"Hey, welcome to a new season of Nailed It!"
"It's me, Nicole Byer."
[as Jacques] "Oh, hello, Nicole. It is me, Jacques."
[grunts and blows raspberries]
[grunts]
[as Wes] "It's me, Wes.
And we're back in five!"
[as Nicole] "No, we're not back in five
'cause a big monster is gonna eat you!"
[Nicole roars]
[screams]
[as Wes] "Save me!"
[as Jacques] "Save me, too!"
[monster roars]
[yells]
[screams]
[as Nicole] "I'm gonna do it!"
[battle cries]
[monster groans]
[cuckoo hoot]
[falling whistle]
-[monster groans] -[crashing]
-[coughs] -[as Wes] "Thank you!"
[coughing] "Nicole is the best!"
[Nicole whoops]
[as Nicole] Uh, uh-uh! Uh, uh-uh! Uh, uh-uh!
-Nicole? -Huh?
Are you… Are you okay?
Yes. [chuckles awkwardly]
Yes, yeah.
Are you ready to start the new season?
Yes. Come on, little Nicole. Let's do it!
"This is what happens when you eat too many bad cakes."
"I love you, Jacques." I love you too.
[chuckling]
[theme music playing]
Oh! That's a cutie! You're so cute! Come here!
And sit.
Oh! Good little dog!
You made it to Nailed It!,
where the cakes strive for purr-fection,
but end up being a cat-astrophe.
I'm your host, Nicole Byer.
Today's episode has gone to the dogs
and to the cats and to the other cute critters
as we challenge three amateur bakers to recreate professional desserts
themed around our furry little friends, our pets.
At stake is the grand prize of $10,000.
That's a lot of dog food you could buy.
Let's meet our bakers!
[howls]
My name is Kendal. I am from Sacramento, California.
It's only a cup… What are you doing?
-It wasn't totally full. -Oh, my God.
I have had a few disasters in the kitchen.
One time I had to call the fire department because… [giggles]
…I set a pizza on fire in the oven.
I hopefully won't make those mistakes on Nailed It!
I am Laqueda.
I've been married for ten years. I have two kids.
It's been a long time since it was all about me.
Leaving my house to come to Nailed It! was my first flight ever.
You know, it's my moment.
My name is Tina.
I'm a dentist,
and it's ironic because I have such a big sweet tooth.
I was taught baking by the internet. [chuckles]
Sometimes I will try to bake something
and people will look at it and they'll be like,
"Oh, that's super cute.
Did your kids help you?"
Bakers, let's get to it!
Please welcome our best in show,
pastry and chocolate aficionado,
-Jacques Torres. -[squeals]
Thank you, Nicole.
Remember today that anything is paw-sible.
[record scratch]
Nicole, did you get it?
-Yes. -So proud of it.
I loved that pun, Jacques. I did, I loved it.
Speaking of puns, look what the cat dragged in.
Actor, singer and comedian, Wayne Brady!
-What? -Oh, my God. Hi!
Whoo!
I love being referred to as "what the cat drug in."
Let's get to our first challenge. It's called Baker's Choice.
Everyone loves an animal cracker,
but there's never enough to go around.
They're just so tiny teensy-weensy,
and then my big brain said, "Ooh, I got a big idea."
So, in today's Baker's Choice challenge, you're gonna make these…
giant exotic pet cracker cookies!
-Oh. -[Nicole] Yes.
Those animals that you thought would make fun pets
now make even better desserts.
We got a sweet skunk, a crunchy monkey and a perky parrot.
Even better, you don't have to clean up after them.
[chuckles]
[exhales]
Which exotic pet will you choose?
-Laqueda, which one do you want? -I'm gonna go with the crunchy monkey.
All right. Tina?
I'd like to go with the sweet skunk.
Finally, Kendal.
Oh boy, you get no choice. For that I am sorry.
It's okay. It happens.
[giggling]
All right, bakers. No more poodlin' around.
You have 45 minutes.
-Is that okay with you guys? -Sure.
Great, 'cause it's not gonna change. It starts now.
It starts now. It starts now.
-[Nicole] It starts now. -Go.
[Nicole] Move it! Go!
Whoa! What?
[laughing]
[groans, sighs]
Oh, my God.
Where… What am I… I think I need to look here.
All right, Jacques, how would you make these giant animal cracker cookies?
The first things to do, of course, is make the dough.
Then I will roll the dough.
Then I will cut it, transfer that to the sheet pan and bake it.
Then make a royal icing
and melt the colored chocolates when the cookie comes out of the oven.
Cover the cookies with the chocolates,
outline the animal cookie with the royal icing,
stick the nonpareils, and voilà.
-[Nicole] Yes. -Voilà.
Exotic giant pet cracker animal cookies.
-[Nicole] It's hard. -Giant exotic…
[together] …pet cracker cookies. Giant exotic pet cracker cookies.
-[music] -♪ Giant exotic pet cracker cookies ♪
-[Wayne] ♪ Hey! ♪
-♪ Giant exotic pet cracker cookies ♪ -♪ Hey! ♪
-♪ Ah! Ow! ♪ -♪ What? ♪
-♪ Yummy, yummy, yummy, yum ♪ -♪ Hey, hey ♪
[music stops]
-[laughing] -Wow.
I've never made a cookie this big before, so I'm a little bit nervous about it.
When I'm baking at home, I think I really have
the tasting portion of it nailed down.
But when it comes to the decorating, it's kind of always a disaster.
So, I'm pretty scared about how this is gonna turn out.
Cream.
Let's check. Okay, that's dough.
He said a cup, but I'm just gonna… I don't know what's happening.
I'm just happy to be here, okay?
I'm very nervous because the cookies I make at home,
they're in a pack, they're already cut out.
I basically have to take the cookies from the pack and put 'em in the pan.
It's easy-peasy.
That's not good.
Part of me is like…
[high voice] "Take your time, relax, you got this."
And another part is like… [low] "Girl, you only got 45 minutes."
I didn't put enough whipping cream inside, I think.
[chuckles]
[Jacques] Nicole, Laqueda,
she put about 16 times the quantity of liquid that she's supposed to put.
-So, now the dough is too sticky. -[laughs] Is that why it looks like that?
I'm so messed up right now!
"Mix until pebbly mixture forms."
Dentistry is a science
and I feel like baking could probably be something similar.
So, if I follow instructions, then I should get something good made.
I'm hoping for the best.
I'm wondering if I should, like, speed the mixer or what.
Yay. It's starting to form.
We're gonna try and cut a frickin' parrot.
So, if we do a circle here…
Then another fricking corner. We're gonna make him a fat bird.
There we go. His tail's gonna be right there.
[giggles] Okay.
Move this…
Shoot, I already ripped it.
So, the way to transfer it is to slide a cake board under
and then remove it.
Doing it by hand like that, I wouldn't do it.
-[music playing] -Tina, get a cake board.
-Tina, get a cake board.
-Cake board. Cake board. -Get a cake board.
Get a cake board.
-Tina, get a cake board. -That'd help.
At this point, he just looks like roadkill.
[laughing]
Uh-oh. That's not…
[squeals] Laqueda!
[Nicole] Have you made cookies before?
Not this type of cookie.
She's off-roading right now.
Truly. She's in a Jeep. The top's off. She's having a good time.
-[Laqueda gasps] -[Nicole cackles] Laqueda!
[laughing]
-[Laqueda] Please don't! -[laughs]
-[Nicole] Ooh, that spatula! -I can't think!
She's making lunch-lady cookies.
[laughing]
[Nicole] Laqueda!
[laughing]
This is gonna be a bit cookie-ish.
She's great. I love her.
Twenty-seven minutes remain!
Okay.
Ten minutes? Who knows?
Tina only set her timer for ten minutes.
She's going to need certainly more time than that.
Laqueda put a big slab of cookie dough and just like, 'tis what it is.
I think she's gonna cut it after.
She's a treasure.
I just have to make a bright pink and a light pink.
Color, color, color.
[chuckles]
Parakeets are red.
That's a really pretty color.
I'm pretty proud.
We're gonna melt this chocolate.
-This is for sure a microwavable bowl. -[metallic clang]
-[crew] Don't put metal in the microwave. -Oh. Almost started a fire.
[laughs]
I'm sorry.
[laughs]
I'm just gonna go with this pink.
Laqueda is using cocoa butter to color the royal icing.
-Like cocoa butter? -Cocoa butter.
Like for your skin?
-You don't want an ashy cookie. -No.
[Wayne and Nicole laugh]
Black people do not like ashy cookies.
I… I don't get it.
[laughs]
Nineteen minutes remain!
[squeals]
Super-ugly.
Those cookies are not baked all the way through!
Oh, it's the lump.
I don't think it's done, but we'll see.
I don't think we'll have any cookies at the end.
[Wayne] I knew that there was gonna be some odd baking,
but you picked the best ones just for me. Thank you.
[chuckles]
Now, let me carve out this monkey.
Laqueda!
[Nicole] Are you using a spoon to cut the cookie?
Yes.
Now she's using a spatula.
[Wayne laughs]
You can do it, Laqueda.
Oh, no. That's not gonna work.
Oh, my God!
She just realized that the cookies are not cooked.
Let me figure it out.
I'm thinking right now, what can I do
to create something to present to the judges?
I'm gonna carve the monkey out again.
[sighs] This is crazy.
Spread it around as best as I can.
It will look, hopefully, just decent.
Just throw some sprinkles and he is gonna be good.
Get that nice royal icing on there.
[Nicole] Wait a minute.
Kendal, it was pink.
-Yeah. -[Nicole] And now it's red?
Oh… Oh.
I did the royal icing on top of the chocolate.
-[toy whistle] -What?
-So the candy melt is pink? -[Jacques] Candy melt is pink, yes.
-[Nicole] The detail, that's royal icing? -[Jacques] It's royal icing.
[Jacques] That much icing is going to be very sweet.
I just don't believe this is what's happening.
[laughs] Six minutes remain!
Oh!
No!
Colored sprinkles.
Run, Tina, run.
Okay. Colored sprinkles.
It's gonna have to be. I'm out of time.
Okay. Candy, candy, candy, candy.
Pebbles. Eyeballs.
I'm having issues with the decoration.
I think it's time to improvi-- Ugh. So, I think it's time to improvise.
I'm decorating the thing with stuff that's not supposed to be on it.
[Wayne] Hey, Kendal.
Are you really putting wasabi on your cookie?
Oh-- [bleep] Is that wasabi?
[Wayne laughs]
Oh, my God. They are a treasure today.
You know what? I'm gonna leave that.
One minute remains.
So exciting. This is the part I live for.
Oh, my God. Okay.
His tail broke off. Whatever.
[chuckles]
Oh, no. No, monkey.
No, monkey, please.
And his head broke off. Whatever.
I'm just gonna go ahead and, uh, that's what it is.
Come on, monkey.
-Laqueda, we need some cookie to taste. -The cookie, yes.
The edges of the cookies got done first,
so I carved out a couple pieces for the head.
You can't tell it's the head, but it's the head.
There's the monkey face.
Okay.
This is the most stressful part.
His bowl is just gonna have to go on the top here.
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
[exhales]
Kendal.
Let's try to remember the giant exotic pet cracker cookie you were trying to make
and let's see what you made.
-[Kendal] Nailed it! -[Nicole] Hey!
[laughing]
[Nicole] Kendal, it's red.
[Kendal] It's pretty. It looks like a parakeet.
-We asked you to make a parrot. -Oh. They're the same thing.
-Oh, okay. -Yeah.
[laughing]
It looks like someone put a gangland hit out on Toucan Sam.
[chuckles]
Good… Good for you. Nailed it!
The candy on it, it's so funny to me. Thank you.
All right, Jacques. Let's taste the cookie.
[Jacques] Let's taste it. I'm scared.
Thank you, Jacques.
[Wayne] Oh. Uh… [laughs]
[chuckles] I just want you to see.
[Nicole] Oh boy.
There's a hair in my cookie.
[Nicole laughs]
[laughing]
Laqueda, you're laughing at this? [laughs]
[Wayne] The thing is, you know it isn't mine.
-So… So don't even. -[laughing]
So sorry.
I have to say that this is a shortbread cookie.
A shortbread cookie needs to be baked all the way.
And the royal icing brings a lot of sweetness to it.
It's not unpleasant, but it's underbaked.
-Hair aside… -[chuckles]
…I actually enjoyed the taste of the cookie.
Yeah. It was very, very sweet, but overall I think it tasted really nice.
-Mm-hmm. -Cool.
Thank you so much. We must move on.
Ah, hello, Laqueda.
Let's remember the cookie you were trying to make.
And, ooh, Laqueda, ooh, let's see what you did.
[Laqueda] Nailed it!
[Nicole gasps]
Laqueda!
[Nicole laughs]
[Nicole] What is it? What happened?
A lot of things happened. I was all over the place.
-[Nicole] Uh-huh. -[buzzing]
Ha! There's a fly on it!
You know what? I'm out.
Wayne Brady, I'm so sorry we disrespected you like this.
[Nicole] We… [laughs]
The fly literally is at home.
Mine! [buzzes] Mine!
[buzzing]
-[Nicole] All right, let's taste it. -Oh, my God.
[Nicole laughs]
[Nicole giggles]
I have to say, that's completely underbaked.
There's a bit of royal icing that brings a little sweetness to it,
but it doesn't save it. I'm sorry.
I wish that I loved this cookie as much as I adore you.
Laqueda, this cookie was like someone rear-ended me,
and while I was dealing with the aftermath, T-boned me.
This is the wildest thing I have tasted in a very long time.
It was like, spicy. [laughs]
Laqueda, I don't want this.
This is… I don't want it.
-[Wayne] Where'd the spice come from? -[Nicole laughs] I don't know!
[laughing]
I don't know. Wow. See ya.
-Merci. That was something. -[Wayne] It's on the ground!
All right, Tina.
Let's remember the cookie you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did.
-[Tina] Nailed it! -[Nicole] Oh boy.
-Okay. -Oh, I like it.
I think you did a nice job. It's pink.
We got the decoration.
[Jacques] I don't know if it's a cat or a skunk or a raccoon,
but it's a creature.
Looks like a space creature in a yarmulke.
[Nicole] Sure.
But I'm feeling very positive about this
because as of yet, I see no hair.
-[Nicole laughs] Ha! -[Wayne] I see no insect life.
I'm looking forward to this.
-[Nicole] Jacques, let's taste it. -Okay, let's do it.
-Nicole. -Thank you, Jacques.
On the side of it, I get the crunch that I want.
If I bite in the middle, to me, it will be underbaked.
But bring some good flavor to it and it smells good.
For the way that I like a cookie, this consistency was great.
Yeah. I like the chocolate on it.
-[Nicole] I'm happy. -Okay. Awesome.
We have an… interesting decision to make.
-Thank you, ladies. -Thank you, ladies.
Jacques, who deserves a round of a-paws?
[giggles]
We did have three cookies,
and we are proud of you because nobody gave up.
But it can be only one winner, so the winner is…
-Tina. -Yay!
Tina, we can just tell you haven't had enough of these animal cracker cookies,
so that's why we are sending you home with your very own year supply
of animal cracker cookies.
You'll also get the esteemed golden Nailed It! baker's hat.
I hope you love it.
-I love it. -[Nicole] Congratulations.
But this pet party's just getting started.
Don't everyone take a catnap because Round Two's happening now.
Bakers, to introduce our next "Nail It or Fail It" challenge,
we have a surprise guest joining us.
From the comfort of my living room, give it up for my dog, Clyde!
-Hello, Clyde. -[barking]
Who's a good boy? Yes, you're a good boy. I miss you.
-What's that, Clyde? -[barking]
Oh, you have a challenge for the humans?
Okay, yes. I'll tell them.
Wait, you speak dog too?
[laughs] No, no. Just Clyde.
Bakers, for today's challenge,
you might end up in the doghouse if you mess this one up
because you are making…
[Nicole] My dog Clyde, in cake!
[Wayne] Wow.
[laughing]
For this round, you'll make a dog cake.
And I spoke to Clyde before the show and he said he likes peanut butter and bacon,
so make sure we can taste them in your cake.
[Jacques] The stacked cake body and rice-cereal-treat head and legs
are covered in fondant and modeling chocolate.
His eyes and nose are an edible shellac
to give him the ultimate lifelike look.
Also, Laqueda, since you were struggling last round,
we're gonna throw you a bone… button!
When you hit it, your opponents must immediately stop
and answer our doggy quiz for three minutes
and then you can return to your baking, okay?
Okay, bakers, the grand prize winner will get $10,000!
You have 90 minutes. Wow, it started.
-Yeah, go. -[Wayne] Go, go, go!
"Sixteen slices of bacon, crispy."
Okay, pretty sure that's 16.
Jacques, how would you go about making a My Dog Clyde cake?
Nicole, I think that the bakers have their hands full with this challenge.
First, the bakers will need to cook bacon to add into their cake batter.
While the cakes are in the oven, they must make the buttercream flavor
with peanut butter.
When the cakes are cool,
they can stack the cakes to form the shape of the dog
and cover with fondant.
Then the head will be made
from a Styrofoam ball covered in modeling chocolates
while the legs are shaped from rice cereal treats.
Last, they will be using modeling chocolate to create the details
and bring Clyde to life.
-It's going to smell like bacon in here. -Ah.
Bacon is a nice meat treat.
[laughs]
I'm gonna put the bacon in the oven and let it cook to a crisp.
When I'm at home, I stick to the recipe.
"Eight each eggs."
So, I'm thinking I probably should be…
[high voice] …sticking to the recipe.
Am I doing this right?
"Eight each eggs." What does that even mean?
But eight eggs is way too many eggs to put in a cake.
[low voice] Trust me.
That doesn't make sense.
[Nicole] Laqueda has only used four eggs in her batter as opposed to eight.
Maybe she's making less cake?
I doubt it.
[laughs]
My strategy is, like, multi-task and do multiple things at one time,
so I have as much time as I can to decorate.
Baking cakes… That's a piece of cake.
No pun intended.
But we have to make a peanut-butter bacon cake
and the issue is, I've never cooked bacon before.
So, I don't cook bacon at home.
I just don't really eat bacon.
-Hey, Tina. -Yes?
Now, I heard you say that you've never made bacon before.
I've never made bacon because I am, like, deathly afraid of oil splattering.
So, that's why you've avoided one of nature's most amazing tasting foods?
I know, I know.
What other things do you not cook out of fear?
I do a lot of takeout. [chuckles]
[laughs]
I'll try to not get my hair in the food this time.
This is taking literally the longest time.
Kendal, how's it going there?
-Stressful, but that's good. -[Nicole] What's happening?
Cooking bacon for me is pretty stressful.
I usually just pop it in the microwave.
[gasps]
[together] You microwave bacon?
It still tastes good.
-No! -[Kendal] Why don't you guys try it?
[Kendal laughs]
-Wait, are those done? -[Kendal] Yeah.
-It's still oinkin'. -[laughs]
I think it looks good.
Fifty-nine minutes remain!
That's a lot of bacon.
Make that sweet and salty peanut-butter taste pop.
I'm afraid Laqueda's bacon is not cooked enough.
You can see it's very soft. I also see big lumps of bacon.
To put bacon in a cake, you want them crispy.
Then, cut it into small pieces and add to the cake batter.
You don't want soft bacon on a cake.
No.
I really hope I'm doing this right.
Let's throw this one in the oven.
It's gotta get cookin'.
Mm, something's smelling good now.
"Four sticks of butter."
"Eight cups of powdered sugar."
Ooh, that's a lot of powdered sugar.
Make the buttercream. Build the dog. Easy.
Full can of peanut butter.
Okay.
Add a little bit more peanut butter in here.
My God, this is so much work.
I gotta get these cakes out.
Got her cakes outta the oven. I hope they're cooked through.
Oh, this is done.
-Oh, my God. -[Jacques] Kendal has a cake out.
She's running over to the blast chiller.
[Jacques] So, she's cooling down the pan.
She should bring only the cake in the blast freezer.
Ah. Okay.
One more.
Thirty-four minutes.
Totally cool.
[exhales sharply]
I think it's a good rule of thumb that if she can get those cakes out of the pan,
that I can trust her as my dentist.
I think the two couldn't have more of a correlation.
[laughs]
He's gonna be a fat dog.
Oh, my God. This is hard.
So crazy!
Every time I look over at Laqueda,
it's like, Lord, mm-hmm.
Exactly.
Oh, my God.
I messed the fondant up.
I've gotta figure something out, like, right now.
-[dog whines] -[Laqueda] Doggy quiz!
Uh-oh. It's the Doggy Quiz Button.
All right.
Kendal, Tina, I have a quiz for you.
What is--
-Black lab. -[Nicole] Yes.
-Golden retriever! -Okay.
-Chihuahua! No! -Uh, corgi!
They're wasting their time doing the quiz,
but I am getting ahead.
Oh!
-Looks like my dog, kind of. -[both] Chihuahua!
[Nicole] Uh, slash?
It rhymes with… meagle.
[both] Beagle!
[Nicole] Everyone got that one.
[laughs]
Go back to baking.
Yes!
Structure is probably the most important part.
Every time I watch Nailed It!,
I'm always so baffled by the people who have their cakes stuck in their pans.
Kendal, you should demold them before putting them into the blast freezer.
I didn't know that.
As long as we've got one part of it, we're good.
I had a mound of cake on the cake stand.
Past contestants, I am so sorry for making fun of y'all.
I see why that could happen.
It's just mush.
He looks like a decent dog.
And we're 20 minutes.
Somehow his head's gonna go on.
I want the head to be really cute.
Chocolate-- [gasps]
Laqueda, what happened?
I want him to have ears.
-He can have ears if you make them! -[Laqueda] Yes.
-[Nicole laughs] -She's the star of her own sitcom.
This is not good.
[sitcom music playing]
Laqueda, what if you cut the stick?
I'm fully entertained.
It's Laqueda!
-[whoops] -[music stops]
Yes!
[laughing]
This is so embarrassing.
Kendal, what's going on over there?
[giggles] My cake's falling.
Putting buttercream on it won't help.
I'm not gonna win. That's what's going on.
I don't know. I'd look around.
-Don't look at this bald-headed baby. -[giggles]
-[glass smash sound] -Sorry.
There's no way a dog will come out of any of this right now.
[Nicole laughs]
[laughs]
He needs some eyes.
Okay, we are coming together.
Yes!
Wow, you guys. Six minutes remain!
[squeals]
No!
What? What is that?
-Get in there. -What is Laqueda doing?
I don't mean to beat your nose so much.
-Oh, my God. This is something. -There you go.
He's got a nose,
but I forgot to put in a tail.
Tina, what is that?
-Oh, that's the tail. -Oh.
I'm glad you recognize it. You know what my kids will say?
"Is that poop?" They're gonna ask that.
[laughs]
[laughs] This looks like a cat, not a dog!
One minute remains!
So, this is okay. We're gonna work with what we've got.
We're gonna make him a little ball.
-There we go. -Don't you dare, doggy.
Don't you do it.
Oh, my God. Why won't this just stay on?
Thirty seconds remain!
I obviously don't have the time, so no tail.
He's got ears. He got a nose.
[whimpers]
This will probably fall during judging.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You're done!
[giggles]
All right, Kendal.
You're up first. Come on over.
Let's remember the My Dog Clyde cake you were trying to make.
Well, let's see what you did.
[Kendal] Nailed it!
[laughing]
[Nicole] I love it.
It is not my dog, but I love this animal.
Oh, he is leaning.
It's a pimp lean.
-[giggles] -[Nicole] But we got the bandanna on.
Do we got his feet? He only has two feet.
-Does he have a tail? -[Kendal] I forgot! [laughs]
[laughing]
[Jacques] It's funny, what you did. I'm sorry.
Looks like a bird a little. Looks like a dog, like…
I don't know exactly what he looks like.
But we have a cake.
Exactly.
I can't wait to taste it. But for now, wheel back to your station.
Okay.
My friend Laqueda.
Let's see what you made!
[Laqueda] Nailed it!
[laughs] Oh, Laqueda, I love this.
You know, this dog has seen a lot of things.
This dog's been through it.
[Jacques] He lost his nose.
-[Nicole] Oh! -[Jacques] Oh, no.
You know, I love his eyes. I mean, look at his eyes.
-[Nicole] Oh! -He's coming apart.
[laughs]
[Wayne] But you know what? It's quite a piece of artistry.
I see an animal stuck in this green quicksand,
and the dog is like…
[groans] …trying to get up.
So, there's movement.
There's a story, there's passion, there's verve.
-[unsure] Okay. -I'm just kiddin'.
[laughing]
Oh boy.
Well, I've seen enough.
Just wheel back to your station.
All right, Tina.
Let's see that cake!
-[Tina] Nailed it! -[Nicole chuckles]
-Hey. -[Nicole] You know…
Okay.
That dog's very fat.
But you know what? I like that.
We got the ears, the tongue.
He's wearing a handkerchief. Oh!
And a ball!
My dog likes to play with toys. I'm glad you added it.
-The tongue is bigger than his mouth. -[dog pants]
-I don't think the tongue can go in. -Wooth! Wooth!
[laughs]
I like it. It looks like a cartoon dog brought to life.
-Nice job. -Thank you.
All right, you can wheel back to your station
and I'd like the three of you to slice us a nice big piece of dog cake.
As bad as my cake looks, I honestly have really high hopes for it.
I baked the cake all the way through. I've got the fondant around it.
I have all the components that you need.
I think I could possibly win this thing.
All right, we're gonna taste these cakes.
Kendal, you're up first.
[laughing]
[genteel voice] If I'm to judge a cake, I must appear the part.
I feel that there was a war between the peanut butter and the bacon.
The bacon lost.
[Jacques] The bacon is undercooked.
That's maybe why we don't really feel that flavor of the bacon.
-I… -But, that being said, I liked the taste.
I thought it was really delightful and the cake was well baked.
-Cool. -All right. Thank you so much.
Laqueda, you're next.
-[Jacques] I'm, like, really fighting it. -Oh, my God.
[Jacques] Nice flavor of peanut butter, but it's a pretty dry cake.
It's difficult to just, you know, cut it.
Would you recall how many eggs you put in your cake batter?
I wanna say four.
So that's why, because there's not enough eggs and liquid in the cake.
[Laqueda] All right.
The first bit was a big old chunk of bacon.
The bacon should have been a part of the experience,
not just, "Hey, I'm a piece of bacon."
-Okay. -[Nicole] I liked your buttercream.
I thought it was really peanut buttery and creamy, and that's great.
Thank you.
[Nicole] Tina, you're up next.
The peanut butter is a bit more calm, so I'm able to taste the bacon.
And the texture of the cake is pretty good.
-Thanks. -[Wayne] I agree.
You accomplished a nice balance, so nice job.
I can taste the bacon. I do wish there was a bit more peanut butter.
I was missing the peanut butter.
That being said, I think Clyde would love all three cakes.
Judges, are we ready to announce the winner?
Yes, Nicole.
The winner of this challenge wins $10,000.
And,
the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes!
Really? No dog costume?
Wait.
[laughing]
No, a full-length dog costume would've been much funnier.
[dog whimpers]
Well, Wayne, you got that money ready?
-Boom. -[Nicole] All right.
We had three dog cakes who look pretty good,
and also taste like peanut butter and bacon.
But it can be only one winner.
The winner is…
-Tina! -Oh, my God!
-[Jacques laughs] -[Wayne imitates klaxon]
[Tina] I'm proud of myself.
I wanted to put myself out of my comfort zone.
I feel so encouraged.
[Nicole laughs] Congratulations!
I like that I didn't even have to tell you to get the trophy!
I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna start baking for all my friends and family.
The sky's the limit.
Ah. Well, it's a doggone shame, but that's all we have time for.
See you on the next Nailed It!
Everyone snarl!
[snarling]
I snarl in French.
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