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00:00:00Oh, my gosh.

00:00:15Oh, my gosh.

00:00:16Wow.

00:00:17It's gorgeous.

00:00:18I've stepped into a holiday village.

00:00:20Oh, my God.

00:00:21This is crazy.

00:00:22I'm blown away.

00:00:23I mean, look at this place.

00:00:25Makes me want to get into a little bit of tomfoolery, just for funsies.

00:00:29Y'all, Santa's Toy Shop?

00:00:30This is wild.

00:00:31That's actually us up there.

00:00:32That's us?

00:00:33Yeah.

00:00:34I can have the curls.

00:00:35Okay.

00:00:36Oh, my God.

00:00:37Wow.

00:00:38Oh, I am blown away by this place.

00:00:41Look at this.

00:00:42It's huge.

00:00:43The village is beautiful.

00:00:44There's so many different shops.

00:00:46It's like Christmas exploded right in front of us.

00:00:48It makes me feel cheery and nice.

00:00:51This is like a baker's dream right now.

00:00:54Right?

00:00:55This is amazing.

00:00:56I have goosebumps.

00:00:58Wow.

00:00:59This got me so pumped.

00:01:02This feels like stepping into a snow globe.

00:01:05You almost expect to turn a corner and see elves at work.

00:01:08I made it.

00:01:09We made it.

00:01:10We made it.

00:01:11We made it.

00:01:12Oh, my goodness.

00:01:14I'm nervous.

00:01:15It's crazy.

00:01:16Hello, bakers.

00:01:17Hello.

00:01:18Hey.

00:01:19Welcome to our incredible holiday village.

00:01:25I know you've never seen the kitchen like this before, have you?

00:01:28No.

00:01:30And you know what else is new?

00:01:32What?

00:01:33For the first time ever, we're dividing you into teams.

00:01:40I'm a great team player, but it's nerve-wracking to defend on other people, too.

00:01:49Now, you're familiar with the holiday phrase, naughty or nice, right?

00:01:53Oh, yeah.

00:01:54Oh, yeah.

00:01:55Well, we have split you into two teams.

00:01:58Those who lean a little naughty and those who are nice.

00:02:02Oh.

00:02:03Okay.

00:02:04All right.

00:02:05I think I'm gonna land on the nice team.

00:02:07I just feel like it's my calling.

00:02:09Now, the naughty side is red and the nice side is green.

00:02:14Of course.

00:02:15So, find the station with your name on it, grab your team apron, and greet your new teammates.

00:02:24Are you team nice, team naughty?

00:02:25I'm right up front.

00:02:26I am right up front.

00:02:28Okay.

00:02:29Are you naughty, Tarek?

00:02:30Maybe.

00:02:31Ooh.

00:02:32Yes, sir.

00:02:33Oh, there I am.

00:02:35No shocker.

00:02:36I'm on the nice team.

00:02:37You are nice.

00:02:38Team nice.

00:02:39Right up front.

00:02:40Okay, team naughty.

00:02:41I look good in red.

00:02:42Okay.

00:02:43Okay.

00:02:44Y'all team naughty.

00:02:45Team naughty.

00:02:46Team naughty.

00:02:47Apparently.

00:02:48I was put on team naughty, which the nerve, the audacity.

00:02:51How dare they?

00:02:52Team naughty.

00:02:53Does that feel about right?

00:02:54I don't know what you're talking about.

00:02:57Look at the team nice.

00:02:58You guys are already doing like a team nice cheer.

00:03:01One, two, three.

00:03:02Nice.

00:03:09I love living on naughty lane.

00:03:11Wow.

00:03:12Guys, the trash talking has already started.

00:03:14We've only been here 20 seconds.

00:03:17Time to get down to business.

00:03:21This village is completely interactive.

00:03:25Welcome to Shop Around for all the items you need.

00:03:28Hey, yo.

00:03:29We have the Berry Marketplace, personal favorite of mine.

00:03:32I'll be honest, I was eyeing some things.

00:03:34Those are some things that look pretty cool in there.

00:03:36We also have the general store here for your general needs.

00:03:39Great deals and discounts happening right now.

00:03:41Jolly gift shop right here in case you have any last minute shopping or items you might need to get.

00:03:47All right, Charles, I know you're probably a coffee head like me.

00:03:50Need the caffeine?

00:03:51Jingle Java.

00:03:52It's my personal favorite place.

00:03:54We have an amazing barista back there.

00:03:56She's waiting to take your orders.

00:03:58I'm ready for a coffee right now.

00:04:00And then, of course, we have our official town hall.

00:04:03Now, about your first challenge.

00:04:09As you know, there are two ends of the temperature spectrum during the holidays.

00:04:16Warm and toasty is when you're inside on a cold day.

00:04:20Yeah.

00:04:21Yeah.

00:04:22And chill and frosty is when you're outside with the brisk air on your cheeks.

00:04:27Yes, sir.

00:04:28So for this challenge, everyone must create a dessert.

00:04:32Warm and toasty for the nice team.

00:04:35Okay.

00:04:36Okay.

00:04:37And chill and frosty for Team Naughty.

00:04:40Okay.

00:04:41Okay.

00:04:42Yeah.

00:04:43And the overall best dessert wins an advantage for their entire team.

00:04:48Woo!

00:04:49We got it, y'all.

00:04:53We got this.

00:04:54Let's do it.

00:04:55High stakes.

00:04:56Oh, yeah.

00:04:57And while you'll be working in teams, at the end of this competition, only one of you is going to win $25,000.

00:05:04No way!

00:05:05Woo!

00:05:06Wow.

00:05:07A feature in Food Network Magazine.

00:05:09Yes!

00:05:10Yes!

00:05:11Yes!

00:05:12And, of course, the title of Holiday Baking Champion.

00:05:16Woo!

00:05:17Woo!

00:05:18Congratulations, man.

00:05:19Woo!

00:05:20Okay, Holiday Bakers, two and a half hours on the clock.

00:05:24Okay.

00:05:25Okay.

00:05:26Time starts...

00:05:27Now!

00:05:28Woo!

00:05:29Let's go!

00:05:30Woo!

00:05:31Let's go!

00:05:32So many things.

00:05:33So many options.

00:05:34Mm-hmm.

00:05:35Same guys.

00:05:36Let's see what we're gonna make.

00:05:37All right.

00:05:38Let's do it.

00:05:39I'm going to do a banana foster bread pudding.

00:05:42Beautiful.

00:05:43Perfect.

00:05:44I'm gonna do, like, a smoked cinnamon spice s'mores dessert.

00:05:46Warm and toasty.

00:05:47Yes.

00:05:48To get a win today, number one, teamwork.

00:05:51I'm really good at tarts.

00:05:52I think I'm gonna make a tart.

00:05:53So we're all going to help each other, because a victory for one is a victory for all.

00:05:58We're gonna do so good.

00:05:59We'll see.

00:06:00The nice team is very bubbly and kumbaya.

00:06:04I believe in everybody.

00:06:06We're so amazing.

00:06:09Ugh.

00:06:10The naughty team is a little bit more independent.

00:06:12Ultimately, the best bite of the day is gonna get an advantage for their team.

00:06:17So, for me, it still is an individual competition.

00:06:21I probably shouldn't say this on the Holiday Baking Championship, but I know I'm the more, like, talented chef.

00:06:27I came here to win.

00:06:28We got it.

00:06:30I am a executive pastry chef at a country club in Charlottesville, Virginia.

00:06:34I've worked at multiple Michelin star restaurants, including Per Se in New York, French Laundry in Napa.

00:06:39I've been a chocolatier.

00:06:40I deserve to be the winner of this whole thing.

00:06:43I know that's scandalous to say, but, um, yeah.

00:06:47I'm gonna do kind of a layered entremé cake.

00:06:50Kind of blueberry cremeux.

00:06:53Actually, we're not gonna do blueberry in the cremeux, so I have a white layer.

00:06:59Charles, what, what, like, talk to me.

00:07:02I'm a list guy, so I have to kind of make a game plan.

00:07:06I can tell.

00:07:07What is that?

00:07:08It is a layered mousse cake entremé.

00:07:10Almond sponge cake on the bottom.

00:07:12A blueberry white chocolate mousse that's chill and frosty.

00:07:16A little of that lime mint jalapeno.

00:07:19So the jalapeno is the naughty ingredient.

00:07:20Yeah.

00:07:21What, is there any naughty deco going on here?

00:07:23I'm gonna make some evil abominable snowman eyes to give a little naughty evil side.

00:07:28And how does it feel to be on the naughty team?

00:07:30I mean, I don't think I'm a good fit for the nice team.

00:07:33I'm sarcastic.

00:07:34I'm a little blunt.

00:07:35I, I get it.

00:07:36I get it.

00:07:37I thought it was just a mustache.

00:07:38That's true, too.

00:07:39I'm not intimidated by your mustache, Charles.

00:07:41I can grow my own.

00:07:42Oh, yes.

00:07:44Yeah.

00:07:45I think I'm a very nice person.

00:07:49Just turn that bad boy on.

00:07:52And I mean, how can you resist?

00:07:54Um, I am making a Bananas Foster bread pudding.

00:07:57New Orleans is well known for its bread pudding for its Bananas Foster.

00:08:01And I moved there about three years ago.

00:08:03I'm originally a Jersey girl.

00:08:05I come from a very big Latin family.

00:08:07I'm Puerto Rican.

00:08:08Lots of get togethers growing up.

00:08:09Christmas tends to be a bigger family celebration.

00:08:12My husband and I met in high school in, uh, South Jersey.

00:08:15But I've always wanted to live in New Orleans.

00:08:18And now I am the pastry chef for big restaurants there.

00:08:21The food culture in New Orleans is like nowhere else I've ever been.

00:08:25The food is so good and so flavorful.

00:08:28So, warm and toasty, New Orleans, you gotta go with big, warm flavors.

00:08:33The custard is infused with a lot of spices, some rum, some bourbon, bananas in there.

00:08:38A little bit of orange dust to kind of brighten that up a little bit.

00:08:40And then a Foster sauce anglaise.

00:08:43To decorate, I'm going to caramelize some bananas.

00:08:46You know, kind of shingle them on top really nice.

00:08:49Little white chocolate snowflakes.

00:08:52Just really kind of bring it together.

00:08:54And also when it's cold outside, what do you want?

00:08:56Bread pudding.

00:08:57I hope I can be the overall winner for my team.

00:08:59So, I gotta bring it.

00:09:01Sweet dreams.

00:09:03Going in top oven.

00:09:04Two hours left, bakers.

00:09:05We are ringing in the holidays with naughty versus nice desserts.

00:09:06Yeah, naughty!

00:09:07That might have been a bit loud.

00:09:08I'm so thankful and I'm so excited to be baking here to bring some calm to the kitchen.

00:09:24I'm on team nice, obviously.

00:09:28And I chose a tart with mold, spiced pears, hazelnut frangipan.

00:09:33I'm going to represent my niceness by piping on mascarpone mousse snowman.

00:09:37And I'm going to fill the belly out with some cranberry curd.

00:09:39Chase.

00:09:40Do you feel like team nice, this was the right...

00:09:43I feel like it was definitely an appropriate choice for me.

00:09:46It was?

00:09:47Why?

00:09:48Tell me why.

00:09:49Not only do I fake, I'm a yoga teacher and I spend a lot of time just encouraging niceness

00:09:54and being nice to people.

00:09:55So, yeah, I think it's like right on the nose.

00:09:58Do you use breathing exercises ever?

00:09:59For sure, yeah.

00:10:00Can we do one?

00:10:01Yeah, let's do it.

00:10:02Inhale out and up.

00:10:04Breathe through the nose and as you exhale, drop your hands to heart center.

00:10:07Push into the palms.

00:10:08Oh, yeah.

00:10:09Side outs and the shoulders down and back.

00:10:11Oh, that's good.

00:10:12I need to hang out at your station more.

00:10:15Does anybody have heavy cream?

00:10:17Anyone?

00:10:18Anyone?

00:10:19Hey, nice guys.

00:10:20Anybody got heavy cream?

00:10:22I have some, but I need it.

00:10:24Oh, I do.

00:10:25Okay.

00:10:26Right here.

00:10:27Yeah.

00:10:29They say they're nice, but they're holding all the cream.

00:10:31Oh.

00:10:32Gia, I wasn't sure if I was going to see you end up on team naughty or team nice.

00:10:36It's the southern accent.

00:10:37That's it.

00:10:38It's just the sweetness.

00:10:39Come off as the sweet southern bell.

00:10:40But really.

00:10:41That'll put pepper in your cake.

00:10:44I am the owner of Beef Sweet Dessert Boutique.

00:10:48It's me and my two sons that run it, and I'm kind of the sneaky naughty one.

00:10:53They'll be starting to put some powdered sugar in the mixing bowl and I'll walk by and turn

00:10:57it on.

00:10:58Just funny little things like that.

00:10:59So when you heard Chillin' Frosty, what were you thinking?

00:11:02I instantly went to something that we bake at our bakery at home.

00:11:06It's cocoa mint.

00:11:07I used to do it as a cookie, but I'm making it a cake today.

00:11:10I'm going to do a chocolate cake and a chocolate ganache, a chocolate buttercream with a little

00:11:14bit of mint in there as well.

00:11:16Could this be the dessert you think that maybe wins team naughty in advantage?

00:11:20Oh, I sure hope so.

00:11:22JC?

00:11:23Yes.

00:11:24Can you taste?

00:11:25Oh, yes.

00:11:26Oh, my gosh.

00:11:27Where'd these flavors come from?

00:11:30Wow.

00:11:31That's great.

00:11:32Thanks, God.

00:11:33I'm a team nice.

00:11:34I would never want to be on the team naughty because I'm nice.

00:11:39Hold up.

00:11:40That's not great.

00:11:41That's nice.

00:11:44I'm executive pastry chef from Orlando.

00:11:47I'm born and raised in Brazil, so I'm very outgoing.

00:11:51I wake up every single day thinking about baking, and I really want to get the advantage

00:11:56for my team.

00:11:57Seriously.

00:12:00My favorite thing, caramel.

00:12:02So I'm going to make an apple spicy, salty caramel cake.

00:12:08My apple cake is made with apple puree, some fresh apples with a lot of spices in the

00:12:13apple brandy, and also using cinnamon whiskey.

00:12:17It's very warm and toasty.

00:12:21To decorate my dessert, I want to bring the fall leaves and the colors that match really

00:12:28well with apples.

00:12:32Ooh.

00:12:33Nancy will be so happy with this.

00:12:35Ground cinnamon?

00:12:36Yes, and here.

00:12:37Please.

00:12:38I just need a touch-up.

00:12:39Thank you for it.

00:12:40See?

00:12:41I'm being nice with you.

00:12:42Good job.

00:12:44I'm a party team.

00:12:45And I think that's kind of on brand of who I am at times.

00:12:49I've gotten into my fair share of mischief growing up.

00:12:51I've followed some rules, and I've definitely broken a few more.

00:12:54So definitely not mad about it, you know?

00:12:57I've got two girls, Dallas and Declan.

00:12:59I love my girls to death.

00:13:00So being a daddy is probably my favorite thing.

00:13:03And I'm the owner of Uncle Cheesecake in High Point, North Carolina.

00:13:06I found myself complaining about there being no good cheesecake in my area.

00:13:09All of a sudden, I'm opening up a bakery, and I'm making all types of desserts.

00:13:13Today, I'm going to use my famous cheesecake recipe so the people back home will know exactly

00:13:18what this is.

00:13:19I'm going to put a little bit of peppermint for the cool and refreshing.

00:13:22And for the naughty, I'm going to put a little bit of tequila inside of mixed berry compote.

00:13:27And some mint.

00:13:28Something chill and frosty.

00:13:30And then afterwards, I might just take a bite out of it before I serve it to the judges.

00:13:34Just a guy being naughty.

00:13:36Ninety minutes, bakers.

00:13:38I see my egg carton and realize that chocolate cake has zero eggs in it.

00:13:57This is absolutely not how I wanted to start.

00:14:01This cannot happen this way.

00:14:03I'm going to have to do something different.

00:14:06I cannot believe it.

00:14:17My cake is completely useless now.

00:14:20I'm going to have to start over.

00:14:22I've got to figure something out because you don't want to be the one that lets your team down.

00:14:27My plan now is to make a coconut cake with chocolate buttercream and a mint buttercream

00:14:35because it was a quicker batter for me to put together.

00:14:38Everything rides on this.

00:14:43First challenge.

00:14:44You know, it's a lot.

00:14:46But I'm here for a reason.

00:14:48And as are the rest of us.

00:14:50And I'm so excited.

00:14:51But I'm still going to win.

00:14:53So.

00:14:54I am a little bit of a dictator in the kitchen.

00:14:56Very by the book.

00:14:58It was always if you weren't 15 minutes early, you were late kind of thing.

00:15:01I am the executive pastry chef at the world headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys.

00:15:06We are a full service bakery.

00:15:08We also feed the players and the coaches.

00:15:10I am very laser focused and tunnel visioned on my own goals.

00:15:14And the end goal is me getting the win for our team.

00:15:19All right.

00:15:20Lemons.

00:15:21Lime.

00:15:22To bring the chillin' frosty, I have decided to do a cold triple citrus tart.

00:15:27Greek yogurt tequila whipped cream on top.

00:15:30And chocolate shards to make it look a little bit like ice.

00:15:33Citrus is always the best during winter.

00:15:36And then we're going to throw some tequila in there to make it a little bit spicy.

00:15:41Ashley, you live in Texas, yeah?

00:15:43I do.

00:15:44But is there a joke in this?

00:15:45I was going to have you taste this, but I don't want to knock you out.

00:15:48There's never too much jalapeno.

00:15:50That's what I say, but.

00:15:51Mmm.

00:15:52It's really good.

00:15:54Well, now I've got a real competition, huh?

00:15:56One hour left.

00:15:59Whoo!

00:16:00Pressure's on.

00:16:01Kamri, how we doing?

00:16:02Internally, I could be spiraling, but no one would ever know.

00:16:05Huh.

00:16:06I am Kamri Smith, and I am on Team Nice, and I definitely feel like I'm on the right team.

00:16:15Whenever I think of warm and toasty, I kind of think of pie, specifically sweet potato pie.

00:16:20So I'm going to do a caramelized honey sweet potato pie with blackberry gelée, toasted meringue,

00:16:27a little freshness, a little sweetness.

00:16:30To decorate, I'm going to take my meringue, pipe it into strips, and make these chocolate snowflakes with a little bit of fliotine on the top for a little crunch.

00:16:40I feel like it's a very easy and efficient dessert to make.

00:16:43You look great!

00:16:44Yum!

00:16:46I wish Viola was closer to us.

00:16:47Me too.

00:16:48That'd be such a tea if we all nicely together.

00:16:49That would literally be a vibe.

00:16:50I would say my closest friends will be Nico and Tarek, because we're all about the same age.

00:17:00I couldn't be on Team Naughty.

00:17:03I have a hard time being Naughty, I guess.

00:17:07I am a freshly graduated pastry student.

00:17:10I am 20 years old, and I'm from Ithaca, New York.

00:17:13Today I'm making a spiced warm s'mores dessert, and then also making spiced chocolate ganache.

00:17:19My decoration idea is to make kind of little chocolate logs for the bottom, and kind of have it look like a little campfire with toasted meringue.

00:17:27I also wanted to make a smoked cinnamon Bavarian cream.

00:17:30This is hickory wood, and you light it on fire, and then it puts the smoke into this, where the semantics are.

00:17:35It'll kind of infuse the Bavarian that I'm making, warm and toasty.

00:17:39Smoky cinnamon.

00:17:41Guys, something's burning?

00:17:42I do smell that.

00:17:44Not me.

00:17:46Oh, I burned that.

00:17:48My bad.

00:17:49Honestly, are you really naughty if you don't get a little smoky?

00:17:52I think it's gonna be pretty cool to work with other bakers who have a slight edge to them.

00:17:56There's so much more fun you can have when you're being a little naughty.

00:18:00God, that was so corny.

00:18:03I'll just redo it.

00:18:05My name is Tarek.

00:18:06I'm a home baker from St. Louis, Missouri.

00:18:08When I was 13 years old, I was a finalist on Kids Baking Championship, but I did not win.

00:18:12I was a hot mess.

00:18:13My decor is messy.

00:18:15I'm just hoping that the flavors will make up for it.

00:18:17They're not burnt, but I think just a little past where they should be.

00:18:21But now I'm better, I promise.

00:18:23Hindsight's 20-20, and I've really refined those techniques.

00:18:26Now I just need to really deliver on redemption.

00:18:29So, since I have to do like a cool frosty dessert, I'm gonna do like a citrusy pavlova, and to like really bring the theme of naughty to life.

00:18:39Kind of going for a little bit mimosa vibes, you know, really play into the naughty with a passion fruit blood orange and lemon curd, with like a blood orange and raspberry coolie, and then a mascarpone champagne whipped cream.

00:18:50Oh, is it not gonna?

00:18:51Oh, wait.

00:18:52Oh.

00:18:53Oh.

00:18:54That was really anticlimactic.

00:18:5530 minutes left, Bakers.

00:18:56Teamwork could help you win the advantage.

00:18:57Hey, Nico.

00:18:58Could you taste this?

00:18:59Yeah, sure.

00:19:00I can't.

00:19:01I'm only 19.

00:19:02Just champagne.

00:19:03Oh, am I just taking the chug?

00:19:04Oh, whoa.

00:19:05Just taste it.

00:19:06I can't.

00:19:07It's good.

00:19:08It's strong.

00:19:10I thought you were offering me a shot.

00:19:11I was like, whoa.

00:19:12Well, no.

00:19:13My name is Nico Alcalay.

00:19:14I am from Denver, Colorado, and I am the owner of my own home bakery.

00:19:18What I specialize in is more French-style patisserie and infuse them with more innovative, global flavors.

00:19:29Nico, how we doing?

00:19:30What's up, man?

00:19:31I'm doing great.

00:19:33Do you have an accent?

00:19:34I do, a little bit, yes.

00:19:35Where are you from?

00:19:36I was actually born in Israel.

00:19:37In Israel?

00:19:38Yes.

00:19:39Which part?

00:19:40It's about, like, 20 minutes out of Tel Aviv.

00:19:41I moved out with my parents and my two older sisters when I was about two years old.

00:19:45That's when we first came to the States, and I still have all of my family living there, so I still get to visit as much as I'm able.

00:19:52Ugh.

00:19:53Tel Aviv, one of the great food cities in the entire world.

00:19:56Right?

00:19:57It smells amazing over here at your station.

00:19:58Tell me what you're making.

00:19:59So, right now, I just took my chestnut sable straight out of the oven, so I'm kind of doing my take on a modern Mont Blanc.

00:20:07Mont Blanc being the French pastry, it's kind of chestnut meringue.

00:20:10Filled with a chestnut brandy frangipan.

00:20:12Going to school in New York, I still remember, like, the chestnuts, like, Christmas time, walking outside, and I was very influenced by that.

00:20:18Yeah, when you think of chillin' frosty, does it take you back to New York City in the winter?

00:20:22So much, because that was kind of, like, my first time really getting, like, that, like, Christmas vibe.

00:20:27Yeah.

00:20:28Okay, so how's this thing gonna look?

00:20:29How are you gonna decorate it?

00:20:30I'm sort of thinking to do a kind of, like, evil reindeer.

00:20:33With chocolate devil horns.

00:20:34Now I see why you're on Team Nod.

00:20:36No, can we talk about that?

00:20:37I've talked to some people on the green side.

00:20:39They are not as nice as they seem.

00:20:42We can see your true colors, Nico.

00:20:44I mean, the villains always have more fun.

00:20:46Ooh, there's only 20 minutes left now.

00:20:51JC, you doing okay?

00:20:53Yes, I am.

00:20:55Great.

00:20:56I think I fit in well with my teammates.

00:20:59Everyone here is very nice, even though I just met them.

00:21:07Erin, you're cleaning up very nicely.

00:21:09It's a very clean station, I have to say.

00:21:12It's my favorite thing.

00:21:13I have two kiddos.

00:21:14I love being their mom, but I'm always just wandering around trying to clean up the mess.

00:21:19If you like cleaning so much, you can come help me clean.

00:21:22Me too, while you're at it.

00:21:23No!

00:21:26Today I am making a warm and toasty chai tea hairy breast.

00:21:33I'm gonna decorate it like a wreath, like a little pull-apart wreath.

00:21:36The warm and toasty will be in the filling, my diplomat cream.

00:21:41Full of those chai spices also.

00:21:46That's a lot of chai.

00:21:48And then top it with freeze-dried cranberries, sliced almonds, and toasted hazelnuts.

00:21:54And the bright red bow.

00:21:56So, very festive little hairy breasts.

00:21:59Fifteen minutes left!

00:22:00Ugh!

00:22:01Oh my gosh, like, my pie's still hot.

00:22:04But time is running out, and I still have to put the gelée on there.

00:22:07And I gotta get all my little decorations on.

00:22:11Dang!

00:22:12It cracked a little bit.

00:22:14Ugh!

00:22:16God!

00:22:17The panic is starting to set in.

00:22:21I'm adding filling in.

00:22:23So I have something.

00:22:25But I'm like, stressed on the inside.

00:22:27I'm very, very stressed that I cannot get this to set all the way.

00:22:31And it'll just kind of pour out.

00:22:32And then I won't have a pie.

00:22:34Oh lordy, oh lordy.

00:22:39Low-key panicking, not gonna lie.

00:22:41Pie looks a little wonky, so I just have to keep telling myself, relax.

00:22:48Don't get caught up in the hustle and bustle.

00:22:50Ten minutes left.

00:22:52Are you good?

00:22:53Um, as good as I'll be.

00:23:00It's set up nice.

00:23:01Charles, that dessert looks naughty.

00:23:04In a good way.

00:23:06Hopefully that gets us the advantage.

00:23:08Just making decor right now.

00:23:10I'm gonna kind of have to build this backwards.

00:23:12I definitely want to showcase some chocolate work.

00:23:14I mean, I'm probably gonna be the best at chocolate.

00:23:16So I'll paint black cocoa butter inside

00:23:19so that I can cast the white chocolate

00:23:21and I have nice, shiny, evil snowman eyes.

00:23:26I think I broke the mold.

00:23:27Sorry.

00:23:31Should have gotten a more high-powered torch.

00:23:33Brulee those bananas, Alex.

00:23:34Let's go, baby.

00:23:35I'm doing it.

00:23:36I'm doing it.

00:23:37But we're good.

00:23:38Just gotta get that bread pudding out.

00:23:40All right.

00:23:41Five very short minutes left.

00:23:45Boozy sauce.

00:23:46New Orleans chef.

00:23:47Boozy sauce.

00:23:48Who is going to win the first advantage?

00:23:51I'm, like, sweating.

00:23:54How we doing, Gia?

00:23:55How's the cake?

00:23:56I'm good.

00:23:57It's coming along.

00:23:58Tom seems to be, like, insanely fast.

00:24:01It's obviously not my best piping work.

00:24:04I gotta grab a different tip.

00:24:05But, you know, sometimes you have to just go in and do it.

00:24:08And that's what I did.

00:24:09I'm not happy with that.

00:24:11Ah, they're finally ready to go out.

00:24:14My pavloas are out of the oven.

00:24:16They look great.

00:24:17I'm feeling pretty confident.

00:24:20Got my little snowman.

00:24:22I'm gonna have a carrot nose.

00:24:25They're pretty funny.

00:24:27Wow, look at those wreaths.

00:24:29Aaron, come on.

00:24:31Uh, this is an apple purse.

00:24:34I want to flambe with cinnamon whiskey.

00:24:37Three minutes left.

00:24:38Only three minutes.

00:24:39Let's go.

00:24:41Looks a little messy, but that's okay.

00:24:43Let's get this chomp out.

00:24:46The judges will see that big bite out of it,

00:24:49and they'll know I'm on Team Naughty.

00:24:51There we go.

00:24:52Hey, Violet, where are you at right now in the process?

00:24:55Just finishing putting the meringue on and toasting.

00:24:58She said she was gonna torch that meringue.

00:25:00She better hurry.

00:25:0190 seconds left.

00:25:04Can I help you?

00:25:05Can you torch these for me?

00:25:06Yes.

00:25:07Thanks.

00:25:09We got it.

00:25:10You got it.

00:25:11You got it.

00:25:12Oh, yeah, pretty.

00:25:14So beautiful.

00:25:15I love Aaron.

00:25:16She is a sweet mother figure.

00:25:18Kamri, you have one minute left.

00:25:21Can I have to work?

00:25:23You can do it, babe.

00:25:24You got it.

00:25:25Got a mess.

00:25:2730 seconds left.

00:25:33Decisions, decisions.

00:25:35Oh, I'm shaking.

00:25:36I never shake like this.

00:25:37This is crazy.

00:25:39Perfect.

00:25:4110 seconds left.

00:25:45Is she finished with this?

00:25:46Come on, Naughty.

00:25:47You got it.

00:25:48Let's go.

00:25:49You got this.

00:25:50Slap out.

00:25:51Time is up.

00:25:58Wow.

00:25:59Team Nice, you're gonna be first up in judging.

00:26:03Head on over to the coffee shop and we'll start tasting momentarily.

00:26:07I had a whole vision going into it and, you know, just couldn't like execute it right

00:26:12away.

00:26:16All right.

00:26:17How do you guys feel?

00:26:18We did good?

00:26:19Good feeling, everybody.

00:26:20I feel a little frazzled.

00:26:21I'm not gonna lie.

00:26:22I think as a team, we have a good chance of beating Team Naughty because we just, we work

00:26:26well together.

00:26:27We step up to help each other.

00:26:29Yeah.

00:26:30I think we're really encouraging.

00:26:31It's so nice to have Jingle Java.

00:26:33I don't think that's ever been done in this competition, but I'm so glad that we get

00:26:36to be there for our teammates.

00:26:38Cheers.

00:26:39Cheers.

00:26:40Cheers for the nice team.

00:26:41Well-earned coffee.

00:26:42Cheers, everybody.

00:26:43There's some hot coffee over here.

00:26:44Wow.

00:26:45Here we go.

00:26:47What do you think of our holiday village?

00:26:50Wow.

00:26:51Huh?

00:26:52Wow.

00:26:53So pretty.

00:26:55And what's new this year, too, is we've broken up the bakers into Team Naughty and Team

00:27:02Nice.

00:27:03And so, whichever team is in the coffee shop, they're watching each baker get judged.

00:27:09Are you serious?

00:27:10Really?

00:27:11Yeah.

00:27:12Team with the best dessert, they'll get an advantage for the main heat.

00:27:15And up first is gonna be Team Nice with warm and toasty desserts.

00:27:20Nice.

00:27:21John Carlos, come on in.

00:27:26Oh, yeah.

00:27:27Happy holidays.

00:27:28Hi.

00:27:29Hello.

00:27:30Say hello to Nancy Fuller.

00:27:31Hi, John Carlos.

00:27:32Hey, Nancy.

00:27:33Duff Goldman.

00:27:34He's one mischievous elf.

00:27:36And Cartier Brown.

00:27:37Merry Christmas.

00:27:38All right.

00:27:39Tell us what you made.

00:27:41Spiced apple cake with dulce de leche caramel, flambe, apple pearls.

00:27:48Really, really nice.

00:27:49This is the fanciest spice cake I've ever seen.

00:27:52I like it.

00:27:55Mmm.

00:27:56Mmm.

00:27:59You brought us warm and toasty.

00:28:02Aww.

00:28:03That's what he wanted to hear.

00:28:05You gave us, like, this really sophisticated, beautiful caramel apple.

00:28:09With cake?

00:28:10I love cake.

00:28:11It's so good that I want more of it.

00:28:14J.C., thank you so much.

00:28:15Muito obrigado.

00:28:19It was really good.

00:28:20Come here.

00:28:21Yay!

00:28:22Come on in, Alex.

00:28:29Hi.

00:28:30Hey, all right now.

00:28:31Okay.

00:28:32Sassy.

00:28:33All right, Alex.

00:28:34Warm and toasty desserts.

00:28:37Which one did you make?

00:28:38Nothing is more warm and toasty than a bread pudding from Louisiana.

00:28:42So, I made a Bananas Foster bread pudding, some brulee bananas.

00:28:47My chocolate snowflakes kind of took a little bit of a hit, but there's bourbon and rum.

00:28:52Nancy, how does it look to you?

00:28:54Oh, I was ready to eat.

00:28:55I was so excited about the bourbon.

00:28:57Oh, boy.

00:29:00But I don't know.

00:29:01I'm not going for those snowflakes.

00:29:03It's gonna know what, you know, three millimeter thin chocolate's gonna do on top of a warm bread pudding.

00:29:10Absolutely fair.

00:29:14That bourbon just set it right off.

00:29:16I'm getting the warmth.

00:29:17Yeah.

00:29:18But not really the toast.

00:29:19The bread needed to soak up some more of that custard.

00:29:22I need more custard in here.

00:29:24Thank you, guys.

00:29:27All right, judges, let's bring in Chase.

00:29:29Hey, Chase.

00:29:30Hi, Chase.

00:29:31How's it going?

00:29:32Good.

00:29:33I made a hazelnut frenchie pan tart with mulled wine poached pears.

00:29:39I love, like, the shavings of, like, orange zest and then the way you have your mulled wine just kind of, like, swooped in there.

00:29:47I love it.

00:29:48Really, really nice.

00:29:49A lot of good warm spices in here.

00:29:51Your crust is really nice and crunchy on the outside.

00:29:54Unfortunately, your frangipane itself is really dry, like a bread.

00:29:59Very dense.

00:30:00Oh, my goodness.

00:30:02They are very hard.

00:30:06Yeah.

00:30:07But your pears are really nice.

00:30:11I think if I eat more slices of those pears, I'll be warm and toasty.

00:30:20Hi, Erin.

00:30:21Tell us what you made.

00:30:22I made a warm and toasty chai spice peri breast wreath for you today.

00:30:28Mmm.

00:30:29I think your use of this little bow here is absolutely perfect.

00:30:34It blends seamlessly with your wreath.

00:30:42I hate to say this, but I think flavor-wise, I think you kind of missed here.

00:30:46What?

00:30:47Unfortunately, I agree.

00:30:50There's too much spice.

00:30:52For my palate, I would want a little bit more sugar, because it's all chai.

00:30:58All right, Erin.

00:30:59Thank you, Erin.

00:31:00It was a little harsher than I thought it was going to be.

00:31:03It was a looker, not a taster.

00:31:04Oh, yeah.

00:31:05Baby girl.

00:31:07We'll find balance next time.

00:31:08It's okay.

00:31:10I'm proud of you.

00:31:13Okay, next up, Violet.

00:31:15Woo!

00:31:16I'm definitely very nervous.

00:31:18I just know they're going to kind of get a soupy mess.

00:31:20They're going to eat me alive.

00:31:21The judges.

00:31:22Hi, Violet.

00:31:23Hi, Violet.

00:31:24So, Violet, tell us what you made.

00:31:25I made a, like, smoked spice s'mores type of dessert with meringue.

00:31:31As you can see, my Bavarian cream has melted quite a bit.

00:31:35But who doesn't like a melted marshmallow on their s'mores?

00:31:39Okay, well, Violet, uh, you made a s'mores, but I think I want s'less.

00:31:46He's on Team Naughty.

00:31:48Let's see what we got.

00:31:49Ooh, right in.

00:31:54Definitely getting toasty.

00:31:55Okay.

00:31:56Maybe a little too toasty.

00:31:57Yeah, maybe too toasty.

00:31:58Right? But it's not bad.

00:31:59Well, I think that the cookie is overbaked, and obviously the Bavarian is a little too thin.

00:32:06Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

00:32:08Yeah.

00:32:09All right, Violet, thank you so much.

00:32:11Thanks.

00:32:12Thanks, Violet.

00:32:13I think the next challenge will be where it shows my skill.

00:32:17Okay, judges, let's bring in Kamri.

00:32:21Oh, my gosh.

00:32:22I have butterflies in my stomach.

00:32:24I really hope it's set.

00:32:25How are y'all?

00:32:26How are you feeling?

00:32:27Good.

00:32:28Good.

00:32:29How are you feeling?

00:32:30I'm feeling jazzed.

00:32:31Jazzed!

00:32:32Oh!

00:32:34That is a first.

00:32:35That is a first.

00:32:36That is a first.

00:32:37Yes.

00:32:38So I did a caramelized honey sweet potato pie, a little blackberry gelée, and then toasted

00:32:44marshmallow.

00:32:47She's not a looker.

00:32:48She's not a looker at all.

00:32:49She's not.

00:32:50But I think that that sweet potato is going to have the flavor that's going to give us the warmth.

00:32:56Yes.

00:32:57Because it better.

00:32:58Yeah.

00:33:00Oh, honey.

00:33:01Okay.

00:33:02All right, Kamri.

00:33:03Whenever you're ready, you can serve it on up.

00:33:04I'm a little nervous about this cut with that gelée on top.

00:33:07Like, is it going to ooze out?

00:33:09I...

00:33:12I'm like, Lord, just let this be, you know, something.

00:33:15Just let it hold up.

00:33:17Oh, I'm, like, having a heart attack right now.

00:33:21What's going to happen?

00:33:22What's going to happen?

00:33:23What's going to happen?

00:33:24Wait for it.

00:33:33The pressure's on.

00:33:34Let's see it.

00:33:35Did it set?

00:33:36Did it set up?

00:33:37Oh!

00:33:38Yay!

00:33:39Yay!

00:33:40Yay!

00:33:41Yes!

00:33:42Oh!

00:33:43Come on, my mom!

00:33:44Yes!

00:33:45Yay!

00:33:47Thanks, Kamri.

00:33:48Enjoy.

00:33:49Ooh!

00:33:54Good stuff in here.

00:33:55I think your sweet potato, it's the star of the dish.

00:33:59It's smooth.

00:34:00It's lovely.

00:34:01And the blackberry gelée on top is really nice.

00:34:05Yay!

00:34:06But I think it just needs to be a little stiffer.

00:34:09Noted.

00:34:10Thank you, Jessius.

00:34:13Oh, man.

00:34:14I'm mad.

00:34:15Well, I'm proud of you all.

00:34:16Yeah!

00:34:17Guys, we did a good job.

00:34:18That's why we're Team Naughty.

00:34:19This is, like, the first round, so, like, we got the jitters out, you know?

00:34:21Yes.

00:34:22Do we think we did enough to beat Team Naughty?

00:34:25I don't know.

00:34:26Yeah.

00:34:27Good day.

00:34:28Oh!

00:34:29Yay!

00:34:30How'd it go?

00:34:31Oh, I'm not killing you!

00:34:33All right, judges, Team Naughty is serving up chill and frosty desserts today.

00:34:38Mmm!

00:34:39So, are you ready for this?

00:34:42Are you ready for this?

00:34:43I'm nervous.

00:34:44Excited but nervous.

00:34:45Excited to, like, I just don't want to, like, say so many, like, anything wild in front

00:34:48of them.

00:34:49All right, let's bring in Nico.

00:34:51I think Nico went home.

00:34:56What?

00:34:57Loving ice to me.

00:34:58Ice?

00:34:59Nico, come on out!

00:35:01Am I going?

00:35:02No.

00:35:03Am I?

00:35:04Oh, my God!

00:35:05Hi, Nico!

00:35:07Hi!

00:35:08Hi!

00:35:09Yo, I'm so geeked right now.

00:35:12This is wild.

00:35:13Oh, he is adorable.

00:35:17All right, Nico, for Team Naughty, what did you make?

00:35:20Okay, so for my chill and frosty dessert, I kind of did my interpretation of a modern Mont Blanc.

00:35:27It is a chestnut pot sable and a white chocolate mousse.

00:35:32And then to kind of naughty-ify it, we turned it into a reindeer with devil horns.

00:35:38Um, it looks like mine is the only one that his horns are still standing up.

00:35:43This naughty ain't so nice.

00:35:46Oh, no.

00:35:51Listen, I think your textures are lovely.

00:35:54The cream is really nice.

00:35:55The frangipam, really, really nice.

00:35:57Chill and frosty it is, except there's too much sugar.

00:36:02All right, Nico, thank you so much.

00:36:03Thanks, y'all.

00:36:04Bye.

00:36:05Nice, Nico.

00:36:06Oh, my tooth hurts.

00:36:09Yeah, that was so sweet.

00:36:12For the most part, I think that's kind of a really good critique, so I can, like, go from here and I think I can show them I can control that sweetness level on the next one.

00:36:19Yeah.

00:36:20So I think it'll show a lot of improvement.

00:36:22Ashley.

00:36:23Hi, judges.

00:36:24Hi, Ashley.

00:36:25So what I have for you guys today is a triple citrus tart with Greek yogurt and tequila whipped cream.

00:36:33You have hit chill and frosty right on the head.

00:36:38Yay.

00:36:39Yay.

00:36:40Shall we dig in?

00:36:41I think we shall.

00:36:42All right.

00:36:43I'm actually gonna give you more crust.

00:36:45Ooh, little brownie points.

00:36:47This is phenomenal.

00:36:49It is really, really good.

00:36:50I mean, the zest, your curd, spot on.

00:36:58My favorite part is your whipped cream.

00:37:01That tequila, perfect.

00:37:03All right, Ashley, thank you so much.

00:37:04Thank you, guys.

00:37:05Okay.

00:37:06Charles, welcome.

00:37:08So I have a blueberry and jalapeno layer cake and a little abominable snowman evil eyes staring

00:37:17at you on the top.

00:37:18Stop looking at me, dessert.

00:37:20I love those eyes and the splat is like ice that's cracked.

00:37:26Chill and frosty.

00:37:28Interesting.

00:37:29Your cake is so clean, and you may be a little naughty.

00:37:33That jalapeno in there was genius.

00:37:36Oh, oh, oh.

00:37:37Oh.

00:37:38I love the jalapeno, but the white chocolate mousse feels a little gummy.

00:37:45Well, I think your flavors are great.

00:37:47Nice job.

00:37:48Nice job.

00:37:50Daniel.

00:37:51So here I have for you a strawberry tequila mint cream pie.

00:37:57I had to figure out how to make this a little naughty.

00:38:00I decided to take a bite out of everybody's dessert.

00:38:02Oh.

00:38:03Good job.

00:38:06Yes.

00:38:07I like the bite.

00:38:08I like the bite.

00:38:09That was a good touch.

00:38:14Oh, I don't know what that face was.

00:38:16Did you taste any tequila?

00:38:18None.

00:38:19None.

00:38:20But it says chill, it says frosty, and your crust is delicious.

00:38:27Daniel, we appreciate you.

00:38:29All right.

00:38:30Thank you very much.

00:38:32Thank you, Daniel.

00:38:33All right, judges, let's bring in Tarek.

00:38:36I know that guy.

00:38:37Hey.

00:38:38Hi.

00:38:39I'm back.

00:38:40You're like a foot taller.

00:38:42Okay.

00:38:43So what did you bring us?

00:38:44So I made mimosa-inspired mini pavlovas.

00:38:48You're not old enough to drink.

00:38:50You know, nothing's naughtier than underage drinking.

00:38:56You can't applaud breaking the law and holiday baking championships.

00:38:59Whoa.

00:39:00I relied on some of the other bakers for tasting because, yeah, I'm not supposed to.

00:39:05I think you nailed it.

00:39:08It was beautiful.

00:39:09Pavlovas, you know, should be a little crispy on the outside.

00:39:13It's very gummy.

00:39:14I don't know if I would call this chill and frosty, but all of your flavors are really spot-on.

00:39:23All right, Tarek.

00:39:24Thanks so much.

00:39:26Let's bring in Gia.

00:39:29Hi, Gia.

00:39:30Oh, my pain girl, and I'm so sorry.

00:39:32I made for you guys a chocolate coconut mint cake.

00:39:39Oh.

00:39:40Ah.

00:39:41The cake looks funky.

00:39:42Yeah, it is.

00:39:43Like it's, you got some square swags.

00:39:46You got some round swags.

00:39:48It doesn't have that continuity all the way around, you know?

00:39:51Aw.

00:39:52Aw.

00:39:53All right, Gia, let's carve it up and give the judges a taste.

00:39:57Ooh.

00:40:03I get that chill and frosty a little bit, but you have some technical difficulties in there.

00:40:08Frosting's really dense, and the cake is also very dry.

00:40:12You know you can bake a better cake than this.

00:40:14Yes.

00:40:15So here's the deal.

00:40:16Going into the main heat, remember all the things that you're really good at.

00:40:20Right.

00:40:21And do them.

00:40:22Thank you so much.

00:40:24Thanks, Gia.

00:40:25Oh, boy.

00:40:26I have no idea how the nice team did.

00:40:29I just hope that we were better.

00:40:33Bakers.

00:40:34Here's how the pre-heat played out.

00:40:36Of the warm and toasty desserts, the top baker from the nice team is...

00:40:42John Carlos.

00:40:45Hooray.

00:40:46Hooray.

00:40:47And for the chill and frosty desserts,

00:40:50the naughty team top baker is...

00:40:56Ashley.

00:41:00Did you?

00:41:01But only one team, of course, is going to win the advantage.

00:41:05And the baker who won it for them is...

00:41:11Ashley.

00:41:13Oh, yeah.

00:41:14Congratulations, Ashley.

00:41:15Your triple citrus tart was the tastiest bite of the challenge.

00:41:17I'll tell you about your advantage in a minute.

00:41:18I'm telling you guys, this holiday village has everything.

00:41:19It does.

00:41:20It really does.

00:41:21In fact, we love it so much.

00:41:22We're making it your first main heat challenge.

00:41:23Oh, my God.

00:41:24Now, for this main heat, each team will make a holiday village display.

00:41:28Wow.

00:41:29Okay.

00:41:30Okay.

00:41:31Wow.

00:41:32Okay.

00:41:33Wow.

00:41:34Okay.

00:41:35Each of you is going to be responsible for making a distinct dessert that will be placed on a large presentation board just like this.

00:41:41Now, to help you, in the bakery, you'll find undecorated gingerbread houses.

00:41:42Oh, yeah.

00:41:43Awesome.

00:41:44And that's really going to help create the village vibe.

00:41:45Yeah.

00:41:46Awesome.

00:41:47Thanks a village.

00:41:48Yeah.

00:41:49And when time is up, the judges will choose a top dessert from each team, and the same

00:41:51team will make a holiday village display.

00:41:52Each team will make a holiday village display.

00:41:53Wow.

00:41:54Okay.

00:41:55Wow.

00:41:56Okay.

00:41:57Wow.

00:41:58Okay.

00:41:59Each of you is going to be responsible for making a distinct dessert that will be placed

00:42:00on a large presentation board just like this.

00:42:01Now, to help you, in the bakery, you'll find undecorated gingerbread houses.

00:42:03Awesome.

00:42:04Awesome.

00:42:05And that's really going to help create the village vibe.

00:42:06Awesome.

00:42:07Awesome.

00:42:08The judges will choose a top dessert from each team, and the single best dessert is

00:42:13going to win immunity from elimination for the entire team.

00:42:17No way.

00:42:18Oh.

00:42:19That is huge.

00:42:22If I can be that person that gets us immunity, I would be in major competition.

00:42:27That, of course, means that someone from the losing team is going to be going home first.

00:42:32We can't lose.

00:42:34We can't lose.

00:42:35And now, Team Naughty.

00:42:36Yeah.

00:42:37Yeah.

00:42:38About that little advantage.

00:42:39Oh, yeah.

00:42:40Right.

00:42:41Oh, yeah.

00:42:42You can choose a key ingredient the other team cannot use.

00:42:46Yo.

00:42:47Oh.

00:42:48Let's yell chocolate.

00:42:49Citrus, nuts, or chocolate?

00:42:52Definitely chocolate.

00:42:53Team Naughty, talk it over.

00:42:55What's it going to be?

00:42:56Chocolate.

00:42:57Chocolate.

00:42:58Wow.

00:43:00I love to use chocolate in desserts, so I think it really can set them back.

00:43:05We don't need no stinking chocolate.

00:43:06Yeah.

00:43:07I actually disagree with Aaron.

00:43:08I think decorating without chocolate could be problematic.

00:43:11We are giving you two and a half hours to create an edible holiday village that's going

00:43:17to keep you in this village.

00:43:18Right.

00:43:19Go do it.

00:43:20Do it.

00:43:21And your baking time starts now.

00:43:23Go.

00:43:24Go, guys.

00:43:25Go, go, go, go, go.

00:43:26All right.

00:43:27Okay.

00:43:28Hey, guys.

00:43:29Come on.

00:43:30Gather around real quick.

00:43:31Okay, guys.

00:43:32Come, come, come.

00:43:33All right.

00:43:34Let's do this first.

00:43:35Yes, flavors first.

00:43:36I've got chocolate.

00:43:37I'll do chocolate, too, just to kind of rub it in their face.

00:43:39Yeah, rub it in their taste.

00:43:40So then design-wise, how are we feeling?

00:43:41Guys, okay.

00:43:42So we're Naughty.

00:43:43We're not going to be the North Pole.

00:43:44We're the South Pole.

00:43:45Oh, yeah.

00:43:46I love that.

00:43:47I love that.

00:43:48What do they do at the South Pole?

00:43:49They make the coal for all the Naughty kids, right?

00:43:52The plan for our village is the South Pole and coal mining and really just kind of tie

00:43:57in like dark elements.

00:43:59Coal and fire and logs and make our own dessert.

00:44:05I feel like it's a little bit more difficult in these team settings not knowing each other

00:44:10well enough to come together and create magic.

00:44:13That ups the ante a little bit more.

00:44:15Naughty!

00:44:16I want to do sort of like a winter wonderland cake, but like a lot of white, a lot of like

00:44:21natural stuff.

00:44:22I love working in a team.

00:44:24I'm very much a team player.

00:44:25I'm a collaborative team player for sure.

00:44:27So I'm going to do a ginger and citrus butt cake.

00:44:31And my team is the same as me.

00:44:33So communication is really our strategy.

00:44:35That'll be kind of the centerpiece of the town that we're making.

00:44:38Awesome.

00:44:39Oh, all right.

00:44:40That'll be great.

00:44:41We're thinking winter wonderland, a snowy landscape, cute gingerbread houses, walkways,

00:44:48this beautiful wreath with igloos on top, and then all of the other individual desserts

00:44:53to give the holiday village like some life.

00:44:57One, two, three, team nice!

00:44:59Let's go!

00:45:00Gotta get started on the pie crust.

00:45:05Making sure I have enough salt.

00:45:09John Carlos.

00:45:10Hey, Jess.

00:45:11How's it going?

00:45:12Pretty good.

00:45:13So you grew up in Brazil?

00:45:14Yes, I'm born and raised in Brazil.

00:45:15Which part of Brazil?

00:45:16It's a crazy story because I don't know where exactly I'm born because I'm born and raised

00:45:20a circus.

00:45:21I used to be a clown with my mom.

00:45:23Wow!

00:45:24Yes.

00:45:25Living in a circus was something like very magical.

00:45:27As a clown, I used to be entertainer, tell all the jokes.

00:45:31Amazing.

00:45:32So which dessert did you choose to make?

00:45:34So I choose to make a parachute teddy bears.

00:45:37I want to do like a family situation and have mama and papa bear together.

00:45:42And I will decorate with buttercream and some sugar candies.

00:45:47To fill up my pate shoes, I'm going to make pistachio paste cream and cranberry jam filling

00:45:54for my polar bears.

00:45:55Let's see.

00:45:56I like it.

00:45:57It's a great idea.

00:45:58Team nice.

00:45:59Team nice.

00:46:00You guys are lucky to have John Carlos here.

00:46:01Good luck, my friend.

00:46:02Thank you, Jess.

00:46:04What do you need in a gingerbread inspired town?

00:46:08I'm making a crystallized ginger molasses sandwich cookie with a yummy cream cheese and

00:46:16apricot filling.

00:46:17And I'm going to decorate with royal icing.

00:46:21Also making some snowflakes to adorn our town.

00:46:25I think that I was put on team nice because I really spend a lot of time taking on the role

00:46:32of mom, helping people.

00:46:34How are you doing, Violet?

00:46:35I'm good.

00:46:36Okay.

00:46:37I also work for a not-for-profit as a food pantry manager.

00:46:41I am baking because I really do want to feed people.

00:46:45I may dip the bottom of our cookie, but I don't know in what yet.

00:46:50Because it can't be chocolate.

00:46:51Because Nadi took our chocolate away from us.

00:46:54Last time the judges felt like I brought a little too much spice to the party.

00:46:59So this time, we're just going to make it flavorful and not over the top.

00:47:04Redemption round.

00:47:07In the preheat, I definitely learned to not go all in at once.

00:47:12So we're going a little lighter this time.

00:47:14We're going a little smaller.

00:47:15I'm making a ginger and citrus olive oil cake.

00:47:19Olive oil cakes are, in my opinion, one of the top tier cakes because they stay moist

00:47:25and they're not too sweet.

00:47:26So I feel like they're a very balanced cake to bring to the table.

00:47:29I just have a little citrus soap at the end when it's like fresh out of the oven.

00:47:33And then on the top, it's going to be a pistachio crevice lean.

00:47:36So it's going to be one giant wreath adorned with candied fruit and sprinkles.

00:47:41I do like venturing out.

00:47:43I do like being a little more out there with flavors whenever I can.

00:47:47I took interest in being a pastry chef because you get here early in the morning

00:47:52and leave early in the day.

00:47:53And I was like, that sounds nice.

00:47:55And now I'm a home bakery owner.

00:47:57And I also work at a churreria back in Detroit.

00:48:00All right, oven going in.

00:48:02I know I got to step it up.

00:48:04I most definitely want to do well for my team.

00:48:06Two hours left, bakers.

00:48:08You're making an edible holiday village to replicate this village you're in right now.

00:48:13Can I get someone to check the bourbon on this?

00:48:15Not Tarek.

00:48:16Sorry, buddy.

00:48:17I went to school in Kentucky.

00:48:19So it's cranberry orange bourbon with a little bit of ginger.

00:48:24Oh.

00:48:25Right?

00:48:26Yeah.

00:48:27Yeah.

00:48:28Oh, yeah.

00:48:29Oh, hello, preheat champion.

00:48:30Hi.

00:48:31How are you, Ashley?

00:48:32I'm good.

00:48:33How are you, Jesse?

00:48:34You're feeling pretty good.

00:48:35You have the post-preheat championship glow.

00:48:36Oh, thanks.

00:48:37It feels great, actually.

00:48:38I'm pretty overwhelmed by it.

00:48:39Everybody say, thank you, Ashley.

00:48:41Thank you, Ashley.

00:48:42Thank you, Ashley.

00:48:43You're welcome.

00:48:44I guess I'll hold the team.

00:48:45No, I'm kidding.

00:48:46I'm kidding.

00:48:47I'm kidding.

00:48:48I'm kidding.

00:48:49Naughty.

00:48:50Naughty.

00:48:51Sorry.

00:48:52So what dessert are you making here that's going to go into this village?

00:48:53I'm making a oatmeal cream pie with a marshmallow filling, like the sandwich pies that you remember

00:48:59as a kid, very nostalgic, but with a little bit of a holiday flair.

00:49:03And then because cranberry is one of my favorites, I'm making bourbon cranberry compote filling

00:49:07on the inside with red and black coating chocolate.

00:49:10Had to kind of tie into that whole theme.

00:49:12Last challenge, I got the judges to really love the lemon and the citrus flavor, especially

00:49:17with the tequila.

00:49:18So I'm going to try to change Nancy's mind again about cranberry.

00:49:22Many have tried.

00:49:23I know.

00:49:24Many have failed over the years, I do have to say.

00:49:26We'll see.

00:49:27We'll see.

00:49:28There's a very thin line between not enough and too much.

00:49:30Sell it, Ashley.

00:49:32I definitely have Ashley on my radar.

00:49:34It's a great thing that we're in a team setting because the top dog is in our team,

00:49:39but I am a very competitive guy, and we will narrow down to only one winner.

00:49:43Going in the oven, guys.

00:49:46We're going to make the South Pole Coal Factory.

00:49:49So I am making a black cocoa peppermint cake that I'm going to make look like a kind of

00:49:55mountain of coal.

00:49:56Perfect color.

00:49:57So it's going to have that dark chocolate cake, a peppermint marshmallow, a peppermint buttercream,

00:50:02and then covered in black peppermint chocolate buttercream to really give it that naughty

00:50:08South Pole vibe.

00:50:09I personally love chocolate, and I think it's necessary in the holiday season.

00:50:14So it really puts us ahead and hurts them, which I think will help us, especially when

00:50:19we have immunity on the line.

00:50:20That is rude.

00:50:21Charles, I don't need your chocolate over there, Team Naughty.

00:50:24Good, because I'm using it all.

00:50:26Nice thing going home.

00:50:28Not today.

00:50:29Not today, baby.

00:50:30I'm coming out strong.

00:50:31We're coming out salty, and we're ready to win.

00:50:34I'm making my brown butter toasted coconut chest pie.

00:50:38It's so nutty.

00:50:39It's so warm.

00:50:40It's so toasty.

00:50:41It's one of my favorite things in the world to make.

00:50:43This is like a spin off my grandma's recipe.

00:50:45I call her Mamaw.

00:50:47She makes chest pie every year.

00:50:48I took that recipe, added some toasted coconut brown butter, and I'm bringing it to the competition.

00:50:53I'm going to decorate it with the big scoops of Swiss meringue that I'm going to decorate

00:50:58into small little igloos on my pie to fit into our little town.

00:51:02Igloos might be a cold, frosty place, but they're an abode.

00:51:06They're home.

00:51:07They're a nice thing.

00:51:08Tarek.

00:51:09What is that?

00:51:10Is that a beet pie?

00:51:11It's key lime, blackberry, and white rum, and ginger.

00:51:15Where did you learn to do that?

00:51:17The internet.

00:51:19You are so Gen Z.

00:51:22So where's this going in your edible village?

00:51:24The idea is to do like a coal factory, and so I'm going to top it with a torch meringue,

00:51:28and I think some isomalt flames, and it's going to be like a big fire in the village.

00:51:32Obviously with coal comes fire, and then the pollution.

00:51:35So naughty.

00:51:37You got the preheat under your belt now.

00:51:39What are your feelings, emotions?

00:51:41I think as long as I just kind of stick with what I know,

00:51:43I'm going to do great.

00:51:45I cannot go home first.

00:51:47Because I applied very on the whim.

00:51:48I was in the middle of finals.

00:51:50I go to Yale, and college is expensive.

00:51:53Baking alone can't necessarily pay for all of it.

00:51:56So I just submitted an application.

00:51:58I was like, why not?

00:51:59Let's do this over again.

00:52:00Let's win this time.

00:52:01Wait, Tarek, did you skip college to come here?

00:52:04Wait, no, no.

00:52:05No.

00:52:06Finals.

00:52:07Finals, finals.

00:52:08Got it.

00:52:09Your parents are not going to be upset about that at all.

00:52:11I hope not.

00:52:12All right.

00:52:13Good luck, Tarek.

00:52:14That looks really good.

00:52:15Bye, Jesse.

00:52:16Ninety minutes on the clock, Bakers.

00:52:18If you win the challenge, you win immunity for your whole team.

00:52:22Oh, my gosh.

00:52:24What's burning?

00:52:25I don't have anything in the oven.

00:52:26What's burning?

00:52:27What's burning?

00:52:28Irie.

00:52:30Irie.

00:52:31Irie.

00:52:32Oh.

00:52:34That's good.

00:52:35No.

00:52:36Okay, it's good.

00:52:37It's burnt.

00:52:38It's burnt.

00:52:39Stop it.

00:52:40My cookies were burning.

00:52:41How is that possible?

00:52:42This is not fixable.

00:52:43One hour, 13 minutes on the clock, Bakers.

00:52:44You're making edible holiday villages.

00:52:45This is stupid.

00:52:46Let's try again.

00:52:47I made a lot of extra dough to both decorate our town.

00:52:48And just in case my snowflakes got a little extra dough to eat.

00:52:51I made a lot of extra dough to both decorate our town and just in case my snowflakes got a little extra dough to eat.

00:52:55The stakes are so high for this challenge.

00:52:56Someone's going home from the losing team.

00:52:57This is the top.

00:52:58We made a lot of extra dough to both decorate our town and just in case my snowflakes got a little extra dough to eat.

00:53:13and just in case my snowflakes got a little extra toasty.

00:53:19The stakes are so high for this challenge.

00:53:22Someone's going home from the losing team,

00:53:24and I hope it's not me.

00:53:26I got to get organized.

00:53:28Hey, guys, anybody need any coffee?

00:53:30I hear the breeze to deliver.

00:53:31Oh, yes, please give me the coffee.

00:53:34I can go.

00:53:35I'm so happy.

00:53:36I'm hoping to be on the nice team

00:53:37because I feel like that's more so my personality.

00:53:40What can I get you for coffee?

00:53:41Uh, regular cappuccino.

00:53:43Mocha latte, please.

00:53:45An oat milk latte.

00:53:46An iced Americano.

00:53:48Thank you, sweetie.

00:53:50Hi.

00:53:51I have some coffee orders.

00:53:53Everybody on this team gives me great vibes,

00:53:55and, like, they're really good chefs,

00:53:56so I'm excited to work with them.

00:53:59Hey, Violet.

00:54:00Hello.

00:54:01What are we doing for this edible village?

00:54:03So I'm making little snowman macarons.

00:54:05The filling will be an almond buttercream

00:54:07and a raspberry compote.

00:54:08I'm going to make them into little snowmen,

00:54:10like, happy, have their little carrot noses.

00:54:13Growing up, my siblings and I would always make snowmen

00:54:15during the holidays when it was snowing,

00:54:17so it's a very happy memory for me.

00:54:19You're a triplet, right?

00:54:19I am a triplet.

00:54:20What's that like?

00:54:21That's so cool.

00:54:22I love my siblings.

00:54:23We're all fraternal.

00:54:24We have a shared kind of connection in our brains.

00:54:26I think that is so cool.

00:54:27Can you, like, finish each other's sentences?

00:54:28Yes.

00:54:29Triplet telepathy.

00:54:30Yep.

00:54:30Hopefully Team Nice has telepathy.

00:54:32I think we do.

00:54:34Yeah.

00:54:34You guys are all finishing each other's sentences

00:54:36with your little desserts.

00:54:37With the desserts, yeah.

00:54:38Awesome, by the way.

00:54:39You make extra buttercream, right?

00:54:41Do you need it for your filling?

00:54:42Just for decorations.

00:54:44Oh, yeah.

00:54:44That's what Al's doing.

00:54:45Okay.

00:54:46Yeah.

00:54:46Mmm.

00:54:47I'm making a spice chiffon cake

00:54:49with sort of a mulled orange curd

00:54:52between the layers.

00:54:53I love to add a little bit of orange juice to mine

00:54:55just to cut through some of that sweetness

00:54:58and then nice little, like,

00:55:01spiced buttercream on the outside.

00:55:03We're going to decorate it all nice, nice.

00:55:05I'll put some buttercream trees on my cake.

00:55:07Really trying to give the holiday village some life.

00:55:11Orange curd that's, like, mounted with spices

00:55:12and all that other good stuff.

00:55:14A little bit of rum in there, too.

00:55:15I think it's great.

00:55:16Good?

00:55:17One hour left, bakers.

00:55:19Yes, sir.

00:55:20Hey, Charles.

00:55:20Yeah.

00:55:21Can I get a taste on this brownie mix, please?

00:55:23Oh, yeah.

00:55:23I think the wannabe leader,

00:55:25I think it might be Charles Coffee Liqueur.

00:55:28He's well put together.

00:55:29He's worked in some awesome bakeries,

00:55:32and he knows his stuff.

00:55:33More coffee.

00:55:34More coffee?

00:55:35And salt.

00:55:37Okay, absolutely.

00:55:37Yeah.

00:55:38But no one has stood out to me

00:55:40that threatens me winning.

00:55:42The other team can't use chocolate,

00:55:44so I kind of want to

00:55:45shove it in their face a little bit.

00:55:47I'm going to make a coffee liqueur brownie

00:55:51with candied pecans.

00:55:53The brownies are going to be the logs

00:55:55beside the fire that keep the fire going.

00:55:57We're going to take a humble brownie

00:55:59and make it a lot more.

00:56:00Hey, guys, I'm making the royal icing right now

00:56:03for the gingerbread houses.

00:56:05Do you want to color it?

00:56:06I was going to do three different colors, yeah.

00:56:08Okay.

00:56:10It's been a really interesting dynamic

00:56:12working in teams.

00:56:13I'm going to get the opinion

00:56:14of some of my fellow bakers,

00:56:16even though I don't need it.

00:56:18Hey, Ashley, you have a sec.

00:56:19Can you taste my labanile code?

00:56:22I would put just a tad bit more zest in it.

00:56:24Oh, thank you.

00:56:24We don't have time for that.

00:56:28I just wanted the opinion.

00:56:30It's an individual competition.

00:56:31I love my teammates.

00:56:32They're great.

00:56:33But at the end of the day,

00:56:34I do not need to rely on anyone else.

00:56:36I am good at this.

00:56:39I will be making a pearly breast

00:56:41filled with a mousseline filling.

00:56:43So my pearly breast will be

00:56:46a ring of my shoe

00:56:47topped with a black cocoa cracklin

00:56:49filled with a toasted black sesame praline,

00:56:52a lemon curd.

00:56:53I'll pipe my black sesame mousseline on top,

00:56:56and I'll make decorative wreaths

00:56:58hanging on strings.

00:56:59I absolutely think we can win the best bite.

00:57:01I mean, first of all, we already did.

00:57:03So clearly, we're pretty capable

00:57:05of being good at this.

00:57:06Looking good.

00:57:10Yeah, those are not ready yet.

00:57:12Okay.

00:57:12Hey, Gia.

00:57:14Hey, hey.

00:57:14I know it was a bit of a rough bake

00:57:16a little bit earlier.

00:57:17Yeah.

00:57:18What did we learn?

00:57:19Yep.

00:57:19The judges had told me

00:57:20to stay in my wheelhouse,

00:57:21and that's what I'm doing

00:57:22because I have to win.

00:57:25My reason is probably different

00:57:28than anything you've heard before.

00:57:29It's almost been three years

00:57:31since my husband died.

00:57:32He was only 45 years old.

00:57:34I had just opened a brand new business

00:57:36in a small town.

00:57:37Eleven weeks later,

00:57:38he had a stroke at work,

00:57:40and four days later,

00:57:42I had to take him off life support.

00:57:44So I'm here for him,

00:57:46and I'm so sorry.

00:57:51I'm here because if I win,

00:57:54I can bury him.

00:57:56I haven't been able to bury him yet.

00:57:57I have his ashes.

00:57:59Wow.

00:57:59Yeah, so that's what we plan to do.

00:58:03We use...

00:58:03I'm going to give you a big hug.

00:58:04Come here.

00:58:04Thank you, Jesse.

00:58:05I'm so happy you're here.

00:58:07I know he's looking down on you right now,

00:58:09and he's supporting you,

00:58:10and he's so proud of you.

00:58:11That's right.

00:58:12So I'm going to make

00:58:13my husband's favorite flavor,

00:58:14sugar cookies.

00:58:15It's in my wheelhouse.

00:58:17I make this dough

00:58:17multiple times every week,

00:58:19but to set our theme,

00:58:21it's going to be our village tree.

00:58:24I'm taking it red,

00:58:26and I've added orange and cinnamon to it

00:58:29to stack them all.

00:58:30I'll be using a cinnamon-orange chocolate ganache,

00:58:33and I'm making cinnamon-orange royal icing,

00:58:36coal, and things like that on them.

00:58:38Because each one of us

00:58:40is doing maybe a coal-type element

00:58:42or use some black in it.

00:58:45The stakes are so high for this challenge.

00:58:48I feel like I'm not here just for me,

00:58:49but also, you know,

00:58:50doing it for my husband.

00:58:5445 minutes.

00:58:56Aye, aye, aye.

00:58:58These are the igloo entrances.

00:59:00I think the hardest part about this

00:59:02is that we can't use any chocolate to decorate.

00:59:04I know.

00:59:04But I'm fine without the flavor.

00:59:08That's what we want.

00:59:09No browning.

00:59:12This second round of sandwich cookies are good.

00:59:16I like a bite and then a chew in the center.

00:59:20Nice, team.

00:59:21How's it going?

00:59:22You want to start decorating a house?

00:59:24Yeah.

00:59:24I'm just going to get a sheet tray, I guess.

00:59:27Yeah.

00:59:27We're getting three of each.

00:59:27Someone's going home.

00:59:28We need to make sure that our team

00:59:30is stepping up to the plate.

00:59:32I'm just slating the house right now,

00:59:34at least the roof.

00:59:35Chuck, how you doing, babe?

00:59:36Great, great, great.

00:59:37My powder shoe's coming out great.

00:59:40I just need to focus on the decoration

00:59:42to deliver on this challenge.

00:59:44Beautiful.

00:59:47Royal icing is almost done.

00:59:49Daniel, you good?

00:59:50We'll be able to take out the brownies.

00:59:53Oh, my gosh.

00:59:56Oh, my gosh.

00:59:58What is burning?

01:00:00My brownies.

01:00:01No.

01:00:02I'm freaking out right now.

01:00:08Sheesh.

01:00:11We're out.

01:00:12Well, that won't work.

01:00:1330 minutes to go now.

01:00:15Oh, my gosh.

01:00:16One baker from the losing team

01:00:19is unfortunately going to be going home.

01:00:22Hey, Daniel, I think your brownies are burning.

01:00:25Oh, my gosh.

01:00:26My batter's in the bottom of the oven,

01:00:28and it's causing a whole bunch of smoke.

01:00:32All right.

01:00:32I look at my brownies,

01:00:34and they're not burning at all.

01:00:35They just smoked out a bit.

01:00:41There's a lot of varying skill levels on our team.

01:00:44Yep.

01:00:45Perfect.

01:00:45She was out of the oven.

01:00:49Daniel is a charmer,

01:00:51but I don't know if he has what it takes

01:00:54to be in this competition and win it.

01:00:57All right.

01:01:00Definitely want some crunch,

01:01:01because they always look for that in a peppermint dessert.

01:01:05This marshmallow will be in my cake.

01:01:08It's dark like charcoal.

01:01:10Like the naughty chefs we are, I guess.

01:01:13The frosting of the cake is peppermint chocolate Italian buttercream.

01:01:17You can smell the chocolate and the peppermint,

01:01:18so I'm very happy.

01:01:19And I think I have a shot to be the baker to win it for the whole team.

01:01:23All right.

01:01:23I'm going to chill these for a second.

01:01:25Then I'll carve them to look like a little mountain of coal.

01:01:28I feel bad covering this up.

01:01:33I finished my meringue, and it looks just overwhipped.

01:01:36But, I mean, I don't have time to redo it, and I don't have anything else, so I'm tortured.

01:01:41Let's do some isomalt.

01:01:42Let's play with it.

01:01:43I don't do sugar ever.

01:01:44I never do sugar.

01:01:45But isomalt is like cheeto sugar.

01:01:46I love isomalt.

01:01:47It's like cheeto sugar, but it works.

01:01:49Also, it'll hold longer.

01:01:51In my preheat dessert, I struggled with the quality of sugar.

01:01:54Black sesame is such a delicious flavor.

01:01:57It has a little bit more, like, richness and bodiness to it.

01:01:59So I think it'll balance out.

01:02:02Fabulous.

01:02:03So I have a orange cardamom cinnamon simple syrup.

01:02:08So we're kind of reinforcing that spiciness, that citrus, that freshness, to break up all

01:02:13the heaviness of the creme mousseline that will soon be on these babies.

01:02:18This is going to be a big old wreath.

01:02:20It's a very soft sponge.

01:02:22The cake is fully cooled down.

01:02:24It's just an extremely soft sponge.

01:02:25I'm making a little collar out of buttercream, and my curd is going to go in there.

01:02:29During the preheat, I wasn't super happy with the product that I put out.

01:02:35So I do a cute little mixture of colors that I know are going to give me, like, a winter

01:02:40forest feel.

01:02:42I put the little snowflakes and I'm proud, and the tree looks great.

01:02:47All right, I think we're good.

01:02:49I am a little scared making a pie in this competition that I won't have enough time to rest it to

01:02:55my liking, but you kind of just have to throw up a prayer.

01:02:58Finish my desserts right in the nick of time.

01:03:00I'm going to go help Jaune finish up.

01:03:03Nice little feet on those macarons.

01:03:04Yeah, right?

01:03:06I'm so excited about making this village.

01:03:08I think it's going to be super cute with everybody's components.

01:03:11I'm hoping we get it all done in time.

01:03:13Takes a village to build a village.

01:03:15There's not a Christmas village without a Christmas tree.

01:03:19Teamwork makes the dream work nice, team.

01:03:2215 minutes left.

01:03:23Remember, your individual desserts need to work together in your holiday village display.

01:03:29Great.

01:03:30My teddy bears.

01:03:31Should I start decorating a ginger house?

01:03:33Yeah.

01:03:33Oh, yeah, we can.

01:03:34All right.

01:03:35Man, the nice team is way ahead of the naughty team right now.

01:03:38We only had about 15 minutes left, and we realized that we didn't discuss who was going to take

01:03:43the responsibility of building the houses, and we spent more time laser focused on our

01:03:49own dessert.

01:03:50Not beautiful, but it'll do.

01:03:52And most of our desserts aren't on the display yet, and unfortunately, the other team is almost

01:03:57done.

01:03:58Speed, speed walk.

01:03:59I am trying to do a kind of pile of coal is what we're going for next to our coal factory.

01:04:05When they slice into it, I want to see the uniform layers on the inside, but from the

01:04:10outside, it's going to look kind of crazy rustic.

01:04:12I promise I know how to ice a cake.

01:04:14This is intentional.

01:04:16What do you need, Juan Carlos?

01:04:17I need something big and colorful to put on top of the tree.

01:04:21How's this ginger?

01:04:23Oh, my gosh.

01:04:25That's amazing.

01:04:26No, amazing.

01:04:27Ashley, nice job, nice team.

01:04:30Ten minutes left.

01:04:32Here we go, Nico.

01:04:34Pipe like the wind.

01:04:35Hey, Ashley, what is going on right now with your naughty team?

01:04:38We're trying to hurry to get done.

01:04:41It's the best I can put it.

01:04:42And I will point out, if it is not on the display board, it does not get judged.

01:04:48Got to get it all on the...

01:04:50Giant plate.

01:04:51Giant plate.

01:04:53Perfect circles, perfect circles.

01:04:55We're almost there, you all.

01:04:57I think we're ahead of naughty team.

01:05:00That's good to know.

01:05:01Do you want it higher?

01:05:02To set it up here, I need the coal factory so we can build around it.

01:05:05Getting it, getting it.

01:05:06I can totally feel the holiday stress over here on the naughty side.

01:05:10Five minutes, bakers.

01:05:11Love that, love that.

01:05:13Wow, this is gorgeous.

01:05:15Y'all need to get your desserts on here.

01:05:17Got a pile of lobs coming on your way.

01:05:19This is your two-minute warning.

01:05:21Can you take this cookie so I don't mess it up?

01:05:24What am I dusting?

01:05:25I don't want to screw somebody's stuff up.

01:05:27Houses only.

01:05:28Rock sugar.

01:05:29Get some of this as, like, kind of a sheen.

01:05:3130 seconds left.

01:05:33Here, give me a handful.

01:05:34Our display is just chaos and not organized, and not organized chaos either.

01:05:42Ten seconds left.

01:05:44More, more, more, more, more, more.

01:05:45This looks so adorable.

01:05:48Just go.

01:05:49It's hailed.

01:05:51All right, bakers, that's it.

01:05:53That's it.

01:05:54Yes, everybody, yes.

01:05:56Woo!

01:05:56I can't believe how we came together to make our village.

01:06:00It was incredible.

01:06:02Samba!

01:06:03Yes!

01:06:04Lord help me.

01:06:06Okay, not only does this look like a tornado came through, but we look like a tornado came through.

01:06:12I am both confident and nervous.

01:06:15I'm super confident about my dessert itself, but I'm a little disheartened by our display.

01:06:22We're really needing to hone in on that teamwork.

01:06:26All right, judges, our bakers and our teams made an edible holiday village for you all.

01:06:34One baker's going to win immunity for their entire team.

01:06:37The Naughty team took it away last round.

01:06:39Let's see if they can do it again.

01:06:42What's going on here?

01:06:43What is this red stuff?

01:06:44It's burning.

01:06:45This is a naughty town.

01:06:46Oh, it is burning.

01:06:47They are burning.

01:06:48Okay.

01:06:48This is the South Pole.

01:06:50We wanted to focus on the reds and blacks, where we create all the coal at our coal factory.

01:06:55A coal factory is a mine, right?

01:06:57I like that there is fire.

01:07:00The thing is, you got fire everywhere, and then you got a big pile of wood that's not on fire.

01:07:05It doesn't feel that cohesive or team-centered.

01:07:10I can't put anything really together.

01:07:15All right, bakers, why don't you head on back to the coffee shop?

01:07:17We'll bring you out for tasting one by one.

01:07:18Yeah, that display didn't really work.

01:07:22I was very focused on my own dessert, admittedly, so I wasn't really the best team player.

01:07:27Oh, boy.

01:07:28Oh, gosh.

01:07:29Well, that was...

01:07:30Brutal.

01:07:31Brutal.

01:07:31Yeah.

01:07:32I think maybe if our downfall was not working together as much as a team on the display,

01:07:36I think our strength was working together with the flavors and, like, with the taste of the individual desserts.

01:07:41And if that's what counts for the immunity, I think we have good odds with that.

01:07:44Let's bring in Charles now.

01:07:47Hey, Charles, welcome back.

01:07:49I made the world's largest chunk of coal.

01:07:53So it is a black cocoa devil's food cake with a peppermint marshmallow and a peppermint chocolate buttercream.

01:08:00This is naughty.

01:08:01I like how you took that lump of coal idea on the outside and kept it going inside with a layer of that devil's food cake.

01:08:08I love that.

01:08:10They are beautiful layers, yeah.

01:08:15Lovely.

01:08:16Oh.

01:08:17Your cake's great.

01:08:18It's really tender.

01:08:19The peppermint frosting is perfect.

01:08:23But the marshmallow is just way too firm.

01:08:29Hey, Jim.

01:08:29Hey.

01:08:30Tell us what you made.

01:08:30I made the little Christmas tree.

01:08:33It's a orange with a little bit of cinnamon, a stacked sugar cookie.

01:08:38I like that you went with a cookie stacked tree.

01:08:43I agree.

01:08:44But you're at the holiday baking championship, so I think you need to give us more than just a sugar cookie.

01:08:52Right.

01:08:53It's a little dry.

01:08:56I wanted a little more butter.

01:08:58I just want some more richness.

01:08:59Oh, my God.

01:09:00It's such a thin layer of that ganache.

01:09:02It needs something to kind of wake it up.

01:09:05And that ganache could have done it.

01:09:07Okay.

01:09:08All right, Gia.

01:09:08Thank you so much.

01:09:11If this is what we're being presented in two and a half hours, I'm concerned.

01:09:16Not great.

01:09:17They're being really, really, really hard.

01:09:19They really are.

01:09:19Yes, this is an elimination challenge.

01:09:26Ashley.

01:09:28Hi, judges.

01:09:29Pre-heat champion.

01:09:32They're going to wave.

01:09:33They're going to wave over this.

01:09:34All right, tell us what dessert you made.

01:09:36So what I've made is an oatmeal cream pie with maple and cranberry bourbon compote.

01:09:42Knowing you hate cranberry but love bourbon, Nancy, I tried to merge the two together.

01:09:48Well, it's a naughty-looking cookie.

01:09:50Well, let's find out how it tastes.

01:09:57Mmm.

01:09:59It's so buttery.

01:10:01Right?

01:10:01Oh, I need a cigarette.

01:10:05Wait, what does that even mean?

01:10:07It is so luscious and gooey and lovely.

01:10:10You made me like cranberry.

01:10:16Unbelievable.

01:10:17Unbelievable.

01:10:18Oh, my gosh.

01:10:21It warms my heart, Nancy.

01:10:22Well, I'm glad.

01:10:23It sure did warm mine.

01:10:28Hello, judges.

01:10:29Hi, Daniel.

01:10:30Hi.

01:10:31All right, Daniel.

01:10:32Why don't you tell us what dessert you made?

01:10:33I have the miniature brownie yule logs.

01:10:36I decorated it with a coffee ganache with some candied pecans on the top.

01:10:41I need it to be a little bit more tightened up.

01:10:43It's a little messy.

01:10:45The texture was great with the pecans.

01:10:48The pecans were wonderful.

01:10:49And I did not get a lot of coffee, but I love that because I'm not a big fan of coffee.

01:10:55Did you burn these?

01:10:58They're a little smoky.

01:10:59Yes.

01:10:59So the springform pan decided to leak a bit inside of the oven.

01:11:05The smoky flavor kind of adds to the story.

01:11:07It is very naughty.

01:11:08I like it.

01:11:09I like it a lot.

01:11:10You inadvertently smoked your brownies.

01:11:14Brownie smoked brownie.

01:11:15Thank you very much, judges.

01:11:16Thanks, Daniel.

01:11:19Tark, welcome.

01:11:20Okay, so what was your contribution?

01:11:21So I made the bonfire in the village.

01:11:24And what it is is a key lime and blackberry pie with a hint of white rum.

01:11:28Your pie looks great, though.

01:11:30The meringue looks awesome.

01:11:31The flames are really cool.

01:11:35I get the blackberry and the key lime automatically.

01:11:38The meringue is a little broken.

01:11:40Overwhipped.

01:11:40It's overwhipped.

01:11:41And I don't have any crust.

01:11:44There's not enough of it, and it's not crispy enough.

01:11:47You know your flavors.

01:11:49You got to dial in on the execution.

01:11:52Thank you, Tarek.

01:11:54I just think it was too soft and no texture.

01:11:58Yeah.

01:12:01Hi.

01:12:02Nico, welcome.

01:12:03Yes, so I made the peri breast layers of lemon curd and black sesame creme mousseline.

01:12:12Um, I don't know.

01:12:14Is it a wreath?

01:12:15I wasn't sure exactly what you were trying to, like, put across to us.

01:12:21But I love the amount of filling we got in here.

01:12:24This is naughty.

01:12:26You're pat-of-shoes got a nice crunch on the outside.

01:12:33We got a ton of filling, which is great.

01:12:35But I could use a little more of the lemon.

01:12:37Are you serious?

01:12:39I would put just a tad bit more zest in it.

01:12:41Hood, thank you.

01:12:44We don't have time for that.

01:12:45There is not quite enough zip.

01:12:50Hood.

01:12:51All right, Nico, thanks.

01:12:53Whatever.

01:12:54Whatever.

01:12:55All right, so judges, let's check out what the nice team did.

01:12:58Come on.

01:12:58Okay.

01:12:59I'm excited.

01:13:00I don't know what the judges have in store for us, but I think our village looks great.

01:13:06Look at this.

01:13:08Wow.

01:13:08This is fabulous.

01:13:10All the paths.

01:13:11Look at that.

01:13:11The idea for the village is bring the community spirit together.

01:13:16That's why every single house have your own sidewalk.

01:13:20Oh, there's a mini cake.

01:13:22I love this, like, igloo thing.

01:13:24It's awesome.

01:13:26Judges, I should point out the nice team here wasn't allowed to use any chocolate in flavor or in decoration.

01:13:34What they thought may be naughty might be an advantage.

01:13:39That's true.

01:13:39Well, I'll call you in here one at a time.

01:13:42For tasting the presentation.

01:13:46All right, judges, the nice team hit it out of the park on presentation, but let's see if it tastes as good as it looks.

01:13:52Let's bring in Erin.

01:13:53Oh.

01:13:54You got it, baby girl.

01:13:54You got it.

01:13:55You got it.

01:13:56I hope the judges will say you paid attention to what we told you in your last bake.

01:14:01The dessert that I made is a soft gingerbread cookie filled with a cream cheese frosting and a little apricot jelly in the belly.

01:14:10Listen, if you're going to spend two and a half hours and just make cookies, they better look beautiful.

01:14:14And these look beautiful.

01:14:16That is a very nice little gingerbread man.

01:14:27Delicious cookie.

01:14:28And I love this apricot inside.

01:14:33It smells very good.

01:14:34The cream cheese is nice.

01:14:36I think it's a little too sweet.

01:14:37All I'm getting is powdered sugar.

01:14:39Cookie by itself is excellent.

01:14:41Erin, thank you.

01:14:44Hi, judges.

01:14:45Hi, Cameron.

01:14:46So I made ginger, citrus, olive oil, fun cakes with a cranberry, pistachio, creme mousseline on the top.

01:14:54What I noticed about the wreath on the actual display is that your piping is inconsistent.

01:15:00You need to embellish the top more, spread it out a little further, and put a bow.

01:15:06All right.

01:15:07I'll just eat it.

01:15:08It's going to be great.

01:15:09I'm getting ginger, and there's a little citrus.

01:15:17Very nice.

01:15:18I just want more of it.

01:15:20I want it to wow me.

01:15:22Technique is there.

01:15:24We've got to work on the flavor.

01:15:26Thank you, chefs.

01:15:27That's a little scary, but I have the utmost faith in my team.

01:15:31Giancarlos, welcome.

01:15:32I made teddy bears.

01:15:34It's filled up with pistachio pastry cream and cranberries.

01:15:39I'm sorry, Giancarlos, but, like, I'm a cyclops.

01:15:42I have, like, one eye.

01:15:43Really?

01:15:44Yeah.

01:15:44No, there's two.

01:15:45They're just real close together.

01:15:47He's blinking.

01:15:48Uh-huh, uh-huh.

01:15:54Mmm.

01:15:56Gaheeze!

01:15:57That is delicious.

01:16:00It is so crispy and crunchy on the outside.

01:16:04But I thought that the cranberry filling, there was too much of it, and it needed more sugar.

01:16:11Yeah.

01:16:11Muito obrigado.

01:16:15Hey, Violet.

01:16:16Welcome back.

01:16:16Hello.

01:16:17I made little snowman macarons.

01:16:20I filled them with an almond buttercream and a raspberry filling.

01:16:23That is a cute little snowman.

01:16:25I love the soft pink nose instead of the typical orange carrot nose.

01:16:29I'm getting nice.

01:16:31I am getting very nice.

01:16:37I think your macaron itself may have been in the oven, I would say, a minute or two

01:16:42too long.

01:16:42It's a little hotter in the oven and a little faster.

01:16:45Cool.

01:16:45That's it.

01:16:45Yeah.

01:16:46Sweet.

01:16:47But all your flavors meld beautifully together.

01:16:50Yeah, I'm going to have another bite.

01:16:53Nice job.

01:16:54Thanks.

01:16:56Hello, judges.

01:16:57Alex, welcome back.

01:16:58I made a spiced chiffon cake with a mulled orange curd and a rum Swiss buttercream with

01:17:06a lovely little Christmas tree.

01:17:08In the time that you were given, the fact that you made a mini cake that's very clean.

01:17:13I think you, yes, we made up for the preheat and the little.

01:17:19Yes.

01:17:19So worried.

01:17:23This layers.

01:17:24Oh, it looks so good.

01:17:26The cake is delicious.

01:17:27The frosting is delicious.

01:17:28But the curd, it's odd.

01:17:32I kind of like the oddness of the curd.

01:17:36You know, it isn't acidic, but I think it goes well with, like, the texture and the mood

01:17:42of the cake.

01:17:42Yeah.

01:17:42It's very vibey.

01:17:43Keep taking chances.

01:17:45Yes, ma'am.

01:17:46All right, Alex.

01:17:46Thanks so much.

01:17:47Thank you, Alex.

01:17:48Thank you so much.

01:17:49I'm feeling very nervous.

01:17:50I don't know where we stand.

01:17:53See what happens.

01:17:56All right.

01:17:56Let's bring in Chase.

01:17:59Good to see you again, Chase.

01:18:01It's good to see you.

01:18:01I made a toasted coconut brown butter chest pie with a Swiss meringue igloo on top.

01:18:07I like that it's sort of like a little community of igloos.

01:18:10You know, it's really nice.

01:18:11Like, I'm salivating just looking at this.

01:18:13And if it doesn't taste good, I'm going to be, like, physically maddy.

01:18:16The wait is over.

01:18:23Go for it.

01:18:25Oh.

01:18:28You did hear it quite.

01:18:29You did hear it quite.

01:18:30It's good.

01:18:32Oh.

01:18:33Filthy.

01:18:34Listen up, nice boy.

01:18:36I'd like this recipe.

01:18:39This is probably the best crust I've ever had on this show.

01:18:43Oh, my gosh.

01:18:44Why?

01:18:44He's going to rise.

01:18:45We got it.

01:18:46We did it.

01:18:47I really like the sort of coconut-y stuff layer on top.

01:18:50It is rich.

01:18:52It is buttery.

01:18:53This is indicative of a well-baked pie shell.

01:18:57You can hold it.

01:19:00Oh, you got it.

01:19:01The fingers.

01:19:03Chase, you're doing the thing.

01:19:06The fingers.

01:19:08Chase, nice job.

01:19:09Get out of here before they say anything negative.

01:19:11Go.

01:19:11Thank you so much.

01:19:12For another slice.

01:19:13Oh, my gosh.

01:19:15Chase, Chase, Chase, Chase, Chase, Chase, Chase, Chase.

01:19:21Oh, he's crying.

01:19:22Boy.

01:19:23We told you you were taking it home.

01:19:24You brought it home.

01:19:26She wanted your recipe.

01:19:27I know.

01:19:28She wanted your recipe.

01:19:29Don't give it to her.

01:19:33Here's the thing, judges.

01:19:34A decision now has to be made.

01:19:36One baker's going to win immunity for their entire team.

01:19:38And on the losing side, we're going to lose one baker today.

01:19:42Have you made your decisions?

01:19:44I have.

01:19:45Yeah.

01:19:49I'm still struggling.

01:19:50You can get back to me in about 24 hours.

01:19:56Bakers, you literally built miniatures of this place with desserts everywhere.

01:20:02And the judges have named a top treat from each team.

01:20:05From the naughty team, Ashley, your oatmeal cream pie was absolutely luscious.

01:20:21Cartier put a doggy bag in her purse to take home.

01:20:25I did.

01:20:27I did.

01:20:30And from the nice team, Chase.

01:20:36Yes.

01:20:37That chest pie was ridiculous.

01:20:40Your crust was sublime.

01:20:42And that filling was absolutely delicious.

01:20:46Of course.

01:20:47But only one of you can claim the win, which means you'll earn immunity for your entire team.

01:20:56Nice steaks.

01:20:57Nice steaks.

01:20:58And that baker is...

01:21:00And that baker is...

01:21:03Chase.

01:21:06Yes!

01:21:07Yes!

01:21:07Oh!

01:21:08Oh, my God!

01:21:09Thank God!

01:21:10I'm over the moon saving the nice team from elimination.

01:21:14Team nice, you can all sleep easy tonight.

01:21:16Team nice, team nice, team nice, team nice, team nice, team nice, team nice, team nice.

01:21:20It just goes to show teamwork pays off.

01:21:22All right.

01:21:24That, of course, means that Team Naughty now is up for elimination.

01:21:27Now, besides your best dessert maker, Ashley, a few more of you built a stable enough foundation

01:21:32to stick around.

01:21:35Nico.

01:21:38Charles.

01:21:39Charles.

01:21:41And...

01:21:47Daniel.

01:21:49You're all coming back.

01:21:51Okay.

01:21:52That, of course, leaves Gia and Tarek.

01:21:55You were the bottom two performers on your team, so please step forward.

01:22:01Gia.

01:22:02The cookie itself was a little dry and would have benefited from more ganache.

01:22:08Tarek.

01:22:09Your meringue was overwhipped and the crust really crumbled.

01:22:14Unfortunately, the baker heading out is...

01:22:17Tarek.

01:22:18Tarek.

01:22:19Tarek.

01:22:20Tarek.

01:22:21Tarek.

01:22:22Tarek.

01:22:23Tarek.

01:22:24Tarek.

01:22:25Tarek.

01:22:26Tarek.

01:22:27Tarek.

01:22:28Tarek.

01:22:29Tarek.

01:22:30Tarek.

01:22:31Tarek.

01:22:32Tarek.

01:22:33Tarek.

01:22:34Tarek.

01:22:35Tarek.

01:22:36Mental game, great.

01:22:38And it showed.

01:22:41Thank you, Gia.

01:22:42Bye, Gia.

01:22:42We love you, Gia.

01:22:43See you later.

01:22:46In the most exciting season ever on a holiday

01:22:48baking championship.

01:22:49Let's do this.

01:22:50The battle of naughty versus nice fires up the holiday village.

01:22:54Oh, God, food now, please don't cancel me.

01:22:57Really, seriously, I need everybody

01:22:59to stop going in the blast chiller,

01:23:01because if that doesn't set, my cake won't come out.

01:23:03That's one last chance, OK?

01:23:05Woo!

01:23:06Naughty team is crumbling.

01:23:08I just don't think they're handling it very well.

01:23:10In the heat of competition, the teams pull together.

01:23:13I will not lose this for us.

01:23:15Oh, my God.

01:23:16Thank you, guys.

01:23:16You guys are freaking amazing.

01:23:19I made magic happen with that.

01:23:20Oh, yes.

01:23:21Whoa.

01:23:23This is divine.

01:23:25No!

01:23:26And pull apart.

01:23:28That's no blame.

01:23:29Ashley seems to be dominating this team at the moment,

01:23:31and I think it's time to dethrone her.

01:23:33She didn't hear any of that.

01:23:36This sucks.

01:23:37It's a drama.

01:23:38This is not a great plate.

01:23:40I'm scared, though, that I'm going to go home if we don't win it.

01:23:43Only one of these talented bakers will navigate this merry madness

01:23:46to become holiday baking champion, but who will it be?

01:23:50Say a prayer.

01:23:51This is my world.

01:23:52Let the best bakers win.

01:23:54Let the best bakers win.

Holiday Baking Championship - Season 12 Episode 01- Welcome to the Holiday Village

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