(upbeat music)
Joel mchale: Last time on "crime scene kitchen,"
Our bakers sweat, swore and also did a little baking.
Sally: (gasps) (beep).
Joel mchale: Classically trained and self-taught bakers
Had a metaphorical death match
Over who could literally bake the best tarts.
Tarsha: A tarte tatin is what I'm thinking.
Kristy: I don't know what that is.
Joel mchale: One tarte tata flopped.
(t gasps)
But a do-over did them well
As they advanced to the quarter finals.
Both: Quarter finals, quarter finals.
Joel mchale: While everyone else lost their (beep)
To avoid elimination.
Is there anything I can do?
Camille: Get out of here.
Joel mchale: One team struggled with six times five.
Kristy: Six, five, so it's 20.
Joel mchale: But it was sally and sherry who got cut,
Plated and sent home in a doggy bag.
Sally: We did good.
I love you.
Joel mchale: Tonight, we unleash the quarter finals.
Fadi: What in the crap was made here?
Joel mchale: Because this week, I set the dessert.
That's right, my cheat day will be televised.
Amber: Joel has been in here.
(yass laughs)
It looks a mess.
Joel mchale: One team gets squeezed by citrus.
Kristy: Ain't no orange juice in these damn sticky buns.
Joel mchale: And one team finds controversial ways
To win over the judges.
Fadi: We are not sculptors, this is not our forte.
Joel mchale: Everyone is showing what they've got
As we hurtle towards next week's semifinal
On "crime scene kitchen."
(upbeat music)
Producer: Ok, rolling.
Bring up the lights.
Here we go.
Producer: Are you guys ready?
Fadi: Yes, yes!
Oh my god, I gave up too much energy.
We've been doing really great.
T: I would love to win safety a second time in a row.
Fadi: I mean, it's clearly never happened to us. (laughs)
T: Truth, we are no steph and cherry.
Producer: Do a little more moving.
Cherry: One, two, three,
Producer: There you go. Cherry: Four.
Steph: In the last elimination bake,
We ended up bottom two.
It was rough.
Cherry: God, I'd be really, really happy
To get our fourth safety
And just like go back to having safety,
Like that was just the best.
Camille: We're here to win
And we want to keep on rolling.
And to me, it's really important
That we're in the semifinal.
Laissa: I can't go home right now,
The kids will not accept that.
Don't put that part, but it's true.
Joel mchale: Welcome to the quarter finals
Of "crime scene kitchen."
You're our top five teams.
Three teams of self-taught bakers
And two teams of classically trained bakers.
And tonight, one more team will go home.
The rest of you will advance to the semifinals
And get one step closer to the $100,000 prize.
Kristy: $100,000 would help us so much right now.
We have families, we've got businesses to carry.
Tarsha: We have to win this money.
Joel mchale: And now our judges,
Who need no introduction,
But they love hearing the sound of their own names.
Here are yolanda gampp and curtis stone.
Fadi: Yay. (contestants cheering)
Joel mchale: Behind me is the crime scene kitchen.
Your job is to unravel the clues left behind,
Alert the inspectors at scotland yard
And then race against the clock
To bake what you think was made in there.
Up first is the safety bake.
The winning team in this round
Will avoid tonight's dreaded elimination bake
And advance directly to the semifinals.
Laissa: We would love so much safety.
Camille: We want to sit on those seats just one more time.
Joel mchale: Normally our judges set these challenges
And know the answers, and I'm left in the dark.
But in this season of surprises, we're flipping it.
Our judges don't know what was baked
In the crime scene kitchen, but I do
And I will allow this new found power to corrupt me.
(curtis groans)
Curtis stone: He's just going to hang on this today.
Yolanda gampp: Oh, he's going to rub it in
As hard as he can.
Amber: This is joel's challenge.
T: It's going to be like a hot dog on a brownie.
I don't know, it's going to be wackadoodle.
Joel mchale: Curtis and yolanda,
I will let you search the crime scene kitchen.
I don't think you'll have to bake, we'll see,
But you will be judging.
Ok, here we go. (contestants chuckling)
Curtis and yolanda, why don't you start your search?
Amber: You better go. (contestants cheering)
Joel mchale: Each team has two minutes
And you all have the same clues.
Curtis stone: Let's go, let's go.
Yolanda gampp: I can't run.
Going through the crime scene kitchen feels bizarre.
Curtis stone: It does.
Yolanda gampp: Yeast that's been opened.
Curtis stone: We found a little yeast package
In the trash, which means it's some kind of bread.
I've got brown sugar.
If there's brown sugar on the stove,
To me, that means we're leaning into a sweet bread.
Orange juice.
Are you finding it more difficult
Than you thought it would be?
Yolando gampp: It is more difficult
Than I thought it would be.
Curtis stone: Yeah.
It's some kind of breakfast item.
Kristy: Look, look, look.
There's a dough hook here with some kind of dough in it.
We know that we're making some sort of dough
Because of the dough hook and whatever dough
Was in the bowl.
I don't know what kind of dough that is.
Tarsha: What I'm not quite sure of
Is exactly what we're supposed to put in this dough.
Kristy: Ok, we've got raisins open.
Pecans.
What in the hell has raisins and pecans in it?
I'm thinking either a cinnamon roll with raisins
Or maybe even sticky buns.
Tarsha: Kristy, this smells like caramel.
The difference between the cinnamon roll and the sticky buns
Is that when you flip that sticky bun out,
It already has the glaze on it.
And for the cinnamon roll,
You have to glaze it with cream cheese.
Laissa: Raisins.
Two eggs, sugar used.
No, this is not used, this is not used.
(camille speaks french)
Laissa: Are we making pain aux raisins?
Camille: So using butter, brown sugar and raisins
In a sweet dough roll,
Maybe it's pain aux raisins,
Which is a french pastry with raisins.
Cherry: (chuckles) dough hook.
Light brown sugar, eggs.
Two sticks of butter.
We're definitely making a sweet yeasted roll
Or bread of some kind.
Steph: Mm-hmm.
Cherry: There's currants and pecans in the bake.
I'm thinking we should go with currants
Because I saw that they were open.
So in my head, I'm just like waiting to like
Put all the clues together.
T: Baking sheet with something on it.
Fadi: What in the crap was made here?
T: Way too many ingredients out.
Just sounds like something joel would do if he was baking
And I find a half squeezed orange in the compost.
What is happening?
Fadi: Milk, oj.
So I see this carafe of orange juice
And I'm putting together these orange clues
And I'm thinking that might be really important.
Pecans is open, what is all of this?
Tarsha: The orange in the compost
Looks like it's been juiced.
Kristy: Freshly squeezed orange juice.
But there was orange juice in the fridge.
I think that that orange was used to make that juice
And that we aren't supposed to put it in our dessert.
Yaas: All right, what's this?
The first thing I see is-
Amber: Joel has been in here.
(yass laughs)
It looks a mess.
Yass: I see raisins and they're in the bowl,
In the dishwasher.
To me, it looks like somebody had granola.
I don't know, but this doesn't make sense,
So I'm just going to rule raisins out.
It's a decoy.
Amber: You know, it's joel.
He could just really throw a wrench in today.
Got some pecans.
(clock beeps) (buzzer buzzing)
Curtis stone: Oh my god,
We only got 10 seconds. Yolanda gampp: Oh, come on.
Laissa: Milk was used a little bit.
T: Oats, raisins, blueberries, orange and pecan.
Steph: There's currants and raisins?
Cherry: Yep.
Tarsha: This is oatmeal with currants, blueberries.
Joel mchale: That is time.
Laissa: Oh. Fadi: Ok.
Yass: There's a lot.
Amber: It is a lot.
Curtis stone: Sticky buns?
Yolanda gampp: We're stuck between sticky buns
And cinnamon buns.
Curtis stone: Yeah.
Oh, that was-
Yolanda gampp: Fun.
(curtis laughs)
Joel mchale: Bakers, you now have two and a half hours
To make your mystery dessert
And this is for a spot in the semifinals.
Cherry: Hello, hello, hello.
Joel mchale: Ready, guess.
Laissa: Every minute counts.
Joel mchale: Bake!
Sorry.
Yass: I feel like I saw a lot of random.
Amber: A lot of randoms.
Yass: That did not make sense.
Amber: Ok.
Tarsha: There was a pan on the counter
And then there's this baking dish on the drying rack.
Kristy: Ok, so-
Tarsha: But- kristy: Ok.
Tarsha: And then we're going to make those ones
That the stuff cooks in the bottom
And then you turn it over.
Kristy: So do we put the raisins in the dough?
Tarsha: Yeah.
Kristy: Based on a dough in the mixing bowl,
The raisins, the pecans, the caramel,
We know that we're making pecan sticky buns
With raisins in the dough.
Amber: Let's talk it out
'cause you know how we do. Yass: All right.
There was like a bowl that looks like
Somebody had granola with raisins.
One of the hardest things is trying to rule out
What does not belong.
Amber: So, raisins or no raisins?
Yass: I don't think it's raisins.
No, that was a bowl of oatmeal, you all.
Amber: On top of the island,
There were two drops of pecans.
Yass: Ok, I'm feeling like a pecan roll.
As soon as I hear pecans,
I think we're making a pecan sticky bun.
That's it, no extra raisins, currants.
Amber: It sounds like something joel will eat.
So that's what we going to do. Yass: Yeah.
Joel mchale: It's me.
Amber: Hello, joel.
Joel mchale: What are you making?
Amber: We are making a pecan sticky bun.
Joel mchale: You want me to just tell you?
Amber: You can just whisper it.
Joel mchale: Ok, ready?
Here it is.
I baked something.
(yass and amber laugh)
Yeah, it's bakeable, it's baking.
So where did you guys meet?
Amber: We met at a photo shoot for female chefs of color.
Yass: Mm-hmm and I yelled out,
Where are all my pastry chefs?
And I only had a response of one.
Joel mchale: There was only one pastry chef?
Yass: Only one other pastry chef.
Amber: Mm-hmm.
Yass: We both needed support in the industry.
I needed someone to discuss business with,
Just to get out all my feelings.
Amber: There is a disparity
When it comes to pastry chefs.
They don't really look like us.
So we became sisters in pastry and yeah, right?
Yass: And a friendship was created over coffee,
Tequila, and tacos. Amber: Tequila and tacos.
Joel mchale: What restaurant is this?
Wow.
Well, this is really cool.
So you know, don't screw it up.
Yass: No pressure. Joel mchale: Ok.
Camille: What do you think?
The yeast was open, it has to be used.
Laissa: The yeast was used, it's a yeasted dough.
Camille: So the key clues we see are the yeast,
The raisins.
Laissa: And you put the raisins inside.
Camille: I'm thinking pain aux raisin,
Which is a french sweet dough roll made with raisins.
Laissa: It's a type of raisin bread.
Camille: It looks really good as a french dessert.
But we need to think american
Because this is an american show.
Cherry: Do you think it's like an orange,
Brown sugar sticky bun?
Steph: That was like the first thing
That like came to mind.
Cherry: But what's in the filling?
Is it just brown sugar? Steph: Currants and pecans.
Cherry: Oh, ok, ok, d'oh. Steph: Yeah.
Cherry: We are making pecan currant buns
With orange glaze.
Steph: Just going to measure some sugar
For our sweet bread
'cause that's all that we know.
Cherry: Uh-huh.
Ooh.
Steph: Oh.
Cherry: My b.
Fadi: I think it's a pecan sticky bun.
T: Ok.
Fadi: I actually think the orange juice
Was used to cook the raisins.
I'm putting together these orange clues
And I'm thinking, maybe the oranges were used
To cook the raisins and rehydrate them.
As it boils, it becomes plump again.
But now, it's filled with orange juice.
It could be the difference between a win and no safety.
When they finish baking, they're going to be kind of like,
Almost like pull apart.
T: Ooh, and then we can serve it warm.
Fadi: Yes.
T: Based on the yeasted dough, the squeezed orange,
The pecans and the raisins,
We are making a pull apart pecan and raisin sticky bun
With orange glaze.
Very much orange juice was used.
Fadi: Yeah.
Tarsha: Did it say freshly squeezed on the jar?
Kristy: I think it did.
Tarsha: The only thing we are still arguing over
Is the orange juice.
Kristy: Ain't no orange juice in these damn sticky buns.
Tarsha: Don't say I think.
Kristy: I think there was definitely something
Written on it.
I think that that orange was used to make that juice
And that we aren't supposed to put it in our sticky buns.
Tarsha: I think you're wrong.
Kristy: Forget the orange.
I don't think that the orange was used.
Tarsha: I hope it wasn't
'cause that's one more detail we do not need to be missing.
(upbeat music)
Joel mchale: Welcome back to the quarter finals
Of "crime scene kitchen."
The judges do not know the mystery dessert,
But joel mchale does, and that's me.
Our bakers are answering the pressure
By whipping up a variety of sweet rolls.
This is not the time for doubts or regrets,
But let's see if they have some anyway.
Tarsha: Oh, I hate it.
I would like once to just not have to do
An elimination bake.
Laissa: Why I always feel like we're missing something?
Joel mchale: So guys, it's my dessert,
It's my crime scene kitchen, I set it,
But you get to judge it.
What do you think it is?
Yolanda gamm: Well, this was our-
Joel mchale: Wrong. (yolanda chuckes)
Yolanda gampp: We have a strategy-
Joel mchale: Wrong again.
Curtis stone: I think we've got it.
Yolanda gampp: Yeah. Joel mchale: What is it?
Curtis stone: I'm leaning more into sticky bun
Than I am cinnamon roll.
Yolanda gampp: But there's a whole raisin,
Currant situation going on too.
Curtis stone: I know.
We've got five different variations
Of some kind of leavened sweet bun.
Four of the teams are doing a sticky bun,
But one is doing the classic french pastry pain aux raisin.
If camille and laissa are right, they're definitely safe.
Fadi and t are using oranges.
Tarsha and kristy are using pecans and raisins,
While cherry and steph, they thought they saw currants
Not raisins. Yolanda gampp: Yes.
Curtis stone: So they're the only team to pick up on that
Or the only team to get it wrong.
Joel mchale: 30 minutes left,
Then we begin testing the fire sprinkler system.
Yolanda gampp: Finally, amber and yass
Have kept it really simple and are using just pecans.
Any one of these teams could be right
And sadly, only joel knows the answer.
All I see is mischief.
Joel mchale: Yeah.
Amber: It just feels juicy, they're good.
Yass: These buns are really soft.
Amber: Soft buns.
Yass: Soft buns, that's how I like it.
I really want the dough to be soft.
I feel like this is what joel would like.
Amber: Oh, he would. Yass: Yeah.
Amber: Joel would love ooey gooey.
Joel mchale: One minute left.
Fadi: I feel like we're doing like an organ transfer.
Cherry: Go on.
Steph: Oh yeah, that looks great.
Judges: Five, four, three, two, one.
Joel mchale: That's the end of the safety bake.
That is the end.
It is now time for the tasting.
Judges, please put on your judgy faces
And act as if you have more knowledge than I do,
Which you don't.
Tarsha: Let's just hope it's the right dessert.
(tarsha sighs)
Joel mchale: Cherry and steph.
Cherry: It's really important for us
To win the safety again,
Especially because we're so used to safety.
It would just be great
To make it straight to the semifinals.
Kristy: They got a glaze on theirs.
Yolanda gampp: What do we have here?
Cherry: Caramel currant pecan sticky buns
With an orange glaze.
Fadi: They did currants.
Cherry: We saw a variety of nuts and dried fruits.
We picked pecans and currants.
Yass: Where was the dried fruit?
Camille: I didn't see no freaking pecans anywhere.
Yolanda gampp: I think we can say the sticky buns
Are definitely sticky.
(cherry and steph laugh) curtis stone: Yeah.
The sugar's crystallized.
That caramel has actually turned into a toffee.
Steph: It has, yeah.
Curtis stone: But the flavor is great, you guys.
Cherry: Yay.
Yolanda gampp: Let's just hope it's a sticky bun
With currants and orange glaze.
Otherwise, you won't be winning safety again.
Joel mchale: Laissa and camille.
(steph gasps)
Amber: Damn.
Fadi: Qu'est-ce que c'est.
Camille: We have made a sweet dough roll
With brown sugar and raisins.
Basically americanized pain aux raisin.
Steph: Oh, pain aux raisins.
Cherry: What's that? Steph: Raisin bread.
Fadi: French traditional pastry.
Laissa: I found raisins that looked like they were used.
Cherry: The raisins were not used.
Laissa: And pecans that was opened,
But for us it was not used
Because we didn't see anything on the counter.
Yass: Oh.
Curtis stone: It's interesting for us
Because we also don't know what was made today.
Yolanda and I, camille: Yeah.
Curtis stone: We did the crime scene just like you guys.
Yass: Mm, that looks like some good dough.
Curtis stone: It's delicious.
Camille: I know.
Curtis stone: It's buttery, it's rich.
Yolanda gampp: It's on more of a bread side,
But not in a dry way at all.
Camille: It's more like a brioche.
That's our french blood butter running into-
Curtis stone: Well, to be honest,
It doesn't matter if it's french or american.
If it was what was baked, camille: Yeah.
Curtis stone: In the crime scene kitchen
And you guys are the only ones to have done it, then-
Camille: True.
Curtis stone: You're probably going to be safe.
Thank you. Camille: Thank you.
Joel mchale: There you go.
Tarsha and kristy.
Cherry: Whoa. Fadi: Those look real good.
Cherry: Those are the size of my head.
Joel mchale: Oh. (judges gasp)
Tarsha: We made pecan sticky buns
With a raisin in the dough.
Joel mchale: Thank you.
Fadi: It's the same as ours.
T: No orange.
Fadi: No orange in theirs.
Laissa: Everyone had the sticky buns.
(upbeat dramatic music)
Yolanda gampp: The center is beautiful.
It's soft, but it's not underdone.
Curtis stone: Your flavors are really good.
The bake is nice, but you're the only team
To bake sticky buns with raisins and pecans.
So if that's what was made in the crime scene kitchen,
Then you might find yourself
Going straight through to the semifinals.
Kristy: Lovely. Yolanda gampp: Yes.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t.
(cherry gasps)
Steph: Wow, ok.
Cherry: That is shiny.
Amber: Is it monkey bread?
Yolanda gampp: Yes.
Joel mchale: I would rather have this than a child.
(contestants laughing)
Yolanda gampp: What do you call this beauty?
Fadi: So we made a pull apart pecan and raisin sticky bun
With a orange simple syrup.
T: We saw the orange in the compost.
Fadi: We included orange zest in the dough.
We wanted orange to kind of be a supporting character
Throughout the whole thing.
Tarsha: They put orange in everything.
Camille: Why are the oranges like everywhere?
Joel mchale: Oh, look at that.
Yolanda gampp: Oh. Joel mchale: Look at that.
Oh. Yolanda gampp: Yes.
(cherry shrieks)
Do I dare?
Tarsha: Watch the dress, girl.
Joel mchale: Yeah.
(contestants cheering) fadi: Yes!
Joel mchale: Ok, I'm going in.
T: Do it.
(fadi and t laugh)
(upbeat music)
Curtis stone: While it's soft and it's gooey.
It's cooked perfect, it's perfect.
Fadi: Yes.
Yolanda gampp: I'm just thinking about flavor and texture
And boy did you bring both.
Curtis stone: What you need to do
As soon as this show ends is open up a store
That just sells this
And you will have a line down the street.
Yolanda gampp: Bravo.
Joel mchale: It's so good.
T: Thank you, guys. Joel mchale: Don't.
Fadi: Please don't fall.
Joel mchale: Hold on to that.
T: Yes. Joel mchale: Amber and yass
Camille: They have the pecans and lots of caramel.
(judges applauding)
Yass: We have some pecan sticky buns.
Tarsha: If we put raisins in
And there was not supposed to be any,
Then we missed one clue.
Joel mchale: These need to be grabbed.
(yolanda laughs)
(slow dramatic music)
Yolanda gampp: It's quite ooey gooey in the middle.
Curtis stone: When I first look at them,
I wonder whether they're slightly under baked
And unfortunately when I cut into the center of it,
It is, it's under baked and it's still quite doughy.
I mean, the stakes couldn't be higher right now.
Even though your dough is undercooked,
If this is the right dessert,
You could still have a chance of winning safety.
Amber: Thank you. Yass: Thank you, guys.
Joel mchale: Ok, judgy judges,
What would you have made?
Curtis stone: We think that it's a sticky bun.
Yolanda gampp: With raisins on the inside
And pecans on the outside in the caramel.
Curtis stone: So basically exactly
What tarsha and kristy made.
Tarsha: Please let our sticky buns be the right dessert.
Curtis stone: We went into the crime scene kitchen
With a bit of pride on the line.
You know, these contestants are playing for $100,000.
Joel mchale: We'll reveal the mystery dessert
When we return.
(upbeat music)
Welcome back to the quarter finals.
In this safety bake, our judges don't know
What the mystery dessert is
And it's been an absolute pleasure watching them struggle.
Here's where things stand.
All five of our teams have made a variation
Of yeasted sweet sticky bun or roll.
Camille and laissa made french raisin bread.
Tarsha and kristy used raisins and pecans in a sticky bun.
Steph and cherry used currants.
Fadi and t used oranges.
And finally, amber and yass
Went for just pecans and caramel.
Whoever does best in this round,
Coming closest to the mystery dessert, is safe
And advances to the semifinals.
Confectionator 3000, stop playing head games
And reveal the mystery dessert.
(upbeat music)
(t squeals)
Amber: Just be a pecan sticky bun.
Yass: Be a pecan sticky bun.
Amber: Be a pecan sticky bun.
Curtis stone: So we're locking in on sticky buns
With pecans, but raisins through the sticky buns.
Yolanda gampp: I would be embarrassed
If we didn't get this right.
Joel mchale: The mystery dessert is...
Six gooey and soft sticky buns coated in caramel and pecans.
Kristy: Those damn raisins.
Tarsha: I think he forgot to say raisins.
Curtis stone: I mean, we're so close,
But we're also so far.
Yolanda gampp: Raisins.
Raisins.
Curtis stone: Obvious.
Joel mchale: This time, I get to say
How you should have figured it out.
Here are the clues.
(upbeat suspenseful music)
The used all-purpose flour, yeast, sugar, butter
And dough hook all suggested a sweet and rich dough.
If you had examined the dishes in the dishwasher carefully,
You would've noticed remnants of oatmeal, currants
And raisins, suggesting the raisins and currants
Were not a part of the bake.
Tarsha: That was on me.
Joel mchale: Also, the freshly squeezed orange juice
In the refrigerator should have told you
The orange remnants in the compost were used for that
And not the mystery bake.
The only remaining ingredients showing signs of use
Were the caramel and pecans,
The flavor profile of the classic sticky buns
And that is the most I've talked about my buns
Since wrestling practice.
(contestants laughing)
Laissa: Looks like we missed a lot of clues.
Camille: We missed a lot of clues.
Joel mchale: Now you know what my mystery dessert is,
Who came closest and won the safety bake?
Curtis stone: One team was 100% accurate
With their mystery dessert.
The winners of this safety bake are...
Amber and yass.
(contestants cheering and applauding)
(upbeat triumphant muisc)
Yass: Did we just get a safety bake?
Amber: We just got a safety bake.
Yass: We did, are we about to slide
Right into the finale?
Amber: Is this like us going to semifinals?
Steph: Bummer, like not only was it the wrong dessert.
Cherry: It just makes us really nervous
For the elimination bake.
Joel mchale: Congratulations, you guys.
You're going straight to the semifinals.
You can now head to safety.
(contestants cheering and applauding)
Yass: Oh, I hope they bring over a glass of champagne.
Amber: Some of that orange juice that was in the fridge.
You know what I mean? Yass: Yes. (laughs)
Joel mchale: Now, we enter the elimination bake
Where one team will fall.
For tonight's elimination bake,
We have a special guest judge.
Chef, author and judge on fox's "next level chef,"
Richard blais, ladies and gents.
(contestants cheering) richard blais: Hey guys.
What is up?
T: It's richard blais.
Fadi: Really smart, really intelligent.
We're probably going to be making ice cream
With liquid nitrogen.
That's what I think of with him.
Joel mchale: Richard, you are our very first guest judge
To ever set an elimination challenge.
Given the stakes, why did you choose what you did?
Richard blais: For a place in the semifinals,
I wanted to set a challenge that will test your knowledge
And skills in a way we've never seen on crime scene kitchen.
Kristy: I've seen some of richard blais' style.
Tarsha: That in and of itself makes me a ball of nerves.
Joel mchale: There are now two minutes
On the clock, everyone.
The crime scene kitchen is now open.
Tarsha and kristy, start your search.
You'll have the same amount of time
To examine the kitchen and the clues.
Laissa: Go.
Let's go, what they have here?
Steph: Cake pans again.
We see six cake pans in the dishwasher.
Cherry: So many eggs, so many eggs, two dozen eggs.
And tons of eggs and tons of butter
That was used in the trash can.
Put that together with the cake pans,
It's definitely like an ice layer cake of some sort.
Steph: Now we need to figure out what's the filling
And what's it look like.
Honey is used.
Maple syrup is used.
Cherry: Honey?
So I see a beehive that was knocked over on the cake stand.
Marshmallows, fondants.
I'm also seeing puffed rice and mini marshmallows.
I'm like, what are we sculpting?
Fadi: Are there any flavor indicators?
T: There's definitely honey used.
Maple syrup's also used.
I just think it's honey, coffee and maple syrup.
The only real flavor components we have
Are these three jars of honey, maple syrup and coffee.
The honey and coffee seem to be less full
And the maple syrup seems much fuller,
Which means maybe it was never used in the first place.
Tarsha: There's honey on here.
On the island, there's only one substance
That has been wasted on the pedestal.
Honey is the only thing that's standing out to me.
What is it?
Kristy: Is this open?
Gravity.
Tarsha: It's going to be a gravity defying cake.
T: There is a textbook, it says gravity.
Fadi: I think it's a defying gravity cake.
Steph: Something about gravity.
Laissa: It's a cake, two tiers cake.
What is that?
What is this? What is this?
Camille: Gravity.
Laissa: Oh, it might be a gravity cake.
Anti-gravity cake is a kind of cake
That's going to play with optical illusion.
Camille: Most of the time, there's something pouring
On the cake and you don't know how.
It's like magic.
Babble wrap plastic.
Ooh, (speaks french)
We saw honeycomb.
It just clicked that this kind of bubble wrap
Is usually used to make honeycomb decoration.
What is this one?
Laissa: 10 seconds.
Fadi: 10 seconds.
Steph: Oh, are we making,
We're literally molding a honeycomb.
Laissa: We have marshmallow fondant.
(upbeat dramatic music)
Joel mchale: That is time, everyone.
Laissa: Time's up. Camille: Oh.
Tarsha: Oh shoot, I messed up.
Joel mchale: You now have three hours and 15 minutes
To make your mystery dessert
And this is for a spot in the semifinals.
Cherry: Oh my god, ok I-
Steph: Let's write and draw down everything that we saw.
Cherry: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
If we don't make it to top four,
It's just going to feel like our nice little streak
Of having good bakes is just going to go wee-woo.
(upbeat dramatic music)
Joel mchale: Welcome back to the quarter finals
Of "crime scene kitchen."
Cherry: There was a thing of spilled honey.
Steph: Coffee and maple syrup.
Cherry: So maybe every layer is soaked
In a different thing.
Based on the key flavors that we saw
In the crime scene kitchen,
Which is honey, maple and coffee,
We're going to try to incorporate those flavors
Into our whole cake.
I saw puffed rice next to mini marshmallows.
You sometimes will sculpt with puffed rice
And I see a beehive that was knocked over on the cake stand
And so, a puffed rice beehive.
Steph: So we are making a honey, coffee
And maple syrup cake decorated with a beehive
Made out of puffed rice.
Kristy: It just still had the thermometer in.
Joel mchale: Hey guys.
Kristy: Hello. Tarsha: Hey joel.
Joel mchale: Meet richard blais.
Tarsha: Oh my gosh, I thought it was just you,
But since it's you, I'm excited.
Richard blais: The whole demeanor just changed.
Joel mchale: Yeah, what the?
How do you think this makes me feel?
Kristy: I assume that richard blais
Has better sense than joel.
I'm hoping that his dessert makes a little more sense
Than that hot mess we had last stage.
Richard blais: Ok, what are we making?
Kristy: We are making a two-tiered anti-gravity cake.
Tarsha: So an anti-gravity cake is something
That appears to defy gravity.
There's a feature on the cake
That looks like it should not support it by gravity.
We're going to be making an anti-gravity yellow cake
And there's honey being poured over the cake
From a honey jar.
Richard blais: What makes you choosing honey?
Kristy: So on the island in the crime scene kitchen,
There was a pedestal
And it had several different dishes on there,
But the only thing that had been turned over
Was the honey pot and then there was honey
Spilled out of it.
So we're going to go for that. Richard blais: Ok.
Got it.
Camille: For sure, it's a cake, right?
Laissa: It's a cake, two tiers, three layers cake.
Camille: We are not cake people.
I don't know what makes sense or not to put in a cake.
We can do a syrup for each layer.
So it is like, the coffee syrup, the maple syrup,
The honey syrup.
Laissa: It makes sense.
Camille: I have never used coffee,
Maple and honey all together in a cake.
But I feel like honey or maple
Can be a nice sweetener for coffee.
We need to come up with something for the topper
To actually make a gravity cake.
Laissa: Ok.
Camille: The key clues are the book.
Laissa: That chocolate honeycomb
With the bubble wrap to decorate
And all the three flavors that we found on the cake stand.
Camille: So we're making a two-tiered anti-gravity
Butter cake with layers of coffee, maple and honey.
Joel mchale: Two hours remaining, two hours.
Fadi and t.
Fadi: Hello, welcome. T: Hello.
Fadi: When I knew it was richard blais, I told t,
We're probably going to be making something technical.
Richard blais: Fadi and t of sticky bun fame.
Joel mchale: What are you making?
Fadi: We are making a two-tier anti-gravity cake.
The cake will be honey.
The filling is going to be a pastry cream that's coffee.
T: And a topper of a honey pot.
Fadi: I've never done anything like this.
Joel mchale: Did you know that he's a circus performer?
Richard blais: No. T: Are you ready for this?
My business name as a pastry and chocolatier,
Circe de souffle.
As a circus performer, everyone wants to know.
Richard blais: Can you juggle?
T: I can juggle.
Richard blais: Juggle some eggs.
Yes, circe de souffle.
(t and fadi laughing)
Joel mchale: 90 minutes remaining, 90 minutes.
Tarsha: Ooh girl, this is hot.
Joel mchale: Cherry and steph.
Steph: Oh, no. Cherry: Hi.
Joel mchale: Meet richard blais.
Richard blais: Steph, cherry, what's going on?
Joel mchale: What are you making?
Steph: We are making a cake with a coffee, honey soak
And a maple caramel filling.
Cherry: We're feeling good about the flavors.
I know steph has got those down flavor-wise,
Everything wise, I'm excited for this cake.
Joel mchale: I'm presuming here, cherry,
That is a beehive.
Cherry: Uh-huh.
Richard blais: Have you worked with fondant a lot?
Cherry: I have, that's my day job.
Steph: Cherry's been waiting for this moment
Since we arrived.
Cherry: I'm definitely feeling like
The design of this cake is going to be crucial.
My beehive, it's so far coming out pretty good.
Richard blais: I hate to sort of like,
Change the gravitas here, but what would this mean?
Cherry: Everything. Steph: Everything.
Cherry: We've been working our whole lives
Up to this point for this.
Richard blais: If you get to the end
And you actually take it home, what would you do
With the prize money? Cherry: With the money?
Steph: I would be flying my family in from taiwan.
I haven't seen them in almost three years.
Richard blais: Oh, wow.
Steph: I would love to be able to see my family,
Who I haven't seen in almost three years.
Yeah, they like really center and like recalibrate who I am.
And to be able to see them would mean everything.
Camille: (sighs) I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
Laissa: I made a mistake.
I'm building the cake, so the first layer, I have the cake,
Then I put the butter cream around to hold second layer.
Then I put another layer,
And then I realize I was not supposed to put
The last buttercream then caramel
Because this is already the top of the cake.
I put the filling on the top of the cake, ugh.
Camille: What? What?
Laissa: And now I have to scrape everything.
And this is the time that we don't have to waste.
Joel mchale: One hour to go.
Curtis stone: Camille and laissa are in the weeds,
You guys, look at them rush
To try and get this cake together.
Yolanda gampp: I'm really worried about them.
Camille: Why is it working here and not there?
I'm so disappointed that I know this is the cake
That is like, ok, bye girls, that was fun.
Thank you america.
(laissa groans)
Laissa: Why did I do this?
Camille: It's over.
(upbeat dramatic music)
Joel mchale: Welcome back to "crime scene kitchen"
Where our four teams have been baking
A variety of two-tiered cakes.
Tarsha: This is what it's supposed to look like.
Fadi: If it falls off, I'll reattach it.
Camille: I don't know,
I don't know what to think anymore.
Joel mchale: Judges, here we are with richard blais.
What are we making?
Yolanda gampp: I can't wait to see what they present
In front of us.
All four teams have made a two-tiered cake,
Each with a variation of three flavors;
Coffee, honey, and maple syrup.
So we have two teams using all three elements,
Steph and cherry and camille and laissa.
Camille: This is not our thing,
This cake thing is not our thing.
Yolanda gampp: If they're right, they're not going home.
Curtis stone: T and fadi are using two flavors
And tarsha and kristy have zeroed in
On what they think the cake is.
They're saying it's a honey cake.
Richard blais: They're a high risk, high reward.
Curtis stone: It'll either be a disaster
Or a one-way ticket to the semifinals.
Yolanda gampp: Three out of the four teams
Believe it's an anti-gravity cake.
But cherry and steph, they are topping it with a beehive.
Curtis stone: They've been our best detectives
All season.
Maybe they're the ones that have nailed it
Or maybe this is the first time
That they're really stumbling.
Again, it's coming down to detail.
So, who gets it right? Who gets it wrong?
It's going to be so interesting to see these cakes come out.
Laissa: (gasps) oh, no.
Joel mchale: One minute.
Laissa: One minute, it's not looking good.
Steph: Oh my god, I'm physically ill.
Tarsha: I'm going to throw up.
Camille: Up, up, up, up.
Laissa: I don't think there is much we can do right now.
Judges: Five, four, three, two, one.
Joel mchale: And that is time.
(cherry squeals)
Kristy: It won't lean more than that, right?
Tarsha: Let's just pray.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass, you are safe.
So you get to sit and watch the tasting unfold.
Steph and cherry.
Look at that.
Fadi: That's so pretty.
Tarsha: It's absolutely beautiful.
Kristy: Yeah.
Cherry: Oh, hoy, hoy, hoy, hoy, hoy, hoy.
Yolanda gampp: What do we have here?
Steph: A honey coffee soaked vanilla cake
With a maple caramel filling.
Fadi: So they incorporated all the flavors.
Tarsha: They're always right.
Yolanda gampp: What clues led you to create this?
Cherry: On the cake stand, I saw a beehive
And so I decided to go for that shape.
Curtis stone: There were three major flavor ingredients
In the crime scene kitchen, honey, maple syrup and coffee.
Are you confident that you were meant to use all three?
Cherry: We didn't see anything that would indicate
That we were supposed to use a certain one over the other.
Curtis stone: Your detective work's been insanely good.
How are you feeling about today's execution?
Cherry: This is my day job, doing fondant cakes like this
And to be able to present this
And it's actually like straight,
Like I'm just really proud that it's there.
Curtis stone: Well, I think it looks great, guys.
Richard blais: Look at that, wow.
Laissa: Their cake looks so neat.
Fadi: I guess I'll just pack up and go home.
(upbeat dramatic music)
Yolanda gampp: The fondant is nice and thin.
I could tell as soon as curtis cut through it.
There's no doubt that you presented a beautiful cake.
Both: Yay.
Richard blais: And I think the perfect amount of fondant.
I think it adds a nice sort of texture to it.
Curtis stone: Topper on its own is a real work of art
And I'm very, very impressed with your cake.
Yolanda gampp: But the question always is,
Is it the correct cake?
This could be the difference between making it through
To the semifinals or not.
Joel mchale: Tarsha and kristy.
Kristy: Ooh. Joel mchale: Ooh.
Steph: (beep) cherry: Gravity.
Steph: An anti-gravity cake.
That's the clue that was on the cover, duh. (laughs)
Yolanda gampp: Lots of gasps.
Richard blais: Look at that, wow.
Steph: Incredible.
Kristy: So we made a two-tier anti-gravity
Yellow cake with french buttercream.
Tarsha: In the kitchen,
There was only honey spilled on the pedestal.
So we just kind of stuck with honey.
T: So just honey?
Wild.
Yolanda gampp: You know, you've got the theme down
Inside and out.
It definitely screams honey.
Richard blais: Look at that.
Yolanda gampp: All right.
Richard blais: It's so shiny.
Joel mchale: Wow.
Curtis stone: Wow, look at that guys.
Richard blais: Look at that.
Curtis stone: Really, really pretty, perfect layers.
(upbeat dramatic music)
I love the flavor of honey, and it really shines through.
I think this is a lovely tasting cake.
Of course, the real question is,
Was there a two-tiered anti-gravity honey cake
Made in the crime scene kitchen?
'cause if there was,
You guys probably got yourself a place in the semifinals.
Kristy: That's what we need.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t.
(steph and cherry gasp)
Tarsha: What is that?
Kristy: It's a honey pot.
Tarsha: Is it really though?
Kristy: T and fadi's cake is very suggestive.
(tarsha laughs)
Fadi: Hello.
Richard blais: Look at that.
Yolanda gampp: Hello.
(fadi laughing) t: Hi.
Curtis stone: Oh, it says honey.
Kristy: Are they going to show that on tv?
Fadi: It's a pot of honey.
That is honey that's coming out of it.
Yolanda gampp: What is it, is the question?
Fadi: I ended up creating a topper
That I literally was trying to avoid creating.
We are not sculptors, this is not our forte.
Curtis stone: What have you made for us?
T: So we have a two-tiered anti-gravity honey cake
With a coffee pastry cream filling.
Curtis stone: What led you to think honey
Was the main focus from the crime scene kitchen?
T: The honey was most used and then second was coffee.
So we went very honey forward with the coffee filling.
Camille: We're so off.
Tarsha: I didn't get that.
Steph: The maple syrup was like,
Definitely half empty though.
(upbeat suspenseful music)
Curtis stone: The honey flavor's really clear.
It's really lovely. Fadi: Yay.
Curtis stone: And then the coffee pastry cream,
Of course, comes through as well, so I like it.
Fadi: Yay.
Yolanda gampp: I would've liked to see a neater finish,
But I understand. Fadi: Yeah.
Yolanda gampp: Three hours and 15 minutes
Is no time at all. T: Yeah.
Yolanda gampp: In the cake decorating world.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t,
You can take your beautiful dessert
And this medical rendering that you've made for us.
T: Thank you.
Joel mchale: Camille and laissa.
Kristy: Ooh, that's interesting.
Steph: (beep) (beep).
Yolanda gampp: Tell us what we have here.
Camille: A two-tiered anti-gravity cake
With layers of coffee, maple and honey.
Tarsha: That's a lot of stuff together
And honey is a very delicate flavor.
Yolanda gampp: And after seeing your competitor's cakes,
How do you feel about your choice?
Camille: Not good.
Yolanda gampp: And tell us about the honeycomb.
What made you decide to add that?
Camille: We found in the trash bubble wrap.
Richard blais: Look at the colors of that.
Yolanda gampp: The cake is very moist
And that's because you simple syruped it.
Curtis stone: I'm really glad that you used
The simple syrup, but I think yours is teetering on
Too much simple syrup.
It brings too much sweetness.
However, it's not about which cake tastes the best,
It's about being closest to the mystery bake
And if you've done that, then you could be safe.
Camille: We know we did something we're not proud of,
We're not really happy about.
But as long as we're close to the mystery dessert,
Fine by us, we're not going to get eliminated.
I don't want to go home now.
(upbeat music)
Joel mchale: Welcome back to the "crime scene kitchen"
Quarter finals with our guest judge, richard blais.
Here's where things stand.
Three teams made an anti-gravity cake.
Cherry and steph made a cake with a beehive topper.
They used all three available flavors in their cake,
As did camille and laissa.
Fadi and t used two flavors
And tarsha and kristy chose to use just one flavor, honey.
Whoever does the worst in our elimination bake
Will have to say goodbye.
Confectionator 3000, no more secrets between us.
Reveal the mystery dessert.
(upbeat music)
Steph: Please, let there be like something
With a beehive.
Cherry: There it is.
Steph: There she is.
(t gasps)
Cherry: Holy shoot.
Joel mchale: The mystery dessert is a two-tier
Three layer honey anti-gravity cake,
A honey flavored sponge with honey caramel
Cascading down the side of the cake
From a suspended sculpted honey pot.
Tarsha: Oh, wow.
T: Oh my word.
Cherry: (beep).
(sighs) that is a lot of honey.
Joel mchale: Yolanda, how should they have solved
This case?
Yolanda gampp: Here are the clues
That should have led them to the answer.
The six tins in the dishwasher
Indicated a two-tier three layer cake was made.
The bubble wrap in the recycling
Suggested a honeycomb design on the cake's exterior.
Cherry: I didn't see any of it.
Steph: I didn't see it.
Yolanda gampp: There were three cake flavors
Present in the kitchen,
But only honey was spilled on the pedestal.
So honey should be the only flavor in the cake,
Not coffee or maple syrup.
Camille: I feel so stupid.
Yolanda gampp: Lastly, the textbook about gravity,
Dowel, puffed rice and fondant should have told you
That this was an anti-gravity cake with a topper
Inspired by the honey pot on the cake stand.
Joel mchale: Judges, who do you think
Performed the worst?
Yolanda gampp: We feel that two teams
Were furthest away tonight when it came
To both the flavors in the cake
And the execution of the exterior.
Cherry and steph, you're the only team that missed the clue
That this was an anti-gravity cake.
Steph: I think we're in trouble.
Curtis stone: Laissa and camille,
You made cake with three flavors,
Only one of which was used in the mystery dessert.
Your presentation was sloppy in places
And far from the quality we expect from you.
Camille: I really feel like we're out of the competition
With this cake.
Laissa: This cake's going to send us home.
Yolanda gampp: On balance,
The team leaving tonight will be...
(upbeat dramatic music)
Steph and cherry.
(somber music)
(laissa sighs)
Cherry: It really shows like, one bad bake
Could end it all for you in this competition.
Curtis stone: We're so sorry to lose you,
You've been amazing detectives so far,
And this is the first time that you've gone wrong.
Cherry: I am so proud of steph, like you're amazing
And I just like, got to find out how amazing my friend was
And we just had such a good time and like,
We're going to have this for the rest of our lives
And we met such amazing people here.
Joel mchale: Thank you cherry and steph.
(everyone applauding)
T: We kind of felt like steph and cherry
Were invincible in this game. Fadi: Yeah.
T: When you talk about skill and deduction,
Like they are brilliant.
Joel mchale: It is an atlantic beach pie.
Yolanda gampp: The winners of the safety bake,
Cherry and steph.
Joel mchale: And we've lost a team.
Yolanda gampp: For the second time.
Curtis stone: For the third time, steph and cherry.
Steph: Through our time here,
We felt so many highs in the beginning.
We've like, felt so many lows recently.
Cherry: Walking away with like a three safety streak,
That is such a win.
Joel mchale: Congratulations, you're all joining
Amber and yass in the semifinals.
(contestants applauding)
You'll all be back next week
And one step away from our $100,000 grand finale.
And we'd like to thank our guest judge,
Richard blais for being on the show.
Thank you, richard.
After this intense experience,
I'm sure the last thing you want to do
Is pop up on another cooking show.
By the way, you can see more of richard
On "next level chef" right here on fox.
We will see you next week for the semifinals
With our guest judge, dwight howard
Here on "crime scene kitchen."
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