Nailed It! Holiday! (2018–2019): Season 1, Episode 3 - You Mitzvah Spot! - full transcript

Shalom, y’all! Welcome to another
special holiday episode of Nailed It!

The show that asks for mazel tov,

but what we get is “mazel off.”

I’m your host with meshuggener on top,
Nicole Byer.

Today, three amateur bakers will attempt
to re-create some gorgeous

wintry confections to compete
to win $10,000!

Now, let’s get this show started
before we run out of oil!

Let’s meet our bakers!

My name is Martina Anto-Ocrah,

and I am a professor of epidemiology.

I am a mom of four: a nine-year-old
and five-year-old triplets.



And my life is ludicrous.

I think it’s absolutely humorous
that I cannot bake a cake,

I cannot follow directions,
but I’ve written a 300-page dissertation.

My name is Amit Yohanan.
I’m from Oak Park, California.

And I’m going to be
a high school graduate.

So "adulting" is gonna come soon.
[chuckles]

Having a very Jewish mom and dad means
that I’m constantly critiqued

on not knowing how to cook or bake.

I hope to prove to my mom
that I’m not a lost cause

when it comes to baking and cooking.
I have potential.

My name is Jim Decoite.

I’m from San Dimas, California.

And I'm a police officer.

My wife Jessica, she owns the kitchen.



There’s literally a sign in our kitchen
that says, “Jessica’s Kitchen.”

To be able to bake,

that’s why I'd love to do,

have something in common
with my wife we can share together.

When it comes to the pressure of this show
and this competition,

for me, I just hope it’s edible,

and, hey, looks decent.

Welcome to Nailed It!
Are you guys excited to be here?

Yes!

[Nicole sighs]

Beside me is a man
who needs no introduction.

They call him the Chocolate Moses.

Jacques "Torah."

Shalom, bakers. Very nice to meet you.

And our guest judge today,
she stole the hearts on Nailed It!

and a bunch of our pots and pans.

-Now, this is smooth.
-Yeah, this is a good idea.

-I'm taking this.
-[Jacques laughs]

I want a whole set.

If you steal, you steal big.

[laughs uncontrollably]

Welcome, Sylvia Weinstock!

Thank you. I’ve also perused
to see what I can take next.

All right, bakers.
Y’all ready to make a choice?

[Nicole] A baker's choice.

The eight crazy nights of Hanukkah

are known for their fun traditions
and delicious food.

Your heads might spin
when you feast your eyes on these...

dreidel cake pops!

Awesome!

[Nicole] Each one of these dreidel cake
pops has its own unique face

and design made
with intricate fondant detailing.

When I say the magic words,
schlep on over

and lift up the dreidel of your choice.

Okay? Go! Go! Spin on over! [Amit] I'm blown away by this Hanukkah
representation, by the way.

I'm excited that you're excited.

This little guy is kind of making
my holidays.

I just really like the spiky hair.

-Jim, why did you pick that dreidel?
-I let the ladies choose first,

and this was the last one hanging.

[laughs] This actually seems to be doable.

-[laughs]
-[Martina] Cool.

Sylvia ,do you have any advice
for the bakers?

I think what you want to do
is focus on the expression.

Give it a little bit of a shape.

Don’t try to carve too much.
And you have limited time.

[Nicole] Okay, bakers.

You have one hour.

-Now get to baking!
-[Amit] Okay.

Goodbye!

For now.

"Mix all the wet ingredients,

and then vanilla."
Where’s the vanilla? Vanilla.

"Vanilla, milk, in a bowl."

I have four eggs right here.

Jacques, how would you make
these dreidel cake pops?

Those little pops
are not really easy to make.

They will start by making cakes

and bake it until golden brown.

While the cakes are in the oven,
they should make the buttercream,

then get started on making
the fondant details.

Once their cakes are cooled,

they should put their cake pops together,

sculpting it into the shape of a dreidel.

Coat them in chocolates and put them
into the blast chiller to harden.

Then put it all together by adding
the finishing detail of fondant decor.

Okay.

"Mix all the wet ingredients."

So, two-thirds melted butter.

I think the winning formula

for this show is literally

just read the recipe,
get the recipe down.

I need two-thirds cup.

Don’t botch the recipe.

Oh. Uh, I need melted butter, though.

What kind of pan do I need?

Baking is a science.
It’s sort of like chemistry, right?

You've to make sure that you’re adding
just the right elements.

Ta-da!
Doesn’t say how much vanilla I need.

At home, I don't follow that rule at all.

I add a lot of things to my baking.

That’s probably why I have
all the flops I have.

[Martina] That looks about right.

[Amit] This looks like
the right consistency, at least.

When I was a senior in high school,
I had, like, three periods of art.

I love oil painting. It's my passion,

and, hopefully,
I can reflect my artistic abilities

into my baking.

[Amit] Okay.

I gotta keep an eye on that.

[Jim] That's more.

[Jacques] Why does he put all the batter
into one pan? Because people don't understand... things.

Not on the bottom oven.

Not on the bottom. Not, uh... Ooh,
the bottom oven is not a convection oven.

-[Nicole] That will take forever to bake.
-Too late.

Now I'm gonna make my buttercream.

I always buy things from the store.
[laughs]

[Amit] I’m gonna smooth this out
’cause that’s a technique I’ve seen.

One.

Somehow or other, we will have to say,

-“Amit, I want your hair tied up...
-[Nicole] Hmm.

...out of the way.”

I’m gonna walk over there. Can I?

[Nicole] Yep, sure. I'll come with you.

Amit, if you're gonna work in my kitchen,
we have to pull up the hair,

-tie it up.
-Can I just...

-No, tie it.
-That's even worse!

You gotta tie it up.

[sputters lips] Okay.

-Is my ponytail okay?
-Yes.

You look beautiful.

-Much better.
-Thanks, guys.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

-Me?
-No. You’re already grown up.

-No.
-[Amit laughs]

White, brown,

and I’ll... I’ll improvise with the other
colors. White and brown. White and brown.

I’ve never decorated with fondant before.

We’re just gonna give this a punk look.

I did Gimel.

Now I'm doing Shin,

which is kind of in the shape...
of a fork.

But... when I do it...
[chuckles]

...it's in the shape of a turd.

What's in your hand?
What do you have?

-Thank you.
-A present.

-[Jacques] Oh, my God!
-It's Hannukah.

Heads up on Hannukah.

[Jacques] Oh, my God!

[Sylvia] Stunning!

Here, Wes. Put these on, please.

Wes Weinstock.

[Amit] Okay, that looks good.

[Martina] Oh! Cake is nice and soft,
finally. Whoo-hoo!

The cake needs to cool.

Twenty minutes, you guys.

Twenty minutes, people!

[Jim] Oh, that is so gooey.

Jim has his cake not ready yet,

and he’s been working for 40 minutes!

Oh, no!

[Jacques] Oh, thanks God. Jim’s finally
moving his cake to the convection oven.

[Jim] I messed something up bad.

[Amit] All right,
I need a dreidel-shaped ball.

I'm okay with this consistency.

Kind of. [chuckles]

Okay, my hands are gross.

"Form the desired shape."

I am making the balls of my cake pop.

Just gonna make a few.

[Jacques] Martina’s not making dreidels.
She’s just making balls.

[Jim groans]

Why is it a pool?

Not going great.

"Dip each cake into melted chocolate."

All I’m gonna do is I’m just gonna
turn it sideways,

so that’s coated all the way through.

Martina is using very long sticks.

And she's using dark chocolate
for a blue cake pop.

That's weird.

[Martina] And we're gonna stick it back
in the freezer.

[Amit] All right. Instead of dipping it,
I’m just gonna dump it... on top.

Oh, no.

[Jacques] If you pour the chocolate
over your tray,

it’s just gonna pool at the bottom
and stick.

[Amit]
All right, you know what? Good enough.

Ten minutes!

Ten minutes.

[Jim] The sides aren’t soupy,
so if I can just use those.

Time is not on my side.

I need to find a way to make it work,
but I think I’m the resourceful type.

I think I’m the MacGyver of the group.

[Jim] Improvise.

Oh, that's not right.

Uh...

Oh, that is horrible.

This is gonna be a disaster.

[Nicole] Officer Jim.

How you doing?

[Jim] Absolutely horrible.

I think I added too much buttercream.
Help!

[Nicole] That's not gonna hold now, is it?

Correct.

We’re gonna cover this up.

My dreidel is a powder blue... creature.

So maybe that's fondant, I think.

So I’m just like,
“I’m just gonna use fondant.”

Gonna add his hair.
[laughing]

That does not look right.

Three minutes, you guys.

-Three!
-[Amit] All right, Gimel.

Stay, stay, stay.

[Martina] Gonna add a mouth.

[chuckles]

[Jim] Oh, man.

This is not... This is...

Yeah, this...

It was barely holding together.

I need to present something.

I don't have a cake pop.

Ninety seconds left.

Bakers, that's not a lot of time.

You should be basically done.

Oh, I forgot his hair.

I forgot his hair. I forgot his hair.

Just stick that around.

Don't eat this.

One eyebrow is up,
one eyebrow is down.

Amit, what are you doing?

-All right.
-Lord.

I can do it.

I'm having a heart attack.

Five, four, three,

two, one.

You're done!

Ugh! That was a journey.

Okay, Officer Jim.

This is the dreidel cake pop
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made.

-[drum roll]
-[Jim] Nailed it!

Ha!

Wow!

[Jacques] I want to give him a ticket
for that because this is wrong.

[Nicole] Isn't the dreidel supposed to be
at the other side of the stick?

[Jim] I don't know.

What's the yellow?
What's the yellow?

That's his face?

[Jim] Trying to do his hair.

The cake didn't solidify,

and so I was just working with mush
the whole time.

I was trying to--

-Squeeze it together?
-[Jim] Yeah.

I can tell you why.
You put it in the regular oven where...

You have a convection oven
where things bake a lot faster.

-[Jim] Okay.
-And then if you put a lot of batter,

then the heat take a longer time
to solidify your cake.

Maybe it's edible.

Let's try it.

Jacques, you go first.

-[Jacques] Why do you do that to me?
-[Nicole laughs]

[Jacques laughing]

[Jacques] Exactly.
That's what I think too.

-[Sylvia] It's not tender.
-Ah.

I was expecting a very moist cake,
and I was surprised.

The flavor wasn’t so bad.

You’re right. The flavor--

Can I count that as a win?

-It's one positive.
-[Jim] I'll take one positive.

I could say meaner things,
but I won’t, Officer Jim.

-Thank you.
-We've other cake pop dreidels to see.

All right, Sylvia. Let's go!

Amit, it is now your turn.

This is the dreidel cake pop
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made!

[drum roll]

[Amit] Nailed it!

Hey!

Okay.

I don't know if he's a dreidel

-but I think he's a nice little chicken.
-[Amit laughs]

-[Jacques] I kind of like it.
-[Nicole] Yeah.

-[Jacques] It's a fun dreidel.
-To me, it’s got one eye winking at me.

-Which is nice.
-I like that,

but what am I gonna do with all that
white chocolate on the bottom?

I decided to just leave you a little snack
afterwards, cleanse your palate.

-[Amit laughs]
-[Sylvia] Oh my!

-Oh. All right.
-[Nicole] Hey, that’s a lot of chocolate.

[laughs]

[Nicole] Jacques, what do you think?

It's not dry.

We have the flavor. Uh, it’s well-crumbed.

-To me, it’s a little bit too sweet.
-[Amit] Yeah?

[Sylvia] But I did like it.
I think it’s kind of very cute.

I also thought it was a little too sweet.

Uh, but I also ate a lot of the chocolate.

-Oh, yeah.
-[Sylvia] Good try.

-Good try.
-Yes.

Thank you, Amit.

-[Jacques] Mazel tov!
-Thank you.

All right. Martina, it is your turn.

Here's the dreidel cake pop
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made!

[drum roll]

[Martina] Nailed it!

Oh! He's fun!

How do you like that?

[Nicole] He's not shaped like a dreidel,
but he's fun!

The colors are right.

-That stick is huge.
-[laughs]

And did you put chocolates around it,
or did you put the rolling fondant?

There's chocolate,
and then there's also fondant.

Wow, okay.

I think he's adorable.

-[Nicole] Let's taste it.
-Go for it.

-[Nicole] This is big.
-[Martina laughing]

[Martina continues laughing]

-[Nicole] Sylvia, come back.
-You didn't feed me lunch.

This is lunch.

[laughter]

Wrap it to go.

[Nicole]
Jacques, what do you think of the taste?

Okay, you dip it in dark chocolate.

That’s why you have to wrap it in fondant.

You’re supposed to dip it in white
chocolate when you color in chocolate.

So you will save a step,
and you will have more time to decorate,

but you did a good job.

It’s a little bit drier
than the one we just tasted,

but... but the flavor is good.

For me, it was moist enough.

I think it was well done.

[Nicole] I liked it.
I liked the consistency.

I really liked the taste
of the dark chocolate.

I thought you did a really nice job.

All right, bakers. Come on down!

One of you made a great dreidel,

and the winner is…

Can’t wait to find out if I won or not.

[Amit] Oh, my God.

The winner is Martina!

-Aah!
-[cheers and applause]

No way! Oh, my God!

Sylvia, tell her what she's won.

Mazel tov, you lucky baker.

-[Jacques] Uh-huh.
-[Nicole] Oh!

You’re sure to light up the night
when you show up at the Hanukkah party

with this very special baking set.

These pans look great. -No.
-[laughs]

-You can't have them.
-[Sylvia] Wow.

You get the golden baker’s cap!
Congratulations!

Come on, everyone!
Let’s go to door number two!

Sylvia, why don't you introduce
your extra-special cake?

Hanukkah is the best time of the year

to nosh on all kinds of sweets
and delicate traditional desserts.

I find that most desserts
are a disappointment.

[Jim and Amit chuckle]

But not mine.

It’s a Sylvia Weinstock
original Hanukkah cake!

[Martina laughing]

Sylvia created this cake
just for you guys.

[Sylvia] This is a three-tier cake

made with buttercream icing.

Fondant is the ornamentation. There’s the star of David, the menorah,

gold-gilt nine fondant candles

lit with poured sugar flames.

And don’t forget my eyeglasses.

That’s my signature.

Bakers, do you think you’re ready
for this challenge?

Sure.

If you feel lost,
just press your panic button,

and Sylvia or I will rush over to help you
for an entire three minutes.

And, Jim,

you were so clearly struggling
with your dreidel,

so we just want to give you
a helping hand.

At any point during the competition,
press the Bubbie's Gift button...

…and your two opponents
will have to stop baking for three minutes

and unwrap eight gifts from Bubbie.

And remember that the winner of this round
gets a whopping $10,000 in gilt.

No, just kidding. You get the cash.

I don’t know what gilt is.

[laughter]

We're only giving you 90 minutes.

So get to baking!

Sylvia, we’re gonna sit.

-No, we're going to lunch.
-No.

We're gonna sit first.

My baker’s cap is telling me
that I have the potential to do well.

All right, so one conta...
Take this one cup butter.

So... let's do that.

[Nicole] Jacques, how would you go about
doing this?

[Jacques] Bakers need to start
by getting all their cakes into the oven.

They will mix together dry ingredients,

melted butter, eggs, purple food coloring,

as well as Kosher wine
to add a nice flavor to their cake.

There’s wine in this cake?

-Yeah, there is wine. There's Kosher wine.
-Yes!

Next, they make the buttercream,
mixing it until very smooth.

When their cakes have cooled,

they will stack and cream coat the tier
with buttercream,

and then move
onto making their outer decor.

They will twist strips of white and blue
fondant around dowels to make the candle.

And the flame of the candle will be made
by melting Isomalt

and shaping it into flame-like strips.

Finally... they have to cut
and color fondant to make the decorations,

including the fondant pair of glasses

as a nod to our guest judge, Sylvia.

-They have to cook this cake very fast.
-Mm-hmm.

Oh, so, uh...

I'm just trying to recover
from last round.

I can make any baking dish,
and skill was not a factor.

It would be a three-tier chocolate cake
for my wife.

That’s been a running joke.
Whenever she asks me what I want to eat,

dinner, breakfast, or lunch,

three-tier chocolate cake.

And now I actually have a chance
to learn how it’s done.

The cake has three tiers,
and a tier has three layers.

I don’t have enough time to make however
many batches of this cake that I need.

I really only need three tiers. So I really only need three cakes,

so that’ll give me a little bit more time
to focus on the decorations.

This smells delicious. My goodness.

This looks straight up like vomit.
[chuckles]

I get to my station

and I'm thinking,
I gotta have the biggest cake here.

So that's my plan.

It’s even one...
That’s not enough for one cake pan.

It’s okay, though.

I'll just make more.

I have an hour and a half anyways.

Gonna pop that in the oven.

Four. Well, we’ll just go with that
and see what happens.

When it comes to baking Ms Sylvia's cake,

you have to pick and choose...

what to do.

It’s not gonna be as tall, but,

um, I'm okay.

So far.

Ask me in about 30 minutes.

[chuckles]

One hour left, you guys!

Yeah! I finally... I figured out
how to fit all of these in here.

We are gonna make lots of buttercream!

So... so far, Martina's the most advanced.
So far.

So...

"Buttercream.

Two cups." Okay.

Officer Jim?

How you doing?

Not bad. A little bit more confidence
is kind of kicking in.

[Amit] Wasn't really keeping count
of how many...

things of powdered sugar I was putting in.

I'm so unsure of all my measurements
right now. That's kind of bad,

but frosting’s the one thing
you can kind of wing.

I just don’t know if that’s enough.

[Nicole] Sylvia, I have a gift for you.

-"Sylvia's loot bag."
-[Jacques laughs]

-This is my gift to you for coming back.
-Oh, she's making me laugh.

Thank you!
What am I filling this up with?

[Sylvia] Ah.

Is it only this area?

-Any... anything you want from here.
-Oh, we’ll go to the other spot.

[Sylvia] Ah. Here--

So this is what you were talking about
with the big pots and pans.

-[Sylvia] Come on over here.
-Ah! So, this one?

-[Sylvia] Yeah, get a couple of them.
-Okay.

[Sylvia] I'll take the red one. This one.

It's an immerser.

-[Nicole] Oh.
-Let's see what else we can dig up.

By the way, this is totally winging it.
I need vanilla.

Where did Nicole go?

She went shopping.
She going to be back soon.

[Sylvia] And what is this?

[Nicole] Oh. Uh-oh. We’re not supposed
to pull back the secret curtains.

-[Sylvia] Ah!
-I brought Sylvia.

[Sylvia] How are you?

I'm good. I'm working with buttercream,
so you’ll be happy.

-[Sylvia] Good for you.
-[Charity laughs]

Boy, am I glad I don't have to clean up.

Ah, yeah. We have a crew for that.
[laughs]

[Jim] Oh, beautiful.

[Martina] Yep, we're good.

[Amit] Nope.

It’s kind of worrying me
they’re not done yet.

[Nicole] Jacques!

[Jacques] What did you find?

[Sylvia] A couple of things.

[laughs]

[Nicole] You guys have 35 minutes left.

We are just going to wrap these...

to make it into the candles.

I'm gonna cover these straws.

[Sylvia] We're having a disaster.

-We’re playing too long with the fondant.
-Oh.

I am not going to make candle sticks.

That is way too hard.

So what have we got here?

Sylvia has these beautiful flames
on her candles.

Melted colored sugar.

I'm like, "It can't be that difficult."

I don’t know how long,
so I'm gonna go for three minutes.

Amit is cooking a lot of Isomalt.

A lot of what?

Isomalt? It's a type of sugar
that you melt.

And then just shape the little flame.

[Nicole] Ah!

[Nicole] Martina is, um...

She’s making her flames.

[Jacques] But she didn’t shape her Isomalt
before it cooled.

-All right.
-[Amit] This is getting a little closer.

Uh-oh. Something is happening
in the kitchen where I see smoke!

The color that I wanted.

And I'm happy about that.

Something's burning.

Something smells like it's burning.

Amit, what's going on?

Oh, that's what's burning!

[laughs]

-[Amit] Oh!
-[Jim] Oh.

-[Amit] Come on.
-You okay?

[Amit coughs] It's the Isomalt.

[laughs]

It's wild.

Plan B: I'm gonna do something else.

That's not my problem now.

I give up on that plan.

I grab some gummies...

-Got some flames.
-...and throw them on my straws.

And I'm like, "Maybe if they squint,
it’ll give the element of fire."

It might not look great,
but if they're like,

"Hmm. Tastes okay."

I'll consider that a win.

You got 18 minutes left!

Hustle your bustle!

[Amit] Okay. These are all done.

[Sylvia] Who's in charge?

Where’s my orange juice with vodka?

Wes!

[Jacques laughs]

I'm cutting this cake so that it, uh,

has a smaller shape
than the one that it’s on top of.

I'm supposed to have a three-layer cake.
Three distinct layers.

But I actually cut off a little bit
of the middle tier.

I don’t know why I did that.
Because it gets so messy.

This middle layer is supposed to be...
white.

I mean, I have so much frosting.

Oh, my God! This is a disaster.

So much frosting. It's melting everywhere.

Everything is blending together.

Whoo!

It’s supposed to be square.

We’re just gonna make it work.

Just figure it out, Martina. Just do it.

-What a treat. Thank you, Wes.
-Man!

-Ah.
-Are you married?

I am currently single.

[laughing]

Oh. Oh, sweet baby Jesus.

[Sylvia] Amit's cake... is very hot. I did not make enough buttercream.

I'll have to do the outsides too.

I think her cake broke.

[Sylvia] Use your fingers.

-Mush it together.
-[Nicole] Yes.

You know, I'm not gonna put
the extra layers on my cake.

I don't have enough time.

I don't want to deal with another cake.

This is my fate.

[Jim] Okay.

Aaah! This is so crumbly.

When I put the buttercream on the cake,
it starts to crumble.

I'm in time-saving mode.
I need to improvise.

So you know what?
I'm just gonna color it.

I'm just going to try and cover it up.

There’s no way to recover.
Time’s not gonna allow it.

That’s when I decide--

-Bubbie gifts! Bubbie.
-[automated voice] Come here!

Oh, Bubbie's gifts! Bubbie's gifts!

No, stop working!

-Hurry!
-[Amit] Oh, Jim, I'm gonna kill you.

The faster you open the presents,
the quicker you get back in the game!

There’s actually a present
in the eighth box! Get to it! [laughs]

It ain’t... It ain’t happening.
It ain’t happening.

[Nicole] Hurry! One minute left!

[Jacques laughs]

This is a good challenge.

-[Martina] Now I want to get to the end!
-[Jacques laughs] You’re done!

Yes! Whoo!

Not worth it.

No one gave me any Nailed It! merchandise.

So, I... I need to decorate. Um...

So you guys have under ten minutes.

Oh, are you giving them pressure?

-Yes.
-Yes!

Pressure! Pressure!

[laughs]

I'm gonna cover all of these
with gold dust.

A little more there.
Ooh, they’re so pretty.

I made too much cake.

I see that now.

Maybe it'll taste good.

I got nothing.

I was not going to even attempt
the fondant.

So I start grabbing handfuls of candy

to pretty much replace what she had
on her gourmet cake.

Ninety seconds, you guys!

Stripes. Eyeglasses.

Buttercream. We’re gonna stand up.

One minute left!

I feel the tension.

Ooh-hoo.

It’s technically a bow, though.

Five, four, three, two, one!

You're done!

What a cluster.

Okay, Jim.

This is the Hanukkah cake
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made!

[drum roll]

[Jim] Nailed it!

It’s still moving.

[Jacques laughing]

[Nicole] Yes. We got some candles,
but the flames are

in the opposite direction.

Candy canes as your... wicks?

Yes.

For your golden coins,

we got colorful money that doesn’t exist.

-[laughs]
-Can you spin it around?

-[Jacques] It’s not really finished.
-I did what I could.

Okay. But you know what?

You got three tiers.

It means the world to make
a three-tier cake,

because that is the running joke
between me and my wife.

So that’s fabulous! What a treat for you.

I understand that the time constraint
is difficult, and you do what you can.

You committed a hundred percent.

You go home and make that for your wife.

-I think she would like this.
-[Nicole] Okay.

Goodbye!

Thank you, ma'am.

[Nicole] Okay, Amit.

Let's see what you made.

All right.

Nailed it!

Okay.

[Jacques laughing]

I'm a little bit speechless.

What happened with that buttercream? Why--

I just didn’t have enough,

and then I didn’t have enough time
to make more.

[Nicole] There's buttercream
between the layers.

You just didn't get buttercream
on the outside,

and sometimes it's the inside
that counts

because you can look like a little gremlin
and be nice, and people will be like,

“That’s my friend.
That’s a gremlin, but they nice.”

[soft bellow]

And your layers look sort of broken up.
What happened?

[laughs] Yeah.

-[Jacques] A little flour, when you spray?
-[Amit] Mm-hmm.

[Jacques] Put a little flour,
and it will come out.

But you did not press the panic button,
so cannot tell you.

I didn’t think I could get any help.
I was like, I'm too far--

Oh. You can always get help.

It was me against the clock
at that point.

I’m like, you know what? I can do this.

In life, don’t forget to ask for help,
if you can.

-Okay.
-Thank you, Amit.

We need to graduate on to another cake.

Congratulations on graduation.

Thank you.

All right, Martina.

Let's see what you did.

[drum roll]

Nailed it!

[like a talking toy] Okay.

[Jacques laughs]

[Sylvia] Got the glasses.
It’s got a lot of money.

Sylvia, what do you think?

It’s opulent.

-This lady’s into the gold.
-[Nicole] Okay.

Ooh-hoo!

The candles, to me, look like Doritos.

[laughing]

It’s got a lot of buttercream on it.

[Jacques] Also, here we have
a lot of cake, no buttercream.

Here we have a lot of buttercream,
almost no cake.

You got coins, and there’s glasses.

I think there’s a lot of elements there.

All right, I can't wait
to taste the Hanukkah.

Let's go sit down.

[Jim] I'm the ultimate underdog story.

Metaphors start popping into my head.

Rudy. Rocky.

These underdogs
that were nothing at first,

and they came back to win it.

I have a chance to win this.

Officer Jim.

We're reporting for duty.

Let's taste your cake.

I can get the flavor of the wine.

The flavor of the cake is good.
It's not too dry.

Overall, I think the cake is pretty good.

-Thank you.
-I think the, uh, icing is too sweet.

But the cake itself is delicious.

-Thank you.
-It was light, it was airy, it was moist.

If you made that for your wife,
she would be happy.

-Thank you, ma'am.
-[Nicole] All right.

♪ Amit, it's time to eat
Your big old cake ♪

-[laughter]
-[chuckles]

Ha! [laughs]

It was interesting because
the cake is still warm,

and the buttercream melt inside,
so that make it a little bit gooey almost.

But, uh, the buttercream should not melt
in the cake.

-Ha-ha.
-Sylvia, what do you think?

Texture's not bad.

And too sweet.

I didn’t mind your buttercream
being so sweet.

I thought it offset the wine taste.

I don’t know.
I thought it was pretty moist.

-It is moist.
-I think it’s a pretty decent cake.

Thank you.

Martina, you gave us
the biggest piece of Dorito.

[laughs]

[Nicole] Get the buttercream.

Huh!

[Martina laughing]

[Nicole] Jacques, what do you think?

I think that’s the moist
of the three cake.

Buttercream is a little bit sweet.

Texture's not bad.

This one was lighter, fluffier, moister.

Martina, I liked your buttercream
consistency the most.

It wasn’t as grainy as the others.
But it was really sweet.

Yeah, I liked it.

I think all three of you did
a really nice job.

[all] Thank you.

We didn’t have anything truly
that was inedible.

And my friend and I have eaten
some hot garbage.

Bakers, only one of you will go home

with 10,000 bucks!

And don’t forget... the Nailed It! trophy.

Wes! Where’s my trophy?

[laughter]

[laughs]

Okay, Sylvia. Are we ready to shower them
with cold hard cash?

[Sylvia] Absolutely. Oh.

-[laughs]
-Yes, Sylvia. Get her warmed up.

I love it. Whoo!

[Jacques] Okay.

So, the winner is...

Martina is the winner!

-Yeah!
-[applause]

[Nicole] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Congratulations!

Oh, my God!

[chuckles] I actually won $10,000.

I'm proud of myself.
I'm shocked.

-[Nicole] Congratulations!
-Oh, my God. Thank you!

[Nicole] You're welcome.

And you fight very hard too.
Congratulations.

Well, that’s all for Nailed It!

Happy Hanukkah!

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Oh, that’s a good picture.