Nailed It! (2018–…): Season 4, Episode 7 - The Big Bake Theory - full transcript

Welcome to another episode of Nailed It!

The show that asks for a miracle
of modern science,

but ends up breaking all
the laws of physics.

Today, three novice bakers
will put on their thinking caps

when we challenge them
to recreate desserts

all inspired by science.

[murmurs]

Let's meet our engineers of the oven.

My name is Ebony Gammon.

I'm from Anaheim Hills, California,

and I stay at home
with my four amazing kids



When it comes to baking,

I color outside the lines

and I'll just improvise.

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not.

I'm Raymond Dinglasan.
I'm from Lombard, Illinois,

and I'm a regional vice president
for a software company.

My daughter Penelope, who loves the show,

thought it'd be very cool
and also very funny

to see her own dad on the show.

Flip the bag like... Like a cow.

-A cow?
-Like you would milk a cow.

So, she found a way to email the show.

Now, I'm here, so...

My name is Sandra Hardeman.
I am from Triangle, Virginia,



and I work in Human Resources.

I have an amazing family.
I mean, my family is like my super power.

Everything I do is for them.

We always tell them, "Just close your eyes
before you take a bite.

It'll be all right."

I don't exactly follow
the directions of any recipe.

I like to modify,
and just hope that it turns out okay.

Well, bakers, today is all about science.

And here to help us is someone
who does for chocolate

what Steve Jobs did for "apples,"

Jacques Torres.

Bonjour, bakers.
Please do not make anything explode today.

[they laugh]

[Nicole] I like you with glasses.

You don't like me with glasses?

Nicole, you always look beautiful, Nicole.

-You know, glasses or no glasses.
-Gorgeous.

And on my other side,
returning guest judge,

Valerie Gordon.

Hi, bakers. I'm super excited to see
what you're all gonna do today.

[Nicole] Okay, everyone.

The universe is expanding,

so we better get a move on
to a challenge we call Baker's Choice.

You baking scientists will be mixing up

your very own concoctions
when you make these...

-Aww!
-Beakers!

[Nicole]... looney beaker cakes!

Each beaker is made out of cake,

which is then wrapped in fondant
and decorated with modeling chocolate.

When I say go, you're gonna cruise on over

and grab the one you want to make.
All right?

Go!

Careful.

All right.

[Jacques] Okay, bakers.

There is one other element
to this challenge.

If you look into your beaker cake,
you will see a test tube.

That test tube will be used to make

your self-frosting reaction.

Let's give you a demonstration.

Professor Wes!

[Nicole laughs]

[Valerie] This is so good.

Not only are they looney beaker cakes,
but they're self-frosting beaker cakes.

Once the challenge starts,
you'll find a special shelf in the pantry

with edible reactive chemicals.

During the judging,
you will demonstrate it for us,

and then hopefully,
the chemical reaction won't kill me!

All right, show us what happens now, Wes.

[all] Ooh!

[Nicole] Wow, Wes, it really bubbled over.

Incredible.

Well, guess what?
You got 45 minutes to do this.

And that started now.

Go!

All right, let's sit down.

Okay. Da-da-da-da.

Uh-oh.

Container of milk, four eggs and caramel.

What do you think of the challenge?
Can you do it?

Umm... How would you do it?

[laughter]

I will do the cake.

When the cakes are done,

cut out the layers
and stack them with buttercream.

Put the test tube
in the middle of the cake

and carve out the beaker shape.

Cover the whole thing
with more buttercream and fondant

then decorate with edible spray paint
and fondant details.

Bakers will pick a frosting flavor
that complements their cake,

and, during the judging,
they will pour it into the test tube

with dry ice to make
a flavor chemical reaction

that will coat their looney beaker cake.

I think it's going to be fun to see
what they do with the eruption.

Here we go.

Pans...

[sighs] Sifter...

I am thinking faster
than I'm actually moving.

Mix. I forgot the cake mix. Lord Jesus.

So, that is causing me to be frazzled.

It is causing me to miss things.

Lock.

Turning it on.

Right now, I need to bake my cakes.
I need them to be delicious.

[boing]

Oh, look at that.

Forget that. That's okay.

I am cracking the eggs
in a container first

so there's no shell.

I'm going through quite a few here.

Those are ingredients
that are supposed to go in the mixer.

Okay.

Sandra, how are your eggs going?

[Sandra] I owe y'all some eggs.

-[laughter]
-[Nicole] Uh-oh!

Teaspoon.

I decide to put
a little extra vanilla extract

into the cake batter
to make sure that the taste pops.

Here we go.
I'm taking a little bit of a gamble.

Da-da-da-da.

Cakes are just in.

I mean, like, how can I mess this up?

This is the one thing
I do know how to make.

I should use measuring cups, huh?

-Whoa!
-I don't know what she's doing.

It's actually not bad.

Come on, buttercream.

Thirty minutes left, you guys!

I need... this one.

It's like opening up paint.

Show him who's boss.

-There we go.
-Come on, you got it.

Go, Raymond.

Alle-alle-allelujah!

It all worked out.

Okay.
All right, so I need to roll out his eyes.

Da-da-da-da.

[Sandra] I have never used fondant before.

[Nicole] I feel like
you look like Clark Kent.

You know Superman, right?

-Superman? I am Superman?
-[Nicole] No. You're Clark Kent.

-Transformation.
-[Nicole] No.

-Oh, sorry.
-You're Clark Kent.

-Oh, with the glasses?
-It's half of a compliment.

-It's a good compliment.
-A good compliment?

A good-looking man
who wears glasses and saves the world.

-Oh, thank you, Nicole.
-You're welcome.

Twenty-two minutes.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

[sighs] Come on.

Oh, my God. Sandra...

Ugh, this cake is too warm.

Let the cake chill.

[Sandra] I'm trying to frost this cake

with some buttercream that's melting.
Oh, my gosh.

All right. The cake looks good. The cake...

Wait a minute.

[Raymond] I'm trying to make
a nice holder for this thing here.

[Jacques] Raymond rolled the cake
around the tube.

I don't get it.

Oy-ay-ay.

What's the buttercream...? The buttercream.

-He can take the tube and put it through.
-Shove it through, yeah.

You, my friend, are gonna be my gel.

I'm gonna use you on the outside.

-Oy-ay-ay. This is bad.
-Is it really?

He's putting buttercream around the tube.

Look, and now
he's squeezing everything back.

-[Valerie giggles]
-[Jacques sighs]

This part doesn't have to be pretty.

Well, I used modeling chocolate
to kind of give a foundation to this cake.

And my strategy is to roll the cake

on top of the modeling chocolate

She's making a burrito.

[Sandra groans]

This is cray.

-[Nicole] What is going on?
-I don't know. I don't get it.

-Look at Ebony's cakes. They look so nice.
-[Jacques] Yes!

-There we go.
-Right.

[Ebony] You're right down in the middle.
Like so.

Get some buttercream in there.

Cover like so.

Right?

I need to be looking at the competition...

to make sure they are not
out-beakering me right now.

Ebony is truly the only person
who has stacked her cakes.

Everybody else used a technique
I call "mushin'."

All right.

It is go time.

Here we go.

Just cinch it up.

I truly had a lot of high hopes
for Raymond, but...

I know. I did, too.

It looks like Frankenstein. Oh, my God.

Fondant is not so bad.
I thought it was gonna be horrible.

Ooh. [groans]

Crud buckets.

[grunts] If I do that,

I'm sure I'll be able to wrap
this white fondant around.

It will hold beautifully.

I'm going to put my fondant
right on...

...top of it, and work it out from there.

She's putting a diaper on it.
She's putting a fondant diaper on it.

Okay.

Wrap the baby.

-Oh, my God.
-Amazing.

[Jacques] Nicole!

[Jacques laughs]

Fondant is not my friend,
and now I know all the reasons why.

There we go.

Eyes.

Da-da-da-da.

Okay, eyebrows.

I should be able to do these,
'cause I do my own. They're lovely.

You're kind of like
the Leaning Tower of Crap.

Whoa!

One and a half minutes!

[Ebony groans]

[sighs] Oh, no, here it is. It's berry.

-I wanna see science!
-[Valerie giggles]

I'm really thinking about

what's gonna make
the best self-frosting flavor,

so I choose strawberry, because I think

strawberry-vanilla
tastes really good together.

I decided,
"Why not go with everything lemon?"

So I picked out the lemon frosting

that's going to bubble out
all over the cake.

Thirty seconds remain!

Put your mouth on. You need a mouth.

I need the dry ice.

Okay. There are your ears.

Five, four, three,

two, one!

-You're done!
-[klaxon]

I'm done.

-Hey, Raymond.
-How you doing?

Let's remember the looney beaker cake
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made!

[Raymond] Nailed it!

So, I like him.

[Valerie] I love the level of character
you have going on here.

Uh-oh. He's leaking cake!

He's leaking cake everywhere.

You see your cake was quite thick,

-so when you roll it, it was breaking.
-Yeah.

May I ask why you didn't use a cutter

to cut circles, and then stack your cake

-with buttercream in the middle?
-A wonderful question.

[Nicole] Was that...? Can you answer it?

How come you didn't do it the easier way?

How do you feel about
your chemical reaction?

I did not try it.

-Well, let's see it. Oh, plop!
-Yes.

-Okay.
-Hang on.

Keep going.

-Oh, yes!
-[Valerie] Oh, my God.

[Nicole] Oh, no!

[Raymond] All right.
That's cooking right now.

All right. Let's do it. Let's taste it.

[Jacques] What flavor did you pick
for your frosting?

[Raymond] For the reaction,
I used strawberry.

-That was a lot of fondant.
-It was.

I did not get much of the buttercream.
But...

But I like it.

We do get a lot of sort of...

curious crumb action happening,

because of the way
you plastered the cake together.

I think you did a really nice job.
I thought it looked great.

I thought it tasted good.

-So, Raymond, thank you.
-Thank you.

-See you later, Raymond.
-Bye.

All right, Ebony.

Let's remember the looney beaker cake
you were trying to make.

And let's see what you made.

[Ebony] Nailed it!

[Nicole] He is very fun to look at.

[Jacques] Very surprised.

[Nicole] You made a Smurf.

You know the image
that keeps coming to my mind

is Rocky Balboa after the fight,
I've gotta say.

[laughter]

What flavor is it?

-[Ebony] This is a lemon berry cake.
-Then let's see your chemical reaction.

-Ta-da!
-[Valerie] Keep going.

-[Nicole] Oh, there we go.
-Yes!

[Ebony] Yes!

Let's do it. Let's eat it.

I like the flavor.
The combination is good.

I found the berry really dominant.

Um, so,
I didn't get a lot of lemon flavor.

You know, I like that you stacked the cake

and buttercream happened
in the construction.

Um, overall,
I think this tasted really nice.

-Thank you. Thank you so much.
-[Nicole] Bye.

My friend, Sandra.

Let's remember the looney beaker cake
you were trying to make.

And let's see what you made.

[Sandra] Nailed it!

-[Valerie] This is awesome.
-I love him!

The mouth kind of looks like a whale.

[Jacques] I love the shine.
I love the mouth.

Also, I feel like
your beaker is an ode to the Queen song,

"Fat Bottom Girl."

Well, you know, hey.

[they laugh]

I think you did a great job.

You've done a Mr. Potato Head beaker here.

And he's working for me.

[Sandra] Thank you.

Let's see your chemical reaction.

-It's a lot of smoke.
-Yeah, it is.

Ooh, this is fun. Woo!

[Nicole] All right.

Let's taste that cake!

[Valerie] Oh, yeah.

-Nicole, are you ready?
-Yeah. That's a deep cut.

-Oh, my word.
-So little cake. Oh, my God. It's sweet.

[Sandra] Is it lemony?

I got sugar, lemon, sugar, lemon,
sugar, lemon, something creamy.

I don't know. It was... It was not cake.

I fully abandoned the notion
that I was eating cake.

That cake just gets wet
with that melting buttercream.

But when we taste it, we get the...

The sweetness of the fondant,
the mushiness of the cake.

Overall...

it's not that good. I'm sorry.

So, your beakers have all the parts
that we ask you.

And the chemical reaction was amazing.

We have to pick one winner,
and that was not easy.

So, the winner is...

-Ebony!
-[Nicole] Yeah!

[she squeals]

Valerie, tell Ebony what she's won.

Your own digital
countertop convection oven,

-and... a 263-piece baking set!
-[Ebony screams]

[they whoop and cheer]

-Now, the crowning of the winner.
-Yes! Put on the crown!

I don't wanna mess up your hair.

-I really don't want you to mess it up.
-I wanna wear the cap!

-Okay.
-Ta-da!

And for those who feel like absolute zero,
don't give up.

There is one more experiment.

Let's walk like nerds
over to Door Number Two.

[mumbling] "I love science
and I love math."

All right, science nerds,

all good scientists need
an even better lab assistant.

So, we brought you
the best we could afford...

Your own children!

[they cheer]

[Nicole] Bring me the kids!

Wow, wow, wow!

[Sandra] I am so excited
Seth is here with me,

because he's my sidekick.
I mean, that's my king right there.

Welcome London,

Penelope, and Seth.

You guys ready to see what's behind
Door #2?

[all] Yeah!

Bakers, young and old,

you'll be calling Houston
to tell them you have many problems,

when you try to make this!

-What?
-Oh, boy!

It's so big,
it couldn't even fit behind the door.

Wes!

-[Nicole] Oh, my God.
-[all exclaim]

That's right.
It's a four-foot-tall rocket cake!

-Oh, my gosh.
-Oh, no.

Thank you, Wes.

It is a Nailed It! record.

That is the largest cake
we've ever attempted.

And riding inside is
a cute little monkey astronaut.

So long, little monkey!

[monkey squeals]

This rocket is made out of cake
and rice cereal treats.

Orange drink mix is used
to flavor the cake.

The outside is covered in fondant,

then airbrushed and painted
with edible metallic detail.

That's ginormous.

The fluffy cotton-candy smoke
billowing out of the bottom

is sending our cute little modeling
chocolate monkey into space.

-Oh, my God.
-Oh, God.

Oh, my God. How are we gonna do it?

Even if your kids are here,
you still get some help.

Just tap the panic button

and Valerie and I
will come to you for three minutes.

Remember, there is $10,000 on the line.

You have two hours to get this rocket
ready for launch.

Three, two, one, blast off!

[they cheer]

Oh, my God.

[laughter]

-Oh, it's happened again.
-No, you did it wrong.

Cake mix. I'll go grab that.

-This cotton candy maker.
-I'll get the cotton candy.

Jacques, how would you, like,
make one of those, like, rocket cakes?

-Like, how would you do it?
-So, they need a lot of cakes.

So, they should start
by combining cake mix

and their wet ingredients
with orange astronaut drink.

And since they have to make so many cakes,

we provide them with an extra large mixer

to make it all in one batch.

While the cakes are baking,
they should mix their buttercream,

and, once the cakes cool,

they can stack them on the rocket armature
with buttercream.

They will use rice cereal treats
for the cone and lower half of the rocket.

Then wrap the rocket in fondant,

airbrush it,
and decorate with all the final details,

including the space monkey.

And, finally, cotton candy smoke is added

to launch the rocket cake into orbit.

-You good? You can do it?
-No.

Dump this in there, too.

-All of it?
-Yeah.

I'm pouring this cake mixture in here.

It's a lot.

Oh, my goodness.

Based on how Penelope and I work together,

I think we'll do well in the kitchen.

What do you think?
Does it taste orangey enough?

It tastes orangey enough?

Yeah.

I think we've got it.

-That's a lot of batter, kid.
-[she grunts]

Regardless of how tall the challenge,
I think we will do just fine.

You don't look that confident at all,
so that makes me very nervous.

[he sighs]

Listen, go get the pipettes for this.

-Pipettes?
-So that you can wrap up the stuff, okay?

I am so excited London's here to help me.

She's very creative.

Getting, like, five.

But I hope that she can keep her mind

on the challenge at hand.

I am easily distracted by things in life.

Making spider webs.

My focus needs to be
on making a delicious cake.

This is orange astronaut drink mix.

We're gonna mix that in there.

Ugh, this is huge.

[Seth] Time is of the essence.

Okay. Go ahead, drop that in for me, kid.

Having Seth,
this is the momentum that I need,

the encouragement that I need
to get through the second round.

[Sandra] Get that orange extract.

I think we're gonna do amazing.
Me and my mom both have a can-do attitude.

[Sandra] Half a cup... of orange mix.

No one's gonna be able to make
this thing look good.

I'm just being honest.
So, taste comes first and foremost.

[Sandra] Win or lose, this will be
a memorable experience for us.

Well, if I can chime in...

Uh, losing, I really wanna forget it.

Sandra looks calmer in this one,
doesn't she?

-Well, she's got a friend.
-She does.

[Seth] This batter looks really good.

-Let this one...
-Wait. No, no. no!

-Why?
-It's not filled to the corners yet.

I'm a person who likes
to make things very even.

[Raymond] This is the most cake
I've ever worked with.

Just dump it all in there.

Four hundred. Start.

Ebony changed her oven to 400 degrees.

And the cakes are pretty thin,
so, I wonder what's going to happen there.

Oh, my God.
Twenty-four cups of powdered sugar.

You can't mess around
with these ingredients.

They have to be exact.

You don't have to be nice with it.

Just get nice and dirty with it.
It's all good.

-This is ten?
-This is nine, I think.

-This is nine?
-I think.

[he chuckles]

[Nicole] Oh!

Sandra melted the butter
for her buttercream.

-And that's going to make a liquid mess.
-It's gonna be a mess.

Or it'll come together
and make some hot slop I like.

-They might do something that you like.
-That's possible.

-Hurry, hurry, hurry.
-Yeah.

London, how do you think it's going?

-[Ebony chuckles]
-A little terrible.

-[laughter]
-[Jacques] "A little terrible."

The cotton candy is a little bit boring,

and the pantry looked delicious
and delightful.

What are you doing?

Getting gummy bears.

-[Valerie gasps]
-[Nicole] She's just snacking,

-and she's not doing a thing.
-[they laugh]

They're chewy.

-Is that us burning?
-[Penelope] What?

Do you smell that?

-Do you smell something burning?
-Ah, they're burning. Okay.

Ebony, are your cakes burnt?

No, they're not burning. They're just...

becoming moister
and moister and deliciouser.

[Jacques laughs]

-"Deliciouser" is not a word.
-"Deliciouser."

Ooh, it's a little toastier
than I want it to be.

Uh, I don't know what London is doing.

Behind you!

On a macro level?

-Yeah, it's really...
-[Valerie laughs]

[she squeals]

Okay.

This one's good, too.
We're doing all right.

This is good, Seth.

An hour and 15 minutes remain.

I don't think we made a cake bigger than,
you know, a few...

You know, whatever the normal size
of a cake is, I guess.

But to make a cake
that's four feet tall...

That's going places
no one's ever gone before.

I am so glad Seth is here,

because he's just taken the wheel
and said, "Uh, let me do this."

Aww!

What do you think about doing
the base next for the Rice Krispie?

Watch your fingers.

You're doing good. Nice job.

-Raymond is very sweet to his daughter.
-I agree.

-[London] Maybe we could mold this.
-[Ebony] Just leave it there real quick.

Yikes.

[Ebony] Think on your toes.
Think on your feet.

-[London] I don't know!
-Think.

There is family discord in front of us.

Are you eating it, too? London...

If you're gonna eat it,
we're not gonna be able to finish on time.

[she giggles]

-[Seth] I got the orange marmalade.
-Perfect.

I also got some vodka
in case you wanna turn up.

[she laughs]

In French class, we studied
different culinary arts in Europe.

Well, I remembered they used
orange marmalade,

and it's gonna taste really good
on the cake.

It's brilliant.

Ah, my buttercream is too sweet,

my cakes are too dark.

So, we're crashing right now.

I'm about to push the panic button.
Help us!

-It's a panic!
-[Valerie] Oh, my God.

Help!

-[Valerie] I'm coming!
-Panic!

[she yells]

We need help because we're trying
to get that assembled.

This is all we got.

How hot is this cake right now?

-So, it's cool.
-Okay.

-You cut them. Okay.
-[Valerie] Hold it down.

-[Ebony] London, hold the thing.
-[Valerie] Stay close together.

Optimize your cake, hon.

Mama, do you have to shake your booty?

Now, this and this
is going to be one more.

[slurping]

[she sighs]

Now, you have to try to slide your cakes

one close here and the other one...

-this way.
-Right.

Otherwise, if you put the seam
at the same place, they fall.

-Oh, okay. I see.
-[Jacques] Okay?

When you run out of cake,
just build with Rice Krispie treats.

That's it. You're done.

Oh, that advice was so helpful.

Almost done with that first layer, kid.

Okay. Now, what we need to do
is frost the outside of that.

Why?

That's what's gonna make
the fondant stick.

-The fondant's gonna fall off.
-We're running out of time,

-and we gotta get fondant up here.
-Look at our friend Raymond.

-Hold it?
-Yeah.

Pushing some fondant directly
on that rice cereal treat.

-That's trouble.
-[Valerie] It's huge trouble.

-[judges groan]
-[Valerie] Oh, no. Oh, no.

It's just falling off.

It is Armageddon.

-It's falling!
-It keeps falling off.

Oh, my God.

[Nicole] Ebony is stacking her cakes,
and they are burnt.

Yeah. We're gonna eat that.

Let it stay, let it taste good.

Two things.

Just gonna spray this on here
to make it look a little metallic.

[Penelope] I'm gonna work on this monkey.

I'm honestly floored by what Seth
and Sandra are making.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Seth.

This is unbelievably huge.

I've never seen anything this big.

I'm just getting really exhausted.

Sandra's very clear on what she wants,
and she wants weird cake.

[Valerie laughs]

[Sandra] He's not a monkey.

He's just a figment of our imagination.

Oh, my gosh!

Sandra and Seth's monkey
keeps jumping ship.

Oh, no.

Twenty minutes.

It's starting to look like a rocket ship.
Woo!

Ebony, where is your daughter?

-Oh, she's here.
-[they laugh]

-Hello!
-[Ebony] You're supposed to be helping me.

London.

Oh, my Lord,
she is up here talking. Jesus.

You have great skin.
What do you do at night?

Um, I sleep.

Oh.

I'm thinking to myself,
I brought the wrong child today.

-[Nicole] See you later!
-[London] See you later!

This is crazy.

So, they're really having trouble
with this cotton candy machine.

I mean, it's pink, but...

Wes!

[judges gasp]

[they shriek]

Run, Mama!

I'm one of the most giving hosts
in America.

[Ebony pants]

[London] Gimme that!

[shrieking]

These people are savages.

-[Valerie] They really are.
-[Ebony] London!

Woo!

Oh, my gosh, that's a lot of cotton candy.

Thirty seconds left!

Getting messy. This is what baking is for.

[Raymond] I'll take some... Agh!

[Sandra] That's enough.
I'm getting spray-painted here.

Dude, she's snacking again.

Let's look and make sure it's right.
Come on.

Five, four,

three, two, one!

-You're done!
-Blast-off!

Probably could have had
the Statue of Liberty

-if you wasn't eating the whole time!
-[London giggles]

Raymond and Penelope.

Let's remember the four-foot rocket cake
you were trying to make,

and let's see what you did.

[together] Nailed it!

Yes!

[Nicole] Yes, yes, yes!

It is a rocket.

[Valerie] I like your space monkey.

I like the silver element.

Are there some holes in there?
Sure, there are.

Visible toothpicks? Absolutely.

What you can do is back up your fondant
with a little bit of buttercream,

so, when you apply it, then it sticks.

-I told you.
-Yeah, you're right.

Penelope, what was it like
to work with your dad?

It was interesting.

"Interesting" is a word
when you don't wanna pick a feeling.

-I know. It's like...
-[laughter]

But, overall, you know, you did it.

So, we gotta go see more rockets.

-[Raymond] Bye.
-Goodbye.

All right. Ebony and London.

Let's see what you did.

-Nailed it!
-Nailed it!

[Ebony] Woo!

[Nicole] All right! Your rocket is silver,

and then we got
our little astronaut monkey,

-who doesn't look super monkey-ish.
-He had a rough day.

-Okay.
-He went to space and...

he lost his backpack.

-[buzzer]
-I mean, that would mess up my day, too.

All of my valuables are usually
in my purse or my backpack.

We don't like always to see the...

uh, the structure in it,
or the piece of metal.

But I think you do the best of it.

-[Valerie] I sense "journey."
-Yeah.

It has definitely gone somewhere.

So, good for you for that.

-[Ebony chuckles]
-All right.

We are blasting that way.

Thank you.

[Nicole] All right. Sandra and Seth.

Let's see what you made.

[together] Nailed it!

-[Nicole laughs]
-Wow!

Oh, I love this so much!

So, you didn't even attempt

to unravel the cotton candy
to make it look like smoke.

You've got sort of like your atomic debris
happening here.

You know, when a rocket comes back
into the atmosphere,

the surface temperature becomes so hot,
sometime they burn.

So, that's exactly what's happened here.

I mean, you can actually see the melting.

Nicely done.

Yeah, we got it.

[Nicole] Oh!

Well, I want you to slice
the perfect piece

of your four-foot rocket cake,

so me and my two friends
could taste them.

[Raymond] I hope when she sees the show,

Penelope walks away
knowing that it's okay to take risks.

And I also made a great memory
with my dad.

-Love you.
-[he chuckles]

Raymond and Penelope,
you guys are up first.

You put the orange?
You follow the recipe with that?

We put the orange,
and I think we probably...

could have put a little bit more in.

I don't really feel it.

-Yeah.
-But the buttercream is good.

The cake, it's not overbaked.

I think the buttercream
is well incorporated.

Your layers are pretty even,
which is great.

And I think... I think I liked it!

All right. Ebony and London!

We're going to taste your cake.

[Jacques] The cake
has a little crust on top of it.

It's easy to just take a knife
and just remove that.

It has a little bit of chewiness,

but the buttercream kind of saves it.

[Valerie] I would have liked
a little more orange flavor.

I do taste a little bit of separation
almost in the buttercream.

But the flavor of the buttercream is nice.

All right.

Overall, I didn't hate
what I put in my mouth,

and I don't regret it.

-There we go.
-Yeah.

Sandra and Seth, your cake is up next.

-[Jacques] Wow, look at that.
-[Nicole] Very nice!

It's interesting because I believe
that the buttercream was flavored...

-Yes.
-...with the orange.

That actually gave the flavor to the cake.

On this cake, we feel the orange.

I really liked the marmalade.

Really, really creative.

Nicely played.

It was the strangest texture,
but, like, I liked it.

It tasted like breakfast.

[they laugh]

So, we tasted three amazing cakes.

Are we ready to send this winner
into orbit?

I think we are.

Wes.

[they laugh]

The budget went down on this costume.

[laughter]

[electronic beeps]

Are you ready with the cash?

Oh, I'm ready with the cash.

So, bakers, none of those rockets,

unfortunately,
really look like the original.

So, we had to base our decision

on the taste of your cake.

So, the winner is...

Sandra and Seth.

-[Sandra squeals]
-Yes!

[Vanessa whoops]

Oh, my...

[Sandra] I am so excited.

We hung in there together

and we're taking home the check.

Congratulations!

We nailed it!

And that's it for
this episode of Nailed It!

The show which disproves the theory

that bad cakes can be neither created
nor destroyed.

We do both!

Let's do a selfie!

Okay. Ready?