[theme music playing]
All work and no play makes Jacques a dull, dull boy.
So, today, we're letting him run the show!
Yeah! Oui, oui! Yoo-hoo!
-[accordion playing] -Welcome to Nailed It!
Where the cakes strive to be beaux chefs-d'oeuvre.
"Beaux chefs-d'oeuvre."
But end up looking jacked.
"Jacked."
I am your host, Nicole Byer.
Well, actually, Jacques, you're not Nicole Byer.
I'm Nicole Byer, so is it okay if I take over the rest?
-Of course, Nicole. Sorry. -[bleep]
Today, three amateur bakers will be recreating professional chocolaty treats
inspired by our very own expert chocolatier and pastry chef,
-Jacques Torres. -Moi.
At stake is a chance to win $10,000
and, most importantly, Jacques' love and adoration.
Let's meet our bakers.
I'm Alpin,
and I'm a classical concert pianist and entertainer.
The personal reason why I want to be on this show
is to impress baking icon and idol Jacques Torres.
He is the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of chocolate.
[laughs] I put in four tablespoons of baking powder!
[laughs] Oh, no!
I hope he will see the baking genius in me,
and he will take me on as his apprentice.
My name is Patricia
and I am the first lady of my church.
I have baked so many cakes and cupcakes and pies for church functions.
This is good, if I say so myself.
And I do.
I do wanna please people to the point of they saying,
"Ooh, she put a lot of love in this."
I'm Julia and I'm a blogger from Detroit, Michigan.
[laughs, groans]
Oh! It came out. Okay.
I am recently engaged
and I keep saying when I'm married, I'll learn how to cook.
So, now that I am engaged, I do have that little push
and I wanna show my fiancé that,
"Hey, I can make you a great dessert or something."
Welcome, Patricia, Alpin, and Julia.
Today is all about this man right here,
Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres.
Merci, Nicole.
[Jacques] Thank you. I am honored.
A whole episode about my favorite food, chocolate.
I cannot believe it.
[Alpin] Um, I'm just gonna say it.
It is my hope that Master Torres
will recognize the burning spark of baking genius within me,
offer to take me as his apprentice so we can rule the baking galaxy together.
-[chuckles] -Wow!
Nice!
[laughing]
I cannot believe it.
You know what I can't believe?
Our special guest today!
Singer, artist, Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia!
♪ You, you, you, you, you already know ♪
Hi, guys!
[cheering]
-I love that you did that! [laughs] -Thank you.
Yes!
Okay, bakers, it is Jacques' show, so he's got your first challenge
in our first round called Baker's Choice.
Your first task requires you to take a long, hard look at yourself.
Ask, do I have what it takes to win?
The answer will be staring at you right in the face when you make these…
-No! -No way!
-No! -[Nicole] Chocolate Lollipop Faces!
There's nothing better than a lollipop,
except one that has your very own face that you can eat!
These Lollipop Faces are made using round white chocolate base
which has your very own face painted freehand using cocoa butter paint
and wrapped in a colorful modeling chocolate twist.
Also, each color has a different flavor.
Strawberry, mint, and citrus.
So, it's a lollipop face-off,
and you get your own face. That's how it works.
-Big Freedia, are you a baker? -I am a baker.
[Nicole] Ooh, do you have advice?
Well, I-- I don't bake lollipops, so…
[laughing]
Just don't forget the stick.
[laughing]
[Julia] All right.
Well, bakers, are ya feeling good about this Jacques-tastic day?
[bakers] Yes!
You have 30 minutes, starting… now.
Uh, follow the directions, right?
Okay, I need to find some mint chocolate and…
Oh, my God.
Okay, let's see.
I wish I brought my glasses. I can't see anything.
So, Jacques, how would you go about making these chocolate lollipops?
First, they have to, of course, melt the chocolate.
Pour the chocolates in a bowl and melt them.
Then, add the flavoring.
Mix and pour that into a circle mold.
While that cools, make the lollipop's border
from modeling chocolates.
Next, remove the mold
and use cocoa butter color to paint the face.
Then, finally, attach the frame
and you have a picture perfect chocolate lollipop.
So, the painting, I think, is going to take the most time.
Mm-hmm.
That makes sense.
-A lot of things make sense. -[Freedia] It does.
And then you watch people do it and you're like,
how did you arrive to that conclusion?
[laughs]
Okay.
White chocolate.
-Come on! -Today, speed is of the essence.
I have to move and bake as fast as humanly possible.
If you're fast, you'll have time at the end to make it pretty.
Is anything happening here?
Alpin's very frantic.
-I don't know how he's functioning. -[laughs]
Oh!
-[Alpin] I see liquid chocolate happening! -Oh, my God.
This is a chocolate melter. This is way too long to melt.
Put it in a microwave.
Come on, dude! Go, go, go! Turn liquid.
All right, let's do this. So, it's plugged in.
Melt.
[crickets chirp]
Oh, it's not on!
You guys.
It looks like Julia puts her chocolate over the induction burner,
which has too much heat coming from the bottom. She might burn it.
She's in danger.
[laughs]
Julia, you in danger, girl.
Since today is all about Jacques,
I keep telling myself, "Okay, I have to impress Jacques."
So, my lollipop has to taste good.
That's what matters.
Well, I'm wearing yellow today, so we'll do lemon.
Julia, are you supposed to be wearing glasses?
I should be wearing my glasses.
-She's just squinting to read the… -[Nicole laughs]
I'm s-- [gasps] You guys!
Get thee to Lenscrafters.
[laughs]
I don't know.
Might be too much.
Ah. Okay. Lord, help me 'cause I don't know.
When it comes to making them chocolate lollipops,
I'mma need God to really show me what to do.
It's a lot of talking gonna be going on with myself.
Lord. Really, Lord. Okay.
Jesus.
Well, not to myself, to my partner, the Lord.
God, I know you here with me 'cause this is serious.
And strawberry flavor, I'm going with it.
This is something serious.
We gonna go for this. We gonna go for this.
Did I make enough? I don't know. [gasps]
Why? Why does the world hate me?
Jacques, I think Julia actually burned her chocolate.
Oh, no!
-[Freedia] Yeah. -Oh, no!
Let's take some out.
Lord Jesus, take the wheel.
Okay. Come on!
Alpin is just jumpy.
Alpin, are you okay?
Uh, no! No! No!
[squeals]
[Alpin] Oh, yes!
I am making a mess.
Oh, my goodness, I need to add flavor! No!
He's making me nervous.
Oh, no!
Right, I have to add it inside now.
Not that much flavor.
Uh-oh. Well…
[Jacques] Alpin put the flavor in the mold.
Because he mixed it in the mold, the flavor is not everywhere.
So we might get pieces with too much flavor and pieces with none.
Oh, my God.
-Alpin. How's it going over there? -[Alpin] Yes!
Pretty bad, pretty bad.
-Oh, no! -It's gonna be like a Tic Tac.
You're about to have your breath freshened a lot.
All right.
Oh, no! Why is it moving?
Bam. Okay, that's where we gonna go.
That's how we do it.
Twelve minutes remain.
Okay, I'm good, I'm good.
Okay.
I've never had a tapeworm, but one of my best friends had a tapeworm
and this looked like the picture she sent me. It was not pretty.
So, I need to make a ribbon around the outside.
All right!
Maestro, let's see if I do this right, all right? Um…
No! No, no!
This is a lot.
[laughing]
I think I'm ready, baby.
Wow. That's beautiful.
My hand's up. Thank you, God.
That's amazing. That is something serious.
Ah!
Guys, we have chocolate!
[chuckles]
Ta-da!
Yes!
[laughs]
Black. Let's do this one. Yes.
Usually, when I paint, like, the eyes are the best thing I can paint.
But this is, like, not--
I'm so sorry.
[squeals, laughs]
It's not like looking in a mirror.
It's like looking at a ghost.
Lord, help me in this one right here, 'cause this is serious.
Oh! [squeals]
Ugh! I just messed up the nose. What?
It's funny that they're not making a face of you
since it's an episode about you.
They might destroy me. [laughs]
Oh, wow.
Let's put the-- Here we go, here we go.
Does that look like skin?
That's a pretty good head shape. I do have to have ears.
My hands are shaking so hard.
[laughs] Oh, this is horrible!
Three minutes remain.
Oh, that's… [chuckles]
This'll be something to laugh about right here.
[laughs]
I love her! [laughs]
No! I don't have a beauty mark there! Oh, my God. [laughs]
This is gonna be like one of those impressionist paintings of me.
I don't know how to stick this on, though.
Okay, I need to put my teeth in.
Yes! Queen! Look at this.
She still don't have her border on and it looks like it's chunky.
[Nicole and Jacques laugh]
[Julia] She's beautiful.
There's one minute left!
Fondant is, like, evil. Evil.
Ooh, goodness.
Bam. [beatboxes]
I just need this to stand up.
[groans] I'm scared to put her up there, but she gonna have to go.
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
Longest 30 minutes of my life.
All right, Patricia.
This is the lollipop face you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did.
[Patricia] Nailed it!
But, Patricia… [squeals]
Oh, my God. What happened to your eye?
[laughing]
[Freedia] Your eye is leaning, girl.
Also, Patricia, uh, you Black.
Mm.
[laughs]
What happened with the coloring? It's not brown like your beautiful skin.
-I wanted it to be. It didn't go that way. -Okay.
I'm so sorry, Patricia.
The sun hit you so hard, and then you turned red.
I mean, I'm so sorry.
The bottom half is good.
Like, the nose, I know that's a nose. The mouth is a mouth.
I hope it tastes better than it looks.
[laughing]
-Jacques, let's taste that lollipop! -Okay!
Let's do it.
[Nicole] Oh, no, we're cuttin' right into Patricia.
-[Freedia] Thank you. -Voila.
It's nice and sweet.
-Really feel the strawberry. -[Freedia] Mmm.
Oh!
You know, I will eat that lollipop.
-I'll have more. -I like it.
Big Freedia, you like it?
I like it. It tastes good.
It just don't look good.
-[laughing] -[Patricia splutters]
I also like it. I'm gonna finish mine.
-Oh! -[Nicole] All right.
We gotta see more lollipops.
-See ya. -Thank you!
[Nicole] Big Freedia, let's go!
Alpin, let's remember the lollipop face you were trying to make
and let's see what you made!
[Alpin] Nailed it!
-[Freedia] Oh, wow. -Alpin, this is great!
I like that you didn't fill your face color in.
It's kind of like the abstract.
[Alpin] It's an impressionist painting. That's what I was going for.
You look a little bit scared with the hair up like that,
but overall it actually looks cool to me.
I'll take it. Thank you, Jacques.
[Freedia] I think it's very artistic.
-I love it. -Thank you.
Jacques, let's do it.
-Let's taste that lollipop. -Okay.
Okay, the chocolate is set pretty well.
-My dear. -Merci.
Thank you.
-[Nicole] Oof. That's minty. -[Freedia] I can smell the mint.
-I told you! -[Nicole] Whoo!
Whoo!
[Nicole laughs]
-You said you like mint. -It's a little too minty.
[laughing]
[Jacques] You taste it,
and then you have some mint.
-And the mint keeps coming back and back. -Yes.
-And higher and higher notes. -[Freedia] Reoccurring mint.
[laughs]
My eyes are, like, watering.
[Freedia] Well, my breath is very fresh.
[Nicole] Very, very fresh.
Well, Alpin, this was an adventure.
-See ya later. -Bye. Thank you, judges.
-Julia, Julia, Julia. -Hello.
Let's remember the lollipop face you were trying to make
and let's see what you did.
-[Julia] Nailed it! -[Nicole] Julia!
Oh… my.
[Nicole] I… You know, Julia, I really like the eyes.
I think the hair is nice.
It's from the nose down that's a little terrifying.
It's fun-- [squeals] She's staring right at me.
I think she has the coloring right. I love the eyes as well.
I remember that you started to melt your chocolates on the induction stove.
It melted it.
So, it didn't burn? That was okay?
I scooped those pieces out for you guys.
We're going to taste it, we'll let you know.
Let's taste it.
-Merci beaucoup. -Thank you.
-Is the brown part the burnt parts? -Oh, yeah.
[Nicole] Oh, it's like burnt sprinkles.
[groans, chuckles]
-You feel the crunch? -Yeah.
-It's crunchy. -[Nicole] Yeah.
The sugar that's caramelized and burned, so that's crunch.
But the good thing is, the flavor comes and kind of masks that burned flavor.
-I like it, though. -[Nicole] Right?
It's a little-- Yeah, it's like a little citrus crunch.
-Fun. -[Freedia] It is.
[Nicole] It was delicious.
-Awesome. -We saw three wonderful lollipop faces.
[Freedia] We did.
So, we're gonna decide who the winner is!
-Let's go! -Yeah.
All right, Jacques,
which one of these three bakers won this round?
One of you guys was a little bit better technically working with chocolate.
So, the winner is…
-Patricia. -Oh!
[Freedia] All right, Patricia!
[Nicole] Big Freedia, tell Patricia what she's won!
Well, there's only one way to celebrate your win today.
You will be going home with a chocolate bonanza from the living legend himself,
Jacques.
[Jacques] Merci.
[Freedia] Yes.
You're also getting the amazing Nailed It! golden baker's hat!
[chuckles]
Perfect. Congratulations!
Yes.
Let's check in with our man of the hour. Jacques?
Tres bien, but we have way more to do now.
Yes, Jacques, the future is Round Two.
Ever wonder what makes Jacques' chocolate taste so good?
Do you ask yourself, what's his secret?
Well, wonder no more,
because you'll take a journey deep into the heart
of Jacques' chocolate wonder when you make…
Come on!
[laughing]
A Jacques' Adventure Cake!
Ooh!
It's the secret location where Jacques' chocolaty dreams are born and raised
and the source of his delicious cacao pods.
Look! There's a mini Jacques hard at work.
My Jacques' Adventure Cake is a gravity cake,
which is formed by stacking carved chocolate cakes spiced with cayenne
to create a mountain.
Then, my own chocolate flavor is used
for the chocolate buttercream cascading waterfall and lagoon.
Modeling chocolate clouds details and mini-figure me complete the look.
[laughs] Oh, my God.
Don't worry. If you find yourself up to your neck in it,
you'll have the panic button on your table.
[beeping]
Press it, and for three whole minutes, I can help you.
You have 90 minutes and it started now!
-It started now! -Now?
Oh!
[laughing]
Make the cake. First thing, what am I doing?
Where's the cake mix? Cake mix, cake mix. Oh!
You guys, this is so painful, okay?
Well, Jacques, how would you go about making your Adventure Cake?
To make my Island Adventure Cake,
bakers will need to make the cake batter, flavored with cayenne pepper.
Next, they will make the buttercream, divide it in half,
and use my special gourmet chocolate to make both the white and dark flavor.
When the cakes are out of the oven, the baker will stack and decorate,
using modeling chocolate for all of the details,
including the rainbow cloud and mini Jacques.
This is a pretty big cake. That's a lot of cakes.
That's not a lot. I like cakes bigger than that.
[laughs]
There we go.
Cayenne pepper. What in the world--?
That's gonna be something serious.
[Nicole] Patricia!
-Yes! -Is the Lord with ya today, my sister?
Right beside me.
-[Nicole] Oh, yes! -Okay!
-Are you feelin' confident? -I'm trying to get there, but yeah.
Oh, God, help me with this one.
Ooh, I'm finna burn somebody up.
Please don't let me put too much.
Ooh! Scared of this!
Cinnamon and cayenne.
I don't know how much to add.
Just want Jacques to be proud of me.
Okay.
Go, go. It smells really good.
Uh, cayenne pepper. Didn't say how much.
I really don't wanna kill you. I really don't.
And if I put too much of this in,
I'm gonna ruin the judges' evening and possibly their next morning.
Jacques Torres is spicy. You know what?
There we go. They have to eat it, not me.
Big Freedia, I saw you perform. It was like three years ago.
-Yeah. -Oh, my God.
You'd like a Big Freedia show. Like, everyone's twerking.
-Nobody stops moving. -Twerking?
-Yeah. -[Nicole] Uh-huh.
-Teach me again. -[Nicole] Big Freedia could.
-She's the Queen of Bounce! -[Jacques] We will twerk. I'm the worst.
[laughing]
Since we're in the baking world,
I'm gonna teach you something we call Mix It.
-So, open your legs just a little bit. -A little bit. Okay.
Then you gonna move around like this. Kinda how a mixing bowl go, right?
Now I'mma make my booty do it.
Oh, my God!
I don't think I can do it as fast as you do.
[Jacques] Oh, Nicole! Your booty moves well!
Why is there a dance party and I'm not invited?
I'm kind of mad about that.
Wes should try it, too.
[Nicole] Wes!
Come twerk, Wes! Big Freedia will teach you.
Put your hands on your knees and bend your legs.
-Look. -[Nicole squeals]
[laughing]
-Yeah! -[laughing]
[laughing]
-[Nicole] Oh! -We love you for trying.
Baking spray-- Oh! I do need it.
Damn.
[squeals] Okay.
Oh, damn.
[laughs]
Please let this be moist.
If it's not, it's gonna be something serious.
Help me, Jesus, 'cause this is serious.
Jacques gets an extra little bit of love.
I love him. I love him.
They're sprayed.
They will not stick now. Okay.
Uh, did I grease the cake pan?
I-- I am pretty sure.
[Nicole] Uh-oh. So, Alpin has not greased his pan.
-[Nicole] Which means… -Impossible. Why?
…his cakes are gonna stay in the pan.
My cakes in, 24 minutes.
All right, I'm gettin' 'em in the oven, y'all!
All right, I'm making buttercream right now.
Oh, what a massive mess. Jeez.
That's a messy station.
[Jacques] Alpin?
-[Alpin] Yes, sir? -You make a mess.
[laughs]
[Alpin] It is a disaster.
[Jacques] Your hands are dirty. Oh, my God.
Yup.
[both imitating Alpin] Yup.
I-- I-- I don't have time.
I gotta do it this way.
Uh, I'm gonna eyeball this.
-I'll just use my hand as a knife. -[Nicole] Wow! Alpin!
I--
What--? What did--?
[slow] I'll just use my hand as a knife.
Yeah. Looks good.
[laughing]
One cup of dark chocolate. Bam.
Get you out the way.
Bam. Boom.
You guys have one hour and five minutes left.
What? Okay.
Half. Half.
White chocolate.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
Now, that's good right there.
Use… both of these.
Because Jacques has his own chocolate.
Let's throw these in here.
Boom. There you go.
Okay, so I have my butter, now I got chocolate melting.
White chocolate melt, but they have to be separate.
Oh, I gotta do these separately?
I gotta do two of these?
Wait, I need vanilla and chocolate buttercream?
Is there a way to, like, split this?
It is time for me to get some help.
-[buzzer sounds] -Help. Help!
Ow!
Oh!
-It's a panic! -Ow, panic!
-Pa-pa-panic! -Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-panic!
-Hi! -[Jacques] Julia, how can I help?
Am I supposed to make two of these?
One for vanilla, one for chocolate?
You already put cocoa powder, so now it's too late.
Do another one with vanilla.
Okay. Am I doing this right, though?
Just mix it.
[Jacques] That-- Oh! It's--! [laughs]
-You're supposed to be helping! -[laughs]
Is that the right thing to use?
No, let it go. Let it go. Let it go.
-Okay. -Let it go.
-[Julia] Okay. Instead of doing it? -Let's…
[laughs] He's saying turn your mixer on!
Oh, turn it on! Okay.
Buttercream needs at least five or a few minutes.
-Okay. -Hey, Jacques, you're all done.
-Thank you so much. -No more words.
Okay. My cakes are done. Okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay.
Julia got her cakes out of the oven.
She thinks the freezer gonna open by itself.
That's funny.
[Nicole] But she's left them in the blast chiller in the pan still.
They'll stick to the pan. She'll have trouble later.
I knew it!
I knew it. I did not grease the cake pan.
Oh, my God. He's gonna have to fight his cakes out.
He's gonna need a spatula. [laughs]
The one job I had to do.
My failure as a baker, a husband, and a man,
is gonna be out there for the world to see in a pile of crumbled cake.
Oh!
-[Nicole] Alpin! -Yes?
-Wha-- What? [laughs] -Um…
-[Nicole laughs] -Oh, my--
-Alpin! -I did the one thing. The one thing.
-Is this a shaved cake? -That's what it is.
Boom. That's two.
Ah!
Patricia's cakes came out really good.
-Her cakes popped out of the pan. -[squeals]
-Patricia! -Hi!
[Nicole] Your cakes are stunning!
Ah! Lord! No. Don't tell me that.
[laughs]
Oh, it's cold. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Oh, no. Look at Julia's cakes.
I don't understand what I did.
I sprayed the stupid cake.
I'm starting to resent my cake.
It's, like, frozen to the pan.
I'm just like, get out of the pan.
I'm not gonna give up, even though I wanna cry.
Maybe the flavors of my cake will save me.
There's no way.
Oh, my goodness.
Boy, I tell you, in the kitchen, something serious.
Nicole, Patricia is putting her cake together
with no buttercream at all. Nowhere.
-Gonna get this covered. -[Nicole] Patricia?
-Yes? -Where are you gonna put your buttercream?
Okay, I'mma find somewhere. I don't know.
-[Patricia] I just kinda… -[laughing]
…forgot.
Girl, you done put the fondant on there. How you gonna find somewhere?
This is not good!
Okay, I have to make Jacques. Oh, man.
Mr. Torres, I'm gonna apologize in advance for how you look.
I'm a great fan.
I'm about to absolutely mangle your face and your body and everything.
[laughing]
I'm gonna have to cover this somehow.
Jacques, you should see your face on Julia's cake.
[Jacques laughs]
Maybe this will taste great and then my life will change
and I can tell my fiancé I can cook and make things
and I'm not useless.
Let's make this out of cake scrapings, the pool.
Where is Jacques?
Where is fake Jacques?
I'm starting to see why making a huge mess may not be the best idea.
Where is Jacques?
[laughs]
Where did he go?
Oh, here he is.
[laughs] Oh, my God!
All is well.
Five minutes remain.
[squeals]
Lord, help me, God.
Buttercream is in the river.
You know, I'm gonna try to do whatever I can to save poor Jacques.
I no longer know where-- Oh, no!
My-- My rainbow!
My beautiful rainbow, please.
Orange and yellow.
[laughs]
Buddy, that's a concoction for you right there.
Why is this marshmallow not holding?
This is the worst thing I've made in my life.
Oh, my God.
Twenty seconds, you guys!
Oh, my goodness.
Masterpiece.
This monstrosity is gonna haunt me in my nightmares.
Oh! Come on, thang. Really?
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
[exhales]
All right, Patricia. This is the Jacques' Adventure Cake you were trying to make.
Let's see what you made.
Nailed it!
[Nicole] Yes! [chuckles]
Oh, boy!
Oh, my God.
[Nicole] We have the rainbow. I see clouds.
I don't know what this long brown thing is.
Big Freedia, what do you think?
-[imitates error buzzer] -[laughs]
[laughing]
The way your cakes came out, they were so perfectly round.
I thought you were gonna have it stacked up high enough.
I just wish there was less pole and… [laughs]
…and more cake.
Okay. [laughs] That Jacques is fun.
I think I need to go in the sun a bit more, I'm pretty white.
[Nicole] Pretty pale.
[laughs]
Patricia, thank you so much. I can't wait to taste it.
You're so welcome.
All right, Alpin.
The time has come.
Let's see that cake!
Nailed it!
[laughing]
[Nicole] It's funny.
The more you look at it, the more you discover. [laughs]
Oh, I like it.
[Freedia] I like it, because of the height.
Even though he scraped all of his cake out, it was a shaved cake.
I just like the design of the cake.
The cloud is blue because, I guess, of pollution.
And then we got the Jacques.
This is not the wires that just came out.
I gave him two swords, because what's more heroic than two swords?
What part of this Jacques looks like Jacques?
-[accordion music playing] -Ah. Easy. The sweetness of the smile.
[artificial studio audience] Aw!
[Nicole laughs]
-Thank you! -All right.
-Okay, Julia, you're up next. -Hi.
And let's see what you made.
[Julia] Nailed it!
[Nicole] Julia.
[laughing]
-It… [laughs] -I am… appalled.
[laughing]
[Nicole] It kinda looks like a mini golf course, where you're like,
"I don't know what it's supposed to be. A tiny windmill or what?"
[Julia] It's my island adventure. [laughs]
Yes. I like that Jacques-- Is this an arm?
Is-- Does he have, like, a very big arm?
Muscles, 'cause he's strong.
I-- I love it. My head is as big as my body.
It's very interesting. Um…
You know, it's adventurous.
[Nicole] "Interesting." "Adventurous."
They're all describing words.
[laughing]
All right, we saw three delicious cakes,
and we're gonna ask you to cut us a piece of Jacques' Adventure Cake.
We're gonna taste them.
It's gonna be a good time.
We're gonna sit and do it. Sit?
[Alpin] I really love this cake.
And after looking at the other contestants,
I think maybe there's a chance to win.
All right. Patricia, you're up first.
Oh!
[Jacques] The cake is a bit on the dry side.
You didn't put any buttercream. Why?
The river took it.
[laughs]
It woulda gave us some moisture in between the layers.
Okay, okay.
I cannot find the cayenne.
It was truly very faint.
I wanted to find, like, a dollar bill in my cushion.
-Okay. Yes. -[Nicole] You know?
That said, I think the cake tastes good.
Okay.
Alpin, you're up next.
Okay.
The cake has a good flavor. I find the chocolates.
I actually loved it.
It tasted really good. The buttercream was perfect.
You're right, the buttercream is nice.
I taste the pepper.
It was soft and moist.
It's a hint, another hint of, uh, cayenne.
It's there? It's there?
A hint. But I think it's pretty well done.
Thank you.
Thank you, Alpin.
Julia! This a lot of buttercream, Julia.
[Freedia] Oh, yes.
It's pretty well baked. Buttercream's good.
-Yay. -But did you put any of the cayenne in it?
I put cayenne and I put cinnamon.
I cannot feel any of them. I'm so sorry.
The cake is good, but it's also a little spongy to me.
You know, I like my cake to be really moist.
But I really liked your buttercream.
-Yeah, that buttercream. -[Nicole] My goodness.
-Oh, yes. It was smooth and creamy. -[Freedia] Yeah.
-[Nicole] I liked it. -That makes me happy. [chuckles]
Judges, are we ready to announce the winner?
Remember, whoever wins this challenge gets $10,000
and the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes!
[accordion playing]
[laughing]
[Alpin] Yes!
[laughing]
-[Julia] Amazing. -Jacques!
How did you get in there so fast?
[laughs]
There it is, in all its glory.
Big Freedia, you ready with that big old payout?
I'm ready.
All right. Jacques, let's do it.
Bakers, you made my episode very special.
And I want to thank you all for that.
But it can be only one winner.
And the winner is…
my new apprentice, Alpin.
No!
-No way! -[laughing]
No way!
I won!
I'm gonna go home, take all my piano trophies off the shelf
and this is going in its place.
I'm gonna be waiting by the phone for a call from Jacques.
-[metal clangs] -Oh! Oh no!
-My gosh! -[Jacques] Oh, no!
The Nailed It! trophy! Oh, no!
-[Alpin] Oh, man. -[laughing]
[Wes] Let's just-- Let's just hold that.
-Put it on the ground. -You want to-- All right.
I thought it was more solid.