Nailed It! (2018–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - Nailed It! - full transcript
Candy-jeweled brooch cookies? Inviting cookie-jar cakes? These sugary sweets are just like the ones Grandma used to make - if Grandma couldn't bake.
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-[classical music playing]
-Oh! Ooh!
Hello. Ooh, hello.
Uh-oh, am I on the Netflix?
Is that what's happening?
-[man] Say the lines, please!
-Oh, I should say the lines?
-[man] Yes, ma'am.
-Ooh. Okay, I can do that.
Hi, and welcome to Nailed It!,
America's favorite baking competition,
where the cakes start out "ooh-la-la"
but end up "ooh, on life support."
Now here's your host. It's Nicole Byer.
Oh, thanks, grandma who looks like me.
Who doesn't love baking with granny?
The secret recipes she shared
as she spilled the dirty family secrets.
This season we bring
that family joy right here,
because we've seen how much
you love to bake together at home.
So, we said,
"Bring your family to our show!"
Today is more double trouble
as we challenge
three pairs of mothers and their offspring
to recreate professional desserts
all themed around dear old grandma.
-[all cheering]
-At stake is the chance to win $10,000.
Let's meet our teams.
This is my mom, Laura Levenson.
This is my son, Jones Levenson.
[both] And we are here to nail it!
Mom is the perfect partner.
We've been baking together our whole life.
She's easily the better baker.
So, you can be the boss.
-I'll be a benevolent dictator.
-We got this.
This is my daughter, Maurica.
And this is my mother, Portia.
She thinks that my baked goods
are not worth
being at the front of the dessert table.
Every time we come
to the family gatherings,
she puts her little pies in front of mine
so no one eats mine.
[chuckles]
See if I can flip it over!
Maurica has not been able
to master the baking part of life.
So, we're gonna let her be the boss,
and maybe she'll get a spot
on the table for Christmas.
I'm Shelby Mason. This is my mom, Chris.
With her energy and my need
to make things logical and orderly,
I think I will be able to slow her down
a little bit and say, "Let's have a plan."
I don't want a plan, though.
-[laughs]
-I just want to roll with it.
Bakers, please welcome
grandma's favorite pastry chef
extraordinaire and chocolatier.
-It's Jacques Torres.
-Thank you, Nicole.
-[all applauding]
-[Jacques] Thank you all.
And I hope that today we bring back
some sweet memories for all of us.
Bakers, give a big ol' grandma hug
to comedian Brian Posehn.
-Hey, everybody.
-[Nicole] Hello.
-When are we eating?
-Later.
All right. [chuckles]
[Nicole] Okay,
let's get to our first challenge.
It's called Baker's Choice.
We've taken a page out
of grandma's fashion playbook.
You'll be the sharpest-looking lady
at the early-bird special
when you make these...
candy-jeweled brooch cookies!
-[contestants laugh]
-Oh my God.
[Nicole] Yes, this dazzling collection
of chic, one-of-a-kind
jeweled brooch cookies
will make you the star
of every family soiree.
We have the darling ladybug,
the radiant peacock,
the charming chameleon.
Jacques, I have no more information.
Tell them more.
These enchanting candy-jeweled
brooch cookies have a cookie dough base.
The front is adorned
with isomalt candy jewels and nonpareils.
Ah! They're simply spectacular pieces,
but which one will you be making?
Shelby, Chris?
We pick the chameleon.
[Nicole] Ooh.
Okay, Jones and Laura, you're next.
-We want the ladybug.
-The ladybug.
[Nicole] The ladybug.
-Looks easiest.
-[Laura] Mm-hmm.
Oh no. That leaves Maurica and Portia
with the final choice.
It's a peacock!
-[peacock squawks]
-Brian?
I just want the chefs to know
that no matter how unappetizing it looks,
I'll still eat it.
[both laugh]
Okay, baking teams,
you get 45 minutes, and guess what?
-Oh baby, it starts now.
-[Klaxon buzzes]
[Laura chuckling]
One pound of royal icing mix.
Where's that measuring thing?
I'm aware of how expensive these are.
And I really want to win one.
[Chris chuckles]
-I was supposed to be mixing it?
-With the butter.
[Maurica] Are you sure?
-[Portia] Yes.
-[Maurica] All right.
Jacques, how would you go about making
these candy-jeweled brooch cookies?
So, the first thing to do
is to make the dough.
One baker can mix the ingredients,
roll it out,
and cut in the shape of the animal.
The other baker
can be making the isomalt jewels
by heating and placing into the mold.
They will also need to make
their color royal icing
by mixing it with edible metallic paint.
Once the cookies
have come out of the oven,
both bakers can work on
the decorations together.
And there you have it,
a beautiful edible animal brooch.
I like a thick cookie.
-Brian, do you do a lot of baking?
-I don't, but I eat a lot of baking.
Okay.
[chuckles]
-Make the cookie...
-Mix.
You're gonna do that?
I need to go make the jewels.
I will be the one setting the pace,
and it will be
a million things going on at once.
And, to me,
it will be perfectly organized in my head.
[laughs]
-Yeah!
-[Chris] Yeah!
Boy.
[chuckling] I'm glad
all those gymnastics lessons paid off.
Yes!
I have lived with Shelby
for many, many years, and this
does not surprise me one little bit.
I'm gonna use the European,
'cause Jacques is European,
and he might like it better.
That's what we're gonna do.
That's the plan.
I'll take over this.
You could start working on
those jewels or whatever that is.
Today, I am the boss.
I think this needs to be
in here a little longer a shade.
-It's already cookie dough.
-Okay, do... do you.
I am not used to being the assistant.
I am normally in charge.
-Whatever, today I'm the boss.
-Today, you're the boss.
You're the boss.
[Maurica] Roll, roll, roll, roll.
That looks nice and thin.
Theirs looks a little thin.
It's pretty thin, you're right.
So, if it's too thin, it becomes fragile.
Ah.
[Maurica] That look good, right?
-[Jones] Oh, it's shaking a little.
-[Laura chuckles]
Probably should've locked that down.
Maybe it wouldn't shake so much.
Laura and Jones,
who's in charge over there?
-Mom is in charge.
-[Brian] I understand.
-[Jones] I'm asking questions.
-[laughs]
Wes, how do feel that there's
another man on set with your hair?
♪ I'm a bad man
I'm a, I'm a bad man ♪
♪ I'm a bad man
I'm a, I'm a bad man... ♪
Do you feel intimidated? [chuckles]
Did you guys give each other
the wink, like, "What's up?"
[Wes] We're going to the salon.
[laughs]
So, I'm using the bowl as a shape,
and then cut the reptile thing.
[Portia] Can you see it?
It's a little big, but that's okay.
Is it hard to cut shapes
in cookie dough without a cookie cutter?
What you do, you take a piece of paper,
draw it, cut it,
put it on your cookie dough, cut.
It's a lot better.
-[Laura] Where are the scissors?
-[Jones] Here.
Laura heard you.
She's doing exactly what you said to do.
Oh, I speak too loud.
[chuckles]
I can feel how thick this dough is,
and I'm concerned it may...
[Jones] Too thick?
...become even bigger. [laughs]
-She's a thick ladybug. Two cheeks.
-Maybe she's having eggs or something.
Twenty-eight minutes!
[Shelby] All right, in the oven.
We got cookies going in the oven,
which always makes me happy.
[Nicole whistles]
-[Jones] Okay.
-[Laura] We gotta do the jewels.
What are all those bags?
The little one are isomalt.
So, this is a type of sugar.
But the great thing is you put that
in a container, you put it in a microwave,
and then you can pour it.
Done. It's ready to go.
Okay, so we just pour this
in these little things, right?
[Maurica] Oh, yeah, pour it in. Whoo!
[Portia] Trying not to overdo it.
[Chris] Oh man, these jewels.
Laura, Jones, how are your jewels looking?
-Yummy.
-Yummy.
Yummy? I think there's
some false confidence over there.
This show is filled with false confidence.
I've been doing stand-up comedy
for thirty-something years.
-I know all about false confidence.
-[laughs]
You guys have 20 minutes left!
-[Maurica] I say we take it out.
-Now?
Yeah.
[Shelby] Seven minutes.
Oh no, I set it
to eight hours and 57 minutes.
I'm gonna take it out.
How is it...? Gets brown around the edges.
-[Chris] Okay.
-[Shelby] I think it's fine.
I have no idea what's going on
with Chris and Shelby.
But from here,
I think it's a little bit underbaked.
Ooh.
Don't you think it looks like a chameleon?
-[Brian] She looks happy. [laughs]
-She does always look happy.
-He's gonna be big.
-[Jones chuckling] Is he?
[Laura] I cut the cookie
exactly as the pattern is,
but cookies tend to spread.
Yeah, and I rolled out the dough,
and it was definitely too thick.
Our cookie, it's just growing and growing,
and I'm realizing it's also not baking.
-Can I turn it up a little bit?
-[Laura] Put it on 375.
I hate to do that,
'cause I hate to burn it.
[Chris] I have enough royal icing
for everybody.
[Portia] All right, I think
our icing's just about ready.
Our jewels right now.
The royal icing tastes great.
I made sure just for quality purposes.
[Jones] Where's the extract?
The judges, sometimes,
they like a little surprise, so...
Orange blossom water
and pure orange extract.
-[Laura] A tiny drop.
-It smells like a flower.
-Which is perfect.
-[Laura] Good! Perfect for a ladybug.
Mixing it in to give it
that ladybug floral kinda taste.
Oh boy, we're gonna have
a real orangey cookie.
[chuckles]
Did you make the silver stuff?
-There it is.
-This is it?
As an assistant, my mother
is sinking super fast right now.
[laughs]
It's not looking like liquid at all.
What are you doing? I gave you a task.
And she just abandoned it.
Don't worry about it. We got this.
[Maurica] Laugh, don't cry.
Laugh, don't cry.
Twelve minutes remain.
-Thanks, Nicole.
-Hey, you're welcome.
My God, nobody ever thanks me.
And I'm, like, giving.
[both laughing]
-[Jones] We just gotta start.
-Okay, take the whole thing.
That cookie just came out of the oven,
and that's a big ladybug.
Terrifying even.
Yeah.
I hope this doesn't taste like wood
despite it looking like a tree.
[Jones] This is the hardest part,
doing the sticky...
There's so much icing.
[Shelby] Oh no, why is there
so much brown on him?
-[Chris] Well, it's supposed to be gold.
-[Shelby] It's too brown.
-Yeah, give it some purple.
-[Chris] Okay.
-Three-and-a-half minutes.
-[Brian] No!
[Chris] What about pink?
Do we need pink anywhere?
I have pink on there.
All these are gonna fall off.
This is so much harder IRL.
Oh, he's special.
He is one special chameleon.
That thing looks like a green pizza.
It doesn't get better
when you look closer.
-[Brian] Yeah.
-[Nicole] No, it only gets worse.
I love his face.
He ain't got no eyes, but that's okay.
He's... I think he's super cute.
One-and-a-half minutes.
I would be placing
your cookie on the chest thing.
-So, there's that.
-Yay!
-On the stand?
-[Jacques] I don't know.
-On the décolletage?
-On the bustier.
-[Portia] He's heavy?
-[Maurica] So heavy.
[Portia] Be careful.
I don't think
that peacock cookie is gonna hold.
-[Portia] Oh.
-[Nicole] Ooh.
No!
[Maurica] He's falling apart.
Thirty seconds.
[Laura] Ready? Are you sure
those are gonna hold?
[Jones] Uh... Oh!
I'm satisfied with that.
-[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!
-[Maurica yells]
-[Nicole] You're done!
-[Portia chuckles]
Oh my gosh, I know what just happened.
Shelby and Chris, let's remember
the candy-jeweled brooch cookie,
which is a chameleon
that you were trying to make,
and let's see what you guys did.
-[drumroll]
-[Shelby] Nailed it!
[snickers]
[Nicole] It looks like a brooch,
just not a chameleon.
I cannot find the chameleon,
but very sparkly.
My grandma would've definitely worn that
as a brooch,
especially near the end of her life.
[all laugh]
I mean, I think you guys should be proud
of yourselves. All right.
Jacques, let's taste this brooch.
-[Jacques] Okay.
-Thanks.
-Brian.
-Look at all that glitter.
-[Chris chuckles]
The flavor is good.
It just needs a little longer in the oven.
I just taste sugar. I do taste the crunch.
But if you eat glass, there's also
a crunch to it, you know what I mean?
There's a lot of crunchums,
uh, but that being said,
I thought it tasted nice.
I just wish it was baked a little longer.
Well, thank you, ladies.
We have other brooch cookies to see.
Okay.
Maurica and Portia. I see that your cookie
may have fallen apart a little bit?
-Maybe. Just a little bit.
-[Nicole] Okay.
Let's see the peacock brooch cookie
you were trying to make,
and now let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Portia and Maurica] Nailed it!
[Nicole] No!
The majority of your cookie's there.
It's just the peacock feathers said,
"Not today."
They're down.
He's not aggressive at the moment.
-[Brian] No. [laughs]
-Yes. There. There we go.
-[Brian] Okay.
-[Jacques] You're good at puzzles.
-[all laugh]
-Okay, well, y'know, I tried.
I'm trying to see what it is.
Maybe an ice-cream cone.
Maybe a tool to do some construction.
But definitely not a peacock.
I'll eat it, like I said. [chuckling]
[Nicole] All right, Jacques.
-Let's taste this thing.
-[Jacques] Okay, let's do it.
The center is a little bit underbaked.
That's why the peacock
didn't hold together.
But I kind of like the taste. It's good.
It's got the texture of a sugar cookie
that I'm used to, and it's tasty.
I personally like a cookie
that is a little underbaked,
because then the center is a little soft
and then the edges are crispier,
so for me this is perfectly baked.
That's something.
All right, thank you ladies so much,
but we have one more cookie to see.
Jacques, let's go! Brian, let's go!
All right, let's try to remember
the ladybug brooch cookie
you were trying to make,
and let's see what you made.
[drumroll]
[Laura and Jones] Nailed it!
-Y'know!
-[Laura chuckles]
[Nicole] It kinda looks like a cat
with a... But, like, a tie on.
It's very cute. It's also huge.
-It's a Texas size.
-Yeah.
We have the color of the ladybug.
We have the eyes. We have the legs.
I see a hamster
throwing the heavy metal horns.
-[heavy metal music playing]
-[Nicole laughs]
Well, Jacques,
let's taste this cat-slash-ladybug-slash...
[Brian] A hamster
throwing the devil horns.
[Nicole] Brian, did you taste
any orange in this?
I like the taste.
-[Nicole] You were tasting the orange.
-Very subtle.
The start is a little bit hard,
then when your teeth
go through the first layer,
then it's pretty good.
Why it is a little bit overbaked
on the outside like that?
We were running out of time,
so I threw the oven up to 400.
-[Jacques] Oh, you crank it up?
-For like two or three minutes.
It was crunchy.
At first I said, "Oh boy, I better
say goodbye to my teeth."
But then it wasn't that bad.
-But I really like the flavor of it.
-Good.
All right, we saw
three fantastic brooch cookies.
We have a very hard decision
ahead of us, and let's go make it.
All right, Jacques, which team nailed
grandma's glitz and glamour
in this first challenge?
It was not an easy challenge,
but one team made grandma very proud.
And this team is...
Jones and Laura.
-Hey!
-All right! [chuckles]
[all applauding]
Congratulations.
Brian, tell them what they've won.
You'll make your grandma proud
when you recreate
-one of her fabulous recipes...
-Wow.
[Brian] ...using this 263-piece
baking tool set and a bakeware set.
-Nice.
-Awesome.
You also each get to wear
the amazing Nailed It! golden baker's hat.
Oh boy, it's a mother-son
dream come true. Glitter hat!
Now it's time to start round two.
Bakers, like in grandma's house,
our guests are treated like family,
which is why
I'm gonna ask Brian to explain
the Nail It or Fail It challenge.
Now, there's nothing like the aroma
of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies,
especially when baked
by the loving hands of bubbe herself.
That's why you'll be rolling
nana and the cookies
all into one when you make...
[contestants laughing]
[Nicole] A grandma cookie jar cake!
Oh my goodness.
Yes, it's grandma made
from cake and cookies.
And they're so good she even got caught
with her hand in her own cookie jar head.
[whispering] Oh my God.
[Jacques] This grandma cookie jar cake
is chocolate chips cookie flavor,
hand-painted in edible paint,
then detailed in modeling chocolates
sprayed with edible shellac
to create the porcelain look.
Finally, her head is filled with a batch
of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
Mm-mm-mmm.
Maurica and Portia, you guys struggled
a little bit in that last round.
But I'm benevolent,
so I'm gonna give you a helping hand.
-You can hit the Help Dear Grandma button.
-[grandma voice] Help, I've fallen.
And your two opposing teams will have
to stop baking for three whole minutes
and polish grandma's silverware.
There's 10,000 bucks
in granny's tiny little coin purse,
and it's all for the winner.
So, you have 90 minutes.
I put it on the clock,
and guess what? It started now.
Yes, move, go!
-What are you gonna start with?
-Cookies.
You're gonna start with the cookies.
Okay, I'm gonna start with the cake.
Eggs. Eight each.
All right, I'm gonna grab this bowl.
[Maurica] Ingredients.
-[Nicole] Jacques?
-Yes, Nicole?
How would you go about
making that grandma cookie jar cake?
The best way to do it
is you have two different desserts,
so one baker should start on the cookies
while the other works on the cake.
Get those into the oven
and make the buttercream.
Then, they will need to make
the cookie jar head
out of rice cereal treats
and grandma's face
out of modeling chocolate.
When they assemble their cake,
they need to cover it with fondant
and all of the grandma detail,
including the cookies on top.
And finally, they need to paint
their cookie jars with edible shellac.
That's insane. That seems
like enough work for three or four people.
-It's more fun if you make it harder.
-Sure.
-[Laura chuckling] These hats are fun.
-The hats throw you off balance a little.
It's the weight of being a winner.
I don't want to jinx it, but...
I feel like we won the first one,
we got the second one.
-I feel the power of the baking cap.
-[laughs]
-It flows through me right now.
-[laughs]
We've ingested some glitter, I think.
-You want this milk, right?
-Yeah.
-[Laura] Start the cookies.
-[Jones] I will start the cookies.
[Chris] I'm gonna butter my pans,
'cause I've heard too many times,
how important that is.
[Shelby] Delightful.
Shelby and Chris,
how's it going over there?
My mom is starting to work on the cakes,
while I work on the cookies.
Hopefully, we didn't plan that out poorly.
I felt very confident after round one
as far as how well we
work together in the kitchen.
We'll have time for the cookies
to bake while we're doing the cake.
Vibing. Vibing with my mom.
-Goals.
-Hashtag goals.
Shelby, are you eating again?
Do they not give you lunch?
[Chris laughs]
-Do you need real food?
-I'm swell.
Okay.
-[Portia] A lot or just a little bit?
-A lot.
-Maurica and Portia, how's it going?
-[Maurica] We're doing great!
You'll be amazed at how well
we're doing this time around.
-We have two comeback queens in the house.
-[Portia] Yeah, you do.
[laughs]
First round was just to fool you,
to think we didn't know
what we were doing.
I like the hustle over there.
[Portia] All right, ready to pull?
-No, those aren't mixed enough.
-[Portia] Okay.
The good thing about us having
this epic failure on the first round,
there's a lot of lessons that was learned.
We need defined roles.
So, going into round two,
you gotta respect me as the boss.
You're gonna get in the back,
you gonna follow, and I'm gonna lead.
-Okay.
-We back on track.
-[Maurica] Putting four in.
-[Portia] And two.
Cookies in the oven, girl.
Cookies in the oven.
[Chris] That's all right.
-Is this large size?
-I think so, yeah.
And then we'll just trim it down.
Carve it down.
Jones and Laura,
their cake are pretty big.
-You think their cakes are too big?
-Uh, I will go a size less.
-That look right?
-Oh, it looks good.
-That looks good.
-[Jones] Okay.
Make it a little bit smaller.
Less to decorate, less danger.
We learned from the cookies
not to go too big.
Yes.
-[Laura] I'm gonna start the buttercream.
-[Jones] Okey dokey.
Shelby, why do you sift
that powdered sugar?
I'm sifting it
so it doesn't have clumps in it.
-What about mixing it with milk?
-With milk?
Mix it with the milk, so everything melts.
Then you mix it with your batter.
-Then I didn't have to do that?
-And then you don't have to sift it.
-[Nicole] Maurica and Portia.
-They also sift their powdered sugar.
[Portia] All right, let's do
some buttercream icing now.
[Jacques] It looks like they're putting
some color and flavor in it too.
You think it's pumpkin flavored,
that buttercream, Nicole?
-Oh. Maybe.
-It's pretty yellow.
-[Jacques] I don't know. I have no idea.
-A little pumpkin spice latte cake.
[Jacques] I just hope
it's not too much flavoring.
-[Portia] Gonna do a little lemon, right?
-[Maurica] Yeah.
The taste will be, like, pow!
All right!
-Girl, look at these cakes.
-[Maurica in singsong] Beautiful.
[Portia] And done, check that out.
[Laura] Okay, Jones, I'm looking
at the cakes, and I'm feeling like...
-[Jones] They're done.
-[Laura] They're done.
[Chris] We'll work on this
in a little bit,
'cause my cake's almost done.
[Maurica] We should hit the button
so their cakes burn.
Let's do it. I'm gonna hit the buzzer.
-[grandma voice] Help, I've fallen!
-Grandma, help!
Oh boy!
It's the Help Dear Grandma button.
Oh no!
[Nicole] Get the silverware out
and start polishing.
[Laura] I don't know what to do if
the timer goes off while we're doing this.
-[Jones] I don't know how to polish.
-You don't know how to polish?
-[timer rings]
-[Shelby] What's yelling at us?
The cakes, 'cause they're done.
Everybody cakes
should have been coming out of the oven,
and I'm sabotaging their cakes.
-[Chris laughs]
-Oh, mean!
[all laughing]
[Maurica laughing evilly]
-You gotta just show me how to do it.
-It's not hard.
Hey, Jones, more polishing, less standing.
[chuckles]
Time enough to lean, time enough to clean.
Did you ever work at McDonald's?
I got fired from two of 'em.
-Did you really?
-Oh yeah.
Now I know why people
don't use silver anymore.
-Sucks.
-[timer beeping]
-[Shelby] Has it been three minutes yet?
-[Maurica] Nope. [blows raspberry]
I'm gonna start the face of grandma.
I went and got some Rice Krispie Treats
and some modeling chocolate.
-[timer ringing]
-[Laura] Drats!
-That's our timer.
-Wiping.
That's because we've got
a little cake that's gotta come out.
-Jones, more!
-Grandma see your face in it yet?
-Be there in a minute, cake.
-[Nicole] Grandma wants clean silverware!
Three, two, one.
[timer beeping]
[Nicole] You're done. You can wash
your hands and go back to baking.
[Laura] My cake is burning.
[Shelby] They're done.
This one's done.
[Shelby] I don't know what
they're trying to accomplish,
but they have nothing on us,
because our cake turned out perfectly.
See what they did? Put their cake directly
from the oven to the blast freezer.
The cake will stick to the pan.
Coming back.
[Jones] We gotta go way faster.
-I feel like I'm going as fast as I can.
-I know, me too. [chuckles]
[laughs] That does not look
like Mommy, girl, but okay.
[Maurica] My grandmama's brown,
and this grandmama's white.
All right, see how this works.
I'm just going to paint her brown
with cocoa butter.
Yes, Grandma, get your foundation.
I cannot wait
for my mother to actually see.
She gonna be number one grandchild now.
[Laura] Hmm. Those aren't bad.
Right now, theirs looks
like a Cabbage Patch Kid on fire.
-Like it's melted.
-[doll voice] Help me.
[Brian] It's terrible.
It's falling apart.
That's big. Why would she use
that big bowl for that?
-Okay, well, give me that.
-Okay, here. You make that.
They used way too much rice cereal treats.
If she do that, it will collapse.
[Chris laughing]
Truly you're still eating?
I can get you food.
I'm worried.
Oh, 15 minutes left, you guys.
I'm scared.
[Portia] Just hold it when you put it in.
There you go.
I'm going with one more.
To me it just looks
like egg yellows from here.
Oh no! Our cake's not sliding out. Oops.
[laughs]
-It looks really messy over there.
-It's so messy.
[Chris] Hopefully,
this'll make this stick. [chuckles]
[Shelby] I'm never leaving her
in charge of baking cakes again.
Uh, help.
-[Nicole] Jacques.
-Yes.
Did you see the way
that the fondant was lifted?
-It was very good, nice.
-Yes, that was very technical.
-[Nicole] Yes.
-It's about to fall.
-[Jacques] I'm impressed too.
-What if it's the whole gameplay, Jacques?
Maybe they did it on purpose.
They threw the first round
to get the advantage button,
so they could sabotage their opponents
in the second round, burn their cakes,
and win the whole competition.
You know what?
Can't hate on the player.
You gotta hate the game.
[bell dings]
Grandma understands we gotta put
some cookies up in that brain.
She's sweet like that up there.
Five minutes left.
[Shelby] She's too heavy.
Shelby and Chris, I don't know
how the cake is going to hold together
with the weight they put on top,
with all that rice cereal treat.
Way too heavy.
[Brian] There's a lot of sticks
keeping it together.
Yes, a lot of sticks.
[Shelby] Wait, wait, wait.
Her head is falling.
Can you get something to support this,
like now?
Needs more sticks.
[Chris] Right here.
[Shelby] Oh my God, this is a disaster.
It looks so good, honey.
You did such a good job on it.
Uh-huh, thanks.
-[Laura] Hold her steady. Oh shoot!
-[Jones] Okay. Just drop it down.
-The orientation doesn't matter. Oh.
-[Laura] It's in her eyes. [chuckles]
Dang, three minutes remain.
So, finishing touches,
make sure she's got two arms.
-[Laura] Granny would be proud. [laughs]
-[Jones] All the toothpicks.
My mother didn't make a cake
that it wasn't full of toothpicks.
[Jones] Watch your finger, Mom.
[Chris] Where's the shiny spray?
I brought it out.
[Laura] Hurry, honey.
-Oh, the shellac, honey.
-Oh my gosh, I got it right here.
[Nicole] Fifteen seconds!
[Chris] Oh! She has to stay together
just a little bit longer.
Don't fall on us now, Grandma.
[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!
-You're done!
-[alarm sounds]
Oh boy, I can't wait to see and taste
your grandma cookie jar cakes.
Shelby and Chris,
wheel your cake on over, please.
This is the grandma cookie jar cake
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Shelby and Chris] Nailed it!
This is very funny. [laughs]
[Brian] Looks like somebody
dropped grandma. She's droopy.
Oh boy!
-[laughs hysterically] Boy! Wait a minute.
-What is the gelt on the back there?
[Nicole] So there's a gelt
literally coming out of her butt.
[Chris] Gimel!
[Nicole] This woman's wild.
[all laugh]
She looks like she's wearing
another grandma's face.
Like there's
a Silence of the Lambs element to it.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
-[laughing]
The rice cereal treats doesn't hold,
and that's always a problem.
You really have to compress these things
to make it hold.
But all the elements are here.
There's glasses,
a nose that's trying to escape.
I can't wait to taste this.
-Thank you guys so much.
-[Chris] Thank you.
Maurica and Portia,
let's see what you made.
[drumroll]
[Maurica and Portia] Nailed it!
-[Nicole] Y'know.
-Wow.
I feel like you did it. This looks great.
She got the hair.
She got the cookies up in there.
-She got a arm. She got another arm.
-I'm blown away.
-[Portia] Yay!
-I didn't expect that.
Like, the details, the pearl necklace,
the cookies on the apron.
We have all the elements. I mean,
she has glasses. Everything is there.
-Thank you.
-She also has a bit of sass to her.
-I feel like she's like, "Oh, Lord."
-[laughs]
Which grandma
did you make this an image of?
My grandmother, her mother.
Definitely her Sunday's best.
Got the hat on. She got her shimmer on.
Clutching her pearls.
That's my grandma right there.
And what would you say
to your grandma right now?
Who's your favorite now?
[all laughing]
Well, thank you, ladies.
I can't wait to taste it.
Come on, Grandma.
All right. Jones and Laura.
Let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Jones and Laura] Nailed it!
[laughing] She kinda looks like a wizard.
-She's like a magician.
-[Laura laughs]
She has a cookie levitating from her hand.
-[Jacques] She does.
-[Nicole] Which is very funny. Oh.
-[all laughing]
-[Nicole] She did a magic trick!
-Oh no!
-[Brian] Oh God!
-So sad.
-Osteoporosis set in.
-So, Lord, the... Oh no!
-[Brian] Save the arm.
-[Laura] Poor thing.
-Poor grandma done lost her whole arm.
-She should've drank more milk.
-She should've.
One of the things that I see, when you
was working and you picked the mold,
they're a little bit too big.
-Too big, yeah.
-Too big.
Yes, because it's too much weight,
and it's working against you.
I'm still gonna eat it.
I love your attitude. I really love it.
"I'm still going to eat it."
[chuckling]
Everyone can slice off
a piece of their granny.
And we're gonna sit down, Jacques.
[Maurica] All of our cakes look amazing,
so it's down to the taste.
We don't know
if they put any additional flavors
in their cake like we did.
So, it's just a matter of praying
that the combination worked.
Shelby and Chris, you're up first.
Let's taste these granny cakes.
The cookie is very well-baked.
Soft inside, has a little crunch
on the outside.
And the cake is also not overbaked.
I was afraid because you leave
your cakes in the oven.
-But it's pretty well-baked.
-Thank you.
I mean, it's not pretty to look at,
but it tastes great.
I liked your cookie.
It was very good. I ate most of it.
-And I think you did a really nice job.
-Thank you.
Maurica and Portia,
you guys are up next. Let's get into it.
I love that the cake
has a lot of surprise here,
like pieces of chocolates in it, and then
the lemon cream cuts the sweetness of it.
-I really enjoyed it, thank you.
-Thank you.
Your frosting was amazing. I really...
Yeah. I feel like you guys
really redeemed yourselves.
This cake was truly delicious.
Honestly, wow.
[both chuckling]
Jones and Laura,
we're gonna taste your cake now.
I think that today we had three good cakes
and three good cookies. Amazing.
Yeah, I think this is
my favorite cake now, taste-wise.
Super moist.
Yeah. I think your cake is baked
very well. I liked the flavor of it.
I also think it's a great cookie.
I think you guys should be
very proud of yourselves.
Actually, I think all of you
should be very proud of yourselves.
Judges, are we ready
to announce the winner?
[Brian] Sure.
Remember, whoever wins
this challenge gets $10,000
and the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes?
[all laugh]
This is funny.
[all laughing]
[Nicole] That's funny. [laughs]
Brian, do you have
grandma's coin purse ready?
-Ready.
-All right.
-My friend.
-The winner is...
-Maurica and Portia!
-[Maurica screaming]
-[laughing]
-[applauding]
[both] Whoo!
Oh my goodness, I get to cook
for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Congratulations.
-I'm so proud of you.
-Thank you.
I'm just so proud of you
and the things that you did.
-We nailed it. Boo!
-[Maurica] We nailed it!
[both chuckling]
That's it from us at Nailed It!,
where we showed
that the more could be merrier
unless the more is your family, of course.
We'll see you on the next one. Bye!
I have an idea. Let's jump!
[theme music playing]
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-[classical music playing]
-Oh! Ooh!
Hello. Ooh, hello.
Uh-oh, am I on the Netflix?
Is that what's happening?
-[man] Say the lines, please!
-Oh, I should say the lines?
-[man] Yes, ma'am.
-Ooh. Okay, I can do that.
Hi, and welcome to Nailed It!,
America's favorite baking competition,
where the cakes start out "ooh-la-la"
but end up "ooh, on life support."
Now here's your host. It's Nicole Byer.
Oh, thanks, grandma who looks like me.
Who doesn't love baking with granny?
The secret recipes she shared
as she spilled the dirty family secrets.
This season we bring
that family joy right here,
because we've seen how much
you love to bake together at home.
So, we said,
"Bring your family to our show!"
Today is more double trouble
as we challenge
three pairs of mothers and their offspring
to recreate professional desserts
all themed around dear old grandma.
-[all cheering]
-At stake is the chance to win $10,000.
Let's meet our teams.
This is my mom, Laura Levenson.
This is my son, Jones Levenson.
[both] And we are here to nail it!
Mom is the perfect partner.
We've been baking together our whole life.
She's easily the better baker.
So, you can be the boss.
-I'll be a benevolent dictator.
-We got this.
This is my daughter, Maurica.
And this is my mother, Portia.
She thinks that my baked goods
are not worth
being at the front of the dessert table.
Every time we come
to the family gatherings,
she puts her little pies in front of mine
so no one eats mine.
[chuckles]
See if I can flip it over!
Maurica has not been able
to master the baking part of life.
So, we're gonna let her be the boss,
and maybe she'll get a spot
on the table for Christmas.
I'm Shelby Mason. This is my mom, Chris.
With her energy and my need
to make things logical and orderly,
I think I will be able to slow her down
a little bit and say, "Let's have a plan."
I don't want a plan, though.
-[laughs]
-I just want to roll with it.
Bakers, please welcome
grandma's favorite pastry chef
extraordinaire and chocolatier.
-It's Jacques Torres.
-Thank you, Nicole.
-[all applauding]
-[Jacques] Thank you all.
And I hope that today we bring back
some sweet memories for all of us.
Bakers, give a big ol' grandma hug
to comedian Brian Posehn.
-Hey, everybody.
-[Nicole] Hello.
-When are we eating?
-Later.
All right. [chuckles]
[Nicole] Okay,
let's get to our first challenge.
It's called Baker's Choice.
We've taken a page out
of grandma's fashion playbook.
You'll be the sharpest-looking lady
at the early-bird special
when you make these...
candy-jeweled brooch cookies!
-[contestants laugh]
-Oh my God.
[Nicole] Yes, this dazzling collection
of chic, one-of-a-kind
jeweled brooch cookies
will make you the star
of every family soiree.
We have the darling ladybug,
the radiant peacock,
the charming chameleon.
Jacques, I have no more information.
Tell them more.
These enchanting candy-jeweled
brooch cookies have a cookie dough base.
The front is adorned
with isomalt candy jewels and nonpareils.
Ah! They're simply spectacular pieces,
but which one will you be making?
Shelby, Chris?
We pick the chameleon.
[Nicole] Ooh.
Okay, Jones and Laura, you're next.
-We want the ladybug.
-The ladybug.
[Nicole] The ladybug.
-Looks easiest.
-[Laura] Mm-hmm.
Oh no. That leaves Maurica and Portia
with the final choice.
It's a peacock!
-[peacock squawks]
-Brian?
I just want the chefs to know
that no matter how unappetizing it looks,
I'll still eat it.
[both laugh]
Okay, baking teams,
you get 45 minutes, and guess what?
-Oh baby, it starts now.
-[Klaxon buzzes]
[Laura chuckling]
One pound of royal icing mix.
Where's that measuring thing?
I'm aware of how expensive these are.
And I really want to win one.
[Chris chuckles]
-I was supposed to be mixing it?
-With the butter.
[Maurica] Are you sure?
-[Portia] Yes.
-[Maurica] All right.
Jacques, how would you go about making
these candy-jeweled brooch cookies?
So, the first thing to do
is to make the dough.
One baker can mix the ingredients,
roll it out,
and cut in the shape of the animal.
The other baker
can be making the isomalt jewels
by heating and placing into the mold.
They will also need to make
their color royal icing
by mixing it with edible metallic paint.
Once the cookies
have come out of the oven,
both bakers can work on
the decorations together.
And there you have it,
a beautiful edible animal brooch.
I like a thick cookie.
-Brian, do you do a lot of baking?
-I don't, but I eat a lot of baking.
Okay.
[chuckles]
-Make the cookie...
-Mix.
You're gonna do that?
I need to go make the jewels.
I will be the one setting the pace,
and it will be
a million things going on at once.
And, to me,
it will be perfectly organized in my head.
[laughs]
-Yeah!
-[Chris] Yeah!
Boy.
[chuckling] I'm glad
all those gymnastics lessons paid off.
Yes!
I have lived with Shelby
for many, many years, and this
does not surprise me one little bit.
I'm gonna use the European,
'cause Jacques is European,
and he might like it better.
That's what we're gonna do.
That's the plan.
I'll take over this.
You could start working on
those jewels or whatever that is.
Today, I am the boss.
I think this needs to be
in here a little longer a shade.
-It's already cookie dough.
-Okay, do... do you.
I am not used to being the assistant.
I am normally in charge.
-Whatever, today I'm the boss.
-Today, you're the boss.
You're the boss.
[Maurica] Roll, roll, roll, roll.
That looks nice and thin.
Theirs looks a little thin.
It's pretty thin, you're right.
So, if it's too thin, it becomes fragile.
Ah.
[Maurica] That look good, right?
-[Jones] Oh, it's shaking a little.
-[Laura chuckles]
Probably should've locked that down.
Maybe it wouldn't shake so much.
Laura and Jones,
who's in charge over there?
-Mom is in charge.
-[Brian] I understand.
-[Jones] I'm asking questions.
-[laughs]
Wes, how do feel that there's
another man on set with your hair?
♪ I'm a bad man
I'm a, I'm a bad man ♪
♪ I'm a bad man
I'm a, I'm a bad man... ♪
Do you feel intimidated? [chuckles]
Did you guys give each other
the wink, like, "What's up?"
[Wes] We're going to the salon.
[laughs]
So, I'm using the bowl as a shape,
and then cut the reptile thing.
[Portia] Can you see it?
It's a little big, but that's okay.
Is it hard to cut shapes
in cookie dough without a cookie cutter?
What you do, you take a piece of paper,
draw it, cut it,
put it on your cookie dough, cut.
It's a lot better.
-[Laura] Where are the scissors?
-[Jones] Here.
Laura heard you.
She's doing exactly what you said to do.
Oh, I speak too loud.
[chuckles]
I can feel how thick this dough is,
and I'm concerned it may...
[Jones] Too thick?
...become even bigger. [laughs]
-She's a thick ladybug. Two cheeks.
-Maybe she's having eggs or something.
Twenty-eight minutes!
[Shelby] All right, in the oven.
We got cookies going in the oven,
which always makes me happy.
[Nicole whistles]
-[Jones] Okay.
-[Laura] We gotta do the jewels.
What are all those bags?
The little one are isomalt.
So, this is a type of sugar.
But the great thing is you put that
in a container, you put it in a microwave,
and then you can pour it.
Done. It's ready to go.
Okay, so we just pour this
in these little things, right?
[Maurica] Oh, yeah, pour it in. Whoo!
[Portia] Trying not to overdo it.
[Chris] Oh man, these jewels.
Laura, Jones, how are your jewels looking?
-Yummy.
-Yummy.
Yummy? I think there's
some false confidence over there.
This show is filled with false confidence.
I've been doing stand-up comedy
for thirty-something years.
-I know all about false confidence.
-[laughs]
You guys have 20 minutes left!
-[Maurica] I say we take it out.
-Now?
Yeah.
[Shelby] Seven minutes.
Oh no, I set it
to eight hours and 57 minutes.
I'm gonna take it out.
How is it...? Gets brown around the edges.
-[Chris] Okay.
-[Shelby] I think it's fine.
I have no idea what's going on
with Chris and Shelby.
But from here,
I think it's a little bit underbaked.
Ooh.
Don't you think it looks like a chameleon?
-[Brian] She looks happy. [laughs]
-She does always look happy.
-He's gonna be big.
-[Jones chuckling] Is he?
[Laura] I cut the cookie
exactly as the pattern is,
but cookies tend to spread.
Yeah, and I rolled out the dough,
and it was definitely too thick.
Our cookie, it's just growing and growing,
and I'm realizing it's also not baking.
-Can I turn it up a little bit?
-[Laura] Put it on 375.
I hate to do that,
'cause I hate to burn it.
[Chris] I have enough royal icing
for everybody.
[Portia] All right, I think
our icing's just about ready.
Our jewels right now.
The royal icing tastes great.
I made sure just for quality purposes.
[Jones] Where's the extract?
The judges, sometimes,
they like a little surprise, so...
Orange blossom water
and pure orange extract.
-[Laura] A tiny drop.
-It smells like a flower.
-Which is perfect.
-[Laura] Good! Perfect for a ladybug.
Mixing it in to give it
that ladybug floral kinda taste.
Oh boy, we're gonna have
a real orangey cookie.
[chuckles]
Did you make the silver stuff?
-There it is.
-This is it?
As an assistant, my mother
is sinking super fast right now.
[laughs]
It's not looking like liquid at all.
What are you doing? I gave you a task.
And she just abandoned it.
Don't worry about it. We got this.
[Maurica] Laugh, don't cry.
Laugh, don't cry.
Twelve minutes remain.
-Thanks, Nicole.
-Hey, you're welcome.
My God, nobody ever thanks me.
And I'm, like, giving.
[both laughing]
-[Jones] We just gotta start.
-Okay, take the whole thing.
That cookie just came out of the oven,
and that's a big ladybug.
Terrifying even.
Yeah.
I hope this doesn't taste like wood
despite it looking like a tree.
[Jones] This is the hardest part,
doing the sticky...
There's so much icing.
[Shelby] Oh no, why is there
so much brown on him?
-[Chris] Well, it's supposed to be gold.
-[Shelby] It's too brown.
-Yeah, give it some purple.
-[Chris] Okay.
-Three-and-a-half minutes.
-[Brian] No!
[Chris] What about pink?
Do we need pink anywhere?
I have pink on there.
All these are gonna fall off.
This is so much harder IRL.
Oh, he's special.
He is one special chameleon.
That thing looks like a green pizza.
It doesn't get better
when you look closer.
-[Brian] Yeah.
-[Nicole] No, it only gets worse.
I love his face.
He ain't got no eyes, but that's okay.
He's... I think he's super cute.
One-and-a-half minutes.
I would be placing
your cookie on the chest thing.
-So, there's that.
-Yay!
-On the stand?
-[Jacques] I don't know.
-On the décolletage?
-On the bustier.
-[Portia] He's heavy?
-[Maurica] So heavy.
[Portia] Be careful.
I don't think
that peacock cookie is gonna hold.
-[Portia] Oh.
-[Nicole] Ooh.
No!
[Maurica] He's falling apart.
Thirty seconds.
[Laura] Ready? Are you sure
those are gonna hold?
[Jones] Uh... Oh!
I'm satisfied with that.
-[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!
-[Maurica yells]
-[Nicole] You're done!
-[Portia chuckles]
Oh my gosh, I know what just happened.
Shelby and Chris, let's remember
the candy-jeweled brooch cookie,
which is a chameleon
that you were trying to make,
and let's see what you guys did.
-[drumroll]
-[Shelby] Nailed it!
[snickers]
[Nicole] It looks like a brooch,
just not a chameleon.
I cannot find the chameleon,
but very sparkly.
My grandma would've definitely worn that
as a brooch,
especially near the end of her life.
[all laugh]
I mean, I think you guys should be proud
of yourselves. All right.
Jacques, let's taste this brooch.
-[Jacques] Okay.
-Thanks.
-Brian.
-Look at all that glitter.
-[Chris chuckles]
The flavor is good.
It just needs a little longer in the oven.
I just taste sugar. I do taste the crunch.
But if you eat glass, there's also
a crunch to it, you know what I mean?
There's a lot of crunchums,
uh, but that being said,
I thought it tasted nice.
I just wish it was baked a little longer.
Well, thank you, ladies.
We have other brooch cookies to see.
Okay.
Maurica and Portia. I see that your cookie
may have fallen apart a little bit?
-Maybe. Just a little bit.
-[Nicole] Okay.
Let's see the peacock brooch cookie
you were trying to make,
and now let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Portia and Maurica] Nailed it!
[Nicole] No!
The majority of your cookie's there.
It's just the peacock feathers said,
"Not today."
They're down.
He's not aggressive at the moment.
-[Brian] No. [laughs]
-Yes. There. There we go.
-[Brian] Okay.
-[Jacques] You're good at puzzles.
-[all laugh]
-Okay, well, y'know, I tried.
I'm trying to see what it is.
Maybe an ice-cream cone.
Maybe a tool to do some construction.
But definitely not a peacock.
I'll eat it, like I said. [chuckling]
[Nicole] All right, Jacques.
-Let's taste this thing.
-[Jacques] Okay, let's do it.
The center is a little bit underbaked.
That's why the peacock
didn't hold together.
But I kind of like the taste. It's good.
It's got the texture of a sugar cookie
that I'm used to, and it's tasty.
I personally like a cookie
that is a little underbaked,
because then the center is a little soft
and then the edges are crispier,
so for me this is perfectly baked.
That's something.
All right, thank you ladies so much,
but we have one more cookie to see.
Jacques, let's go! Brian, let's go!
All right, let's try to remember
the ladybug brooch cookie
you were trying to make,
and let's see what you made.
[drumroll]
[Laura and Jones] Nailed it!
-Y'know!
-[Laura chuckles]
[Nicole] It kinda looks like a cat
with a... But, like, a tie on.
It's very cute. It's also huge.
-It's a Texas size.
-Yeah.
We have the color of the ladybug.
We have the eyes. We have the legs.
I see a hamster
throwing the heavy metal horns.
-[heavy metal music playing]
-[Nicole laughs]
Well, Jacques,
let's taste this cat-slash-ladybug-slash...
[Brian] A hamster
throwing the devil horns.
[Nicole] Brian, did you taste
any orange in this?
I like the taste.
-[Nicole] You were tasting the orange.
-Very subtle.
The start is a little bit hard,
then when your teeth
go through the first layer,
then it's pretty good.
Why it is a little bit overbaked
on the outside like that?
We were running out of time,
so I threw the oven up to 400.
-[Jacques] Oh, you crank it up?
-For like two or three minutes.
It was crunchy.
At first I said, "Oh boy, I better
say goodbye to my teeth."
But then it wasn't that bad.
-But I really like the flavor of it.
-Good.
All right, we saw
three fantastic brooch cookies.
We have a very hard decision
ahead of us, and let's go make it.
All right, Jacques, which team nailed
grandma's glitz and glamour
in this first challenge?
It was not an easy challenge,
but one team made grandma very proud.
And this team is...
Jones and Laura.
-Hey!
-All right! [chuckles]
[all applauding]
Congratulations.
Brian, tell them what they've won.
You'll make your grandma proud
when you recreate
-one of her fabulous recipes...
-Wow.
[Brian] ...using this 263-piece
baking tool set and a bakeware set.
-Nice.
-Awesome.
You also each get to wear
the amazing Nailed It! golden baker's hat.
Oh boy, it's a mother-son
dream come true. Glitter hat!
Now it's time to start round two.
Bakers, like in grandma's house,
our guests are treated like family,
which is why
I'm gonna ask Brian to explain
the Nail It or Fail It challenge.
Now, there's nothing like the aroma
of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies,
especially when baked
by the loving hands of bubbe herself.
That's why you'll be rolling
nana and the cookies
all into one when you make...
[contestants laughing]
[Nicole] A grandma cookie jar cake!
Oh my goodness.
Yes, it's grandma made
from cake and cookies.
And they're so good she even got caught
with her hand in her own cookie jar head.
[whispering] Oh my God.
[Jacques] This grandma cookie jar cake
is chocolate chips cookie flavor,
hand-painted in edible paint,
then detailed in modeling chocolates
sprayed with edible shellac
to create the porcelain look.
Finally, her head is filled with a batch
of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
Mm-mm-mmm.
Maurica and Portia, you guys struggled
a little bit in that last round.
But I'm benevolent,
so I'm gonna give you a helping hand.
-You can hit the Help Dear Grandma button.
-[grandma voice] Help, I've fallen.
And your two opposing teams will have
to stop baking for three whole minutes
and polish grandma's silverware.
There's 10,000 bucks
in granny's tiny little coin purse,
and it's all for the winner.
So, you have 90 minutes.
I put it on the clock,
and guess what? It started now.
Yes, move, go!
-What are you gonna start with?
-Cookies.
You're gonna start with the cookies.
Okay, I'm gonna start with the cake.
Eggs. Eight each.
All right, I'm gonna grab this bowl.
[Maurica] Ingredients.
-[Nicole] Jacques?
-Yes, Nicole?
How would you go about
making that grandma cookie jar cake?
The best way to do it
is you have two different desserts,
so one baker should start on the cookies
while the other works on the cake.
Get those into the oven
and make the buttercream.
Then, they will need to make
the cookie jar head
out of rice cereal treats
and grandma's face
out of modeling chocolate.
When they assemble their cake,
they need to cover it with fondant
and all of the grandma detail,
including the cookies on top.
And finally, they need to paint
their cookie jars with edible shellac.
That's insane. That seems
like enough work for three or four people.
-It's more fun if you make it harder.
-Sure.
-[Laura chuckling] These hats are fun.
-The hats throw you off balance a little.
It's the weight of being a winner.
I don't want to jinx it, but...
I feel like we won the first one,
we got the second one.
-I feel the power of the baking cap.
-[laughs]
-It flows through me right now.
-[laughs]
We've ingested some glitter, I think.
-You want this milk, right?
-Yeah.
-[Laura] Start the cookies.
-[Jones] I will start the cookies.
[Chris] I'm gonna butter my pans,
'cause I've heard too many times,
how important that is.
[Shelby] Delightful.
Shelby and Chris,
how's it going over there?
My mom is starting to work on the cakes,
while I work on the cookies.
Hopefully, we didn't plan that out poorly.
I felt very confident after round one
as far as how well we
work together in the kitchen.
We'll have time for the cookies
to bake while we're doing the cake.
Vibing. Vibing with my mom.
-Goals.
-Hashtag goals.
Shelby, are you eating again?
Do they not give you lunch?
[Chris laughs]
-Do you need real food?
-I'm swell.
Okay.
-[Portia] A lot or just a little bit?
-A lot.
-Maurica and Portia, how's it going?
-[Maurica] We're doing great!
You'll be amazed at how well
we're doing this time around.
-We have two comeback queens in the house.
-[Portia] Yeah, you do.
[laughs]
First round was just to fool you,
to think we didn't know
what we were doing.
I like the hustle over there.
[Portia] All right, ready to pull?
-No, those aren't mixed enough.
-[Portia] Okay.
The good thing about us having
this epic failure on the first round,
there's a lot of lessons that was learned.
We need defined roles.
So, going into round two,
you gotta respect me as the boss.
You're gonna get in the back,
you gonna follow, and I'm gonna lead.
-Okay.
-We back on track.
-[Maurica] Putting four in.
-[Portia] And two.
Cookies in the oven, girl.
Cookies in the oven.
[Chris] That's all right.
-Is this large size?
-I think so, yeah.
And then we'll just trim it down.
Carve it down.
Jones and Laura,
their cake are pretty big.
-You think their cakes are too big?
-Uh, I will go a size less.
-That look right?
-Oh, it looks good.
-That looks good.
-[Jones] Okay.
Make it a little bit smaller.
Less to decorate, less danger.
We learned from the cookies
not to go too big.
Yes.
-[Laura] I'm gonna start the buttercream.
-[Jones] Okey dokey.
Shelby, why do you sift
that powdered sugar?
I'm sifting it
so it doesn't have clumps in it.
-What about mixing it with milk?
-With milk?
Mix it with the milk, so everything melts.
Then you mix it with your batter.
-Then I didn't have to do that?
-And then you don't have to sift it.
-[Nicole] Maurica and Portia.
-They also sift their powdered sugar.
[Portia] All right, let's do
some buttercream icing now.
[Jacques] It looks like they're putting
some color and flavor in it too.
You think it's pumpkin flavored,
that buttercream, Nicole?
-Oh. Maybe.
-It's pretty yellow.
-[Jacques] I don't know. I have no idea.
-A little pumpkin spice latte cake.
[Jacques] I just hope
it's not too much flavoring.
-[Portia] Gonna do a little lemon, right?
-[Maurica] Yeah.
The taste will be, like, pow!
All right!
-Girl, look at these cakes.
-[Maurica in singsong] Beautiful.
[Portia] And done, check that out.
[Laura] Okay, Jones, I'm looking
at the cakes, and I'm feeling like...
-[Jones] They're done.
-[Laura] They're done.
[Chris] We'll work on this
in a little bit,
'cause my cake's almost done.
[Maurica] We should hit the button
so their cakes burn.
Let's do it. I'm gonna hit the buzzer.
-[grandma voice] Help, I've fallen!
-Grandma, help!
Oh boy!
It's the Help Dear Grandma button.
Oh no!
[Nicole] Get the silverware out
and start polishing.
[Laura] I don't know what to do if
the timer goes off while we're doing this.
-[Jones] I don't know how to polish.
-You don't know how to polish?
-[timer rings]
-[Shelby] What's yelling at us?
The cakes, 'cause they're done.
Everybody cakes
should have been coming out of the oven,
and I'm sabotaging their cakes.
-[Chris laughs]
-Oh, mean!
[all laughing]
[Maurica laughing evilly]
-You gotta just show me how to do it.
-It's not hard.
Hey, Jones, more polishing, less standing.
[chuckles]
Time enough to lean, time enough to clean.
Did you ever work at McDonald's?
I got fired from two of 'em.
-Did you really?
-Oh yeah.
Now I know why people
don't use silver anymore.
-Sucks.
-[timer beeping]
-[Shelby] Has it been three minutes yet?
-[Maurica] Nope. [blows raspberry]
I'm gonna start the face of grandma.
I went and got some Rice Krispie Treats
and some modeling chocolate.
-[timer ringing]
-[Laura] Drats!
-That's our timer.
-Wiping.
That's because we've got
a little cake that's gotta come out.
-Jones, more!
-Grandma see your face in it yet?
-Be there in a minute, cake.
-[Nicole] Grandma wants clean silverware!
Three, two, one.
[timer beeping]
[Nicole] You're done. You can wash
your hands and go back to baking.
[Laura] My cake is burning.
[Shelby] They're done.
This one's done.
[Shelby] I don't know what
they're trying to accomplish,
but they have nothing on us,
because our cake turned out perfectly.
See what they did? Put their cake directly
from the oven to the blast freezer.
The cake will stick to the pan.
Coming back.
[Jones] We gotta go way faster.
-I feel like I'm going as fast as I can.
-I know, me too. [chuckles]
[laughs] That does not look
like Mommy, girl, but okay.
[Maurica] My grandmama's brown,
and this grandmama's white.
All right, see how this works.
I'm just going to paint her brown
with cocoa butter.
Yes, Grandma, get your foundation.
I cannot wait
for my mother to actually see.
She gonna be number one grandchild now.
[Laura] Hmm. Those aren't bad.
Right now, theirs looks
like a Cabbage Patch Kid on fire.
-Like it's melted.
-[doll voice] Help me.
[Brian] It's terrible.
It's falling apart.
That's big. Why would she use
that big bowl for that?
-Okay, well, give me that.
-Okay, here. You make that.
They used way too much rice cereal treats.
If she do that, it will collapse.
[Chris laughing]
Truly you're still eating?
I can get you food.
I'm worried.
Oh, 15 minutes left, you guys.
I'm scared.
[Portia] Just hold it when you put it in.
There you go.
I'm going with one more.
To me it just looks
like egg yellows from here.
Oh no! Our cake's not sliding out. Oops.
[laughs]
-It looks really messy over there.
-It's so messy.
[Chris] Hopefully,
this'll make this stick. [chuckles]
[Shelby] I'm never leaving her
in charge of baking cakes again.
Uh, help.
-[Nicole] Jacques.
-Yes.
Did you see the way
that the fondant was lifted?
-It was very good, nice.
-Yes, that was very technical.
-[Nicole] Yes.
-It's about to fall.
-[Jacques] I'm impressed too.
-What if it's the whole gameplay, Jacques?
Maybe they did it on purpose.
They threw the first round
to get the advantage button,
so they could sabotage their opponents
in the second round, burn their cakes,
and win the whole competition.
You know what?
Can't hate on the player.
You gotta hate the game.
[bell dings]
Grandma understands we gotta put
some cookies up in that brain.
She's sweet like that up there.
Five minutes left.
[Shelby] She's too heavy.
Shelby and Chris, I don't know
how the cake is going to hold together
with the weight they put on top,
with all that rice cereal treat.
Way too heavy.
[Brian] There's a lot of sticks
keeping it together.
Yes, a lot of sticks.
[Shelby] Wait, wait, wait.
Her head is falling.
Can you get something to support this,
like now?
Needs more sticks.
[Chris] Right here.
[Shelby] Oh my God, this is a disaster.
It looks so good, honey.
You did such a good job on it.
Uh-huh, thanks.
-[Laura] Hold her steady. Oh shoot!
-[Jones] Okay. Just drop it down.
-The orientation doesn't matter. Oh.
-[Laura] It's in her eyes. [chuckles]
Dang, three minutes remain.
So, finishing touches,
make sure she's got two arms.
-[Laura] Granny would be proud. [laughs]
-[Jones] All the toothpicks.
My mother didn't make a cake
that it wasn't full of toothpicks.
[Jones] Watch your finger, Mom.
[Chris] Where's the shiny spray?
I brought it out.
[Laura] Hurry, honey.
-Oh, the shellac, honey.
-Oh my gosh, I got it right here.
[Nicole] Fifteen seconds!
[Chris] Oh! She has to stay together
just a little bit longer.
Don't fall on us now, Grandma.
[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!
-You're done!
-[alarm sounds]
Oh boy, I can't wait to see and taste
your grandma cookie jar cakes.
Shelby and Chris,
wheel your cake on over, please.
This is the grandma cookie jar cake
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Shelby and Chris] Nailed it!
This is very funny. [laughs]
[Brian] Looks like somebody
dropped grandma. She's droopy.
Oh boy!
-[laughs hysterically] Boy! Wait a minute.
-What is the gelt on the back there?
[Nicole] So there's a gelt
literally coming out of her butt.
[Chris] Gimel!
[Nicole] This woman's wild.
[all laugh]
She looks like she's wearing
another grandma's face.
Like there's
a Silence of the Lambs element to it.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
-[laughing]
The rice cereal treats doesn't hold,
and that's always a problem.
You really have to compress these things
to make it hold.
But all the elements are here.
There's glasses,
a nose that's trying to escape.
I can't wait to taste this.
-Thank you guys so much.
-[Chris] Thank you.
Maurica and Portia,
let's see what you made.
[drumroll]
[Maurica and Portia] Nailed it!
-[Nicole] Y'know.
-Wow.
I feel like you did it. This looks great.
She got the hair.
She got the cookies up in there.
-She got a arm. She got another arm.
-I'm blown away.
-[Portia] Yay!
-I didn't expect that.
Like, the details, the pearl necklace,
the cookies on the apron.
We have all the elements. I mean,
she has glasses. Everything is there.
-Thank you.
-She also has a bit of sass to her.
-I feel like she's like, "Oh, Lord."
-[laughs]
Which grandma
did you make this an image of?
My grandmother, her mother.
Definitely her Sunday's best.
Got the hat on. She got her shimmer on.
Clutching her pearls.
That's my grandma right there.
And what would you say
to your grandma right now?
Who's your favorite now?
[all laughing]
Well, thank you, ladies.
I can't wait to taste it.
Come on, Grandma.
All right. Jones and Laura.
Let's see what you did.
[drumroll]
[Jones and Laura] Nailed it!
[laughing] She kinda looks like a wizard.
-She's like a magician.
-[Laura laughs]
She has a cookie levitating from her hand.
-[Jacques] She does.
-[Nicole] Which is very funny. Oh.
-[all laughing]
-[Nicole] She did a magic trick!
-Oh no!
-[Brian] Oh God!
-So sad.
-Osteoporosis set in.
-So, Lord, the... Oh no!
-[Brian] Save the arm.
-[Laura] Poor thing.
-Poor grandma done lost her whole arm.
-She should've drank more milk.
-She should've.
One of the things that I see, when you
was working and you picked the mold,
they're a little bit too big.
-Too big, yeah.
-Too big.
Yes, because it's too much weight,
and it's working against you.
I'm still gonna eat it.
I love your attitude. I really love it.
"I'm still going to eat it."
[chuckling]
Everyone can slice off
a piece of their granny.
And we're gonna sit down, Jacques.
[Maurica] All of our cakes look amazing,
so it's down to the taste.
We don't know
if they put any additional flavors
in their cake like we did.
So, it's just a matter of praying
that the combination worked.
Shelby and Chris, you're up first.
Let's taste these granny cakes.
The cookie is very well-baked.
Soft inside, has a little crunch
on the outside.
And the cake is also not overbaked.
I was afraid because you leave
your cakes in the oven.
-But it's pretty well-baked.
-Thank you.
I mean, it's not pretty to look at,
but it tastes great.
I liked your cookie.
It was very good. I ate most of it.
-And I think you did a really nice job.
-Thank you.
Maurica and Portia,
you guys are up next. Let's get into it.
I love that the cake
has a lot of surprise here,
like pieces of chocolates in it, and then
the lemon cream cuts the sweetness of it.
-I really enjoyed it, thank you.
-Thank you.
Your frosting was amazing. I really...
Yeah. I feel like you guys
really redeemed yourselves.
This cake was truly delicious.
Honestly, wow.
[both chuckling]
Jones and Laura,
we're gonna taste your cake now.
I think that today we had three good cakes
and three good cookies. Amazing.
Yeah, I think this is
my favorite cake now, taste-wise.
Super moist.
Yeah. I think your cake is baked
very well. I liked the flavor of it.
I also think it's a great cookie.
I think you guys should be
very proud of yourselves.
Actually, I think all of you
should be very proud of yourselves.
Judges, are we ready
to announce the winner?
[Brian] Sure.
Remember, whoever wins
this challenge gets $10,000
and the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes?
[all laugh]
This is funny.
[all laughing]
[Nicole] That's funny. [laughs]
Brian, do you have
grandma's coin purse ready?
-Ready.
-All right.
-My friend.
-The winner is...
-Maurica and Portia!
-[Maurica screaming]
-[laughing]
-[applauding]
[both] Whoo!
Oh my goodness, I get to cook
for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Congratulations.
-I'm so proud of you.
-Thank you.
I'm just so proud of you
and the things that you did.
-We nailed it. Boo!
-[Maurica] We nailed it!
[both chuckling]
That's it from us at Nailed It!,
where we showed
that the more could be merrier
unless the more is your family, of course.
We'll see you on the next one. Bye!
I have an idea. Let's jump!
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