Nailed It! Holiday! (2018–2019): Season 1, Episode 1 - Jingle Fails - full transcript

[fire crackling leisurely]

[Nicole] Okay. Ah?

What do you think?

I think it's beautiful!

Oh! Don't you just love the holidays?

I love it!
This is when I do most of my business.

No, no, no! I'm talking about
the holiday season of Nailed It!

You know, Christmas trees, Hanukkah cakes
and ringing in the New Year.

Oh, my God.

And we'll probably eat things
that are pretty...

awful.



[laughs]
As long as we're spending it together,

I love our big, happy TV show family.

[Nicole] Oh, me, too!

What?

No!

Wes?

Wes!

What has happened to your hair, Wes?

Your beautiful, flowing, Thor-like hair!

This is not how I want to spend
my holidays!

Oh, let's start the show!

[fire crackling rapidly]

[slurps]

Dust off last year's fruitcake



because this is a very merry Christmas
episode of Nailed It!

The baking competition show
that asks you to make this...

but usually ends up with this instead.

I'm the ghost of Christmas present,
Nicole Byer.

Today, three amateur bakers will
attempt to recreate

some professional Christmas desserts

and compete for a chance to win
ten thousand dollars!

Ho ho ho ho ho!
Let's meet our bakers!

My name is Kelvin,
and I'm from Reseda Ranch, California.

I have a barbershop business,
and I also am a pastor.

I know it looks phenomenal.

I wish y'all was here.

My dream is to officiate a wedding

where I, like, do the hair for the wedding
and bake the cake.

My name is Angie McMahon,
and I'm from Chicago, Illinois.

My kids and I started watching Nailed It!

and they're like, "You're a terrible
baker; you should do this."

I wonder why it has such a...

-Weird taste?
-Yeah.

My name is Gavin Schmidt.
I'm from Orlando, Florida.

Let's say we get to do some baking.

I've been a firefighter,
going on 18 years.

Every day we're in high-stress situations.

So I'm used to work under pressure.

As far as it translating
into the kitchen...

You're gonna open it
and you're gonna check.

You're gonna check the perimeter.

...I think it will help me
take home the win.

Y'all ready to make
some Christmas miracles?

-Yeah.
-Oh, yeah.

Right next to me is our head judge
and head elf, Jacques Torres.

How are you doing?

On my other side is our favorite
fictional corrections officer

from Orange is the New Black,

Lauren Lapkus.

Lauren, a little elf told me that you are
cuckoo bananas for Christmas.

Yes, it's literally all I think about.
I need help!

[Angie and Gavin laugh]

Now, there's a special prize
for the winner of the first round

which we call Baker's Choice.

Behind door number one,

we have a Christmas scene
from one of history's most famous,

yet least sterile maternity wards.

Straight out of Bethlehem...

[Kelvin chuckles]

[Nicole] Yes! It's a Nativity scene
made out of cake pops.

[Gavin and Kelvin laugh]

[Nicole] We have the three wise men,
three barn animals,

and the OG royal family:

Mary, Joseph and little, itty-bitty
baby Jesus.

-You know about him.
-Yes.

Now, when I say go,

you'll run over to the manger

and pick just one of those groups to make.

Got it? Okay!

What are you waiting for? Go!

-[Kelvin laughs]
-[Angie squeals]

[Nicole] Oh, no!

You would never save me in a fire.

-You're slow!
-That's what I wanted.

So slow!
[laughs]

All right, bakers.

We're gonna give you the cake
to make your cake pops,

but the rest is up to you.

Forty-five minutes on the clock!

It is time to get your nativity on!

-Go! Go!
-Oh, I'm nervous! Run! Go!

Do it!

[Angie] Sh...

[Kelvin] Frosting mix.

All right, what's the scoop on cake pops?

If you want to make the perfect cake pops,

the first thing you have to do
is mix buttercream and cake,

making sure not to add
too much buttercream

in order to get the right consistency.

Next, you have to mold the dough
into the desired shape.

Once you have your cake pops formed,

melt your chocolates
and cover the cake pops in it.

Then, next, it's all about
the fondant detailing.

The fondant is key to create
the fine detail

on each of those cake pops.

If you do everything perfectly,
you will have a beautiful Nativity scene.

[Kelvin] Just kind of taking it slow,
following the recipe exact.

My strategy is, read the recipe through,
start to finish.

I don't want any problems.

I want to follow this thing exactly.

All right.

I’m gonna get some vanilla.

I've never done anything like this before.

Bowling with my kids
is the most I've ever competed.

I don't know how competitive I'll get.
We'll find out.

This is a lot cleaner than
what I’m used to at the fire station.

I choose the animals 'cause they seem
a bit easier and less detailed work.

Make sure these little balls in here
get broken up.

[Nicole] Oh, boy. Look at those shoulders!

-This guy is big.
-[Nicole] Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, boy.

Don't drop the cake.

[Angie]
I have to mix buttercream with cake,

and you want the right level
of cream-to-cake,

and so I'm just thinking, like,
I don't know what that level is.

I've never made cake pops before,
actually.

So, uh, this is gonna be
a new fun experience.

I don't think I've ever even eaten
a cake pop.

We're just going to wing it.

Don't put too much.
You know, that's the deal.

[Lauren] So you want to start
with a little and mix it--

Yes, then you add as you go.

[Kelvin]
I could've used a spoon for this...

Oh, this feels disgusting.

It's gonna taste good, though.

-[Lauren] How about that consistency?
-[Nicole] Oh, no.

[Kelvin] Get that off me real quick.

Figure out the little bodies now.

Okay.

[Kelvin] So, this is gonna be
stepdad's head right here.

Oh, big head, stepdad Joseph.

-Kelvin is making really large cake balls.
-[Nicole cackles]

So, remember, you're going to cover them
with chocolate, then put fondant.

-It'll be huge.
-That thing's gonna be huge.

I got faith, man,
with baby Jesus around.

I feel right at home in this challenge.

because what can make me feel more
comfortable than sweet baby Jesus?

[angelic vocalizing]

Let's go with this one.

See how this works.

That did not really do anything.

God bless America.

[inhales] Um, I think I'm gonna have to
heat up... cream.

She used chocolate chips.

You know, the chips you put in cookies,
and not candy melts.

So chocolate chips,
you can't really melt that stuff.

-It becomes really pasty.
-[Lauren] Yeah.

-If you put milk into those chips--
-You get hot chocolate.

Yes. So that's never going to come out.

Twenty minutes left, my friends.

I think this will be my camel body.

Man, Jesus helps everybody.

So I'm gonna dip Jesus to help others.

Using Jesus to get his parents right.

All right.

Oh, no. Oh, we lost our savior.

So what I do is I grab...
I grab a stunt Jesus.

Yeah.

[Angie] Let's start chocolating.
I'm gonna see... how this goes.

Oh, God!

Mother!

Oh, gosh.

I definitely think I used too much...
moisture.

Angie, how are you doing?

Uh, amazing.

[laughs]

[Angie]
I decided to pour the chocolate over.

Then see if it'll harden up at all.

All right, best friends,
let's go back to the chiller.

[Gavin] I'm gonna roll out some fondant.
Get it ready.

I'm slightly overwhelmed,
but we'll see what happens here.

[Kelvin]
I'm trying to make Mary's little jacket.

Man, we're way off.

Kelvin used dark-coating chocolate.

You're going to have a very dark base

and to cover that with fondant
is going to be very difficult.

[Kelvin] All right.
Well, I just switched directions.

My sister...

you guys are going to be a black family.

That's how we might gonna do this.

Ten minutes, guys. Ten minutes!

[Angie] Said it would be fun.
Go on a baking show.

[Nicole and Jacques laugh]

The detail's going to make a difference.

[Kelvin] Go with a more traditional outfit
for Jesus.

Clothe him in all white.

-[Lauren] Oh, he's got time to kill.
-Yes.

-[Nicole cackles]
-[Lauren] So confident.

Who ever said white people
don't have rhythm? They're lying!

[Nicole laughing]

[Angie] Okay.

[snickers] This thing looks terrible.

[Nicole] Angie's... look colorful.

Oh, God!

-[Nicole laughs]
-[Lauren] Oh, look at it sinking.

What’s happening?
It's going down the pole like a stripper.

[Jacques laughs]

[Angie]
How about you sit there and be good?

[Jacques] She used so much fondant,
which make it really heavy.

[sputters lips]

And, uh... Oh, Jesus!

We just had an epic fail.

I didn't put the right consistency
'cause they're falling apart.

Unh-unh. Not on my watch, palzie.

What I need to do is a donkey belt.

Maybe donkey has a belt.
I don't know.

This donkey's got a belt for days

Belt for days with my donkey belt

Phew.

You guys have one minute left.

You should be adding
your finishing touches

and getting them ready to go
under your cloche.

Here we go, America.

"What camel doesn't want to have
a glittery saddle," he said.

You're a naughty camel.

Come on, come on!

These sticks are not gonna work.

[all] Nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four,

three, two, one!

[cloche shatters]

-[Lauren] Oh, no!
-[Nicole cackling]

He broke the cloche.

Wes, we need a cloche!

Okay, Gavin.

This is what you were trying to make.

[bleating of a sheep]

Let's see what you actually made.

-Oh, my!
-[Jacques laughing]

[Gavin] Now keep in mind,
my donkey was tired. It's sleeping now.

[Nicole] That was a donkey?

[Gavin snores]

When you make a good donkey,
you just throw the world at it.

- I've always said that.
-Yeah. What?

"When you make a good donkey,
you throw the world at it"?

-No one has ever said that...
-That's a T-shirt right there.

...in the history of anything!

But I'll start saying that.

-[Lauren gasps] Oh, no!
-See, now you upset him.

-[Jacques laughs]
-[Nicole] He had to go to sleep too.

-All right, let's do it. Let's eat them.
-[Lauren] Okay.

[Lauren]
Now, I'm starving, but I wish I wasn't.

[Gavin chuckling]

It's good.

I like it.

It tastes a little bit
too much buttercream.

Actually, you make it very moist
and very pleasant to eat.

-But it doesn't hold together.
-Yeah.

Gavin, you deserve a hug
for your hard work.

Come give it to me.

[Jacques and Lauren laugh]

[Nicole] Ooh! This is very good for me.

This is my Christmas miracle.

I'm not letting go.

-Okay, that's going on too long,
-I feel like we're the only ones.

-Everybody's gone.
-Just a little too long.

Oh, yes. Oh!

Whoo. That hug will live with me.

All right, Kelvin.

Let's remember
what you were trying to make.

[crying of a baby]

And let's see what you actually did.

-Oh!
-[Kelvin] Nailed it!

-[Nicole] No!
-Wow!

[Nicole] I love that you decided
to make them black people.

Because it's the Middle East.
Of course they're a little tan.

[laughter]

[Nicole] They’re all kinda leaning.

By starting something
a little bit too big,

then adding the chocolates,
then adding the fondant,

so now, you know, even the stick
isn't holding them anymore.

[Lauren]
I do feel excited to bite into them.

-[Nicole] Let's bite into these.
-[Jacques] Okay.

[Lauren chuckles]

[chuckles]

[Lauren]
How does baby Jesus taste?

Baby Jesus is the most delicious baby
I've ever eaten.

[laughs]

I love cake pops
and that's a cake pop.

[Jacques] I think that the ratio of cake
and buttercream is good, it's perfect.

-So, you know, I do like it.
-Thank you. [Nicole] Thank you, Kelvin.
All right.

Angie, let's remember
what you were trying to make.

[angelic vocalizing]

[enunciating] Let's see what you did.

Nailed it!

Oh, my God.

[Nicole] Oh, boy.

Angie, they look very Christmas-y.

To use the chocolate chips
that you tried to melt,

that doesn’t melt.
Then you waste some time,

and that was over.

Angie, do you mind standing up
one of your Wise Men?

Yeah, okay. Here we go.

-[Lauren] All right!
-[Nicole] Ah, it works!

See? There we go.

That's great!

That's great!

[Lauren] Oh!

There you go.

-For five seconds, it did hold.
-Yeah.

That was so good.

I definitely have a moist cake.

[Lauren] All right, let's do it.
Let's taste these.

[Angie] Right in the belly.

I have to say, I don't think
I can actually continue.

[laughs with a wheeze]
"I don't think I can actually continue!"

[Nicole] It's specifically
due to the fondant.

-There's a lot of fondant.
-[Angie] Oh, my.

[Jacques] You went a little bit heavy
on the vanilla.

Too much buttercream.
It's a bit much too wet.

And then no real chocolates
around it to hold it. Oversized.

That's what's happened.

Okay, bakers, let's get together.
Come on down here.

Scoot, scoot, scoot, we're ready
to spread the good word on who won.

Jacques, will you please
give them the news?

[Jacques] There can be only one winner.
So the winner is...

Kelvin!

[cheering and applause]

You had the right ratio
of sponge and buttercream,

so that it was holding up.

Lauren, tell Kelvin what he's won.

You will be the envy
of all of your neighbors

when you mix batter in this very shiny
red stand-mixer!

[Nicole] It is very, very beautiful.

And now for the crowning
of the winner of the first round,

it's Kelvin!

-[Jacques] Bravo, Kelvin!
-[Nicole] Yay!

-Uh-oh.
-[Kelvin] Uh-oh.

-[Nicole] Yeah, you put that on.
-Oh, okay.

It's a lot of glitter.

They did not put that glitter on well.

Are you ready to see your next challenge?

Oh, what a treat! Because it's right there
behind door number two!

Come on, my friends!

Here we are at door number two.

This could be the round
that can put ten thousand dollars

in someone's Christmas stocking.

This next cake is not only a challenge,

but it's based on a true event that
happened to a very good friend of mine.

It's an upside-down Santa cake!

[squeaks]

Oh, my.

[Nicole] Yes, that time Santa got stuck
in the chimney.

Totally embarrassing.

Holy smoke!

[Jacques] Santa is made out of rice cereal
and modeling chocolates.

He’s squeezed into a rice cereal chimney,

sitting over a cake fireplace,

flavored with holiday spice,

decorated with a Christmas tree,

a cute, little cat, Santa’s helper elf,

and his little fondant sack of toys.

Seems easy, right?

If you get stuck, don't cry or pout,
just hit the panic button.

Ho ho ho!

And I will come and help you out
for three minutes.

And, Angie,

I got a special button just for you.

Press the jingle-jangle tangle button,

and it will force both of your opponents
to stop baking, and...

They will have to untangle these messy
Christmas lights for three full minutes.

This gives you a chance to get ahead.

-Are you ready?
-Yeah.

Yes! Ho ho ho!

[laughter]

That was way more aggressive
than I intended it to be.

Ho ho ho, it's time to start baking!

The clock starts now.

-Go! What is wrong with you?
-[Lauren] Oh, my gosh!

Okay.

"Holiday spice."

I'm making the cakes,
making the cakes first.

-[Nicole] Jacques. Give it to me.
-[laughs]

How would you go about doing this?

Okay, so the first thing is mix the wet
and dry ingredients to make the batter.

While the cakes are in the oven,

they’ll want to start molding
the cereal treat chimney

and shape Santa’s bottom,

cover the bottom with modeling chocolates

as well as using a little metal
or wood inside

to create and hold the legs.

Then you can roll out the fondant
for the fireplace and chimney.

And then add all the beautiful
little chocolate details.

And there’s a cat on a rug.
I mean, there’s a lot to do here.

Holiday spices.

So far I’m clearly the loser
in this entire situation.

And I don’t want to become a crazy meme,

and embarrass my kids.

That's all I can hope for at this point.

Five spice powder.

That's very strong.

-What is "five spice"?
-It's five different spices together.

Like clove and different spices together.

Do you think that’s why the Spice Girls
are the Spice Girls?

’Cause there was five of them,
and there was a thing called five spice?

God, I’m brilliant!

I don't know how I'm going to do this.

It is extreme on every level.

Santa's butt is out.

Yoo-hoo!

So it's like, dude,
you got to look at this guy's butt.

[man] Hey, you!

But I won the first challenge.

I feel incredible.

I'm about to kill it!

That's a lot of butter.

[Gavin] I’m gonna make sure
I butter these suckers.

When you put butter,
it can stick sometimes on the bottom.

What I like to do is actually put a piece
of parchment paper

on the bottom of the mold.

The cake will not stick this way.

Ah, those muscles.

[Gavin] After round one, I just want
to forget that it happened.

The other guys are safe,
so they're probably going to laugh at me

and the poor example I did of cake pops.

But at the end of the day,
they were rooting for me,

so I need to make sure
my time management’s good

and not get distracted from Nicole,
possibly.

[Nicole] Why is it so brown?

Maybe from all the spices she put in.

-Can you see it? Is that from the spice?
-Oh, my God! That's too much spice.

What kind of spice
would you put in a cake?

Hmm. Pumpkin spice!

[laughter]

Oh, yeah!

We're going chimney on this one.

[Lauren] Okay, Gavin has a structure
for his chimney.

[Jacques] It's an interesting way
of doing it, but it look like it'll work.

He has the right product.

Wait, I want that brick of Rice Krispies
treats. That looks so good.

-[Nicole] I'll get you some.
-[Lauren] Yay!

Mm-hmm.

Yes!

Can we bite this at the same time?

Okay.

[rap on the counter]

Are you eating that stuff?

[Nicole giggling]

You guys are funny.

I'm working on my, uh,  chimney.

I'm going to try to cover the outside
of the Rice Krispies treats

with the black...

uh...

Yeah.

Throw some flour on it.

This is not working at all.

Nope. [laughs]

Oh, I'm sweating glitter.

Round one, my prayers worked.

Round two, we're going to see.

Feeling good so far.

This thing kind of looks like a devil.

[Gavin]
Yeah, we’re gonna spray-paint it.

I mean, there is so much detail
in this cake. I'm overwhelmed.

So I decided to spray paint the chimney
just to make it easier, just to save time.

[Jacques] Gavin’s spraying instead of
putting modeling chocolates around.

That will be a problem.

[Gavin] If that doesn't say chimney,
I don't know what does.

[chuckles] Santa's got a red diaper.

So it look like Kelvin didn’t put
any structure into the legs,

so I’m afraid that the legs
eventually will collapse.

-Oh, so you were right.
-[Lauren] Put a stick in.

-[Nicole] He got sticks in there.
-Then you're okay.

Then they will not collapse.

I say put your best leg forward.

So...

One, two. Busteroo.

Oh! Butter didn’t work.

This is why when I make a cake,
I leave it in the pan.

I just frost it and I cut it out.

[Gavin]
Big old poo sandwich is what that was.

[Nicole]
Wow, those cakes look beautiful, Jacques.

I'm impressed!

[Gavin] Got a foundation going.

So my next step, I’m trying to get
the shape out of the cake.

All right, great.

Little ghetto measurement, but it’ll work.

[Angie] This needs more time.

My cake is not done,

so I'm behind the guys

and I'm panicking right now.

It's go time.

Let's do this.

Jingle-jangle! Jingle-jangle!
Jingle-jangle!

Gavin and Kelvin, you have to stop working
and untangle that big old ball.

Three minutes starts a while ago.

If he actually gets it,
I’m gonna be impressed.

[Nicole] Look at Kelvin move!

[Lauren] He's really trying
to get them untangled.

Wow!

Whoo! Move that body. Whoo. Whoa.

[Gavin] It’s like some kind of sick joke.

[Nicole] Oh, he got one!

This is the craziest challenge.

[guffaws]

-Almost!
-That was fun.

Ready!

Angie seems stressed.

-She's very stressed out.
-[Nicole] Put yourself in her shoes.

You have kids, and you finally
get away from them.

And then you're put under pressure
to bake things.

Something's happening.

Oh, jeez! Oh, Pete!

-It's breaking.
-Oh, no.

We're just gonna do
a little bit of this.

Okay.

Get in there.

What is that frosting technique?

It's a little something
I like to call "handsy."

-[Lauren] Okay.
-Handsy!

[Nicole] She is rubbing them together.

And then going for it.
This is... I love it!

Okay.

[Kelvin] This is serious right here.
Fondant.

AKA hard icing.

It's not so easy to mold.

That's probably why
it's called hard icing.

Hopefully things continue to run smoothly.

And we'll have ourselves at least a cake.

♪ Meow-meow-meow-meow cat-cat
Meow-meow-meow ♪

That'd be a good song.

♪ As the cat goes meow
And a meow-meow cat ♪

♪ The wolf goes wolfing and that is that ♪

That's gonna catch on.

Gavin, were you just singing a song?

Yeah.

Can you sing it louder, please, for me? ♪ And the cat goes meow
And the meow-meow cat ♪

♪ ’Cause he’s on your roof ♪

♪ ’Cause the cat goes meow-meow-meow ♪

♪ And the cat goes meow
And meow-meow-meow ♪

♪ And meow-meow-meow ♪

We like it.

♪ Meow-meow
Meow-meow-meow-meow ♪

[laughter]

This cat thing might go worldwide.

Meow!

Okay. Tree goes there.

Angie's stressing me.

Imagine someone came into your restaurant,
said they want a Santa cake,

and you brought that out?

It is not put together well.

Okay, so she's stabbing a stick into it
to keep it up, I guess.

I'm going to have a heart attack.

Two minutes left!

Back in the diaper, a sort of belt buckle.

[Nicole] I'm still rooting for Angie.

She's gonna kill it.

[Angie]
I'm hoping that the cake tastes good.

Feeling the pressure a little bit,
but feeling hopeful.

[Gavin] That's a full sack.

-[Nicole] I'm excited.
-[Lauren] Me too.

Not bad! Cat, rug, sack.

-Five, four, three, two, one!
-[Nicole] Hallelujah!

[sighs]

Gavin let's remind everyone
what's the upside-down Santa cake

you were trying to make looks like

and let's see what you did.

Hey, that's pretty good!

You got everything there.

You got Santa, he's upside down.

He's got two legs.

Your animal work is much better.

It does look very cat-like in the front,

but from the side, it does look like
some sort of spider.

-[Gavin] Yeah.
-[Nicole chuckles]

Uh, we missed the fireplace, the modeling
chocolates around the chimney.

And the bricks' texture, let's say.

Well, I just can’t stop thinking
about the cat song

that Gavin was singing earlier.

♪The cat goes meow
And the meow-meow cat ♪

♪ ’Cause that’s that and that’s a cat ♪

[laughter]

♪ Santa goes, “Help, I’m falling down” ♪

[laughter]

♪ Ooh! Your songs are rubbing off on me ♪

♪ Here we go
We are moving ♪

[Nicole] Kelvin!

Let's see what you made.

Okay.

-[Nicole and Lauren] Oh!
-[Jacques] Nailed it!

[Nicole] Okay, you got your tree,
you got the presents.

[laughs]

You got a piece of poop on a rug.
[laughs]

[Lauren] I think it's really good.
Like, the bricks on the chimney are there.

-[Nicole] Oh, yeah.
-I think it's really good. It's cute.

[Jacques]
So what did you do for Santa's pants?

I... I melted some, uh, some candy.

So candy melt, and then you cover it.

-Then I covered the Rice Krispies treat.
-From here, it look like he has a diaper.

-That's why I'm asking.
-Yes, so I put a belt buckle on the front,

so this diaper is at least functional.

So, yeah.

-Well, Kelvin. Goodbye.
-Goodbye.

Okay, Angie, let's see what you made.

[Nicole] Nailed it!

Yes, you did. It is standing.

I'm actually pretty shocked
that it looks this much intact, right?

We got the cat, he was like,
"I don't want to be on that rug."

We got your elf.

We got the chimney, we got Santa,
he's up in there.

It's a very haunted-house
Christmas moment, which I can get behind.

What's on the back? What are those things
coming out of the cake?

It's, like, excitement, really.

[Nicole laughs]

What do you mean, it’s like excitement?

-That's great!
-I mean,

-it's structural.
-Oh, it's structural, I get it.

This is keeping us together right now.

Well, we're gonna go take a seat
in our comfy little chairs,

and you'll cut us your favorite piece
of Old Saint Nick.

I can't wait to eat Santa. Let's sit.

-[Lauren] I love to sit.
-[Nicole] Me too.

I could still win this
based on taste.

I do not think is going to win
based on looks.

[Nicole] Hmmm! Thank you.

Gavin, we're going to taste yours first.

Other than vanilla,
what flavor did you put in your cake?

Peppermint in one layer, and there was
a little bit of vanilla in the other.

Did you feel the peppermint?
I mean, I don't.

-No.
-No, I did not taste peppermint.

[Jacques] So maybe just not enough.

I don't really feel the flavor
of the holidays,

and maybe a little bit more buttercream
will help make it a bit more creamy.

Yeah, the texture's not totally there
for me, but I'd eat every layer of it.

It wasn't bad and I did taste, like,
a hint of effort.

Not quite peppermint,
but definitely effort.

Thank you, Gavin.

All right, Kelvin!

I think that the holiday flavor
is a little bit stronger here,

but I don't know why that sponge
is so elastic.

-It's a little tough.
-[Lauren] Mm-hmm.

And there is a hint of something.

Cinnamon and nutmeg.

-Oh!
-Okay.

Would never have guessed!

I would call this a breakfast cake.

Um, after you've been partying all night,
you're like, "Hey, this is really good."

[laughter]

-It's good. But we gotta move on.
-[Lauren] Yeah.

[Nicole] Angie!

Oh! That's a spicy cake!

I really feel the five spice.

You put quite a bit of mint in it.

So, I do like strong flavor.

It still has some chewiness to it.

But overall, I like the flavor.

Thank you.

I like this cake because I don’t have
to brush my teeth after I eat it

’cause it’s really minty.

I really loved it.

I liked the five spice in the cake.

It was lumpy and weird.

But that's a wild-tasting cake
and I like it.

The three of you did a fabulous job.

Judges... are we ready?

All right.

It is finally time to announce the winner

of not only the ten thousand dollars,

but the winner of the Nailed It! trophy.

Wes!

-Ho ho ho!
-Wes?

Oh, look! It's Daddy Christmas!

Yes, Wes.

Ooh, yes. Ooh, daddy. Ha-ha!

-All right.
-[sighs excitedly]

[Nicole] Jacques?

So the winner is...

-Gavin!
-[cheers and applause]

It feels amazing! I get to go back
to the fire station and tell the guys

that I’m the best baker,
probably, in the world.

At least maybe the southeast region
of the United States.

But it’s pretty solid.

Oh, what a treat for you!

And that’s it for Nailed It!

Merry Christmas to you all,

and to all a good night.

Except for those
who plan on binging this,

’cause we’re coming back
in a few seconds!

-We need to see everyone.
-[Nicole shouts]