Is It Cake? (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Phony Fashion - full transcript
Bakers create delicious decoys of shoes, designer bags and other department store finds. Guest judges: Hester Sunshine, Jason Bolden and Michael Yo.
[opening theme music playing]
I'm back.
-Bakers!
-[whooping]
Did you miss me?
-Totally.
-Of course.
I love you guys. I missed you.
And Jonny! Our champion.
Congratulations.
[clapping, whooping]
You won, and walked away
with $10,000. How do you feel?
This should be a lesson
to the children out there,
that lying and deceiving can
make you a lot of money.
[laughing]
All right.
Well, because you won,
that means you get to move on
and pick the two bakers
you're gonna go up against today.
-Yeah.
-Who are we thinking here?
Maybe going with Steve,
the silent assassin?
[bakers laughing]
The undercover CIA agent.
What about Mister Smack Talk, Andrew?
I don't get the "smack talk" thing,
but okay.
-A little bit of trash talk.
-No, no, no. I love him.
Jonny. Who's your first pick?
Who's it going to be?
So...
[tense music playing]
April has a two-year-old daughter at home,
who deserves to see you bake.
-Aw!
-[Jonny] I'm sure you miss her.
-[Jonny] So I wanted to...
-[mock cries]
Thanks a lot, man.
That was adorable.
Okay. Final pick. Who's it gonna be?
I'm gonna go with...
-Nina.
-[whooping]
Oh!
I'm sorry, guys.
[Mikey] Interesting!
Now, is this a strategic decision here?
Or are you assembling the Super Friends?
It's definitely not. It should be noted
that I really don't know their work.
Right, you're not
familiar with their work.
But you're familiar with their hearts.
[bakers] Aw!
And now, you will crush them.
[laughing]
As for the rest of you, I'm sorry.
You will get a chance to bake.
Please take your seats in the gallery.
It's okay.
It's time to see who can Find That Cake!
You know how this works.
The cake wall will spin around.
You'll see six different items
that you'd find...
on a shopping spree.
Five of them are real. And one of them -
don't freak out - is cake.
Oh, Cake Wall! Spin for me, please.
Each of you has your keypad, you'll
have 20 seconds to lock in your answer.
The baker who finds it first
gets first pick
of the item they want to replicate.
And your 20 seconds starts... now!
[tense music playing]
There they go.
Fifteen seconds.
Interesting.
Ten seconds?
I have no idea.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
-[bell dinging]
-[Mikey imitates buzzer]
Time's up.
It's time to find out who gets first pick.
-Jonny!
-Yeah.
[Mikey] You picked Number Four.
You think this is cake?
Well...
What gave it away?
You're laughing.
I actually don't think...
I think that's a shoe
that you could put your real foot in.
[laughing]
-Is it shoe?
-[Nina] It's shoe.
-Let's find out.
-Yes.
It is shoe. Not cake.
-I can't cut through a shoe.
-Nope.
Nina, April. You both picked the handbag.
You think this is cake.
I... If I can...
-[Mikey] Yeah?
-[Nina] You can't change!
Jonny also thinks this is cake,
but he picked the shoe.
Now, that's an interesting strategy.
We'll see if it pays off.
Let's find out if you're right, ladies.
Okay.
[tense music playing]
Mm.
Ooh.
[April] Yeah!
That's cake!
-Yes!
-[clapping]
And Nina.
You found it fastest,
which means you get first pick.
Congratulations!
-[whooping]
-[woman] Good job!
And Jonny.
-You briefly went insane...
-[bakers laughing]
...and didn't find the cake.
-Yup.
-So, you are a distant third.
-It's okay!
-That's all right.
The three of you will be
competing for up to $10,000,
when we play Is It Cake?
Okay, bakers. You know how this works.
Each of you has to choose a shopping item
that you're going to make into a cake.
They don't have to be identical.
But you need to fool the three judges
we've invited to try and spot your fakes.
Nina! You were the fastest,
so you get first pick.
I am going to go with... Three.
[Mikey] Ooh!
Why did you choose the clutch?
I've done the clutch before,
and I think it'll be easier
to manipulate it
within the decoys that we have.
Thinking about the decoys as well.
-Mm-hm.
-[Mikey] I like it.
April. You were second.
Yep. I'm gonna go with Number Four.
Jonny's shoe?
-[Nina laughs]
-[April] Jonny's shoe.
The Jonny.
-The one you can put a foot in.
-[Mikey] The one you can put a foot in.
Why the shoe?
My husband is a sneakerhead.
Interesting.
And in my office is a wall
of his sneakers.
So I know a lot of sneaker details,
and I think I can
replicate those pretty well.
And last but not least, Mr. Shoe.
Jonny, what's your pick?
I'm gonna choose Six.
[Mikey] The bucket hat!
Interesting.
Do you wear bucket hats?
Never once.
[laughing]
So...
A shoe, a hat, and a bag.
I can't wait to see it, guys.
All right, head to the kitchen!
-[clapping]
-[Mikey sings a tune]
Aprons on. [imitates swoosh sound]
We are giving you eight hours
to complete your cakes.
It's time to bake!
[clapping, whooping]
[Nina] That's all the same. All right.
-Is this not your, like, dream pantry?
-[Jonny] You guys...
Wait. You guys don't live in a home
of this size?
-[April and Nina laugh]
-I wanna skip around and just...
My job is the complete opposite
of what I do with cakes.
It's very serious.
I'm the Director of Education
for a civil rights organization in Canada.
By nights, I'm an absolute boss
about tricking people through cakes.
Are you guys excited to, uh, bake?
We are.
Cocoa. I don't see any cocoa powder.
[Nina] Where is the coffee?
-[April] Yeah, I need...
-Um...
[April] Are we making the same cake?
I think so. I'm doing a rich chocolate.
-With coffee?
-[Nina] Salted caramel.
Okay, okay.
Taste is huge.
I decided to go with chocolate fudge cake,
raspberry coulis,
and hazelnut spread
Swiss meringue buttercream.
I'm sort of regretting it, 'cause I
realize how difficult a sneaker is.
-That sneaker is pretty basic.
-Yeah.
-[April] I know, but...
-Don't share the secret.
-I'm not trying to be basic.
-There's no secret.
No, but I mean, like,
that's a believable sneaker.
-You don't need the bells and whistles...
-Keep it simple.
...to make it look real.
Look at you.
Are you competing here? [laughs]
-[Jonny] Well...
-Let's see.
He could be sabotaging me, right?
[Jonny] I'm coming in as a winner.
I got $10,000 in my pocket, which...
That's never there, so this is unusual.
I'm like, "What is in there?"
How cool would it be
if I had a two-week winning streak?
It's another $10,000,
and also a chance to bake again.
I feel this is a hard challenge
because it has to look perfect,
or it looks really not like the item.
Yeah.
In the last challenge,
I made those tacos look imperfect.
The imperfections
made it look more realistic.
But with the bucket hat cake,
I gotta make sure it looks like
a real piece of fabric.
And that has to be perfect.
-Would you make these perfect?
-I feel you would make these perfect.
-You have to have a sneaker right.
-[Sam] Yeah, exactly.
The hat can't be perfect, though.
-Like, the bucket hat...
-You have to have the wrinkles.
[upbeat music playing]
Hey, yeah.
[April] Wow. You're making a lot of cake
over there, buddy.
That's gonna be a big hat.
You got a lot of cake.
What are your flavors?
-[Jonny] I'm doing a churro cake.
-[April] Ooh!
It's gonna be churro, cinnamon.
It'll have Swiss meringue
buttercream, chocolate ganache,
a cookie crunch.
Ooh, I want some right now.
[mumbles] Oh, that's good.
[Andrew] My money's on Nina.
Oh! [laughs]
I'm from Carencro, Louisiana,
where we have good food, good crawfish,
and some of the most loving
and heartwarming people in the world.
I'm a natural artist.
And I started designing cakes
as a creative outlet.
After that, I opened up my own business.
And things just kind of blew up.
Espresso powder!
Ooh.
Mm.
-[April] It's the battle of the chocolate.
-Battle of the chocolates!
[April and Nina laugh]
[Jonny groans]
[Nina laughs]
I'll be over there in a minute.
I'm making sure that my cake
tastes amazing.
I'm making a rich chocolate cake
with salted caramel and chocolate ganache,
coconut cream cheese,
toasted coconut, and almond flakes.
You just gotta fool the judges.
It's not about perfection,
it's about fooling the judges.
-[Hemu] Yes.
-True.
My strategy is to focus on the details
to bring life to the actual cake.
I hope it works. [laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
-Hey, kids!
-Hey, Mikey.
-Hey, Mikey!
-Wow.
I have some things that might
help you guys fool the judges.
Nina, clutches.
April, shoes.
Jonny, hats.
Sounds like a mafia guy. "Jonny Hats!"
[laughing]
-What are you going for, April?
-I think...
-This is like psychological warfare.
-Exactly.
I wonder if I can get this texture.
Your shoes are dope.
[Andrew] And they spin.
-[Mikey] No!
-[Nina] Round and round they go.
Those are awesome.
I love shopping.
I'm a girl of fashion, can't you tell?
I wear the craziest of shoes.
I like to add things like cat ears
to my wardrobe.
So, replicating a clutch should
be right up my alley.
Bucket hats. [laughs]
I feel insane.
Which hat looks like a cake?
[April laughs]
He could pull off a bucket hat. Put it on!
-I hate it.
-[Hemu] It looks cute!
-[Sam] I love it.
-It looks good on you, Jon.
I hope one of my exes is watching
and says, "I shouldn't have dumped him."
I hope this bucket hat lands me some DMs.
If you're out there
and you like this bucket hat,
there's more where this came from.
[Sam] I love that your bucket hat
matches your shirt. Perfectly.
[upbeat music playing]
Fabric is really hard to mimic.
The trouble with making cake
look like fabric is that it just doesn't.
I'm covering the cake
in this cool product, Flexique.
It turns wafer paper into fabric.
It's crazy.
[April] What ya got there?
I'm trying to make edible fabric.
[April] Interesting.
I've never used it before,
but I think it's worth the risk trying it
because I'm trying to make a fabric hat.
[April] I'm learning from you.
-Oh, I'm learning from... me, I guess.
-[April laughs]
[April] To fool the judges,
I've gotta get hyper-focused
on making sure the contours
are right as I'm carving it.
[Nina] Is your carving
going okay with that?
Things are rolling.
When you're making a shoe cake,
everybody knows how it's supposed to look.
That's an important part
of this deception.
To try to recreate that,
it takes a lot more work.
You have to use a lot more precision.
Things have to look exactly right,
in the right proportions.
Otherwise, it's completely off.
I did not make this easy on myself,
that is for sure.
All right, bakers. Four hours left!
It seems like all the time in the world,
but it goes fast.
[April] I'm a hyper-perfectionist.
I like to spend a lot of time
obsessing about teeny tiny details.
Let's see if I can
salvage this thing. [laughs]
Adding some bumps and ridges
to make sure it looks like rubber.
-Hey, Jonny?
-[Jonny] Hm?
How's it going with your hat?
[sighs] Mostly well,
except the Flexique is slipping off.
[April] Oh.
I'm trying to attach this Flexique
to my cake, and it will not stick.
And no amount of edible glue
I'm putting on
is saving the situation here.
The hat's gonna look busted, broken.
It's not gonna be real.
I've never used it before,
so I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm a fool.
Bakers! Two hours left!
About your average movie length.
[Nina] The difficulty in
replicating a clutch is
you have to pay so much attention
to the details.
There are certain molds that can
replicate the different textures
that you can imprint into fondant
or modeling chocolate.
And it's the perfect texture
that I'm looking for.
Hey, Nina. How's it going?
It is going swell.
I just colored my fondant.
I think my strategy is to kind
of do like a matchy sort of thing.
-Right.
-Trick them a little bit.
I want to add a component
that may wow the judges.
I want to add an actual
thread to my clutch.
So, I take this winding tool.
It gets the fondant really thin.
And start to work on the stitching
of the purse.
Yes! That's perfect.
I think I just have to scrap the fabric
I was doing.
[April] Oh, man.
Is it a bad idea to just start over now?
This is not working.
It doesn't look right.
-[April] Man.
-[Jonny] Time to say goodbye.
I've wasted so much time
on something I totally scrapped.
So, I gotta work double time.
I'm switching to modeling chocolate.
Modeling chocolate will stay put.
I've used it tons of times before.
And it can have that look
of flowing fabric.
I'm pushing through the pain.
My hands are hurting
from kneading all day.
And they're still hurting.
The modeling chocolate is looking amazing.
In fact, it looks almost as good
as the Flexique.
All right, bakers! One hour left!
[April] Need to dull this down
on the inside.
I'm making the inside of the shoe
to look like leather.
If it's not looking tan enough,
I know it's gonna be a dead giveaway.
So I'm combining
some different shades together
until I get it just right.
And smooth it out on the inside.
Working on it.
Being somewhat of a clutch connoisseur...
[laughs]
...most clutches and bags
actually come with a strap.
That's what I'll do.
I need that oomph, I need something
to take me to that next level.
[Mikey] Thirty minutes!
Thirty minutes left!
Keep doing what you do best.
Ignore me.
I'd ignore me as well.
Standing here, yelling times at you.
[Nina laughs]
My bucket hat cake looks good.
But some of my decoys have grommets.
Some of them don't.
I want my cake to have grommets.
It would be a really cool touch,
and I think it would stump the judges.
But if I screw them up,
it's gonna be a dead giveaway.
I've got the perfect grommet shape.
I paint gold luster dust on
very delicately
to this gum paste grommet I've made.
And I let it dry.
Modern-day Picasso over here.
Bakers! You literally have ten minutes.
Finish those final details,
and then it's display time.
Let's go, April! Hustle!
Okay. Use this time wisely.
I am questioning all my decisions,
the design.
Ava, my two-year-old,
and Chris, my husband,
are 100 percent the fuel, the fire,
the motivation for me
to win this whole thing.
[Mikey] Five minutes, bakers!
It's...
clutch time?
-[record scratches]
-[birds tweet]
[upbeat music playing]
[Nina] Oh yeah. That's gonna be good.
That little strap is poppin'.
I mean, really poppin'.
One minute! Jonny Hats!
[clapping]
-[Mikey] Come on!
-[whooping]
Five seconds!
Four, three, two, one.
All right! That's time.
Well done. This is it!
[whooping]
It's deception time.
Bakers. You've been working for hours
perfecting your cakes
for a chance to win up to $10,000.
[whooping]
But can you fool our judges?
Let's find out.
Here are three people who really
know their way around a department store.
Not only does she have great taste
in fashion, she also designs it.
It's fashion designer Hester Sunshine!
[cheering]
I am engaged right now,
and I really hope
you would design my tuxedo.
Never too busy
to make someone's wedding dream.
-Aw!
-[bakers] Aw!
[Mikey] Thank you.
He's the star of the Netflix series
Styling Hollywood.
It's celebrity stylist Jason Bolden.
-[whooping]
-Thank you for being here!
-Do you like my suit?
-It's good, it's good.
[laughs] I don't buy it.
-No!
-"It's good."
I love the color.
-I like the little pop out of the pocket.
-Seriously?
I don't know if it's gonna be
as good as these cakes. But it's good.
That's a good point. The star of the show
is the cake. Who am I kidding?
[laughing]
He's a comedian, actor, and host of
the Morning Yo podcast. Michael Yo!
[clapping, whooping]
This is the best thing that's
happened to me in my life.
-Oh my God!
-[Michael] Right here with you guys.
I am well-versed in cakes,
and I am ready
to eliminate all these bakers.
Wait.
Did they explain to Michael how it works?
You, you, you. Gone!
All right, let's get to it. Bakers,
you're looking at your enemies.
I mean, judges.
I hope you can fool them.
[laughing]
Because you know what that means!
Cash for you.
Judges, this is how this works.
The cake wall is going to spin around.
You'll see five cake stands
each holding an item
you'd find on a shopping spree,
but only one of those stands
is actually holding a cake.
The three of you have 20 seconds
to agree on one answer,
and then you'll enter it on the keypad
in front of Michael.
[Michael] Okay!
Our first baker is Nina. Hey, Cake Wall!
[clapping, whooping]
[Mikey] Here comes the cake wall!
On the other side are five clutches.
One of them is not a clutch at all.
That's where you guys come in.
Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Oh my goodness.
-[Michael] What?!
-[Jason] Wow.
-[Hester] Okay. They all look like purses.
[Jason] I feel like I'm in Fifth Avenue.
[Hester] I think it's Two.
It looks like one thing.
[Jason] Yes.
Three makes sense 'cause it's
probably easy to get that color down.
[Michael] Gotta be Three.
Look at the texture on Four.
-[Hester] Four's so lumpy.
-[Jason] But it's an actual cake.
-No. It's Five.
-[Hester] Five is not the cake.
[Michael] What is it? It's Five.
Ten seconds to lock in your answer.
You sure it's not One?
It's either One or Four.
-[Mikey] Five...
-You think One is real?
-...four, three...
-No, we're looking for the cake!
-[Michael] It's Five!
-...two...
-[Michael] We gotta pick one!
-[Mikey] One. Lock it in!
-Time's up!
-[bell dinging]
-[Mikey] You guys selected Number Five.
-[Hester] They're all cake.
[Mikey laughs] "They're all cake."
That was amazing to watch.
"Oh my God!" [yells]
It's tough.
-[Michael] I said Five. I didn't listen...
-[Jason] I think it's Four.
-Why Five?
-Well, why did you press Five?
Ooh!
I'm going with the best looking one
of all. And that's why I picked Five.
Five looks like it was covered in fondant.
Fondant is the word of the show.
All right, let's see.
Who's right, and who's wrong?
[exhales slowly]
Oh my God, is it cake?
[Mikey] Is it cake?
It's cake? It's not cake?
[tense music playing]
-[Mikey] No!
-[Jason] Told you!
I told you! I told you!
That's not cake.
-This is what I do.
-[cheering]
Nina. It's not cake.
Congrats, you fooled the judges.
-Thank you.
-Well done.
-Yay, Nina!
-Good job, Nina!
You fooled them.
Thank you for being fooled.
-[Mikey] You thought it was Four.
-[Jason] Mm-hm.
I want you to try to cut it.
We need to know.
Let's settle this debate.
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
[Jason] I told you! I said it!
I said it, I said it, I said it.
[clapping, whooping]
[Mikey] Oh!
That looks like cake to me.
Nina, congrats.
You're up for the win today.
Judges, it's time for our next baker.
April!
[imitates klaxon]
Let's see if you get it right.
But hopefully for our baker,
you guys get it wrong.
Hey, Cake Wall!
All right, judges.
You are about to see five shoes.
One of them is, guess what? Cake.
But can you spot which one?
[gasps] Oh my God.
Okay, judges. Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Okay.
-[Jason groans] This is... Okay.
-[Michael] Ooh, I...
-Okay, it's Two.
[Michael] It's Two?
-Why Two? I don't...
-[Jason] I don't know.
-[Michael] So, hit Two?
-[Jason] It's Two or Three.
[Mikey] Ten seconds!
Look at that Vans.
Okay, the Vans is not it.
[Michael] I don't...
It's definitely not Five.
[Jason] Two or Three.
-[Mikey] Five, four...
-[Michael] Two or three?!
-[Mikey] ...three, two, one.
-Do what your heart tells you!
[bell dinging]
[Mikey] Judges, you chose Number Two.
[Hester] I thought I was
good under pressure!
My favorite part about that.
The last thing I heard was,
"Do what your heart tells you!"
[laughing]
All right, judges. You picked Number Two.
[Michael] Yeah.
What about Two made you go for it?
Well, I will tell you why I went for it.
It's because he said Two or Three.
-What?
-And she said Two or Three.
-Then he said, "Go with your heart."
-[laughing]
The sole looked like it didn't
have enough texture,
so I thought maybe it could be Number Two.
Moment of truth.
Let's see if you're right.
-Maybe.
-[Mikey] Here we go!
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
-And...
-[laughing]
Not a cake. Not a cake.
Not cake!
[whooping, clapping]
Yeah!
In your face!
You guys may seem like the experts,
but it looked like April fooled you?
[music warps]
[laughing]
Looks like it's April Fools' Day here.
I've been fired again? Twice.
The other one under contention
was Three, correct?
-That was it.
-Three is the one.
-Definitely Three.
-Oh!
We are committed to that.
Where were these judges when you guys
were needing to lock in your answer?
Mikey Day, you're feeling my pain.
Now, they know it's Three...
-What is happening here?
-No... I'm just...
Moment of truth.
All right. Let's see if you guys
were right on this one.
[tense music playing]
[judges] Oh!
I wanna go home! I wanna go home.
I wanna go home. I want to go home!
All right, April. Congrats.
That means you're up for the win today.
And last, but never forgotten.
It's Jonny, our returning champion.
Our hero!
He made a little something for your head.
-A hat!
-[Mikey] Hats.
[Michael] Mm-hm.
Hey, Cake Wall!
All right, judges.
You're about to see five hats.
But one is not a hat. It is a cake.
Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Okay.
-[Jason] Oh, really?
-[Hester] This is harder than I expected.
-Yeah.
[Hester] Two's too real.
I see that stitch line.
Is it Four? Four seems...
Four seems a little...
Four... or Five.
[beeping]
-Five, four...
-Okay, you gotta give me something.
-[Hester] Four or Five.
-Which one?
-Five!
-[Mikey] Time's up!
[Jason] I feel like it's Five.
-[Michael] I hit Five.
-[Jason] You hit Five?
[Mikey] Their answer is locked.
You chose Five.
-I'm nervous.
-[Hester] Me too.
Tell me why you went with Number Five.
The texture on Five looks a little...
-[Hester] Suspect.
-...subtle.
And the fact we couldn't see any grommets.
Yes. And for the viewers at home,
what is a grommet?
Grommet is those little silver holes
that you see on that bucket hat.
But for Five, there is no grommet.
There is just an illusion of a grommet.
-[laughing]
-[Mikey] No grommet!
Let's see if you were right.
Why are my fingers crossed?
My favorite question.
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
It is...
-...not cake.
-I thought it was going through!
No!
Jonny!
[mock surprise] What?
You did it again!
Little old me?
-Can I say which one I thought it was?
-Which?
Four, like you said at the beginning.
Time to find out if your second choice,
Number Four, is cake.
-Yes.
-[Hester] Our last chance...
What do you mean? We're not
making it to the Cake Olympics. We lost.
[laughing]
All right. Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
[Mikey] Here we go.
-[Michael] Yep!
-It's cake.
That seems like cake to me.
A very thick cake.
This bucket hat is a cake.
Yeah.
[Hester] I thought we had this last one
in the bag.
Nina, April, and Jonny,
you all fooled the judges.
-I know.
-Congratulations.
But only one of you can be the winner.
It all comes down to our judges.
You know,
the ones that couldn't find your cakes?
All right, judges.
We have a three-way tie.
It's up to you to break it.
Take a closer look before determining
who will win up to $10,000.
It comes down to the taste
and the details.
Cake Wall, bring forth the cakes!
Come on up here.
[intense music playing]
[Mikey] Jonny, tell us about your cake.
[Jonny] I made a churro-inspired cake
with some crunchy vanilla bits inside.
[Michael] I love the taste. It reminded me
when I was a kid, eating cereal.
-Really good.
-This one is definitely super delicious.
A lot of layers of flavor going on.
-[Jason] The grommets were spot-on.
-[Hester] They were.
Thanks.
From far away, I was totally confused
by Jonny's cake.
But up close, I would say
I could easily tell that this is a cake.
[Jason] Up close, easily a cake.
Cocky now that you're standing six inches
from the cakes.
[Hester] This is April's cake.
I've never eaten a shoe,
but I'll go for it.
[April] What we have here is
a chocolate fudge cake
with raspberry ganache.
-Wow. Mm-hm.
-The raspberry just pops!
[Hester, Michael] Delicious.
Just to make sure she fooled everyone,
April put coloring on the inside.
-It looks like it's really a shoe.
-That's what fooled me.
[Hester] I love the rubber around it.
It does look like the sole of a sneaker.
Thanks.
[Mikey] Nina, tell us all about your cake.
[Nina] So, what I made here is
a rich chocolate cake,
with coconut cream cheese
and almond flakes.
[Jason] Ooh!
[Michael] It's delicious.
The coconut pops.
[Hester] It tastes very expensive.
[Michael] The detail is really good.
I love the way that Nina
put the strap in there.
That threw me.
Even this texture that almost felt like
a pebbled leather. Very Hermès of you.
Thank you.
Okay, judges. You've had a closer look.
You've tasted the cakes.
It's time for you to pick a winner.
-[Hester] What do you think?
-Hm.
One looks amazing.
[Jason] That was more complicated.
But the shoe was also crazy complicated.
I'll see if I can hear anything.
[laughing]
Doesn't that look like a real hat? Like...
-Where?
-I don't know. I don't wear bucket hats.
-[Jason] Exactly.
-Maybe I need to.
Okay, okay.
-Judges. Have you made a decision?
-Yes.
Then, without further ado,
please tell us who the winner is.
Well, it came down to two bakers.
Nina and April.
We believe both cakes taste amazing.
But aesthetically we felt that one
stood far and above the other two cakes.
So, our winner for today...
[tense music playing]
-...is Nina.
-[Nina] Oh!
-Nina!
-Thank you!
Nina!
-Congrats!
-Thank you.
You just won $5,000, Nina.
Judges, what pushed Nina over the edge?
For me, with Nina it was the hidden strap.
It was so realistic.
You made it seem functional in that sense.
Even though half of it is cut off...
[laughing]
...it still looks real to me, you know?
And the details of the pebbled leather
and the lining in there.
Those things seemed real.
Great job, Nina.
-Thank you.
-Fantastic.
Look at you!
-Yeah!
-[whooping]
Thank you.
Bakers! Let's give it up for our judges.
They were the best.
-Bye bye! Bye, judges.
-Bye!
I love you guys.
[game show music playing]
You've been eliminated!
-Bye.
-Bye!
Bye, guys.
April and Jonny, I'm sorry,
but don't worry.
You will get a chance to bake again.
Will you please join your comrades
in the gallery?
Nina, this is the fun part.
You get to play Cake or Cash?
Okay, Nina. You successfully
fooled our judges and won $5,000.
-And Louisiana is so proud.
-Yay!
But do you know what's better than 5,000?
Ten thousand.
-Thank you.
-Oh!
Adding another $5,000 to it.
So, on the other side of that cake wall
are two shopping bags.
One of these shopping bags is
filled with cash.
And the other one, Nina, is cake.
If you guess the cake, you get the cash.
You're going to either win $5,000
or some cake.
You have 15 seconds to decide
which one is cake
and lock in your answer.
And your time starts now!
[tense music playing]
-Oh, this is so hard.
-I know.
[Nina] I should be better at this.
Uh...
-Ten seconds!
-[Nina squeals]
[Nina laughs]
[beeping]
[Mikey] What's cake? What's cash?
-[rapid beeping]
-Five, four, three, two, one.
-Lock in your answer!
-[bell dinging]
-[cheering]
-[Mikey] The answer's locked and loaded.
You picked Number Two. How do you feel?
Confident?
-No. [laughs]
-No?
That's what it does. Gets in your head.
But why did you end up
going with Number Two?
[Nina] The papery thing that's on top.
I want to say this may be
a fondant technique that's going on here.
Fondant.
Yeah. So, I'm hoping that's the cake.
At the end of the day,
all roads lead to fondant.
All right. Let's see if you
made another $5,000.
-You went with Number Two.
-Yes.
If this is cake, you win $5,000.
-Let's see. Is it cake?
-Come on, Mikey.
[Nina groans]
[tense music playing]
Oh!
[Mikey] Oh.
No, it's not!
[groaning]
Not cake, Nina. I'm sorry.
You've still got 5,000.
Which means this little guy is cake!
So, let's make him pay for it. Yeah?
Right. Oh my gosh.
-Oh, okay. Oh.
-[Mikey] Yeah.
-Yeah.
-[Mikey] That's cake.
[bakers groaning]
[Andrew] It's okay.
-How dare you?
-Yeah!
Here's the good news.
You're still taking home $5,000.
And you get to continue on
and pick the two bakers
who you'll go up against next.
And now, because Nina didn't
win that $5,000,
Gallery, the Cake or Cash prize pot
is now $10,000 for next time.
Look at you guys, drooling.
[laughing]
Want to know what's gonna happen next?
I have no idea, but I can tell you this...
There will be lots of cake involved.
I'm Mikey Day, or
am I cake?
[laughing]
You never know here.
[closing theme music playing]
I'm back.
-Bakers!
-[whooping]
Did you miss me?
-Totally.
-Of course.
I love you guys. I missed you.
And Jonny! Our champion.
Congratulations.
[clapping, whooping]
You won, and walked away
with $10,000. How do you feel?
This should be a lesson
to the children out there,
that lying and deceiving can
make you a lot of money.
[laughing]
All right.
Well, because you won,
that means you get to move on
and pick the two bakers
you're gonna go up against today.
-Yeah.
-Who are we thinking here?
Maybe going with Steve,
the silent assassin?
[bakers laughing]
The undercover CIA agent.
What about Mister Smack Talk, Andrew?
I don't get the "smack talk" thing,
but okay.
-A little bit of trash talk.
-No, no, no. I love him.
Jonny. Who's your first pick?
Who's it going to be?
So...
[tense music playing]
April has a two-year-old daughter at home,
who deserves to see you bake.
-Aw!
-[Jonny] I'm sure you miss her.
-[Jonny] So I wanted to...
-[mock cries]
Thanks a lot, man.
That was adorable.
Okay. Final pick. Who's it gonna be?
I'm gonna go with...
-Nina.
-[whooping]
Oh!
I'm sorry, guys.
[Mikey] Interesting!
Now, is this a strategic decision here?
Or are you assembling the Super Friends?
It's definitely not. It should be noted
that I really don't know their work.
Right, you're not
familiar with their work.
But you're familiar with their hearts.
[bakers] Aw!
And now, you will crush them.
[laughing]
As for the rest of you, I'm sorry.
You will get a chance to bake.
Please take your seats in the gallery.
It's okay.
It's time to see who can Find That Cake!
You know how this works.
The cake wall will spin around.
You'll see six different items
that you'd find...
on a shopping spree.
Five of them are real. And one of them -
don't freak out - is cake.
Oh, Cake Wall! Spin for me, please.
Each of you has your keypad, you'll
have 20 seconds to lock in your answer.
The baker who finds it first
gets first pick
of the item they want to replicate.
And your 20 seconds starts... now!
[tense music playing]
There they go.
Fifteen seconds.
Interesting.
Ten seconds?
I have no idea.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
-[bell dinging]
-[Mikey imitates buzzer]
Time's up.
It's time to find out who gets first pick.
-Jonny!
-Yeah.
[Mikey] You picked Number Four.
You think this is cake?
Well...
What gave it away?
You're laughing.
I actually don't think...
I think that's a shoe
that you could put your real foot in.
[laughing]
-Is it shoe?
-[Nina] It's shoe.
-Let's find out.
-Yes.
It is shoe. Not cake.
-I can't cut through a shoe.
-Nope.
Nina, April. You both picked the handbag.
You think this is cake.
I... If I can...
-[Mikey] Yeah?
-[Nina] You can't change!
Jonny also thinks this is cake,
but he picked the shoe.
Now, that's an interesting strategy.
We'll see if it pays off.
Let's find out if you're right, ladies.
Okay.
[tense music playing]
Mm.
Ooh.
[April] Yeah!
That's cake!
-Yes!
-[clapping]
And Nina.
You found it fastest,
which means you get first pick.
Congratulations!
-[whooping]
-[woman] Good job!
And Jonny.
-You briefly went insane...
-[bakers laughing]
...and didn't find the cake.
-Yup.
-So, you are a distant third.
-It's okay!
-That's all right.
The three of you will be
competing for up to $10,000,
when we play Is It Cake?
Okay, bakers. You know how this works.
Each of you has to choose a shopping item
that you're going to make into a cake.
They don't have to be identical.
But you need to fool the three judges
we've invited to try and spot your fakes.
Nina! You were the fastest,
so you get first pick.
I am going to go with... Three.
[Mikey] Ooh!
Why did you choose the clutch?
I've done the clutch before,
and I think it'll be easier
to manipulate it
within the decoys that we have.
Thinking about the decoys as well.
-Mm-hm.
-[Mikey] I like it.
April. You were second.
Yep. I'm gonna go with Number Four.
Jonny's shoe?
-[Nina laughs]
-[April] Jonny's shoe.
The Jonny.
-The one you can put a foot in.
-[Mikey] The one you can put a foot in.
Why the shoe?
My husband is a sneakerhead.
Interesting.
And in my office is a wall
of his sneakers.
So I know a lot of sneaker details,
and I think I can
replicate those pretty well.
And last but not least, Mr. Shoe.
Jonny, what's your pick?
I'm gonna choose Six.
[Mikey] The bucket hat!
Interesting.
Do you wear bucket hats?
Never once.
[laughing]
So...
A shoe, a hat, and a bag.
I can't wait to see it, guys.
All right, head to the kitchen!
-[clapping]
-[Mikey sings a tune]
Aprons on. [imitates swoosh sound]
We are giving you eight hours
to complete your cakes.
It's time to bake!
[clapping, whooping]
[Nina] That's all the same. All right.
-Is this not your, like, dream pantry?
-[Jonny] You guys...
Wait. You guys don't live in a home
of this size?
-[April and Nina laugh]
-I wanna skip around and just...
My job is the complete opposite
of what I do with cakes.
It's very serious.
I'm the Director of Education
for a civil rights organization in Canada.
By nights, I'm an absolute boss
about tricking people through cakes.
Are you guys excited to, uh, bake?
We are.
Cocoa. I don't see any cocoa powder.
[Nina] Where is the coffee?
-[April] Yeah, I need...
-Um...
[April] Are we making the same cake?
I think so. I'm doing a rich chocolate.
-With coffee?
-[Nina] Salted caramel.
Okay, okay.
Taste is huge.
I decided to go with chocolate fudge cake,
raspberry coulis,
and hazelnut spread
Swiss meringue buttercream.
I'm sort of regretting it, 'cause I
realize how difficult a sneaker is.
-That sneaker is pretty basic.
-Yeah.
-[April] I know, but...
-Don't share the secret.
-I'm not trying to be basic.
-There's no secret.
No, but I mean, like,
that's a believable sneaker.
-You don't need the bells and whistles...
-Keep it simple.
...to make it look real.
Look at you.
Are you competing here? [laughs]
-[Jonny] Well...
-Let's see.
He could be sabotaging me, right?
[Jonny] I'm coming in as a winner.
I got $10,000 in my pocket, which...
That's never there, so this is unusual.
I'm like, "What is in there?"
How cool would it be
if I had a two-week winning streak?
It's another $10,000,
and also a chance to bake again.
I feel this is a hard challenge
because it has to look perfect,
or it looks really not like the item.
Yeah.
In the last challenge,
I made those tacos look imperfect.
The imperfections
made it look more realistic.
But with the bucket hat cake,
I gotta make sure it looks like
a real piece of fabric.
And that has to be perfect.
-Would you make these perfect?
-I feel you would make these perfect.
-You have to have a sneaker right.
-[Sam] Yeah, exactly.
The hat can't be perfect, though.
-Like, the bucket hat...
-You have to have the wrinkles.
[upbeat music playing]
Hey, yeah.
[April] Wow. You're making a lot of cake
over there, buddy.
That's gonna be a big hat.
You got a lot of cake.
What are your flavors?
-[Jonny] I'm doing a churro cake.
-[April] Ooh!
It's gonna be churro, cinnamon.
It'll have Swiss meringue
buttercream, chocolate ganache,
a cookie crunch.
Ooh, I want some right now.
[mumbles] Oh, that's good.
[Andrew] My money's on Nina.
Oh! [laughs]
I'm from Carencro, Louisiana,
where we have good food, good crawfish,
and some of the most loving
and heartwarming people in the world.
I'm a natural artist.
And I started designing cakes
as a creative outlet.
After that, I opened up my own business.
And things just kind of blew up.
Espresso powder!
Ooh.
Mm.
-[April] It's the battle of the chocolate.
-Battle of the chocolates!
[April and Nina laugh]
[Jonny groans]
[Nina laughs]
I'll be over there in a minute.
I'm making sure that my cake
tastes amazing.
I'm making a rich chocolate cake
with salted caramel and chocolate ganache,
coconut cream cheese,
toasted coconut, and almond flakes.
You just gotta fool the judges.
It's not about perfection,
it's about fooling the judges.
-[Hemu] Yes.
-True.
My strategy is to focus on the details
to bring life to the actual cake.
I hope it works. [laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
-Hey, kids!
-Hey, Mikey.
-Hey, Mikey!
-Wow.
I have some things that might
help you guys fool the judges.
Nina, clutches.
April, shoes.
Jonny, hats.
Sounds like a mafia guy. "Jonny Hats!"
[laughing]
-What are you going for, April?
-I think...
-This is like psychological warfare.
-Exactly.
I wonder if I can get this texture.
Your shoes are dope.
[Andrew] And they spin.
-[Mikey] No!
-[Nina] Round and round they go.
Those are awesome.
I love shopping.
I'm a girl of fashion, can't you tell?
I wear the craziest of shoes.
I like to add things like cat ears
to my wardrobe.
So, replicating a clutch should
be right up my alley.
Bucket hats. [laughs]
I feel insane.
Which hat looks like a cake?
[April laughs]
He could pull off a bucket hat. Put it on!
-I hate it.
-[Hemu] It looks cute!
-[Sam] I love it.
-It looks good on you, Jon.
I hope one of my exes is watching
and says, "I shouldn't have dumped him."
I hope this bucket hat lands me some DMs.
If you're out there
and you like this bucket hat,
there's more where this came from.
[Sam] I love that your bucket hat
matches your shirt. Perfectly.
[upbeat music playing]
Fabric is really hard to mimic.
The trouble with making cake
look like fabric is that it just doesn't.
I'm covering the cake
in this cool product, Flexique.
It turns wafer paper into fabric.
It's crazy.
[April] What ya got there?
I'm trying to make edible fabric.
[April] Interesting.
I've never used it before,
but I think it's worth the risk trying it
because I'm trying to make a fabric hat.
[April] I'm learning from you.
-Oh, I'm learning from... me, I guess.
-[April laughs]
[April] To fool the judges,
I've gotta get hyper-focused
on making sure the contours
are right as I'm carving it.
[Nina] Is your carving
going okay with that?
Things are rolling.
When you're making a shoe cake,
everybody knows how it's supposed to look.
That's an important part
of this deception.
To try to recreate that,
it takes a lot more work.
You have to use a lot more precision.
Things have to look exactly right,
in the right proportions.
Otherwise, it's completely off.
I did not make this easy on myself,
that is for sure.
All right, bakers. Four hours left!
It seems like all the time in the world,
but it goes fast.
[April] I'm a hyper-perfectionist.
I like to spend a lot of time
obsessing about teeny tiny details.
Let's see if I can
salvage this thing. [laughs]
Adding some bumps and ridges
to make sure it looks like rubber.
-Hey, Jonny?
-[Jonny] Hm?
How's it going with your hat?
[sighs] Mostly well,
except the Flexique is slipping off.
[April] Oh.
I'm trying to attach this Flexique
to my cake, and it will not stick.
And no amount of edible glue
I'm putting on
is saving the situation here.
The hat's gonna look busted, broken.
It's not gonna be real.
I've never used it before,
so I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm a fool.
Bakers! Two hours left!
About your average movie length.
[Nina] The difficulty in
replicating a clutch is
you have to pay so much attention
to the details.
There are certain molds that can
replicate the different textures
that you can imprint into fondant
or modeling chocolate.
And it's the perfect texture
that I'm looking for.
Hey, Nina. How's it going?
It is going swell.
I just colored my fondant.
I think my strategy is to kind
of do like a matchy sort of thing.
-Right.
-Trick them a little bit.
I want to add a component
that may wow the judges.
I want to add an actual
thread to my clutch.
So, I take this winding tool.
It gets the fondant really thin.
And start to work on the stitching
of the purse.
Yes! That's perfect.
I think I just have to scrap the fabric
I was doing.
[April] Oh, man.
Is it a bad idea to just start over now?
This is not working.
It doesn't look right.
-[April] Man.
-[Jonny] Time to say goodbye.
I've wasted so much time
on something I totally scrapped.
So, I gotta work double time.
I'm switching to modeling chocolate.
Modeling chocolate will stay put.
I've used it tons of times before.
And it can have that look
of flowing fabric.
I'm pushing through the pain.
My hands are hurting
from kneading all day.
And they're still hurting.
The modeling chocolate is looking amazing.
In fact, it looks almost as good
as the Flexique.
All right, bakers! One hour left!
[April] Need to dull this down
on the inside.
I'm making the inside of the shoe
to look like leather.
If it's not looking tan enough,
I know it's gonna be a dead giveaway.
So I'm combining
some different shades together
until I get it just right.
And smooth it out on the inside.
Working on it.
Being somewhat of a clutch connoisseur...
[laughs]
...most clutches and bags
actually come with a strap.
That's what I'll do.
I need that oomph, I need something
to take me to that next level.
[Mikey] Thirty minutes!
Thirty minutes left!
Keep doing what you do best.
Ignore me.
I'd ignore me as well.
Standing here, yelling times at you.
[Nina laughs]
My bucket hat cake looks good.
But some of my decoys have grommets.
Some of them don't.
I want my cake to have grommets.
It would be a really cool touch,
and I think it would stump the judges.
But if I screw them up,
it's gonna be a dead giveaway.
I've got the perfect grommet shape.
I paint gold luster dust on
very delicately
to this gum paste grommet I've made.
And I let it dry.
Modern-day Picasso over here.
Bakers! You literally have ten minutes.
Finish those final details,
and then it's display time.
Let's go, April! Hustle!
Okay. Use this time wisely.
I am questioning all my decisions,
the design.
Ava, my two-year-old,
and Chris, my husband,
are 100 percent the fuel, the fire,
the motivation for me
to win this whole thing.
[Mikey] Five minutes, bakers!
It's...
clutch time?
-[record scratches]
-[birds tweet]
[upbeat music playing]
[Nina] Oh yeah. That's gonna be good.
That little strap is poppin'.
I mean, really poppin'.
One minute! Jonny Hats!
[clapping]
-[Mikey] Come on!
-[whooping]
Five seconds!
Four, three, two, one.
All right! That's time.
Well done. This is it!
[whooping]
It's deception time.
Bakers. You've been working for hours
perfecting your cakes
for a chance to win up to $10,000.
[whooping]
But can you fool our judges?
Let's find out.
Here are three people who really
know their way around a department store.
Not only does she have great taste
in fashion, she also designs it.
It's fashion designer Hester Sunshine!
[cheering]
I am engaged right now,
and I really hope
you would design my tuxedo.
Never too busy
to make someone's wedding dream.
-Aw!
-[bakers] Aw!
[Mikey] Thank you.
He's the star of the Netflix series
Styling Hollywood.
It's celebrity stylist Jason Bolden.
-[whooping]
-Thank you for being here!
-Do you like my suit?
-It's good, it's good.
[laughs] I don't buy it.
-No!
-"It's good."
I love the color.
-I like the little pop out of the pocket.
-Seriously?
I don't know if it's gonna be
as good as these cakes. But it's good.
That's a good point. The star of the show
is the cake. Who am I kidding?
[laughing]
He's a comedian, actor, and host of
the Morning Yo podcast. Michael Yo!
[clapping, whooping]
This is the best thing that's
happened to me in my life.
-Oh my God!
-[Michael] Right here with you guys.
I am well-versed in cakes,
and I am ready
to eliminate all these bakers.
Wait.
Did they explain to Michael how it works?
You, you, you. Gone!
All right, let's get to it. Bakers,
you're looking at your enemies.
I mean, judges.
I hope you can fool them.
[laughing]
Because you know what that means!
Cash for you.
Judges, this is how this works.
The cake wall is going to spin around.
You'll see five cake stands
each holding an item
you'd find on a shopping spree,
but only one of those stands
is actually holding a cake.
The three of you have 20 seconds
to agree on one answer,
and then you'll enter it on the keypad
in front of Michael.
[Michael] Okay!
Our first baker is Nina. Hey, Cake Wall!
[clapping, whooping]
[Mikey] Here comes the cake wall!
On the other side are five clutches.
One of them is not a clutch at all.
That's where you guys come in.
Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Oh my goodness.
-[Michael] What?!
-[Jason] Wow.
-[Hester] Okay. They all look like purses.
[Jason] I feel like I'm in Fifth Avenue.
[Hester] I think it's Two.
It looks like one thing.
[Jason] Yes.
Three makes sense 'cause it's
probably easy to get that color down.
[Michael] Gotta be Three.
Look at the texture on Four.
-[Hester] Four's so lumpy.
-[Jason] But it's an actual cake.
-No. It's Five.
-[Hester] Five is not the cake.
[Michael] What is it? It's Five.
Ten seconds to lock in your answer.
You sure it's not One?
It's either One or Four.
-[Mikey] Five...
-You think One is real?
-...four, three...
-No, we're looking for the cake!
-[Michael] It's Five!
-...two...
-[Michael] We gotta pick one!
-[Mikey] One. Lock it in!
-Time's up!
-[bell dinging]
-[Mikey] You guys selected Number Five.
-[Hester] They're all cake.
[Mikey laughs] "They're all cake."
That was amazing to watch.
"Oh my God!" [yells]
It's tough.
-[Michael] I said Five. I didn't listen...
-[Jason] I think it's Four.
-Why Five?
-Well, why did you press Five?
Ooh!
I'm going with the best looking one
of all. And that's why I picked Five.
Five looks like it was covered in fondant.
Fondant is the word of the show.
All right, let's see.
Who's right, and who's wrong?
[exhales slowly]
Oh my God, is it cake?
[Mikey] Is it cake?
It's cake? It's not cake?
[tense music playing]
-[Mikey] No!
-[Jason] Told you!
I told you! I told you!
That's not cake.
-This is what I do.
-[cheering]
Nina. It's not cake.
Congrats, you fooled the judges.
-Thank you.
-Well done.
-Yay, Nina!
-Good job, Nina!
You fooled them.
Thank you for being fooled.
-[Mikey] You thought it was Four.
-[Jason] Mm-hm.
I want you to try to cut it.
We need to know.
Let's settle this debate.
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
[Jason] I told you! I said it!
I said it, I said it, I said it.
[clapping, whooping]
[Mikey] Oh!
That looks like cake to me.
Nina, congrats.
You're up for the win today.
Judges, it's time for our next baker.
April!
[imitates klaxon]
Let's see if you get it right.
But hopefully for our baker,
you guys get it wrong.
Hey, Cake Wall!
All right, judges.
You are about to see five shoes.
One of them is, guess what? Cake.
But can you spot which one?
[gasps] Oh my God.
Okay, judges. Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Okay.
-[Jason groans] This is... Okay.
-[Michael] Ooh, I...
-Okay, it's Two.
[Michael] It's Two?
-Why Two? I don't...
-[Jason] I don't know.
-[Michael] So, hit Two?
-[Jason] It's Two or Three.
[Mikey] Ten seconds!
Look at that Vans.
Okay, the Vans is not it.
[Michael] I don't...
It's definitely not Five.
[Jason] Two or Three.
-[Mikey] Five, four...
-[Michael] Two or three?!
-[Mikey] ...three, two, one.
-Do what your heart tells you!
[bell dinging]
[Mikey] Judges, you chose Number Two.
[Hester] I thought I was
good under pressure!
My favorite part about that.
The last thing I heard was,
"Do what your heart tells you!"
[laughing]
All right, judges. You picked Number Two.
[Michael] Yeah.
What about Two made you go for it?
Well, I will tell you why I went for it.
It's because he said Two or Three.
-What?
-And she said Two or Three.
-Then he said, "Go with your heart."
-[laughing]
The sole looked like it didn't
have enough texture,
so I thought maybe it could be Number Two.
Moment of truth.
Let's see if you're right.
-Maybe.
-[Mikey] Here we go!
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
-And...
-[laughing]
Not a cake. Not a cake.
Not cake!
[whooping, clapping]
Yeah!
In your face!
You guys may seem like the experts,
but it looked like April fooled you?
[music warps]
[laughing]
Looks like it's April Fools' Day here.
I've been fired again? Twice.
The other one under contention
was Three, correct?
-That was it.
-Three is the one.
-Definitely Three.
-Oh!
We are committed to that.
Where were these judges when you guys
were needing to lock in your answer?
Mikey Day, you're feeling my pain.
Now, they know it's Three...
-What is happening here?
-No... I'm just...
Moment of truth.
All right. Let's see if you guys
were right on this one.
[tense music playing]
[judges] Oh!
I wanna go home! I wanna go home.
I wanna go home. I want to go home!
All right, April. Congrats.
That means you're up for the win today.
And last, but never forgotten.
It's Jonny, our returning champion.
Our hero!
He made a little something for your head.
-A hat!
-[Mikey] Hats.
[Michael] Mm-hm.
Hey, Cake Wall!
All right, judges.
You're about to see five hats.
But one is not a hat. It is a cake.
Your time starts now!
-[Hester] Okay.
-[Jason] Oh, really?
-[Hester] This is harder than I expected.
-Yeah.
[Hester] Two's too real.
I see that stitch line.
Is it Four? Four seems...
Four seems a little...
Four... or Five.
[beeping]
-Five, four...
-Okay, you gotta give me something.
-[Hester] Four or Five.
-Which one?
-Five!
-[Mikey] Time's up!
[Jason] I feel like it's Five.
-[Michael] I hit Five.
-[Jason] You hit Five?
[Mikey] Their answer is locked.
You chose Five.
-I'm nervous.
-[Hester] Me too.
Tell me why you went with Number Five.
The texture on Five looks a little...
-[Hester] Suspect.
-...subtle.
And the fact we couldn't see any grommets.
Yes. And for the viewers at home,
what is a grommet?
Grommet is those little silver holes
that you see on that bucket hat.
But for Five, there is no grommet.
There is just an illusion of a grommet.
-[laughing]
-[Mikey] No grommet!
Let's see if you were right.
Why are my fingers crossed?
My favorite question.
Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
It is...
-...not cake.
-I thought it was going through!
No!
Jonny!
[mock surprise] What?
You did it again!
Little old me?
-Can I say which one I thought it was?
-Which?
Four, like you said at the beginning.
Time to find out if your second choice,
Number Four, is cake.
-Yes.
-[Hester] Our last chance...
What do you mean? We're not
making it to the Cake Olympics. We lost.
[laughing]
All right. Is it cake?
[tense music playing]
[Mikey] Here we go.
-[Michael] Yep!
-It's cake.
That seems like cake to me.
A very thick cake.
This bucket hat is a cake.
Yeah.
[Hester] I thought we had this last one
in the bag.
Nina, April, and Jonny,
you all fooled the judges.
-I know.
-Congratulations.
But only one of you can be the winner.
It all comes down to our judges.
You know,
the ones that couldn't find your cakes?
All right, judges.
We have a three-way tie.
It's up to you to break it.
Take a closer look before determining
who will win up to $10,000.
It comes down to the taste
and the details.
Cake Wall, bring forth the cakes!
Come on up here.
[intense music playing]
[Mikey] Jonny, tell us about your cake.
[Jonny] I made a churro-inspired cake
with some crunchy vanilla bits inside.
[Michael] I love the taste. It reminded me
when I was a kid, eating cereal.
-Really good.
-This one is definitely super delicious.
A lot of layers of flavor going on.
-[Jason] The grommets were spot-on.
-[Hester] They were.
Thanks.
From far away, I was totally confused
by Jonny's cake.
But up close, I would say
I could easily tell that this is a cake.
[Jason] Up close, easily a cake.
Cocky now that you're standing six inches
from the cakes.
[Hester] This is April's cake.
I've never eaten a shoe,
but I'll go for it.
[April] What we have here is
a chocolate fudge cake
with raspberry ganache.
-Wow. Mm-hm.
-The raspberry just pops!
[Hester, Michael] Delicious.
Just to make sure she fooled everyone,
April put coloring on the inside.
-It looks like it's really a shoe.
-That's what fooled me.
[Hester] I love the rubber around it.
It does look like the sole of a sneaker.
Thanks.
[Mikey] Nina, tell us all about your cake.
[Nina] So, what I made here is
a rich chocolate cake,
with coconut cream cheese
and almond flakes.
[Jason] Ooh!
[Michael] It's delicious.
The coconut pops.
[Hester] It tastes very expensive.
[Michael] The detail is really good.
I love the way that Nina
put the strap in there.
That threw me.
Even this texture that almost felt like
a pebbled leather. Very Hermès of you.
Thank you.
Okay, judges. You've had a closer look.
You've tasted the cakes.
It's time for you to pick a winner.
-[Hester] What do you think?
-Hm.
One looks amazing.
[Jason] That was more complicated.
But the shoe was also crazy complicated.
I'll see if I can hear anything.
[laughing]
Doesn't that look like a real hat? Like...
-Where?
-I don't know. I don't wear bucket hats.
-[Jason] Exactly.
-Maybe I need to.
Okay, okay.
-Judges. Have you made a decision?
-Yes.
Then, without further ado,
please tell us who the winner is.
Well, it came down to two bakers.
Nina and April.
We believe both cakes taste amazing.
But aesthetically we felt that one
stood far and above the other two cakes.
So, our winner for today...
[tense music playing]
-...is Nina.
-[Nina] Oh!
-Nina!
-Thank you!
Nina!
-Congrats!
-Thank you.
You just won $5,000, Nina.
Judges, what pushed Nina over the edge?
For me, with Nina it was the hidden strap.
It was so realistic.
You made it seem functional in that sense.
Even though half of it is cut off...
[laughing]
...it still looks real to me, you know?
And the details of the pebbled leather
and the lining in there.
Those things seemed real.
Great job, Nina.
-Thank you.
-Fantastic.
Look at you!
-Yeah!
-[whooping]
Thank you.
Bakers! Let's give it up for our judges.
They were the best.
-Bye bye! Bye, judges.
-Bye!
I love you guys.
[game show music playing]
You've been eliminated!
-Bye.
-Bye!
Bye, guys.
April and Jonny, I'm sorry,
but don't worry.
You will get a chance to bake again.
Will you please join your comrades
in the gallery?
Nina, this is the fun part.
You get to play Cake or Cash?
Okay, Nina. You successfully
fooled our judges and won $5,000.
-And Louisiana is so proud.
-Yay!
But do you know what's better than 5,000?
Ten thousand.
-Thank you.
-Oh!
Adding another $5,000 to it.
So, on the other side of that cake wall
are two shopping bags.
One of these shopping bags is
filled with cash.
And the other one, Nina, is cake.
If you guess the cake, you get the cash.
You're going to either win $5,000
or some cake.
You have 15 seconds to decide
which one is cake
and lock in your answer.
And your time starts now!
[tense music playing]
-Oh, this is so hard.
-I know.
[Nina] I should be better at this.
Uh...
-Ten seconds!
-[Nina squeals]
[Nina laughs]
[beeping]
[Mikey] What's cake? What's cash?
-[rapid beeping]
-Five, four, three, two, one.
-Lock in your answer!
-[bell dinging]
-[cheering]
-[Mikey] The answer's locked and loaded.
You picked Number Two. How do you feel?
Confident?
-No. [laughs]
-No?
That's what it does. Gets in your head.
But why did you end up
going with Number Two?
[Nina] The papery thing that's on top.
I want to say this may be
a fondant technique that's going on here.
Fondant.
Yeah. So, I'm hoping that's the cake.
At the end of the day,
all roads lead to fondant.
All right. Let's see if you
made another $5,000.
-You went with Number Two.
-Yes.
If this is cake, you win $5,000.
-Let's see. Is it cake?
-Come on, Mikey.
[Nina groans]
[tense music playing]
Oh!
[Mikey] Oh.
No, it's not!
[groaning]
Not cake, Nina. I'm sorry.
You've still got 5,000.
Which means this little guy is cake!
So, let's make him pay for it. Yeah?
Right. Oh my gosh.
-Oh, okay. Oh.
-[Mikey] Yeah.
-Yeah.
-[Mikey] That's cake.
[bakers groaning]
[Andrew] It's okay.
-How dare you?
-Yeah!
Here's the good news.
You're still taking home $5,000.
And you get to continue on
and pick the two bakers
who you'll go up against next.
And now, because Nina didn't
win that $5,000,
Gallery, the Cake or Cash prize pot
is now $10,000 for next time.
Look at you guys, drooling.
[laughing]
Want to know what's gonna happen next?
I have no idea, but I can tell you this...
There will be lots of cake involved.
I'm Mikey Day, or
am I cake?
[laughing]
You never know here.
[closing theme music playing]