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00:00Previously on Holiday Baking Championship,
00:03our Naughty team and our Nice team
00:04got cracking with meringue-based desserts.
00:07Y'all think we're going to win this one, Team Nice?
00:09Let's go, Team Nice.
00:11Team Nice.
00:11Over on the Naughty side, pick that plate.
00:13Bring me another one.
00:14Tarek's helping out Daniel.
00:15Ashley's helping out Nico.
00:17Charles is by himself.
00:18Ashley seems to be dominating this team at the moment.
00:20I think it's time to dethrone her.
00:22Now, where is my meringue?
00:24I don't see it.
00:26But the Naughty team lost another baker.
00:28Daniel, I'm sorry.
00:29Your dessert deflated.
00:30You're going to be leaving us.
00:37Back in the kitchen.
00:40Hanging up some ornaments.
00:41Setting up the wreath.
00:43Oh, hey, bakers.
00:44Hey.
00:45Hi.
00:46I just love a decked out wreath.
00:48So I'm adding a few touches.
00:49Not bad, right?
00:50Right.
00:51Right?
00:52Phenomenal.
00:54Oh, a wreath really raises the holiday spirit.
00:57Sure does.
00:58So for your challenge, you must each create an over-the-top holiday wreath dessert.
01:03Oh my god.
01:05Oh god.
01:06Interesting.
01:07Oh, and there's another little surprise.
01:09Of course.
01:10Yeah.
01:11Why not?
01:12You see, the holiday rush is now picking up traction.
01:15Time is getting tighter.
01:16Oh my god.
01:17Oh my god.
01:18Oh my god.
01:19This is your only challenge today.
01:21Oh.
01:22Okay.
01:23This is your main heat.
01:25One baker will be going home after this bake.
01:28I just got chills.
01:29There is no warm up.
01:30We go straight into that elimination round.
01:33Oh no.
01:34Okay.
01:35Okay.
01:36Get ready.
01:37Do it.
01:38Anyways, just do it.
01:39You can make your wreath out of anything you like.
01:41Represent your team by leaning naughty or nice with your decorations or with your flavor choices.
01:46Your wreath must be stunningly decorated for the holidays and perfectly executed.
01:53That makes me a little nervous.
01:54I'm just hoping I live up to the high expectations of me from the judges.
01:58Ah, there is one more little surprise before we start.
02:02Another one.
02:03Come on.
02:04The team who won the last challenge, the nice team.
02:07Oh god.
02:09You may choose an advantage.
02:11Oh.
02:12Okay.
02:13Okay.
02:14Come on.
02:15The nice advantage is an exclusive basket filled with decorating items like gold leaf,
02:20piping tips, and special cookie cutters to help make your wreaths pop.
02:24Yes.
02:25Okay.
02:26That's what we need.
02:27Or you can choose the naughty advantage.
02:29Which is?
02:30Which is?
02:31Take a vital piece of equipment from the other side.
02:34Oh no.
02:35They're stand mixers.
02:36Oh my god.
02:37That's evil.
02:38I feel like the decorations.
02:39The decorations would be more beneficial for us.
02:41Yes.
02:42Strategically, it makes sense to go with that naughty option.
02:45I think we're all in agreement.
02:46We're going to go with the decoration basket.
02:48We're going for the nice advantage.
02:49Okay.
02:50And we're a nice team.
02:51So we're not going to leave.
02:52Yes.
02:53That was a questionable choice.
02:54I can't believe it.
02:56All right.
02:57Two and a half hours.
02:59And your baking time starts now.
03:01Woo!
03:04Meet at mine.
03:05We still have all six people on team nice.
03:08So I think it's paying off to be nice.
03:10Team naughty.
03:11Four people.
03:12One of us needs to win this.
03:14We cannot lose other points.
03:15Yes, I know.
03:16Okay.
03:17It's so important to keep the numbers on our side in this game.
03:19Take your time.
03:20Do it consciously.
03:21The more representatives you have on your team,
03:23the more chances you have of having that winning dessert.
03:26Team nice on three.
03:27One, two, three.
03:28Team nice.
03:29I'm so scared.
03:30That's okay, buddy.
03:31We got this, all right?
03:32I feel good.
03:33I feel like I can do this one.
03:34This is like a cake I make.
03:35Don't stress, don't stress.
03:36This is the cake I make a hundred times.
03:37I've been bottom two on my team twice.
03:38I feel like right now I'm kind of hanging on by a thread.
03:40I need to make sure that everything is on another level.
03:44Definitely good.
03:45I'm making chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate pretzel and brown butter crust.
03:58And a peanut butter mousse filling.
04:00It's pretty unusual for a cupcake to have a crust, but it's such a good idea.
04:03Especially because this is going to be like a very soft dessert.
04:06I want to have a crunch factor in there.
04:08For decor, my inspiration is my siblings.
04:11Every holiday season, right, we get our stocking full of just treats and candy.
04:15We'll like play games and just trade the candy similar to how we do in Halloween.
04:18I'm arranging the cupcakes in a wreath shape and then decorating the whole thing with green buttercream frosting and my toppings.
04:27For chocolate, some honeycomb and chocolate-covered candy peanuts with like a Puyatine Crunch.
04:31I'm making some of my own candies.
04:33I also want the decorations to not just look good, but add something to the dessert.
04:37Just a little touch.
04:39Candy, especially during the holiday season, can be seen as somewhat naughty.
04:44Candy's bad for you.
04:47Look at that.
04:48I do not have that much experience with the wreath growing up because seeing I grew up in a Jewish household.
04:54So I'm going to make a wreath shaped like a Star of David to really celebrate the Jewish people in the holiday season.
05:03And obviously I'm on the naughty team.
05:06So what's the naughtiest thing that a Jew can do?
05:08Eat some bacon.
05:09So I am making pecan chocolate chips and bacon blondies with a maple blonde chocolate whipped ganache and a maple cream cheese frosting topped with candied bacon.
05:22And I will have a little pig eating some bacon.
05:27That's why I'm on the naughty team.
05:28I break the rules.
05:29I don't know how many bananas I need, but I'd rather just take them all.
05:37The challenge is a wreath dessert.
05:40So I am making a banana blonde chocolate bundt cake with a lime caramel center.
05:45Blonde chocolate.
05:46It can be really sweet.
05:47And so the lime can just balance out that sweetness.
05:50I don't need all the nice cutters and piping tips for decorating because I'm going to make a nice stable buttercream to pipe all my kind of leaf.
05:58I'm decorating it to be a modern wreath.
06:02Very classy, metallic ornaments.
06:04But I'm going to have my childhood cat made out of gum paste pulling the lights off of the wreath to show the naughty element of my wreath.
06:11As the creative mind of me as a seven-year-old, I dubbed the name Dusty to this gray cat.
06:17She liked to play with the ornaments and stuff.
06:20So it's a little bit homage to her naughty side, I guess.
06:23Into the oven.
06:24Alex, how we doing?
06:26Good.
06:27Good.
06:28How are you?
06:29I'm doing great.
06:30Defending main heat champion.
06:31That thing was amazing.
06:33It felt really good.
06:34And it's amazing to have saved my entire team from elimination.
06:36Hey, Tarek, you feeling nervous having Alex right here in your grill?
06:40Yeah, honestly.
06:41Shaking in his little boots over there.
06:44Killing it.
06:45Double front bicep for Alexis.
06:46Don't have license for this gun show, you know?
06:48So you've got to make a wreath dessert.
06:50Yes.
06:51So I'm making a black forest milk wheel.
06:53So I'm going to use this fluted pie pan to make a wreath.
06:57I have some chocolate cremeux, a cherry and kirsch gel, some stabilized whipped cream, chocolate
07:03almond crunch in the middle.
07:05Wow.
07:06And then to decorate it, I'm going to add some fun little puff pastry ornaments and trees,
07:11some fresh cherries.
07:12Awesome.
07:13Thank you so much.
07:14Can I have full iced coffees?
07:15Yeah, of course.
07:17Stirring my shoe base.
07:21Perfect texture.
07:26I am making a shoe pastry wreath with green sesame cracklin cream puffs with vanilla cream
07:34and sugar plum black cherry jam.
07:36I want to make cream puffs because growing up my mom had a bunch of these different decorative
07:42wreaths that were colorful balls, kind of glued together, and I wanted to recreate it.
07:47Got to pat down the hats.
07:49I think I'm going to have the cream puffs all in a circle, like a wreath.
07:53Pipe my cream and my jam on top to give an ornamental vibe, maybe a bow, nothing too
07:59crazy.
08:00A wreath is inherently nice.
08:02Two hours left, bakers.
08:05Our judges are looking for show-stopping desserts.
08:09It is stressful only having the one bake because I haven't done so well in the last few, and
08:14I feel like this is my only chance to redeem myself.
08:19All of my desserts have been really messy.
08:21One of my favorite Christmas cookies that we leave for Santa every year is Snickerdoodle.
08:26So I am making a Snickerdoodle cookie cake filled with apple whiskey compote and a hazelnut
08:33crunch nougat.
08:34I'm going to make it look like a wreath because it will be circular with a hole in it.
08:39To decorate, I'm going to just adorn the whole thing in my Swiss meringue buttercream
08:44and really pastel and silvery colors to look like my Grandma Maxine's wreath.
08:50I have Grandma Maxine's wreath and I have her holiday village that we keep up year-round
08:55because I'm too lazy to take a ton out of our buffet.
08:59But hanging our wreath with my kids, that signifies this is the beginning of the holidays.
09:05I'm really going to focus on deco today, my buttercream, and not being messy.
09:11Hey JC, do you think I'd have to make it green or could I make it look like a wreath but be white?
09:16Green will be very understandable, like right away.
09:20Right, I know.
09:21But I think where you live snows a lot.
09:24Yes.
09:25It's true.
09:26That's true.
09:27Our team has not lost anybody yet, which is amazing.
09:31I think we all work really well together.
09:33I'm like fresh out of culinary school.
09:35These people have probably been in the industry for as long as I've been alive.
09:38It's like intimidating, but also like inspiring because like I'm here, I'm doing it.
09:43I'm kind of focusing on keeping my flavors simple but good.
09:47Today I am making a pumpkin bundt cake.
09:49I have never made a wreath dessert before.
09:51I know I can make a good pumpkin bundt cake, but making it wreath-like is a bit harder.
09:56I am making pumpkin because my boyfriend Jake, his favorite thing ever is a pumpkin roll.
10:01His birthday is in October, so I always make him a pumpkin roll for his birthday and then for Christmas too.
10:06Hello!
10:07Hello!
10:08I love coming over to your station and just seeing a big smile on your face.
10:12What are you making?
10:13So I am making a pumpkin bundt cake.
10:16And I'm kind of going to do like a cream cheese frosting on top.
10:19I'm going to decorate it with some little gingerbread cookies and dried out citrus wheels.
10:24Your bundt cake sounds delicious?
10:26Yeah.
10:27Hey Charles, she's also making a bundt cake.
10:29Let the best baker win.
10:32All that I know is Charles hasn't won a preheat yet.
10:35Oh!
10:36No comments.
10:38That's what I thought, Charles.
10:40Keep doing it, Violet.
10:41Yes, thank you.
10:42All right.
10:46Anybody willing to get coffee today?
10:48I can go grab it for us.
10:52Ice or hot?
10:53Ice, please.
10:54I think I have taken on the role of Mom Bigger.
10:59Ice Americana, please.
11:00Like, I'll get y'all coffee all day.
11:02Ice Americana, pumpkin spice latte.
11:05Okay.
11:06Rub your back like you need a bath drawn.
11:09Like, because I'm still in that role that I want to nurture those around me.
11:18Oh, that's Chase's.
11:20Hey, Chase.
11:22Your sheet tray is warped.
11:24What sheet tray?
11:25It's yours on the top oven, right?
11:26That's not my sheet tray.
11:27Oh, who's that?
11:28That's yours?
11:29It's warped.
11:30It's warped.
11:31What in the...
11:32Unfortunately, this happens to a sheet pan all the time.
11:39This is not good.
11:40This is gonna be uneven and not baked perfectly.
11:42This sucks.
11:47Do not have to remake cake batter.
11:50This is ridiculous.
11:5590 minutes left, bakers.
11:57Holiday wreath desserts.
11:59Oh, and remember the best dessert in this challenge.
12:01That wins immunity for your whole team.
12:04Thank you, Jesse.
12:05A sheet pan warped in the oven.
12:07I already feel like I'm behind taking care of my teammates.
12:10And now I'm feeling really, really, really pissed off.
12:15Okay.
12:16I really just want to use what I have.
12:19I'm fearful there's not enough, but we're gonna go for it.
12:24I have an iced Americano.
12:28It's delicious. Thank you.
12:30The vibe in the Naughty Kitchen today is work hard.
12:33We gotta get it going because we've now lost two people and we can't afford to lose anymore.
12:37But I'm really happy with the way that this texture of this mousse came out.
12:40Oh, hey.
12:41Oh, hi.
12:42What are you doing?
12:43So, I am...
12:44I...
12:45My future sister-in-law actually lives in the Cayman Islands, so I'm kind of paying an homage to her.
12:49Ooh.
12:50Because we just dream of these island Christmases.
12:52I'm gonna make, like, a tropical entremet with candied macadamia nuts, a coconut cake, coconut cream cheese mousse.
12:59It's gonna have a really beautiful, shiny sunset orange glaze.
13:03And on the top, I'm actually gonna do, like, a caramelized pineapple with dark rum.
13:07So, I'm going a little bit naughty with the flavors, leaning towards that island theme, but still have that ode to Christmas with some colored chocolate wreaths.
13:14Good.
13:15I love it.
13:16Are you finally starting to kind of stick your chest out a little bit?
13:19Yes and no.
13:20I think I'll always have those issues with myself about belonging.
13:23Really?
13:24I had five brothers that I had to compete with, and my mom and I don't have a great relationship.
13:28I mean, it's just been my whole life.
13:30Whatever you went through, you got through.
13:32Yeah.
13:33And you're here.
13:34Crushing it.
13:35Trying to, at least.
13:36No, no.
13:37You just said it.
13:38She said it.
13:39You heard that.
13:40Yes.
13:41Awesome.
13:42We'll see ya.
13:43I've been through my struggles in both a professional and a personal setting.
13:46No matter how hard I have to fight and how hard I have to work, I'll do it.
13:49And I will make sure that I persevere in order to win.
13:53One hour left, bakers.
13:59It's puffing.
14:00It's puffing.
14:01Camry, how we doing?
14:02Doing good.
14:03Yes, you should be feeling pretty good too, especially after that last main heat.
14:08Yeah, I'm very excited going into this next one.
14:11I'm doing a tiramisu-inspired frizzy and flan.
14:15Tasting along.
14:16We're tasting great.
14:17Mm-hmm.
14:18You know flavor.
14:19Yeah.
14:20You can deliver on that.
14:21So is that coffee for you, or is that coffee for the dessert?
14:23That coffee's for me.
14:24I need a little go-go juice.
14:26I'm gonna need your coffee.
14:27Yes.
14:28You deserve it too.
14:29Okay.
14:30I'm really excited to see what you do here.
14:32Awesome.
14:33I love coffee.
14:34I mean, I'm a barista, so I love coffee.
14:35I like to include rum in mine.
14:37Those warm flavors, I think they're very reminiscent of the holidays, in my opinion.
14:41And I really want those Nancy fingers.
14:43The fingers!
14:46That's my goal.
14:49Parisian flan.
14:50It has a puff pastry around the edges, and it's a baked custard on the inside.
14:55So, that's gonna help with my wreath shape.
14:58I'm gonna make my marsupon cream a little green, so really tie in that, like, wreath-y element.
15:04Do some tuile ornaments.
15:06Meringue chard.
15:07Some luster dust, of course.
15:08Good.
15:09Press is good.
15:10A little crisp up more in the oven.
15:12Going in for snooze.
15:13Beautiful, as I should.
15:16Giancarlos, we gotta make a wreath dessert.
15:19Yes.
15:20What did you decide to do?
15:21I decided to make a brownie, because in Brazil, you always make a wreath with brownies for
15:28sale.
15:29It's how we make money for your Christmas or the holidays.
15:32But no, you need to have technique for the brownie.
15:35Yeah.
15:36So, I'm making a dark chocolate brownie with pecans, pretzels, raspberry mousse,
15:41and mascarpone with.
15:42Whoa.
15:43Yes.
15:44And guess what?
15:45Today I'm making...
15:46Brigaderos!
15:47Yeah!
15:48Oh my gosh.
15:51Silky, velvet, melt in your mouth.
15:55You know what I'm talking about, right?
15:56I know, exactly.
15:57It's kind of like the inside of a truffle.
15:59Yeah.
16:00The brigadero will be for the decoration of my dessert.
16:02I'm gonna decorate with jingle bells and special chocolate bowl.
16:07How are you feeling so far?
16:09A few bakes into this thing.
16:12Honestly, I feel I'm born to be here.
16:14My mom was my biggest support ever.
16:17I'm here to make her proud.
16:19She's here in this kitchen with me.
16:21She's beautiful.
16:22Me and my mom live together in rough places, starting when we are in the circus.
16:29We live in a really tiny RV, and I want to give my mom a better place to enjoy the rest of her life.
16:40Yeah, keep her close.
16:41Keep her close.
16:42Thank you, Jen.
16:45Oh, yes.
16:46Oh, yes.
16:47Milfouille is something that I make every day at work in New Orleans.
16:50It's a really sophisticated dessert we make at the restaurant where we're dealing with high-end clients.
16:55This is a almond chocolate crunch.
16:58Black Forest is not Black Forest cake without chocolate and cherry.
17:01So I want to make a cherry compote.
17:03There we go.
17:04I want it to taste very much like cherry.
17:07That's my number one thing.
17:08It's cherry for sure.
17:10Some tall shoes.
17:13Chase always delivers.
17:15Good job.
17:16Good job.
17:17I think I'm known for being a calm in the kitchen, but I love that I'm a perfectionist.
17:22I may not be like the most decorated of skill sets, but I have perfected what I do best.
17:29These are plums.
17:31I'm inspired by the sugar plum fairy.
17:34When you cook them down, the skin itself contributes a really nice tartness, but everything else is quite sweet.
17:42When I pipe it into the cream puffs, I think it's going to be a great contrast to the sweetness of the cream.
17:48Woo!
17:49It's pretty tart.
17:51I add sugar to my jam thinking directly about Nancy, so it's a hard palate to pinpoint.
17:58That's wonderful.
17:59It's not like, ugh.
18:00No, you're not like, oh, God, why am I eating this?
18:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:0345 minutes to go.
18:05I feel behind.
18:06My cakes are very thin.
18:09I've lost a lot of batter, but I am confident in my flavors.
18:14You know, I need to tighten things up, and unfortunately, I think nerves are getting to me while I'm here.
18:20I can't shake it.
18:22I'm trying to shake it.
18:2530 minutes left.
18:26How's everybody doing on time?
18:28Good.
18:29I'm kind of close, Chase, but thanks for checking.
18:32So obnoxious.
18:34This is the only bake of the day, so make it count.
18:38I got it.
18:39I'm going to use this as the base of my entremet cake.
18:47Oh, God.
18:49Ooh, Ashley.
18:51The cake is too warm.
18:52The cake is too warm.
18:54Son of a...
18:58Holiday wreath desserts.
19:03Bada bing.
19:04Which team is going to win immunity and which team is going to lose a baker?
19:08The cake.
19:09I'm a naughty squad.
19:10Because it's too warm, the cake is not cutting right.
19:13I just need it for two eight-inch rounds, but I really need it to separate from the paper.
19:19So I'm going to set it upside down and put it in the freezer.
19:25Really, seriously, I need everybody to stop going in the blast chiller, because if that
19:30doesn't set, my cake won't come out and like we have, you know...
19:33This one back here.
19:34That's one less chance, okay?
19:35This one back here.
19:36Yeah, that one.
19:37I'm not touching it.
19:38Okay, thank you, thank you.
19:39I'm not touching it.
19:40Ashley is really tweaking right now in this moment.
19:43But if someone's winning it for a team this round, it's going to be Ashley.
19:47A win for any naughty team member gets immunity for me, so we're all good.
19:52You okay with how they look?
19:53Yeah, I'm going to cut them a little bit.
19:54Okay.
19:55They got a little blown, but you know, I'm going to cover them with frosting anyway,
19:58so I'll just like cut them when I go to stuff them.
20:00Okay.
20:01But they look very light, and yeah, it looks like it's going to make a good wreath.
20:05I'm making some honeycomb.
20:07I combine some sugar, golden syrup, and water in a pot.
20:09Get ready.
20:10This is going to be really cool.
20:11I add a tablespoon of baking soda, and it bubbles up and creates like a very airy texture
20:17that I dump onto a sheet tray.
20:18I'm going to let it set up, and then I'm going to break it into like candy.
20:21Because it is a candy at the end of the day.
20:24That's sick.
20:27I love this banana cake, but I feel like the judges would be like,
20:31all you do is bake a cake and then put buttercream on it.
20:33So I want to add a little interest.
20:36More depth of flavor and a little surprise inside.
20:40I'm using gum paste.
20:43I want it to be kind of a cute, cartoony-looking cat,
20:46so it looks innocent even though it's really not so innocent.
20:50I think this could be the one I finally get that win.
20:53Okay, cat.
20:55Get those wreaths together.
20:57Here we go.
20:59Okay.
21:00Arts and crafts.
21:03Okay.
21:04I'm not mad about that at all.
21:05I want to add a maple blonde chocolate ganache as a topping for my blondie,
21:09because maple pairs so, so well with bacon and pecans.
21:13So with my cold cream and some maple syrup, this is what's going to give it that maple flavor.
21:18I'll have most of my elements ready, and then I'll be able to start work on some deco elements.
21:22This is so much cooler than I thought it was going to look.
21:26Should be perfect now.
21:29It's still a little bit sticky, but I just need to get two circles out of this.
21:34This is going to work, but I still have to decorate the entremet.
21:38It's a lot to do.
21:39Okay.
21:40Okay, what's happening?
21:41Oh, trust me.
21:42Come on over here.
21:43Okay.
21:44I'll fill you in.
21:45Hi, Nico.
21:46Hi, Claudia.
21:47Holiday wreath dessert.
21:50Okay.
21:51Yeah.
21:52How's it going so far?
21:53Well, the nice team, it seems like they're all doing pretty good over there.
21:56They've won the last two main heat challenges.
21:58I mean, they're on their high horse, you know?
22:00Like, Chase is on fire.
22:01Ooh, girl.
22:02Chase has already given us consistency, and I think he's going to do just fine.
22:06I want my judges to have the best holiday ever.
22:09Gorgeous.
22:10Are you kidding me?
22:11That is gorgeous.
22:13Well, I wasted half my batter.
22:16So these layers are super thin.
22:18Erin, obviously she knows her stuff, and she's kind of just been skating by.
22:23You know what?
22:24I've been keeping up my sleeve.
22:26A mom ninja move.
22:28I'm using colors that are always associated with Christmas.
22:32Hopefully, this will really wow the judges this round.
22:35I don't think that she's going to be able to skate by for long, because she's up against
22:38some really talented bakers.
22:40You know, like Nico.
22:41All right, let's make a peg.
22:43He's fun, and I believe that kind of shows through the things that he's presented to
22:48us.
22:49So I'm going to make a pig with a kippa or a yarmulke, and he's going to be in the center
22:54eating some bacon.
22:55Oh, God.
22:56Food now, please don't cancel me.
22:58Oh, it smells so good in here.
22:59I can't wait to taste everything I'm making.
23:00Oh, you got me hungry now talking about all those bakers.
23:02I can't wait.
23:03I can't believe you made a Parisian plan in two and a half hours.
23:09So proud of you.
23:10Thank you, baby.
23:11Thank you for being team nice.
23:13You can do a lot with brigadeiro.
23:16It's like a truffle, and we roll it in little balls.
23:20I'm putting on top of the brownie for my decoration.
23:23Today, we're going to go bowl to try bringing a surprise for the judges.
23:27I never did this type of bowl before with chocolate.
23:32Honestly, this competition, it's pushing me to do things out of my comfort zone.
23:38Go bowl to go home.
23:4011 minutes left.
23:42Violet, you okay?
23:44I'm worried that these are breaking.
23:46It is breaking.
23:47Yeah, at least we have something green.
23:49Yeah, I was trying to do like a white wreath.
23:51Yes.
23:52Oh, okay.
23:53Sorry.
23:54In school, I made something very similar.
23:56I want it to look organic and, I don't know, like a wreath.
24:03Seven minutes.
24:05Woo, baby.
24:07This is for my Christmas lights.
24:10I'm breathing so heavy.
24:14I've got my mousse.
24:15I've got my fresh cherries.
24:17Nice little almond chocolate crunch.
24:19A little nervous.
24:20You know, we weren't expecting to have somebody go home.
24:23We're going to be all right, though.
24:24Five minutes left.
24:26I'm doing like 18 things at one time right now.
24:30I'm going to make my wreaths real quick.
24:32Ashley is up against it.
24:34I'm going to freeze these for a second.
24:36This is the time crunch that I am worried about.
24:39I still need to make my white chocolate mirror glaze.
24:42It has to cool in time.
24:43I don't want it to be too hot to where it melts my mousse, and I don't want it to be too cold to where it's too thick for the judges.
24:49That's going to look sick.
24:51Three minutes left.
24:52I have made shoe wreaths before, and they've never looked this good.
24:57Did you see Giancarlo's bow?
24:58Beautiful dude.
25:00You guys, this is my favorite thing yet.
25:02Okay, I'm done.
25:03Hey, Naughty King, does anyone need help?
25:05Uh, Nico, can you go get me a whisk?
25:08I'm two minutes away from the end of the heat.
25:11This is the most pressure I think I've ever felt in my life.
25:14Can you cut these, a couple of these darker ones into a quarter real quick?
25:17Ashley, we've got to finish.
25:18You're going to be okay?
25:19Yep.
25:20Okay, pull it, uh, can you pull off three of them?
25:23One minute.
25:25I think we've found out I'm a maximalist.
25:27It's like bizarro Team Nice.
25:29It's Ashley with all three bakers around her helping.
25:32Oh my God, thank you guys.
25:34You guys are freaking amazing.
25:36How about that teamwork?
25:37That's what we've been looking for.
25:39Ten seconds.
25:41Does that look okay?
25:43Yeah.
25:44Oh, I'm shaking.
25:46All right.
25:47All right, time's up.
25:48Whoo!
25:49Whoo!
25:50Whoo!
25:51Oh, my God.
25:54Wait, glub, glub, glub, glub.
25:56Oh, we got it.
25:58Whose wreath will save their team?
26:01Oh, I asked you.
26:06Judges, holiday wreath dessert from the Nice Team.
26:08But this is the only bake today, so everything is riding on this one.
26:12Interesting.
26:13The best dessert in this challenge will win immunity for their entire team.
26:18All right, Kamri, come on in.
26:20Come on, Kamri.
26:21I love this, girl.
26:24Hi, everyone.
26:25Hi, Kamri. Welcome back.
26:26You remember our beloved judges, Nancy Fuller.
26:29Hello, Kamri.
26:30Duff Goldman.
26:31Hi, Kamri.
26:32Hello.
26:33And Cartier Brown.
26:34Hey, Kamri.
26:35Hey.
26:36All right, so Kamri, what kind of wreath dessert did you make?
26:38Tiramisu-inspired.
26:39Parisian flan.
26:40And then on the top is going to be a marscapone cream.
26:44Tuile sponge cookie ornaments.
26:47Yeah.
26:48You were on Team Nice, and you all were given an advantage with a box of goodies and piping tips and all of that.
26:56I wish you would have taken advantage of that.
26:59I agree with Cartier, and I would like to see a little nicer topping.
27:04Okay.
27:05Yeah.
27:06That looks great.
27:07Look at this.
27:08Really holding together well.
27:11Ladies first.
27:12Thank you, Chef.
27:13You're welcome.
27:15That flan is ridiculous.
27:17So silky and velvety and smooth.
27:21Duff.
27:22Flan.
27:23Flan.
27:24Flannery.
27:25Flan, and that's how we say flan in copay.
27:29Flan?
27:30It's pretty good, but I think you needed to parbake it a little longer because it's chewy.
27:39Yeah.
27:43Oye.
27:44Jean-Carlos, welcome back.
27:45I made for you guys today dark chocolate brownie.
27:48For the decoration, I used a very traditional treat from Brazil, brigadero.
27:54And a tempered chocolate bow.
27:57Well, I think that bow is quite bodacious.
28:02Oh.
28:03Very festive.
28:04I love all of the colors.
28:06It just pops.
28:07Really nice.
28:08Let's give it a taste.
28:09This is brownie with pecans, pretzels, raspberry mousse, and mascarpone whip.
28:19I think this is my first time ever trying brigadero.
28:22I want a box of it for Christmas.
28:24Oh.
28:25All right.
28:26It is so soft and luscious.
28:29Delicious.
28:30That's what he wanted.
28:31He wanted everyone to see that.
28:33Your brownie, not so much.
28:35It's not a bad brownie.
28:36It's just a little too dry.
28:38All right, Jean-Carlos.
28:40Thank you, Jean-Carlos.
28:42I was going to do that.
28:47Erin.
28:48This is a snickerdoodle flavor inspired stacked cookie cake.
28:52I decorated it like my grandmother's vintage shimmery Christmas wreath.
28:59This cake is absolutely beautiful.
29:04Very nice.
29:05Your color palette here is fantastic.
29:07Look at them sort of individually like, wow, that's not really like a Christmas color.
29:12Taking everything together, it's like a Lambeth Christmas wreath.
29:15It is just beautiful.
29:18Yes.
29:19It's darling.
29:20This has a cinnamon apple whiskey compote.
29:26Erin, the flavors are incredible.
29:28The apple.
29:29I want more of it.
29:30I want a side of apple.
29:31Yeah.
29:32I think it's delicious.
29:33It's a lot of buttercream.
29:34I think you could have like, given me something else, you know?
29:38Okay.
29:40I tried.
29:43Hello.
29:44Hey, Alex.
29:45Welcome back.
29:46I made a black forest milfwee.
29:48Between the layers, we have a chocolate cremeau moussi situation, some soft whipped creme chantilly,
29:55fresh cherries, cherry compote, and almond chocolate crunch.
29:59You definitely brought the nice.
30:01And you brought the stylish.
30:04Your piping is so beautiful.
30:06And the way that the mousse like really held together, it just looks luscious.
30:11Yeah.
30:12Look at that.
30:13Wow, look at that.
30:14My goodness gracious.
30:15That looks tasty.
30:16Come on, mama.
30:17It's amazing.
30:18Breaking apart.
30:19Oh.
30:20There's amaranth cherries as well as fresh cherries in there just to give a little pop of a boozy
30:26cherry flavor.
30:27Okay.
30:28I don't like it.
30:29Aw.
30:30Joke.
30:31Oh, God.
30:32This is delicious.
30:36You got crispy layers all the way through your puff pastry.
30:40You baked it correctly.
30:41Cherries two ways I think was really smart.
30:45This is the best thing you've made yet.
30:47Oh, my gosh.
30:48Wow.
30:50Wow.
30:51But I want more crunch in my layer.
30:52Yes.
30:53Because I got a little bit of it and I wanted more of it.
30:55Yes.
30:56Appreciate it.
30:57Thank you, guys.
30:58Thank you, Alex.
30:59Mmm.
31:00Mmm.
31:01Someone's going to have to bring it to beat Alex.
31:03Wow.
31:04Oh, my God.
31:05I could eat the whole thing.
31:06I am going to.
31:07I can't believe it.
31:08Oh, my God.
31:09I'll eat that.
31:10How are you so good about making Alaska?
31:12How are we doing, Violet?
31:15Hello.
31:16I'm good.
31:17How are you guys?
31:18I made a pumpkin bundt cake.
31:19I did like a simple royal icing down the sides to keep it traditional.
31:22And then on top, I did a cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
31:25And then I have some little gingerbread snowflake cookies.
31:28Violet.
31:29Yes.
31:30I'm not seeing nice here.
31:33I'm seeing very messy.
31:35And I want you to put more effort into your decorating.
31:39OK.
31:40Yeah, I feel like it looks like a cake.
31:42I wouldn't look at that and be like, oh, it's a wreath.
31:44Thank you very much.
31:45That's a really good pumpkin bundt cake.
31:49But I would have to say your frosting is a little too sweet.
31:53Yeah.
31:54It's a good bundt cake.
31:55You made a bundt cake.
31:56Yeah.
31:57Right?
31:58Yeah.
31:59Great.
32:00You know.
32:01Razzle dazzle.
32:02OK.
32:03I got to do more.
32:04Razzle dazzle.
32:06Thanks, Violet.
32:07If I hadn't come into it, it would have been more wreath-like.
32:09I'm just worried that it's not enough to pull me through.
32:12But I thought it looked cute.
32:14It was.
32:18Chase, welcome back.
32:19All right, man.
32:20Tell us what you made.
32:21I made a pat-a-shoe wreath with vanilla cream, a sugar plum, and black cherry jam.
32:28The sugar plum in me was the nice element.
32:31You know, you've set your own bar very high for us.
32:34I know.
32:36And I'm a little surprised at what you're delivering today.
32:41Mm-hmm.
32:42It's like a collection of nice-looking pat-a-shoe.
32:45In the shape of a wreath, and they're green.
32:47Oh.
32:48It's nice, but it just looks a little, a little slapdash.
32:52My wreath needed to be a little bit cleaner for their expectations for the challenge itself.
32:57If this doesn't taste good, I could be the one going home today.
33:08Ooh.
33:10They're going to love them as soon as they taste them.
33:14Your pat-a-shoe is spot-on, textbook.
33:17The crackling is really, really good.
33:19But the filling was a little tart.
33:24Too much filling and not enough cream.
33:27I disagree.
33:29Well, you're wrong.
33:30And I'm right.
33:31Thank you, Chase.
33:32Of course.
33:33Chase, thanks so much.
33:34Thanks, Chase.
33:35I'm scared that I'm going to go home if we don't win it.
33:37We haven't seen Naughty yet.
33:39I liked it.
33:40I know you did.
33:41I don't know why.
33:42I feel like I got taken down.
33:44I have a big perfectionist inside of myself, and I just felt like, whoa.
33:50Like, that really flustered me.
33:52See you soon.
33:53See you soon.
33:54Bye.
33:56Just always go to this.
33:57Wow, there's so many chairs and so few people to sit in them.
34:00Judges, we got holiday wreath desserts from Team Naughty.
34:03Come on in, Ashley.
34:05Hi, Judges.
34:06Hey, Ashley.
34:07Good to see you again.
34:08Good to see you as well.
34:09All right.
34:10Tell us what you made.
34:11My future sister-in-law lives in the Grand Cayman Islands.
34:13So during Christmas, she's always teasing us about having sunshine and rum drinks.
34:18So I did a coconut entremet today with some caramelized pineapples.
34:23I decorated it with a mirror glaze and chocolate wreaths.
34:28I like how you didn't take the challenge literal.
34:31And your mirror glaze is perfect.
34:34And I love the way that you did the wreaths.
34:36I love how it's sort of spiky and like they look really beautiful.
34:40It's a total wow.
34:42You guys give me chills.
34:44All right.
34:45Let's give them a try.
34:47Ooh.
34:49On the inside is going to be a cream cheese and Greek yogurt mousse.
34:53A little bit of fouillotine and some fresh pineapple as well.
35:00My wig is going to fall off.
35:02And that caramelized pineapple?
35:06So naughty.
35:09Oh, man.
35:11Let's go.
35:13This is magnificent.
35:17Aw.
35:18The texture is absolutely perfect.
35:21Your flavors are coming through.
35:23It's decadent.
35:25I love your cake.
35:26Inside the little chunks of pineapple and coconut.
35:29They are so good.
35:31Okay.
35:32Better get out of here before they say something bad about your dessert.
35:34I know.
35:35I'm going to run away before you guys change your minds.
35:37Nice.
35:38Good job.
35:39Aw.
35:40Good job.
35:41Amazing.
35:42All right.
35:43Tar, good to see you again.
35:44Hello.
35:45What did you make?
35:46So every year, my siblings and I, right, we get a lot of candy in our holiday stockings.
35:55So I was inspired to make a candy wreath out of cupcakes.
35:59And I made all the candy on top as well, like candied peanuts and like honeycomb.
36:04I think it looks very festive.
36:07That is a fabulous wreath.
36:11All of the naughty little candies on top.
36:14My dentist would definitely say that that is naughty.
36:16There is a chocolate cupcake with a pretzel brown butter crust, a peanut butter mousse,
36:22and then there's a Swiss ring buttercream on top.
36:24I love all of your flavors, but it kind of fell apart.
36:27So it made it a little messy.
36:29Your honeycomb is so light and airy and crispy.
36:33It's lovely.
36:34I'm still eating the crust.
36:36That's awesome.
36:39Great job.
36:41That was good.
36:42That was good.
36:43That was good.
36:44I feel like I really redeemed myself in so many ways.
36:46Like I feel good about how that went.
36:51Like my palms are sweating.
36:52My hands are my necks.
36:53I'm not good.
36:54I'm not good.
36:58Welcome in, Nico.
37:00Hello.
37:01All right, Nico.
37:03Explain yourself.
37:04Okay, judges.
37:05I'm Jewish.
37:06Grew up in a Jewish household.
37:07We didn't have wreaths in my house.
37:09So I sort of want to do my interpretation on a wreath that you would see in our house.
37:13What I made for you today is a pecan and bacon blondie.
37:18To really up the naughty factor, we put a little pig munching on some bacon.
37:23Oy, gewalt.
37:24What are you meshugging in?
37:26All of that.
37:29A Star of David covered in bacon.
37:32There is a pig with a yarmulke.
37:34Yep.
37:35I think that is genius.
37:36It does look like a wreath and it looks like you have the points of Star of David.
37:40Nico, you naughty boy, you.
37:45So the brown part is a whipped blonde chocolate and maple ganache.
37:51And then the white is the maple cream cheese.
37:54There's so much bacon.
37:57There's bacon everywhere.
37:59But the texture of the blondie is a little dry.
38:02And maple is so special.
38:03And I think when you add this much salt to it, it really gets kind of bitter.
38:07Hood.
38:08All right, Nico.
38:10Thank you, Nico.
38:11Happy Hanukkah.
38:12Hey, Charles.
38:13Good to see you.
38:14Hi.
38:15So I made a banana and blonde chocolate bundt cake wreath that is getting a little bit
38:22destroyed by the house cat.
38:24That cat is naughty.
38:26Pulling all the lights off the wreath.
38:29Naughty.
38:30Naughty cat.
38:31It has a lime with caramel center.
38:35The cake is fantastic.
38:39And then you get to the center where that lime caramel kind of lives.
38:42And I think it's a little too dark.
38:44And the lime kind of adds to the bitterness.
38:47Yeah.
38:48Not your best work, chef.
38:49You all right?
38:50Mm-hmm.
38:51Yeah?
38:52That's scary.
38:53All right, Charles.
38:54Thanks.
38:55Anytime there's negative feedback, it does make your heart hurt a little bit.
38:59We're kind of desperate to not lose another person.
39:01I'm scared we don't have, like, the one that's going to set us all the way up.
39:06Holiday Bakers, your wreath desserts deserve a round of applause.
39:12And though it wasn't easy, the judges chose their top treat from each team.
39:17From the naughty side, the best dish came from...
39:23Ashley.
39:24Whoo!
39:26And for the nice side...
39:30Alex, Alex, Alex!
39:33Whoo!
39:34But there can only be one winner.
39:38And that is...
39:42Ashley.
39:43Yes!
39:44Good job, guys.
39:45Good job, guys.
39:46Good job, guys.
39:47Good job, guys.
39:48Your tropical entremet was exquisite.
39:50Each layer built to such a satisfying bite.
39:53Ooh, naughty.
39:57Well done.
39:58You earned immunity from elimination for your entire team.
40:02My God, finally.
40:03We need it.
40:04Finally.
40:05All right, that means, of course, team nice.
40:07For the first time, you're about to lose a baker.
40:10This is the first time the nice team is up for elimination, which is a little terrifying.
40:15I'm not ready to go home yet.
40:17There were a few of you that were successful enough in this challenge to stay safe.
40:22Of course, the top baker from your team, Alex.
40:25And Aaron, great decorating today.
40:28Giancarlos, you too.
40:30Beautiful work.
40:32And...
40:33Camry.
40:34Yeah.
40:35Unfortunately, that means Violet, Chase, you're both the bottom two from your team.
40:43Please step forward.
40:44I think the decision to not take their mixers away was not beneficial in the long run.
40:50So the fact that somebody's going home, I do feel a lot of guilt about.
40:53Violet, you tried to give us a wreath, but it really read as like a cake with stuff on top.
41:00The frosting was too sweet.
41:02And the overall impression was just a little underwhelming.
41:05Chase, where was your wreath, man?
41:08You gave us a collection of cream puffs, and the flavors weren't balanced.
41:12And there was way too much jam.
41:15This is always the hardest part for our judges.
41:18But unfortunately, the baker leaving us is...
41:26Violet.
41:30I feel like my dessert was not bad.
41:32They just wanted more.
41:33So...
41:34I should have done more.
41:36Thanks, you guys.
41:37Being this young and just getting on the show was like a crazy feat for me.
41:42So, I'm honestly...
41:44I'm glad to just be here.
41:45Violet.
41:46Okay.
41:47Love you.
41:48Bye Violet.
41:50Bye Violet.
41:51Bye.
41:52Bye, baby.
41:53Next time, Pies take over the Holiday Village.
41:55I would take Team Naughty down by the flavors.
41:58Are you talking smack over there?
41:59Be ready.
42:00Ooh.
42:01Ooh.
42:02And so does a never before seen twist.
42:05What do you mean?
42:06I can't breathe.
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