Is It Cake? (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Fast Food Fakeout - full transcript

[opening theme music playing]

This is a bowling ball.

And this is a cake.

[gasping]

-What?
-How do you make clothes outta cake?

-One of these is a cake?
-It's Five.

-You think One?
-Number One.

-[man] What if we don't choose?
-[screams]

-Let's find out.
-It's a cake!

The suspense. Cut it!

-[host] It's cake!
-[cheering]



It's time to bake!

Welcome to a very different kind
of baking competition.

We found nine amazing cake artists.

By day, I'm a working mom.

And by night, fool people with cake magic.

-Like psychological warfare, right?
-Exactly.

Justin, the kid.

I'm only 18. I'm still in high school.
I didn't even graduate yet.

[host] Tassel on the right.

These talented bakers create
mind-altering, hyper-realistic cakes.

They literally all look like burgers.

You gotta be a little weird to do this.

I love it.

[host] Their goal? To fool our judges.



You guys tricked us too hard on this one.

[host] In each episode, the winning baker
could take home up to $10,000.

[woman] That's cake!

You guys are so nice!

[host] In the end, the three best bakers

will compete for a grand prize of $50,000.

-[gasping]
-[woman] Oh my gosh!

Yes, that's right.
They gave an idiot a machete.

And I'm about to ask the most
important question...

[gasping]

Is It Cake?

[funky music playing]

[laughing]

Hello.

[whooping]

Welcome to Is It Cake?

I'm Mikey Day.

[cheering]

I can tell you're moderately excited.

Now, you are all here
because you are all amazingly talented

at making cakes
that look like everyday objects.

And now, that incredibly specific skill...

[laughing]

...can earn you thousands of dollars.

-[whooping]
-Yes!

To determine which three of you
will bake today,

we are going to test your cake knowledge
in a different way.

So, let's see who can Find That Cake.

When the cake wall spins around,
it will reveal six different types of...

fast food.

[gasping]

Five of them are real,
and one of them is cake.

Let's see who can Find That Cake.

All right, each of you has a keypad.

You will have 20 seconds
to lock in your answer.

The first three bakers
to correctly identify the cake

hiding amongst the real fast food
will compete today.

Your 20 seconds starts now!

[Mikey sings a tune]

[tense music playing]

[Mikey] Fifteen seconds!

I'm gonna keep yelling at you.

Ten seconds!

Five, four,

three, two, one.

[bell dinging]

[Mikey imitates buzzer] Time's up.

Let's find out how you guys did.

They gave me a sword to do this.

[laughing]

Zero safety training with it.

They literally just said, "You'll be using
a sword. Uh, there it is."

-Andrew.
-Yes?

-You seem confident.
-I do!

You picked Number Six.

[nervously] I did...

All right, let's find out. Is it cake?

[tense music playing]

[groaning]

That is not cake.

Oh!

That is a taco.

-So, April.
-Yup.

You picked Number Four.

-[bakers groan]
-The breakfast croissant sandwich.

[April] Mm-hm.

Why do you think this is cake?

Because a croissant has a flakier crust
on the top.

And I couldn't see a lot of flakiness.

[Mikey] That makes sense.

Let's find out if this is cake.

[tense music playing]

-That is...
-Wow, it's frozen cake.

[laughing]

[Mikey] That's a croissant sandwich.

And it's a nasty croissant sandwich.

[laughing]

-Jonny.
-Yes?

[Mikey] You picked Three.

[hesitates] It...
looks a little cake-ish to me.

-Also...
-[laughs] Wait.

-Yeah?
-Is that an official term? Cake-ish?

Yeah, yes, definitely.

It's just kind of an instinctual thing?

[nervously] It is.

[laughing]

-Jonny!
-You know when a teacher...

[imitating] "It is."

You know when a teacher is like,
"Why'd you answer that?"

I just want you to cut the damn cake,
you know what I mean?

"Just cut the damn cake!"

"We don't want to hear your jokes.
We get it. Cut the cake."

All right. Moment of truth. Is it cake?

[tense music playing]

[Mikey] Yes, dude.

[clapping]

[Mikey] That's cake.

Your big talk was justified.

You found the cake.

So, you get to bake today,

with the only other
two bakers who could find the cake.

Shing!

Hemu and Sam!

You will be baking with Jonny today.

Yay!

The three of you will be competing
for up to $10,000.

The rest of you,
you gotta go to the gallery,

which is roughly three feet
from where you're standing.

You will get a chance to bake.
It's just not today.

All right! My three little kitties.

One of you could win up to $10,000
when we play Is It Cake?

Okay, bakers.
Here's how you play the game.

You're each gonna be making
a cake replica of the item you choose.

They don't need to be identical,

but they do need to fool the three judges

that we have invited
to try and spot your fakes.

When you're done with your cake,

you'll be able to place it on these
podiums out here

with four other similar items.

Sam, you were the fastest
to find the cake,

so you pick first
from any of these fast food items.

Okay, I'm gonna go with Number Two.

-[Mikey] The cheeseburger!
-[Sam] Yeah.

Why did you choose this?

I've made it a couple times,

so I feel like I can do it
in the amount of time.

-Yeah?
-We'll see.

Hemu, you got the second fastest time,
so you pick next.

I'll go with the Four.

Ooh, the croissant, bacon and egg.

And last but not least,
Mr. "Just Cut the Damn Cake"...

-[laughing]
-...Jonny.

I think I'll go Six, the tacos.

Interesting choice. Bold. Very Jonny.

[laughing]

Bakers, it's time to make your cakes.

So head on over to the kitchen.

[whooping]

Go, Sam! Go, Jonny! Go, Hemu!

You guys are just gonna sit and watch them
for hours.

Yes.

Welcome to the kitchen.

You have eight hours
to complete your cakes.

[echoing] It's time to bake!

[upbeat music playing]

[man] Come on, Hemu.

[woman] Go Jonny.

[Andrew] Oh, so exciting!

I don't understand the sprinkles.
I don't get it.

She better be doing a confetti cake.

Are you doing a funfetti?

-What else would I be doing with them?
-Now, see?

A funfetti cake
is like a fluffy vanilla cake

with a cream cheese frosting.

And the sprinkles added into it
gives it a little subtle crunch.

Then the vanilla buttercream
brings it all together.

Also funfetti for a cheeseburger, like,

it's fun to cut through stuff
and see colors and sprinkles.

People are always surprised if a cake
that's super realistic tastes good.

But it should.
It should always taste good.

The sugar is heavy.

Yeah, it is.

When I think of all
the realistic cakes I've made,

my favorite are the ones
that aren't your typical cake.

Like the oysters. Or like, a cheeseboard.

Most people haven't seen that
turned into a cake.

But, I make fast food cakes all the time.

So, this is in my element. I got this.

[Sam] Jonny, do you like the taco?

-I live a very blessed life.
-Yeah.

I can't complain, "Oh, I got a taco?"

-[Sam] Yeah.
-"Oh, woe is me."

I've made a giant taco cake,

but it was at the very beginning
of my time sculpting cakes.

And I'm gonna have to really figure out
how to square everything down,

so it's bite-size.

Jonny, what you got going on over there?

[Jonny] Some butter, some sugar.

It's really important that
the cake is first and foremost delicious.

And the cake in my taco
is a vanilla butter cake

with a cookie crunch,
chocolate ganache, and a hazelnut spread.

I'm a baker and content creator
at Jonny Cakes.

Jonny Cakes is partially a bakery,

but I'm not just pumping out
a bunch of cakes every day.

I specialize in individual
sculpted projects.

And then I film everything I do
and put it on the internet.

This is the first cake I ever made.
And this is my most recent cake.

The lesson is with a lot of hard work
and determination,

you can still be a disappointment
to your parents.

What I do is the weirdest thing
in the world.

There are people saving lives,

and I am making cake look like
other things.

[Sam] Y'all! I'm in the oven.

[cheering]

Are you already baking?

Yeah.

Me as well!

-[Andrew] You're baking, too?
-Yeah.

Hemu, what flavor are you making?

[Hemu] It's a vanilla sponge cake

with Swiss meringue,
strawberry buttercream.

I'm the owner of Hemu's Sweet Sensations.

I do sculpted cakes, realistic cakes,

all kind of custom cakes.

Anything you could think of.

I think Hemu's is gonna be the hardest.

How is she gonna get that flake
on the croissant?

[Andrew] She doesn't... Yeah.

I have never made a croissant before,

and I have never
made a croissant cake sandwich.

It's totally new for me.

[laughs]

-I never eat bacon and ham and cheese.
-Are you a vegetarian?

I'm like chicken, white-meat person.
That's it.

I get into baking because of my son.

He asked me, "Can you make me
a fire truck cake?"

After doing the fire truck cake
for my son,

everything started with word-of-mouth.

And I started getting orders right away.

I have won a lot of cake competitions.
And I always like to win. [laughs]

[upbeat music playing]

[Jonny] When making realistic cakes,

it's super important that your cake layers
are stable and can be carved,

because they have to hold their shape.

Sometimes, you can have
the most delicious cake in the world,

but it falls apart
as soon as you start cutting into it.

We want it to hold its shape,
like it's a piece of art.

Sam? We officially think
you have the upper hand.

-Wow.
-[Andrew] We do.

I don't know what they think.
They're very tight-lipped about it.

I think everybody here's
done a cheeseburger.

I'm the owner of Cade's Cakes,
a custom cake business in New York.

Cade's Cakes honestly originated
back when I was in college in Austin.

You're on a college campus, so everybody
was trying to get alcohol bottle cakes.

[laughs]

And so it started making tequila bottles
or a margarita and things like that.

And it just kinda spiraled from there.

What are you making? Mold?

I'm trying.
I need 75 minutes to set up, though.

-Oh, too bad.
-That's why I'm doing it now.

The most important part of
making a taco shell look real is texture.

All right. We're gonna see if this works.

I'm gonna press the texture
of a taco shell into the mold.

I can use that mold to imprint the texture
on my modeling chocolate.

I hope no one at home is like,
"You idiot, what are you doing?"

I've only been baking for three years.

And not until quarantine hit did I start
making realistic cakes.

And I've learned all of my baking skills
by watching videos online.

I failed science,
so this is not the greatest.

I have gotten good at what I do
because I'm painfully single

and have a lot of free time on my hands.

And what I lack in experience
I think I make up for in, like...

"Woo-woo, what's going on up there?"

"You're a little..."
[clicks tongue] "...cuckoo."

Can I offer anybody a taco? Taco, anybody?

[laughing]

I'm secretly upset that I didn't
make it to the first round.

-I'm not even secretly upset about it.
-No secr...

No. It's a bummer that we don't
get to be a part of it,

but we have the opportunity to, like...

-Kinda scope them out?
-Yeah.

[funky music playing]

[cheering, applauding]

[Mikey] Hello, bakers.

I'm spinning on the wall again.

We've got a bunch of decoy foods.

So, you guys can pick
any four of these items

to help you fool the judges.

So, Sam, that's four burgers.

Are you doing sesame seed?

If I have time,
I think I'll definitely do sesame seeds.

What will you use for sesame seeds?

I'm just gonna... Like, fondant.

-Oh. Fondant.
-[laughing]

-I'm gonna slowly roll each tiny seed.
-What is fondant?

-We'll see what time looks like.
-Right. If you have time.

We're gonna think about it.

Look at Jonny's tacos.

So, these decoys are interesting.
They're all hard shell tacos.

It's like reverse psychology, you know?

-Yes.
-Would they think that's... Would they...?

I think it's gonna be pretty hard
to make a taco cake

that blends in with these decoys.

Taking these.

[Hemu] I'm rolling out my fondant
really thin,

then ripping it apart with the hand.

And then I'm adding it to the croissant
to make the flakes.

She has to make sure that detail is there
with the flaky croissant.

[gasps]

That looks so good.

[Sam] This cheeseburger cake...
It's so small.

I don't want to have everything hidden.

I want to kind of have it a little bit,
like, the bun to the side,

so you can see the details
and the components I'm spending hours on.

For the tomato, I'm gonna use fondant.

I'm sculpting out the texture.

Tomatoes are honestly kind of slimy.

So, to make cake look slimy,
there's a sugar gel you can typically use

or shortening.

And then I put a sugar piping gel
in the center of them

to make it look wet.

Do you think all three will fool them?
What if none of them fool them?

-None of them what?
-Fool the judges.

Oh.

As slow as they're working,
I don't think they'll have enough time.

-Ooh!
-[laughing]

What's going on over here?

A little trash talk.

-We have become armchair experts.
-We're watching.

I can't with you. I can already tell.

Andrew. The hair.

It's my signature.

The beard changes color,
but the hair stays the same.

When you see Andrew,
the first thing you think is not,

"That's a pastry chef from Iowa."

[laughing]

-Right?
-So, watch out.

[laughing]

Hey, Jonny? Did you make two halves
of a taco shell?

I'm trying a couple of different tech...

So, you're just trying out
a couple of things.

We're gonna see
in the, uh, eleventh hour, I think.

[April] Okay.

So, I'm rolling out some
modeling chocolate for the taco shell.

If I don't get the perfect coloring right,
it's gonna give away that it's cake.

So, I spend a lot of my time
just color-matching.

Oh my God.

-[Hemu] What?
-Oh my God.

What? What happened?

Are you all right?

My hands are like...

This has never happened before.

My hands are taking on
a life of their own,

and they're literally
cramping up like this.

It feels like there's a small demon
child inside of me, like...

[laughs] ...taking control of my hands.

Clearly, I've been overworking them.

I've been kneading color
into modeling chocolate for an hour plus.

I'll be fine. I'm just...

-Are you sure?
-Yeah. I'm fine.

'Cause I just heard Steve whisper,
"Yes! His hands are cramping."

-Yes.
-Without hands, a baker is nothing.

That... That's true.

[upbeat music playing]

[Jonny] That looks so good.

[Sam] It's a work in progress.

The strategy with the bun is
to get the color just right.

I've always struggled with that.

I've gotta make it a little more yellow
versus orange.

Airbrushing typically
looks more realistic,

because with a brush it's really hard
not to have brush strokes.

[Jonny] It looks so good.

[Hemu] I'm making my bacon now.

I've added different colors
of fondant together

and rolled it out really thin.

And I'm adding the texture
with crumpled aluminum foil.

Anyone want to eat bacon?

I'm kind of struggling
to make this bacon look real,

because I've never eaten bacon
in my life, so...

[sighs] ...I don't know what I'm doing.

[Mikey] Bakers! One hour left!

[energetic music playing]

Man, I should've watched baking shows
before I did this.

Mm.

Oh, that's fondant.

Okay.

All right, ten minutes left, bakers!

And I know a lot more about cake now.

I hope you guys used your...

[knowingly] ...sugar shapers.

[laughing]

Or a Dresden tool?

I don't know what that is.

Or...

eggs?

[Hemu] Oh, it looks cool.

[Sam] The color's a little off,
but it'll be okay.

[Mikey] All right. Five minutes, bakers!

-[Sam] That looks amazing.
-I'm just trying to take some color off.

And trying to highlight white portions,
you know?

-[Jonny] Does it look like a taco?
-Yes, it does.

My taco shells turned out pretty well.

But I don't want the decoys
to look perfect,

so I'm gonna put some of
my deep red tomatoes on one of them,

in hopes that they look fake.

[energetic music playing]

Bakers! Time is up!

-[clapping, shouting]
-[Mikey] This is it!

I hope you all fool the judges.

Bakers! You have been baking for hours
and creating cakes to fake out our judges,

for a chance to win up to $10,000

and moving on to bake again.

But first, it's time to meet your judges.

This guy knows a bit about fast food.

Host of the series Fresh, Fried and Crispy
on Netflix.

A legend in the building, Daym Drops.

[cheering, clapping]

You're just traveling
and eating fast food, right?

Traveling, getting my hungry on,
all type of food,

mom-and-pop's, giving them the love
they deserve. Letting 'em shine.

Well, I'm a big fan.
I'm also a big fan of this lady.

Comedian, actor, and star
of her own Netflix special Sweet & Salty.

Southern belle Fortune Feimster.

-[Mikey] Hello!
-[clapping, cheering]

[Fortune] Hi!

-How are you?
-I'm good, Mikey. How are you?

I'm great. I've never seen you salty,
though. You're just sweet.

I can get salty
if you make me wake up early.

[laughing]

[Mikey] And he's a celebrity chef
and cook book author.

Mr. Ronnie Woo!

[cheering, clapping]

Oh yeah! I don't know why I did this.

This is just eating stuff.

-You're a former professional model...
-I am.

...who can also cook.

I'm taken. Sorry, guys.

[laughing]

Judges, here's how this works.

This cake wall is gonna spin around.

And you'll see five cake stands,
each holding an item of fast food.

And only one of those cake stands
is holding an actual cake.

The three of you have 20 seconds

to observe, confer,
and agree on one answer,

which you will enter on the keypad
in front of Fortune.

You guys think you can
get along and find the cake?

This is nothing.

[Ronnie] We got it.

It's not work.

First up is Sam. Oh, Cake Wall!

-[cheering]
-Cake Wall is making its way round!

Five cheeseburgers, but one of them
is not a cheeseburger at all.

One of them is actually a cake.

Your time starts now!

-[Fortune] Oh my gosh.
-[Ronnie] Wow.

I don't know. They all look like...
They literally all look like burgers.

[Ronnie] They're not all burgers.

[judges chatting]

[Ronnie] That has the most perfect cheese.

-Cheese doesn't melt perfectly.
-[Mikey] Ten seconds!

-Too perfect?
-[Ronnie] It's too perfect.

-[Daym] That bun doesn't look right.
-[Fortune] They all look like hamburgers.

-[Fortune] Five's the tallest.
-[Daym] Leave Five alone. Go back to One.

We're not agreeing. This isn't working.

[Daym] Vote One!

[yells] Enter it in your keypad!

What happens?!

-[Ronnie] What if we don't choose?!
-[Daym] Number One.

-[timer beeping]
-[judges panicking]

-Hit the One.
-[rapid beeping]

-[bell dinging]
-[Daym] We're in. We're locked in.

[Mikey] Okay, judges. Time is up.
You guys chose Number One.

[Fortune] This is so nerve-wracking.

-Are you confident?
-Number One.

-Number One.
-[Mikey] Why did you pick Number One?

Because Daym said so.

-[laughing]
-[Daym] Look, uh...

I like that answer. I like that. Yes, yes.

-Ronnie, are you as confident as Daym?
-[Ronnie] No.

-I did not choose One.
-Ooh!

-[Daym] Okay.
-I chose Five.

Why do you think this is cake?

The cheese is too perfect,
and it's the tallest one.

You need some space to make cake.
You need volume in cake.

So, let's see if you are right! Or wrong.

-Oh my gosh.
-Oh man.

[Fortune] Ooh...

-That's a burger!
-That's a burger.

-That's a burger!
-[Ronnie] Okay, okay.

-All right. I stand corrected.
-Oh man.

Ronnie. You were wrong.

-I was.
-[Mikey] But...

Your fellow judges might be wrong, too.

You're the junk food expert,
so you better get this right.

[Daym] I was looking at it
from a distance, and saying,

"That's a sexy cake designed as an
official cheeseburger,

with the red ring of death,
the crunchy water."

You gotta lay that something proper
to build a cake into a burger.

I was looking at the rest,
and it wasn't happening for me.

I got excited at One.

-[woman] Wow.
-[clapping]

All right. I get to ask
the best question ever.

Is it cake?

Sam, if this is cake, that means
you didn't fool the judges,

and you won't be up for the win today.

-I'm nervous, Mikey.
-A little bit.

[sings a dramatic tune]

[tense music playing]

[groaning]

-That's cake!
-[Daym] Yes, it is! Yes, it is.

-Ah! Result, baby! Yeah!
-[Ronnie] Good job, you guys.

-[Fortune] Yeah, yeah.
-[Mikey] What gave it away?

[Daym] I know my burgers, right?
I'm a big boy. I love food.

-I can smell greatness from a mile away.
-Right.

Burger. Cake.

-[laughing]
-Enough said.

Sam, are you surprised
they found your cake?

I'm bummed. But I should've
put sesame seeds on all the buns.

That's what gave it away for me.
They were the best sesame seeds.

It looked really good though.
It fooled me.

Unfortunately, Sam, that means you're not
up for the win today.

Judges, since you found the cake,

I think it's only fair
you get to try it, too, right?

-Yeah.
-Definitely.

-[Mikey] Sam!
-[clapping, cheering]

How messed up is this?

The judges found her cake,

and we make her come and serve you.

[Fortune laughs]

That's why I'm here.
They told me I got to eat cake.

[laughing]

[Sam] Okay. So, I did a funfetti cake.

And it has sprinkle cream cheese
and vanilla buttercream.

Just like, pretty classic.

[Fortune] It's really good.

-Really good. Sam, that is so good!
-Okay, thank you.

You did your thing right here, Sam.
Great flavor. It popped.

My tastebuds are happy.

Amazing job today.

Thank you. Thank you.

[cheering]

[Mikey] Judges, time for our next baker
to try and fool you guys.

Hemu is going to give you
a little taste of breakfast.

Let's see if she can fool you. Cake Wall!

Judges! You are about to see
five breakfast sandwiches.

One of them is actually a cake.

Oh my gosh.

But, which one?

Your time starts now! Go!

[tense music playing]

-Oh man.
-Oh my gosh.

It's Two.

[Fortune] Number Three's kinda like...

-[Ronnie] Three... I...
-[Daym] Three's melting. No.

-Ten seconds!
-It's Four.

[Fortune] I don't know.

[timer beeping]

-[Mikey] Three, two, one.
-[rapid beeping]

-Lock it in!
-[bell dinging]

[Mikey] You landed on Three.

Hm.

Let's see if you found it.

Let's check out Number Three.

What makes you think this is cake?

It's very perfect-looking.
Everything's in its place.

It feels very deliberate.

Everything else feels very like,
"Here's a sandwich."

But that one's like,

"Here's a cake."

[laughing]

[Ronnie] It's too tall.

That other one looks kind of like,
you can see space between.

I always look for no space, when I'm
doing this on a regular basis.

-[laughing]
-When you're evaluating...

On my normal day-to-day job
when I look for fake food.

Let's see if Number Three is cake.

[tense music playing]

-[Ronnie] Oh... Oh!
-[Mikey] Yes!

-[Fortune] Is it? It's cake!
-[Mikey] That's cake!

[clapping, cheering]

-Oh!
-[Ronnie] We're too good at this!

Come on. Come on now.

[Mikey] I'm sorry, Hemu. What happened?

I think I made it too perfect,

as they said when they were judging Sam.

So, this is a lesson learned.
We'll keep that in mind.

All right. Unfortunately, Hemu, that
means you're not up for the win today.

Judges, you earned a taste.

Hemu, can you please
bring our wonderful judges

a slice of your cake, please?

[Hemu] It's a vanilla sponge cake

with Swiss meringue,
strawberry buttercream.

-Okay, okay.
-[Daym] Okay, champion.

-That is the biggest bite ever.
-Oh my God!

-[Ronnie] Delicious, and...
-[Fortune] Really good.

...that sponge cake is really moist.

Both cakes were delicious.

That vanilla pops. That strawberry.
Great job.

-[Hemu] Thank you so much.
-[Fortune] Good job.

Woo-hoo! I can't clap. [laughs]

All right. Jonny,
it's all coming down to you.

We're going to find out if anyone's
gonna walk away with the money.

Judges, I hope you like tacos.

-Yeah, we do.
-Cake Wall!

Okay, judges,

you're about to see five tacos,
but guess what?

-One is not a taco at all.
-[Ronnie] Oh my.

[Fortune] This is tricky.
There's multiple tacos.

[Mikey] Are you ready?

I mean, this one's hard.

[Mikey] Your time starts now!

-[Fortune] Guys. I don't even know.
-[Daym] Oh my goodness.

-Holy crap.
-[Daym] I say One or Two.

-[Fortune] Two's got bright colors...
-[Daym] You're right.

[Ronnie] These aren't cakes, though.
These are, like, chips.

That meat's suspect.
The taco's looking funny.

[Mikey] Ten seconds!

-[Fortune] The meat looks...
-[Mikey] Five, four...

-[judges chatting]
-[Mikey] ...three, two, one.

-[beeping]
-Lock in an answer!

-[Fortune screams]
-[rapid beeping]

[Mikey] Okay, judges.
You guys chose Number Two.

Daym and Ronnie,
did you guys have an answer?

-Ronnie literally did not say one number.
-You didn't say nothing, bro!

-[Mikey] I heard Daym say One.
-I didn't know!

I was with One.
The meat didn't look right.

I picked... 'cause anytime you've
got a good taco...

-You go...
-Number Two.

I knew that was coming, and I loved it.

[Fortune] The tomatoes
look like gummy bears.

Oh yeah! Oh my God.
And it looks like a little turd in there.

It looks like a tiny little cat turd.

-You haven't had cat turd tacos?
-[laughing]

Jonny. We're about to find out
if he can win up to $10,000.

-[gasping]
-Up to.

-Oh my gosh.
-[Mikey] This is it.

Is it cake?

-Ready?
-Ooh. I'm nervous.

I'm nervous.
If it crunches, I'm gonna die.

[tense music playing]

-[taco crunching]
-It's a taco!

That's a taco!

[Fortune] Wow!

[cheering, clapping]

Jonny, congrats!

You were the only baker
to fool the judges.

That means you just won $5,000, my friend.

You also get to pick what two bakers
you wanna go up against next.

-Thank you, guys.
-Good job!

I'm so broke.

Oh, good!

Are you really?
Yay! We're doing God's work.

Jonny, it's time to show the judges
which one really is your cake.

All right. Let's find out.

-Oh, so satisfying.
-[Ronnie] It's... a... cake.

-[Fortune] Wow.
-[clapping]

[Mikey] That's all one cake.

-Is it chocolate cake?
-[Mikey] See it?

Do you want me to feed it to you?

-Yeah. Put it in my mouth.
-[laughing]

Well done.

So, Daym, Ronnie, and Fortune,

come on up here
and have a taste of the winning cake.

-All right.
-Well done.

[whooping]

Jonny, tell us about your cake.
The flavors and everything.

Um, I'm calling it
a hazelnut cookie crunch.

-[Fortune] Mm!
-Wow.

[Ronnie] That's delicious.

What is the lettuce made out of?

Wafer paper.

Jonny, I'm getting sweetness.
Savory. Decadent. Divine.

Chocolate-loving. Smooth raspberry wine.

I like it. I like where you're going.
Taco explosion.

[cheering]

Bakers, a round of applause
for our judges.

[Fortune] Thank you, thank you.

Judges. There's only one way out of here.

-Cake Wall!
-[game show music playing]

Please take our judges home, Cake Wall.

Bye, guys!

It tilts, and there's a slide
to the parking lot, so hold on.

Jonny. Congratulations, bud.

Sam and Hemu, please join the gallery.

-[whooping]
-You did an amazing job, ladies.

You will get a chance to bake again.

Okay, Jonny. You know how I keep saying
you could win "up to $10,000"?

Uh-huh.

Well, you're about to find out why.
Follow me.

It's time to play Cake Or Cash.

Okay, Jonny. You fooled the judges,
you won your first $5,000.

But guess what?
In the world of cake, there's always more.

On the other side of that wall
are two burlap sacks.

-[gasping, laughing]
-Oh my!

[Mikey] One of the sacks
is filled with cash, and the other one...

you're not gonna believe this... is cake.

-If you guess the cake, you get the cash.
-Those are good, man.

[Mikey] You will have 15 seconds
to determine which one is cake

and lock in your answer, friend.

You're gonna either win
another $5,000 right now,

or a delicious slice of cake.

[laughing]

[Mikey] You will have 15 seconds,
starting...

now!

[tense music playing]

[Mikey] What's cake? What's cash?

[timer beeping]

-[rapid beeping]
-[Mikey] Three, two, one!

-[bell dinging]
-[Mikey] His answer's locked and loaded.

[clapping]

[Mikey] I mean, I'm looking at those.
They look identical.

Yeah. I went with my gut,
but my gut might not be right.

You picked Number One.
Let's see if you got it.

You've already won $5,000.

If this is a cake,

you will win another $5,000.

-Yeah.
-What are you gonna do with the money?

I'm gonna go visit my brother in Scotland.

That is specific and awesome.

-You are?
-Yeah, I haven't seen him in a while.

Okay, now I'm gonna be super sad if this...

-It's okay!
-...isn't cake.

It's fun. Let's do it.

For Jonny's brother's sake,
let's hope this is cake.

[tense music playing]

Oh...

Oh!

[whooping, clapping]

-That's cake!
-[cheering]

Jonny! You just won $5,000!

[whooping]

You guys are so nice!

For a grand total of $10,000.

Thank you. I...

You weren't sure.
You took a stab at it. But you...

[metallic swoosh]

...stabbed right.

[music warps]

[laughing]

That catchphrase is not gonna take off.

This is indeed cake.

I'm about to eat money.
I hope that's not illegal.

[whooping]

Jonny! Congrats, dude.

Jonny moves on
and will challenge two new bakers

for a chance to win more cash.

Another $10,000 is up for grabs.

I'll be back in five, four, three, two...

-[crunching]
-Oh my God, I'm caught up in the gears.

[Mikey yells] Oh my God! Oh my God!

Please, someone help!

[closing theme music playing]