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Oh, hello.

It's me, Nicole Byer.

Welcome to another episode of Nailed It!

The show that asks for fine art,

but usually gets an artistic statement.

Did you ever look at a Jackson Pollock
or a Salvador Dali and think, "Hey!

I could do that."

Well, today, three amateur bakers
will attempt to create

beautiful treats inspired by works of art,

and compete for $10,000!

So let's meet today's bakers,



who, by the end,
will become tomorrow's masters!

Oh.

My name is Cassie Stephens.

I am an elementary school art teacher.

I live just south of Nashville.

They look like little hockey pucks,
or biscuits.

I come from a long line of non-bakers.

My strengths lie
in the crafty decorating part.

All right, I'm just gonna wing it.

Hmm.

When I teach the kids something,

I always expect for them
to just go for it.

Just dive in.
If you mess up, try it again.

That's kind of like my mindset
when it comes to baking.



My name is Toy
and I am from Beltsville, Maryland,

and I am an IT project manager.

Because of my IT background,

I'm good at the following of recipes.

All right, this should be fun... sort of.

Baking allows me to be in a zone.

If it's right or it's wrong,
no one's gonna judge me.

I watch those baking shows, like, all day,
and I think I can do it.

It looks so easy.

It's never easy, though.

It's never easy.

I'm Anil, I'm 34.

I'm an event designer
and I am living my best life.

I like to bake when I entertain.

Usually, it's just kind of a cheap way
to get someone to come to your house.

Being creative is second nature to me,

so I can definitely roll with the punches
and do something

that's not hideous.

Just cover up all the deformities.

I just hope to take home $10,000.

I'm just being honest with you.

You know, I'm not gonna learn
some valuable life lesson from this.

I just want the money.

All right, bakers, are you guys ready
to create some masterpieces?

-Yes.
-Let's do it.

Well, before you get
your brushes and your easels out,

say hello to our head judge,

who I refer to
as the Rembrandt of chocolate,

Jacques Torres.

I don't know if Rembrandt would agree
with you, but I love Leonardo da Vinci.

Oh, I love Leonardo DiCaprio.

[laughter]

And to my right is an actress
who's never been referred to

as the Rembrandt of comedy, Betsy Sodaro!

That means a lot coming from you.

I am so excited. It's always been my dream

to be here with you and scream at bakers.

[laughter]

Let's begin, shall we?

Our first round is called Baker's Choice.

At some point in their careers,

artists need to feed their egos

by painting a self-portrait.

Now you, too, can memorialize yourselves
just like them when you make one of these!

["Eine kleine Nachtmusik" plays]

[laughter]

[Nicole] Warhol-inspired gingerbread
self-portrait cookies!

Each painting has been painted perfectly
on baked gingerbread cookie canvas,

using cocoa butter paint
to bring the selfie to life!

Then the art is bordered
with a real fancy frame,

beautifully crafted using gold fondant.

When I say, "Van Gogh!"

you will very politely walk up,

choose your own portrait.

There's only one of these,
so if you drop it,

I don't know what happens.

[laughter]

Van Gogh.

-And then walk back like civilized people.
-[Toy laughs]

-Yeah.
-Yes.

All right.

-I'm so scared.
-All done.

I think I look lit.

[laughter]

[Nicole] All right, bakers.

Remember that at the end of this round,

there is a prize.

Think you could do that in an hour?

-No.
-No.

-Too bad, that's all you have!
-[laughter]

Go bake. Carefully walk away.

I mean, not that carefully.

[Betsy laughs]

"Sugar, honey, spices."

All right.

Jacques, how would you do this cookie?

[Jacques] To make this cookie canvas,
they must first bring

honey, sugar, and gingerbread spice
to a boil.

Then add baking soda, butter, eggs,
and mix it with their flour.

The next step is to roll out cookie dough
onto the cardboard.

Once their cookie's in the oven,

it's time to move on to the fondant frame.

Start by rolling out fondant,

carve the intricate detail
and finalize the frame.

And then paint the photo
using cocoa butter color.

Betsy, how would you do it?

Oh, man.

I would go buy it.

[laughs]

I am making the...

dough, I guess, right now.

Painting the portrait, no problem,

but the actual cookie recipe...

That's got me a little stressed.

So I'm going to thoroughly
read the directions.

I guess I should not wing this part.

Oh, that looks...

nightmarish.

Okay.

I guess I'll just do it in increments.

Ten.

I'm an event designer.

I have to be good with time management.
With events, everything's deadlines.

So, I think it'll give me a leg up
over everybody else.

Honey is disgusting.

I'm trying to bake with it over here.

This recipe is complicated,

but Nailed It actually allows you to bake,

and it might not look okay,

and that's okay that it doesn't look okay.

You gotta do the best you can, right?
Give them something to taste.

Well, whatever.

-Let's talk about some classic artwork.
-Right.

One of the most famous paintings,
Mona Lisa.

Who do you think Mona Lisa
was thinking about, Bets?

She's probably thinking about, like,

"Am I sick?"

[Nicole laughs]

Yeah, I feel a lot of people back then
were constantly like,

"Am I gonna die soon
because I have a cut on my arm?"

And then you might catch the tuberculosis.

You might get that TB.

[chuckles]

How you guys doing?

-Okay.
-You guys got dough yet?

So my dough's a little dry
and I don't know why.

[laughs] It just does not want to spread.

Usually when a dough
doesn't come together,

it's because there's not enough
wet ingredients.

Dude, this is so much more difficult

than it looks on television.

That's stressing me out a bit.

It's not quite happening for me.

What? I mean, I have to just...

[sighs] I'm breaking a sweat.

Oh, my God.

I should have done a little extra.

I am not making more to fill this out.

Toy, how you doing?

I got the cookie in the oven, but...

You have the cookie in the oven already?

Don't get excited, it doesn't look good.

-It doesn't look good.
-It doesn't look good?

It's just a rectangle.

So I'm just gonna have a smaller canvas
to work with.

It can work if she makes a bigger frame.
I mean, in a way...

She's making a wallet-size portrait.

-Fun.
-Yes!

I would carry gingerbread in my wallet.

[sighs]

Am I the only one
who doesn't have it in the...

[Betsy] Hey, Anil.

You got 35 minutes! [laughs]

I hope this is enough
for a damn picture frame.

I'm hoping that I was supposed to make
the frame out of fondant. [laughs]

Shouldn't have wet it, but...

Thirty minutes left, you guys.

I just want to see
if it'll take to the paint.

That doesn't mean it's done. I don't know.

I'm pretty sure it's not. It's only
been in there for five minutes, but...

I don't want to eat raw dough.

We will.

[laughing]

I think that the paint takes better
to a warm surface,

so I figured if I took it out of the oven
when it was warm,

maybe the paint would spread
a little bit better.

Everybody eats raw cookie dough.

[vomiting sound effect]

There's only salmonella on the line.

I used to eat raw cookie dough
after soccer games in high school.

-Betsy, that's gross.
-[Betsy] That is gross.

I feel bad for saying that.

-[laughing]
-[Betsy] Ugh.

Yeah.

The frame has some, like, fanciness.

So I will add that.

I'm just trying to get my frame on.

I don't... I just don't know
how this is gonna work.

Oh, you know what?
I'm not gonna do a frame.

I'm just gonna sit that up there
like that.

I think Toy is smart
by doing it on her easel.

[Jacques] The problem is
you have to stick it flat

so it has a chance to dry
for a couple of minutes.

Like that, it doesn't have time,
so it's going to slide.

[Toy exhales]

[Toy] Nicole?

Yes.

Can you... can you come see me?

Yes, I'm coming.

I'm struggling with the portrait border.

I'm definitely over the fondant.

My frame is falling apart.

Can I get a stapler?

A stapler.

[laughs]

My, uh, fondant fell off...

You're gonna staple fondant?

Don't judge. Do you have a stapler?

Wes.

-[laughs]
-I need a stapler.

-Okay.
-[Toy] You got one for me?

Nicole, are you the sous-chef?

[Nicole] I try.

Look, look. Look!

You can't say that doesn't look good.
Look.

[Jacques] My God.

[Betsy laughs]

If I die because you stapled
something to food...

-[laughing]
-...I will come back and haunt you,

your friends, your mother, your family...

-Definitely haunt the mother.
-Everybody.

Haunt the mother for me.

This is not good.

A staple.

-I've never seen that.
-Wait, you've been cooking for 40 years

and you've never seen anyone
staple food to food?

I've never seen it before.

[scoffs] I don't know
where you're cooking.

-[Jacques] Yes, you're right.
-[scoffing]

-Whatever.
-Yeah. I mean, come on.

[Betsy and Nicole scoffing]

You've seen it.

Come on, it's not that wild.

[both continue scoffing]

I'm gonna pass out.

[laughter]

You know, I'm sure we've all
swallowed a staple in our lives.

Right?

[Nicole] A staple seems hard to pass.

Yeah, that seems like
the worst possible thing to try to pass.

-Anil, you're sweating so bad.
-[Anil] I know, I know.

Well, this is gonna be done.

Anil put his cookie in
for 12 full minutes.

This is going to be a crunchy cookie.

But he is sweating a lot.

So, the sweat may moisten it.

Cool.

[laughing]

Yeah, I mean, it's just...
This part I love to do.

My favorite thing to do at night
after teaching

is to, like, sit and paint and watch...

TV.

As an art teacher,
whenever you go to make something,

everybody's like, "You're the art teacher,
so of course it's gonna be amazing."

Not always.

If it looks like doo-doo, you splatter it,
and suddenly,

it's still doo-doo, it's just splattered.

Less than nine minutes.

Why?

-Why? [laughs]
-Why? Because that's the way time works.

I'm gonna do my facial features now.

Your nose is at, like,
at the center of your face.

They're totally gonna roast me.
This is terrible.

I bet it's beautiful.

[Toy] If you see this picture,
it's horrible.

[Cassie laughs]

Minute and a half, everybody.

-No!
-I don't know what happened.

It started bleeding everywhere.

I'm gonna add the textures.

[exhales]

Oh, I forgot to put pupils in.
It looks like I don't have any eyes.

Five, four, three, two, one.

You're done.

-[alarm sounds]
-Game!

Toy.

This is the self-portrait cookie
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made.

[drumroll]

Nailed it!

-[Nicole] Oh, no.
-[laughter]

-She's, like, dripping blood.
-[Toy] I know.

-[Betsy] Oh.
-[Toy] It's me from a horror movie.

-[Betsy] Yeah.
-[Nicole] Yes!

And the center of the eyes are white.

-Why?
-To look into your soul.

It's working.

It feels like...

Are you struggling inside?

[laughter]

It's difficult to see where the cookie
stops and where the cakeboard starts.

-Oh, yeah, where'd your staples go?
-Yeah, they're still in the board.

-[laughter]
-It's there.

[Nicole] Oh, boy.
I guess we should taste it.

[Jacques] The cookie is baked.

So, that's a good thing.

I would put a little bit more spices,
if possible.

Uh, it's on its way to being
the gingerbread I like, but...

Hey, I'm not mad at it.

-[Nicole] Thank you, Toy.
-Thank you.

Beautiful eye, Toy.

[laughs]

Cassie.

Let's take a look at the self-portrait
cookie you were trying to make,

and let's see what you made.

[drumroll]

-[Nicole] Hey.
-[Betsy] Oh.

This looks like a person.

-[Betsy laughs]
-[Nicole] Wow.

[Betsy] It kind of reminds me
of, like, an Archie comic.

-Oh, yeah?
-[Nicole and Betsy] Yeah.

Why is it smaller
than what it's supposed to be?

I'm not sure
if I got the mixture quite right.

I tried to roll it out

to the size of the board,
but it just wasn't happening.

But if a dough doesn't come together,
what will be the solution to it?

More water.

[Nicole] Let's taste it
and see if it turns into a nightmare.

I don't know if you want to taste it.

Nicole?

[groans]

[laughing] No, it's not that bad!

[Nicole] This is...

It feels like what I bet wall tastes like.

[laughter]

-[Nicole] Yeah, this is bad.
-[Jacques] Because it's not baked.

But it looks really cute.

But it does look good.

-See you later.
-Yeah.

[Nicole] Hopefully the next cookie
is baked.

All right, Anil.

Let's take a look at the self-portrait
you were trying to make,

and let's see what you made.

[drumroll]

-[Anil] Nailed it.
-[laughter]

That nose.

[Anil] I should have contoured my nose.

[Betsy] This looks like a stroke
is happening.

It looks like a person who has had it.

-He's like, "Girl, don't even."
-[Betsy] Yes. "I cannot..."

-"No. Mm-mm."
-[Betsy laughing]

[Jacques] Though, another thing is,

it looks like you left your cookies
in the oven

for about two times the time
that you're supposed to leave it.

-[Anil] It just said until it's done.
-Oh.

-[Anil] So...
-[Jacques] Okay, I get it.

-But we're going to taste it.
-I like the colors.

[Nicole] Yes.

Let's taste it.

[Betsy] Yeah!

It smells good.

Well, they didn't spit it out... yet.

It did stay too long in the oven.

Uh, I thought it was pretty good.

Like, I would dunk that in some milk
and be pretty happy.

Truly, it was like just scraping it,

'cause it was a little hard,

but the taste was nice.

Oh, yeah.

The three of you did a fabulous job.

You should be very proud of yourselves

for doing something
you've never done before.

All right, Jacques?

Will you please do the distinct honor
of calling out

who the true artist is?

The one who impressed us the most is...

Toy.

[gasps] Really?

-[Nicole] Yay!
-[cheering and applause]

I need to tell you why.

The most delicious cookie was Toy's.

Thanks.

-Tell this girl what she's won!
-Ooh, all right.

You are getting this 263-piece

baking tool set!

-[Nicole] Yay!
-[Betsy] Yeah!

And, of course,
the winner is the wearer

of the golden baker's cap!

Are you ready to see
the next masterpiece challenge?

-[Toy] Yes.
-Then, come on!

Follow me to door number two!

Betsy, if you will.

Behind this door is a challenge that only
a true maestro of the chisel could erect.

This...

[Cassie and Toy] Oh, my God.

-[Toy] No.
-[Nicole] Statue of David cake!

Yes, Michelangelo's Renaissance
masterpiece has been recreated here

in the form of a sculpted cake.

Except we've covered up David
to make him decent,

'cause he was nasty.

Jacques, what do you think?

Michelangelo's David cake

is extremely challenging
on several levels.

First, the making of the cake itself

will require two different
mounting techniques.

And this body is carefully sculpted
from modeling chocolates

to really define his muscles.

We don't want a "dad bod" David.

What did you say?

I don't know, a "dad bod" David.
That's what that thing said.

[laughter]

[Nicole] A dad bod.

-You've never heard that term?
-Never.

That's because you have a hot physique,

-Jacques.
-Woo-hoo!

[Jacques] Okay.

Okay. Now, I know that looks
very, very challenging.

But do not panic, because I can help.

Just push the panic button
on your station...

[button sounds]

And I will come and help you,

but only for three minutes,

so use it wisely.

All right, bakers, we need to get started,

'cause I wanna go home one day.

[laughter]

You only have 75 minutes.

Go!

Go bake.

[exhales]

"This recipe makes two each 9x13 cakes."

"Mix all wet ingredients."

Jacques, walk me through this.

Of course, the first thing
that you have to do,

-the cake.
-Yes.

[Jacques] The bakers must first make
both vanilla and chocolate cake batter,

and swirl the colors with a thin knife.

Next, they have to make the buttercream,

then use modeling chocolate
to carve and mold their David.

The last touch is adding a beautiful
marble fondant on the cake

by mixing and rolling out
white and gray fondant.

And don't forget to create something
to keep David modest.

-I guess David he needs it.
-Wow.

Eight eggs.

Hey, it doesn't say what kind of butter.
What kind of butter?

-[Cassie laugh]
-Well, honestly, it's unsalted butter.

[laughing]

[Cassie] I learned the hard way

when everybody was spitting out
my cookie in the first round

that it doesn't matter if it looks good.

So, I'm gonna focus on what I don't
know how to do, which is bake.

Okay.

Okay.

That's sabotage.

I never made anything like this.

But aesthetics do come natural to me.

I have a really good eye
for color and design,

and so I think I can probably
translate it into cakes.

Okay. I think I'm pushing
the wrong button.

I'm totally just focusing on the $10,000.

Forget round one.

Fresh start.
We're on the same level playing field.

Let's do this.

I guess I just kept hitting
the eject button.

Baking a cake? Not a problem.

What it tastes like? Hopefully, good.

Molding a man?

Can't even get a damn man,
y'all want me to mold one?

I don't feel confident
about the second round,

only because this is something
that's totally out of my element.

So, I don't want to say, "Oh, I got this.

I won the first one."
No, I'm still scared.

We'll figure something out.

How bad is it
if there's shell in the batter?

I'm a little worried about my cakes.

Why does it look like it's curdling?

So, I decide, "Girl you best get
Jacques over there ASAP."

Okay. I'm just gonna...

-[button sounds]
-I need Jacques!

-Aah! A panic!
-A panic!

Where, where, where?

[screaming]

Oh, no!

What's going on here?

The problem is
the mixing of the ingredients.

Put it in the mixer.
What are you doing by hand?

That really got me panicked.

[laughing]

Okay, perfect.

And then, and then... Don't leave me yet.

"Add a half a cup of cocoa
to part of the batter."

That means you're going to divide it
in two containers.

In one container,
you're going to put the cocoa.

The other container,
you leave it like that.

-Okay.
-Then you have to make the marble effect.

-You're an artist. You know how.
-I can do that.

How long do I leave it in the oven?
Three minutes?

No, longer than that.

Don't put too much in your mold.

The more you put, longer it is to bake,
and then less time you have.

-Oh.
-So, be careful at that.

Use the top oven. What else?

-Use the top oven, you said?
-Yes.

Jacques, you're done.

-Thank you!
-I'm done!

-Okay, bye.
-Come here.

-Thank you!
-I'm done!

-You're done.
-[Jacques] Don't be jealous, okay?

I'm jealous you're spending too much time
with others.

I'll give you a hug, too.
Come here, Nicole.

-Mmm.
-Aww.

Mon petit chou a la crème.

Oh, mon petit chou...
[speaks gibberish in French]

[Betsy laughs]

[Nicole] Look, Toy is marbling.

I'm marbling!

It's a beautiful marble, too.

[sighs]

Okay.

Let's try this.

[Jacques] Anil is marbling his cake wrong.

He's supposed to mix the color
in the cake pan,

not in the bowl.

Let's try this.

And Anil has his cakes in the oven.

Yeah, but his cakes are smaller,
so they're thicker, I think.

So let's see how long they're going to be
in the oven.

-Hey, Toy, where'd you get that vanilla?
-Right here.

Toy, what are you doing?

She's helping me.

[Nicole] Toy, this is a competition.
Don't help people.

I'm not worried.

-That's a lot of money.
-[Toy] I know.

Tell her to let it run.
I mean, come on. It's not ready.

It's too thick.

Whatever.

[Cassie] My buttercream looks,
like, edible.

-It looks like...
-Ah!

-[Betsy] Oh!
-What a treat!

[laughs]

I'll start on my David.

How's your man coming?

Girl, this is why I ain't got one. Look.

[Cassie laughs]

Oh, yeah.

I've never used modeling chocolate.

I've never sculpted anything
in my entire life.

I have no idea how I'm gonna get my man
to look anything like that one.

I'm definitely crying inside.

[Jacques] I don't know
about those arms over there.

Oh, my God.

He's looking horrendous.

My students would be mortified.

He looks so terrible.

[Anil] I'm just trying to do shapes,

and then, if I can have time
to carve them into muscle,

then let's do it.

Boy, 38 minutes, you guys.

That's good.

My cakes are done. Ooh.

Oh, okay.

No.

His cake is too thick.

-I was thinking that's going to happen.
-Oh, no.

My cakes are goo.

I think I put too much batter in the pan.

So...

I'm making a Rice Krispies tray.

[Nicole] Anil,

how you doing?

Well, my cakes didn't really bake.

[Nicole] Uh-oh.

Are you gonna have any cake in your cake?

-Rice Krispies cake.
-[Betsy] Rice Krispies cake.

At this point, I'm not gonna get anything
by being upset,

so I'm just gonna kind of have fun.

Good, at least, somehow.

I swear there was blue in there.

Oh, boy.

Jacques, how would you marble fondant?

-What a dream, what a treat!
-[Betsy] Ooh, here we go.

Okay, so, basically, open...
open the... the fondant.

You make the white soft

by rolling, folding, rolling, folding,
rolling, folding.

-[Betsy] Okay.
-[Jacques] Okay.

Do the same with the...
with the other color.

[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

Put them on top of each other.

If you have a tiny, tiny bit of red,
not too much, really,

it's just to make one vein.

Oh, dear. [laughs]

[Betsy] I'm a little behind.

[both laugh]

-[Nicole] Ah.
-[Jacques] And then, you're done.

Whoa.

[Nicole] That's nice.

Yours looks like turkey bacon.

That's...

[Jacques and Nicole laugh]

Nailed it!

I'm trying to make this into marble.

There's less than 15 minutes left!

[Jacques] I'm not sure
what Cassie's doing.

She's spraying something.

[Cassie] What?

I didn't put fond...

Oh, shoot.

My cake has no fondant at all.
None. Zero. Zip.

I don't have a lot of time left.

So I'm putting all the buttercream now
on the cake, the best that I can.

I think I shouldn't have even bothered.

I've got to make sure that's all done,

and then, somehow, at some point,

slap some fondant on there
and just call it done.

Okay.

[Toy] Something like that.

[Jacques] Toy is using blue marble,
which is beautiful.

Oh, that is nice.

I'm improvising.

I'm adding some buttercream,

so it's just not Rice Krispies.

Fondant on it.

Three minutes left.

You should have facial features
on your David's face.

I don't know about facial features, but...

-Hey, Toy, can I have some fondant?
-Yeah, it's over there.

Blue and white, just what you need.

[Cassie] Ay, ay, ay.

I'm not proud of this creation at all.

You know what?
I'm gonna do a leg out of fondant.

That's a leg.

[Cassie] He's gonna have a little emoji.
[laughs]

[Toy] Let's just put a thong on him.

[judges] Five, four, three, two, one.

You're done!

-[alarm sounds]
-Oh, yeah.

I can't wait to see these statues.

Okay, Toy,

let's take a look at the statue cake
you were trying to make,

and let's take a look at what you made.

[drumroll]

-[Toy] Nailed it!
-[laughter]

Oh, what a dream!

[laughter]

-Oh, I love his body!
-[Betsy] Oh, my God.

[Jacques laughs]

He looks like he's mid-dance.

Or, like, running into the ocean.

[laughter]

[Nicole] Oh, my God.

Can you turn your cake around?
Can we see the back of it?

[laughter]

Look, your marble
actually looks like marble.

-Oh, thanks.
-[Jacques] And it's blue. It's nice.

[Toy] I mean, it's close.

-No, it's not.
-I like Toy.

-It's a real treat. Thank you so much.
-You're welcome.

-Goodbye!
-Bye.

-Cassie.
-Hey.

Let's see what you did.

[drumroll]

Nailed it.

[laughter]

How is that possible?

[laughter]

Oh, no,

he's got a happy face there.

It's not a happy face, it's a...

-Just be happy I knew it was a happy face.
-[laughs]

May I ask, what happened to your fondant?

Okay, so, Toy was kind enough
to give me her fondant,

so with five seconds left,
I just threw that fondant on there.

But I'm almost positive my art teacher
license is gonna get revoked.

[laughter]

I'm pretty blown away,
but fascinated as well.

And the arms are really...

-weirding me out.
-[Nicole laughs]

You understand that
the arms are longer than the legs?

-Mm-hmm.
-Oh, yeah, yeah.

Thank you, Cassie. We have one more
statue of David cake left.

Let's go see it.

-Woo!
-Toodaloo.

Okay, Anil, let's see what you did.

[drumroll]

Nailed it.

[laughter]

Oh, boy.

Oh, no.

He's got one long arm

that curls back into him...

[laughs]

And then, his leg...

His leg is marbled,

but the cake isn't marbled.

Nailed it.

[Nicole] Between you and Toy,
I'm terrified.

Did you run out of time to do his face?

Well, I wanted to make more time into him,

but I knew I probably
wouldn't have enough time

because my cakes didn't bake.

And I never got back to him.

So, your cakes didn't bake?

No, I didn't cook them long enough,
I guess.

Okay, no cake.

No marbling.

Only one leg. No hands, no face. No hair.

I mean, it's 50% of the cake here.

Yeah, I gotta say, you...

You started to make a body.

Which is great.

[Nicole] I like him.

I like that he has one leg.

-Use what you're working with.
-Yes.

Well, thanks, all of you, so much.

So, please cut us the perfect slice

of your statue of David cake,

and/or Rice Krispie treat.

-[laughter]
-Mangiako. [laughs]

Mangiamo. Mangiamo.

Ah, mangiamo.

[Toy] I know it's just
between Cassie and I,

and I'm hoping that her cake was raw
like last time,

and the judges immediately
spit it on the floor yet again.

[Jacques] Thank you.

-Thank you.
-[Betsy] Thank you.

[Nicole] Toy, you're up first.

Let's taste your David cake.

Jacques, what do you think?

You know, the buttercream needs
to spin for almost ten minutes.

Then the butter gets volume,
because more volume, less sweetness...

-Oh.
-...per the volume.

So, that's why the buttercream
is too sweet,

but overall,

it's a pretty good cake.

And you assembled it the right way.

Thanks.

I didn't mind the buttercream
being a little heavier,

and it was super sweet,

but I thought your cake
had a nice texture.

It could have been fluffier, but...

I think you did a really nice job.

Yeah, and it looks good,
the marbling's good.

So, yeah. Congrats.

Thank you.

Okay, Cassie,

-your cake is up next.
-[gasps] Yes.

-[Nicole] Okay.
-Can you see the modeling... the marbling?

[Nicole] The marbling is nice.

Nobody spit it out yet,
so that makes me so excited.

[Jacques] That was a good cake.

-Yay!
-What a difference from the first...

Oh, my God.

I like that your cake actually has volume.

The buttercream is, um...

it's a little bit lighter
than the one I just tasted.

-It's good. It's a good cake.
-[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

-[Betsy] It's really good.
-Thank you.

You know, where you can push your fork
into it and it'll still bounce up?

The buttercream was good,
the cake was good.

You honestly don't know the stuff
we've had in our mouths,

-and this, I would go back...
-I don't want to know.

...for a second piece.

-Thanks.
-All right, Anil. It is your turn.

Mmm.

-What should I taste? The buttercream?
-Yeah, taste the buttercream. He made it.

The buttercream is good.

-I'll take that.
-Okay, we know what's happened.

You put a little bit too much batter
into the pan,

and they don't have time to bake.

So, that was a good effort,

but it didn't work.

I really enjoyed your buttercream,

and I never thought of, like,
slopping that on some Rice Krispie treats.

I'm gonna do that.

-It's really a good combo.
-[laughs]

[Nicole] Okay, judges.

It is finally time.

Time to announce the winner
of not only $10,000,

but the winner of the Nailed It trophy.

Wes!

-[laughter]
-[Betsy] Yeah.

Oh, that's an interesting choice.

[laughter continues]

Oh, boy. And what do I call you? New Wes?

[laughter]

Okay, Betsy.

Are you ready to shower us with some cash?

-Ooh, ready!
-All right.

Bakers, this challenge
pushed all of you guys.

However,

we have one baker
who rose above and beyond.

And it is...

-Cassie!
-[gasps]

-What?
-[cheering]

Congratulations!

[Cassie] I'm really excited
and proud of myself.

In the first round,
people were spitting out my food.

It's a win for teachers across America!

-Thank you!
-[Nicole] Here you go.

So, to my students, I would like to say,

you've gotta take
whatever mistake you've made

and not get upset about it,
but learn from it.

Just like I did!

Well, that's it for Nailed It,

the show Bob Ross would have called
"a happy little accident."

We need a selfie all together.

[Cassie laughs]

-Nicole! Smile, Nicole!
-I always smile.