Nailed It! Holiday! (2018–2019): Season 2, Episode 4 - It's a Wonderfail Life - full transcript
Guest judge is comedian, actress, singer, & writer Bridget Everett.
♪ I checked the list
and I checked it twice ♪
Ooh! It's time for a brand new
Christmas episode of Nailed It!
The baking competition show that wants
a shiny present under the tree...
but ends up with something smelly
in your stocking.
Today, three amateur bakers
will attempt to recreate
some professional Christmas desserts
and compete for a chance to win $10,000!
Let's meet these people!
My name is De'Jonnae Boyd.
I'm from Washington DC.
My grandma was a great cook,
and I didn't necessarily get
that bone in my body.
There's not enough filling on the inside.
I didn't ask you for your critique.
It skipped a generation. It skipped me.
My name is Eric Girardi.
I am from Westchester, New York,
and I am a New York City police officer
and a single dad of two.
Baking is what kind of
brought us all together.
Oh, God!
[children laughing]
I would like my kids to see that it's okay
to do something
you're not comfortable with.
My name is Lynnette Behar
from Show Low, Arizona.
My husband would describe my baking
as disastrous.
See, it really doesn't look that good.
My attitude is be resourceful.
If my cake's got a big crack in it,
let me glue it with some frosting.
You guys ready
to make some Christmas magic?
[crickets chirping]
-Yes!
-[laughter]
[Nicole] Oh, boy!
[laughter]
Well, today's episode is all about
being nice and naughty,
and the naughtiest of them
all is standing right next to me.
-Jacques Torres!
-Uh-uh, Nicole.
-[Nicole] What?
-I'm on the good list.
[Nicole] Also give a big
Nailed It! welcome
to Bridget Everett!
She sings, she acts, she tells jokes,
and now she's on our show, so it's really
all coming together for her.
I'm excited to be here. Thank you.
-I love it.
-Nicole, Jacques, it's a big day.
I'm here. Thank you. Okay, I'll stop.
[Nicole] Thank you.
-Oh, thank you.
-[Bridget] Thank you.
-[Nicole] Thank you.
-[Bridget] Thank you.
[Nicole] Bridget, thank you!
[laughter]
- [Nicole] Lynnette.
-Yes.
I heard the producers calling you
Nana Goose!
Why?
Well, I love to imitate chickens.
Oh!
Do you want to do that now?
[Lynnette] Okay.
[imitating chicken clucking]
[laughing]
[continues clucking]
-Good.
-This is very good.
-Jacques, can you be a chicken?
-No!
[laughing]
Okay, bakers, our first round
is called Baker's Choice.
Behind that door is all about being nice,
which is good 'cause you'll need to pray
to the heavens when you see these.
[classical music playing]
[Nicole] Angel waffle-cone tree toppers!
These three sweet, little angels are
created from freshly-made waffle cones,
and their cherub-like faces
are made out of cake pop
and finished with fondant details.
Finally, each angel gets their own
little chocolate musical instrument.
Can I get a hallelujah?
Hallelujah!
[Nicole] Oh, boy.
Now, when I say "go," you will run over
and you will pick the angel that you want.
Okay? Go!
[laughter]
-That was running?
-No, that was shuffling.
[laughs]
Oh, my God!
[Nicole] Well, all right, bakers.
I'm going to give you the cake
to make your cake pop.
As for the rest of it,
you've gotta make all that stuff yourself.
You only have 45 minutes.
Now fly away!
Bake!
Go!
[laughter]
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
What a treat.
Make a waffle cone?
Argh! Come on!
[sighs] Here we go. All right.
How would you go about making
an angel waffle-cone tree topper?
First, create the waffle cone.
They will measure and mix their waffle
cone ingredients into a batter,
then cook their waffle
to crispy perfection
and add angel wings before they cool.
Then they will make their buttercream
and cake,
mixing them together
to form their cake pops.
Put the cake pops on a stick
and cover it with melted chocolate,
then assemble and decorate, adding all
the tiny details to make their angel head.
They have 45 minutes,
so they cannot waste any time.
I'm gonna do six
because who doesn't love butter, right?
Growing up, my grandmothers were
these incredible bakers,
but they didn't measure anything.
Buttery is bettery.
And so I think recipes
are just suggestions.
How do I know that this is three eggs?
I don't be measuring out here!
Is there any chance that not measuring
will ever work out when you're baking?
Not at all.
[laughs]
Basically, I just feel like the ancestors
are speaking to me.
-Your ancestors are speaking to you?
-Oh, my God!
-[Nicole] Oh, no!
-Oh, my God.
What did your ancestors say?
"Child, over-pour!"
You know what? We're just going
to go for it and mix and pray.
Baking is like when your kid
gets in trouble
and you have to figure it out
right then and there.
Can't laugh at them,
even if they're cursing and it's funny.
You have to just do it.
Does that make sense?
-[woman] Yeah.
-Okay.
Egg whites going in.
It looks like Eric's using
a lot of egg whites.
[Jacques] Too much egg white
is going to make a very liquid batter.
That's bad, right?
-[laughing]
-Let's see.
Uh, what am I doing? Let me see.
My strategy to win
is to get everything organized,
get all my ingredients...
Put the butter back.
...and try to follow the recipe
to the T.
Okay.
We're going to measure the egg whites.
[Bridget] Nana Goose,
how's it going over there?
It's going okay.
I'm worried about Lynnette.
Pump it up a notch.
She was good at her chicken dance.
[laughing]
Why are you not thickening?
I'm just going to add more
dry ingredients.
When in doubt, add more.
Ooh! You guys have 30 minutes!
Whoops!
Is it too late for Lynnette now?
She doesn't know how to use that.
We are feeling the pressure.
Oh! Ooh!
Ooh! Wait. Maybe I need a little more.
It looks like De'Jonnae
put too much batter.
[De'Jonnae] Ooh!
Ooh!
-Um...
-It is a sick-looking orange.
I don't think that was supposed to happen.
-It's a poofy waffle.
-[Nicole] Yes.
Oh, my God.
But that waffle is not cooked.
Well, as long as it tastes good.
That's half the battle.
Eric is putting his batter
in the waffle iron.
[Eric] Uh-oh.
Not going well.
Whoops.
He put too much batter.
[Eric] What is this?
Oh, no. Not yet! Not yet!
I see it.
He made the same mistake as De'Jonnae.
You guys, you only have 15 minutes!
Okay. We'll try to make a waffle.
[Bridget] I'm not seeing things
come together for Lynnette.
I am a little concerned.
-Wait. Something's going in!
-[Nicole] Ooh!
[Jacques] Oh, my God!
[Bridget] Lynnette's batter looks
substantially thicker.
I don't think that the recipe is right.
Uh, it looks really bad. Uh...
But we're just going to do our best.
I don't have that much baking experience,
but I wanted to be on Nailed It!
to challenge myself,
and I'm going to do the happy dance
and just do my best.
[swing music playing]
Oh, wow. It looks really pretty, actually.
I just want Lynnette to show up
with something on the plate.
[Lynnette] All right.
Wow! That tastes amazing.
Crumble cake.
Add a tablespoon of vanilla cream to bind.
I know it said one tablespoon, but can
you really have too much buttercream?
[Jacques] She doesn't need all of that.
You just need a small amount
for the right consistency.
That's true.
A little more?
Nicole, I love them. This is so cool.
[Eric] One tablespoon of buttercream.
I like that you're wearing gloves
so you leave no evidence.
-So you don't know who made what.
-[Bridget] He's got a cop's mind.
No fingerprints.
What's a good way
to get away with a crime?
-Don't do it.
-[siren wails]
[laughter]
[Lynnette] I haven't made buttercream.
I have lost all of my time management.
Whoo!
-If she breaks it, does she buy it?
-[Nicole giggles]
Yeah, I lost my planning strategy.
Okay, now...
Six minutes left!
We need to see faces. We need to see hair.
We need to see wings.
We need to see artistry.
We need to see heart.
We have to see hope. Okay?
Simple enough.
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
[Eric] This is where we all pray.
I'm trying to make it look like Avery,
my daughter.
So, Avery, I'm sorry.
[Nicole] De'Jonnae is using her fingers.
Did you wash your hands?
-The hands are clean. Don't worry!
-[Nicole] Okay.
-I'm licking them.
-You just licked them!
[De'Jonnae] I know!
-Not going to reuse that one finger.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
Okay, we're going to go back
to the pantry.
[chanting] Lynnette! Lynnette!
Lynnette! Lynnette!
Time is running out,
and...
I need a head for my angel.
Let me see.
I saw Lynnette run in there,
but is she gonna run back?
Where are my...
[Bridget] I'm gonna see if I can help her.
[Nicole] Uh-oh, Bridget's on the move!
[Bridget] Lynnette, I'm here to help.
-[Lynnette] I just need--
-Some arms?
You could do these for arms.
And this looks like snowballs
Bridget is my angel.
[Bridget] Here's some colored snow,
if you want it.
I realized I gotta show up
to the last minute.
Okay, got it.
[Bridget] Okay, guys.
[Nicole] Ninety seconds!
Ninety seconds.
Girlfriend not about to have a whole head
of hair cause we don't got time for that.
-[Eric] Musical instrument.
-Here are the wings.
[Bridget]
We're seeing some real artistry here.
That does not look like a French horn.
[kazoo blares]
[Nicole] Fifteen seconds!
[De'Jonnae] Argh!
[Eric] That didn't do anything.
Oh, shoot!
Okay.
[Nicole] Five...
[all] Four, three, two, one...
-You're done!
-[alarm blares]
I broke the glass.
Just take it out of my prize money.
De'Jonnae, this is the angel waffle-cone
tree topper you were trying to make.
Let's see what you made!
[De'Jonnae] Nailed it!
Oh, no!
Okay...
[De'Jonnae] So you might notice
she doesn't have wings.
That's because she's an earthling.
She's an earthling.
She's also bald-headed in the back.
[Bridget]
She's got a little patch back there.
I think that's an angel that fell
from heaven and crashed.
[laughter]
I guess we should taste it.
We have to break the waffle.
[De'Jonnae] Sorry.
[Jacques]
It's not breaking because it's soft.
[Nicole] Oh, no!
[De'Jonnae]
That's made with love. Extra fluff!
-[Nicole laughs]
-[De'Jonnae] Oh, no.
Chewy waffle is a new adventure.
[Jacques] I think that you didn't
leave the waffle long enough
-in the waffle machine.
-You took two bites. You liked it!
You really brought it home
with that cake pop head.
That cake pop was the strangest
texture I've ever had in my mouth,
and we're on episode 762.
But it looked good.
I thought it was delicious,
refined and unexpected.
Don't tell people lies
you can't take back.
-We gotta go!
-Bye, guys.
All right.
Eric, let's take a look
at what you were trying to make...
and let's see what you did.
-[Eric] Nailed it!
-[Nicole laughs]
-That's Mr. Bill.
-[Nicole] Oh, boy.
How terrifying!
[Bridget] Oh, no!
[Eric] I was trying to model it
after my daughter.
No, you can't say that on TV.
[laughs]
That's shady. Let's taste it.
-[Bridget] Uh-oh.
-[Jacques] Uh-oh. Soft again.
That looks like a piece of calamari.
[laughing]
I think that the cake for the cake pop
is pretty good.
We gave it to them.
[Bridget] The texture of the waffle,
while it was very soft,
did have a nice thickness.
[Nicole]
I put two wild things in my mouth.
Let's go for a third. Thanks, Eric!
Toodle-oo!
[laughter]
Lynnette, let's look
at what you were going for.
Let's see what you did.
-[Lynnette] Nailed it!
-[Nicole] Oh, boy!
[laughter]
[Nicole] What... [laughs]
What happened?
[Lynnette] I don't know!
[laughter]
But I know one thing.
-This is not edible right there, okay?
-[Bridget laughs]
So the only thing on this that's edible
are the wings here.
Like those wings on that angel,
I hope that we all fly as high
as you did today.
[Lynnette]
I can hardly wait for you to taste them.
-[Nicole] We flying close to the sun.
-[Bridget] Yes!
[Bridget] Oh, we got a snap.
I think that there is not enough
egg white.
So when you cook it,
there is enough sugar for the sugar
to caramelize and become crunchy,
and that's what we taste.
It's not bad. The flavor is not bad.
[Bridget] It tastes like kettle corn.
I'm a kettle corn queen.
Your waffle is crunchy and delightful,
and your buttercream is lumpy.
What a wild, weird treat,
and I'm so pleased.
Okay, bakers.
It is time to announce the winner!
Jacques?
There can be only one winner.
The angel with the best flavor
and appearance belongs to...
-De'Jonnae!
-[cheering and applause]
Bridget, tell De'Jonnae what she's won!
You get two prizes.
A beautiful red stand mixer.
-[Nicole] Ooh!
-[Bridget] And a set of kitchen knives.
Oh!
And De'Jonnae, you get the Nailed It!
golden baker's cap.
I don't want to mess up your hair.
I did that poorly.
Okay.
Are you ready to do this, Bridget?
-Yeah!
-[Nicole] Jacques, are you ready?
-Yes!
-Let's go to door number two!
Come on, everybody!
Oh, boy, we did it!
Door two and round two.
This is where one of you could win
the $10,000!
Get ready for what will be a new
Christmas tradition all over the world.
Door number two.
Yeah!
-It's Nicole at the Pole!
-[laughs]
It is yours truly
sitting atop a kingdom of ice,
as my evil elf buddies
pack up coal to stuff in stockings
for all the rotten, little children
of the world.
Awesome.
This two-tiered geode cake is carved
to create the rock candy coal
geode feature.
Nicole, the elf, the coal bag,
and the North Pole are all marbled
with chocolates and fondant
and then covered with snow sugar.
[Nicole] Do not mess up
my beautiful face.
It's personal this time.
[Nicole] Lynnette, you get the advantage.
At your station,
you'll see the Elf Me button.
Tap it, and you'll tell me what you need,
and I'll turn your two opponents
into worker elves to make them do
whatever you need for three minutes!
So, elf me, Lynnette. I'm here for you.
[Jacques] All right, bakers.
You have one hour and 45 minutes
to make your cake.
-Begin!
-[laughs]
-De'Jonnae...
-Go!
My God.
[hums]
Recipe.
Okay. Make cake.
-Okay. I'm getting cake mix.
-[Nicole] How would you make this cake?
How would you make me?
First, you have to make the cake.
Mix all your wet and dry ingredients
and all the holiday flavor.
While your cake bakes,
make your buttercream.
Make Nicole and her elves using modeling
chocolates and cocoa butter paint.
Finally, stack and cover your cake
with buttercream and fondant.
Then carefully carve out your coal mine
and fill it with melted chocolates
and rock candy.
Attach all the decorative pieces,
and voilà,
a beautiful Nicole on the Pole cake.
It's not impossible,
but it's a lot of work.
Chocka, chocka!
Chocka, chocka! This is what I always say.
I have baked cakes before, but...
nothing like this.
I just have two words for it:
"impossible."
[hums]
You guys,
Lynnette's rolling up her sleeves.
[Lynnette] Okay.
The question is, how much lemon flavor?
I really want to focus on what I'm doing.
That's pretty potent.
And I kind of want to pretend
that no one else is there.
Hey, you know what I should be doing?
The mixer, right?
But I don't have time to use the mixer.
[laughs]
I want to add a little bit more...
vanilla to it.
I feel making the cake simple but good,
opposed to exotic and bad,
is my strategy right now.
I feel like Eric is really managing
his time a lot better this round.
[Jacques] But it looked he put it
in the bottom oven,
which is not a convection oven.
Convection has a tendency of cooking
faster and drying ingredients
a little bit more.
[Eric] Now we've gotta make two more
to stack those.
Okay.
Let's go see a flavor.
I have to make a two-tier cake.
I've never made a cake higher
than my finger.
Do you have any cinnamon?
Is that what you're--
Or do we want peppermint?
Mint? Peppermint?
[gasps] Peppermint chocolate!
Maybe I was talking to my ancestors.
I don't know.
I'm talking, and something says to me,
"Let's make
a peppermint chocolate chip cake."
Yum, right?
Come on. Let's go.
This feels like I'm at the dog show.
They're all so cute.
Everything looks like...
A lot of stuff is happening, but
is somebody going to poop on the floor?
We don't know.
Hmm!
I don't really measure anything. More?
I'm pouring until my heart feels content
at this point.
-I have no clue what I'm doing.
[Bridget] Can you do that?
-Am I too stressed out right now?
-Yeah.
I should not be this stressed out.
I'm just watching.
Okay, then you let the air out of it.
My mommy told me, "Let the air out."
[cake tin slams]
Okay.
Goes in.
One thing I've learned about baking today
is knowledge is not power.
No, it's not! [laughs]
-[Eric] Two of each.
-[Lynnette] Put them in the center.
And...
Lynnette has only two molds, I think.
I don't know how that's
going to be enough cake.
Okay.
Uh, four teaspoons of vanilla.
Uh, that's about four teaspoons.
Eric, what do you have in your mixer?
Is that the buttercream?
-That's the buttercream. I hope.
-Okay.
So that's a good idea.
He lets it beat for a while
so the buttercream becomes light, fluffy,
which is better.
Just add a little more sugar.
[Bridget] Are you measuring things,
-or are you just dumping?
-My grandmother's speaking to me.
[laughter]
Butter, butter, butter, butter, butter.
We've gotta hurry.
[Jacques] She used room temperature butter
for the buttercream,
and that's going to make it very chunky.
I love a chunky buttercream.
When it's chunky, is that just
pieces of butter that you're like--
Yes, yes.
-That's what it is.
-Oh, no. I'm disgusting!
It's done!
Okay, so cakes are coming out
of the oven.
Let's see what's going on
with these things.
She sunk on me a little bit.
I'm at a point of no return.
I just get them in
the blast chiller and...
continue on.
I want to at least get them cool
so I can then pop them out
and start putting everything together
'cause that's going to be awful.
[Nicole] We're going to have a dry cake?
-[Jacques] Yeah.
-Okay.
Will you stop moving?
-Eric, you're doing great.
-I feel good.
I just don't want you to mess up
my beautiful face when you make me.
There is no way I'm going to make
the sculpture of Nicole look like her,
so I set my bar little lower.
So...
it's going to be...
an adaptation.
-[Bridget laughs]
-Okay.
[Lynnette] We're going to try
to make the hair.
I need to grab your attention
for just one moment
because it looks like
some sort of misshapen blob.
Which, if I'm not wearing
something cute,
-I do look like in the morning.
-[laughter]
[Bridget] Like a surgeon.
You don't really know.
It might look like a mess,
but she could still save lives.
[laughter]
I'm adding glitter to her dress
because I don't know too many chicas
who don't like their glitter.
I gave her a flowing gown...
Giving her some flair.
...because I don't have time to make legs.
Wow! Wow!
Fifty-five minutes!
That's two of the same number!
I screwed up.
I think I need two more cakes
that go on the top.
[bell dings]
I didn't make those elves yet.
We are running out of time.
I need to press that Elf Me button.
Elf me!
-Elf me!
-Elf me!
-[Nicole] Elf me!
-[Jacques] Help me!
What would you like me
to tell the other contestants to do?
That's going to be fun.
[electronic high-pitch]
Eric, you have to make
two cakes for Lynnette.
Okay.
[Nicole] De'Jonnae...
-Huh?
-Make an elf!
I can't even make an elf for myself!
[laughs]
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!
Make the elf! Make the elf!
Oh, my God!
That is the most annoying thing ever.
Yeah. [laughs]
-How do you feel?
-Oh, awesome! Yeah.
Okay. You can give everything to Lynnette.
Bye-bye!
Thanks for helping, guys!
I don't know how to turn this off.
As of right now,
we're trying to put this all together
and then cover it
and it will look somewhat...
not sunken in.
Like, I would eat that.
It looks like D's is going to go
upsy-daisy and fall over.
It's looking like it's falling this way
[gasps] Oh, my God. It's exploding!
[Jacques] If the cake starts to slide,
cut another side thicker and thinner,
so you kind of balance it this way.
Stay.
Stay.
Stay.
You can't tell a cake to stay!
You can on Nailed It!
Fair.
Um, my cake's fall--
I'm saying to myself,
you have to listen to the ancestors.
[screams]
Great idea!
They told me to put it in the freezer
so that it holds for a minute.
Okay. Don't worry.
[Lynnette]
It's in the oven. Let me check it.
Well... Okay, no.
That cake's not going to be ready.
Twenty-six minutes.
That was a good age for me.
[laughter]
We're going to use this
as our second tier.
I realize I have to be resourceful.
It's not going to be a perfect circle.
She's making a doughnut.
I would love to do Christmas morning
at Lynnette's house.
That's got to be something wonderful.
[Lynnette] This is going to go here.
Look, I'm a genius.
I love her.
You guys have ten minutes!
This is crazy.
Wait! I'm putting the geodes!
No! Lynnette, frost the cake!
Oh, my God.
He's just throwing it in there.
He's got some bodies buried for sure,
this guy.
I'm worried about the overall structure
of the cake.
Now we are putting the frosting on,
finally.
Lynnette, I cannot wait
to get my fingers in that thing.
You're going to pucker.
She's gonna have one foot.
Oh, wow. Five minutes, y'all.
Nicole, do you want hair or an elf, girl?
Don't let me out on these streets
without my wig on.
-[De'Jonnae] Okay, I'm trying.
-[Nicole] You got it.
[laughter]
She just stabbed that pole in there.
Put some detail into Nicole.
[De'Jonnae] This is my elf, okay?
I realize this actually looks pretty good.
Now we are making it sparkly.
Gotta have a face.
Nicole's gonna lay down.
Oh, my God.
I don't know what more I can do.
[all] Five,
four, three,
two, one.
-You're done!
-[alarm blares]
[whimpers]
Okay, De'Jonnae.
This is the Nicole at the Pole cake
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did!
[De'Jonnae] Nailed it!
Oh, no!
This is so disrespectful to me,
and I love it so much.
She's, like, jumping off a mountain
that is melting.
Thank you for giving us the gift
of something we never knew could exist.
[Jacques] Here, the problem was
maybe the center of the cake
was a little bit warm.
Things start to melt.
You put a bunch of sticks in there.
Some of them broke off.
-No--
-You trying to kill me?
-[laughter]
-There is a broken stick right there.
[laughs]
We've gotta go.
-[Bridget] We should, right?
-Girl, bye.
Bye! [laughs]
Okay, Eric. Let's see what you did.
-[Eric] Nailed it!
-[laughter]
You did me dirty.
That wig is wild!
-[Jacques] And no mouth.
-But I do have eyebrows.
-What happened to my other foot?
-You didn't need it.
[laughter]
I think that explosion of rocks you have,
that was really elegant how you did it,
and I'm real proud of you
for coming through strong.
-Thank you.
-You did try to put in all the components,
so that's the positive side here.
Well, thanks, Eric.
We have one last cake to see.
Lynnette, let's see what you did.
Nailed it!
[Nicole] Lynnette...
[chuckling]
I've never in my life seen anything
like this. [laughs]
You've made us some cornbread with
mashed potatoes and a dead woman on top.
[laughter]
I take the cake.
The consistency of your buttercream...
-It's...
-[laughter]
It's okay. It's a little thick.
[laughing]
It could have had a little bit more
milk to it.
Let it spin.
Let's give some emulsion to that.
[Bridget] Tasting this
is going to be an experience
unlike anything any of us
have ever endured.
[laughter]
Why don't you all cut out your best
slice of your cake and bring it to us.
Okay, let's sit down.
My cake is fabulously disastrous,
but it might taste good.
I'm going to see what happens.
[Nicole] What a treat.
Okay, De'Jonnae.
The cake is baked.
[Jacques]
I like the mint flavor that you gave it.
-The buttercream can be a bit lighter...
-Okay.
...but, overall, the cake is quite good.
[Nicole] Yeah. I thought it was moist,
and I did taste the mint.
[Bridget] You're good with your flavors.
I like that.
The buttercream is not 100%,
but it's 90%, and those are key elements
in this challenge.
All right.
Eric.
[Jacques] It's underbaked.
If the middle collapses,
-it's not baked enough.
-[Eric] Okay.
[Jacques] The side is actually pretty dry.
[Nicole]
But it is wild to have a dry cake...
that's also goopy
'cause there's parts that were goopy.
I thought your buttercream
had a nice flavor though. Bridget?
I think if you're able to find the
territory between the crunch and the mush,
then you're going to be in heaven,
but I was not able to locate that spot.
But a pretty decent flavor.
Lynnette.
[Bridget laughs]
[Jacques] You can take it with your hands.
[clicks tongue]
[Bridget] All right. Did you guys try it?
[laughter]
That's why a chunky...
-There's nothing else but butter in that.
-[Jacques] And sugar, yes.
I don't know if there's sugar.
That was butter!
Nope.
-Don't forget the lemon.
-[Nicole] Oh, my God!
Wow!
-[laughs]
-You served us lemon butter...
on cornbread!
On cornbread. It does taste
like cornbread, oddly enough!
Jacques hasn't spoken. [laughs]
-Jacques has said nothing!
-I'm speechless!
Wow!
Oh, what a treat. What a dream. It's time!
Time to announce the winner of the $10,000
and the coveted Nailed It! trophy.
Where's Wes?
[Christmas music playing]
[Nicole] Oh!
There's my little Keebler Elf.
Hurry! Back to the tree!
You got that icy cold cash ready?
-We ready.
-Jacques?
So the winner is...
De'Jonnae.
[cheering and applause]
Oh, my God!
I nailed it!
The ancestors, they were at work
behind the scenes,
and it worked!
I am a Nailed It! certified baker, okay?
[laughter]
Who would have known? It's crazy!
[laughs]
-[Bridget] What a treat.
-That's all for Nailed It!
There's more ho-ho-holiday madness
coming up, so sit down!
[Jacques] I need to see everyone.
[theme music playing]
and I checked it twice ♪
Ooh! It's time for a brand new
Christmas episode of Nailed It!
The baking competition show that wants
a shiny present under the tree...
but ends up with something smelly
in your stocking.
Today, three amateur bakers
will attempt to recreate
some professional Christmas desserts
and compete for a chance to win $10,000!
Let's meet these people!
My name is De'Jonnae Boyd.
I'm from Washington DC.
My grandma was a great cook,
and I didn't necessarily get
that bone in my body.
There's not enough filling on the inside.
I didn't ask you for your critique.
It skipped a generation. It skipped me.
My name is Eric Girardi.
I am from Westchester, New York,
and I am a New York City police officer
and a single dad of two.
Baking is what kind of
brought us all together.
Oh, God!
[children laughing]
I would like my kids to see that it's okay
to do something
you're not comfortable with.
My name is Lynnette Behar
from Show Low, Arizona.
My husband would describe my baking
as disastrous.
See, it really doesn't look that good.
My attitude is be resourceful.
If my cake's got a big crack in it,
let me glue it with some frosting.
You guys ready
to make some Christmas magic?
[crickets chirping]
-Yes!
-[laughter]
[Nicole] Oh, boy!
[laughter]
Well, today's episode is all about
being nice and naughty,
and the naughtiest of them
all is standing right next to me.
-Jacques Torres!
-Uh-uh, Nicole.
-[Nicole] What?
-I'm on the good list.
[Nicole] Also give a big
Nailed It! welcome
to Bridget Everett!
She sings, she acts, she tells jokes,
and now she's on our show, so it's really
all coming together for her.
I'm excited to be here. Thank you.
-I love it.
-Nicole, Jacques, it's a big day.
I'm here. Thank you. Okay, I'll stop.
[Nicole] Thank you.
-Oh, thank you.
-[Bridget] Thank you.
-[Nicole] Thank you.
-[Bridget] Thank you.
[Nicole] Bridget, thank you!
[laughter]
- [Nicole] Lynnette.
-Yes.
I heard the producers calling you
Nana Goose!
Why?
Well, I love to imitate chickens.
Oh!
Do you want to do that now?
[Lynnette] Okay.
[imitating chicken clucking]
[laughing]
[continues clucking]
-Good.
-This is very good.
-Jacques, can you be a chicken?
-No!
[laughing]
Okay, bakers, our first round
is called Baker's Choice.
Behind that door is all about being nice,
which is good 'cause you'll need to pray
to the heavens when you see these.
[classical music playing]
[Nicole] Angel waffle-cone tree toppers!
These three sweet, little angels are
created from freshly-made waffle cones,
and their cherub-like faces
are made out of cake pop
and finished with fondant details.
Finally, each angel gets their own
little chocolate musical instrument.
Can I get a hallelujah?
Hallelujah!
[Nicole] Oh, boy.
Now, when I say "go," you will run over
and you will pick the angel that you want.
Okay? Go!
[laughter]
-That was running?
-No, that was shuffling.
[laughs]
Oh, my God!
[Nicole] Well, all right, bakers.
I'm going to give you the cake
to make your cake pop.
As for the rest of it,
you've gotta make all that stuff yourself.
You only have 45 minutes.
Now fly away!
Bake!
Go!
[laughter]
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
What a treat.
Make a waffle cone?
Argh! Come on!
[sighs] Here we go. All right.
How would you go about making
an angel waffle-cone tree topper?
First, create the waffle cone.
They will measure and mix their waffle
cone ingredients into a batter,
then cook their waffle
to crispy perfection
and add angel wings before they cool.
Then they will make their buttercream
and cake,
mixing them together
to form their cake pops.
Put the cake pops on a stick
and cover it with melted chocolate,
then assemble and decorate, adding all
the tiny details to make their angel head.
They have 45 minutes,
so they cannot waste any time.
I'm gonna do six
because who doesn't love butter, right?
Growing up, my grandmothers were
these incredible bakers,
but they didn't measure anything.
Buttery is bettery.
And so I think recipes
are just suggestions.
How do I know that this is three eggs?
I don't be measuring out here!
Is there any chance that not measuring
will ever work out when you're baking?
Not at all.
[laughs]
Basically, I just feel like the ancestors
are speaking to me.
-Your ancestors are speaking to you?
-Oh, my God!
-[Nicole] Oh, no!
-Oh, my God.
What did your ancestors say?
"Child, over-pour!"
You know what? We're just going
to go for it and mix and pray.
Baking is like when your kid
gets in trouble
and you have to figure it out
right then and there.
Can't laugh at them,
even if they're cursing and it's funny.
You have to just do it.
Does that make sense?
-[woman] Yeah.
-Okay.
Egg whites going in.
It looks like Eric's using
a lot of egg whites.
[Jacques] Too much egg white
is going to make a very liquid batter.
That's bad, right?
-[laughing]
-Let's see.
Uh, what am I doing? Let me see.
My strategy to win
is to get everything organized,
get all my ingredients...
Put the butter back.
...and try to follow the recipe
to the T.
Okay.
We're going to measure the egg whites.
[Bridget] Nana Goose,
how's it going over there?
It's going okay.
I'm worried about Lynnette.
Pump it up a notch.
She was good at her chicken dance.
[laughing]
Why are you not thickening?
I'm just going to add more
dry ingredients.
When in doubt, add more.
Ooh! You guys have 30 minutes!
Whoops!
Is it too late for Lynnette now?
She doesn't know how to use that.
We are feeling the pressure.
Oh! Ooh!
Ooh! Wait. Maybe I need a little more.
It looks like De'Jonnae
put too much batter.
[De'Jonnae] Ooh!
Ooh!
-Um...
-It is a sick-looking orange.
I don't think that was supposed to happen.
-It's a poofy waffle.
-[Nicole] Yes.
Oh, my God.
But that waffle is not cooked.
Well, as long as it tastes good.
That's half the battle.
Eric is putting his batter
in the waffle iron.
[Eric] Uh-oh.
Not going well.
Whoops.
He put too much batter.
[Eric] What is this?
Oh, no. Not yet! Not yet!
I see it.
He made the same mistake as De'Jonnae.
You guys, you only have 15 minutes!
Okay. We'll try to make a waffle.
[Bridget] I'm not seeing things
come together for Lynnette.
I am a little concerned.
-Wait. Something's going in!
-[Nicole] Ooh!
[Jacques] Oh, my God!
[Bridget] Lynnette's batter looks
substantially thicker.
I don't think that the recipe is right.
Uh, it looks really bad. Uh...
But we're just going to do our best.
I don't have that much baking experience,
but I wanted to be on Nailed It!
to challenge myself,
and I'm going to do the happy dance
and just do my best.
[swing music playing]
Oh, wow. It looks really pretty, actually.
I just want Lynnette to show up
with something on the plate.
[Lynnette] All right.
Wow! That tastes amazing.
Crumble cake.
Add a tablespoon of vanilla cream to bind.
I know it said one tablespoon, but can
you really have too much buttercream?
[Jacques] She doesn't need all of that.
You just need a small amount
for the right consistency.
That's true.
A little more?
Nicole, I love them. This is so cool.
[Eric] One tablespoon of buttercream.
I like that you're wearing gloves
so you leave no evidence.
-So you don't know who made what.
-[Bridget] He's got a cop's mind.
No fingerprints.
What's a good way
to get away with a crime?
-Don't do it.
-[siren wails]
[laughter]
[Lynnette] I haven't made buttercream.
I have lost all of my time management.
Whoo!
-If she breaks it, does she buy it?
-[Nicole giggles]
Yeah, I lost my planning strategy.
Okay, now...
Six minutes left!
We need to see faces. We need to see hair.
We need to see wings.
We need to see artistry.
We need to see heart.
We have to see hope. Okay?
Simple enough.
Can I get a hallelujah?
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
[Eric] This is where we all pray.
I'm trying to make it look like Avery,
my daughter.
So, Avery, I'm sorry.
[Nicole] De'Jonnae is using her fingers.
Did you wash your hands?
-The hands are clean. Don't worry!
-[Nicole] Okay.
-I'm licking them.
-You just licked them!
[De'Jonnae] I know!
-Not going to reuse that one finger.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
Okay, we're going to go back
to the pantry.
[chanting] Lynnette! Lynnette!
Lynnette! Lynnette!
Time is running out,
and...
I need a head for my angel.
Let me see.
I saw Lynnette run in there,
but is she gonna run back?
Where are my...
[Bridget] I'm gonna see if I can help her.
[Nicole] Uh-oh, Bridget's on the move!
[Bridget] Lynnette, I'm here to help.
-[Lynnette] I just need--
-Some arms?
You could do these for arms.
And this looks like snowballs
Bridget is my angel.
[Bridget] Here's some colored snow,
if you want it.
I realized I gotta show up
to the last minute.
Okay, got it.
[Bridget] Okay, guys.
[Nicole] Ninety seconds!
Ninety seconds.
Girlfriend not about to have a whole head
of hair cause we don't got time for that.
-[Eric] Musical instrument.
-Here are the wings.
[Bridget]
We're seeing some real artistry here.
That does not look like a French horn.
[kazoo blares]
[Nicole] Fifteen seconds!
[De'Jonnae] Argh!
[Eric] That didn't do anything.
Oh, shoot!
Okay.
[Nicole] Five...
[all] Four, three, two, one...
-You're done!
-[alarm blares]
I broke the glass.
Just take it out of my prize money.
De'Jonnae, this is the angel waffle-cone
tree topper you were trying to make.
Let's see what you made!
[De'Jonnae] Nailed it!
Oh, no!
Okay...
[De'Jonnae] So you might notice
she doesn't have wings.
That's because she's an earthling.
She's an earthling.
She's also bald-headed in the back.
[Bridget]
She's got a little patch back there.
I think that's an angel that fell
from heaven and crashed.
[laughter]
I guess we should taste it.
We have to break the waffle.
[De'Jonnae] Sorry.
[Jacques]
It's not breaking because it's soft.
[Nicole] Oh, no!
[De'Jonnae]
That's made with love. Extra fluff!
-[Nicole laughs]
-[De'Jonnae] Oh, no.
Chewy waffle is a new adventure.
[Jacques] I think that you didn't
leave the waffle long enough
-in the waffle machine.
-You took two bites. You liked it!
You really brought it home
with that cake pop head.
That cake pop was the strangest
texture I've ever had in my mouth,
and we're on episode 762.
But it looked good.
I thought it was delicious,
refined and unexpected.
Don't tell people lies
you can't take back.
-We gotta go!
-Bye, guys.
All right.
Eric, let's take a look
at what you were trying to make...
and let's see what you did.
-[Eric] Nailed it!
-[Nicole laughs]
-That's Mr. Bill.
-[Nicole] Oh, boy.
How terrifying!
[Bridget] Oh, no!
[Eric] I was trying to model it
after my daughter.
No, you can't say that on TV.
[laughs]
That's shady. Let's taste it.
-[Bridget] Uh-oh.
-[Jacques] Uh-oh. Soft again.
That looks like a piece of calamari.
[laughing]
I think that the cake for the cake pop
is pretty good.
We gave it to them.
[Bridget] The texture of the waffle,
while it was very soft,
did have a nice thickness.
[Nicole]
I put two wild things in my mouth.
Let's go for a third. Thanks, Eric!
Toodle-oo!
[laughter]
Lynnette, let's look
at what you were going for.
Let's see what you did.
-[Lynnette] Nailed it!
-[Nicole] Oh, boy!
[laughter]
[Nicole] What... [laughs]
What happened?
[Lynnette] I don't know!
[laughter]
But I know one thing.
-This is not edible right there, okay?
-[Bridget laughs]
So the only thing on this that's edible
are the wings here.
Like those wings on that angel,
I hope that we all fly as high
as you did today.
[Lynnette]
I can hardly wait for you to taste them.
-[Nicole] We flying close to the sun.
-[Bridget] Yes!
[Bridget] Oh, we got a snap.
I think that there is not enough
egg white.
So when you cook it,
there is enough sugar for the sugar
to caramelize and become crunchy,
and that's what we taste.
It's not bad. The flavor is not bad.
[Bridget] It tastes like kettle corn.
I'm a kettle corn queen.
Your waffle is crunchy and delightful,
and your buttercream is lumpy.
What a wild, weird treat,
and I'm so pleased.
Okay, bakers.
It is time to announce the winner!
Jacques?
There can be only one winner.
The angel with the best flavor
and appearance belongs to...
-De'Jonnae!
-[cheering and applause]
Bridget, tell De'Jonnae what she's won!
You get two prizes.
A beautiful red stand mixer.
-[Nicole] Ooh!
-[Bridget] And a set of kitchen knives.
Oh!
And De'Jonnae, you get the Nailed It!
golden baker's cap.
I don't want to mess up your hair.
I did that poorly.
Okay.
Are you ready to do this, Bridget?
-Yeah!
-[Nicole] Jacques, are you ready?
-Yes!
-Let's go to door number two!
Come on, everybody!
Oh, boy, we did it!
Door two and round two.
This is where one of you could win
the $10,000!
Get ready for what will be a new
Christmas tradition all over the world.
Door number two.
Yeah!
-It's Nicole at the Pole!
-[laughs]
It is yours truly
sitting atop a kingdom of ice,
as my evil elf buddies
pack up coal to stuff in stockings
for all the rotten, little children
of the world.
Awesome.
This two-tiered geode cake is carved
to create the rock candy coal
geode feature.
Nicole, the elf, the coal bag,
and the North Pole are all marbled
with chocolates and fondant
and then covered with snow sugar.
[Nicole] Do not mess up
my beautiful face.
It's personal this time.
[Nicole] Lynnette, you get the advantage.
At your station,
you'll see the Elf Me button.
Tap it, and you'll tell me what you need,
and I'll turn your two opponents
into worker elves to make them do
whatever you need for three minutes!
So, elf me, Lynnette. I'm here for you.
[Jacques] All right, bakers.
You have one hour and 45 minutes
to make your cake.
-Begin!
-[laughs]
-De'Jonnae...
-Go!
My God.
[hums]
Recipe.
Okay. Make cake.
-Okay. I'm getting cake mix.
-[Nicole] How would you make this cake?
How would you make me?
First, you have to make the cake.
Mix all your wet and dry ingredients
and all the holiday flavor.
While your cake bakes,
make your buttercream.
Make Nicole and her elves using modeling
chocolates and cocoa butter paint.
Finally, stack and cover your cake
with buttercream and fondant.
Then carefully carve out your coal mine
and fill it with melted chocolates
and rock candy.
Attach all the decorative pieces,
and voilà,
a beautiful Nicole on the Pole cake.
It's not impossible,
but it's a lot of work.
Chocka, chocka!
Chocka, chocka! This is what I always say.
I have baked cakes before, but...
nothing like this.
I just have two words for it:
"impossible."
[hums]
You guys,
Lynnette's rolling up her sleeves.
[Lynnette] Okay.
The question is, how much lemon flavor?
I really want to focus on what I'm doing.
That's pretty potent.
And I kind of want to pretend
that no one else is there.
Hey, you know what I should be doing?
The mixer, right?
But I don't have time to use the mixer.
[laughs]
I want to add a little bit more...
vanilla to it.
I feel making the cake simple but good,
opposed to exotic and bad,
is my strategy right now.
I feel like Eric is really managing
his time a lot better this round.
[Jacques] But it looked he put it
in the bottom oven,
which is not a convection oven.
Convection has a tendency of cooking
faster and drying ingredients
a little bit more.
[Eric] Now we've gotta make two more
to stack those.
Okay.
Let's go see a flavor.
I have to make a two-tier cake.
I've never made a cake higher
than my finger.
Do you have any cinnamon?
Is that what you're--
Or do we want peppermint?
Mint? Peppermint?
[gasps] Peppermint chocolate!
Maybe I was talking to my ancestors.
I don't know.
I'm talking, and something says to me,
"Let's make
a peppermint chocolate chip cake."
Yum, right?
Come on. Let's go.
This feels like I'm at the dog show.
They're all so cute.
Everything looks like...
A lot of stuff is happening, but
is somebody going to poop on the floor?
We don't know.
Hmm!
I don't really measure anything. More?
I'm pouring until my heart feels content
at this point.
-I have no clue what I'm doing.
[Bridget] Can you do that?
-Am I too stressed out right now?
-Yeah.
I should not be this stressed out.
I'm just watching.
Okay, then you let the air out of it.
My mommy told me, "Let the air out."
[cake tin slams]
Okay.
Goes in.
One thing I've learned about baking today
is knowledge is not power.
No, it's not! [laughs]
-[Eric] Two of each.
-[Lynnette] Put them in the center.
And...
Lynnette has only two molds, I think.
I don't know how that's
going to be enough cake.
Okay.
Uh, four teaspoons of vanilla.
Uh, that's about four teaspoons.
Eric, what do you have in your mixer?
Is that the buttercream?
-That's the buttercream. I hope.
-Okay.
So that's a good idea.
He lets it beat for a while
so the buttercream becomes light, fluffy,
which is better.
Just add a little more sugar.
[Bridget] Are you measuring things,
-or are you just dumping?
-My grandmother's speaking to me.
[laughter]
Butter, butter, butter, butter, butter.
We've gotta hurry.
[Jacques] She used room temperature butter
for the buttercream,
and that's going to make it very chunky.
I love a chunky buttercream.
When it's chunky, is that just
pieces of butter that you're like--
Yes, yes.
-That's what it is.
-Oh, no. I'm disgusting!
It's done!
Okay, so cakes are coming out
of the oven.
Let's see what's going on
with these things.
She sunk on me a little bit.
I'm at a point of no return.
I just get them in
the blast chiller and...
continue on.
I want to at least get them cool
so I can then pop them out
and start putting everything together
'cause that's going to be awful.
[Nicole] We're going to have a dry cake?
-[Jacques] Yeah.
-Okay.
Will you stop moving?
-Eric, you're doing great.
-I feel good.
I just don't want you to mess up
my beautiful face when you make me.
There is no way I'm going to make
the sculpture of Nicole look like her,
so I set my bar little lower.
So...
it's going to be...
an adaptation.
-[Bridget laughs]
-Okay.
[Lynnette] We're going to try
to make the hair.
I need to grab your attention
for just one moment
because it looks like
some sort of misshapen blob.
Which, if I'm not wearing
something cute,
-I do look like in the morning.
-[laughter]
[Bridget] Like a surgeon.
You don't really know.
It might look like a mess,
but she could still save lives.
[laughter]
I'm adding glitter to her dress
because I don't know too many chicas
who don't like their glitter.
I gave her a flowing gown...
Giving her some flair.
...because I don't have time to make legs.
Wow! Wow!
Fifty-five minutes!
That's two of the same number!
I screwed up.
I think I need two more cakes
that go on the top.
[bell dings]
I didn't make those elves yet.
We are running out of time.
I need to press that Elf Me button.
Elf me!
-Elf me!
-Elf me!
-[Nicole] Elf me!
-[Jacques] Help me!
What would you like me
to tell the other contestants to do?
That's going to be fun.
[electronic high-pitch]
Eric, you have to make
two cakes for Lynnette.
Okay.
[Nicole] De'Jonnae...
-Huh?
-Make an elf!
I can't even make an elf for myself!
[laughs]
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!
Make the elf! Make the elf!
Oh, my God!
That is the most annoying thing ever.
Yeah. [laughs]
-How do you feel?
-Oh, awesome! Yeah.
Okay. You can give everything to Lynnette.
Bye-bye!
Thanks for helping, guys!
I don't know how to turn this off.
As of right now,
we're trying to put this all together
and then cover it
and it will look somewhat...
not sunken in.
Like, I would eat that.
It looks like D's is going to go
upsy-daisy and fall over.
It's looking like it's falling this way
[gasps] Oh, my God. It's exploding!
[Jacques] If the cake starts to slide,
cut another side thicker and thinner,
so you kind of balance it this way.
Stay.
Stay.
Stay.
You can't tell a cake to stay!
You can on Nailed It!
Fair.
Um, my cake's fall--
I'm saying to myself,
you have to listen to the ancestors.
[screams]
Great idea!
They told me to put it in the freezer
so that it holds for a minute.
Okay. Don't worry.
[Lynnette]
It's in the oven. Let me check it.
Well... Okay, no.
That cake's not going to be ready.
Twenty-six minutes.
That was a good age for me.
[laughter]
We're going to use this
as our second tier.
I realize I have to be resourceful.
It's not going to be a perfect circle.
She's making a doughnut.
I would love to do Christmas morning
at Lynnette's house.
That's got to be something wonderful.
[Lynnette] This is going to go here.
Look, I'm a genius.
I love her.
You guys have ten minutes!
This is crazy.
Wait! I'm putting the geodes!
No! Lynnette, frost the cake!
Oh, my God.
He's just throwing it in there.
He's got some bodies buried for sure,
this guy.
I'm worried about the overall structure
of the cake.
Now we are putting the frosting on,
finally.
Lynnette, I cannot wait
to get my fingers in that thing.
You're going to pucker.
She's gonna have one foot.
Oh, wow. Five minutes, y'all.
Nicole, do you want hair or an elf, girl?
Don't let me out on these streets
without my wig on.
-[De'Jonnae] Okay, I'm trying.
-[Nicole] You got it.
[laughter]
She just stabbed that pole in there.
Put some detail into Nicole.
[De'Jonnae] This is my elf, okay?
I realize this actually looks pretty good.
Now we are making it sparkly.
Gotta have a face.
Nicole's gonna lay down.
Oh, my God.
I don't know what more I can do.
[all] Five,
four, three,
two, one.
-You're done!
-[alarm blares]
[whimpers]
Okay, De'Jonnae.
This is the Nicole at the Pole cake
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did!
[De'Jonnae] Nailed it!
Oh, no!
This is so disrespectful to me,
and I love it so much.
She's, like, jumping off a mountain
that is melting.
Thank you for giving us the gift
of something we never knew could exist.
[Jacques] Here, the problem was
maybe the center of the cake
was a little bit warm.
Things start to melt.
You put a bunch of sticks in there.
Some of them broke off.
-No--
-You trying to kill me?
-[laughter]
-There is a broken stick right there.
[laughs]
We've gotta go.
-[Bridget] We should, right?
-Girl, bye.
Bye! [laughs]
Okay, Eric. Let's see what you did.
-[Eric] Nailed it!
-[laughter]
You did me dirty.
That wig is wild!
-[Jacques] And no mouth.
-But I do have eyebrows.
-What happened to my other foot?
-You didn't need it.
[laughter]
I think that explosion of rocks you have,
that was really elegant how you did it,
and I'm real proud of you
for coming through strong.
-Thank you.
-You did try to put in all the components,
so that's the positive side here.
Well, thanks, Eric.
We have one last cake to see.
Lynnette, let's see what you did.
Nailed it!
[Nicole] Lynnette...
[chuckling]
I've never in my life seen anything
like this. [laughs]
You've made us some cornbread with
mashed potatoes and a dead woman on top.
[laughter]
I take the cake.
The consistency of your buttercream...
-It's...
-[laughter]
It's okay. It's a little thick.
[laughing]
It could have had a little bit more
milk to it.
Let it spin.
Let's give some emulsion to that.
[Bridget] Tasting this
is going to be an experience
unlike anything any of us
have ever endured.
[laughter]
Why don't you all cut out your best
slice of your cake and bring it to us.
Okay, let's sit down.
My cake is fabulously disastrous,
but it might taste good.
I'm going to see what happens.
[Nicole] What a treat.
Okay, De'Jonnae.
The cake is baked.
[Jacques]
I like the mint flavor that you gave it.
-The buttercream can be a bit lighter...
-Okay.
...but, overall, the cake is quite good.
[Nicole] Yeah. I thought it was moist,
and I did taste the mint.
[Bridget] You're good with your flavors.
I like that.
The buttercream is not 100%,
but it's 90%, and those are key elements
in this challenge.
All right.
Eric.
[Jacques] It's underbaked.
If the middle collapses,
-it's not baked enough.
-[Eric] Okay.
[Jacques] The side is actually pretty dry.
[Nicole]
But it is wild to have a dry cake...
that's also goopy
'cause there's parts that were goopy.
I thought your buttercream
had a nice flavor though. Bridget?
I think if you're able to find the
territory between the crunch and the mush,
then you're going to be in heaven,
but I was not able to locate that spot.
But a pretty decent flavor.
Lynnette.
[Bridget laughs]
[Jacques] You can take it with your hands.
[clicks tongue]
[Bridget] All right. Did you guys try it?
[laughter]
That's why a chunky...
-There's nothing else but butter in that.
-[Jacques] And sugar, yes.
I don't know if there's sugar.
That was butter!
Nope.
-Don't forget the lemon.
-[Nicole] Oh, my God!
Wow!
-[laughs]
-You served us lemon butter...
on cornbread!
On cornbread. It does taste
like cornbread, oddly enough!
Jacques hasn't spoken. [laughs]
-Jacques has said nothing!
-I'm speechless!
Wow!
Oh, what a treat. What a dream. It's time!
Time to announce the winner of the $10,000
and the coveted Nailed It! trophy.
Where's Wes?
[Christmas music playing]
[Nicole] Oh!
There's my little Keebler Elf.
Hurry! Back to the tree!
You got that icy cold cash ready?
-We ready.
-Jacques?
So the winner is...
De'Jonnae.
[cheering and applause]
Oh, my God!
I nailed it!
The ancestors, they were at work
behind the scenes,
and it worked!
I am a Nailed It! certified baker, okay?
[laughter]
Who would have known? It's crazy!
[laughs]
-[Bridget] What a treat.
-That's all for Nailed It!
There's more ho-ho-holiday madness
coming up, so sit down!
[Jacques] I need to see everyone.
[theme music playing]