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00:00This program is rated PG and contains mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
00:12Previously on Halloween Bake Shop, tonight's desserts are honoring witches.
00:18Seven bakers served up two spellbinding bakes.
00:22It's harmonious, it's delicious.
00:23Austin's Frankenstein bonbons charmed us, earning him immunity from elimination.
00:28Nikki brewed up a win with her caramelized pear and naysberry cheesecake and scored a $1,500 prize.
00:35Come on, big money.
00:37Leaving Austin, Sarah, and Megan simmering in the bottom three.
00:41Sadly, Sarah's cheesecake fell short and she vanished from the bake shop forever.
00:46Now, six bakers remain and the judges have a sinister surprise in store.
00:51What?
00:51Oh my God.
00:53Hello, my ghoulish gourmets.
00:59Woo!
00:59Good.
01:00Good.
01:01Hello.
01:02It is a very special night in the bake shop.
01:05I will be hosting the most glamorous party of the season.
01:09Woo!
01:10Wait a minute.
01:10Does someone say party?
01:12Yes, and obviously you're both on the guest list.
01:14Let's go!
01:15Tonight is all about decadence, dancing, decaying, and of course, desserts.
01:33Get ready.
01:34We're having a gala in the graveyard.
01:37Woo!
01:38It's enough.
01:44A party where skeletons suit up and ghouls go full glam.
01:48And guess what, bakers?
01:49You're catering it!
01:51Yes!
01:52Let's do it.
01:53You will be making two bakes.
01:55First up, we want a dozen frightening floral cupcakes.
01:59Okay.
01:59And a fabulous skull centerpiece.
02:04We also need six mini desserts.
02:09Everything needs to be perfect for this party.
02:12Do you hear me?
02:14Perfect!
02:15Yes!
02:16There's a lot to get done!
02:17So for this challenge, you will be working in pairs.
02:21What?
02:22What?
02:23To find out who you'll be baking with, please select a haunted invitation.
02:29And I don't mean to brag, but I designed these haunted invitations myself.
02:34It's not a big deal, but it's kind of a big deal, so.
02:38Go!
02:39This one!
02:43Okay, open the envelopes!
02:48We got spider.
02:50I have a pumpkin, and Justin has a pumpkin.
02:54Shout out to Team Mohawk.
02:56I've never been, like, more excited to have a mohawk.
02:58All right!
03:00Let's do it.
03:01Oh, my God!
03:02Let's do it.
03:02Yeah!
03:03Let's go.
03:03Let's go.
03:04The team with the best floral cupcakes will win a special advantage.
03:08And the team with the most sensational centerpiece will win a prize.
03:12Whew!
03:13But the team with the least successful skull will be leaving the bake shop forever.
03:21Oh, wow.
03:22Oh, my gosh.
03:23You have three and a half hours for this bake, and your cupcakes need to be done in 90 minutes.
03:30Damn.
03:31Oh, goodness.
03:32This party planning is killing me.
03:34I'm getting the dizzies.
03:36Oh, no, no, no, no.
03:37Oh, no, no, no.
03:37Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
03:38Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:39Hold yourself up, my darling.
03:40Bakers, you need to get to work.
03:43What are you waiting for?
03:44The time starts now!
03:45Oh, my God!
03:46Oh, my God!
03:46Oh, my God!
03:46Oh, my God!
03:46Oh, my God!
03:47Oh, my God!
03:48Oh, my God!
03:49I think I'm going to make my chocolate cupcake recipe.
03:52Perfect.
03:52We're going to do a blood orange cover.
03:55Yeah, let's do it.
03:56And then we'll do, so, like, eating flowers.
03:59Yeah.
03:59Like, yeah.
03:59Dumb.
04:00As a baker, I'm usually on my own.
04:02I know my strength is decorating, and Lauren's strength is the baking portion.
04:06So, I think if we put our strengths together, we're going to make a great team.
04:10What else can we do?
04:11I think that's...
04:12This should be enough.
04:13I think we have to work that out for us.
04:15Yep.
04:17So, what's the plan here?
04:18I'll be making the sourdough cupcakes.
04:20I'm super excited to be partnered up with Nikki.
04:22She won one of the challenges.
04:24She brings it, for sure.
04:26So, we're going to do some roses, some tulips.
04:28Like, which flowers are you really good at piping?
04:30I must say, I am nervous.
04:33I can be a control freak at times.
04:35I want things done my way.
04:37We're going to do, like, a combination of fondant and wafer paper flowers.
04:42I'm going to have to share the spotlight.
04:43We have to go baking.
04:44Oh, yeah.
04:45Well, just plan as we go, all right?
04:48So, I'm thinking we go full demonic and gross for the cake.
04:53I'm super jazzed that Megan's my partner.
04:55Megan's really good at thinking outside of the box.
04:58And because it's, like, supposed to be kind of elegant, I'll make, like, some edible lace.
05:01Oh, yeah.
05:02And she's the coolest baker in this kitchen.
05:05Justin, do you have mini cupcake pants?
05:06Yes.
05:07For our frightening floral cupcakes, we are making a lavender chai cupcake with a mascarpone lavender chai buttercream.
05:16We wanted to go with a floral flavor since it was for a floral cupcake.
05:20Okay.
05:21So, we've asked for some frightening floral cupcakes.
05:28What are you looking for in a cupcake?
05:29I am looking for a nice, tight crumb.
05:32Yep.
05:33I want something that has an equal ratio of frosting to cake better.
05:39When it's all cupcake, no frosting, or all frosting, no cupcake, I don't like it.
05:47Oh, where am I going?
05:50To start with, I'm working on my chocolate cake because cupcakes need to go in the oven first.
05:55For a frightening floral cupcake, we're making a chocolate cupcake filled with blood orange cremeux topped with Swiss meringue buttercream.
06:02I made way too much buttercream, and this always happens.
06:06I feel like having a bakery, I always make more than I need to.
06:09Oh, yeah.
06:10It's like I'm stressed out of, like, running out, you know what I mean?
06:12But if you guys need more buttercream, I'll probably have extra.
06:15Hey, hey, hey, we're trying to win here.
06:16Yeah, I know.
06:21Do you want me to add in raisin for the cupcakes?
06:23Because of sourdough, raisin.
06:25There we go.
06:26When he said sourdough, I was just like, is this going to work?
06:31Add a little bit of that sourdough.
06:34Honestly, I never used sourdough in cupcakes before, but I love sourdough.
06:40I love making bread.
06:41Baking for me is kind of like an escape.
06:43It gives me comfort every time I'm laminating a dough or tempering chocolate.
06:47It's kind of like a relief that I could finish this task.
06:50I could make something great.
06:51It's rewarding for me.
06:53A sourdough starter will give a nice acidic taste.
06:56So we're making rum and raisin, sourdough, brown butter cupcakes with Italian buttercream.
07:03I'm just going to continue to constantly talk to you, all right?
07:05Yeah, okay.
07:07What is a party without a little bit of scandal?
07:10Yes.
07:10A little dramatics.
07:12Yes.
07:13Let's talk about the pairs.
07:15Let's talk about that.
07:16First, we have Nikki and Austin.
07:18That's a funny pairing because Nikki was at the top in the last challenge, and Austin was at the bottom.
07:25Right.
07:26So that's going to be a really great mix right there because Austin is now redeeming himself.
07:32This is a sourdough one.
07:36Oh, my God.
07:38Bro.
07:40Fricking delicious.
07:42I'm so impressed with Austin's batter.
07:44We're going to win it.
07:48I've made tongues for all the cupcakes.
07:50I'm just making tiny little teeth.
07:52We're going full demonic, so lots of teeth and horns on everything today.
07:56Two more minutes on the minis.
07:57Sweet.
07:58Justin and Megan.
07:59Two great artists.
08:01Yes.
08:02They see something in their head, and they execute it flawlessly.
08:06And flavor-wise, a lot to beat there.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Try that.
08:11Yes.
08:12However, typically, when you have great artists, artists are individuals.
08:16They have a vision that they have created in their brain.
08:19Can they bring it together?
08:21I don't know.
08:21It's a great point.
08:23So the floral element, I'm going to use fried rice paper.
08:27Fried rice paper is so delicate.
08:30It kind of mimics what a flower looks like.
08:33I really want the cupcakes to stand out.
08:35This is...
08:36Oh, that looks...
08:36There'll be another one outside of it, and then maybe your teeth and stuff just have to fit inside.
08:39Sweet.
08:40Sweet.
08:40I have never made these many tongs before.
08:45Lawrence and Alessandro.
08:47Now, obviously, Alessandro has shown us that he can create...
08:50Magic.
08:51Yes.
08:51Magic.
08:51Yes, literally.
08:52With his technique.
08:53Alessandro is the more skillful decorator.
08:56Mm-hmm.
08:56For our fractured floral cupcakes, we want to make tongs because the flower is the mouth,
09:01and the petals kind of, like, close like this, so the tong is what reaches out and grabs the victim.
09:06Lawrence has a little bit more of an edge when it comes to the flavor profile.
09:11I think they match and marry very yin-yang, and I think they're going to complement each other very well.
09:17Right.
09:17For our round two skull centerpiece, we're making a black sesame cake with a chai ganache, a pear compote, and a honey-glazed pecans.
09:27And you want to impress the judges with as many components as you can.
09:30I have not won a challenge yet, and I'm hungry for that win.
09:35Stress, and I won't have enough.
09:36For our skull centerpiece, we are going with a black magic chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, a blood orange passion fruit curd, and toasted coconut and macadamia praline.
09:52Austin, check out the color on the cake.
09:55Ooh, let's get it.
09:57I want to get this cake in the oven soon because guess what?
10:00I don't want a situation like what happened before.
10:03Oh, my God.
10:04My cake's not baking.
10:06We want to make sure this cake is baked.
10:10It can get cool, get our filling in, and get it back in the freezer so it's ready to actually get decorated.
10:16Get it.
10:17That's how you do it.
10:18Bakers, you have 40 minutes until your cupcakes must be completed.
10:24This is not a drill.
10:30Oh, Sandro.
10:33Pecans are in the oven.
10:35The pecans.
10:36Oh, my God.
10:44The pecans.
10:45Oh, my God.
10:47I'm a f***ing smoke show over here.
10:50Forgot about the nun.
10:52Yep, they're burnt.
10:55These pecans are burned to a crisp.
10:57This is not good.
10:58We need these pecans for our cake to have a little crunch element.
11:02What do we do?
11:02Do we put them back in?
11:04Honestly, we don't need them.
11:05No.
11:05I'd rather have a good-looking piece than a couple of nuts in the cake.
11:09You can work on your Venus flytrop now.
11:13Okay.
11:14And then I'll get started on the rum syrup.
11:16Round one, we're making 12 frightening floral cupcakes in 90 minutes.
11:20This rum is going to give a little bit of a kick and add some moisture to the cupcake.
11:26You're okay with the syrup?
11:29Boosie?
11:30I'm going to give you a different rum.
11:31Hold on.
11:32I got you.
11:33This one.
11:35Oh, yeah, baby.
11:38Jamaican over-proof rum.
11:40The best stuff.
11:41Only way to go.
11:42Made with sugar cane.
11:43This is going to taste amazing.
11:45The team is working great, and it's because we are all about flavor.
11:52As soon as I finish these Venus flytraps, I'm going to test the cakes.
11:56I love Broadway shows, and this plant is inspired by my favorite one.
12:01Oh, my God.
12:02You're going to be so cute.
12:0425 minutes left, everyone.
12:0725 minutes until we'll be eating your cupcakes.
12:11Already?
12:12Yes.
12:13We need to start piping soon, though.
12:14Yeah, absolutely.
12:15A gala in the graveyard.
12:16Yes.
12:17A party of this caliber requires beautiful flowers.
12:20It does.
12:20A cupcake is an easy thing to make.
12:23So when we're talking about execution, I want to see you get really creative with buttercream
12:28and the use of other techniques here.
12:29We are running out of time.
12:31We need to assemble the cupcakes.
12:33We're going to paint our petal flowers.
12:35I am dusting the petals, and Justin is putting the teeth and the tongue on there.
12:42Oh, we got to splatter these first, right?
12:43Yeah.
12:44We want to win this round one challenge.
12:46I think that would just give us the confidence boost, also an advantage.
12:50Nice.
12:51Yeah, that looks so good.
12:52Two minutes, everyone!
12:54Go, go, go, go, go!
12:55Let's go!
12:57Glisten your petals.
12:59Put on your powders.
13:00Do what you do.
13:01Get it done!
13:02Four more?
13:02No.
13:03Four.
13:03Four more.
13:04Okay.
13:04Okay, I have a few more components for the cupcakes I'm coming with.
13:08Okay.
13:08Since we have time, I was thinking, a couple of leaves.
13:12We have time?
13:13No, we don't, but we got to make them cool.
13:15I'll finish this.
13:16Can you make a little bit of green?
13:17Yeah.
13:1930 seconds left!
13:21Woo!
13:22Cupcakes up, let's go!
13:23It's okay, he's going to fall apart.
13:24A little bit.
13:25The flowers are awesome.
13:30Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!
13:39Time's up!
13:43Cupcakes ready!
13:44Cupcakes are done!
13:44Okay, keep working.
13:46We're feeling good.
13:47They're on the tray.
13:48They're beautiful.
13:51Alessandro and Lawrence have cupcakes kind of similar to ours.
13:54I'm hoping that the execution and the taste of our cupcakes are going to beat theirs.
13:58Let's stop and smell and eat the roses.
14:01Oh, time to dine in the graveyard.
14:06I'm going to start flowers, Alessandro.
14:08Yeah, we'll do the same.
14:09Right now, when the first round is done, we are going to make isomalt sugar, flowers,
14:13and the fondant flowers for round two.
14:15When I think of Gala in the graveyard, I think of tombstones and also flowers.
14:20So right now, I'm going to try to make a few petals for the flowers out of isomalt.
14:25This is a petal mold.
14:26That's where I'm going to pour the isomalt.
14:28Isomalt's going to look clear and then have all the different shades of color within it.
14:33I want my flowers to be shiny, to look eerie and ethereal.
14:39Alessandro, Lawrence, how is this partnership treating you?
14:43It's good.
14:43So good.
14:44Dream team?
14:44Yeah.
14:45I think so.
14:45Well, look at how beautiful these are.
14:48So these are the nibbling petals.
14:50We have a chocolate cupcake filled with a blood orange cremer and a Swiss meringue buttercream.
14:56And then the tongue is mulling chocolate.
14:58The teeth are royal icing.
14:59If they bite you, man, good luck.
15:01You're going to be in trouble.
15:01What I really love about the creativity you showed is that rather than adding on a creepy
15:08element like a spider or something, you made the flower itself, the little evil being.
15:13Look at the flip of the tongue right here.
15:16Yeah.
15:17Like right like that.
15:19Oh my God, one bite.
15:21One biter.
15:23Beautiful, beautiful bite.
15:24The first bite that I had, which was the only bite that I had, was balanced, had great texture
15:31to it because of the mulling chocolate.
15:33The only thing I would say is that if you add a lot of food coloring in the frosting, especially
15:37when it comes to the green, you get that aftertaste.
15:39It's the only thing that's bothering me here.
15:41Other than that, man, this is a great collaborative piece.
15:44Yes.
15:44Appreciate you.
15:45All right, time to get back to work.
15:47Get going on those skulls.
15:51We're kind of switching on the second challenge.
15:53I'm baking the cakes and sculpting the skull.
15:56And then she's also going to help with the edible lace.
16:00For our round two skull centerpiece, we're making an elegant demon skull.
16:05It's going to be purple velvet with a brown buttercream cheese buttercream and toasted walnuts.
16:10The purple velvet cake is just a classic red velvet cake, but I thought we need something
16:14a little more creepy.
16:15I'm going to add a ton of purple food day.
16:17I'm going to make the cake lace now.
16:24Which one do you like better?
16:24Or should I just do both?
16:25Do a little bit of both.
16:26Yeah, why not?
16:27Okay.
16:28To make edible lace, I have to quickly mix powder sugar, glucose very fast because you
16:34want it to be soft and pliable.
16:35And then I quickly get it into my lace mold.
16:38You have to bake it very low and slow.
16:40And then it has to sit.
16:44Megan, Justin, come down and chat with us here.
16:47Look at these wild and crazy things.
16:51So for the cake, it's a chai lavender.
16:53And then there's a marscapone lavender with chai buttercream.
16:57And then for the flower petals, we fried wafer paper.
17:00Yes.
17:00And then fondant teeth and a tone.
17:03Cheers.
17:09A monster.
17:11Did you get it all?
17:12I mean, what's amazing is there's some elements that are very similar to a cupcake we've already
17:16seen.
17:17But the techniques are different.
17:19100%.
17:20And that's what I love to see.
17:21I love that it's like this crystallized, almost glass-like cake, which for a gala in the graveyard
17:27theme, this is a totally cool reimagining.
17:30Now, when it comes to this bite, baby, I like the ratio of cake and frosting.
17:35The marscapone cream is really good.
17:38I'm going to have to tell you, I did not get a lot of lavender in this.
17:42All right.
17:42But the thing is, the flavor was great.
17:44And as you know, I love texture.
17:46And you definitely got that on top.
17:49And I'm going to just take some more blood off of my hands.
17:53It's almost there.
17:54It's getting there.
17:55We need them time to cool.
17:56So here, I'm just starting my biscuit.
18:00So we want to do a take on bread and butter.
18:02So for our six mini desserts, we're making an apple and honey biscuit.
18:07Austin and Nikki.
18:08Austin, are you making biscuits?
18:10Yeah, I am.
18:11I am.
18:13Biscuits?
18:14Biscuits.
18:15Biscuits.
18:16I think it's called for a biscuit dance.
18:17Let's go.
18:17Biscuits.
18:18Biscuits.
18:18Biscuits.
18:19Biscuits.
18:19Well, like a cat fix biscuits, right?
18:21Biscuits.
18:22Hey!
18:22Hey!
18:23Hey!
18:23And these two are like these jokers who are in a very serious moment here.
18:28OK.
18:28Sorry.
18:29Let's get to the cupcakes.
18:30OK.
18:30Yeah, so we made rum and raisin, sourdough, brown butter cupcakes with Italian buttercream.
18:38Biscuits.
18:39Biscuits.
18:39Biscuits.
18:40Biscuit.
18:41Biscuits.
18:42Biscuits.
18:43Biscuits.
18:44Yeah.
18:45Yeah.
18:46Yeah.
18:47And let's talk a little bit about the design here.
18:48So you have the red roses, the black leaves, and the little Venus flytrap.
18:52These are absolutely stunning.
18:54It's whimsical.
18:55It's fun.
18:56It fits the theme so well.
18:58Great execution looks amazing.
19:00My only critique is we've seen you guys use fondant.
19:03We've seen you do buttercream work.
19:05We want to see some elevated techniques in the next bake, okay?
19:09Really elevated.
19:10Remember, two people are going home to that.
19:16You guys have outdone yourself.
19:19That cake is beautiful, decadent, melded right in my mouth.
19:24I love the raisins.
19:25They burst right in your mouth with the rum flavor on top of that.
19:29The only thing I will say is that my cupcake did completely fall apart
19:32when I opened it.
19:33But other than that, great job, guys.
19:37Keep going.
19:38Need those biscuits.
19:38All right, guys.
19:39Good luck.
19:43That double lace is pretty finicky.
19:45It has to be super thin just so you can work with it.
19:51It is not working.
19:52It's terrible.
19:54It's really bad.
20:02The first edible lace did not turn out.
20:08It's terrible.
20:12It was overbaked, but I have two molds.
20:21Okay, this one came out.
20:23Oh, perfect.
20:24See?
20:24Told you perfect.
20:25The other one is stuck, but I can make another one out of this one.
20:33Oh, it's more time.
20:35Alessandro, you think when I add the chai to the cream for the ganache,
20:37should I strain it afterwards or put the pieces in?
20:40Ground it.
20:41Ground it?
20:41Yeah.
20:42We decided to make a chai ganache to complement the black sesame cake.
20:47The challenge theme is gala in the graveyard.
20:50My family and I, we have a non-profit organization for breast cancer.
20:53We have galas every year to raise money.
20:56When I was 11 years old, I fundraised $2,000 to shave my head for breast cancer.
21:01And the years after that, my family got involved and created a non-profit organization called Pink in the City.
21:07We've raised over $2 million for breast cancer research.
21:11It feels pretty good to be able to give back like that.
21:14Cake is out, Alessandro.
21:15The cake is rising from the dead.
21:17Yes!
21:19How many blood oranges?
21:21As long as the flavors are there, make it how you make it.
21:23Okay.
21:25I'm making the blood orange and passion fruit curd.
21:28Typically, a curd is more of like a fruit custard.
21:31You want to look out for it being nice and thick, but not too runny because that's just going to run out.
21:39I've got to check it one more time.
21:41I'm too short.
21:44Yep.
21:45Okay.
21:47Cake's done.
21:47Austin's going to go on the freezer.
21:48Alessandro, when you're making the pear compote, split a vanilla bean, throw it in, and it's going to be amazing.
21:5610-4.
21:57We're thinking about carving out a little bit of the cake to put the pear compote in the middle, so when the judges cut it, they're going to ooze this reddish compote.
22:04Right behind you, my love.
22:06Come here.
22:11And I need, oh, and I need, oh, no, no, go.
22:14Ah!
22:14I'm going to find you.
22:14It is time to start stacking and filling these cakes and making it look like a skull.
22:20That looks beautiful.
22:21It's time to fill them with a butter or buttercream to make sure that the filling doesn't escape, and then we pour the really good ganache with the chai, and then we just fill the two halves.
22:32Curve out a little bit in the middle to put the pear compote in, and then just make a big skull out of it.
22:40Bakers!
22:40Hello!
22:41Hello!
22:41I need you to RSVP to listening to me.
22:48Listen to me!
22:50The judges have picked their favorite frightening floral cupcakes.
22:54All of you gave us delightful floral cupcakes.
22:58But there was one team that had the finest florals.
23:03Congratulations to...
23:08Lawrence and Alyssa!
23:10Yes, sir!
23:11Yes!
23:11Good job.
23:12Your cupcakes were absolutely delicious, and the flowers coming alive, now that is creativity in full bloom.
23:19Yes!
23:20All right, my frighteningly floral fellows, we have to give you your prize.
23:25We do have a prize.
23:26Lawrence and Alessandro, as the winners of this bake, you have both earned access to our VIP pantry.
23:33Okay.
23:34Yes!
23:35Okay.
23:36Cue the pantry.
23:38Wow!
23:39Wow!
23:39Your prize.
23:43Wow.
23:44Amazing.
23:44We have selected some luxury items to add some elegance to your centerpiece.
23:50Please enjoy.
23:52Do we have to use the champagne, or can we take a sip?
23:53An hour and a half left!
24:05Oh, my gosh.
24:0990 minutes left!
24:11And the dip?
24:13Oh.
24:14Oh.
24:15Let's wait.
24:15Oh.
24:16I'm going to start working on our six mini desserts.
24:22The idea is to make them look like shrunken heads, so we're going to do a chocolate-covered strawberry with chocolate cake and a cayenne ganache.
24:31Try that.
24:33Mmm.
24:33Spicy enough or more?
24:34I would add more, because I don't get a lot of heat out of it.
24:36Got it.
24:38I hope I didn't add too much, but chocolate's pretty sweet, so hopefully it cuts it just right.
24:44So, I'm making candles out of a spiced butter.
24:54You're going to be able, once it's lit, to dip the melted butter with your biscuit.
25:00Okay.
25:01Austin.
25:02Yep.
25:02Cakes.
25:04Yeah.
25:05Nice.
25:05So, with the cakes cooling in the freezer, I am now going to start on our praline component, which is consisting of toasted coconut, toasted macadamia.
25:14You know I had to bring the Caribbean into the dish.
25:19So, my family's from Jamaica, and everyone is either a farmer, a baker, a chef.
25:24We make everything you can think of that has to do with food.
25:27It's just been ingrained in our family for generations.
25:30This is about to go in the freezer, and then we're going to chop it up.
25:35Alessandro, I need to start also with the shortbread.
25:38Yes.
25:39For our six mini desserts, we're making Earl Grey shortbread cookies and decorating them as tombstones.
25:44The secret to a good shortbread.
25:47Butter.
25:49Butter.
25:51And butter.
25:54I'll roll these out, make the tombstones.
25:56So, I wanted a little crunch, and with the extra addition of the Earl Grey, it brings that little floral flavor to them.
26:05Round one is over, and we didn't win, which is a bummer, but we got to focus on the centerpiece.
26:12I get to build this cake up first, and it's layers of cake, brown butter, cream cheese frosting, and our toasted walnuts.
26:19Once the cake is covered with modeling chocolate, I get to sculpt the heck out of it.
26:22We're not using any molds.
26:24We're doing this all freehand, because I want to set our team apart from everybody else.
26:28Okay, everyone, hustle your bustles.
26:31You have one hour remaining in the bake.
26:34Oh, my God.
26:35Run.
26:35One hour, one hour, one hour.
26:37Run, go, go, go, go, go.
26:39So, I'm making some wafer paper flowers.
26:42As I fold these, it's basically going to start creating petals.
26:47We have one hour left.
26:49It's time to assemble the cake.
26:51The pieces are all still warm a little bit.
26:53I get my two halves, I put them together, I add in a buttercream ring, the dark chocolate ganache,
27:00the crumble of the toasted coconut and the macadamia, and then the blood orange and passion fruit curd.
27:06We're a little bit behind, so I'm going to do my best to just enroll this.
27:09Do you want to switch?
27:11Are you fine?
27:12Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
27:13Okay, cool.
27:18As I'm trying to build my next section, my first section is coming apart.
27:22This is a f***ing disaster.
27:24I think we might have to pivot.
27:26F***.
27:35Austin is literally holding the cake together.
27:40Oh, my God.
27:42And I am praying to the cake gods that he has a miracle that he's going to pull out of his back pocket.
27:49So, help me just plastic wrap this.
27:50This is the worst possible scenario.
27:53We need to have a lot of support in this cake.
27:55Tinfoil instead.
27:57Tinfoil is pretty sturdy.
27:59Let's wrap that around and cover the first tier.
28:03Here's...
28:07A little frustrated right now, so it's not fun right now.
28:13This hole's smaller.
28:20Okay, we should be able to jam it in there.
28:21I think...
28:22I think that'll be fine.
28:24Good.
28:24We're going to have a filling that will ooze out of the cake.
28:27For the ooze, I'm going to be using a mango and blackberry puree.
28:32And I'm going to cover it up so it's hidden.
28:34We really want to have something fun for the judges to cut into, so we're going to make this cake bleed.
28:39Bakers, there is 30 minutes left in this bake.
28:44We are getting down to the hour.
28:46Don't disappoint me!
28:48Faster.
28:50So now I'm going to make some fondant spiders.
28:53And then I paint it with different layers of gray and black to make them really look iridescent.
29:00Hey, Lawrence, what do you all have to do?
29:02I'm just finishing up some chocolate branches.
29:04I think we're showing quite a few techniques.
29:06We have too many techniques.
29:06I am getting our fondant ready to cover our skull.
29:15Time's running out.
29:16I'm looking at the cake and thinking if it's going to be double in height, it needs to have a cake board for extra support.
29:25One, two, and three.
29:28And I'm trying to tuck the sides in, and what sticks out and says hello?
29:36Wooden dowel.
29:38Yep.
29:39You didn't tell me you put these in here, bro?
29:41Yeah, I put those.
29:43This is what we're supposed to do this church.
29:46I'll do some flowers then.
29:47Hmm?
29:48Flowers?
29:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:50We're going to get it done.
29:50We're going to get it done.
29:51We're going to get it done.
29:54I'm going to start sculpting the candles.
29:56So I start rolling rice cereal treats.
29:59I add fondant and then a melted white chocolate to make it look like dripping wax.
30:04I thought it would be a little spookier if we made, like, the tapered candle so it looks like it had been lit for a while.
30:1015 minutes left, bakers!
30:14Go, go, go!
30:15We should be in final touches.
30:17If we are not, we have a problem.
30:20And by we, I absolutely mean you!
30:26Looks like he has a grill.
30:29He's going to have gold teeth.
30:30This guy got money.
30:32Okay.
30:35Justin, what do we have left to do?
30:36I need to paint our skull, and then I'm going to come help you with strawberries.
30:45Justin's sculpture, it looks incredible.
30:47It's fine.
30:48It's fine.
30:50She's got the flowers now.
30:53Hold your shoes, please.
30:54I want to get some blood coming down the eye sockets once I do the crystals.
31:01Five minutes!
31:02Five minutes left in your skull centerpiece challenge.
31:14It will be sex.
31:19When you're done, go to freeze-pray and just go to town.
31:24Why is it not coming out?
31:26Are you kidding me?
31:28Come on.
31:28Come on.
31:33Okay.
31:35Alrighty, we're back.
31:37Yes.
31:38Excuse me.
31:41Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!
31:51Back away from the skull.
31:53We're done.
31:53We did it.
31:56Oh my god.
31:57Tonight's elimination is going to be brutal, but I feel like we have a chance that our cake
32:03is good enough to win.
32:04Megan and I really want to win this challenge because we put a lot of hard work into this.
32:08I'm really proud of what we've put together.
32:12I'm not ready to leave this competition, but I think Nikki and I are in trouble.
32:16Alessandro, Lawrence, how are you feeling about your experience working together today?
32:34I think we did a good job.
32:36Alessandro's very creative.
32:37He has an eye for certain things, which I might not have.
32:41Oh, interesting.
32:42We have both strengths and weaknesses, and we worked each other out, like, as a team.
32:47You sure?
32:48Yeah.
32:48Absolutely.
32:49You got really high when you're describing it.
32:50My voice went really high.
32:53Tell us a little bit about the story behind your skull centerpiece.
32:57It's a beautiful evening, and drawn to the music, a traveler entered the graveyard and was bit
33:03by a nibbling petal, which instantly jellified his brain, and now he lays with the other guests
33:10of the gala in the graveyard.
33:11I love the isomalt flowers, beautiful work.
33:17I know how much time that took.
33:18If I had to nitpick on the actual decor of the cake, Alessandro, I've seen your work in previous challenges.
33:25The face of the skull looks a little sloppy.
33:29Who made these little spiders?
33:31I did.
33:32They are absolutely stunning.
33:34The iridescence on them is incredible.
33:36I feel like I see some of the VIP pantry elements used here.
33:41The gold leaf.
33:42It looks rich.
33:43Like, it looks like money.
33:44Yeah.
33:47Ooh.
33:49Beautiful slice.
33:51The skull is a black sesame cake with chai, ganache, and pear compote with vanilla bean.
33:59For our six mini desserts, we made some Earl Grey shortbread, decorated to look like thumbstones.
34:05Flavor of the cake.
34:05Oh, my God.
34:07It melts in your mouth.
34:10That chai ganache.
34:12Sublime.
34:14I loved the chai, but the pear did not come through.
34:20I didn't get the pear in.
34:21The black sesame kind of overpowered that.
34:24The shortbread cookie, it's light, it's airy, it's crispy.
34:28I could just crunch on and snack on every single day, all the time.
34:32I might have another one.
34:34Of course he's going to have another one.
34:35All right, you two, get out of here.
34:38Bye.
34:41If we were to go home today, I would still be very proud because our cake looked awesome.
34:45Hello, Justin and Megan.
34:48Talk to us about what it was like working as a pear.
34:53This one's full of really cool ideas, from like the lace to the wafer paper for the cupcakes.
34:59His decorating skills, he can knock out sculpting really quickly.
35:03So a dream team.
35:04Yeah.
35:05Yeah.
35:05Walk us through a little bit about the story.
35:07We dug out a little demon skull from outside of the bake shop, and he likes to collect people.
35:14So you have little shrunken heads on the cake.
35:16Where he was buried, little demon flowers grow.
35:19Oh.
35:19Okay, so these little shrunken heads.
35:21What are we looking at?
35:22It's a chocolate-covered strawberry filled with chocolate cake and a cayenne ganache.
35:28Oh.
35:29Okay.
35:30All right.
35:31Put the cake inside the strawberry?
35:33Yes.
35:33It's time for us to autopsy this demon skull.
35:37Get the knife.
35:38Ha-ha.
35:40Inside the skull cake, there's a surprise.
35:44Oh.
35:47Wow.
35:49Oozy, oozy.
35:50Oozy.
35:51You have a purple velvet cake with a brown butter cream cheese buttercream and toasted walnuts.
35:58The flavor of the ooze is mango blackberry.
36:01Okay.
36:04Oh, wow.
36:12It's really great because Jordan has eaten every part of the display for you guys.
36:19I want you to know that.
36:21I can't hold back my effusion.
36:23This is a triumph.
36:24It's glorious.
36:25This is one of the best tasty cakes I've ever had.
36:27The ooze factor, this gorgeous sculpting, the lace, the horns, the story.
36:32Come on.
36:33Get out of here.
36:36That cake paired with the mango blackberry puree.
36:39Mwah.
36:40Chef's kiss.
36:43That walnut filling.
36:45It deserves a snap.
36:47Okay.
36:48You did say that the baked item was...
36:52Broken heads, yep.
36:54I don't see it.
36:55When you have the attention to detail of edible lace and a skull with horns that look legitimately
37:00like a goat, and then I see a head that is just like a chocolate skull with a strawberry.
37:04And I understand whatever Mr. Mann here is talking about these, but what I want to say
37:08about these, innovation.
37:10You put cake in a fruit.
37:12I've never seen it before.
37:13I've never heard about it before.
37:15So he can say all he wants about the faces.
37:17Guess what?
37:18Doesn't matter.
37:18A lick to me.
37:19Thank you so much for your work, you too.
37:23Bye, guys.
37:24Sashay away now.
37:26Y'all did your thing.
37:28This cake did exactly what it was supposed to.
37:31Love that.
37:35Hi, judges.
37:37Nikki and Austin.
37:40Hola.
37:41Hi.
37:42Talk to me a little bit about what it was like working with Austin.
37:44We're so much alike in the way that we work.
37:47We're all about texture and flavors, complementing each other.
37:52Nikki is fantastic.
37:53We had a few minor detours down the road, but I'm super happy with what we made.
37:59What kind of detours did you face?
38:02Spill the tea.
38:03The cake was on the warmer side, so we had a few issues of the whole build.
38:08But as you can see, you have a finished product, so...
38:12Tell us a little bit about the whole story you have happening with this centerpiece.
38:16Yes.
38:17Our centerpiece is called The Enchanted Remains, where beauty bites back.
38:23This is a masterpiece of dark opulence and undead nature.
38:27When she said dark opulence, I thought she was talking about me.
38:30I was like, how did you know?
38:33Now, there's a surprise element that I'm hearing, Austin, you're going to be in charge of.
38:37Get him the torch.
38:37Get him the torch.
38:38All right.
38:39Yes.
38:40Let's set this baby on fire.
38:42Woo!
38:43You have a Black Magic chocolate cake with a dark chocolate ganache and blood orange passion fruit curd, and to finish, toasted coconut and macadamia praline crumble.
38:56On the side, you have an apple and honey biscuit.
39:00I recommend that you take the biscuit and dip it into the melted butter.
39:04When we're looking at the cake and the skull itself, for me, on the presentation side, it doesn't look like a skull skull.
39:11In fact, it kind of looks like an animal skull.
39:13Then the cake itself, delicious.
39:16It is pure decadence and pleasure.
39:19Yes, please.
39:20More, and I'm going to keep eating more.
39:22So I'm just giving him the rest of mine, because he's got a bottomless pit of a stomach.
39:27I love the interactiveness that we got here.
39:29The flavors of the apple did come through here for me.
39:32I appreciate a good southern biscuit, but it felt like it was an afterthought.
39:38At an elegant gala, I really don't think that these biscuits truly had a place.
39:44You have two different types of flowers here, icing and then the wafer paper.
39:50Yes.
39:51Although there's technique here, you're going up against two other pairs who are equally as talented as you.
39:56You have to bring it.
39:57I want to see what you guys can do, and I believe that you guys have it in you to win.
40:01If you stay in this competition, you have to step it up.
40:05I am so nervous about being eliminated, and not because we couldn't have done better.
40:12We literally just ran out of time today.
40:14I'm feeling nervous because it is a double elimination.
40:35We could be going home.
40:37Bakers, tonight we hosted a gala in the graveyard, and you catered the party.
40:41In round one, we asked for floral cupcakes.
40:45Alessandro and Lawrence, you gave us cupcakes that were to die for.
40:50In the second round, we asked for a skull centerpiece complete with six mini desserts.
40:58Nikki and Austin, your cake was decadent, moist, delicious, and we adored the story behind it.
41:05However, rustic biscuits didn't deserve an invite to such an elegant gala.
41:09Lawrence and Alessandro, we thought your spiders were the hits of the party.
41:15The crumb was delicious, and the chai ganache, exquisite.
41:20However, when you tell us that there's pear in the compote, we expect to taste it.
41:27Megan and Justin, you dialed up the decor to an 11 with that edible lace.
41:32And that blackberry mango ooze was oozing with flavor.
41:37However, the mini desserts didn't match the bar that you set with your centerpiece.
41:43There was one centerpiece that was the unrivaled jewel of the evening.
41:50And that dessert belongs to...
41:54Justin and Megan.
41:57Team Mohawk, winners!
42:06Are you excited?
42:09Yes.
42:10The coolest bakers in the kitchen, they're like, kind of, I don't know, a little, maybe, yeah, we won.
42:17As the winners of this challenge, you both win a prize.
42:20So please, crack open these tombstones to find out what you've won.
42:26We don't know what you won, so we're very excited.
42:29Yes!
42:30Yay!
42:32Hello?
42:34Oh!
42:37Okay!
42:39Yes!
42:40I saw some genuine excitement and shock in both of those cool faces.
42:45Not so cool anymore, huh?
42:46Nikki and Austin.
42:54Alessandro Lawrence.
42:56One of your centerpieces, unfortunately, was a fail.
43:01And that centerpiece belonged to...
43:08Nikki and Austin.
43:10But wait, the gala has put us in a good mood.
43:19So, you will not be sent home for this party foul.
43:23Mm-hmm.
43:23Oh, my God.
43:26That's right!
43:27There will be no elimination in the bake shop this evening.
43:30Oh, my God!
43:31God.
43:33No one's going home!
43:36No one's leaving, so let's party!
43:39Yeah!
43:40Yeah!
43:40Yeah!
43:43Oh!
43:43Oh!
43:44Oh!
43:44Okay!
43:45Oh!
43:47Aw!
43:48Come on!
43:48What?
43:49Take it with that dance move back!
43:50Oh!
43:51Yeah!
43:51Yeah!
43:52Yeah!
43:53Oh!
43:53Oh!
43:54This is my first time reading my biscuit.
43:55But, okay.
43:55We didn't...
43:56Okay!
43:56Hey!
43:57Hey!
43:58Hey!
43:59Oh, wait.
44:00Yeah, yeah, get over here.
44:01I need two.
44:02In round one, we asked for floral.
44:09There you go.
44:10Take this.
44:11Seamless.
44:14Never have one lesson.
44:16Yeah, I see.
44:18Boom!
44:19I wish I had fun.
44:20I wish I had fun and ready for you.
44:22Boom!
44:27Boom!
44:28Boom!
44:29Boom!
44:30Okay, here we go.
44:30Oh, man.
44:31I don't look good.
44:32Boom!
44:33Boom!
44:34Oh, man.
44:35How did you do?
44:36Oh, man.
44:39I'm sorry.
44:40I hope you have my biscuit.
44:42I'll look up.
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