is it cake?

Is it?

[suspenseful music playing]

-Do it, do, do it.
-Cut it, cut it!

What's happening?

[Dulcé] Oh!

-[Liza] Oh!
-[Chris] Wait. But I feel bad.

But I gotta say,
that is an impressive cake.

-[Dulcé] It is.
-[Mikey] It's amazing.

-[Chris] Yeah. Truly, that is impressive.
-[Liza] Yeah.

Caitlin, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
You're still in this.

Because they found both of your cakes,
the judges are gonna come up here,

they're gonna taste your cakes,
they're gonna examine them up close,

and then they'll be deciding
which one of you stays

and which one of you
leaves the competition.

[exhales] All right.

-Judges, let's eat some cake.
-Whoo!

Cake wall, spin.

[tense music playing]

Come on up here, get a good close look,
and taste all of the cakes.

-She's so excited.
-I love this part!

We'll start with the bakers
up for the big win today,

Jujhar and Julie. Jujhar?

-Wow.
-Oh, oh!

[Jujhar] For you today,
I made a cinnamon cake

with a burnt hickory-smoked
meringue buttercream,

a milk-chocolate-coconut ganache,
and toasted pecans.

[Chris] Oh yeah. It tastes great,
but now that I'm up close,

the attention to detail
is really impressive.

-The pores.
-[Jujhar] Yeah, there's pores on there.

-[Chris] Yeah, very impressive.
-Thank you.

Julie, will you please tell them
about the Wolf Man?

[Julie] It's vanilla cake
with chocolate buttercream.

I wanted to go as classic as classic gets.

It's delicious.

I'm impressed with the detail.
It looks like hair.

[Dulcé] Eyebrows, eye sockets.

-Like a monster mask.
-[Chris] Quality, yes.

This is chasing you in the woods

because you shouldn't have been
with that boy on that camping trip.

[laughter]

All right, let's move on
to the bakers up for elimination,

Caitlin and Kristen.

Caitlin, can you tell them
about the flavors in your cake?

So I made a pistachio-cardamom cake
with white-chocolate ganache

and a blood-orange buttercream.

-[Liza] All right.
-[Dulcé] Okay!

-See what I did there?
-Blood orange. Dracula. We get it.

-[Liza] I got it.
-Let me tell you about this blood orange.

Bring it to the house. You might
have to make my wedding cake.

Ooh!

The bite that I got
was a little heavy on the cream action.

There is a large chunk of that
white chocolate in the middle of the cake.

Throws you off.

-Not my favorite taste.
-Ooh.

But the detail.
Hair slicked back, pomade realness.

-The shape of the nose is incredible.
-The shape of the nose!

It is so accurate. It looks like my uncle.

-[laughter]
-[Liza] It really is.

[Mikey] Moving on to Kristen's cake.

[Kristen] So what I've made
is a vanilla sponge,

and then I paired it
with a sweet and salty

caramel Swiss-meringue buttercream
with toffee.

Why do I taste pancakes?

-There's no maple syrup in this?
-No, it's salted caramel.

-[Chris] We were talking about this.
-The hood.

There is a silky-looking texture

that makes it look like fabric up close,

but from far away, it did reek of fondant.

Okay, judges, you've tasted
all four of these incredible cakes,

so please take a moment,
talk amongst yourselves,

and decide which baker will be our winner

and which baker will be eliminated
from the competition.

-Let's deliberate.
-Come on, let's do it.

[Dulcé] Jujhar's cake had a good flavor.

I've never had
that flavor combination before.

And that attention to detail.

Are we impressed with the amount of detail
versus Julie's though?

[Chris] The eyes were impressive.

[Dulcé] I like Julie's detail,

but at the end of the day, this was just
a vanilla cake with chocolate.

Okay, so who are we gonna send home?

That blood orange frosting was the best
thing I've tasted on this whole thing.

-If Caitlin had not given this Dracula...
-A water head?

[Dulcé] That's how I was able to clock it.

We got Kristen's right away.

-[Dulcé] The fabric is what caught me.
-[Chris] The fabric.

Okay, judges, have you reached a decision?

We have.

Please write down the name
of the eliminated baker.

[suspenseful music playing]

Judges, why don't you start us off
with some good news?

Who is our winner?

We all agree that they are both delicious.

But after looking
at the attention to detail,

one cake really just impressed us
a little bit more than the other one.

The winner is...

[suspenseful music continues]

[all] ...Jujhar!

[cheering and applause]

[Mikey] Jujhar!

My time to do a lap!

-Do a lap!
-Do a lap!

[cheering and applause]

Come on, let's go!

You, Jujhar, are the champion
of our bakers' battle royale

{\an8}and you just pocketed $10,000, bud.

{\an8}[cheering and applause]

You'll be moving on
to our Cake Or Cash? round

where you could win an additional $5,000.

-[woman] Yeah!
-[Mikey] Excellent job.

Julie, you can head back to the gallery.
You are safe.

Great work.

Now for the hard part.

[tense music playing]

Bakers, you are both
mind-blowingly talented,

but sadly...

[tense music swells]

...Kristen, you have been eliminated
from the competition.

-But let's give her a round of applause.
-[Kristen] Thank you.

-You did such a good job.
-Thanks, darlin'.

[Mikey] Our Canadian queen.

-[Jujhar] You did great.
-Thank you.

You are awesome, you are so kind,

and your boys
will be very proud of their mama.

It's just been, like... like, so amazing...

[voice breaking] ...to be from
a little town in Canada,

to be on a show like this, so...

You're awesome. We're lucky to have you,
so thank you.

-Kristen!
-Thank you.

Thank you, Kristen!

[Dulcé] Good job, Kristen.

The hardest thing about being eliminated
is, like, you know,

I'm sure my kids would like to watch
from home

and see me win and say, "That's my mom,"
but if you have a dream, go for it,

because even if you don't reach
the pinnacle of your goal,

every step and every chance you make
gets you closer.

[sniffles]

-Aww.
-We hug.

I'll just use my pant leg.

[laughs, sniffles]

No, it's okay.

I'm afraid we have to say goodbye.
Judges, it's been real.

Bye.

Bye!

[Mikey] Let's give it up
for Liza, Dulcé, Chris, Kristen.

-[upbeat music playing]
-It's not as fast as it looks!

[laughter]

Jujhar!

It's time to play

Cake Or Cash?

Whoo!

[dramatic music playing]

Cake wall, spin!

Jujhar, on the other side of the cake wall
are two gold skulls.

[group] Wow.

Are you joking?

[Mikey] One of them is real.
The other is cake.

-Guess the cake, get the cash.
-[Caitlin] I don't even know.

-I don't know.
-My God.

{\an8}You have 15 seconds,
and your time starts now.

{\an8}-[tense music playing]
-[timer beeping]

[Jujhar] I have no clue.

[Mikey] Ten seconds, Jujhar.

[tense music continues]

Five seconds.

-Three, two, one.
-[bell dings]

Time's up.

You took all the time,
and I liked that, Jujhar.

-You see that?
-Yay!

{\an8}[Mikey] You chose Number One.

{\an8}-[Jujhar] This is just a guess.
-[Mikey] Let's see if you're right.

Jujhar, if this is cake,
I'm gonna throw in five more dollars.

-Wow.
-So you could win $5,005.

That's amazing.

-Well, I hope you win the money.
-[laughter]

[exhales] Gallery, you ready?

-Ready.
-Let's find out.

[Mikey] Look at all those crossed fingers.
Let's go.

{\an8}-[suspenseful music playing]
-[clears throat]

{\an8}Oh.

Hold on.

[group] Yay!

[applause]

[Mikey] Look at that!

Oh, I wanna keep cutting it.

-Oh, it's so beautiful.
-Oh, there's sprinkies!

-It's cake!
-[group cheers]

{\an8}Jujhar, you just won another $5,005

{\an8}for a grand total of $15,005, buddy.

-Congratulations.
-[cheering]

-Thank you.
-[Mikey] How do you feel?

I can't believe it. I'm just like, "What?"

I'm gonna be honest.
I cannot believe it either.

They look identical.

Well done.

You can head back to the gallery
a rich man.

-Hug your friends.
-Thank you. Thank you.

Grace, Henderson, Timmy, and Raina,
come on over here.

You're on deck.

[cheering]

[Mikey] Stretch those legs.
You're out of the gallery!

The four of you
will be competing next time.

-Oh yeah!
-Oh my God!

And there's one more thing
I forgot to mention.

-[Grace] Oh no.
-Oh no.

[Mikey] You'll be working...

[suspenseful music playing]

...in teams!

-[all gasp]
-What?

-[upbeat music]
-[laughter]

-Oh my God.
-What?!

[Mikey] You can take those aprons off.

They do not define you! You define you!

[laughter]

-[Mikey] It's chaos!
-Oh my God.

[upbeat music playing]