Nailed It! (2018–…): Season 3, Episode 4 - Prehistoric Bakes - full transcript

Oh, hi, hello,
it's another episode of Nailed it!

Everyone's favorite baking competition
show that hopes someone can make this...

but will be lucky if it gets this.

I'm your host, Nicole Byer.

On today's show,
we are going back in time,

eons and eons and eons ago,

to the age of dinosaurs.

Three amateur bakers will explore
prehistoric themes for our challenges,

and compete for $10,000!

Let's meet our bakers.

My name is Aaron Anderson,
and I am a police officer



from Memphis, Tennessee.

My wife and me got married ten years ago,

and, uh, the very first cake that I made

looked pretty pitiful.

Sometimes I come and find some of it
in the garbage can later on.

But, hey, I keep on trying.

I want to win for her.

I am Yolie.
I am from Charlotte, North Carolina.

I started baking with my dad.

He loves baking,

and spending that time with my dad
is the best time.

He is way better at it than me,

and I want to be good at it.

I'm just not there yet.



Can I just dump this thing in here?

So, if I won $10,000,

I would want to help out my parents,
because they've always been there for me.

My name is Ismath,
and I recently got married, um, last June.

My first year of married life
has been great.

I've recently started baking
because my husband has a sweet tooth.

When I usually bake things,
um, I envision them one way,

and they sometimes come out
the total opposite.

Oh, here's one...

big cookie, I guess.

I want to win just to prove to my husband
that I am a good baker.

[Nicole] All right, bakers,

please give a Stone-Age welcome
to Jacques Torres,

a man who's been on a quest for chocolate

since before people cared about fire.

And I am fluent in Caveman, so...

[series of grunts]... Rosanna.

That means, "Hello, Rosanna!
We're so excited to have you on the show."

Your creations on Nerdy Nummies
are pretty historic themselves.

I can't wait to see and eat
everything today.

Be careful what you're excited for.

-[laughter]
-Okay, fingers crossed.

[Nicole laughs] Let's begin, shall we?

Our first round is called Baker's Choice.

Since we're gonna turn back time,

feast your eyes on these!

Oh!

Inside-out Neanderthal cupcakes!

-Nestled... Oh, your faces.
-[Aaron] Oh, my.

[judges laughing]

Nestled on top
of each of these fluffy cupcakes

is a member of our extinct ancestors,

formed with modeling chocolate
and fondant details.

Inside the cupcake,

you'll see there is actually
an animal pattern

that matches their outfit.

[Nicole] When I say "carbon dating,"

you're gonna run over there,
pick up your cupcake,

and then you're gonna have to recreate it.
Are you ready?

Well, I'm not gonna say "carbon dating."
Why would I? I'm gonna say, "Go!"

Go, go, go!

[laughter]

I'll choose this.

Now. Yeah, pick up the pace.

All right, bakers.

The winner of this round
will drag home a very cool prize.

You got 45 minutes on the clock.

Go bake! Go!

Bake!

Three eggs, cake mix...

Buttermilk.

Plus one container of cake mix.

Jacques, how would you go about making
this Neanderthal cupcake?

The first thing that you do, of course,
is make the batter.

They have to dye the batter,

and then pipe their design
into the cupcake.

During the time that those cupcakes
are going to bake,

they'll make their buttercream,

and then they can start
on the modeling chocolate figurine.

Finally, they have to place the figurine
on top of the cupcake,

and voilà, an inside-out
Neanderthal cupcake.

When you bite in it,

then they have
some type of a design in it.

Those are the best cupcakes,
the surprise cupcakes.

I'm feeling like, uh,
if I can get a cake in the oven,

I can do the modeling chocolate.

And that's what I am looking forward to
the least.

I figure that I need to make sure
that my cupcake's going to taste good.

As a police officer,
I've always struggled with art

and trying to put what's in my brain
out in front of me.

It just... Sometimes it doesn't work.

I'm getting fancy with it here.

So, one container of cake mix.

I think I'm good at following a recipe.

Time management, um,
that makes me very nervous.

So, I think my strategy for round one,

do my own thing,
not concentrate on what they're doing,

and make sure
my time management's, you know, on point.

How long do I have to do this?

I don't know how to do animal print
inside of a cupcake.

It just says "mix".

This is so much more intense
than I thought it was gonna be.

I'm gonna take my time 'cause I feel
like that's the right thing to do,

but at the same token, like,
it's gonna take forever.

I need several days.
Like, three-to-five business days.

Oh, my God,
I forgot there's multiple colors.

How the...

What?

Ismath is coloring the whole batter.
Now she has to make two batters.

-Gonna take a long time.
-Yes.

[Jacques] It's faster to make one batter,
divide it into two bowls,

and color them individually.

My second batch of batter.

I made the orange,
now I'm making the black one.

Okay.

You guys have 35 minutes.

[Aaron] Getting some cupcakes ready.

My glasses are kind of fogging,
so I'm gonna ditch those for a second.

-Ah, yeah, the kitchen was heating up!
-[Aaron] Yes.

I've never made any pattern
inside of any cake.

I don't really understand the directions,

but I'm gonna go
for my interpretation of them.

So, I decide to attempt to pipe out lines
so that it bakes with lines inside it.

Aaron is... He's ladling his, uh...

his batter into his cupcake tins.

[Rosanna] It's kind of a light gray color.

[Jacques] Yeah. That's not dark enough.

"Bake at 350 until done."

Let's go in here...

I'm moving on.

[Ismath] Yeah, that's good.

So, both of my batches turned out good.

Now I just got to make the design
in the cupcake.

So I'm gonna put, you know,
a little bit of orange first,

and then put a little bit of black on top,

put another dot of orange,
and I hope that'll make tiger stripes.

[Nicole] Ismath's cupcakes
are in the oven.

I don't know.
I feel like I did this wrong.

This is a disaster.

Aw, shoot.

I mean, Yolie is really in trouble.

[Nicole] Yeah. Ismath and Aaron are...

light-years ahead.

[Yolie] Have to get something
in the oven, like, ASAP.

Yolie, how you doing?

Everything is great.

-All right, you have 21 minutes.
-[Yolie] Okay.

How did this happen?
Why is the time going by so fast?

I need it to pause.

I need everything to stop

just to let me regain my thoughts
to figure out what's happening.

Oh, God.

Okay.

How long have you been baking?

-Forever. Like, since I was four.
-Oh, really?

My grandma taught me how to bake.
She loved to bake.

And then I posted a video on YouTube
of me baking.

The community loved it,

and we just started growing that way,

and slowly, and it just snowballed.

Amazing. It's amazing.

I got my cupcakes in the oven.
Making my buttercream.

It says,
"Beat the butter on medium speed."

I don't know what medium is.

That looks acceptable.

Okay.

I usually try to stick to what I know,
but occasionally, I'll turn the tables.

I've got a little surprise for the judges.

Instead of adding vanilla to the frosting,

I added caramel.

This looks pretty good.

-It's not bad.
-[Jacques] Aaron.

He should not stop his mixer.

The glob of butter
around the paddle of the mixer,

-do you see it?
-[Rosanna] Oh!

So, hopefully, that's going to break down.

It is so hard to sit behind this table.

Every ounce of this little body
wants to jump over it and go help,

-so I'm just holding onto this table.
-[Nicole] Same with Jacques.

-It's stressful.
-Let me help you.

[Aaron] Good, good.

Okay.

[Jacques] Everyone's cupcakes are done,
except Yolie's.

I'm really worried for her.

Oh, God, how long
have my cupcakes been there?

I don't know how long
they've been in there.

Nine minutes left, guys. Nine minutes.

-You should be making your little people.
-[gasps]

-Oh, come on.
-And you should be having fun!

They're dead.

All three of them are so serious.

Oh, my God, who tied this?

Decorating's definitely my favorite part,
but with the time-consuming,

it's a little stressful.

I've never used modeling chocolate.

I've practiced on Play-Doh,

but, uh, it's not the same.

[Jacques]
Yolie's cupcakes are finally done.

[Yolie] Oh.

This is fine.

This is great.

-[Nicole] Ismath, how you doing?
-Right behind you. I'm getting there.

One rule in the kitchen,
wear comfortable shoes.

[Nicole] Yes.

-'Cause you're standing the whole time.
-[Jacques] She has high heels.

I wear heels a lot,
but not in the kitchen.

[Nicole] Rosanna, your heels are amazing.
Can I see them?

[Rosanna] Not at all.

I know it's not real etiquette
to put a shoe on the table.

I had them custom made for today.
What do you guys think?

So beautiful.

I'm a little extra,
I love to theme things,

and this is my favorite ice cream.

Mint-chocolate chip.

I mean, if I had to make food shoes,
I would put bacon on them.

-Bacon's my favorite.
-[laughs]

[Aaron] Okay. I have about six minutes.

I'm gonna go with a little smile.

As a police officer,
you have to have a good internal timer.

It helps out to know when you've got
to keep things kind of going.

If Aaron tried to arrest me,

I would probably laugh.

[Jacques and Rosanna laugh]

He just looks, like, so happy and jolly.

Imagine he tried to arrest you
wearing those goggles.

I'd knock them off and be like,
"Come find me." Like, I...

[laughter]

We got a head, arm...

This is gonna be his hair. There we go.

I almost wish he had more clothes,
because his skin tone...

He's yellow.

-Is it jaundice?
-That looks like a lemon.

If you don't have tan,
if you don't have the exact color,

a little bit of brown.

-Just a little bit.
-Mm-hmm.

We are gonna just draw his little face on.

Have you ever seen the meme, there's a dog
that's in a building, and it's burning,

and, like, it's just sitting there going,
"This is fine"?

That's literally my life.

This is fine.

Everything is fine.

[fire crackling]

Everything Is awesome.

I am so screwed.

-How do you say minute in French?
-Deux minutes.

Deux minutes.

-Un, deux, trois. Olé, olé, olé.
-Trois.

So I'm making the face right now,

and I don't have that much time
to add all the details.

This is gonna be his little skirt thing.

Yep, this is what we're going with.

Probably gonna look
a little sunburned, maybe.

Oh, boy.

[Ismath] That's the best I can do.

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

You're done!

[Aaron] That was rough!

[laughs]

Why?

Hi, Yolie.

You're up first.

So, this is the baby Neanderthal cupcake
you were trying to make.

And let's see what you did.

[drumroll]

[fanfare]

-[Yolie] Nailed it.
-[judges laugh]

Oh, he's so yellow.

He's got a smile on his face.

He's got a bone.

-Okay.
-Cute!

[Nicole] It is very cute.

[Nicole] He doesn't really have a body.
He just has...

Oh! He's, like, swaddled up.

Yeah, 'cause babies get cold.

But it's really cute.

[Jacques]
I think that it's very difficult.

Forty-five minutes looks like a long time,

so then you realize
when it's ten minutes left, that,

"Oh, my God, I should go faster
at the beginning

to have time to do the decoration."

You know, the baby is a little bit yellow,
but he has a lot of hair.

-Which is, you know, nice. I mean...
-[Yolie laughs]

Full head of hair
and a little bit of jaundice.

Yeah. [laughs]

[Nicole] Let's give it a taste.

[Rosanna] I want to see the print.

-[Jacques] Where are the prints?
-[Nicole] Right on top.

Oh, kind of on the top. Yeah, yeah.

It's not over-baked, so it's moist.

-Thank Jesus.
-It's cooked through, so this...

This, you did it very well.

Not enough cheetah print,

but cheetah print's difficult.

I've made a lot of these cakes before,
and it's really interesting

because you don't realize
how many layers you need to do.

-Yeah.
-I think you should be proud of yourself.

Thank you.

[Nicole] All right. Goodbye.

-Go that way.
-[Rosanna] It's this way.

-Au revoir.
-[Nicole] All right, Aaron.

Let's remember the Neanderthal papa
you were trying to make,

and let's see what you did!

[drumroll]

[fanfare]

[Aaron] Nailed it!

-[laughter]
-Papa!

[Nicole] Oo-ee!

[Aaron] I went very impromptu
on the colors.

I thought it was gonna go
black and white...

And then you said purple and white.

It doesn't look like a cave person.
It looks like a dinosaur.

-[Aaron laughs]
-[Nicole] This is wild.

But I still love it.
I love the creativity.

I gave you all a surprise flavor
in the frosting.

[Rosanna] Ooh.

I'm scared of surprises.

[Nicole] Let's get into it.

-I'll just take it apart... Oh, no.
-[Rosanna] Oh!

[Rosanna laughs]

[Jacques] We have some type
of a pattern on here, no?

There's stripes.

[Jacques] There is stripes.
Let's taste it.

-It's actually baked.
-[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

I think that the cupcake itself
is actually pretty good.

But the buttercream is a brick,

and when you have a heavy buttercream,
what flavor do you get first? Butter.

What was the secret flavor?

Oh, uh, caramel. I guess it was butter.

[Aaron laughs]

But it was supposed to be caramel.

-So...
-Yeah, did not get that.

[judges laugh]

Thank you, Aaron.

All right, Ismath,

let's just remember the Neanderthal
mama cupcake you were trying to make.

-And let's see what you did!
-[drumroll]

-[Ismath] Nailed it!
-[fanfare]

[laughter]

[Nicole] Oh, but she had a hard day.

She's just bending forward.

[Rosanna] I like that she's kind of sassy.

She's got her hands on her hip,
and she's like, "Mmm."

-She's giving you that look.
-[Jacques] No, I think she's talking...

-Oh, no!
-[Nicole laughs]

[crashing sounds]

[in slow motion] Oh, no! No!

[Rosanna] Oh, no!

See, she's had a hard day.

[Nicole] Her day was so hard
that her head fell off.

All right, let's do it, let's taste it.

[Rosanna] Whoa.

-We have some.
-Oh, I see stripes.

[Jacques] The buttercream is...
more creamy, it looks like.

[Rosanna] Oh, okay.

-Mmm.
-[Jacques] And the buttercream is light.

It's pretty moist.

The decoration...

You know again, it's... it's not easy.

She looks like a fat ghost of Elvis.

[Elvis voiceover] A-hubba hubba.

-I'm here for it.
-[chuckles]

It tastes so good,
and I love the buttercream.

And you've got stripes.
You've got those tiger stripes.

It's really, really cute.

[Nicole] The three of you should be
very proud of what you guys made.

Step on down and we'll tell you who won.

This was a difficult task.

But one baker did an outstanding job,

which was...

[dramatic music plays

Ismath.

Bravo.

[applause]

The cupcake was good
and the buttercream was excellent.

-Congratulations.
-Thank you.

Rosanna, tell her what she's won.

A new 263-piece decorating set.

[Nicole] Ooh.

Wes not included.

You also get this really gold,
shiny baker's cap!

You'll be the hit of the ball.

-Thank you.
-[Jacques] Good job.

You guys, let's go to door number two!

[judges laugh]

All right, bakers,

we're gonna go back even further in time.

If you saw this guy in real life,
you'd be his lunch,

but now, you can have him for lunch
when you bake this...

[dramatic music plays]

[growling]

T-Rex cake!

This cake is epic.

[growling]

[Jacques] It's three tiers of cake,

flavored with an assortment
of tropical tastes,

covered with beautiful
jungle fondant detail.

Then it's airbrushed to perfection.

Yolie, you okay?

Do you see the cake?

You're fine.

We'll get there.

-Do you like dinosaurs?
-I love dinosaurs.

-Do you have an impression?
-I have my dinosaur impression.

Ooh, wow, you're ready.

-I would love to see it.
-It's coming at you.

[Nicole] What do I do?

[laughter]

[roars]

I have never not wanted something
so bad in my life.

-He has the walk!
-[Nicole laughs]

[Jacques] You see that?

On your station, you have a panic button.

Hit it, and one of us will come
and help you for three minutes.

And Yolie,

since you really, really struggled,

you get a helping hand.

At your counter is a Nicole Nag button.
Just hit it...

[yelling]

...and I'll bug your two opponents

for a total of three minutes,

and you can keep baking
while they lose time.

[Yolie laughs]

All right, bakers,

the winner gets to walk home
with an epic $10,000 prize.

You have two hours on the clock,

so hurry up before you're extinct!

Are you kidding? Go!

[laughter]

Everyone's seen the show.
Go when I say the time.

All right.

Oh. Damn.

Two and two, ten, four, six...

-[Nicole] Jacques?
-Yes.

How would you go about doing

-a T-Rex cake?
-Okay.

[Jacques] For the cake,

they have to mix the dry and wet
ingredients together.

This is where they add just
the right amount of tropical flavoring.

While the cakes are in the oven,

create the buttercream frosting.

Then with Rice Krispies,

they need to carve the shape
of the dinosaur head.

Once the dinosaur is expertly assembled,

it's time to cover the cake with fondant,

add the jungle leaves,

and finally,

add the dinosaur arms
exploding through the cake.

Very technical.

I'm learning so much, and I'll tell you,
it's going in one ear and out the other.

Ask me about this tomorrow,
I'll say, "I dunno, never heard of it."

I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't need these.
I don't need these at all.

I'm a little discouraged
because of the outcome of round one.

I know I could have done better.

But it's okay.

No. No.

I know that I need to speed it up
with my actual baking

to leave myself more time
for the actual decorating.

Ha, yes!

I can do this. I know I can do this.

We're gonna get double-stand mixer action
going here.

Aaron, what are you doing with two mixers?

I am making lots of cake.

I'm always more comfortable with more cake
than less cake.

This cake, it's so big.

[roaring]

It's got to be at least
three or four tiers.

I got to make a lot of cake.

We're going big,

or we're going...
I guess I'll go home either way.

You will go home eventually.
You cannot stay here.

[Ismath] Two...

Now I do feel a bit more confident.

I think my strategy for round one
was pretty good.

I think I'm going to keep that strategy
for round two.

Uh, I think the head, that's gonna be
a little bit challenging.

But I got this. We'll be able to do it.

"Add tropical flavor to taste."

For my tropical flavors,

I think I'm gonna use mango
and I'm gonna use passion fruit.

I love passion-fruit-flavored anything.

I wonder if we'll get
some strong flavors today.

[Nicole] We will.

You have to be
a little bit careful with it.

Put a little bit, taste it, put
a bit more, taste it, stop when it's time.

I don't know how much of this
to put in there.

I feel like adding
just a little bit of flavor.

I didn't want to overpower the cake.

Butter.

I think Yolie did not
grease the pan enough.

Jacques, I don't know what you do,
I like to spray the pan,

but I also do...

I cut a piece of parchment
and I put it at the bottom.

-We do the same thing. I do the same.
-[Nicole] Jacques loves parchment paper.

Add tropical flavor for taste.

There we go.

[Ismath] I used lemon extract,

so it has a little bit
of lemony taste in it.

I think they taste good. [laughs]

I'm, like, the most curious about

his cake.

I don't know if it's too many
or what he's doing.

[Jacques] I think Aaron's cakes
are very, very thin.

They could cook very quickly like that.

I hope there's a cake for me to eat,

'cause homegirl's hungry today.

I shouldn't call myself "homegirl."
What am I doing?

[Aaron] All right, we have cakes.

Working on my buttercream,

trying to make it a little bit thinner,
not too heavy.

[Jacques] Oh, my God.

His buttercream is a blob, look.

-He didn't mix enough.
-Oh.

The secret of a buttercream
is to mix it enough

so that it becomes really nice and fluffy.

Oh, yeah. This is fine.
Everything is fine. Okay.

He's looking pretty ferocious.
He's gonna be kind of battle-worn.

Battle-scarred, a little bit.

Aaron's head kind of looks
like an alligator head.

[Rosanna] Ooh, Aaron.

How am I supposed to get this off?

Oh.

Ismath already has her...

head made,

and like, so does he,
and I'm freaking out.

[exhales] Okay, I'm about to use
my Nicole button.

[yelling]

Nicole!

-Oh, baby, I'ma get annoying.
-[Jacques chuckles]

Hi, hi, hello!
What are you doing right now?

Oh, no.

I can't. Unh-unh.

Excuse me, pardon me,
is this Rice Krispies? What's under here?

[laughs] It looks like a jaw, yes!

Aah!

Is that a dinosaur?
What kind of dinosaur is it?

Is it a T-Rex?

Oh, my God, you're so close to my face.

She's crazing me!

[yelling] Aaron!

[yelling]

[roaring]

Do a dinosaur with me.
Do a dinosaur with me.

[roars]

[Rosanna] She's distracting me,
and I'm not even doing anything.

[laughs]

I'm sorry. Goodbye.

That was unbelievably distracting.

[Yolie] That is exactly what I wanted.

[Nicole laughs]

[Jacques] Nicole.

Hoo-hoo, he look like a dinosaur.

One hour...

and 15 minutes.

That's...

-[Jacques] You need a calculator?
-[Rosanna] There you go, there you go.

-Zero there.
-[laughing]

That's 75 minutes, right?

-[Jacques] Correct.
-I did it!

[Ismath] This looks about done.

Okay.

Just gonna turn it... Oh.

A little bit hot.

Okay.

Ooh.

-[Jacques] That thing is dry.
-[Aaron] Okay.

[Jacques] He left them too long
in the oven. That cake is dry.

It looks a little bit like a pancake.

[Nicole] It does a little bit
look like a pancake.

[Ismath] All right.

[Jacques] Why isn't Ismath
using more buttercream?

-Oh, girl, oh, girl.
-Oh, boy.

[Jacques] Did she forget buttercream
in between the layers of the cake?

[Nicole] Yes.

This is a little bit of, uh, pureed mango

in the frosting.

In round one,
my secret ingredient was caramel,

but the judges didn't like it.

So, this round, I'm trying to see if using
fresh food is gonna take me over the top.

Flavor the buttercream
I think is a good idea.

Oh, my God, why won't you just come out?

-Oh, my God.
-Oh, no.

-[Jacques] Yolie's cakes...
-[Rosanna gasps]

[Jacques] ...they stick
to the bottom of the pan.

[Yolie] Oh, God.

Oh, man.

This is texturous.

Is that a word?

Maybe.

[Rosanna] Ooh...

She is so sweet.
I just want to go help her.

Oh, this is... this is difficult.

Okay, sit. Sit, Ro.

[Yolie] It looks way better
with the, um...

buttercream on it.

-The cake could still taste delicious.
-[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

[dismayed chuckled]

Woo, 30 minutes, guys.

-Getting close. Thirty minutes.
-[Yolie] Okay.

[Aaron] I'm putting some fondant
on Mr. Dinosaur's head.

Yep.

The head is huge.

He's got a head.

I think so far so good. I feel like once
I start airbrushing, it'll come together.

Just got to get this head on.

-Oh, my God.
-[Rosanna] Oh.

[Jacques] Ismath's dinosaur
has no top jaw.

I would use Rice Krispies

for the structure
and the shape of the head,

-and then you cover it.
-[Rosanna] Yep.

Ugh, what a bummer.

I think my head is
in a pretty good condition.

I think it looks super cute. You know,
a little, small dinosaur head going on.

[air brush spraying]

I love trying new things,
so I'm just gonna use white fondant,

and I'm just gonna airbrush everything.

-Oh, she's going to airbrush.
-[gasps] Airbrush.

Oh, what a treat.

I think she's trying to match
the same color as the dino.

[Nicole] Yeah.
Everything's the same color.

[Jacques] Same color, yes.

It's bizarre.

Oh, so everyone's using
their airbrush machine.

This is great.

I mean, it could be worse.
So I'm, like, not mad at it.

I-I think he's looking great.

I worked so hard on this cake, and...

if anything, even if I didn't win today,
I know my dad would be really proud of me.

I'm actually kind of impressed.

Three minutes left.

Put your screens up, please.

[roaring]

[Aaron] Eyes.

[Yolie] Eyeballs.

[Ismath] Oh, my God. This is super hard.

[Aaron] Okay.

It's not enough time.

[grunts]

[Aaron] Stay on.

Five, four, three, two, one.

You're done!

[alarm sounds]

[roaring]

-Yolie!
-Hi, there.

All right, this is the T-Rex cake
you were trying to make.

-Let's see what you did.
-[drumroll]

-[fanfare]
-[Nicole] Ha!

[Yolie] Nailed it!

[laughter]

[Nicole] That looks like some strange fish
from the bottom of the deep, deep ocean.

It's like snake fish.

[Nicole] I love those teeth.

But you're really innovative,

and you covered it and moved on.

That's exactly what I would do.

Structurally, you can see
the head of the dinosaur sinking.

-So you need structure in it.
-Yeah.

All right, we gotta go.

Oh, boy. That's my friend.

[giggles]

Okay, Aaron.

-Let's see what you did.
-[drumroll]

-[fanfare]
-Nailed it!

[Nicole laughing] This... is like...

I love it.

We have an open mouth.

We got teeth.

The eyes on either side.

It's like a frog-igator.

A fro... Yes.

[roaring]

[frog croaks]

-He just looks like he's had a day.
-[Nicole] Jacques?

Aaron, I love your alligator.

[Nicole laughs]

[Rosanna] I really like it.
You got little T-Rex arms.

-Uh-oh. Uh-oh. T-Rex arm is falling down!
-He's losing an arm! Oh, no! 

-[Nicole] Oh, no!
-[Jacques] No!

[roaring]

[laughing]

-He lost his arm.
-[Jacques] Looks like a pig foot.

Uh-huh, he's going extinct
right before our very eyes.

Thank you. What a treat.

I can't wait.

All right, Ismath.

-Let's see what you made.
-[drumroll]

-[fanfare]
-[Ismath] Nailed it! [laughs]

[laughing]

[Nicole] Oh, I love this so much. [laughs]

What a treat. He's like...

[growling]

Where is the top of his mouth?

I see the bottom.

Yeah, so this is the bottom.
Here's the top.

-How can he chew?
-An underbite.

-[Rosanna] Underbite! Yeah.
-Okay.

He needs braces.

What was hard for you in this challenge?

To get the cake to stand straight
in the structure,

and the head a little bit.

[Rosanna] It looks like
a little cartoon dinosaur.

-A little, cute, derpy cartoon dinosaur.
-[Jacques] You're right.

-I love it.
-Okay.

These three cakes are honestly

the most glorious things I have ever seen.

Please cut us the best slice of your T-Rex
and serve it to us,

and we'll taste it!

-What a dream!
-[Rosanna laughs]

The last round, I lost it.

This time, I might have a shot at this.

Like, mine looks pretty good.

Yolie, your cake is first.

I'm trying to find the flavors.

It's hard to find.

What flavor is it?

Mango in the bottom cake,
passion fruit in the top cake,

and then vanilla in the buttercream.

-Mmm.
-Okay. The cake is pretty good.

The cake is not dry.

I liked it.

And what a treat to eat a mystery,

to put something in your mouth
and be like, "I don't know what it is."

[laughs]

-I like the texture.
-[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

I just wanted a little bit more
tropical flavors.

But everything else is wonderful.
It's a great cake.

Thank you.

All right. Aaron.

We're gonna eat your dinosaur.

[laughs]

Hope you got the flavor.

Oh, I got it.

[laughs]

Flavorful, but, oh, my God, the cake.

You leave that cake
way too long in the oven.

The cake is dry and chewy.

And the buttercream
is a little bit like cream cheese.

It was, like, heavy. It... phew!

And I... I guess I got a hunk of mango
you put in there?

Yes.

'Cause I honestly didn't know
what was in my mouth.

[laughs]

As long as a cake isn't burnt,
I'll eat it.

It was just, the texture...

not as moist as I'd like,

but it still tastes really good.

Thank you so much.

-What a treat.
-Thank you.

All right.

Ismath!

Thank you for giving us an eyeball.

[laughter]

The cake is not as dry as the one before,

but no hint of buttercream in between,

and I cannot really define the flavor.

It's lemon.

-Lemon!
-Lemon!

-No!
-[Ismath laughs]

Is lemon tropical?
What jungles do you go to?

I just was hoping for pineapple,
or coconut, or mango.

But the texture was really good.

I really wish there was more buttercream.

You said you wished it, too.

There's two people here
who love buttercream and...

there wasn't enough buttercream there
for me.

I think all of you should be
so proud of yourselves.

Okay, judges,

are we ready to say who the winner is?

Just remember, no big deal,

but the person with the best T-Rex cake
is getting $10,000

and the Nailed It trophy!

Wes!

-[roaring]
-[laughter]

-[caveman gibberish]
-[laughter]

[Nicole] Very, very cute, Wes.

-Rosanna?
-[Rosanna] I'm ready.

-To make that money flow like lava?
-Yes!

-It's right here.
-Jacques?

Very hard challenge, but we have a winner.

And it is...

Yolie!

-[Nicole] Yeah!
-[Rosanna] Yeah!

-[Nicole] Yeah!
-[Yolie] This is awesome.

[laughs] I'm so excited.

Stop it!

Why are you crying? You won!

[Yolie] Definitely going
to help out my parents.

Like, my whole family is gonna freak out
when I get home.

[Nicole] Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm so excited.

Is this not the greatest thing
you've ever seen?

-Congratulations!
-Congratulations, everyone!

That's it for Nailed It!
We'll see you back in the modern age.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

I need to see everyone. Yes.