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00:00He's conquered the baking world and for Christmas he's going one step further by
00:08putting his lifelike cakes up against the real things, taking on teams who are
00:13masters at bringing Christmas to life, going head-to-head against Broadway set
00:19designers, glass blowers,
00:24animatronics experts, and toy brick builders.
00:30But they'll use whatever materials they choose while Buddy must use cake. It's
00:36bakers versus makers as both teams have just 24 hours. When it's Christmas Eve
00:42you gotta deliver. To see who can make the most incredible holiday displays, win
00:46$5,000 for a charity of their choosing, and claim the ultimate bragging rights as
00:52They're going down. The team who conquered Christmas. Christmas! This is Buddy versus Christmas. Merry Christmas!
01:06So this week we're going up against Deborah Teresco, who is a world-renowned
01:12glassblower. Oh boy. Deb has created amazing art installations at exhibits and
01:20museums all over the world. Recently she won a major glassblowing competition on
01:25television. She's no slouch. The theme for this week is Christmas Eve and the special
01:33skill is lights. Back to judging in this week are Courtney Quinn and Jason Chatfield.
01:38Jason Chatfield is a cartoonist and Courtney Quinn is a color expert. They're both
01:43incredible artists and they're gonna be the perfect judges for this competition.
01:47Figures, we gotta go against the glassblower and its lights. But we have Laurent, so...
01:52This week I got a great team. I got Ralph, my main sculptor, one of my main decorators, and just an
02:00amazing person to work with. Mauro is an amazing cake decorator. He does construction. He's my right-hand
02:06man. He does all kinds of stuff. Mo is my brother-in-law who's really good at construction and engineering,
02:12really will help in the lighting part. And then Laurent is the sugar wizard with blown and pulled sugar.
02:18All right, so what if we do like a set, like a front of a house, and we could do the whole roof of cake?
02:27You know when you drive down the block and you see like a lights all over?
02:29Like those light shows, like...
02:31Yeah, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That's it, that's it, right?
02:33So you're talking like a cake roof. Cake, cake there.
02:36And then you want to do like the overly decorated Christmas house.
02:40You're barely gonna see house. It's gonna be more lights than house.
02:43So maybe you put Santa Claus coming down the chimney. Maybe he's like stuck in the chimney,
02:47or he's having a hard time. What if he tripped and fell off the roof?
02:51And now that's funny. He's all wrapped up in the lights hanging upside down with his face like,
02:56oh, you know, like, like, how did I get here? And then, and then maybe a couple snowmen because
03:01there's snow. And they could be like, oh, no! Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:06Yeah, but you don't think Santa's used to walking over lights on the roof? Not this house, Mo.
03:11My cake is going to tell the story of Santa on Christmas Eve falling off the roof and he's
03:18tangled in lights. Two snowmen that witnessed Santa's mistake. Ribbons and bows for presents
03:23on the lawn, blown sugar Christmas ornaments, and icicles hanging off the roof. Let's go. Get to work.
03:32So our theme is the night before Christmas coming to life.
03:36Wow.
03:36We're going to be judged on a couple of things here. And one is using light in a unique way.
03:42Glass sort of has some illumination baked into it. Yeah. We're also going to get judged on our
03:47concept and how interesting it is and how original it is. And also how gorgeous we are. No.
03:55Well, I like doing glass food pieces because everyone can relate to them. And there could be something that
04:00looks a little cartoony and fun. But then I display it in such a way that brings a new dimension to it
04:06conceptually. My team consists of Grace. Grace is going to be doing glass flowing in an atypical way.
04:14Josh's main role is heavy glass. Esteban can do the neon and glass casting. And Alex is going to help me
04:21with the pieces that come in large numbers. The classic poem. Twice the night before Christmas.
04:26This involves a mouse. And I have been living with a mouse for quite some time.
04:32I had a mouse in my apartment when I was... This is for real. This is where it came from. I had a
04:38mouse in my Lower East Side apartment. And I was like, you're going to earn your keep. You're going
04:42to be my Christmas muse. I really want to give Buddy a run for his money. So I'm going to use a baked
04:48good, the cookie. And I'm going to put a mistletoe over the cookie and the mouse. They're ready to
04:53give their first kiss ever. And guess what happens? What happens? Good question, Josh. The mouse
05:00bites the head of the cookie. My God. What a turbulent relationship.
05:06The centerpiece of my idea is I'm going to make a cookie with a bite out of it. A mouse holding a
05:11piece of the cookie. Icicles. A mistletoe chandelier. Candy canes with big black eyes. In the neon
05:17stars lighting up the ground. Light is going to glow through the piece.
05:22You guys ready? Definitely. Let's dominate that cake.
05:35Right now, I am building the set for the next cake. Instead of being a full house, we're just doing
05:41the facade. So it's going to be a front door, a window, of course, the wall, and just the one
05:47side of the roof where Santa Claus is on it, and he's slipping off. Santa's going to come out to here.
05:53Snowman, presence. He's coming out that far past the roof. No. He's hanging from the roof. I'll go like a
05:59foot out, two feet out from there, and then he comes. Yeah, leave two feet, and then you will cut
06:04it where we know we're going to drill him. We'll drill him on to where we want him once he's done,
06:09and we'll go from there. As long as this makes sense to somebody, I'm sure I'll see it.
06:13You'll see it. You'll thank me later.
06:14Let's get some regular punches out for a bit too, right? On day one, I want to make the cookie. I want
06:28to make the mouse, half the icicles. I also want to make the whole ice slab installation. So we have
06:34a lot to do. Coming in. We're starting with the big thick icicles, which are blown out of a glacial
06:39blue glass. Got it? Yeah. The process of glass blowing involves gathering molten glass out of a
06:45furnace on the end of a steel rod. You constantly have to be turning that in order to keep it from
06:50falling off, and you need to constantly be reheating it. Can you heat this up? Yeah. And then you go back
06:56and forth between the furnace and the bench and shape it with different tools that are hundreds of
07:00years old, thousands of years old, kind of like baking. There's a lot of similarities between baking
07:07and glass. Both of our materials have to be heated. We need to use ovens. The difference
07:13there is the temperature. Buddy might be going 350. I might be going 2000. Talk to me. I got like
07:21three seconds. Did you say 10 seconds or two seconds? Now. Oh. And at this point, I start giving the
07:27icicle spaces, eyes and mouth, by putting white molten glass onto the icicles.
07:32That's icy as heck. As soon as we finish a piece, we rush it into the annealer. The annealer's kept at
07:44approximately 900 degrees, and it cools the glass down slowly so it doesn't crack. Don't hit it. Don't
07:51hit it. It's fine. Got a little worried. That's cool. I just want to see what they do. I mean,
08:01the techniques like blowing, I will use as well. But the modeling, the way they model the glass
08:08will be kind of similar too. I want one of these powder blue jumpsuits like that. I'm jealous. I got
08:12the black uniform. That's what I want. Look at those gloves. Yeah. That's a torch. Yeah. Now that's a torch.
08:21Yeah. We don't have, we don't have anything that could stand up to that. In the house, it's different,
08:24you know, because even the, like, blown sugar will look a little bit similar. I mean,
08:30it's so delicate. You know, it's food. Very delicate. It's food. Hold sugar or people who
08:34blow sugar, it's an amazing art. And there's nobody better than Laurent. I brought him on to my team
08:42on Buddy vs. Duff, and he helped me with two challenges. Thanks to Laurent with the sugar,
08:47those sugar fish and those sugar algaes. It's a wonderful texture and wonderful shine. Amazing
08:53piece. Because he's a master in chocolate and he's a master in pulled and blown sugar. And I
08:59thought it was just perfect to bring him on to this challenge. Well, right now, I'm going to start
09:04making some ornaments for the composition that we have going underneath the overhang of the roof.
09:09The cooking process is basically isomalt. I just cook it with roughly 10% of water. And once it's
09:17cooked, I pour it on my mats over there. I cool it down. So it's going to make it into that stage.
09:24You know, it's going to bring it to a stage that it's almost like a paste. So it's still really hot
09:30because that's where I maintain it. I maintain it underneath that heat clamp, you know, like that.
09:36So now, does this bend out to get it out? Yeah. Because it's an aluminum wire. So you can just
09:42easy to bend it back and forth. Exactly. I love it. I love it. I am just in awe on how meticulous
09:50Leron is in his craft. He heats the tip of his air pump so that it'll stick to the sugar. And then
09:57he gently adds air to it a little bit at a time. So it adds evenly. He could take a sugar blob and
10:05turn it into something beautiful and amazing. The guy's a sugar wizard. This is going to hang from
10:10the roof. That's going to be cool, no? Oh my God. That looks amazing.
10:14So this is not good enough for you then? Yeah. It's different than when you see it. So it's got
10:23to be farther. So you want it to be farther out? It has to be. I'm sorry about it. I have to make
10:30an adjustment. I had the plywood sticking out nine inches and they wanted to stick out two feet.
10:38Whatever. We got to fix it. But time is of the essence when you're doing this stuff.
10:41It's magic of Christmas, but it's not funny anymore. Now it's serious.
10:48All right. So this isn't like what we drew out then. This is different. This is 36. This was
10:55like that was supposed to be from from there to the back was supposed to be two feet. And then the
10:59building was less than two feet so that this overhangs. No. All right. This is the way it's going to be
11:06like that. I can make this shorter if you want to. No. And I can't help go by his ideas and your
11:13ideas. Well, no, they're both the same idea and we drew it on the blueprint with the measures.
11:17I showed him this morning. I drew it out with the shape and the sizes. So if we push these triangles
11:23forward, can we? I'm not pushing them forward. I'm not doing that. I'll do something else if you want.
11:29I'm not taking this apart because now it's getting out of control. It's getting out of control.
11:39Grace asked if we needed their team to help assemble the mouse. And I said no. Oh, I think
11:44you just said yes. Why? Oh, this would help. Esteban, Josh and I are going to work on the mouse.
11:51Everybody's going to be focusing on this. This is the center of the tableau. Looks like the mouse has
11:56begun. Mouse has begun. It's going to get dramatic in here. Oh yeah. It's a calm before the storm.
12:04So I'm going to blow this mouse up to about like that size. Oh, it's going to be a big one then.
12:09The main elements of my piece are a cookie and a mouse and the mouse is going to bite the head of
12:15the cookie. It's mischievous mouse and grumpy cookie and all these characters that sort of represent
12:21family members when you go home for Christmas. Let's do it, Josh. All right. Let's throw it in there.
12:27More. Glass blowing can be dangerous. It can burn yourself. Heat exhaustion can set in too. One,
12:37two, three, three. Takes a lot of stamina sometimes. My hand is burning up. Keep going.
12:44My hands on fire. Okay. Okay. Nice gather. Thank you. Air is essential to the glass blowing process.
12:53We blow into the end of the blowpipe and it will begin to expand the body of the glass.
13:00We absolutely have to nail the mouse. You could eliminate everything and still have the mouse
13:06of the cookie and you'd have the story. But without that mouse, we are in big trouble. There's no story.
13:15That looks great. Cool. Ho, ho, ho. So I'm filling up what's going to be our hanging Santa Claus to go on
13:26the side of the house. I'm constructing the whole Santa Claus cake around a central metal pipe. It's going
13:31to have a hook so you can sway freely side to side, which is terrifying because it's cake. And really,
13:39you want your cake to not sway as much as possible. So this is very counterintuitive and I don't like it.
13:46One Santa Claus wing. Our biggest enemy is going to be gravity here. I mean, anything can fall off
13:52him. His hat, his beard, his boots. He's upside down. So you're going to have to build him right.
13:57Santa Claus is hanging off your house. You're always a little nervous competing
14:05because you're going up with people with different mediums and different skill sets.
14:09I think we're going to beat her by our story. There's just something so funny about what we're
14:16doing with Santa tripping on the lights. There's this huge, almost Griswold-esque house that's got
14:23lights everywhere all over it. So I should put the facial features on now.
14:32Getting the details right is really important. The heat has to be like right on the bottom
14:38so it can stick on correctly. It can't be sloppy. It has to look intentional. So
14:43I got to strike the right balance and bring a psychological attitude to the sculpting of it.
14:48Go, go, go. Quickly. Here I go. Straight up and down. Got it. In addition to the amount of detail
14:57and precision that I have to work with, the mouse is going to weigh like 50 pounds twirling away on
15:03the end of a blowpipe. Don't turn. Don't do that. No. No. Okay. Flip. You constantly have to be
15:11turning that in order to keep it from falling off. Get under it now. And flip. Flip. And flip. And flip
15:19one more time. Get under it. Grab it. Nice. Oh my god. Go, go, go, go. You all right? You all right?
15:28I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. Ah, what's wrong? It just, it's sliding. These things are so slippery.
15:51Are you burned? No, I'm okay. I'm okay. I almost lost the piece. The mouse is a triumph.
15:59Whoo! Good job. Good job. Good job. Well, we needed you all. Yeah. That was good timing.
16:06Holy nightmare for Christmas.
16:11Straight. Straight. This way.
16:16Okay. I'm sorry. I'm gonna wipe it down. Yeah. Listen, guys,
16:21we need two good hours working together and with Hammer and we're gonna get done.
16:26I thought it was Buddy versus Christmas, but it seems to be like
16:29Buddy's building houses. Here's your buttercream, Mom. Put gloves on and go smear it.
16:37For the roof, we're gonna cover it in buttercream, add some cake, and then we're gonna put some
16:42crystal sugar on top so that we'll get a nice icy feel. This is actually my second roof. Hey, Mauro,
16:50would you say there's no cakes like Holmes for the holidays? Nope. No cakes like Holmes for the
16:55holidays. That looks perfect. We're doing kind of a set design here because we really need to bomb
17:02this house in lights. We don't have to do the backwood brick, right? No. All right, so then we have a
17:07perfect amount. And rather than put like modeling chocolate, we had to put something that the lights
17:14would not melt. So we kind of did wood brick wall pattern on it, and then our cake is really gonna
17:20be on the lawn and on the roof. All right, I'm ready to mark.
17:27Okay. Good? That's it. My Santa Claus is coming along all right. I think there are different
17:34advantages to sculpting and modeling chocolate. You have to have a rigid structure inside of what
17:39you're doing because the material is soft and it inherently wants to sag. But I feel like I'm not
17:45limited by any shape. Once I finish the modeling chocolate stuff, Buddy's going to come in with
17:50the royal icing and pipe on all of the furry details in his beard and mustache and everything.
17:56Ralph?
18:00Did somebody say for Ralph? Ralph, could you just help more with that? I'm just trying to get this done,
18:05please? Yeah. Over here. Look over here.
18:08What am I, what am I doing? No, no. Got to move over.
18:12You startled me. You hit the hell off of me.
18:18Merry Christmas, bro. You scared me. That was good. You scared me.
18:24There's nothing graceful about this exit. Yeah, you got me. There will be something graceful.
18:38I thought you were just doing balls there. Bells. That's fantastic. Are you blowing a whole sphere
18:46first and then cutting those shapes into them? Yeah. Antique. I love that.
18:52The airbrush is going to make the details pop out. I'm trying to move as fast as I can,
18:57but it's a lot to do in a short period of time.
19:11Deb asked me to make a handful of stars and she gave me this pattern. So I'm going to heat up the glass.
19:17The drawing tells me where to bend, like here. And I just introduced heat to the glass
19:26with the storage. The storage is called a crossfire. I'm going to inject light in two ways into my
19:32installation. One is through neon and those are going to be the star forms lighting up the ground
19:39that will be illuminated with electricity. We're making a bunch of them. So I have Esteban in the neon
19:46studio. Oops. That wasn't good. The neon is an amazing medium. There you go.
19:55But it can break very easily in transport or in mounting it. The tube needs to be electrified.
20:00What you see right now is just air being electrified. Once it cools down, we're going to add a little
20:05bit of gas. It's essential to get the neon because that's the lighting element. That's the special part
20:11that glass can bring to this installation that Kate cannot. Nice. I'm shooting for the moon on the stars.
20:17Shooting for the moon here.
20:23Give me a fill here, Mo. I'm finishing sand it now. I'm going to pipe Santa's beard out of royal icing
20:30because it'll go on soft but dry hard. There's just certain parts of when you sculpt that become
20:37more conducive to piping or become more conducive to sculpting. And this is one of them where,
20:42you know, the piping is going to work, right? So we might as well just use that and have some fun with it.
20:50All right. I think Santa's about done. What do you guys think? How does Santa's beard look?
20:55Spin him around. Oh, he looks nice.
20:58Oh, that's cool. I don't know why. I always like it when you pipe on the sculptures. I feel like it's
21:04it's a nice complementary technique. I concur, my brother.
21:10To leave just a little bit of snow on the roof, you can do like a real heavy version of a painting
21:14technique called dry brushing. You dry most of the liquid medium off your brush and all you're left
21:18with is pigment. And if you strike it over raised surfaces, it just stays on the high points.
21:23All right, team. Let's get on the same page with this cookie. Let's get on the same cookie sheet
21:29with this cookie. My cookie consists of a main body, the dough. And then I put chocolate chips on
21:36it, the bite out of its head. That takes a lot of time to get that right. And then the final thing I
21:42do is put the arms on it. This is about the scale we're going to go in diameter. Cool. Let's just get that
21:48bubble to blow out evenly. Got it? Got it. Good. When the chips are down, tough get going.
21:56When the chips are down, the cookies. That's how the cookie crumbles, everybody.
22:02But this cookie's not crumbling. This cookie's going to live. I like that attitude. Let's do that.
22:07Woo. So this is the cookie dough.
22:14So if you bake a cookie, it gets darker. So the cookie dough inside is less cooked than the outside,
22:20right? So this is the outside, the crunchy part. Dev's a master of glass food. I try to strike the
22:28balance between real and fantasy. One more, and then let's take it off the marble. We're going to
22:35crackle this and we're going to see the cookie dough that's uncooked underneath. Yeah. That's my
22:39fantasy for this cookie. Yeah. With the cookie, I do want to bring some texture into the body.
22:44Okay, go in it. Quickly. Do it again. Do it again. Do it again. Now, now, now, now. So I dunk that in
22:54water to chrizzle the surface and make it look more like dough that cracked apart in the oven being baked.
23:01Heat again. Looks like a coconut.
23:04Yeah, it does look like coconut. Deborah in the tropics. Coming to you live from the Caribbean.
23:10Let's go. Something's happening now. Oh, yeah. Are you going to blow it up anymore?
23:15Yeah, but I want more effect. Should I go again? Um.
23:19You want to take a look at it? Yeah. Yeah. Let's take a look at it.
23:25Oh, man. It's looking great. Oh, it exceeds my expectation. Oh, good. Okay.
23:30Heat it up and we can always throw more water on it if necessary. That's true.
23:33It's true. Josh, don't heat too much. Okay.
23:37Okay. The cookie is extremely difficult to make because these working conditions are
23:43hectic. They're chaotic. Oh. So sweaty in here. Hot or humid for some reason. It's both.
23:49I mean, the cookie probably only weighs 25 pounds.
23:53Okay, Alex. But when it's a thousand degrees on the end of a five-foot rod,
23:58the rod probably weighs 20 pounds and it's flopping all over the place. It gets really heavy.
24:03Stop the rotation. Blow a little bit. Okay. The reheating process is extremely important
24:09because I have to manage the heat. And if any part gets too cold, it will crack and explode.
24:21Here's a caution. Replace only what seemed to have classified to reduce the risk of the...
24:26These lights seem pretty risky. Do not secure with wiring products with our staple guns, nails.
24:34Yeah, we're going to do that anyway. Yeah. So everything you want to do, it's telling you not to do.
24:40Let's start. Let's start. I'll hold, you shoot. Plan for the lights is going to make it like my old
24:46house and little furry. It's just go buck wild. Put as many lights as you possibly can on it.
25:04Oh, shoot.
25:09Whoops.
25:09Uh, buddy. Where's Ho-Ho? Oh, no.
25:32Uh, buddy. Oh, no.
25:37The piping that Buddy did on, on Upside Down Santa Claus keeps falling off of his face and down.
25:45Ain't nobody got time for this.
25:48Where's Ho-Ho?
25:50I was just giving him a little shave.
25:52Laurent had a couple of, uh, suggestions to, to stiffen the royal up faster.
25:56I usually put, uh, white vinegar.
25:58Acid will, uh, basically make, coagulate the whites in your meringue and make it dry twice faster.
26:07Any type of piping icing, you live and die on consistency. You know, it's, it's balancing you.
26:14You become a better cake decorator if your icings are the right consistency and texture.
26:18The royal wasn't 100 percent dry. And to really make Santa's beard look cool, I wanted to do some
26:28other, like, piping techniques. It'll be nice and stiff and I'll be able to like really go in and put
26:36the curvature of the beard in the way I want it, so. And honestly, I think it's gonna actually look better.
26:44Okay, that's good for now.
26:49That is a ribbon.
26:50It's a very old technique. It's basically by folding a different color of sugar together,
26:56and then it's gonna create that ribbon and all the lines that you can see inside.
27:00I'm pulling it down so I fix the color and I fix the sugar so it's crystallized.
27:04And then I warm it a little bit, see underneath the lamp like that. Now I can slowly shape it.
27:11As soon as it's pliable like that, I cool it down right away. So like that, I'm able to keep the
27:16shape of the ribbon. It's extremely delicate. I mean, it breaks. I mean, you can tell, you know,
27:22I barely touched it and it breaks in no time. Two hours left. Come on, we gotta move.
27:28Yeah, buddy? Yes. You think you can break away from what you're doing for a second?
27:34And give me a little hand? Yeah. The ribbons that Laurent's making might seem like a small detail,
27:41but they're really gonna make those presents come to life.
27:46I know all the pieces that he's making is gonna really wow the judges.
27:50It's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you, Master.
27:56Five minutes, everybody! Next, we gotta make leaves.
28:00Now that the mail is finished, Josh and I have to work on the mistletoe, and it's a big one.
28:09So now we're gonna attach the balls. Turn. Okay, that's good. We're coming into the home stretch.
28:15I wish we had more, but I think you can make a meaningful composition.
28:18By the end of this. Last one. Oh, yeah.
28:28We're done here. All right, one second, one second.
28:32All right, that's time. Oh, man.
28:37Good job, guys.
28:40All right, we gotta pack it up and get ready to beat Buddy.
28:43Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just gotta do it, man.
28:45Thank you, everybody, and Merry Twesla night before Christmas.
28:50We got two hours on-site for assembly.
28:52That's super fragile, so we gotta think about transportation, too.
28:56Hopefully it's gonna make it.
28:58How far it's gonna be, the delivery?
29:00It's about an hour, I'd say.
29:02An hour?
29:03We like to hurt ourself, huh?
29:07No pain, no gain.
29:13A little this way.
29:14All right, so we've got some pretty fragile stuff in here.
29:21One of the most fragile things is the neon stars.
29:24Esteban, you put it in, so you're getting it out.
29:26Okay.
29:27Arriving at the facility, I feel pretty good,
29:30but I'm worried about completing our installation on time.
29:33We gotta get the hang elements up first.
29:34After that, it's our wintry scene.
29:36Ooh, what happened?
29:40Eh, somebody's s*** melted.
29:42It's hot in here.
29:43Holy s***, yeah, it's hot.
29:46Are these screwed or no?
29:48Everything's screwed at least a little bit.
29:54All right, we gotta get him in the cold,
29:56because he's really, really soft.
29:57Yeah, get him in the cold.
30:01I'm going to inject light in two ways into my installation.
30:05One is through neon star forms.
30:08The second way is the icicles are going to be illuminated
30:11by putting a light puck on the top,
30:14and the light is going to glow through the piece.
30:18So I'm going to start laying ice?
30:20Yeah, well, not ice. Snow. Snow.
30:25You should fix up Santa.
30:27He said he has time to harden up.
30:29This is all good, all right?
30:31It's this I have to do,
30:33which I'm really happy anyway,
30:35because I wasn't loving it,
30:36and I'm going to match the beard anyway.
30:38Santa's beard fell off one more time in transportation.
30:42But, you know, look, this is a big cake,
30:45and we definitely don't have a lot of time.
30:47You know, this is something I didn't really need or expect,
30:51you know, but unfortunately,
30:54when you have things that happen like this,
30:57you just have to kind of make the best of a bad situation.
31:09Moe broke it.
31:10No, no, no, no, no, no.
31:11I didn't break it. You did.
31:13No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
31:16Maurizio goes and manhandles Laurent's icicles and breaks them.
31:20Like, that's the cardinal rule.
31:22You don't break the ice malt, bro.
31:24But it's not true. But what did you do?
31:28Ralph broke your icicles.
31:28Moe broke your icicles.
31:30Ralph broke your icicles.
31:31Moe, Laurent is yelling at you in French.
31:35You do not want to be on his bedside.
31:40You need to hit both.
31:43You have to hit both.
31:44Yeah.
31:47You're good.
31:48Laurent, what do you think?
31:51Do I pass?
31:52Yeah, that's perfect.
31:53Woo-hoo!
31:54You're good.
31:55You're going to get promoted from elf to sugar wizard.
32:00Further over.
32:00Here?
32:01Yeah.
32:02Let me see.
32:04I kind of want to...
32:04Will you hold this for one second?
32:05Right where Alex...
32:06Ah!
32:08Oh, my God.
32:10I broke a star.
32:23Esteban, I broke a star.
32:27Oh, my God.
32:27And another one got broken here, too.
32:30So these things are really fragile.
32:32It's not good.
32:32We had planned for 12 stars.
32:34Now we have two broken.
32:36It's not ideal.
32:37If I lose any more neon stars,
32:38Buddy's got a good chance of beating us.
32:40Oh, my God.
32:41We have more stars broken.
32:42It's a lighting element.
32:44The neon stars are critical.
32:46This is going to be very difficult.
32:48What?
32:49To hang him or no?
32:50Yeah.
32:51We got to hang a 75-pound cake without crushing it.
32:55And I ain't got time to fix Santa's beard again.
32:58How much more I got, Mo?
33:00This much?
33:00You got a lot.
33:01You got a lot.
33:02My whole story is Santa slipping on a roof and being tangled in the lights.
33:08All right.
33:08This is the end.
33:09If Santa isn't dangling off the roof, it's not going to make sense.
33:14Alex, is it stable to put the cookie and the mouse there?
33:17It's really not a very sturdy structure.
33:22Lift up ho-ho.
33:24A little more.
33:25A little bit.
33:26Wait, wait, wait, wait.
33:27There you go.
33:28Boom.
33:28Okay, now unscrew the board.
33:30Here.
33:31Oh, that is...
33:36Well, it feels stable enough.
33:38If it gets bonked a little bit, it's going down, though.
33:41So be careful of the table and the cookies.
33:44I can't get to those screws with the drill.
33:46I swing around.
33:47Here.
33:47I can't get to it because I'm hitting his head.
33:50Okay, I have Santa.
33:52I'm not touching Laurent's sugar.
33:56I'm watching you.
34:01It's so good.
34:01All right, let's plug him in.
34:03Oh, gosh.
34:04This is harrowing.
34:06I like that.
34:09I like the twinkles.
34:10Now that we've got Santa hanging off the roof,
34:12it's time to get the rest of this cake decorated.
34:15Okay, I'm not going to be able to...
34:17Ow, my God, my fingers.
34:18Watch your fingers.
34:18Get the fingers out.
34:19Get the fingers out.
34:20Watch your fingers, Uma.
34:21Yep.
34:21Wait.
34:22Oh, this mouth is heavy.
34:23It feels good.
34:30Nice.
34:30Gosh, punch your head.
34:32Don't hit the mistletoe.
34:33Right.
34:34Time's up, everybody.
34:36Come out front and don't step on anything.
34:38Voila.
34:39That looks awesome.
34:42Looks good.
34:42It smells really good.
34:44Amazing job, everybody.
34:47I got to tell you guys, this cake looks amazing.
34:51Deb's an amazing artist, but I'm going to win because the moment you look at my cake,
34:56you know the story.
34:57I don't have to tell it.
34:59Bring it in here.
35:00This is a group hug here.
35:02Why do they keep coming out good?
35:06Back to judging in this week are Courtney Quinn and Jason Chatfield.
35:10Courtney Quinn is a color expert.
35:13Jason Chatfield is a cartoonist and a comedian.
35:16We're going to be judged on composition, lighting, and color.
35:19Courtney and Jason are experts in all those fields.
35:23Team Buddy.
35:24Team Debra.
35:25Today's theme was the night before Christmas.
35:28This challenge was to include lighting in a unique way into your designs.
35:34Buddy, your medium is cake.
35:38Debra's is glass, which couldn't be more different.
35:42In the last 24 hours, both teams approach this challenge with your specific mediums.
35:49And we're really excited to see the finished work.
35:52I just want to tell you guys, Debra, I am a huge fan of you and your team and what you do.
35:58We can't wait to see what you guys did.
36:00I am really looking forward to seeing what you did, too, because I don't even cook very much.
36:06So I'm wondering how you can cook.
36:09Well, you cook the glass, right?
36:10Well, if we were competing on temperature alone, I know I win that.
36:15Buddy, let's see your work.
36:17All right, guys.
36:18Welcome to Santa's Nightmare.
36:23It's an entire house.
36:25Great.
36:27It looks amazing.
36:28Oh, poor Santa.
36:33This looks like the expensive insurance claim before Christmas.
36:38We wanted that over-the-top Christmas house.
36:41And it's a snowy Christmas Eve.
36:44Santa's kind of trying to get down the chimney.
36:46And whoop, he falls.
36:49He's wrapped in lights.
36:50We have cake all up on the roof, all up on the floor.
36:54Santa's all cake, too.
36:56So you got about 700 pounds of cake on this.
37:00All the ornaments and all the icicles are all pulled and blown out of sugar.
37:04Wow.
37:06I'm not sure if I believe those ribbons are sugar.
37:09I can't wait to take a closer look, though.
37:14All right, Debra, you've seen Team Buddy's artistic interpretation of the night before Christmas.
37:19Show us what you've made.
37:20Welcome to my glass winter wonderland.
37:35Welcome to my glass winter wonderland.
37:38Oh!
37:42Wow.
37:42Wow.
37:43That's pretty incredible.
37:44Oh, my gosh.
37:46The mistletoe was a central theme of romance and love for Christmas.
37:52And the mouse tricked the cookie into thinking it was going to give it a kiss under the mistletoe.
37:59And instead of giving it a kiss, it took a bite.
38:01So the mouse is holding a piece of the cookie.
38:06So this is our weird family of characters, which pretty much represents these guys that helped me make the whole thing.
38:13I can't wait to take a closer look at what you created.
38:16But this is going to be a tough decision.
38:17This is not going to be easy, guys.
38:20I really enjoy this just as a comic tableau, because it's so obvious what's happening.
38:25I mean, we have one team blowing glass, another one blowing sugar.
38:28I think the ribbons are the most impressive thing for me.
38:31Yeah, I love that they use the sugar here on top of the presents to kind of make this really edible moment.
38:38I just wish they did that with the rest of the design.
38:41Why couldn't we see the door in cake?
38:42Why couldn't we see that brick done in actual cake?
38:45Right.
38:46I would have loved to see that.
38:47Well, how do you add color to glass?
38:49The color comes from different chemicals saying the blue is copper or iron.
38:54And we do something called potatoing, believe it or not.
38:57Potatoes?
38:58This is an ancient technique.
39:00You put a potato in the bottom of the molten glass and it bubbles up like crazy.
39:04And that's what mixes the color with the clear.
39:06So you bubble all the glass together.
39:08This has got a bubble.
39:10Gorgeous.
39:11Wow.
39:12I really love that team Deborah used all the different kinds of glass blowing that you can do.
39:19And I love the neon.
39:21I wish there was more of it.
39:22I think giving us a few neon icicles would have been a cool twist.
39:27I agree.
39:27I like the mouse and I like the cartooniness of it as a cartoonist.
39:32Of course.
39:33But I wish this art piece just spoke for itself without explanation.
39:37Mm-hmm.
39:39The snow is a mixture of royal icing and crystal sugar.
39:44Wow.
39:44So the crystal sugar really gives you that icy effect.
39:47You know, you could have just put that ribbon in and it would have been enough.
39:51But this is like so much detail.
39:53That guy is the guy.
39:56I mean, really.
39:57Well, it's obvious you're a master at what you do.
40:01Both teams have done incredible work with two totally different mediums.
40:06Buddy, this made me laugh as soon as I saw it.
40:09And I really enjoy the comic nature of it.
40:11I do have to say that just putting lights on something
40:15isn't necessarily the same as using light in art.
40:20But overall, a fantastic job.
40:24Deborah, I love that you had this tale of the misfit family,
40:27but I didn't really see it until you actually explained it.
40:32All that considered, though, we loved seeing your beautiful creation
40:35and it had so much whimsy and personality.
40:39And you haven't left us with a very easy decision to make,
40:42but we did have to make one.
40:43And I'm excited to announce the team who conquered Christmas is...
40:55Team Deborah!
40:58Your prize of $5,000 will be donated to the non-profit health care organization,
41:03Callan Lorde.
41:04Thank you, buddy.
41:06It was really challenging, but I was very happy to be here and really appreciative to be here.
41:14Well deserved.
41:15Great job, Team Deborah.
41:17Congratulations. You guys did an amazing job.
41:20Great job. You did a great job.
41:22Great job.
41:27We haven't crashed a cake yet.
41:29Next time on Buddy Versus Christmas.
41:32Our challenge is to make the ultimate Christmas toy.
41:36The chocolate's got all the little white bits in it.
41:38To get the red modeling chocolate usable, it's going to take hours.
41:43I'm a little agitated. I'm a little agitated.
41:46We got this thing done, but now we have to move it.
41:49I'm a little agitated.
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