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00:00Hey, bakers, who wants to make it into the finale?
00:02Me!
00:03Hey.
00:04Last time, the bakers created animal helper desserts.
00:07Can I put this in the bus?
00:08No, we actually...
00:09Oh, sorry.
00:10Abigail and Kenneth grabbed the win.
00:13You can see, it's like water, right?
00:15It's just like cherry juice.
00:16And Macy and Emmett's run came to an end.
00:19I'm so sorry, you two.
00:20Now, you're in the finale!
00:24The baking championship next-gen finale.
00:39We're so excited that we made it into the finale.
00:41We never, like, really thought that we would actually make it this far.
00:44Out of 24 great bakers, we would be part of the top three.
00:48Hi, bakers, congratulations!
00:50You made it to the finale!
00:56It was a tough road getting here, and believe me,
00:59it's not about to get any easier, because so much is on the line.
01:05We've put you through challenges that tested your skills,
01:09tested your ability to work as a team,
01:12and tested your nerves.
01:14Yeah.
01:15And the entire time, you were all headed for this momentous final challenge.
01:21The last gauntlet that will determine everything.
01:25Today, you three teams are going to battle it out,
01:29and the winning team will leave here as next-gen baking champions with $25,000.
01:40I'm here to win.
01:41If we lost, I would do what I did when we lost the soccer tournament
01:46by one goal with two minutes left in Decatur.
01:49What'd you do?
01:51Go to my room for the rest of the day.
01:55But to get your hands on all that cash,
01:59you'll have to take on the most diabolical challenge we could come up with.
02:03Very comforting.
02:06This will test everything you've learned so far.
02:10Okay.
02:10Siblings are the ultimate team,
02:12and you'll need to rely on each other more than ever.
02:16Ready to find out what it is?
02:18Yes!
02:20I'm going to show you how to make a zoetrope cake.
02:25A what?
02:26That sounds fancy.
02:27The zoetrope was one of the first ways people experienced animation in the 1800s.
02:33Now, here is a simple round cake.
02:37Now, I put decorations on it in a pattern that, when you spin it,
02:41makes them look like they're moving up and down.
02:44I have one last diamond to add to the pattern.
02:48They rolled out some fondant.
02:50Now, I'm going to use a cookie cutter,
02:53because I want all these shapes to be the same to really pull off the illusion.
02:59So here's my last diamond, but plain fondant's a little boring.
03:06Yeah.
03:06So what I'm going to do is edge it with a lighter color to add a little more dimension,
03:11and it becomes a lot more interesting.
03:16In order to make it look animated when you spin it,
03:19you have to evenly space out your decorations.
03:22And to create the idea of movement, you need to place them at different heights.
03:28Okay, yeah.
03:29Now, here's the magic part.
03:32If I spin this, you'll see the decorations going up and down like it's animated.
03:40Whoa.
03:41Whoa.
03:42Look at that.
03:42That's like, it's like, it's cool.
03:45Yeah, that's crazy.
03:46I like this challenge.
03:47It's really cool.
03:48Wow.
03:49Sometimes using one of these can really help you see the animation.
03:52So I want to pass them out to you.
03:54Cool.
03:54Yeah.
03:55That's cool.
03:56Okay, now, once your cake is ready, use your own cake wheel, put your cake on top, spin it,
04:03use a paddle, and see if your animation is working.
04:06And if it's not, you can adjust, make sure that everything is evenly spaced,
04:10and make sure you have that up and down.
04:13Okay, bakers, in order to become baking champs,
04:17you'll have to create your very own animated cake.
04:20This challenge is all about working together.
04:23So we want to give a little advantage to the team who won the most recent challenge,
04:28and that is Abigail and Kenneth.
04:32Duff and I selected three shapes to feature on your animated cakes.
04:36We have hearts, stars, and flowers.
04:44Abigail and Kenneth, you two will get to assign each team their shape.
04:48So, which shape do you want for yourselves?
04:51Stars.
04:52Yeah, but stars, they have, like, flimsy points.
04:54This choice could definitely help us win.
04:56I'm going to be extremely strategic about it.
04:59We'll take hearts.
05:01We'll take hearts.
05:01Oh.
05:02Hearts it is.
05:04Can we get stars?
05:05Stars.
05:07Stars.
05:07Okay.
05:09Now, who gets stars?
05:12Jesus.
05:14Kira and Leah.
05:15Kira and Leah.
05:16Why is that?
05:17Because they have flimsy points.
05:19Because they have flimsy points, and they're hard.
05:21What?
05:22Shots fired.
05:24What is happening?
05:25It's going to be I'm using a cookie cutter.
05:27Yeah.
05:28I give the stars to Kira and Leah because they do have confidence in their fondant work,
05:34but the stars are pointy, and they can break.
05:37You are playing to win, Abigail, and I love it.
05:40Okay, so that means Genesis and Akbar, you are getting flowers.
05:46And then the flowers, they're also very breakable.
05:49Just cross my fingers that neither team can deal with it.
05:51Yeah, well, in the finale, you kind of have to play to win.
05:55You got to play to win.
05:56That's right, Kenneth.
05:57There's 25K on the line.
05:58All right.
05:59To walk away champions, you've got to create insanely delicious and visually stunning animated cakes.
06:09Okay.
06:09Okay.
06:10Okay.
06:11It can be one or two tiers, up to you.
06:13But remember, this is the finale.
06:18We're giving you five hours for this challenge.
06:22Yes!
06:23Five hours.
06:24Because you're going to need it.
06:25Yeah.
06:26Yes.
06:26Oh, that's comforting.
06:28You need to get the measurements, flavors, and decorations just right.
06:32So if we do want to win, we have to work hard for it.
06:35Take a deep breath.
06:38Because your baking time starts now.
06:44Oh, wait, we're right here.
06:45Oh, gosh.
06:47I was thinking we'd do a double-tiered cake with a chocolate.
06:51Uh-huh.
06:52Chocolate cake with, like, uh, ketifee filling, pistachios, sorry, buttercream.
07:00Uh-huh.
07:00Wait, that's such a good idea.
07:01Let's do a...
07:03I'm just going to say a crunch cake because we haven't done that at all.
07:05Okay.
07:06With a caramel buttercream, and we're going to do, like, our design stuff.
07:09Abby, wait!
07:10Mm-hmm.
07:11I need you to tie my apron.
07:14I'll just get a bunch of flour and sugar.
07:17Yeah.
07:17I want to win all of it really badly right now because we made it this far.
07:21Might as well win.
07:22Ooh.
07:23Um.
07:24Lame.
07:26We made it this far.
07:28I want to win it so that I can take $2,000 and buy everything I want.
07:34He wants to be the baking champion because he wants fame and fortune.
07:37I want to be the baking champion because I want to be the baking champion because that's
07:42the part I want.
07:44We haven't made chocolate cake yet in this competition, and I make a really good chocolate cake.
07:49So we are making a chocolate cake with blackberry filling and hazelnuts.
07:56I really like the pop of blackberry with chocolate.
08:00Oh, yeah.
08:01Our plan to decorate is have our bottom tier be very, very pale sunset colors with the orange
08:08hearts as our zoetrope.
08:10And then the top tier will be darker sunset colors that says, heart of the land.
08:17Here's your coffee.
08:18I wanted to read heart of the land because that's basically what our entire life revolves
08:23around, is land.
08:26We have 3,000 acres of farm ground that we farm.
08:29And we grow corn and soybeans.
08:33So everything we do everywhere we go revolves around what season it is and how good we're
08:41doing with the grain.
08:42Why do we put coffee in chocolate cake?
08:44I don't know.
08:45The coffee is often used with chocolate because it brings out chocolate flavor.
08:50As long as you don't use too much.
08:52Through the competition, Duff and Cartier have wanted to see more flavors from us.
08:58I think that this cake is going to win it all for us because it's delicious.
09:02There's multiple different flavors working together and it's going to be beautiful.
09:09How's it going, guys?
09:10Good.
09:11Pretty good.
09:11How are you guys doing?
09:12We're doing good.
09:13This is truly the biggest challenge these kids will ever take on in this kitchen.
09:18Absolutely.
09:20$25,000.
09:21It smells amazing.
09:23We haven't done anything like a zoetrope cake before.
09:26I think it's going to be pretty difficult for us because we've just had a lot of issues
09:32with decorating.
09:33So we have to make a big decorated cake.
09:36I think we can do it, though.
09:37Yeah.
09:38We can do it.
09:38I think we can do it, though.
09:39All right.
09:40Genesis and Akbar.
09:41Hi.
09:42You guys made it to the finale.
09:45Yes.
09:45Yes.
09:46How do you feel?
09:47I feel really good.
09:48How's your journey, making it through challenges, going up and down, because you've been in
09:53the bottom, and winning?
09:55It's, like, kind of still mind-blowing because I didn't even think we'd make it this far.
09:58So it's still setting in.
10:01It's still setting in.
10:01Like, right.
10:02You've got to stay in the moment while you can, but also keep your eye on the prize.
10:06Yes.
10:07What are you going to do with your half of the money?
10:09We're going to give each of our siblings $1,000.
10:12Yeah.
10:12That's awfully generous.
10:14Yeah.
10:14I want to use it to keep starting on my business, but obviously I'm going to spend, like, a
10:19little.
10:19A little, you know.
10:20Yeah.
10:20A new pair of sneakers.
10:21Yes.
10:22I'm going to go shopping.
10:23Hey, I know that's right.
10:24Get me some new drawing supplies.
10:27Nice.
10:28So what kind of cake are you making?
10:29So we're making a sweet potato upside-down crunch cake with a caramel buttercream.
10:33What?
10:35Upside-down?
10:35Yeah, so it's, so it has, like, the bottom of it is a graham cracker crumbs, like, crust.
10:39Yeah.
10:40And it'll have sweet potato pie filling, then it's like a cake filling.
10:42Uh-huh.
10:42And you'll turn it upside down so the crust is on top.
10:45You're baking in a crunch layer.
10:47Yes.
10:48Have you done this before?
10:50Yes.
10:50Okay.
10:51What's your shape?
10:52Flowers.
10:52Flowers.
10:53Yes.
10:53Okay.
10:54So we're going to do pink flowers with green stems to look like the flowers are growing.
11:00Nice.
11:00And then we'll top the cake with yellow buttercream swirls, blue-coated chocolate flowers, and fondant lollipops.
11:08I need to get out of the way.
11:09Yeah.
11:10Pretty much.
11:10I got it.
11:11I got a cue.
11:11All right.
11:12Bye.
11:13I'm putting my cake batter onto my sweet potato crunch filling.
11:18So we want to do sweet potato pie filling in the finale because we have done a sweet potato
11:24pie filling before, and the judges really liked it.
11:27Your sweet potato pie filling is so luscious.
11:31It's delicious.
11:32Wow.
11:33And this is like sweet potato pie in a cake.
11:42Slow down.
11:43From the trials to come to the finale, we've been in the top a couple times, we've won a
11:47couple times, we haven't been in the bottom yet, and we're super, like, excited and anxious
11:54at the same time because this is our final bake.
11:57It needs to be very impressive and still tastes good and look good, and so it's definitely a
12:00lot, but we're so excited and we're so close.
12:03We really want to earn that money.
12:05We're going to do buy chocolate-themed cake with a chocolate cake and strawberry buttercream
12:10with kataifi and our pistachio butter filling.
12:13So our inspiration for our flavor, our cake, is the Fire World Dubai chocolates, and then
12:17more recently, people have been adding, doing, like, cups with them, which, where it's, like,
12:22cut up strawberries with the kataifi mixture and the chocolate.
12:26How's it going?
12:27Done.
12:28So Duff and Cardia have been telling us for this whole competition to make sure our flavors
12:33are super-duper balanced, bold, and bright.
12:36Yeah, so we're going to focus on that.
12:37The shape that we got assigned is stars.
12:40I'm actually fine with stars because I like making things gold, and gold stars are really
12:43pretty.
12:44So we're planning to decorate the 10-inch with kind of do some splatters of chocolate, and
12:49we want to put the words next-gen on it in gold to match our gold stars, and the 8
12:53-inch
12:53is going to be our galaxy buttercream with the stars, and then we're planning to put kind
12:58of, like, a sun on top.
13:00It's just nice and smooth.
13:02We've never made this cake.
13:03We've made all components separately, but never in a cake.
13:06So this is definitely something new, and doing something new on the finale can be risky,
13:11but it also can work out really well.
13:13A little bit more.
13:14Yeah, it's good.
13:14So that one's got a little bit more.
13:15Oh, that's a lot.
13:16Well, it's fine.
13:18Are you sure?
13:18Mm-hmm.
13:19We put our batter in our pans, weighing them to make sure we have about the same amount
13:23in each pan.
13:24Do you think that's enough?
13:25We're one cake pan short.
13:27We're going to have to make more batter.
13:29Four hours left, bakers.
13:31Oh, no.
13:32This is really going to slow us down.
13:39So we were one cake pan short of batter, so we have to make more batter in order to keep
13:46going.
13:46We had to quickly make some more batter so we can get our cakes in the oven, so we'll
13:51have enough time to do everything else.
13:53Three.
13:54Three and a half hours left.
13:55It all comes down to this cake.
13:59Aqua.
14:00Aqua.
14:00Aqua, come here.
14:01Come here.
14:04Off.
14:06Come over here.
14:07Oh, ooh.
14:07Oh.
14:08Mama Genesis is in the building.
14:10Yeah.
14:10What?
14:11You need to come help me get these cakes out of the thing, man.
14:13It's the pressure.
14:14Oh, my gosh.
14:15It's the pressure.
14:16Wow.
14:16Can I use your, um, uh, hand mitts?
14:19Up and mitts?
14:19Yeah, sure.
14:21Off bar.
14:25Make sure you stir this.
14:27Can I?
14:28Got it.
14:29I have seen so much growth from Abigail and Kenneth.
14:33Yeah.
14:34I think Kenneth is the reason why they're in the finale.
14:37Yeah.
14:37Not only has Kenneth stepped up, Abigail has allowed him to step up.
14:43Yes.
14:43Can you sit on a cooling rack?
14:44Because I have three cakes.
14:46Yep.
14:48Abigail and Kenneth.
14:49Hello.
14:50Okay, so do you think the day that you walked into tryouts that you would be here in the finale
14:56today?
14:56Not really.
14:57If I worked hard enough.
14:59Oh, I like that.
15:00Throughout this journey, it's been up and down, right?
15:02Mm-hmm.
15:03There's a pass challenge you guys won for the very first time.
15:06How did that feel?
15:07It felt great.
15:08It was good.
15:09Yeah.
15:09What if you win?
15:11$25,000.
15:12That'd be awesome.
15:13I promised my whole family paintball guns, so I would buy them that, and then I'd probably
15:17just, uh, invest it until I'm 18 and then I could buy a farm.
15:20Wow.
15:21What would you do, Kenneth?
15:22I'd buy a 3D printer and then invest it in the stock market.
15:25Excuse me?
15:26Do you know about the stock market?
15:28I do.
15:29I've played the stock and bonds multiple times.
15:32If I have a little extra money and I want to put it in the market, what should I invest
15:34in right now?
15:35Well, it depends how much money you're willing to spend, because if you have a good amount
15:41of money that you want to put into it...
15:43I have $25,000.
15:44No, that's ours.
15:45I definitely...
15:46Ooh.
15:46Ooh, ooh.
15:48Ooh, kitchen, did you hear that?
15:50Oh, ho, ho, ho.
15:51Ooh.
15:52It's getting spicy.
15:55Let's hope for the best, all right?
15:56Yes.
15:56Bye.
15:57You can save this whenever.
15:58Okay.
15:58To assemble the cakes, I put in blackberry buttercream.
16:02I'm going to put a thin thing of buttercream right there.
16:04Put in the blackberry filling, and then sprinkle a generous amount of hazelnuts on top.
16:10Some of them are going to be whole.
16:12Duff, those hazelnuts are huge.
16:15Yeah, they'll chop them up, right?
16:17I hope so.
16:18All right, I'm going to blast chill this one, and then do the other.
16:22Akbar, you started fondant?
16:24Yeah.
16:24My main focus in this challenge is decorating, so I'm making the flowers out of fondant, and
16:30painting the edges yellow, it probably might give a little more dimension to it.
16:34Oh, this is looking nice.
16:36You know, Kari, this is interesting.
16:37We did shout-outs in the try-outs...
16:39Mm-hmm.
16:40...of people who did well in different categories.
16:42We did.
16:42Mm-hmm.
16:43Genesis and Akbar got a shout-out for flavor.
16:46They did.
16:46And look at them now.
16:47They're here.
16:48In the finale.
16:49Yeah.
16:49Making a cake, which we know they're amazing at.
16:52Yeah.
16:53But some of their decorating has been a little iffy.
16:56A little rocky.
16:57And that's because of time management.
16:58Now they've got five hours.
17:00Yes.
17:00If they use their time right, I don't think anybody in here can bake a cake as well as this
17:05team.
17:05Ooh.
17:07I did it.
17:07Okay.
17:08Ooh.
17:08To start stacking my cake, I start with a layer of my crunch cake, a layer of buttercream,
17:13another layer of crunch cake, and then I repeat until my cake is built.
17:20Wait.
17:21How do I open this?
17:24Oh.
17:26Got the cake done.
17:27Oh, sorry.
17:28Make sure you're getting all the edges.
17:30Mm-hmm.
17:30For our Dubai filling, we just combine our pistachio butter and toasted kataifi together.
17:35This is kataifi, and it is a Middle Eastern and Mediterranean shredded pastry.
17:41It's a good texture for the cake.
17:43It's really crunchy.
17:44It's also going to add a lot of flavor, and so I think the judges will really love it.
17:48To make the pistachio butter, I start by blending my pistachios, so I add a little bit
17:52of coconut oil and melt it, and then I add, like, three or four tablespoons of tahini
17:57into it.
17:58All right.
17:59Kataifi's done.
18:00We combine both our kataifi and our pistachio butter.
18:04Look at that.
18:06Oh.
18:06Are you doing, like, a Dubai chocolate thing?
18:08Oh, yeah.
18:09Right.
18:10Leah and Kira's flavor journey has been up and down.
18:14They've made some stuff that's been beautiful and not delicious.
18:18Yep.
18:18But they have made some stuff that has been delicious.
18:22Can the kataifi mixture go in the middle?
18:24When all of our components are ready, we start to assemble.
18:27Okay, we'll put this here.
18:28I start by piping some strawberry buttercream, add a mixture in, and then I do all my layers.
18:33Three layers is so crazy, Kira.
18:34I started making two batches of buttercream.
18:37One was white and one was black.
18:38To make it black, I had a black cocoa and a little bit of black dye.
18:42Kira, can you try it again?
18:46Mmm.
18:47Oh, Kira, you're all black.
18:49I am?
18:49Your mouth is...
18:51Smile.
18:54That's hilarious.
18:55Once it's all stacked, I started piping the black cake.
18:58It's supposed to represent, like, space.
19:00It's kind of like a galaxy.
19:01And I start making the stars.
19:03Leah and Kira, you guys got stars.
19:06Hello.
19:07Look at that.
19:09So, Kira, your half of the cake could be worth $12,500.
19:13Yes.
19:14What are you going to do if you win?
19:15Um, honestly, I'm going to save a lot of it, you know, for college and stuff.
19:19And I'm going to definitely buy another stand mixer, more equipment for, you know, my home little bakery.
19:26Yeah.
19:26Um, I'm probably going to save most of it, and I'll probably buy some new horse stuff.
19:31Perfect.
19:32Okay, what are we making here?
19:34Okay, so these are the stars for our galaxy-themed cake.
19:38A galaxy?
19:39Do you guys like space?
19:40Yeah, I think space is pretty cool.
19:42Yeah?
19:42Whoa, that looks awesome.
19:44Awesome space?
19:45I just want to watch this happen for a second.
19:47Okay.
19:48This one is going to be where our, um...
19:51Zoetrope.
19:52Zoetrope.
19:52I always forget the name.
19:55Zoetrope's stars are going to move along and look like it's animated.
19:59Awesome.
19:59Good luck, ladies.
20:01Do a good job.
20:02Then I take buttercream and I make white speckles to look kind of like more stars, I guess.
20:07Jira, do you think this is done?
20:09Do whatever you think, Leah.
20:10Two hours left.
20:11How are you guys doing on your cakes?
20:13They're doing pretty good.
20:15Good.
20:16Nice.
20:18I want to add some color to the cake, so I do a purple color spray.
20:23Um, around my cake to give it a little more life.
20:27Whoa!
20:29Why is it not spraying consistently how I want it?
20:33As, um, I am spraying the color onto my cake, I see that there are dark spots and I really
20:40don't want that, so I try to go in and smooth it out, but it makes, looks like the cake
20:45is uneven.
20:46It's every time I keep spraying it, it's like it keeps going into chunks and then I have
20:50to wipe it off.
20:50This is not good and this is not how I wanted my finale cake to go.
20:59I don't know what's going on, so we're going to have to figure out a way to fix this.
21:04So I go in and try to smooth it out to give it, like, a gradient technique.
21:10Oh, I see you, Picasso.
21:12And it has actually worked.
21:14It looks really nice.
21:15How much time do we have left?
21:1690 minutes left.
21:1890 minutes left?
21:19Okay.
21:20Remember, you've got to make those cakes animated masterpieces.
21:24And that cake better taste great, too.
21:26What if we, like, did kind of a yellow with it also?
21:29Like, knead them together so they're all the same color?
21:32Yes.
21:33But it needs to really pop.
21:34It needs to be bright.
21:35I will be cutting out the hearts out of fondant, so I mix orange and yellow fondant to make kind
21:41of a lighter orange and cut a ton of parts.
21:45It's hard to believe that this cake could be worth $25,000.
21:49Just focus on moving it.
21:51So the bottom tier is really, really pale sunset colors.
21:54I'm going to pipe very pale shades of yellow, orange, and pink on my bottom tier of my cake.
22:02Kenny, look it.
22:04Oh, that's incredible, Abby.
22:07Well, I did make the buttercream.
22:10To get the zoetrop to work, every heart needs to be almost exactly the same.
22:15This should work, because each one goes here, and they need to be in even straight lines, evenly spaced apart.
22:21And this is the part that I'm going to be so picky on, because that's the actual challenge, and that's
22:28what needs to be important.
22:30All right, Pythagoras.
22:34So, what's happening?
22:36Don't talk to Abby.
22:38She's so busy.
22:39Each of these is 22 inches.
22:43Yeah.
22:44And with how big my hearts are, when they're arranged in the triangle, there's the same gap between every single
22:50one of them.
22:51And then I cut the measure of each of them in half, trace that down, and then each bottom one
22:55will be the exact same distance from each other.
22:59Did you invent this process?
23:00My mom's a math teacher, so I do a lot of math.
23:02Okay.
23:03So it's very helpful.
23:04Gotcha.
23:04Kenneth, has Abigail been shushing you?
23:07She told me just, when I'm putting the hearts on, just don't talk to me, or you'll get mad because
23:13I'm going to snap at you.
23:16All right, farm kids, do a good job.
23:20All right.
23:21Spin.
23:23A little faster.
23:25Once the zoetrope is on the cake, we're making sure that we test it a lot.
23:31It's so cool.
23:32And make sure it looks like the exact same image is moving up and down.
23:37Wait, you do it.
23:38Spin it evenly.
23:39You know what, Duff?
23:40What's so cool about this animated cakes challenge is that it requires a lot of teamwork.
23:45Yeah, this is about the engineering.
23:48Yes.
23:49This is about, like, making sure that everything is evenly spaced.
23:53Okay.
23:53Making sure you have the pattern just right.
23:55And you need a second set of eyeballs.
23:58Yes.
23:59It works.
24:00It works.
24:01I don't have to redo it.
24:02Because it works.
24:03It's like hypnotizing.
24:05It's like hypnotizing.
24:07I designed, like, Jackson Pollock my cake.
24:10Whoa.
24:12This is cool, right?
24:13The bottom tier, we're thinking, like, staying true, kind of, to Dubai chocolates.
24:18They typically have splattered green and yellow.
24:20But we were going to splatter bluish and purplish because galaxy.
24:24Wow.
24:25Purple really splattered up.
24:27Looks really cool, though.
24:29Look out.
24:30Move your hand.
24:31Okay.
24:32So we decided to do a white background on our yellow star just to make it pop a little more.
24:37because on a black background, it needs to be vibrant.
24:39Let me do it, please.
24:40My biggest concern is making the effect, like, work properly.
24:45Making our stars look aligned and look good, basically.
24:48Look neat, like Jeff showed us.
24:50Okay, go.
24:56It's super cool, but hold on.
24:57There's a mistake.
24:58It's right here.
24:59Yeah.
25:00That's weird.
25:01How are we going to fix that?
25:03Space it out more?
25:04Yes, let's do that.
25:09Our cake is frosted.
25:11Everything is good.
25:12We just have to get our flowers on to start this animation.
25:16One, two, three, four.
25:18One, two.
25:19One, two, three, four.
25:21We do a zoetrope of the flowers growing and getting taller and then going back down.
25:26No, no, no.
25:26Pause.
25:26Pause.
25:27That's too close.
25:27The other teams just have their shapes on their cake, and we made stems on ours, so we really
25:32want ours to stand out.
25:33Oh, that's going to be cute.
25:34Okay.
25:3530 minutes.
25:36Get it done.
25:36Use all your decorating skills to make your cakes come alive.
25:41So I'm in a tractor cab until, like, late at night, so I see wide open fields, and you
25:46can see, like, the entire sunset.
25:48The top tier is going to be, like, a very dark sunset.
25:52Everyone's one thing I've learned during this competition.
25:55That you're better than you think?
25:57I had skills I didn't know I had.
26:00I am feeling a lot more confident.
26:04So I'm arranging raw candy in heart molds, and then I'm going to pour, like, melted ice
26:09mold over them, and then put them around the top tier of my cake.
26:13Look at that.
26:14I'm a pro.
26:16Here, look at it.
26:17This one's going to have some orange on it.
26:18Okay.
26:19We decided to put a sun on top of our cake, and I decided to make it out of chocolate.
26:23And so to make my sun, I took my dome, I put chocolate in it, and I'm brushing up the
26:27sides to get an even coat so it all doesn't sink to the bottom.
26:30It does not need very long.
26:32For, like, five seconds.
26:33So right now, I am just picking up our frozen pistachio and Kentucky mixture, and then wrap
26:40it around my strawberries, and then dip them in chocolate for a nice, crunchy bite.
26:44What are Lee and Kira doing with those strawberries?
26:46I don't know.
26:47Where would they go?
26:48Kira, looking good.
26:52That looks cool.
26:53Thanks.
26:54So our plan was to make this an interactive cake, so we're going to hide the Dubai chocolate
26:59strawberries under the sun so that the judges can break the top to reveal the other little
27:04treats inside.
27:05Am I lined up in the line, correct?
27:06Yes.
27:07Okay.
27:08Five minutes.
27:09The championship is on the line.
27:11Make them, make them, make them, make them, quickly.
27:13Okay, I got it, I got it, I got it.
27:14I got it.
27:15I need you to make those little lollipops to put on the top, okay?
27:17So we want to add some fondant lollipops to the top of the cake.
27:21So we roll out three different colors of fondant, and then roll them together, and then, like,
27:28twist them to, like, make it look like a lollipop.
27:34Man, good.
27:43We can do this.
27:45All right, quickly, with a quickness.
27:48There we go.
27:49Moving.
27:51Excuse me.
27:52Stop, stop.
27:53I'm going to, uh...
27:54One minute!
27:55One team is going to walk out of here with 25,000 bucks in their pocket.
28:00Awkward.
28:01Quickly.
28:01Right here.
28:07This is so nerve-wracking.
28:08Ten seconds!
28:10Whoa.
28:11Spinning around.
28:14I'm still going to test it.
28:18We're good.
28:19That's it!
28:21It all comes down to this.
28:24That was pretty good.
28:25Did your guys' work?
28:26Or what?
28:28Illusion.
28:28Yeah.
28:29Did you test it?
28:30No.
28:30No?
28:31Okay.
28:31So we didn't get to use the zoetrope, but from turning it, I think it looks like an animation.
28:36I hope, since that is the challenge.
28:43For our final challenge, we really pushed our bakers to the limit.
28:48Yeah, because this time it's not just about flavor and decoration, but it's also about animation.
28:55I love this challenge.
28:57Let's go.
28:57Genesis and Akbar!
29:00I'm scared.
29:01We're about to go into judging, and my biggest concern is probably just the flowers.
29:08Look at those spring flowers.
29:11Look at that.
29:12Tell us about your cake.
29:13Okay, so we made a sweet potato upside-down crunchy cake.
29:15We got the shaped flowers, so for our animation, the stems will grow, and then they'll, like,
29:20come back down.
29:21So, yeah.
29:22Oh!
29:24Like a garden growing.
29:25Yes.
29:26How has your journey been from, like, the tryout to now?
29:29If it was a roller coaster, it would have been the most fun roller coaster ever.
29:34It would have been up and down and up, and it's just a lot of things, yeah.
29:40We definitely both got to see each other's skills.
29:42It's really just been a bonding experience for us.
29:45You have been on the bottom a few times, and I'm glad that you took all of the advice.
29:50And you began to rise, like your flowers!
29:52Okay, so, the cake is so fun.
29:55It has so much personality.
29:56The purple, the flowers, the lollipop.
30:00I love this cake.
30:01It's just, it's bright, and it's colorful.
30:04It's got a ton of movement, even when it's not moving.
30:06You know, it really does.
30:07Now, your flowers themselves, your pattern, it looks to me like you didn't have much of a plan.
30:14It's very irregular.
30:16To get a smooth animation, you really want to have kind of regular spacing.
30:21You want to be pretty consistent all the way around.
30:24Okay.
30:24All right, the proof is in the pudding.
30:26Let's spin the cake.
30:27Okay.
30:30Oh!
30:31Okay.
30:32It.
30:34It.
30:35It.
30:36Yeah, I think, you know, the animation, it's, it's flowing, it's doing its thing, it's up, it's down, it's up,
30:41and then it drops.
30:42It's not smooth.
30:43Yeah.
30:44So, I think it's like two-thirds successful.
30:47Okay.
30:47Let's try some cake.
30:48Okay.
30:49So, the base of our cake is a Speculose graham cracker cookie crust, and then it has a sweet potato
30:55filling layer.
30:56Oh!
30:58And a yellow butter cake layer.
31:00Filled with caramel butter cream.
31:02Golly!
31:04You're welcome.
31:04Thank you, Hopper.
31:06God, look at that.
31:07It's a cake and a pie.
31:09Wow.
31:14I love your sweet potato pie filling.
31:17It is delicious.
31:19Coupled with, like, that cookie crumb is really, really good.
31:22I think the problem comes in with your sponge.
31:25Your sponge is dense, like, overworked.
31:30Mm-hmm.
31:30Totally delicious.
31:32Doing, like, a cookie crunch inside of a cake is so smart.
31:36What a beautiful texture to have.
31:38Just the sponge itself, not what I expected.
31:40Overall, though, you made an absolutely beautiful cake with incredible flavor.
31:46Bye-bye, guys.
31:47Nice job.
31:47You, too.
31:48I feel pretty good about everything.
31:49It was just the little stop in our animation, and then the cake was a little dense.
31:54But everything else they said was really good.
31:56So I'm really, really proud of what we did.
32:00Abigail and Kenneth.
32:03Going into our final judging, I'm feeling kind of nervous.
32:08Hello, farm kids.
32:10Please tell us about your cake.
32:12So we made a chocolate cake with blackberry filling, blackberry buttercream, and toasted hazelnuts,
32:20and then frosted it in just a plain American buttercream.
32:23And then the decorations are...
32:24I'll do the decorations.
32:25Okay.
32:26The decorations are fondant hearts, obviously.
32:31Um, and then what are they called, Abby?
32:34Isomalt.
32:35So isomalt hearts.
32:37Yes.
32:37Basically.
32:37The inspiration of the colors is the beautiful sunsets we get where we live.
32:42So let me ask you this.
32:43How has the experience been for you both?
32:46It's been amazing.
32:47The experience has been incredible.
32:49He was an amazing help.
32:51Okay.
32:51I probably couldn't have done it with just one person.
32:53Do you think that your relationship with your brother has evolved a little bit?
32:58Definitely.
32:59Yeah?
32:59I definitely got to know his personality better.
33:02Yeah?
33:02Do you trust him a little more?
33:03A little bit more.
33:04Yeah?
33:04I think I've had enough baking for a while, though.
33:08All right.
33:10Presentation-wise, I see the sunset, and the isomalt hearts are so cool.
33:15It has so much texture, and the color of it is so beautiful.
33:19The soft orange is like, this is a very soft cake.
33:22Your cake is really beautiful.
33:25It's really, really nice.
33:26Your piping is pretty even.
33:28It's not perfect, but it's pretty even.
33:31Now here comes the moment of truth.
33:34Spin that cake, Abigail.
33:39It's so good.
33:41Oh, my gosh.
33:44Abigail, the time you took to measure those out absolutely paid off.
33:50Your animation is so smooth.
33:54Look at that.
33:56Now let's cut it up.
33:57Okay.
33:58Mm-hmm.
34:00Thank you, Abigail.
34:01Awesome.
34:01Thank you, Kenneth.
34:02Look at that cake.
34:04Look how thick.
34:11This is really, really good quality chocolate cake.
34:17Your blackberry filling is delicious.
34:19It's nice and sweet.
34:20It's not too acidic.
34:21It's right what I want with this.
34:25I'm not a fan of the hazelnuts.
34:27Okay.
34:27I think that maybe if you chopped them up a little more.
34:31Okay.
34:31But it's just, it's so big.
34:33It was like such a big hazelnut.
34:35Okay.
34:37Your blackberry frosting is delicious.
34:42I could just eat a tub of that.
34:43The star of the show is, is the sponge.
34:46It is so like soft, pillowing and melting your mouth.
34:50It's really, really good.
34:51All right.
34:51For the last time, Abigail and Kenneth, thank you so much.
34:55Thank you, guys.
34:56It's all over.
34:57I said one bad thing.
34:59It wasn't that bad.
35:00It was just hazelnuts.
35:04Hello, Leah and Kira.
35:07What do you got?
35:07Today, we made a Dubai chocolate themed cake with strawberry buttercream.
35:13And Dubai chocolate is like the cutice mixture with pistachio paste.
35:20And then we did our stars where our like designs, like, you know, we want to kind of make it
35:26look like a shooting star, kind of, kind of like that, going up and down.
35:29And then we have a sun on top.
35:31So it's space, kind of galaxy themed.
35:34But this is also kind of an interactive cake because there's stuff hidden in the sun.
35:38Really?
35:39Yes.
35:41Well, that's exciting.
35:42Yeah.
35:43What was your experience like in the kitchen?
35:45So it was definitely a lot of fun.
35:47A little bit stressful at times.
35:49But it was definitely a lot of fun because I got to work with my sibling on these wonderful
35:53bakes.
35:54And we got to meet you guys.
35:56So it's been especially amazing.
35:57Do you think you guys got a little closer?
36:00For sure.
36:00Oh, yeah.
36:01100%.
36:01You go through battle with somebody, right?
36:03You definitely, right?
36:04You get a lot closer.
36:06All right.
36:06Well, I love space.
36:09And I just, I really enjoy your cake.
36:11The way that you got these very subtle colors, you know, it looks like the Oort cloud.
36:17A bunch of stuff flying around in space.
36:21It has a specific distance away from the Earth because of gravity.
36:25We have this thing called the Oort cloud named after a guy whose last name was Oort.
36:31And he discovered it.
36:32It's a thing.
36:34The Oort cloud.
36:35Your top tier is so fun and dark.
36:38And it's very different from what we've seen from you all.
36:41All right, girls.
36:42Let it rip.
36:46I can't believe it.
36:46Yeah, it kind of goes like up, down, up, down.
36:48Ooh.
36:50Oh.
36:52Wow.
36:53Yeah, I see the motion.
36:55That's awesome.
36:56But what does it taste like?
36:59As you can see, a little bit of surprise in there.
37:01Oh, nice.
37:03Is that chocolate covered strawberries?
37:05Dubai chocolate covered strawberries.
37:06Oh.
37:07Wow.
37:08Oh, yeah, that looks great.
37:10It's a big old strawberry.
37:12It is.
37:15There's a lot of layers to it.
37:17Oh, there's a lot in there.
37:19Yeah.
37:20The flavor is good.
37:21And I like the combination.
37:22I'm glad you kind of added the strawberry for some acidity and brighten it up a little bit.
37:27This is a good, dense chocolate cake.
37:30I think your cocoa flavor is great.
37:31It's not bitter.
37:32I think your strawberry buttercream, it's a little sweet, but it's also really good.
37:37Those two together is absolutely delicious.
37:40I think where you stumbled was the pistachio.
37:44In a cake, the texture, it's just too much.
37:47Okay.
37:47You guys were so much fun.
37:50Thank you so much for everything you've baked for us.
37:52Absolutely.
37:53Good luck.
37:54Bye.
37:55Bye.
37:56I like the cake.
37:59I think we have a shooting chance, but...
38:01Like a shooting star.
38:02Yeah.
38:03I think we do have a shooting chance.
38:04You know, I obviously don't know what happened with the other people, and it's going to be a surprise.
38:09Yep.
38:39But the pie was silky and gooey and luscious.
38:44Let's just take a look.
38:46Okay.
38:47It was really beautiful, really fun.
38:50I like that they had all these flowers, these different sizes.
38:54They were cute.
38:55But there's a skip with their animation.
38:59Abigail and Kenneth.
39:00It looks really good.
39:01They gave us chocolate cake with blackberry filling and toasted hazelnut.
39:07I loved the cake.
39:08Yeah.
39:08And the blackberries were sweet and juicy and lovely.
39:13Yeah.
39:13I did not like a big old hazelnut in there.
39:17The hazelnut was an afterthought.
39:19And, you know, I think Abigail and Kenneth did really nice work, too.
39:22That sunset on their farm.
39:24You know, I got to tell you, their heart decorations were beautiful.
39:28So clean.
39:28Very clean, like clear animation, up and down, no breaks.
39:34Lee and Kira, that was a really well-crafted dome.
39:39And, boom, obviously successful, right?
39:42It animates.
39:42Yeah.
39:43I loved their flavor profile of, like, mixing the strawberry with the chocolate, with the kataifi and the pistachio.
39:50Like, it was very, like, I like the flavor combination.
39:53The pistachio layer was just thick.
39:56Yes.
39:56Well, you know who, you know who's winning?
40:00I think so.
40:01Yeah?
40:02Yeah.
40:03I do, too.
40:05Bakers!
40:06You gave us an animated triple feature of flavor by creating edible entertainment.
40:13All of you did such phenomenal work all season.
40:17And not just for young bakers, but for bakers of any age.
40:22You make us very excited for the next generation of baking.
40:27That's good.
40:27But, in the end, after all the hard work, one pair of bakers created an animated cake that absolutely blew
40:37our minds.
40:39The bakers, who will walk out of here with $25,000 as the next-gen baking champions, are...
40:51Oh, God!
40:51Mm-hmm.
40:53Ah!
40:59Abigail, we came in!
41:02Oh, God!
41:04Oh, God!
41:04We just won!
41:07We won!
41:08No!
41:10No!
41:11Ha!
41:12No!
41:13Woo!
41:13Woo!
41:13Let's go get your footage!
41:14Oh, God!
41:16Yeah!
41:16Oh, God!
41:17Good job, guys!
41:18I'm going home today with $25,000!
41:27Good job, guys!
41:29Have you?
41:32Yes, you guys are amazing!
41:35My favorite part of this experience
41:37was probably getting to bake with Abigail.
41:41We definitely have a new type of bond.
41:45I'm sure when we get home, we'll still fight like normal,
41:47but I think we'll be definitely way more comfortable
41:50with each other in the kitchen.
41:52There won't be as much yelling.
41:54Oh, my goodness.
41:57That was incredible.
41:58That was the best reaction.
42:00You did not disappoint.
42:02You okay?
42:03Take a deep breath.
42:04Take a deep breath.
42:05Come here, bring it in.
42:06Great job.