03x04 - Knock Knock...Cake Service!

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat music plays]

[bell dings]

[laughter]

Hi.

[laughter]

-[Grace] Oh wow.
-[Julie] Oh my God!

-What?
-Oh, hi, bakers.

-Hey, Mikey!
-Hi.

-Hi, Mikey.
-Hello.

Not sure how y'all got my room key,
but welcome to an Is It Cake? first.

A team baking challenge.

-[applause]
-What is gonna happen?

Dare me to?

-Oh my God.
-No.

-[big-band jazz playing]
-[Mikey humming along]

Here it is, people.

[laughter]

Oh my God.

[cymbals crash]

-[laughter]
-[Mikey, seductively] Tell me...

Is it cake?

[laughter]

All right.

I took the liberty
of ordering us some room service,

and you probably guessed by now
that under one of these metal domes,

there's gonna be some cake.

So let's play Find That Cake!

-[whooping]
-[applause]

As usual, we're looking for the fastest
baker to find the cake up here.

And you definitely
wanna be that person today,

because whoever locks in their answer
the fastest

will get to choose which baker
they'd like to be partnered with

for today's team challenge.

[all] Oh.

So, should we see what we ordered
for room service here?

[all] Yes.

-Let's see.
-[tense music playing]

Oh.

Looks like a club sandwich
and fries. Classic.

-This one, club sandwich...
-It's all the same.

-...and fries.
-Oh my God.

-[Mikey] Nice.
-Oh my God.

-[Raina laughing]
-[Mikey] Club sandwich and fries.

Here we got

club sandwich and fries.

[laughter]

And last but not least,

{\an8}club sandwich and fries.

-[Grace] Yikes!
-Yow!

{\an8}You will have 20 seconds to lock in
which one of these you think is cake.

{\an8}-Got it?
-Yup.

{\an8}Good, because your time starts now.

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

-This is so hard.
-I don't know.

[Mikey] Ten seconds.

[tense music continues]

Five seconds!

Three, two, one.

-[bell dings]
-Time's up!

[exhales]

{\an8}[Mikey] All right. I don't know
how many times I've said this.

Let's see who could tell the difference
between a cake and a sandwich.

-Not me.
-[Raina] No. Clearly not me.

Timmy, what did you pick?

{\an8}I picked Number Three.

Timmy, what looks cakey
about Number Three?

It looks like the only one
that doesn't have tomato,

so I just went by that.

Interesting strategy.

All right.
Well, let's see if you're right.

You know what?

Who needs a knife when I have my mouth?

[suspenseful music playing]

[chuckles] Oh-h*-h*!

That's not cake.

Oh!

That's a cold prop sandwich.

[laughter]

Raina, what did you pick?

{\an8}I picked Four.

[Mikey] Did anyone else pick Four?

Why do you think this is cake?

It was just, like, stacked perfectly.
It was too perfect.

{\an8}I thought the bread was slightly brighter
than the other ones.

Let's see if this is cake.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Grace] Oh. Oh.

-[Grace] It feels like cake.
-[Raina] Cake! It looks like cake!

{\an8}-I just cut through something.
-What does that mean? Is it cake?

Is it cake?

To me,

that looks like cake!

-Yeah!
-[upbeat music plays]

[applause]

Judging by your reaction,
your minds are blown.

[Raina laughs]

Whoo!

Now to find out
which one of you found it the fastest.

Raina!

-[Raina screams]
-[group cheers]

You were the fastest to find the cake,

so you get the potentially awkward...

-Exactly.
-...advantage of picking...

-[Raina] Oh God!
-...your partner for the next challenge.

We will then ask you to explain in detail

to the other two
why you did not pick them.

[laughter]

For this team challenge,
you'll each be making your own cakes,

but presenting them as a pair.

So if either one of your cakes
tips off the judges,

you'll both be facing elimination.

-[Grace] Mm.
-[Henderson] Ooh.

sh**t.

So, Raina, who's it gonna be?

Oh my God.

No presh.

I think I'm going to go with Timmy
on this one.

-Timmy!
-Hello, partner.

This guy's really good.
He won't let me down.

[both] We'll bring it home.

Timmy, are you blushing?

-Just a lot.
-Just a lot?

-[Grace] I like that.
-Timmy!

[group] Aww.

My partner.

You're gonna be a tough team to beat,
but if anyone can do it,

it's Grace and Henderson.

Let's go!

The winning team will split up to $20,000.

But sadly, one member of the losing team
will be getting eliminated.

-That's the rough part.
-That's the hardest part.

-Ready to see what you're baking?
-[group] Yes!

It's time to play...

-Jujhar?
-Is It Cake?

[Mikey] Yeah!

[laughter and applause]

Cake wall, spin around.

Bye!

[group] Ooh!

Oh my God!

[Grace] Wowee wow-wow.

Each of you will choose an item
from our room-service menu

to replicate as a cake.

I'm so jealous!

We've got breakfast,

lunch,

dinner,

and my personal favorite,
the late-night snack.

Grace and Henderson,
since Raina got to choose teams,

the choice is yours.

{\an8}-Is late-night... Is that pizza?
-[Henderson] Yeah. It's pizza.

{\an8}-[Grace] I'm down.
-Yeah. Yeah.

-What are you picking?
-Late-night snack.

[Mikey] Late-night snack!

{\an8}Consists of the deep-dish pizza

{\an8}and the buffalo wings with the carrot
and celery and dipping sauce.

-Why'd you pick late-night snack?
-I don't know. I love pizza.

Me too.

[laughter]

Raina and Timmy?

What is that on dinner? Is that lasagna?

-[Timmy] I think...
-[Raina] That'll work better.

-At least that can be cake.
-Are you sure?

Yeah, I think that's a good choice.

-What's it gonna be for you guys?
-We're gonna do dinner.

[group] Ooh.

[Mikey] Dinner!
Ooh, do you hear the gallery?

[chuckling]

{\an8}[Mikey] A crown rack of lamb
with brussels sprouts

{\an8}and the lasagna
with garlic bread and marinara sauce.

{\an8}You'll have eight hours
to finish your cakes.

{\an8}It's time...

{\an8}[echoing] ...to bake!

{\an8}Go! Run!

{\an8}-[Raina] Let's go.
-[Mikey] Go!

Grab the fondant!
Grab the modeling chocolate!

Fire up the sheeter!

-Thank you so much for choosing me.
-Absolutely.

-I'm so excited. Glad to be your partner.
-Thank you.

-Have you made pizza or wings before?
-Uh, no.

-Okay. Me neither.
-[laughs]

-But I'm comfortable doing either one.
-For sure.

I'm all for that crown rack,

because, like, when that came around,
it was so glorious.

So I'm like, "I really want to do that."

Shall we do a little
rock, paper, scissors? Winner gets pizza.

-Okay. Gotcha.
-Rock, paper...

-Okay. Pizza.
-Oh, I got it. So I get the pizza.

-I feel very confident with the lasagna.
-[Timmy] Yeah.

[Raina] So, you ready?

-I'm ready.
-We got this.

All right, let's go.

{\an8}I know immediately that she trusts me,

and so really felt
like I could do the rack of lamb.

She was comfortable taking the lasagna.

So we're gonna focus on our own items,

but we rely on each other
for ideas and tips as we create it.

Raina, you have a little lipstick
on your tooth.

-Thank you! You're the best.
-Yeah, here we go.

There's $20,000 up for grabs.

As a small-business owner
and a single dad,

it'd be so awesome to have that money.

My son's 16. He needs a new car,

and I would love
to put this money towards that.

Should we do a little one, two, three?

-One...
-What's the name of the team?

Our team is Lord of the Wings.

[both laughing]

-I love it.
-Okay. On three.

[both] One, two, three, Lord of the Wings!

[laughter]

Let's go!

{\an8}I'm so excited.

{\an8}I'm going to be responsible for the wings
and the ramekin of ranch,

{\an8}and Henderson's going to make
a deep-dish pizza.

Ready!

Having Henderson as my teammate is huge.

I know he's really fast,

he's really good at sculpting,
and his airbrush skills are spot on.

But we really have to bring it,

because Timmy and Raina,
I mean, these are tough competitors.

Do you guys have a team name?

We're Team Salt and Pepper,
because I'm salty.

I'm a little spicy.

-[Grace] All right.
-[Henderson] I love it. [laughs]

Lord of the Wings. Which... I see you.

But I'm coming for you.
Like salt and pepper.

Put us together, we shake it up.

Hey, Grace, what are you working on?

I'm gonna make a vanilla cake

with strawberry Swiss-meringue buttercream
with a hint of mint.

So you're gonna have chicken wings
that taste like strawberry mint?

-It's gonna be very confusing.
-[Jujhar] Yes.

So amazing.

[Grace] Our brains are so wired.

If we see wings,
we're going to expect that flavor,

and once you eat it and it's cake,
it's like your brain goes into error mode.

-[beeping]
-It's like, "Error! What's going on?"

And it's so fun to see that.

I've actually never made wings before,

so I really need to find a way
to stack them naturally

and create that negative space
between the wings.

I think modeling chocolate
is the best way to go, but we'll see.

[chuckles]

[Raina] All right, Timmy,
whatcha burnin' up over there?

-Making a salted caramel right now.
-Brilliant. Brilliant!

{\an8}Timmy and I are working great together.

All right, Timmy, my teammate.

{\an8}Looking at his work
from his social media pages,

{\an8}I am blown away by his artistry.

I have exactly who I should have
by my side.

Raina, what flavor are you doing?

[Raina] I am doing a red velvet cake
with a cream-cheese-buttercream frosting

mixed with red-velvet crumbles.

[Henderson] Ooh.

And red velvet cake
is not red chocolate cake.

Real red velvet cake
should have buttermilk involved,

vinegar, and baking soda.

There is chocolate in red velvet cake,
but it should not be a lot.

If it's more than two tablespoons,
you ain't got red velvet.

If it tastes like chocolate cake,
it's wrong.

-Are you a big fan of lasagna?
-I am. I love lasagna.

Me too. [chuckles]

My biggest concern
with making this lasagna cake

is making sure
that I do not make it too tall

and color matching.

But I'm really big at pushing through.

I have overcome so much in my life.

My first storefront,
we were past due on the rent,

and I lost the entire bakery.

But it's extremely important to me
to motivate my family

and show them that I always keep pushing.

So at the end of the day,

I've learned that I don't have to have
a storefront to be a business.

So I started doing cakes from home.

Hey, Henderson, which cake are you doing?

I'm making a, um, hazelnut cake

soaked with, uh, coffee espresso,

and dulce de leche white ganache.

[Timmy] That sounds delicious.

[Henderson] Dulce de leche
is very popular in my country.

-Also, it's my daughter's favorite flavor.
-[Timmy] Oh yes.

{\an8}I have a little daughter.
She's ten years old. Ivana.

She's my big inspiration,
and dulce de leche is her favorite flavor.

So I always try to keep all the flavors

that remember my family, my country,
my daughter, in all my cakes.

Right here. Right here.

The difficult part of my cake
will be the crust

because it's really hard to replicate
the crunch and the color.

I need to spend a lot of time
for making it look perfect.

I wanna make sure I don't make any mess.

-I wanna look like a professional chef.
-[chuckles]

Oh, Timmy!

-What's up?
-What flavor are you making?

I'm doing a banana cake
with salted-caramel drizzle

-and a Nilla wafer crunch.
-Oh!

I've made barbecued ribs before,

and I made the bones
out of modeling chocolate.

For this rack of lamb,
I can do the same thing,

but it's got bones
that stick straight up in the air,

and it's gonna be a challenge
to do in eight hours.

But I love challenges

and I wanna prove for my son
that I am the best at what I do.

What are you doing?

-[Timmy] I'm going in the oven.
-[Raina] Good job!

{\an8}[upbeat music playing]

{\an8}[Raina] It's decoy time!

-Ding, ding, bakers.
-[Grace] Oh yeah!

Yay!

-[Mikey] Room service.
-[Grace] Yay!

-I have your food.
-[Timmy] Yeah, here we go.

And the collection of smells up here
is not fun.

[laughter]

-Timmy, I've got your crown rack of lamb.
-Ooh.

My crown.

[laughter]

-[Mikey] Adorable.
-[Timmy] This smells so good.

Oh yeah, it's real!

-[Grace] Feel like a waitress.
-Thank you.

-Your wings are here.
-Tip?

[laughter]

[Timmy] Let's go!

[energetic music plays]

[Grace] ♪ So exciting! ♪

-[Henderson] My cake looks beautiful.
-[Grace] Nice!

{\an8}Grace, what you are you doing now?

{\an8}-[Grace] I'm making my, um, wings now.
-You need help there?

-No, I'm good.
-Okay.

I have the modeling chocolate
masked over the little cake pop,

and now I'm going to go in and hand sculpt

every little detail and wrinkles and folds
that the chicken wings actually have.

Henderson, look.

Oh, cool.

Chicken wings
naturally all look different,

so it's really helping me, because I don't
have to make them all look the same.

-Ah, these wings smell so good.
-Yeah, right?

-Wanna eat 'em.
-How do you feel?

-I feel good. Once I start layering this...
-Yeah.

...and putting all that in between it
and painting and stuff...

For my lasagna,

I'm making individual noodles
made from modeling chocolate

followed by a thin layer
of cream-cheese frosting.

Then I put cake.

It's lasagna time.

To make the ground beef,

I will use Cocoa Krispies cereal
with melted-chocolate candy,

and I individually put those
around the side

to give us the meat texture.

I think we got this, Timmy.

[Timmy] Looks so good.

Wow.

That's some confidence right there.

[laughs]

{\an8}Three hours, bakers.

{\an8}Three hours!

{\an8}Let's go, teams.

[funky music playing]

After carving, the next step is painting.

So excited.

So for making the color match,
I use edible colors.

It's my favorite part, painting.

It's really hard to make the color match.

I think the secret is you need to make
different layers with different colors.

For tiny details,
you can use a paintbrush.

At home, I use
my wife's paintbrush for makeup.

She hate me, but it's the best ones.

-What do you think?
-[Grace] Ooh.

-Love it.
-[Henderson] Let me show you close up.

Ooh! Oh my God, that looks so good.

Okay, how many slices of pizza
do you think you could eat in one sitting?

Probably, like, eight or nine slices.

-[Raina] Eight or nine?
-Nine slices?!

-[Raina] Oh my God!
-No. Two and done.

-Two slices?
-[Henderson] Just two slices?

-That's it?!
-I could eat that whole pie.

-[Raina] That whole deep-dish, Grace?
-Yeah.

-[Henderson] Yeah.
-You're a little woman.

[laughs]

[upbeat rock music playing]

[Timmy] Now that I have the base shape
of my rack of lamb,

getting the bones on
will be the next step.

To shape the bones,
I am using modeling chocolate

and adding a thin piece of wire
on the inside

and then Fl*ttening it out
to look like a bone.

And then I'll just use a sculpting tool

to add texture on the ends
of where the marrow would be.

-[Raina] How we comin'?
-I'm working on the bones.

I'll let 'em firm up before...
I'll paint it all at the same time.

Yep. Gotcha.

I can attach the bones to the outside

with a thin layer of modeling chocolate
over top that will hold it all together.

-Raina, what do you think about that?
-It looks amazing.

It looks really, really good.

{\an8}Bakers, you have two hours left,

{\an8}and I'm wiped out.

{\an8}-[lullaby plays]
-I'm just gonna take a little nappie.

{\an8}-What is happening there?
-What are you doing?

[groans] Oh.

Taking a nap in a full suit.

[laughter]

Oh, the Somerset!
The chocolate's not sheeted!

I'm sorry. I had a nightmare.

[laughter]

Raina, how's your lasagna comin' along?

-I am working on my marinara right now.
-Oh, yum.

This is also my first time
making marinara sauce,

so this is exciting.

-I'm using strawberry jam.
-Yeah.

Then crumbling up
some of the red velvet cake to go in.

But, when I do that,

unfortunately, it's the wrong red.

-It needs to be a little darker, I feel.
-Yep.

Bad decision. I shouldnta used no jam.

It is way too translucent,

and its color is different,

so I need to go in
and do major color matching.

[Timmy] I think it needs green
to, like, k*ll that red.

-[Raina] Yep.
-That's good teamwork.

The green does exactly what it's supposed
to do, and it tones the red down,

and we end up
with the perfect color marinara sauce.

That is way better.
The green definitely did it immediately.

-Yep.
-[Raina] Yep.

-I love it.
-Thank you, Timmy.

You are the color-match king.

-I just hope I do you proud! [laughs]
-Oh, you got this.

[exciting music plays]

[Timmy] Brussels sprouts.

-Timmy, are you painting the brussels?
-[Timmy] I am.

The back of my brussels sprouts
are, like, flat green.

-So I'm adding the vine detail.
-[Jujhar] Yeah.

So cool.

-That's what I would've done.
-Yeah?

-100%.
-Yeah.

Go, team! Go, team!

It's time to make the cheese,
so I grate white fondant

for make it look like real Mozzarella.

-I use the torch for melting.
-[Grace] Whoo-hoo!

Of course, every pizza needs a red sauce,

so I use fondant red food coloring,
piping gel, and cornstarch

for make the texture of the sauce.

-I think I got the color.
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, it's time to paint it.

I think this is more hard because
I have to make it look like real pizza,

and we need perfect color match.

-That actually looks like the wing sauce.
-[Henderson] Yeah.

It works out that Henderson's pizza sauce
is the same color as my wing sauce.

How much do you have of that?
Oh, you have a lot.

Perfect.

So I'm using his sauce
and painting it over my wings,

and two birds with one stone.
Great teamwork.

-Thanks, partner.
-You're welcome, partner.

Hey, Grace. What's it like
working in a team for this challenge?

It's so fun. Like, we've really
been helping each other.

And look at your guys' outfits!

-You guys are twinning.
-[Henderson] Yeah.

[laughter]

[Grace] I feel like I've truly found
my passion making cakes.

If I stayed on my path before,

I know I would've kept feeling
like something was missing.

When I left neuroscience,
my parents were devastated.

Neuroscience was an approved career,
but cake artist, not.

Whoo! Nice.

So winning this is really
going to help me vindicate myself.

I can show my parents that I've made
the right decision for my own happiness.

I'm having so much fun.

{\an8}-One hour. One hour remains.
-[Grace] No!

{\an8}-One hour?
-Yikes!

{\an8}[Raina] I'mma mold the bread
so I can fill it.

Hey, you could use my extra
to make your cake-pop dough.

-Let's do it.
-[Timmy] You know?

-I like it.
-[energetic music playing]

[Timmy] Oh yes.

It's time to add the color.
I'm gonna dilute some gel colors.

That way, I can just paint on
and see what other colors to add.

It's a very slow layering process.

This is gonna be insane.

Studying art in college
is what really helped me learn

how to color match this way

and develop skills
that I really think will pay off

and make this look hyperrealistic.

It's gorgeous.

{\an8}-Thirty minutes.
-[Grace] No!

{\an8}[Mikey] We have 30 minutes left.
First team challenge.

Whoo! All right.

Henderson, I need your help
with the ramekin when you're done, please.

For the ramekin, Henderson and I
decide to use a silicone mold.

We got it! We got it! We got it!

We want it to look the same
as all the other ramekins.

-[crack]
-[Henderson] Ooh.

-Oh my God. Did you break it?
-[Henderson] Yeah.

Get that out of the...

[tense music playing]

[Grace] Just take that off,
and we'll plastic surgery it back on.

I'm just gonna...

-[cracking]
-[Henderson] Ooh.

Careful with these fingers.
I'm holding on here.

Yep. Great.

Thank God Grace has really tiny hands
and she can fix it.

My fingers is too big.

I think we're just gonna have
to shave it down.

-Always the small things are harder.
-Mm-hmm.

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

{\an8}-Five minutes!
-[timer beeping]

-[Henderson] Ooh!
-[energetic music playing]

[Raina] Um...

My sauce is a bit shiny.

So I'm going to add more melted cheese
elements to cover some of this sauce.

I am panicking at this point

because I don't wanna be that person
that makes us lose.

Oh my God!

{\an8}One minute.

{\an8}Aah! What?!

{\an8}[Mikey] One minute remaining.

[energetic music playing]

[Timmy] Oh my gosh.

[Grace] It's the details.

-Finish up those cakes!
-[Raina] No time.

[Grace] Oh dear. Oh my!

{\an8}Five,

{\an8}four, three,

{\an8}two, one!

{\an8}-Time is up!
-[Julie and Caitlin] Good job, guys!

Oh!

We did it!

Let's bring some room service
to the judges.

Bakers, you've finished
your room-service cakes,

and now you are ready to deliver them
for a possible $10,000 tip

in our first-ever team challenge.

-Well done.
-Yay!

[Mikey] So let's meet the judges,
shall we?

First up, we've got actor and star
of the hit legal drama Reasonable Doubt,

{\an8}Michael Ealy!

{\an8}[cheering and applause]

-[Michael] Thank you.
-[Mikey] Your children are with you today.

My children are with me today.
They're huge fans of the show.

So when I met them,

I felt like Harry Styles.

-They are fans.
-Aww.

[Mikey] So thanks for giving me that.

You are.
You are Harry Styles to them, for sure.

Well, good luck.
There's a lot riding on this.

-The respect of your children.
-[laughter]

Actor, comedian, and very funny podcaster,

{\an8}Heather McMahan!

{\an8}-Hello. Hi.
-[cheering and applause]

-[Mikey] How are you?
-Thrilled to be here, but, um, stressful.

I'm sweating through this blazer
right now. You have no idea.

-So you're... Did she pit out her blazer?
-Yeah. Yeah.

The show's about to be called Is It Moist?
'Cause that's what I'm at right now.

[laughter]

And finally, he's an actor, writer,

relatively new father,

one of the funniest people I've ever met,
my brother from SNL,

Mr. Beckley Bennett!

{\an8}-Ah, yes. Thank you.
-[cheering and applause]

Good to see you, Mr. Day.
You look really nice in that suit.

They really cleaned you up well,
didn't they?

-[laughter]
-[Beck] Looking good, sir.

Your booming voice!

I actually once had a doctor tell me
I had a huge throat and mouth.

[laughter]

All right, here we go.

Judges.

-Yes.
-[Mikey] Here's how it's going to work.

The cake wall is going to spin around
revealing four room-service carts.

Three of those carts
will have the real food items on them,

and on one cart,
those items will be nothing but...

[judges] Cake.

Your job is to find
the cart with the cake, okay?

-Yeah, easy.
-Yeah.

Probably easy.

-Oh, you say that now.
-[laughter]

After two spins, you will decide
which team deserves today's win

and which baker from the losing team
will be eliminated.

First, we have
the team of Timmy and Raina! Yeah!

[applause]

They call themselves Salt and Pepper.

[laughter]

They're serving dinner today.

Cake wall, spin.

[tense music playing]

Now Timmy made a crown rack of lamb,

and Raina made lasagna and garlic bread.

[judges] Ooh.

Both of those plates
will be on the same cart.

[evil laughter]

{\an8}-Don't look at the carts. Carts are real.
-Your 20 seconds starts now!

{\an8}[tense music playing]

{\an8}Oh my God, that's a crown!

-Oh, that's a crown.
-I'm gonna go with One.

It's standing up too...

No, no. I think on One,
the bones just sh**t straight up,

and I think they go out like that.

Yeah. Also the marinara sauce on One
is just really shiny.

[Beck] Two, like, I think the bone is...
Looks bony.

[Mikey] Ten seconds!

There's something about Three that just...

It's the only one
that doesn't look like the others.

Are you thinking Three is cake?

[Michael] Cake.
I'm thinking Three is cake.

[Beck] Okay, I think Four...
Four looks real.

Four and Three look real to me.
The way they're leaning.

The lamb chops look real.

[Beck] I think Two or Four is the...

-[Heather] Is real?
-[Beck] Is real.

-[Heather] One or Three.
-[Mikey] Lock it in!

-[bell dings]
-Three, two, one, time's up!

{\an8}-So you picked Number One.
-[applause]

A lot is riding on this,

not only for the bakers,
but Michael's children. [chuckles]

-Yes.
-I hope that we're wrong.

"Father, you failed."

I failed.

Let's see how you did.

I heard a lotta different things.

{\an8}-You guys chose One.
-[Heather] We chose One.

{\an8}Why? What about this says cake to you?

{\an8}The way the bones shot up.

It's just a little too erect.

[Beck] The other ones are bending
a little more natural.

The marinara was really glistening,
a nice bright red.

I saw the marinara and said,
"That's gotta be it."

{\an8}Should we find out?

-Yes, please.
-Yes.

{\an8}Salt and Pepper, if this is cake,
you're both up for elimination.

{\an8}If it's not, you are up for the win

{\an8}and could split up to $20,000.

So I ask the world,

{\an8}is it cake?

{\an8}-Come on.
-Let's find out.

[suspenseful music playing]

My heart's beating.

{\an8}Ooh.

{\an8}-[man] Yes!
-Okay.

{\an8}-[gasps]
-That is...

[Michael] It is.

[Mikey] That's cake. That is cake.

-[Heather] Yes.
-[Mikey] That's cake.

-[Beck] Was waiting for you to say it.
-[Mikey] It is.

[Beck] It is, okay.

{\an8}Timmy and Raina,
Salt and Pepper, I'm sorry.

{\an8}Unfortunately, that means
you're both up for elimination.

{\an8}How are we feeling?
I mean, this is an incredible job.

I'm happy with my work.

{\an8}You should be.

-Speaking of your work, should we cut it?
-Go for it.

{\an8}Ooh, wow.

{\an8}Wow, it's strange to cut through this.
Ooh, look at how pretty that is.

-Is that red velvet?
-[Raina] Yes, it is.

[judges] Ooh.

-[Mikey] Ooh.
-[laughter]

-[Mikey] Judges, well done.
-[Michael] Great work.

[Heather] Very impressive.

We have another spin to do,
so let's get to it.

All right, judges, we got two more bakers
ready to serve you here,

Grace and Henderson.

[applause]

Cake wall, spin.

[tense music playing]

Here they come. Here come the cakes.

[Mikey] Grace made a plate of hot wings,

and Henderson made
a deep-dish pepperoni pizza.

-Right up my alley.
-Yeah.

{\an8}[Mikey] We are giving you 20 seconds.

{\an8}Your time starts now.

{\an8}[timer beeping]

{\an8}-[Heather] Oh wow. Okay.
-[Michael] Oh, come on.

-Oh my God.
-One's sittin' up really high.

-Those look real.
-[Beck] Those look real.

But also the crust looks...
does not look real.

-[Mikey] Fifteen seconds!
-[Michael] That side is burnt.

[Heather] Two doesn't look...
Those look like little weenie wings.

-[Mikey] Ten seconds!
-[Heather] Okay.

The burn marks on Three looked cheesy.
That didn't look real.

Doesn't look real?
To me, the ones on One don't look real.

-[Michael] I think Four.
-[Heather] Why Four?

Four because of the vegetables.
A little shiny.

I think it's Four or One.
I'm from Chicago. I know deep-dish.

-Four! Four because of the vegetables!
-[Mikey] Four, three, two, one.

-Four! Four!
-[bell dings]

-Time's up.
-[cheering and applause]

{\an8}Judges, you locked in Four.

{\an8}I love chaos.

[groans]

-That's hard. That's hard.
-[Heather] Wow, that was hard.

Judges, how are we feeling?

I think we might have gotten it wrong.

-I'd like to go again.
-I wasn't a leader.

I was a follower, and I followed him.

Okay, let's see how you did.

You picked Number Four.

-We did. We sure did.
-Right.

{\an8}What looked cakey about this one?

{\an8}The pizza or the wings?

{\an8}-He said the veggies.
-The vegetables.

[Mikey] The vegetables.

The vegetables.
The celery is very lime green,

and he's wearing lime-green wristbands.

-[laughter]
-[Mikey] You think it's some secret code?

That's the connection, guys.

[laughter]

And the ramekin on Four
definitely looks like cake.

-The white ramekin.
-I didn't even...

Guys, the ramekin is the key.

{\an8}Okay, Grace, Henderson,

Team Lord of the Wings,

{\an8}if this is cake,

{\an8}you'll be up for elimination
alongside Timmy and Raina.

{\an8}If it's not, you win $10,000.

I don't know if it's gonna be cake.

{\an8}Let's find out.

[suspenseful music]

{\an8}Ooh, this is tough. This is tough.

{\an8}[Mikey] Is it cake?

[Michael] Oh gosh.

Hold on.

{\an8}I'm feeling bone. That's not cake.

-[Mikey] Not...
-What?!

[Mikey] ...cake!

-[Heather] Wow.
-[applause]

[Raina] Good job.

-[Heather] Congratulations.
-[Mikey] Oh, Michael. [crunches]

It's my fault.
That's real celery, isn't it?

[Heather] With the blue eyes.

{\an8}And the ramekin.

[clinking]

-[Michael] That's a real ramekin.
-He said that was definitely cake.

{\an8}Grace, Henderson, congrats,
you just won $10,000.

{\an8}[Raina] Congratulations.

And you will go on
to play Cake Or Cash? together

for a chance at another $10,000.

Ooh.

Okay, the cake
is still out here somewhere.

I gotta know which one is cake, Mikey.

Where should we go?

[imitating Chicago accent]
This is Mr. Chicago Guy.

Why don't you crack open that cake
on Table One?

-[laughter]
-That's a Chicago accent, right?

{\an8}-What about this said cake to you?
-Char marks.

Char marks,
and I'm going the wings are perky.

{\an8}It's a perky drum.

-Char marks. Very Sherlock Holmes of you.
-Yeah.

I feel like this cut is for Chicago.

Please.

{\an8}-[suspenseful music playing]
-[gasps]

-[Beck] Yeah!
-[Mikey] Whoa.

{\an8}-Wow.
-[Beck] Yeah!

{\an8}That's cake.

{\an8}Do you see the cake? Do you see it?

-I see that cake.
-That's beautiful.

[Michael and Heather] Wow.

[applause]

Vindicated?

-Wow, wonderful job.
-Vindicated.

{\an8}-That's a sexy cake.
-[Beck] I was saying One.

{\an8}Here you go, Chicago.

-[Michael] Hey!
-That's cake, if you can see. Can you see?

[applause]

-[Mikey] Beautiful.
-Well done. Well done.

-Let me eat that.
-[Mikey] Don't worry.

You will get a chance to taste it.

Yes!

Timmy, Raina, I'm afraid
that means you are today's losing team,

and one of you will be eliminated
from the competition.

[inhales deeply] Oh my God.

The judges will examine
both of your cakes and taste them,

then decide who stays and who goes.

All right, judges, let's taste some cakes.

Cake wall, spin!

Please come up
to inspect and taste these cakes.

-[Beck] Okay.
-[Heather] Let's do this.

Seems only fair that we let you try
our winning bakers' cakes first.

Grace, Henderson, can you please
tell them about your cakes?

[Grace] I have a vanilla cake
with a fresh mint soak

with strawberry
Swiss-meringue buttercream.

[Heather] Mmm!

I made a hazelnut cake,
soaked with coffee,

with a dulce de leche ganache
for the filling.

[Michael] It's so hard to believe
that this is... this is not chicken.

{\an8}You wanna eat it like a wing,
like, with your hands.

The celery and carrots are fon-dont?

-Celery is fondant and modeling chocolate.
-Fondant. I call it "fon-dont."

-Carrots are "fon-dont."
-[laughter]

-[Beck] Delicious.
-[Heather] Rich.

It's rich. It's dense.

-[Heather] It's dense.
-It's like a mind game.

You think you're eating pizza,
but it's dulce delicious.

[laughter]

Y'all nailed it.

Two delicious, amazing cakes.
Unbelievable.

-[Michael] Very delicious.
-[Grace] Thank you.

[applause]

And now let's move on to our losing team.

Sadly, one of these bakers
will be eliminated today.

Raina, why don't you
tell the judges about your cake?

[Raina] I have a red velvet cake,
cream-cheese-buttercream frosting,

and the marinara sauce is a strawberry jam
mixed with red-velvet crumbles.

That flavor of the red velvet,
out of this world. Unbelievable.

[Michael] I could just eat this
for three days.

What did you use
to make the meat crumbles?

-[Raina] Cocoa Krispies cereal.
-I mean, it looks like sausage.

Usually, sausage doesn't crunch like that
on the back tooth, but that's nice.

[laughter]

Timmy, will you tell them
about your crown-rack-of-lamb cake?

[Timmy] So it's a banana cake,
salted-caramel buttercream,

and then I have a crunch layer
that's made out of Nilla wafers,

pretzels, and macadamia nuts.

I... I love that.

The cream in here.

[Heather] Wow.

[deep voice] Open it right up. Oh yeah.

[laughter]

I'm not a macadamia fan, but I like this.

When I saw it, initially,
it seemed like the bones were straight up,

but up close,
it looks the least like cake.

[Heather] Agreed.

Now these brussels sprouts,
how did you do that vein work?

I did a little bit of a veiner tool
and then hand painted.

There's a vein tool?

-There's a vein tool.
-Your art form is fantastic.

[laughter]

Okay, judges,
you've tasted both the cakes.

Please take a moment to decide which baker
will be leaving the competition.

[tense music playing]

To me, the rack of lamb,
it was more artistically stunning.

When I look up close,
I'm like, "That looks like bones."

Timmy's crunchiness worked better for me...

Than the sausage ba*ls. Yeah.

Looking at the details, right here,
that lasagna, it's a good-looking cake.

But the other one,
much more real up close.

[Michael] The red sauce gave it away
on Raina's lasagna,

but the cake itself
tastes better than the banana cake.

[Heather] Based on level of difficulty,
both were hard,

but one of 'em was harder.

Okay judges, have you reached a decision?

-We have.
-Yes, we have.

Please write down
the name of the eliminated baker.

[suspenseful music playing]

Answer is locked.

Raina and Timmy, you are both clearly
amazing bakers, but...

[music distorts]

...I'm sorry to say that...

[suspenseful music intensifies]

Raina, you are eliminated.

[people gasping]

[melancholy electronic music playing]

Let me say you are insanely talented.

[applause]

I feel sad about being eliminated.

Everybody has a time,
and this was my time,

but I appreciate my family believing in me

and always encouraging me
to be a light to others.

Your skills are very next level,
and you are amazing.

[Raina] Thank you, Mikey.

I keep growing, I keep learning,

and I keep inspiring other people to never
let anything hold you back. Even a loss.

And that's a wrap for you too, judges.

Beck, Heather, Michael, thank you.
Let's give a round of applause.

[applause]

Slow it down.
Slow it down. I'm getting sick.

-I'm gonna get sick. Oh no!
-[laughter]

Grace and Henderson, h*-h*!

You're not going anywhere, you two,

because it's time
for a very special team edition

of Cake Or Cash?

[dramatic music plays]

All right. It's fun
having two of you up here with me.

Grace and Henderson, or... Grenderson...

[laughter]

You've already won $10,000, but now
you've got a chance at 10,000 more.

-[Grace] Ohh.
-All you got to do is find the cake.

-Eee!
-You'll be working together on this one.

So it's important you agree on one answer.

[Julie and Jujhar] You guys got this.

-Grenderson, let's do it!
-[laughter]

-Cake wall, spin.
-Oh my God, okay.

[Mikey] All right, Lord of the Wings,

on the other side of the cake wall
are two bottles of champagne on ice.

One of them is real.
The other is, yep, cake.

Guess the cake, get that money.

{\an8}-What?
-[Mikey] You have 15 seconds, g*ng.

{\an8}And your time starts now.

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

Oh, dear Lordy.

-I'm gonna say Two.
-[Mikey] Five seconds.

I'm... I...

-[Henderson] Two, yeah?
-[Grace] Yeah.

-[Mikey] Three, two...
-[Grace] Two? Do we wanna do it?

-Yes?
-[Mikey] One.

-[bell dings]
-[Mikey] Time's up!

That was so hard.

That is good teamwork.

[Grace] Thank you.

{\an8}-[Mikey] You picked Number Two.
-[Henderson] Yeah.

{\an8}How'd you settle on that one?

It's something weird on the bottom,
in the brown, uh, part of the bottom.

-Looks like brushing.
-For me, the bucket didn't look quite...

[Mikey] Symmetrical?

Let's find out.

Good luck! Let's see
if you double your money here.

-You guys okay?
-[Henderson] Mm-hmm.

You look like
you're waiting for news on your lives.

-"Do we survive?"
-[Caitlin] Look at her face!

-Okay.
-[tense music playing]

Come on, Grenderson.
Let's see if it's cake.

[suspenseful music playing]

-[cheering and applause]
-[Grace screams]

Yay!

Wow.

[singsong] Cake!

-Cake!
-[cheering and applause continues]

[laughter]

Cake!

{\an8}-[Grace sighs]
-You just won another $10,000

{\an8}-for a grand total of $20,000.
-[cheering]

{\an8}-Oh my God.
-[Mikey] Well done.

Bakers, get on up here. Come on, g*ng.

[Grace] Whoo!

-Yay! Thank you!
-[Jujhar] Good job!

[Henderson] Thank you!

-[Jujhar] That was so hard.
-[Henderson] I know, right?

I hope you all like adventure,
because where we're headed next...

-Oh my God.
-...we'll be needing this.

-What?!
-Oh!

Someone's gonna get hurt,

and it's 100% going to be me.

[laughter]

-[Grace] The jungle?
-[Julie] Oh my gosh.

-What is it?
-[Mikey] Oh, I've dropped it already.

-[Jujhar] Spooky.
-It's rainforest.

[Mikey] Oh God, I cut off a toe.

[upbeat music playing]