Nailed It! Mexico (2019–2021): Season 1, Episode 1 - Birthday Blunders - full transcript

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

Welcome to Nailed It! Mexico,
where it's the thought that counts.

Have you ever tried
to make an amazing cake,

but you end up making a terrible mess?

This show is for you.

We've invited three home bakers
to recreate true masterpieces,

but just one of them will walk away
with 200,000 pesos.

I'm Omar Chaparro,
and I'll be your sweet host.

Let's meet our bakers.

IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS

My name is Denisse, I'm from Monterrey,
Mexico, and I'm 33 years old.



My family thinks I have many talents.

Baking is not one of them.

I love baking cookies,
cupcakes and cakes

for my family, friends and, well,
the guys I like.

If I win, I'm definitely inviting

my grandmother to cook with me,

and then I might as well find
a new boyfriend.

I'm Armando. I'm an industrial engineer,
and I'm from Monterrey.

What I like to bake the most is muffins,
cookies.

My daughter always says,
"Why aren't your cookies ever round?"

When I bake, I want it to look nice,
so my daughter can say,

"Wow, Dad, it looks pretty!"

My name is Patricia. I'm from Mexico City,
and I'm 55 years old.

There's an episode of Nailed It!



where they made a unicorn.

So it was amazing trying to copy it.

This creamy consistency is not easy.

I did my eyelashes great. See?

But I'm so bad at cake decorating.

I'm here because I love my family,

and I want to take them on a trip
that we can all enjoy.

Patricia, are you ready to win?

We are ready for Cancun.

Welcome, Patricia, Armando,

Denisse.

I would like to introduce you
to our main judge,

the Fondant Lady, chef Anna Ruiz.

-A round of applause for her.
-Hi, guys.

Anna Ruiz is chef and owner
of Anna Ruiz Store

and one of Mexico's most important
cake designers.

Also with us,

a comedian whose presence is
like a birthday gift for me.

Meet our guest judge,

Master Ricardo O'Farrill.

Thank you, thank you.

The gift is for my mom
who's watching us.

-Your mom?
-I made it, Mom. I made it!

Armando, what's that in your hand?

It's a little lion my daughter made
to keep me company.

What a lovely morning, don't you think?

In which I come to greet you.

We all came with joy.

We all came with joy.

♪ The morning is coming now ♪

-♪ The sun is giving us its light ♪
-Sing along!

♪ Get up in the morning ♪

♪ Look, it is already dawn ♪

And I'm sure you've already noticed
this program is about birthdays.

My friends, let's start out
with our first round. It's called...

Sweet Possibilities.

Now the bad news, at this birthday party,
there will be no balloons.

However, we do have...

No way! What...

Okay.

Did you all have piñatas
when you were kids?

-Yes, sure. Sure.
-No?

Did you get that scar
from a knock on your head?

We have these three piñata cakes.

A spitfire dragon,

a white unicorn

and a donkey.

It's not only about making the outside,

it has to be hollow

to fit candy and chocolate inside.

No.

When I signal, you're going to run
and choose a piñata. On your mark...

Armando runs faster.

Get set... go!

They're fighting for it.

I picked it first!

It's a competition above all.

Anna, what tip would you give them

to start baking their piñatas?

Visualize it first.

See the shapes.

If you don't cut it accordingly,

the result won't be right.

Okay.

You have one hour to make
a perfect recreation

of your piñata.

For the winner of this round,
there is a special prize.

-Are you ready?
-Yes, ready.

Get your bake on!

Let's do this!

♪ Hit it, hit it, hit it♪

♪ Don't lose your aim
If you lose it, you lose the way ♪

Two hundred grams of butter,
two cups of sugar.

Even though the recipe is there,

we know that from theory to practice,

everything changes.

Okay, I'm ready.

My dear...

Fondant Queen,

how would you start doing this piñata?

First, bake the cake.

Then make the icing.

Prepare the chocolate egg
and fill it with your favorite candy.

Stack your breads
with a thin layer of icing.

Carve a space in the bread,

making a cast of your egg.

With pieces of cake,
build the legs and head of the piñata.

Ice it using a piping bag around the body

to give texture.

Finally, use fondant
for the details of your animal's face.

RECIPE - PIÑATA CAKE
1. PREPARE THE CAKE.

I like to have fun,
but when I have to,

I focus 100% on what I'm doing.

I'm going to bake two,
in case I have a problem.

There's a spare one,
just like boyfriends.

If one walks away, another will come.
There's a plan B. We must have a plan B.

My two cakes

are now ready to go into the oven.

I'm struggling with this.

I think that's enough.

I'm concerned about the appliances
because they're very modern.

I've got a hand mixer,

a little oven,

that sometimes just doesn't work.

A bit of flour.

Patricia used too much flour.

When she takes the cake out,

there's gonna be too much flour...

And the pan is too big.
It's gonna take a lot of time to bake.

In the oven goes my cake.

Now we're talking. That's it.

I'll put this here, like this.

The piñata has to have candy inside.

I said, "A hole.

Let's put a pan inside another pan."

Here we go. I don't know
what's gonna happen, but it's worth a try.

And we're popping this in.

Armando put one pan,

and then he put another one inside
in order to bake the hole.

-It's like a baby.
-And inside...

Like an alien.

Hey, unicorns don't have babies with eggs.

No, they don't lay eggs.
They're mammals.

It's not oviparous.

Let's melt the chocolate.

Oh, she's making the egg, right?

No, she's using modeling chocolate.

Honestly, I've never worked
with chocolate. I don't have a clue,

but oh, well, I'm using it anyways.

Let's hope this works.

Here, to cool it down.

A FEW MINUTES LATER...

I think I can use it now.

No. Now I don't know how to get this out.

Good question. I don't have a clue.

Well, let's see what I can do with this.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

It's gonna take a while
before I can take the cakes out.

Okay.

I saw the legs were round and fat.
I'm sure they're marshmallows.

And that's how we're making the four legs

of the unicorn...

with marshmallows.

Oh, he's building the legs
with marshmallows

to save time.

Armando innovated.

Oh, I can't see.

That's the problem of aging, see?

Voilà.

I'll try to hurry up to build up the legs.

I don't understand Patricia's cake.

Does Patricia understand Patricia's cake?

It's her design.

These are kind of ready.

I can't get distracted.

Okay,

chill.

She looks a little relaxed, right?

Look, I'm just like you, in a zen state.

Super chill.

Let's see.

I can't.

Oh, poor thing.

Denisse, are you still zen or not?

A little less. I'm...

But not in panic mode yet. Don't worry.

Okay, we have cake.

Do not worry.

Everything will be fine.

Sir, we have a problem.

Oh, why doesn't this thing come off?

I'm having so much fun!

It won't come off?

When things get tough...

We have cake!

Ten minutes left!

I don't know what to do. How will I put...
I must bring those things...

What do I do? Help!

Come on, here we go.

Okay, that's about it...

Let's turn the cake.

It's underdone.

Disgusting. It's dripping something
not cooked. You can see it.

Oh, look at Pati's cake.

I'll try to save something, let's see.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

But I am trying hard here.
No, this is horrible.

She's making a Frankenstein

of puffed rice and bread.

And my candy?

I'll take this out.

Oh, it's melting.

She left the plastic.

A kid is going to break his teeth
if he bites that egg.

Bakers, you have five minutes left.

No. Please, no.

The dragon's head fell off!

Please stay still for a bit!
Just for the picture! Stay still.

Stay for the picture, she says.

Don't fall.

We're running out of time!

It's not what I wanted
or what I would have done with more time.

I wanted to ice it with a piping bag
and make shapes,

but in the end, I used my hands.

We want more time.

Oh, it's melting.

Slowly. Very slowly.

I spread the frosting on the cake,

and the rest was just marshmallows.

-Thirty seconds!
-Just a moment, please, sir.

We need a tail.

Pink.

This is a real mess,
but, well, it needs to be finished.

Hands up. That's it!

-Hi, Pati.
-Hi!

Let's take a look
at the original cake first.

And now let's see what you made.

Nailed it.

Pati, is this your dragon?

Looks like a broken Transformer
from Universal Studios.

-Can I touch the cake?
-Be my guest.

-Oh, now I get it.
-There's the dragon, man.

Now we're talking!

It does looks nice, doesn't it? Thanks.

We're going to give it a chance,

-because it might be delicious.
-Okay.

Where can we eat it? Because...

This little bit here,
I think it's finished.

Okay, I'm having this part here.

I don't want to be mean,
but I got a stone.

It's because you grabbed a kidney.

Yes, it's puffed rice, don't worry.

It wasn't puffed rice.

-So...
-It was a stone?

What did you have in excess...?

-Nothing.
-The excess here was flour.

When you put the butter
and sprinkled the flour,

there was an excess,
you didn't take it out.

-It has good texture.
-Thanks.

You saved the outside.

In the end, it wasn't that bad.

Pati, thank you so much. Let's move on
and see Armando's cake.

Armando is smiling.

When I'm nervous, I laugh a lot.

Let's remember the unicorn piñata
you were trying to make.

And now show us what you did, please.

Nailed it!

It has a shape, right?

There's a horn, kind of crossing
between the eyes, like a fly.

It's the mane.

-Oh, the mane.
-The mane. It's the fringe.

And that horn is the ear?

-That's the horn.
-It's a bit bent, right?

You kinda have to bend like this,

to see what it is, but it's a unicorn.

In the end, there it is. It's a unicorn.

You were very creative when you decided
to use marshmallows as the legs.

To save time, I believe.

Exactly.

But also very creative the idea of putting
a pan inside another pan

to create the hole. Very, very good idea.

-How about we taste it now?
-Go ahead.

The texture is not bad.

It's a bit more crunchy than Patricia's.

-Oh, it's about taste. I like it this way.
-Yes.

In general, you have a good cake.
This part is complete

-and the candy, I think it adds...
-Balance...

-I think your daughter would love it.
-Yes, she would.

-Armando, congratulations.
-Thank you.

Denisse, are you still in your zen mode?

Not anymore.

We had a little problem, Tito and I.

Oh, the donkey has a name.

We are going to remember
the original donkey,

and we are
going to see its identical twin.

He found vodka in the pantry,
and it looks like he drank too much.

I think you can rent this one
for a nativity scene.

You know, we have baby Jesus,

and the donkeys are lying down.

Yes, yeah, this one looks like he...

received bad news and...

He fainted, with the legs up.

Denisse, would you like...

-to try and put him up?
-I'd love to.

-Can we help you?
-Look, if we all do it, it's easier.

There it is. Look.
I tried the icing, and it's great.

I think it's time to taste Tito's body.

-You know what?
-I love the texture.

But the filling...

There's the plastic.

-And it melted because it was...
-It melted.

-Because it was hot.
-Exactly.

The cake tastes very good,

better than Armando's.

-Congratulations.
-Thank you!

Bakers, can you join together
in here, please?

You all gave it your best effort.

All of you made your cakes
with passion and love.

But there's only one winner,

and the winner is...

You, Armando.

What?! I thought that one of the girls
was going to beat me.

And now I get to wear the golden cap.

Ricardo, what did he win?

It's a miracle. Congratulations!

Weighing 80 oz., welcome to the world,
your new baby...

Mixer!

Furthermore,
he gets to wear our golden cap.

There, put it...

I know the fact that my cake
was finished helped me.

So, sweetie, I nailed it.

The good news is that
in this round we start from scratch.

-Are you ready?
-Yes.

NAIL IT OR FAIL IT

It's time for Nail It or Fail It.

Ricardo, tell us
what this challenge's about.

This challenge is about
growing, maturing.

It's the day I've been waiting
for 15 years.

Maids and chamberlains,
we invite you to join our court of honor.

With a quinceañera cake!

It's a six-tier three-milk cake.

You will have to recreate
six chamberlains.

Check out the expression
of the chamberlains,

who look like they are in love
with the birthday girl.

Although it's a hard round, don't panic,

because this time you will be able
to press a button

and get my help for three minutes.

Patricia, in the last round,
you had some problems,

so we decided to give you
a little extra help.

You will be able to press a button,

known as the nag button.

Whenever you want,

you can send me to annoy your opponents
for three minutes,

just hit that button.

And I'll be there transformed
into a very annoying birthday girl.

The winner of this round takes
the 200,000 Mexican pesos.

And we're gonna find out
who's gonna fail miserably.

Two hours on the clock only.

-Are you ready?
-We're ready.

Get your bake on!

I'll try to make it with a stronger base.

I don't have a strategy, honestly.

I want to focus on myself
and use what I've learned

from Ugly Tito

and put it into practice
in this second round.

Hey, Anna, how do you prepare
this quinceañera cake?

First you bake the base, the round bread.

Then you make the filling,
mixing the cream.

Once the bread is cold,
you can cut and glue them

with the pastry cream.

Coat the cake with icing.

Prepare the piping bags,

and decorate your cake.

Make the birthday girl
and the chamberlains with chocolate.

Make the flowers using fondant.

Fill the fountain with pink water

and your cake will be ready
for the quinceañera princess.

I'm afraid my cake is
going to be unfinished.

RECIPE - QUINCEAÑERA CAKE
1. PREPARE THE CAKE.

I'm going to follow
the instructions a bit more.

I know you have to put
just a bit of flour so it won't stick.

I'm putting the cake in the oven.

I'm focusing on using
all the ingredients accordingly

and following exactly
the steps that are written here.

In the second round,
I was feeling more confident.

I need to improve the shape
of my cake,

especially if I want the cake
to turn out pretty.

Now we're going to put it down here.

Okay. I have to do a better job
this second round.

I need to set time aside for mistakes.
There are always mistakes.

-Were you a chamberlain or not?
-No, I wasn't.

Sure, it wasn't his time.

I'm still available, though.
Whatever you need,

just call the phone on your screen.

55-YOUR-RICARDO

Would you like this face at your party?

-No!
-No, thanks.

No, I don't. Thanks.

Half a cup of condensed milk.

2. PREPARE THE FILLING.

Three quarters of condensed milk.
One cup sugar and milk. Okay.

I can use a mixer,

I can use an oven,

but I don't know how to use a can opener.

Help!

They just pressed the help button.

Help. Help button.

Quick!

-I'm coming!
-Oh, she left at last. Hey...

No, just kidding.

What happened?

I don't know how to open these cans.

You have to put it straight on here,
straight and press it.

No, leave it there.

Are you left-handed?

-How do I move it?
-No, don't move it. It spins by itself.

They will surely name me
Lady Can Opener.

-But I couldn't open this.
-Time's up.

Thanks for your help, Chef.

The three minutes finished,
and I couldn't open it.

So I took a knife

and I managed to open it.

Sometimes you have to be creative.

I'm gonna try and make this.
I've never done this before.

Building structures is not one
of my strengths.

I'm more scared of the structure
than the cake.

Pati, are you okay?

No, I'm fine.
Stressed out, but I'm trying.

It's okay, Pati...
it's just 200,000 Mexican pesos.

-I won't give up, it's a trip for...
-And remember,

if you don't feel like going to Cancun,

you'll always have the spikes.

Mother of God!

Don't... You see?
You distracted me, you see?

Sorry, Pati.

I lost so much time trying
to build the structure.

Finish it like you want,
but finish it, you know?

So it has all the elements.

Ready.

I've always been a bit more modern.

I wanted a place where I could have
all of my friends

either boys or girls.
So it wasn't so traditional.

They have changed so much,
the Quinceañeras. It has evolved.

How do they dance?

Turn around.

Down and techno dance in three, two, now.

Oh, it looks neat.

I'm not doing so bad, right?

You are a genius.

I was feeling pretty confident.

My greatest motivation to win is,
first, my daughter,

and second, I'm here to prove
that bearded men know how to bake, too.

Pati, how are you doing?

I'm almost there.

I'm going to cool it down a bit.
They smell good.

My grandmother made me bake
some very hard German recipes,

and it was really difficult.

So I'm trying to work as she would work,

everything clean and tidy.

Denisse holds the record
for the biggest mess.

If the spatula sticks to the cake,
it takes the crumbs with it.

Bakers, one hour left.

Oh, shut up, you crazy man.

I'm going to put this here.

This is the one... there.

The icing in the first round
wasn't very good.

You could see many parts of the cake.

So now I have an expert
in front of me. Ms. Anna.

Help!

What's up, Armando? How can I help you?

I want to apply the icing.

The one I did before was
a bit too thin, right?

-So it has to be...
-It has to be thick,

but the most important is
that the spatula cannot touch the bread.

If it does, crumbs will stick in it.

So you have to make it
as thick as possible

without overloading it too much.

Excellent. So, the flowers...

Eh, the dolls?

The dolls. First you make the body,
the whole structure.

Then you have to cover them,
dress them up.

Dressing the groom, you know?

Okay... dress him up with what?

Bye.

I have to make all the other stuff,
but I started spreading the icing.

We're going step by step, see how
it comes out and how it can be done.

Thirty minutes!

Major prize!

Oh, no, this is a mess. A mess.

Glazed decoration is still one
of the most difficult things for me.

I mean, it's a bit complicated.

I ran out of cream.
I don't have time to make more.

Anna, can you explain to me
and Master Ricardo

how you make the decoration.

I wasn't ready but...

Oh, perfect.

It's so cool you bring cakes, Anna.

First you have to take the piping bag,
the sleeve, here.

This finger...

-It's like milking.
-Yes.

I haven't started with the dolls.

I won't have time.

When I realized I wasted a lot of time
trying to build the structure,

I thought, "Now it's time to call Omar."

Someone hit the nag button.

Armando, what are you doing?

Armando, you are sweating,

and the sweat drops are falling
in the cake!

Tell me you are using fondant!

I want you to be my chamberlain.

Denisse!

-Denisse.
-Come on, follow me.

Hey, let's go party together!

It's a mess.

Please, Denisse.

Denisse, I'm talking to you.
I'm talking to you, hey.

I can't! I'm helping Pati!

Pati asked me to be a bit noisy with you.

-Bye.
-Bye.

-Thanks.
-I did my best, Pati.

I can't get this done,

and I still have to make
the dolls but, well...

Well, let's continue, right?

I press it, I let it form,
I stop pressing and down.

Now the pink part. Let's do this.

I put some flowers, chef.

Very good. Creativity.

No, respect. This is not easy.
But it's not that bad.

It's looking good. Not bad at all.

If these were my chamberlains,
I don't want a Sweet 15.

Denisse is making the chamberlains.
She's not doing it wrong.

She made them very English. Too pale.

They could use some tan.

Judges, can you give us extra time?

I was running out of time, and I said,
"I'm not gonna panic.

We're gonna pimp this cake."

Roses with chocolate, roses with spray,
to ensure the cake has my personality.

Oh, my God. I have to make
the birthday girl, too.

The icing is very difficult to spread.

You put it there, and when you go back,

it falls off from this side,
and then you have to do it again.

I spent too much time
spreading the icing, too much time.

Now we need a birthday girl.
Black chocolate, white chocolate.

Bakers, you have five minutes.

Only five minutes left!

And what's with Pati's stairs?

They're scaffolding stairs,
just laying around.

It's like the poor chamberlain is...

Oh, no, it's horrible.

Pati, may I remind you?
The stairs are not columns.

We need a birthday girl.

No, I mean, to think about making
the dolls and the details

and the arms...

I don't have time for that,
I don't have the time.

A big birthday dress.

It looks very pretty, it's just...

Armando is making the birthday dress.

Wow, but the chamberlains are missing.

I'm trying to make the dress.

I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
It's terrible.

The contestants are making
the puffed rice dolls.

The details are the most difficult.
Don't leave them for the end.

Yes, and they did.

The chamberlains
look like aliens, poor things.

Thirty seconds!

Where did I put the scissors?

Don't say anything about my birthday girl.

Easy, easy.

How does this go?

This went down here. A mess.

Stay here. There's the chamberlain.

You're done!

There's no more time.

Let's remember the cake
you were trying to recreate.

And now, Pati,

show us yours, please.

Nailed it.

In the original cake,
the birthday girl is alone.

-You decided to put a chamberlain...
-Yes,

-with her.
-so she is not alone.

Pati, I want to apologize for laughing,

but the thing with the stairs had me...

Oh, well, it's just I didn't know
how the stairs were suppose to be.

This cake depicts the after party,

because the chamberlains are drunk,

-they are lying down.
-The after party, yes.

The chamberlains are a bit wasted like...

Yeah, they're lying down...

But you nailed
the flowers, Patricia, right?

That's very difficult.

I focus on what's good.

The fountain is upright, and it has water.

-Thanks, Pati.
-No, thank you. Thanks.

-Mr. Armando!
-My dears, how are you?

How did you feel in the second round?

I couldn't finish everything I wanted,

but I'm happy with what I did.

Now we want to see the cake you made.

Can you turn it again?

She is looking the other way.

No, she's not.

Sorry. Do you want to say
what's missing, or should we say it?

Finishing up the dolls.

The chamberlain...

-And other five chamberlains?
-They'll be ready for the dance.

From a distance,
the birthday girl looks okay.

It has movement and details.

I love the minimalism in the cake.

Why would you overdo it with roses?

The only pink here is in the dress,
and that's it.

Thanks.

It's your turn, Denisse.

Now we want to see your creation.
Can you show it, please?

Nailed it.

The birthday girl is like this, right?

It's her gloves.

Instead of looking like a Barbie,
it looks like a Cabbage Patch, right?

Your attempt at making flowers
was by using chocolate, obviously.

I improvised with chocolate, pearls,
for the lack of time.

-And airbrush.
-Right.

It was smart to paint with pink.

I understand the lack of time.
It looks a bit Banksy, like street art.

-Graffiti.
-Yes, like graffiti.

But I like it.
It's like a local birthday girl.

We're going to sit down,

and you will cut a piece of your cake
from where you think it's tasty

and bring it to us, all right?

♪ We want cake, cake, cake ♪

We'll try Patricia's cake first.

The texture is very good, spongy.

It lacks some filling, that's all.

The texture and flavor is a lot better
than the dragon you made before.

It tastes homemade,

and I think that's very important.

It reminds me of the cakes my mom makes.

-It has mom's love.
-It was made with mom's love.

Well, now we're gonna try Armando's cake.

The topping is very soft,
but it has good flavor.

I like the texture.

I think it's a bit dryer than Pati's.

It's not spongy this time.

-But it has good flavor.
-Well, I felt the corner was a bit dry.

Sadly, you didn't have enough time.

Let's go to Denisse.

I like the flavor.

The filling is very good.
The cream is also very good.

The filling is delicious, right?

The decoration was the best, to be honest.

I loved the birthday girl.
It's very pretty.

All of it, hair, eyes, mouth,

-everything is beautiful.
-Thanks.

Now it's time to announce the winner
of the 200,000 Mexican pesos.

And for that we obviously need...

-the trophy of Nailed It! Mexico.
-A trophy.

Production, bring us the trophy, please.

Do you have the trophy?

It'll come down any moment.

It brings its own balloon.

One of you is going to take
this trophy home.

My dear Anna, go ahead, please.

And the winner of Nailed It! is...

Denisse!

It feels incredible.
I mean, I really wasn't expecting it.

This competition gave me
so much confidence.

I can't believe it.

If I could pull this off,
I'll definitely keep baking.

And now that everybody is watching me,

I will hopefully find a new boyfriend.

This was Nailed It! Mexico.

We have a birthday present
in advance for all of you:

more Nailed It! Mexico to come!

Don't touch the remote control.

Just do it if you need
to turn the volume up.