Bake Squad (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Brother Birthday Bash - full transcript

[neon buzzing]

-[intro music plays]
-♪ Show me what you're cookin' ♪

[Tosi] I'm Christina Tosi,

the founder of Milk Bar.

I built a baking empire
on sweet, delicious cookie dough,

and now I've built a squad

to make people's dessert dreams come true.

Christophe,

a pastry illusionist.

Maya-Camille,

a flavor fanatic.



Gonzo,

a champion of chocolate.

And Ashley,

the queen of cakes.

Individually, four brilliant bakers.

But I brought them together
to battle it out

and see whose dessert will be chosen
for someone's big day.

This is Bake Squad.

[upbeat pop music playing]

♪ Everybody's talking 'bout
We got it going on ♪

-Hello!
-Hello!

-Hi, Christina!
-Hi!

-Hi, Bake Squad!
-Hi!

[woman] So excited!



-Awesome.
-Welcome to our ground.

Bake Squad.

Let's do it.

-Meet Cynthia.
-[Gonzo] Hi, Cynthia.

-Hey.
-Hi, Cynthia.

-Welcome.
-Nice to meet you.

Cynthia,
these are four boss bakers, capital B,

who can and will
whip up a showstopping dessert.

Oh yeah.

[Tosi] You're gonna have four
incredible desserts to choose from.

From those four,
I'm gonna pressure you to pick the one

that you think will leave
your party guests speechless.

-That's crazy.
-You ready to tell them about the event?

-I'm ready.
-Hit it.

So I am throwing a combined birthday party

for two of my children.

Aw!

[Cynthia] So we're celebrating Sharif.

[Tosi] And how old is Sharif turning?

-He will be 12 years old.
-All right.

And then we have Salomeo right here,
who is turning six.

Oh my gosh. So cute.

I have six children.

-Ooh!
-Wow!

You have six children?

Six boys.

[Ashley] Oh my God.

-[Gonzo] How do you do it?
-[Tosi] Okay--

[Maya-Camille] Wow!

Bow down to you.

-Yes.
-Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.

Whoo! Now, tell us about the event.

So, we're going to go to the park.

We normally just have
a sheet cake or an ice cream cake,

nothing extravagant.

So I think it would be something amazing

if we can give them a dessert
that just makes their jaw drop.

[Christophe] You will.

They'll be mind-blown.

No doubt.

So I'm just looking
for my pièce de résistance.

Speaking to a Frenchman up here.

Did I say that good?

C'est magnifique.

-Thank you.
-[Tosi] Give us the lowdown on Salomeo.

[Cynthia] He's my fitness guru.

-A six-year-old fitness buff.
-All right.

He gets up, he does jumping jacks,
he does crunches--

-What?
-[Cynthia] Push-ups.

-[Tosi] So fitness buff is Salomeo.
-Yeah, this is my guy.

[Cynthia] That's Sharif.

Sharif is such a sweetheart.
Like, I can't even explain it.

Like, he's so loving.

But he's also a builder.

Um, he's building there with his uncle,
um, who is a landscaper.

And he loves to build
Minecraft things, Legos.

So cute.

What kind of things
do your boys like to do?

They really are into dragons
and dinosaurs.

-Nice.
-Superheroes.

They play video games together.

Also going outside, riding the bike,

and playing ball, things like that.

[Tosi] What do they like?

Sweet, savory…

So their favorites
would probably be mac and cheese…

[Ashley] Mmm.

…spaghetti, pizzas.

-I'm hungry.
-Ice cream cake, chocolate.

All right, they like chocolate.

[all chuckling]

-Gonzo, you're happy?
-My wheels are spinning, so, yeah.

-We're ready to go.
-Bake Squad, I hope you're ready.

-We are.
-We're ready.

-Yeah!
-Let's do it.

All right, Cynthia will return
at the end of the day.

That gives you seven hours
to finish your desserts.

Let those imaginations loose,
turn on the oven.

-Guys, let's do it.
-Let's go.

[upbeat pop music playing]

I'll just try an eye.

Super cone.

What if it was, like,
all their favorite foods?

[Maya-Camille]
I think I could do something cool in here.

-Maya-Camille.
-Hi, chef.

I am really excited to hear
what you're dreaming up right now.

Sharif is a bit of a builder,
or he likes landscaping,

so I was thinking of an edible house.

Wait, you're gonna become

the general contractor
of Bake Squad today?

I am the general contractor. Get to work.

Sharif gets the house, right?

But Salomeo gets everything
that's in the house.

So we'll build out a gym,
because he's really into fitness.

And so I was thinking of making
a barbell, and maybe like--

But, like, a ba-- Like a barbell.

Like a little bitty barbell,
because I do collect miniatures.

Maya-Camille, if you can bring this
to life, my friend,

I think you have
a real showstopper on your hands.

-Good luck.
-Thank you, chef.

-What we gonna do?
-What are you thinking?

I don't know what I'm thinking.
Birthday, two kids…

-They have to share the dessert.
-Yeah.

They like many things.
Bringing that all into one design--

Like, you can't represent everything,
you know?

-What would you like to do?
-Yeah, I'm doing a cake here for sure.

Yeah?

But the good thing about the cake
is different tiers,

so each tier can, like, represent
one of the kids in a different way.

Oh.

You know, thinking of doing
their favorite-foods cake.

And that's the pizza
that she mentioned the kids like.

Up here can be--
They mentioned mac and cheese.

And then a bowl of spaghetti
overflowing on the top tier.

-Whoa! Good luck, my friend.
-Thank you.

I'm thinking about coming up
with something for the kids,

and they love dragons,

so I'm gonna have this dragon egg
all made out of chocolate.

You're gonna see
a hand sticking out of it.

There's gonna be a tail coming out of it.

So I'm thinking about doing
a small dragon egg.

Hopefully somewhere like a foot.

Dragon egg, pretty cool.
Small dragon egg, so what?

Okay. I could go big,
but I need your help.

-Let me see what I can do.
-Okay.

What I'm thinking right now is
small individual cone for everybody.

You know?

I remember Cynthia saying
that the boys like ice cream,

so I'm making house-made waffle cones.

It will be filled with cake, compote,
and topped with fillings.

And then, in the center,

I'll make, like,
a freaking giant cone like that.

At least four foot tall.

-Four foot?
-At least, minimum.

-You have a lot to get started on.
-It's not easy.

You got this.

[Tosi] Oh yeah.

Gonzo!

How's this for a big egg?

[Gonzo] Holy cow.

-[Tosi] Dude.
-That's a huge egg.

-Happy birthday.
-You can fit in this thing.

That's friggin' awesome.

Christina is our fairy bakemother.

We ask, she delivers.
She makes dreams come true.

-[Tosi] Okay, hold on.
-Where you going over there?

[Gonzo] Look at that.

-[both laugh]
-[Tosi] Okay, hold on. Stay here.

Can you make this
look like a giant dragon egg?

You want something this big…
That's gonna take all I got.

-All right, good luck.
-Thank you.

Showtime.

[upbeat music plays]

[Maya-Camille] I am making an edible house

that is also outfitted
with an edible basketball court,

a pond, and a race car track.

On the foundation is
marshmallow that looks like grass.

This is the mixture for the marshmallows.

I've just got to get this sugar boiling.

I have a lot going on.

I have to make this marshmallow mixture.

I have to make the cookie dough
for the actual house.

The texture of this cookie
has to be just right.

And yes, I'm doing a lot all at once.

[gasps] I made a mess today.

Well, if it boiled over,
then that must mean

it finally reached 240 degrees.

It's good enough,

so we're just gonna go ahead
and dump that into our…

mixer.

I'm gonna make a big batch of vanilla
for all three of these.

I have-- That's a lot of… a lot of cake.

I am a cake artist.

My company, Sugar Monster,
is a small boutique cake shop.

I'm known for making
really awesome, cool, edgy cakes,

and I'm also a proud single mom.

My beautiful daughter, Chloe Grace,
is two and a half years old.

So I have a different connection now
to kids' parties,

so I'm going big here.

I'm gonna make these boys
a three-tier cake,

so I'm gonna need a ton of batter.

Three yellow vanilla.
So I gotta color that too.

Red velvet in the oven.

I'm going to make two different cones,

one red and one black.

The black one will be red velvet,

blackberry compote,
and cream-cheese filling.

The red will be strawberry,
vanilla, and chocolate cake.

Two kilo of chocolate cake.

So I have so much to do today.

Twenty red cones, 20 chocolate cones,

one giant cone, blown-sugar cherry,

cherry mousse, chocolate cake,
red velvet cake, cream cheese filling…

-[bright ding]
-A lot.

-Christophe.
-Hi, chef.

Talk to me about this big cone.

It's gonna be tall.
Like four foot tall, minimum.

So it's a good thing
that you're stopping by

because we need to find a way to look at

how we can form one large cone.

It can be wooden, it can be metal.

Got it. Let me see what I can do. Hold on.

[Christophe] Awesome.

My chocolate creations and desserts

have been eaten by Madonna,
Snoop Dogg, Ellen DeGeneres.

When it comes to chocolate,
there's nothing I can't do.

I'm gonna have this giant dragon egg
with different components inside,

so I need all these holes
to showcase these other components.

Go to the machine.

You wanna make sure
that the whole layer of chocolate is even.

Everything has to be perfect,

and everything has to be done in one shot,

'cause there's not enough time
to redo it again.

[Tosi] Six hours to go, Bake Squad.

Hey, Christophe!

I got your cone, dude!

-[Christophe chuckling] That's awesome.
-What?

-Dude, look at this.
-Oh my gosh.

How about that for size?

Imagine with the meringue.

[Maya-Camille]
This is a sugar cookie dough.

Ah, beautiful.

Nice thickness
to construct the panels of my house.

[grunts] Hey, Christophe, you like this?

Ah, la, la! So beautiful.

[Maya-Camille] I'm very happy
with the way this turned out. Beautiful.

Go ahead and hit it with some color.

-Oh, look at that.
-Maya-Camille.

What is happening here?

This is the landscape.

Excuse me,
you're also a landscape architect?

I'm still fascinated by the home.

-So, single-story?
-A single-story home.

It needs to be bigger.
Maybe it's two stories.

It's daunting, but I do think
that the kids would be wowed

by seeing, like, a two-story home.

Like, why doesn't a gingerbread house
normally exist with two layers?

Because, structurally, it's complex.

When Chef Christina
asked me to build a second story,

the first thought
that came into my mind is this:

[fake laughing]

Really?

Keep your eye on that clock.

-Thank you, chef. I appreciate it.
-Good luck.

A giant egg is not enough.

I have these awesome
silicone molds of a claw,

I have another mold
for the tail of the dragon,

and then I'm making smaller eggs,

'cause I want the kids to have
personalized chocolates as well…

I'm gonna pour this chocolate in.

…with their different combinations.

I have coconut strawberry
and crunchy chocolate.

I'm feeling excited,

and I'm gonna create
an awesome memory for these kids.

They will never forget their birthday.

Okay, where are we at? Um…

Compote, two kinds, done.

Chantilly, done.

Cream cheese filling, done.

Red velvet cake, done.

Chocolate cake, done.

Okay. Let's keep going.

[Ashley] Cinnamon.

All right.

Christophe, I have
a whole lot of cake to go in the oven.

-Okay.
-Can I use your timer?

-Yeah. Go ahead.
-I need a timer. Here?

-Yeah.
-Thank you.

-Do you have a timer I can use?
-I do.

-You're amazing.
-Yours broke? Let me see.

No, I'm doing so many cakes.

Oh my goodness.
How many cakes are you doing?

Girl… Six, seven?

Nine. Nine.

Nine cakes?

Uh-huh. Yeah.

-Gonzo. Hey.
-What's going on?

-Can I have this?
-Yeah.

-All yours.
-Okay.

All right, first cake in.

Start.

-[upbeat pop music]
-♪ Walk of fame ♪

-♪ Fame ♪
-♪ Gonna do my walk ♪

♪ Gonna do my walk of fame ♪

[mixer whirring]

I am going to make some miniature trees,

so I need to melt some candy melt.

[Ashley] So the challenge for me is

how many things are, like,
in the oven at different times,

trying to keep track of everything.

-Twenty.
-[timer beeps]

Spaghetti.

Trying to keep up with it all is a lot.

[timer beeping]

Was that 25 minutes already?
There's two going off here.

Who's beeping over here? Who is it?

I set a timer for the milk, too,
so I don't burn that.

Oh gosh. All these timers.

Okay, that's out. And now I'll do cooling.

This one's good, that one needs more time.

Let's do another six minutes
for that top one.

-[timer beeping]
-Quiet.

I'm gonna make
a cooling temperature for this one.

Who's beeping?
Oh my God, is that another one?

[multiple timers beeping]

Make it stop.

Which one is it?

[beeping intensifies]

Okay.

-[tranquil music plays]
-[exhales]

[timer beeping]

Ah, that's me.

It's not me this time.

Whoo!

[Christophe]
That cream puff, they are beautiful.

And then we're gonna move on
into the waffle cone.

The first cone is made. Thirty-nine to go.

[Tosi] All right, Ash.

-You got your timers out in a row?
-Yeah.

-What's this one?
-So this is our pizza layers.

I'm freezing the red cake batter…

[Tosi] Got it.

…to kind of nestle in pepperonis in there.

Got it.

I want the inside of the cake
to be super visual,

and I want it
to look like pepperoni pizza.

There we go.

I want it to look like cheesy noodles,

and to look like spaghetti and meatballs.

Pizza party.

In the oven.

That's kind of hard to do.
I've never done it before.

Pizza out of the oven.

And when it's all
stacked up and staggered,

hopefully it'll look like a pizza.

Pizza party.

It's really pushing the limits
of what's possible, but I want to win.

I'm working on benches

made out of vanilla wafer cookies
with candy on the bottom,

and then a basketball court
made out of a sugar cookie.

People assume that
just because something is smaller,

it should be easier to make.

No. When things are smaller,

sometimes it's even
more difficult to make.

[Maya-Camille] Hey.

Do you have your magnifying glass?

I have to be very delicate,
and I have to see it up close.

This is actually kind of cool.

These are legit intense.

Oh, wow.

I'll never see the world the same.

Can you see the inside of my brain
with those right now?

Yes, you are thinking,

"Maya is such a fabulous baker."

-[chuckles]
-Oh, well, thank you, Gonzo.

[jaunty, upbeat music playing]

[Tosi] Three hours to go, Bake Squad.

[singer vocalizing]

[Ashley] Finally ready to come out.

Oh my gosh.
All my cakes are out of the oven.

-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ Show me what you got ♪

♪ 'Cause I ain't got time ♪

♪ I see you ♪

♪ Show me what you got ♪

♪ Don't have time ♪

♪ I see you ♪

[Christophe] All right,
so now it's time to make the giant one.

I put the waffles into the cone
and I shape it.

All right, time for chocolate.

I am using chocolate as "glue"

so that it will not break.

It's really important,
because that big cone

will be filled
with a lot of cake and mousses,

and we want to make sure
that the cake is really solid.

♪ Show me what you got ♪

I hope that's gonna work, huh?

I am scrambling
to get the second story into the house,

and my fear is that
I will put a second story in here,

and the house will fall apart
due to the weight.

But it looks great.

This is a sweet, modern, edible home.

Look at that.

[Maya-Camille] Wow, look at that egg!

Gonzo, that is amazing.

Wait, is that the hand
that's gonna come out of the egg?

-[Gonzo] Yeah.
-Man!

[Maya-Camille] I do see
that I have some competition.

What boy doesn't love dragons?

But my dessert
is very sensory-stimulating,

and kids will love to be able
to play with their food.

I'm just trying to make sure--

Ah! My trees keep falling apart.

Okay, let me just pipe a little bit.

Bake Squad, one hour to go.

It is time to move. Let's do this.

[Christophe] I'm looking around.
I see Ashley.

She's, like, wow.

You know, you see
the piece of pizza, perfect triangles…

That's probably a winner.
I need to do something bigger.

So I'm thinking I'm going to add
a really shiny element

on top of that giant cone.

I am choosing to make
a blown-sugar cherry.

So, I take a piece of sugar.

I shape it so I can put
the tip of the pump to blow air.

Sugar work is really similar
to glass work.

I continue to add some air

to make it a little bit bigger
and bigger and bigger and bigger.

[hair dryer running]

Et voilà, here is a blown-sugar cherry.

[bright ding]

Trying to unmold the egg.

I need somebody
that can hold a hundred pounds.

-I can hold a hundred pounds.
-Okay.

Look at these guns.

Starting to look like a pizza.

[Maya-Camille] Ooh, that looks so good.

[Ashley] Gonzo, this is insane.

It's a monster.
So, I'm gonna try to lift it up.

-[Gonzo] Maya-Camille.
-Yes?

-Can I borrow you for two seconds?
-Sure. What do you need me to do?

So we're gonna lift it,
you take the cart out. Okay?

-All right? One, two, three.
-This is very heavy.

Hold on, let's lift it--

-There we go.
-You got it?

Oh my God. So heavy.

And now--

[Ashley] Okay.

Bring it more--
Push it a little bit towards the back.

-Okay.
-Towards my side.

All right, how's it looking there?

Like the chocolate needs to dry.
You wanna get some freeze spray?

-Yeah.
-You're off of it now, right?

[Ashley] Okay, I got it.

-Hold it right there. Now--
-[Maya-Camille] Mm-hmm.

-Sorry.
-[Ashley laughs]

Can you imagine
if I dropped it at this point? [laughs]

[Ashley] This is freakin' epic.

[Gonzo] Maya-Camille, let go.

-All right, we did it.
-You good?

-Thank you.
-What about-- You're good here?

Yeah. I'm gonna start working on this,
scraping that out.

-All right.
-Look at this eye.

[Christophe grunts]

-[Christophe] Gonzo.
-Yeah?

I'm gonna need your help.

Bake Squad, 30 minutes remains.

Your works of art must be complete.

-Tell me when to let go.
-Let go.

-Yeah?
-Yeah.

I'm gonna cry. [laughs]

Keep moving. Know what?
I'm with you, Christophe.

♪ I got love running in my soul ♪

♪ I've got your love running in my soul ♪

♪ I got love running in my soul ♪

♪ Gonna make me smile ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ Don't you let them tell you
How the story ends ♪

[Christophe]
I'm running against the clock now.

[Christophe] Now I'm gonna make the cones.

On the inside is cake,

and cream cheese filling, and compote.

[singer vocalizing]

Fifteen minutes remain.

Feeling pretty stressed out now.

The clock is ticking down.

I know you can do this.

Pressure is high over here.

[Gonzo] It's starting
to come into life a little bit.

-Quick like a Band-Aid.
-Okay.

Boom.

I need to go.

Get this pasta on.

[Maya-Camille] Oh no.

-What's going on?
-The second floor.

The second floor's cracking.
Let's get a quart container.

-[Tosi] Let's get this in.
-Oh gosh.

[Tosi] There you go, second floor.
Okay, repositioned.

This daggone house!

The weight of it is
a little heavier than I anticipated

with the second floor.

You know what? If I could cut a pretzel
and put pretzels in the corner…

Time is almost up,
and this house is falling apart.

I'm not very happy with the way
that this has turned out.

[Tosi] Oh, oh!

This is strawberry compote.

Four minutes to go.

Finishing touches.

-It's solid?
-[Maya-Camille] Un, deux, trois.

There you go, there you go.

[Tosi] There you go.

Nice job.

[Tosi] Yes, Gonzo.

Bake Squad, final minute!

Here comes Cynthia!

Won't have time to step back
and see if it looks good.

[Cynthia] Oh my goodness!

All right, Bake Squad, time is up.

-Oh shoot.
-[Ashley sighs]

[Tosi] Please stand behind your desserts.

All right, Cynthia, this is the best part.

We're gonna taste.

-Let's do it.
-Let's do it.

-Cynthia?
-Yes?

Have you witnessed this masterpiece?

Oh my God. Like, sensory overload.

[Ashley] You mentioned
your boys love food.

That really got my mind going.

So when you cut it open,

the idea is for it to look like
all their favorite foods.

Okay, it's almost like
you don't believe your eyes.

Is the cake
really holding up the fork? Like--

-[mysteriously] You'll never know.
-[chuckles]

The intention is when you cut it open,

the top tier looks like
spaghetti and meatballs on the inside.

We have vanilla cake
with a raspberry swirl

to look like the marinara sauce,
and some chocolate meatballs.

There's a meatball!

There's a meatball.

Oh my goodness.

-Okay.
-Oh my goodness.

-Yay!
-[Tosi] One-for-one, Ash.

[Ashley] This middle tier
looks like cheesy noodles.

I did an orange velvet cake.

The filling is a white chocolate ganache
with jelly beans.

-Oh my God.
-[Tosi] Come on.

Mac and cheese is cheesy.

It's mac and cheesy.

Ashley.

-[Ashley] It looks cheesy.
-That is a commitment.

-Yeah.
-Oh my God.

-Okay, two-for-two, Ash.
-All right.

And then the lower tier
looks like a slice of pizza.

I did vanilla cake
as well as some cinnamon cake.

It's layered with a mango
cream cheese buttercream.

Come on, pepperoni.

-Oh, we got a meatball!
-Oh, that's nice.

-[Ashley laughs]
-Ashley, three-for-three, my friend.

That's three high fives.
One, two, three.

-You rocked that. That's amazing.
-All right.

Well, Cynthia,
let's see how this measures up.

-[Cynthia] This is so cool.
-[Tosi] It's just gorgeous, Ashley.

It's so creamy and smooth.

It literally looks like
macaroni and cheese.

And then you go in and you taste it,
and it's like a pleasant surprise.

[Ashley] Thank you. Glad you like it.

Ash, I gotta say,
I think that you have proven tonight

that not only are you
an incredible cake technician,

but you pack a punch
in the flavor department.

You brought imagination and personality

to these different layers of cake,

and I am so proud of you.

I would, if I could,

like, just turn around
and gobble it, and just--

Party mom, let's hit it.

Oh my God.

This is amazing.

Christophe, tell us what this is.

[Christophe] So today we have
the super cone for the super boys.

And I wanted to celebrate their birthday

presenting two kinds of cone.

The red cone will be filled
with chocolate cake,

strawberry compote, and vanilla Chantilly,

topped with Italian meringue.

And for the chocolate cone,

we have red velvet in the inside,

blackberry compote,
and cream cheese filling,

topped with Italian meringue as well.

For the large cone, we have
both flavors combined together inside,

and the cherry is made out of blown sugar.

Wow. Oh my God. That's amazing.

-I gotta cut one of these open.
-I'm ready.

Here we go.

Can we just for a moment marvel--

I mean, it looks like its own
beautiful ice cream cone

work of fine art from the inside.

-That's amazing.
-[Tosi] Ready to grab a cone and dig in?

I'm ready.

-All right, Cynthia. Cheers.
-Cheers.

Mmm! Oh!

Oh my God. The meringue is amazing.

I just wanna lick it off.

It's luxurious, and the little torch
kind of gives you a campfire moment.

Oh my God, the compote.
Have you gotten there yet?

-You're in it.
-I am.

They're gonna have to bring it,
'cause this is really good.

-Thank you.
-I'm not giving this back.

I'm taking it with me on the road.
Cynthia, let's hit it.

[Tosi] We can always grab another one
once we're done tasting.

I mean, you set a real scene for us.

[Cynthia] Oh my goodness. How cute!

The detail in it is… is just incredible.

It's a work of art.

Maya-Camille,
explain to us your masterpiece.

[Maya-Camille] So I call this
a miniature sweetscape.

I wanted to create something
that kids have permission to play with.

With Sharif being interested in building,

I thought he might be inspired
to bake and build his own house.

Of course, with your baby boy
always working out,

it really, like, inspired me to create
a little gym and a rock-climbing wall.

-Are those popcorn trees?
-Yeah.

-Oh my goodness.
-Some popcorn with edible spray.

Oh my gosh!

The racetrack is a cookies and cream
marshmallow treat

with just crushed cookies on top.

I thought that
they would look at it and have fun

and interact with the entire sweetscape.

-This is amazing.
-Thank you.

[Cynthia] It is amazing.
There's a lot of detail,

which I know in the short amount of time
had to be very difficult.

It's an invitation for play,
it's an invitation to dig in.

So, with that in mind, my Cynthia…

So this is marshmallows
with shredded coconut on top.

-[Cynthia] The turf?
-Yeah.

-Oh my God.
-This is amazing.

The texture is amazing.
This is so frickin' cool.

I'm just gonna bite it.

[Cynthia] This is, like, amazing.
I wanna try the racetrack.

-Oh yeah.
-I'm dying for the racetrack as well.

'Cause I think that is something
they would--

-Get into?
-Yeah.

Can I take you home with me?

[laughs]

It's so true. There's something so fun
about eating a miniature of it.

This is really good.

I gotta say, Maya-Camille,
it really is a study of texture.

The marshmallow is very fluffy.

The cookies and cream
is a little bit more dense.

You really thought about every element

literally from the ground up.

I think it's crazy cool.

Congratulations.

-Thank you so much.
-Thank you.

-Thank you.
-[Tosi] All right, mama, we're off.

-[Tosi] I'm bringing this with me.
-[both laugh]

Welcome.

Uh, this is real.

[Gonzo] It is real.

[Cynthia] Oh my God. That--

Oh my God.

Okay, Gonzo, tell us about your creation.

[Gonzo] So, what I got here is
this giant dragon egg.

You can see all the details.

So you have an eye,
which is looking at you from the inside.

You have the claw.

You can see the skin on the inside,
and then the tail coming out of it.

This is crazy.

This is not just a chocolate egg.

Everything here is chocolate.

This rock here?
Oh, do you think that's a real rock?

-It's chocolate.
-Oh, it is.

It's all chocolate.

So, Gonzo, how does one eat this?

Crack it open.

-That's the idea--
-Crack it open?

Yeah, that's the idea, for the kids
to play around and just see how it goes.

-That's bananas.
-[Tosi] Okay.

-[Gonzo] She's got a mallet.
-Let's do it.

-Oh my God, this is--
-Okay.

And then you gotta pick--

-He made it to be broken.
-[Gonzo] Exactly.

This is for Sharif and Salomeo.

-[pounding]
-Oh, I got something!

-Hold-- Oh, you got it.
-Go to town--

[Cynthia, Tosi exclaiming]

[Tosi] Wait.

-That's amazing.
-Gonzo.

-There's an egg inside?
-There's two more surprises inside.

[Tosi] Oh my God.

-'Kay.
-[Gonzo] Are you ready?

[Tosi exclaiming]

-All right.
-[Cynthia] Oh, that's so cool.

-My gosh.
-Dried strawberries.

So they have different flavor profiles.

That one is strawberry chocolate,
that one is milk chocolate.

Gonzo, I am just so amazed
that you executed this so flawlessly.

It only has that structure of shattering
when it's crystallized properly,

and that's just from technique.

What do you think about the taste?

Oh my God. That is really good.

Like, you just have every level
of cool here.

-It's like an edible fantasy.
-That's what we're going for.

Cynthia, come with me. Let's go.

Bye, Gonzo.

-Bye.
-Bye.

All right, Bake Squad, I gotta say,

I'm so impressed with each of you today.

The sky was the limit.

I know it was a rocky road
to get all the way there,

but you arrived just in time
for our guest of honor.

Cynthia, it all comes down to you.

Which Bake Squad team member's
showstopping masterpiece have you chosen

for Sharif and Salomeo's birthday party?

Well, in terms of surprise factor,

I don't think it'll be like anything
that they could ever even imagine.

I think it's something that they both love

that will bring them together.

It was just, like,
something fun and interactive,

and it's something
that visually is an eye-catcher.

And it tasted amazing.

[chuckling]

All right, Cynthia, let's do this.

Okay, so the winner,
or the one I've chosen,

'cause you all are winners, is…

Gonzo.

[all cheering]

Gonzo!

[Tosi] All right, get down here!

-I need a photo! Let's go, you two!
-Give me a hug.

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

-One, two, three!
-Go, Gonzo.

-Gonzo, congratulations!
-[Gonzo] Thank you so much.

-This is awesome.
-Cynthia, tell Gonzo what it was.

I think it's the--
Being able to be interactive with it.

-My children will both be stars.
-Yeah.

Breaking it open,
that was the most coolest part.

Cynthia, you have a party
to get ready for, party queen.

-Sir, for you. Congratulations.
-Thank you so much.

Also, tricky part is, you gotta
make this one more time, my friend.

One more time. Yeah! I'm loving this!

-Thank you.
-Bye.

-No big deal.
-No big deal.

-You're a pro.
-I'm gonna put this up.

You know it.

[Christophe] Super Gonzo!

Yeah!

Yeah!

[all cheering]

All right.

[Tosi] Y'all, how incredible was that?

[Ashley] That was so cool.

[indistinct chatter in distance]

[kids chattering happily]

[upbeat pop music playing]

[dinosaur roaring]

[cheering]

Today is the big day.
We're celebrating Sharif and Salomeo.

[kids] Happy birthday!

[Cynthia] Their closest friends are here,
and family, relatives.

The Bake Squad hooked your girl up.

Are you ready?

Three, two, one.

[all] Surprise!

Whoo!

That's epic!

[Sharif] That's one of the best cakes
I've ever seen in my life.

Dang.

[Cynthia] Okay, you can crack it open.

[partygoer] Oh!

[Sharif] The chocolate egg
tasted delicious.

You can't even describe it.

[Cynthia] Isn't this
the coolest thing you've ever seen?

Thank you, Bake Squad.

This is one of the best birthdays,

like, that's ever happened in humanity.

It's perfect.

[all] Thank you, Bake Squad!

[all cheering]