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00:00And for Christmas, he's going one step further by putting his lifelike cakes up against the real thing.
00:07Taking on teams who are masters at bringing Christmas to life.
00:11Going head-to-head against Broadway set designers,
00:16glass blowers,
00:19animatronics experts,
00:21and toy brick builders.
00:25But they'll use whatever materials they choose,
00:28while Buddy must use cake.
00:31It's bakers versus makers, as both teams have just 24 hours.
00:36When it's Christmas Eve, you've got to deliver.
00:38To see who can make the most incredible holiday displays,
00:41win $5,000 for a charity of their choosing,
00:45and claim the ultimate ragging rights as...
00:47They're going down.
00:49The team who conquered Christmas.
00:51Christmas!
00:52This is Buddy versus Christmas.
00:55Merry Christmas!
00:58So this week, we're going up against Deborah Teresco,
01:06who is a world-renowned glassblower.
01:09Oh, boy.
01:10Deb has created amazing art installations at exhibits and museums all over the world.
01:17Recently, she won a major glassblowing competition on television.
01:21She's no slouch.
01:24The theme for this week is Christmas Eve,
01:26and the special skill is lights.
01:29Back to judging in this week are Courtney Quinn and Jason Chatfield.
01:33Jason Chatfield is a cartoonist,
01:36and Courtney Quinn is a color expert.
01:38They're both incredible artists,
01:39and they're going to be the perfect judges for this competition.
01:42Figures.
01:43We've got to go against the glassblower and its lights.
01:46But we have Laurent, so...
01:47This week, I've got a great team.
01:50I've got Ralph, my main sculptor, one of my main decorators,
01:54and just an amazing person to work with.
01:57Mauro is an amazing cake decorator.
01:59He does construction.
02:01He's my right-hand man.
02:02He does all kinds of stuff.
02:04Mo is my brother-in-law, who's really good at construction and engineering,
02:08who really will help in the lighting part.
02:10And then Laurent is the sugar wizard with blown and pulled sugar.
02:15All right, so what if we do, like, a set,
02:18like, a front of a house,
02:19and we could do the whole roof of cake?
02:22You know when you drive down the block and you see, like, a light show over?
02:24Like, those light shows, like...
02:26That's it, that's it, right?
02:28So, you're talking, like, a cake roof.
02:29Cake, cake there.
02:30And then you want to do, like, the overly decorated Christmas house.
02:35You're barely going to see house.
02:36It's going to be more lights than house.
02:38So, maybe you put Santa Claus coming down the chimney.
02:41Maybe he's, like, stuck in the chimney or he's having a hard time.
02:43What if he tripped and fell off the roof?
02:46Now that's funny.
02:47He's all wrapped up in the lights, hanging upside down,
02:50with his face like, ooh, you know, like, how did I get here?
02:54And then maybe a couple snowmen, because there's snow.
02:57And they could be like, oh, no!
03:00Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:01Yeah, but you don't think Santa's used to walking over lights on the roof?
03:05Not this house, Moe.
03:07My cake is going to tell the story of Santa on Christmas Eve,
03:11falling off the roof, and he's tangled in lights.
03:14Two snowmen that witnessed Santa's mistake.
03:17Ribbons and bows for presents on the lawn,
03:19blown sugar Christmas ornaments,
03:21and icicles hanging off the roof.
03:23Let's go.
03:24Get to work.
03:25So our theme is the night before Christmas coming to life.
03:31Oh.
03:32We're going to be judged on a couple of things here,
03:34and one is using light in a unique way.
03:37Glass sort of has some illumination baked into it.
03:40Yeah.
03:40We're also going to get judged on our concept
03:43and how interesting it is and how original it is,
03:45and also how gorgeous we are.
03:47No.
03:50Well, I like doing glass food pieces
03:52because everyone can relate to them,
03:53and there could be something that looks a little cartoony and fun,
03:57but then I display it in such a way
03:59that brings a new dimension to it conceptually.
04:03My team consists of Grace.
04:05Grace is going to be doing glassblowing in an atypical way.
04:09Josh's main role is heavy glass.
04:12Esteban can do the neon and glass casting,
04:15and Alex is going to help me with the pieces
04:16that come in large numbers.
04:18The classic poem, twice the night before Christmas.
04:21This involves a mouse.
04:22And I have been living with a mouse for quite some time.
04:27I had a mouse in my apartment when I was...
04:30This is for real.
04:32This is where it came from.
04:33I had a mouse in my Lower East Side apartment,
04:35and I was like, you're going to earn your keep.
04:37You're going to be my Christmas muse.
04:39I really want to give Buddy a run for his money,
04:42so I'm going to use a baked good, the cookie,
04:45and I'm going to put a mistletoe over it.
04:46The cookie and the mouse,
04:48they're ready to give their first kiss ever,
04:50and guess what happens?
04:51What happens?
04:53Good question, Josh.
04:54The mouse lights the head off the cookie.
04:57My God, what a turbulent relationship.
05:01The centerpiece of my idea is
05:03I'm going to make a cookie with a bite out of it,
05:05a mouse holding a piece of the cookie,
05:07icicles, a mistletoe chandelier,
05:10candy canes with big black eyes,
05:11and the neon stars lighting up the ground.
05:14Light is going to glow through the piece.
05:17You guys ready?
05:18Yeah.
05:19Let's dominate that cake.
05:20Right now, I am building the set for the next cake.
05:34Instead of being a full house,
05:36we're just doing the facade.
05:38So it's going to be a front door, a window,
05:40of course the wall,
05:41and just the one side of the roof
05:43where Santa Claus is on it,
05:44and he's slipping off.
05:46Santa's going to come out to here.
05:49Snowman, presents.
05:50He's coming out that far past the roof.
05:51No.
05:53He's hanging from the roof.
05:54I'll go like a foot out,
05:55two feet out from there,
05:56and then he's gone.
05:56Yeah, leave two feet,
05:58and then we'll cut it
05:59where we know we're going to drill him.
06:01We'll drill him on to where we want him
06:03once he's done,
06:04and we'll go from there.
06:05As long as this makes sense to somebody,
06:07I'm sure I'll see it.
06:08You'll see it.
06:09You'll thank me later.
06:10Let's get some regular punches out
06:19for a bit, too, right?
06:21On day one,
06:22I want to make the cookie.
06:23I want to make the mouse,
06:24half the icicles.
06:26I also want to make
06:26the whole ice slab installation.
06:28So we have a lot to do.
06:30Coming in.
06:31We're starting with the big,
06:32thick icicles,
06:33which are blown
06:33out of a glacial blue glass.
06:35Got it?
06:35Yeah.
06:36The process of glassblowing
06:38involves gathering molten glass
06:40out of a furnace
06:40on the end of a steel rod.
06:42You constantly have to be turning that
06:44in order to keep it from falling off,
06:46and you need to constantly
06:47be reheating it.
06:48Can you heat this up?
06:49Yeah.
06:50And then you go back and forth
06:51between the furnace and the bench
06:53and shape it with different tools
06:54that are hundreds of years old,
06:56thousands of years old,
06:57kind of like baking.
06:59There's a lot of similarities
07:00between baking and glass.
07:03Both of our materials
07:04have to be heated.
07:06We need to use ovens.
07:08The difference there
07:08is the temperature.
07:10Buddy might be going 350.
07:12I might be going 2,000.
07:14Talk to me.
07:15I got, like, three seconds.
07:18Did you say 10 seconds
07:19or two seconds?
07:20Now.
07:20Oh, okay.
07:20And at this point,
07:21I start giving the icicle spaces,
07:24eyes and mouth,
07:25by putting white molten glass
07:26onto the icicles.
07:31That's icy as heck.
07:33As soon as we finish a piece,
07:35we rush it into the annealer.
07:38The annealer's kept
07:39at approximately 900 degrees
07:41and it cools the glass down slowly
07:43so it doesn't crack.
07:45Don't hit it.
07:46Don't hit it.
07:49It's fine.
07:50Woo!
07:51Got a little worried.
07:54That's cool.
07:55I just want to see what they do.
07:56I mean, the techniques like blowing,
07:58I will use as well.
08:00But the modeling,
08:00the way they model the glass
08:02will be kind of similar too.
08:04I want one of these
08:05powder blue jumpsuits like that.
08:06I'm jealous.
08:07I got the black uniform.
08:08That's what I want.
08:09Look at those gloves.
08:10Yeah.
08:12That's a torch.
08:13Yeah.
08:14Now that's a torch.
08:16Yeah, we don't have anything
08:17that could stand up to that.
08:19No, it's different, you know,
08:20because even like blown sugar
08:23will look a little bit similar.
08:24I mean, it's so delicate.
08:26You know, it's food.
08:27Very delicate.
08:27It's food.
08:28Hold sugar or people who blow sugar,
08:30it's an amazing art.
08:32And there's nobody better than Laurent.
08:33Oh, man.
08:34I brought him on to my team
08:37on Buddy vs. Duff
08:38and he helped me with two challenges.
08:40Thanks to Laurent with the sugar,
08:42the sugar fish and the sugar algaes,
08:45it's a wonderful texture
08:46and wonderful shine.
08:48Amazing piece.
08:48Because he's a master in chocolate
08:51and he's a master in pulled and blown sugar.
08:53And I thought it was just perfect
08:55to bring him on to this challenge.
08:58Well, right now,
08:58I'm going to start making some ornaments
09:00for the composition that we have going underneath
09:03the overhang of the roof.
09:04The cooking process is basically isomalt.
09:08I just cook it with roughly 10% of water.
09:11And once it's cooked,
09:12I pour it on my mats over there.
09:15I cool it down.
09:15So it's going to make it into that stage.
09:19You know, it's going to bring it to a stage
09:21that it's almost like a paste.
09:24So it's still really hot
09:25because that's where I maintain it.
09:26I maintain it underneath that E-clamp.
09:29You know, like that.
09:31So now does this bend out to get it out?
09:33Yeah.
09:34Because it's an aluminum wire.
09:36So you can just easy to bend it back and forth.
09:39I love it.
09:41I love it.
09:42I am just in awe
09:44on how meticulous Leron is in his craft.
09:47He heats the tip of his air pump
09:49so that it'll stick to the sugar.
09:51And then he gently adds air to it
09:55a little bit at a time
09:56so it adds evenly.
09:58He could take a sugar blob
10:00and turn it into something beautiful and amazing.
10:03The guy's a sugar wizard.
10:04This is going to hang from the roof.
10:06That's going to be cool, no?
10:07Oh, my God.
10:08That looks amazing.
10:13So this is not good enough for you, then?
10:16It's different than when you see it.
10:17So it's got to be farther.
10:19So you want it to be farther out?
10:20It has to be.
10:22I'm sorry, man.
10:24I have to make an adjustment.
10:26I had the plywood sticking out nine inches
10:28and they wanted to stick out two feet.
10:33Whatever.
10:33We've got to fix it.
10:34But time is of the essence
10:35when you're doing the stuff.
10:38It's magic of Christmas,
10:39but it's not funny anymore.
10:41Now it's serious.
10:43All right.
10:43So this isn't like what we drew out, then.
10:45This is different.
10:46This is 36.
10:47This was...
10:49like that was supposed to be...
10:52from there to the back
10:53was supposed to be two feet
10:53and then the building
10:54was less than two feet
10:55so that this overhangs.
10:58No?
10:59All right.
10:59This is the way it's going to be.
11:01Like that.
11:02I can make this shorter
11:03if you want to.
11:04No.
11:06And I can't help go
11:07by his ideas
11:08and your ideas.
11:09Well, no,
11:09they're both the same idea
11:10and we drew it on the blueprint
11:11with the measurements.
11:12I showed him this morning.
11:14I drew it out
11:14with the shape
11:15and the sizes.
11:17So if we push
11:17these triangles forward,
11:19can we?
11:20I'm not pushing them forward.
11:22I'm not doing that.
11:22I'll do something else
11:23if you want.
11:24I'm not taking this apart
11:25because now
11:26it's getting out of control.
11:27It's getting out of control.
11:28Grace asked if we needed
11:36their team
11:36to help assemble the mouse
11:37and I said no.
11:39Oh, I think you should have said yes.
11:42Why?
11:42Oh, it's just going to help.
11:44Esteban, Josh, and I
11:45are going to work on the mouse.
11:46Everybody's going to be
11:47focusing on this.
11:48This is the center
11:48of the tableau.
11:50Looks like the mouse has begun.
11:52Mouse has begun.
11:54It's going to get dramatic in here.
11:56Oh, yeah.
11:56The calm before the storm.
12:00So I'm going to blow this mouse
12:01up to about like
12:01that size.
12:03Oh, it's going to be
12:03a big one then.
12:04The main elements
12:05of my piece
12:06are a cookie
12:07and a mouse
12:08and the mouse is going to
12:09bite the head of the cookie.
12:11It's mischievous mouse
12:12and grumpy cookie
12:13and all these characters
12:15that sort of represent
12:16family members
12:17when you go home
12:17for Christmas.
12:19Let's do it, Josh.
12:20All right.
12:20Let's throw it in there.
12:22More.
12:26Glass blowing
12:27can be dangerous.
12:28It can burn yourself.
12:30Heat exhaustion
12:31can set in, too.
12:32One, two, three.
12:33It takes a lot
12:34of stamina sometimes.
12:37My hand is burning up.
12:38Keep going.
12:40Keep my hands on fire.
12:41Okay, okay.
12:43Nice gather.
12:46Air is essential
12:46to the glass blowing process.
12:48We blow into the end
12:50of the blowpipe
12:51and it will begin
12:52to expand
12:52the body of the glass.
12:55We absolutely
12:56have to nail
12:57the mouse.
12:59You could eliminate
13:00everything
13:00and still have
13:01the mouse
13:01and the cookie
13:02and you'd have
13:03the story.
13:04But without that mouse,
13:05we are in big trouble.
13:08There's no story.
13:10That looks great.
13:11Cool.
13:13Ho, ho, ho.
13:17So I'm filling up
13:18what's going to be
13:19our hanging Santa Claus
13:20to go on the side
13:21of the house.
13:23I'm constructing
13:23the whole Santa Claus
13:24cake around
13:25a central metal pipe.
13:26It's going to have
13:27a hook so you can
13:28sway freely
13:28side to side,
13:30which is terrifying
13:31because it's cake.
13:33And really,
13:34you want your cake
13:35to not sway
13:36as much as possible.
13:37So this is very
13:38counterintuitive
13:39and I don't like it.
13:41One Santa Claus wing.
13:43Our biggest enemy
13:44is going to be gravity here.
13:46I mean,
13:46anything can fall off
13:47from his hat,
13:48his beard,
13:48his boots.
13:50He's upside down.
13:51So I'm going to have
13:52to build him right.
13:53Santa Claus is
13:55hanging off your house.
13:57You're always
13:58a little nervous
13:59competing
14:00because you're going
14:01up with people
14:02with different mediums
14:03and different skill sets.
14:05I think we're going
14:05to beat her
14:06by our story.
14:09There's just something
14:10so funny
14:11about what we're doing
14:12with Santa
14:12tripping on the lights.
14:14There's this huge,
14:15almost Griswold-esque
14:17house that's got
14:18lights everywhere
14:19all over it.
14:21Woo-wee!
14:23So I should put
14:24the facial features
14:24on now.
14:26Oh.
14:27Getting the details
14:28right is really important.
14:30The heat has to be,
14:31like, right on the bottom
14:33so it can stick on correctly.
14:34It can't be sloppy.
14:35It has to look intentional.
14:37So I've got to
14:38strike the right balance
14:39and bring a psychological
14:41attitude to the sculpting
14:42of it.
14:44Go, go, go!
14:45Quickly!
14:46Good.
14:47Straight up and down.
14:48Got it.
14:50In addition to
14:51the amount of detail
14:52and precision
14:53that I have to work with,
14:54the mouse is going
14:55to weigh, like,
14:5650 pounds
14:57twirling away
14:58on the end
14:59of a blowpipe.
15:00Don't turn!
15:01Don't do that!
15:01No!
15:02No?
15:02Okay.
15:03Flip.
15:04You constantly
15:05have to be turning
15:06that in order
15:07to keep it
15:07from falling off.
15:09Get under it now.
15:10And flip.
15:12Flip.
15:12And flip.
15:14And flip one more time.
15:15Get under it.
15:16Grab it.
15:19Nice!
15:20Oh, my God.
15:22Go, go, go, go.
15:23You all right?
15:23You all right?
15:24Holy !
15:25What's wrong?
15:37Oh, my God.
15:38Go, go, go, go.
15:39You all right?
15:39You all right?
15:39I'm okay.
15:40I'm okay.
15:41Ah, .
15:42What's wrong?
15:43It just, it's sliding.
15:45These things are so slippery.
15:46Are you burned?
15:47No, I'm okay.
15:48I'm okay.
15:49I almost lost the piece.
15:51The mouse is a triumph.
15:54Woo!
15:56Good job.
15:57Good job.
15:57Good job.
15:58We needed you all.
15:59Yeah.
15:59That was good timing.
16:01Holy knife of her Christmas.
16:06Straight.
16:07Straight.
16:07This way.
16:08Okay.
16:11I'm gonna wipe it down.
16:14Yeah.
16:14Listen, guys, we need two good hours working together and with hammer and we're gonna get done.
16:21I thought it was buddy versus Christmas, but it seems to be like buddies building houses.
16:25Here's your buttercream, my love.
16:27Put gloves on.
16:28Put gloves on and go smear it.
16:32For the roof, we're gonna cover it in buttercream, add some cake, and then we're gonna put some crystal sugar on top so that we'll get a nice icy feel.
16:42This is actually my second roof.
16:44Hey, Mauro, would you say there's no cakes like Holmes for the holidays?
16:48Nope.
16:49No cakes like Holmes for the holidays.
16:51That looks perfect.
16:52We're doing kind of a set design here because we really need to bomb this house and lights.
16:59We don't have to do the back with brick, right?
17:01No.
17:02All right, so then we have a perfect amount.
17:04Rather than put like modeling chocolate, we had to put something that the lights would not melt.
17:09So we kind of did a wood brick wall pattern on it, and then our cake is really gonna be on the lawn and on the roof.
17:18All right, I'm ready to mark.
17:22Okay.
17:23Good?
17:24That's it.
17:25My Santa Claus is coming along all right.
17:28I think there are different advantages to sculpting and modeling chocolate.
17:32You have to have a rigid structure inside of what you're doing because the material is soft and it inherently wants to sag.
17:38But I feel like I'm not limited by any shape.
17:42Once I finish the modeling chocolate stuff, Buddy's gonna come in with the royal icing and pipe on all of the furry details and his beard and mustache and everything.
17:51Ralph?
17:55Did somebody say for Ralph?
17:57Ralph, could you just help more with that?
17:59I'm just trying to get this done, please.
18:02Over here.
18:02Look over here.
18:03What am I doing?
18:05No, no.
18:05Got to move it over.
18:06You startled me.
18:09You made the hell out of him there.
18:13Merry Christmas, bro.
18:14Scared me.
18:14That was good.
18:15You scared me.
18:16We got around.
18:19There's nothing graceful about this exit.
18:22Yeah, you got me.
18:23There will be something graceful.
18:24I thought you were just doing balls.
18:37They're bells.
18:37That's fantastic.
18:39Are you blowing a whole sphere first and then cutting those shapes into them?
18:43Yeah.
18:45Antique.
18:46I love that.
18:47The airbrush is going to make the details pop out.
18:50I'm trying to move as fast as I can, but it's a lot to do in a short period of time.
19:06Deb asked me to make a handful of stars, and she gave me this pattern.
19:10So I'm going to heat up the glass.
19:12The drawing tells me where to bend, like here.
19:18And I just introduced heat to the glass with this torch.
19:22This torch is called a crossfire.
19:24I'm going to inject light in two ways into my installation.
19:28One is through neon, and those are going to be the star forms lighting up the ground that
19:34will be illuminated with electricity.
19:37We're making a bunch of them.
19:38So I have Esteban in the neon studio.
19:42Oops.
19:44That wasn't good.
19:46The neon is an amazing medium.
19:49There you go.
19:50But it can break very easily in transport or in mounting it.
19:53The tube needs to be electrified.
19:55What you see right now is just air being electrified.
19:59Once it cools down, we're going to add a little bit of gas.
20:02It's essential to get the neon because that's the lighting element.
20:05That's the special part that glass can bring to this installation that cake cannot.
20:10Nice.
20:11I'm shooting for the moon on the stars.
20:14Shooting for the moon here.
20:15Give me a fill here, Mo.
20:20I'm finishing sanding now.
20:22I'm going to pipe sand his beard at a royal icing because it'll go on soft but dry hard.
20:27There's just certain parts of when you sculpt that become more conducive to piping or become more conducive to sculpting.
20:36And this is one of them where, you know, the piping is going to work.
20:39All right?
20:40So we might as well just use that and have some fun with it.
20:44All right, I think Santa's about done.
20:48What do you guys think?
20:49How does Santa's beard look?
20:50Spin him around.
20:52Oh, he looks nice.
20:54Oh, that's cool.
20:55I don't know why.
20:55I always like it when you pipe on the sculptures.
20:57I feel like it's a nice complementary technique.
21:02I concur, my brother.
21:03To leave just a little bit of snow on the roof, you're kind of doing like a real heavy version of a painting technique called dry brushing.
21:10You dry most of the liquid medium off your brush and all you're left with is pigment.
21:14And if you straight get over raised surfaces, it just stays on the high points.
21:20All right, team.
21:21Let's get on the same page with this cookie.
21:23Let's get on the same cookie sheet with this cookie.
21:26My cookie consists of a main body, the dough.
21:29And then I put chocolate chips on it, the bite out of its head.
21:33That takes a lot of time to get that right.
21:35And then the final thing I do is put the arms on it.
21:40This is about the scale we're going to go in diameter.
21:42Cool.
21:43Let's just get that bubble to blow out evenly.
21:45Got it?
21:46Got it.
21:47Good.
21:47When the chips are down, tough get going.
21:51When the chips are down, the cookies...
21:53That's how the cookie crumbles, everybody.
21:57But this cookie's not crumbling.
21:58This cookie's going to live.
22:00I like that attitude.
22:02Let's do that.
22:03Woo!
22:05So this is the cookie dough.
22:09So if you bake a cookie, it gets darker.
22:12So the cookie dough inside is less cooked than the outside, right?
22:16So this is the outside.
22:18The crunchy part.
22:20Dev's a master of glass food.
22:23I try to strike the balance between real and fantasy.
22:25One more, and then let's take it off the marver.
22:29We're going to crackle this, and we're going to see the cookie dough that's uncooked underneath.
22:33Yeah.
22:33That's my fantasy for this cookie.
22:35Yeah.
22:36With the cookie, I do want to bring some texture into the body.
22:39Okay, go in.
22:41Quickly.
22:43Do it again.
22:43Do it again.
22:44Do it again.
22:44Now.
22:45Now.
22:45Now.
22:46Now.
22:46So I dunk that in water to drizzle the surface and make it look more like dough that cracked
22:53apart in the oven being baked.
22:56Heat again.
22:57Hey.
22:58Looks like a coconut.
22:59Yeah, it does look like coconut.
23:02Deborah in the tropics.
23:04Coming to you live from the Caribbean.
23:06Let's go.
23:07Something's happening now.
23:08Oh, yeah.
23:09Are you going to blow it up anymore?
23:10Yeah, but I want more effect.
23:12Should I go again?
23:13Um.
23:14You want to take a look at it?
23:15Yeah, yeah, let's take a look at it.
23:20Oh, man, it's looking great.
23:22Oh, it exceeds my expectation.
23:24Oh, good.
23:24Okay.
23:25Heat it up and we can always throw more water on it if necessary.
23:28That's true.
23:30Josh, don't heat too much.
23:32Okay.
23:35The cookie is extremely difficult to make because these working conditions are hectic.
23:39They're chaotic.
23:40Oh.
23:41So sweaty in here.
23:42Hot or humid for some reason.
23:43It's both.
23:44I mean, the cookie probably only weighs 25 pounds.
23:48Okay, out.
23:49But when it's 1,000 degrees on the end of a five-foot rod, the rod probably weighs 20 pounds,
23:55and it's flopping all over the place.
23:57It gets really heavy.
23:58Stop the rotation.
24:00Blow a little bit.
24:01Okay.
24:01The reheating process is extremely important because I have to manage the heat.
24:06And if any part gets too cold, it will crack and explode.
24:09Here's a caution.
24:17Replace only with same-to-classified to reduce the risk of the...
24:21These lights seem pretty risky.
24:24Do not secure with wiring products with our staple guns, nails.
24:29Yeah, we're going to do that anyway.
24:30So everything you want to do, it's telling you not to do.
24:35Let's start.
24:36Let's start.
24:37I'll hold.
24:37You shoot.
24:39Plan for the lights is going to make it like my old house in Little Ferry.
24:42It's just called Buck Wild.
24:44Put as many lights as you possibly can on it.
24:46Ho-ho!
24:51Ho-ho!
24:52Ha-ha!
24:53Hee-hee-hee-hee!
24:55Oh, shoot.
25:03Whoops.
25:04Whoops.
25:09Uh...
25:10Buddy?
25:12Where's Ho-Ho?
25:14Oh, no.
25:16The piping that Buddy did on Upside Down Santa Claus keeps falling off of his face and down.
25:40Ain't nobody got time for this.
25:43Where's Ho-Ho?
25:44I was just giving him a little shave.
25:47Laurent had a couple of suggestions to stiffen the royal up faster.
25:52I usually put the white vinegar.
25:54Acid will basically coagulate the whites in your meringue and make it dry twice faster.
26:02Any type of piping icing, you live and die on consistency.
26:07You know, it's balancing you.
26:08You become a better cake decorator if your icings are the right consistency and texture.
26:16The royal wasn't 100% dry.
26:19And to really make Santa's beard look cool, I wanted to do some other, like, piping techniques.
26:25It'll be nice and stiff and I'll be able to, like, really go in and put the curvature of the beard in the way I want it.
26:33So, and honestly, I think it's going to actually look better.
26:39Okay, that's good for now.
26:41That is a ribbon.
26:45It's a very old technique.
26:47It's basically by folding a different color of sugar together and then it's going to create that ribbon and all the lines that you can see inside.
26:55I'm pulling it down so I fix the color and I fix the sugar so it's crystallized.
26:59And then I warm it a little bit, see, underneath the lamp like that.
27:04Now I can slowly shape it.
27:06As soon as it's pliable like that, I cool it down right away.
27:09So, like that, I'm able to keep the shape of the ribbon.
27:13It's extremely delicate.
27:15I mean, it breaks.
27:16I mean, you can tell.
27:17You know, I barely touched it and it breaks in no time.
27:21Two hours left.
27:23Come on, we got to move.
27:24Hey, buddy.
27:25Yes.
27:26You think you can break away from what you're doing for a second?
27:29And give me a little hand.
27:31Yeah.
27:32The ribbons that Laurent's making might seem like a small detail, but they're really going to make those presents come to life.
27:41I know all the pieces that he's making is going to really wow the judges.
27:46Beautiful.
27:48Thank you, master.
27:51Five minutes, everybody.
27:54Next, we got to make leaves.
27:55Now that the mail is finished, Josh and I have to work on the mistletoe.
27:59And it's a big one.
28:04So now we're going to attach the balls.
28:06Turn.
28:08Okay, that's good.
28:09We're coming into the home stretch.
28:10I wish we had more.
28:12But I think we can make a meaningful composition by the end of this.
28:17Last one.
28:19Oh, yeah.
28:20We're done here.
28:25All right.
28:25One second.
28:26One second.
28:27All right.
28:28That's time.
28:29Oh, man.
28:32Good job, guys.
28:35All right.
28:35We got to pack it up and get ready to beat Buddy.
28:38Yeah.
28:38Yeah.
28:39Yeah.
28:39This got to do it, man.
28:40Thank you, everybody.
28:41And merry to us the night before Christmas.
28:45We got two hours on site for December.
28:48That's super fragile.
28:49So we got to think about transportation, too.
28:52Hopefully it's going to make it.
28:54How far is going to be the delivery?
28:56It's about an hour, I'd say.
28:57An hour?
28:58We like to hurt ourselves, huh?
29:02No pain, no gain.
29:08A little this way.
29:12All right.
29:13So we've got some pretty fragile stuff in here.
29:16One of the most fragile things is the neon stars.
29:19Esteban, you put it in, so you're getting it out.
29:21Okay.
29:22Arriving at the facility, I feel pretty good.
29:24But I'm worried about completing our installation on time.
29:28We've got to get the hang elements up first.
29:30After that, it's our wintry scene.
29:34Oh, what happened?
29:36Ah, somebody melted.
29:37It's hot in here.
29:38Holy .
29:39Yeah, it's hot.
29:41Are these screwed or no?
29:43Everything's screwed at least a little bit.
29:47All right.
29:50We've got to get him in the cold because he's really, really soft.
29:52Yeah, get him in the cold.
29:54I'm going to inject light in two ways into my installation.
30:00One is through neon star forms.
30:03The second way is the icicles are going to be illuminated
30:06by putting a light puck on the top,
30:10and the light is going to glow through the piece.
30:12So I'm going to start laying ice?
30:15Yeah.
30:15Well, not ice.
30:16Snow.
30:17Snow.
30:17You should fix up Santa.
30:22He said he has time to harden up.
30:24This is all good, all right?
30:26It's this I have to do, which I'm really happy anyway
30:29because I wasn't loving it, and I'm going to match the beard anyway.
30:33Santa's beard fell off one more time in transportation.
30:35But, you know, look, this is a big cake,
30:40and we definitely don't have a lot of time.
30:42You know, this is something I didn't really need or expect, you know,
30:46but unfortunately, when you have things that happen like this,
30:53you just have to kind of make the best of a bad situation.
31:04Mo broke it.
31:05No, no, no, no, no.
31:06I didn't break it.
31:08You did.
31:08No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
31:10Yeah.
31:11Maurizio goes and manhandles Laurent's icicles and breaks them.
31:16Like, that's the cardinal rule.
31:17You don't break the ice malt, bro.
31:20But it's not true.
31:21But what did you do?
31:23Ralph broke your icicles.
31:24Mo broke your icicles.
31:25Ralph broke your icicles.
31:26Mo, Laurent is yelling at you in French.
31:30You do not want to be on his bad side.
31:35You need to hit both.
31:38You have to hit both.
31:40Yeah.
31:40You're good.
31:43Laurent, what do you think?
31:46Do I pass?
31:47Yeah, that's perfect.
31:48Woo-hoo!
31:49You're good.
31:50You're going to get promoted from elf to sugar wizard.
31:55Further over.
31:56Here?
31:56Yeah.
31:57Let me see.
31:59I kind of want to...
32:00Can you hold this for one second?
32:01Right where Alex...
32:02Ah!
32:03Oh, yeah.
32:05I broke a star.
32:06Esteban, I broke a star.
32:22Oh, my God.
32:23And another one got broken here, too.
32:24So these things are really fragile.
32:27It's not good.
32:27We had planned for 12 stars.
32:29Now we have two broken.
32:30It's not ideal.
32:32If I lose any more neon stars, Buddy's got a good chance of beating us.
32:36Oh, my God.
32:37We have more stars broken.
32:38It's a lighting element.
32:39The neon stars are critical.
32:41This is going to be very difficult.
32:43What?
32:44To hang him or no?
32:45Yeah.
32:46We got to hang a 75-pound cake without crushing it.
32:50And I ain't got time to fix Santa's beard again.
32:53How much more I got, Mo?
32:55This much?
32:56You got a lot.
32:56You got a lot.
32:56My whole story is Santa slipping on a roof and being tangled in the lights.
33:03All right.
33:03This is the end.
33:04If Santa isn't dangling off the roof, it's not going to make sense.
33:09Alex, is it stable to put the cookie and the mouse there?
33:12It's really not a very sturdy structure.
33:17Lift up ho-ho.
33:19A little more.
33:20A little bit.
33:21Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
33:22There you go.
33:23Okay.
33:23Now unscrew the board here.
33:25Oh, that is...
33:28Well, it feels stable enough.
33:34If it gets bonked a little bit, it's going down, though.
33:36So be careful of the table and the cookie.
33:39I can't get to those screws with the drill.
33:41I swing around.
33:42Here.
33:42I can't get to it because I'm hitting his head.
33:45Okay.
33:45I have Santa.
33:47I'm not touching Laurent's sugar.
33:51I'm watching you.
33:55It's so cool.
33:57All right, let's plug him in.
33:58Oh, gosh.
33:59This is harrowing.
34:03I like that.
34:04I like the twinkles.
34:05Now that we've got Santa hanging off the roof, it's time to get the rest of this cake decorated.
34:10Okay.
34:11I'm not going to be able to...
34:12Oh, my God.
34:13Watch your fingers.
34:14Get your fingers out.
34:15Watch your fingers, Uma.
34:16Oh, this mouth is heavy.
34:23Feels good.
34:25Josh, watch your head.
34:27Don't hit the mistletoe.
34:28Right.
34:29Time's up, everybody.
34:30Come out front and don't step on anything.
34:33Voila.
34:34That looks awesome.
34:37Looks good.
34:37It's really good.
34:39Amazing job, everybody.
34:41I got to tell you guys, this cake looks amazing.
34:47Deb's an amazing artist, but I'm going to win because the moment you look at my cake, you know the story.
34:52I don't have to tell it.
34:54Bring it in here.
34:55This is a group hug here.
34:57Why do they keep coming out good?
35:01Back to judging in this week of Courtney Quinn and Jason Chatfield.
35:05Courtney Quinn is a color expert.
35:08Jason Chatfield is a cartoonist and a comedian.
35:10We're going to be judged on composition, lighting, and color.
35:15Courtney and Jason are experts in all those fields.
35:18Team Buddy.
35:19Team Debra.
35:20Today's theme was the night before Christmas.
35:23This challenge was to include lighting in a unique way into your designs.
35:29Buddy, your medium is cake.
35:33Debra's is glass, which couldn't be more different.
35:37In the last 24 hours, both teams approach this challenge with your specific mediums, and we're really excited to see the finished work.
35:47I just want to tell you guys, Debra, I am a huge fan of you and your team and what you do.
35:53We can't wait to see what you guys did.
35:55I am really looking forward to seeing what you did, too, because I don't even cook very much.
36:02So I'm wondering how you can cook.
36:04Well, you cook the glass, right?
36:05Well, if we were competing on temperature alone, I know I'd win that.
36:10Buddy, let's see your work.
36:12All right, guys, welcome to Santa's Nightmare.
36:17Wow!
36:18It's an entire house.
36:20Great.
36:21It looks amazing.
36:23Oh, poor Santa.
36:27This looks like the expensive insurance claim before Christmas.
36:31That's what it is.
36:31We wanted that over-the-top Christmas house, and it's a snowy Christmas Eve.
36:39Santa's kind of trying to get down the chimney, and whoop, he falls.
36:43Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
36:44He's wrapped in lights.
36:46We have cake all up on the roof, all up on the floor.
36:50Santa's all cake, too.
36:51So you got about 700 pounds of cake on this.
36:55All the ornaments and all the icicles are all pulled and blown out of sugar.
36:59Wow.
37:01I'm not sure if I believe those ribbons are sugar.
37:04I can't wait to take a closer look, though.
37:09All right, Debra, you've seen Team Buddy's artistic interpretation of the night before Christmas.
37:14Show us what you've made.
37:16Welcome to my glass winter wonderland.
37:29Welcome to my glass winter wonderland.
37:34Oh!
37:36Wow.
37:37Wow.
37:38That's pretty incredible.
37:39Oh, my gosh.
37:42The mistletoe was a central theme of romance and love for Christmas.
37:46Christmas, and the mouse tricked the cookie into thinking it was going to give it a kiss
37:53under the mistletoe, and instead of giving it a kiss, took a bite.
37:56So the mouse is holding a piece of the cookie.
38:01So this is our weird family of characters, which pretty much represents these guys that
38:06helped me make the whole thing.
38:08I can't wait to take a closer look at what you created, but this is going to be a tough
38:12decision.
38:12This is not going to be easy, guys.
38:15I really enjoy this just as a comic tableau, because it's so obvious what's happening.
38:20I mean, we have one team blowing glass, another one blowing sugar.
38:24I think the ribbons are the most impressive thing for me.
38:27Yeah, I love that they use the sugar here on top of the presents to kind of make this
38:31really edible moment.
38:33I just wish they did that with the rest of the design.
38:36Why couldn't we see the door in cake?
38:38Why couldn't we see that brick done in actual cake?
38:40Right.
38:41I would have loved to see that.
38:42Well, how do you add color to glass?
38:44The color comes from different chemicals, saying the blue is copper or iron.
38:49And we do something called potatoing, believe it or not.
38:52Potatoes?
38:53This is an ancient technique.
38:55You put a potato in the bottom of the molten glass, and it bubbles up like crazy.
38:59And that's what mixes the color with the clear.
39:02So you bubble all the glass together.
39:03This has got a bubble.
39:05Gorgeous.
39:06I really love that Team Debra used all the different kinds of glass blowing that you
39:13can do.
39:14Yeah.
39:14And I love the neon.
39:15I wish there was more of it.
39:17I think giving us a few neon icicles would have been a cool twist.
39:22I agree.
39:22I like the mouse, and I like the cartooniness of it as a cartoonist.
39:27Of course.
39:28But I wish this art piece just spoke for itself.
39:31Right.
39:31Without explanation.
39:33Mm-hmm.
39:34The snow is a mixture of royal icing and crystal sugar.
39:39Wow.
39:39So the crystal sugar really gives you that icy effect.
39:42You know, you could have just put that ribbon in, and it would have been enough.
39:46But this is like so much detail.
39:49That guy is the guy.
39:51I mean, really.
39:52Well, it's obvious you're a master at what you do.
39:56Both teams have done incredible work with two totally different mediums.
40:01Buddy, this made me laugh as soon as I saw it.
40:04And I really enjoy the comic nature of it.
40:06I do have to say that just putting lights on something isn't necessarily the same as using light in art.
40:15But overall, a fantastic job.
40:19Debra, I love that you had this tale of the misfit family, but I didn't really see it until you actually explained it.
40:27All that considered, though, we loved seeing your beautiful creation, and it had so much whimsy and personality.
40:33And you haven't left us with a very easy decision to make, but we did have to make one.
40:38And I'm excited to announce the team who conquered Christmas is...
40:47Team Debra!
40:51Your prize of $5,000 will be donated to the non-profit health care organization, Callum Law.
40:59Thank you, buddy.
41:01It was really challenging, but I was very happy to be here and really appreciative to be here.
41:09Well deserved.
41:10Great job, Team Debra.
41:12Congratulations.
41:13You guys did an amazing job.
41:15Great job.
41:16You did a great job.
41:17Great job.
41:18We haven't crashed a cake yet.
41:24Next time on Buddy vs. Christmas.
41:27Our challenge is to make the ultimate Christmas toy.
41:31The chocolate's got all the little white bits in it.
41:34To get the red modeling chocolate usable, it's going to take hours.
41:38I'm a little agitated.
41:39I'm a little agitated.
41:41We got this thing done, but now we have to move it.
41:44I'm a little agitated.
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