(dramatic music)
Joel mchale: It's the crime scene kitchen
Season two $100,000 finale.
Curtis stone: Now that's life-changing money.
(joel yells)
Joel mchale: 12 teams of self-taught
And classically trained bakers
Have been chasing down clues all season long.
Dj: Oh my gosh.
Joel mchale: To satisfy two imposing judges
And one confused joel.
Yolanda gampp: We like torturing you.
Joel mchale: It's working.
They whipped up some sweet, sweet successes.
Amber: The exact same cake.
Yass: Yeah.
Yolanda gampp: Electrifying.
Camille: Thank you.
Curtis stone: This is one of the best brownies
I've ever eaten in my life.
Camille: I want to cry.
Joel mchale: And some bitter failures.
Curtis stone: This isn't an example of your great baking.
Yolanda gampp: Man down.
Tarsha: I don't have any faith in this whatsoever.
Joel mchale: And nine teams have been eliminated
After their detective skills didn't make the grade.
Christina: Wait, I'm turning around
'cause I don't want to cry.
Jenae: Oh.
Tarsha: It's ok.
It's ok.
Joel mchale: Tonight, only three teams remain
To fight the final battle.
Yass: I'm panicking.
Amber: This challenge will not be a walk in the park.
Yolanda gampp: At this point, it's anyone's game.
Joel mchale: The victors will bake their way
To the cash prize.
Fadi: This is the one that is leading to $100,000,
So we need to be 100% correct.
Yass: Everything that we've learned from each bake,
We're now applying it to this new challenge.
Camille: We need to be on top of our game.
(screams)
We're ready.
Laissa: We're ready.
Camille: We're ready for the finale.
Amber: Did it just get really hot in here?
(rolling pin bangs)
T: Someone is french and angry.
Joel mchale: And only one team can win.
Confectionator 3000, who are the champions
Of crime scene kitchen season two?
Place your bets now.
This is the crime scene kitchen season two finale.
(upbeat theme music)
Announcer: It's finale time.
Three.
Two.
One.
Joel mchale: Welcome to the crime scene kitchen
Grand finale, a culinary battle of epic proportions.
Let's welcome our final three teams.
They're classically trained bakers
Who have the best record coming into the finale,
And they know it.
Here are amber and yass.
(group applauds)
Yass: We're here today for $100,000,
And I'm not going anywhere until we receive it.
Amber: No, nowhere,
But this challenge will not be a walk in the park.
We still got work to do.
Joel mchale: They're best friends and self-taught bakers
With personalities as loud as their jackets.
Here are fadi and t.
(group applauds)
Fadi: We are clearly the underdogs.
T: We are the last self-taught bakers,
But we've just gotten stronger and stronger.
Fadi: Second place just isn't going to cut it,
So we have to really be topnotch.
Joel mchale: They're a dynamic duo
Of classically trained bakers
And we made them wear striped shirts all season long
So you would know they are french, camille and laissa.
(group applauds)
Camille: Being a finalist is like, wow.
But we need to be on top of our game, and we want to win.
It's a pride thing as well.
Let's do it.
Joel mchale: To win the $100,000,
You will have to dazzle our judges,
World-renowned cake artist, yolanda gampp,
(contestants cheer and applaud)
And acclaimed chef and well-known curtis, curtis stone.
(contestants laugh and applaud)
Yolanda gampp: This finale
Will be the ultimate challenge.
Curtis stone: There will be no safety bake tonight.
There will be two crime scene kitchens,
And you'll need to make two different mystery desserts.
Our champions will be the team that performs best
Across both bakes.
T: There is no safety, so there's nothing to launch
Any team ahead of the others anymore.
Joel mchale: All right, we start off the first bake,
Which we are cleverly calling the first bake.
(contestants laugh)
Fadi and t, start your search.
(timer beeps)
Fadi: This first bake is super important.
We're competing for $100,000.
I mean, that is half the battle.
What is this?
Oh, is this full laminated dough?
I see a block of butter
That's been pounded out into a rectangle.
This is a telltale sign of a full laminated dough,
Which would be used
For something like a croissant or a danish.
Laissa: Oh, what is this?
This looks like butter.
I'm thinking this is the kind of butter
That's used to make a full laminated dough.
I think about croissant.
I think about the danish.
Fadi: What is this?
There's a baking sheet,
There's a popover pan, and there's a muffin tin.
I don't know which one was used.
Yass: What's this, like a popover tin?
It's buttered.
So a popover pan is really similar to a muffin pan.
Amber: We know we're making
A laminated dough of some nature.
Yass: Yeah, but we don't know what to actually bake
And what the popover pen was used for.
(timer beeps)
Camille: Bread flour.
In the dishwasher, there is a sheet pan
And this pan that I've never seen before
That looks like muffin but higher.
There's like some reminisces of grease,
So I have a feeling that it has been used,
But I have no clue what it is.
Laissa: We have pastry bag, right?
Camille: I have strawberry here as well.
T: I look in the trash
And then these two empty piping bags.
The red one definitely has a strawberry jam in it.
The one with the white, I'm definitely getting cream cheese.
I have two tips for filling things.
In the dish rack, I see two of the bismarck piping tips.
You use this to insert into a baked good
And fill it from the inside.
So connecting that to the piping bags I found,
We have to fill whatever we bake with these two fillings.
So we're making some type of croissant.
(timer beeps) (alarm blares)
Laissa: 10 seconds.
Camille, what are we doing?
I have no idea what we are doing.
T: Did you check all the drawers?
Fadi: Yeah.
Yass: It's almost time, it's almost time.
Amber: I'm going to look in the trash.
Lights are starting to flick
And I'm like, "oh, crap, the trash!"
Look, look.
Yass: All right, what is that, what is that?
Amber: I see the two pastry bags.
Look at it, smell it.
Strawberry.
Yass: Is that a buttercream?
This is the final.
We had one shot to get all the clues correct.
(timer beeps) (alarm blares)
Joel mchale: That's it!
Amber: Literally--
Joel mchale: That is time!
Yass: Seconds.
Amber: Seconds.
Joel mchale: Go to your kitchens!
(amber and yass speak indistinctly)
Bakers, you'll now have four hours
To recreate what you think is the mystery dessert.
Amber: Finale, baby.
Joel mchale: Ready.
Guess.
Bake!
(timer beeps)
Fadi: All right, let's talk.
We need to not just get close to getting all the clues.
We need to get all the clues
Because the stakes are just way too high
To make any mistakes.
T: There were all those different pans in the dishwasher.
Fadi: Yeah.
T: But none of those would be made
For something that you need to fill with the bismarck tip.
I know that you have to use those
To fill a pastry after it's baked.
And if it's puff pastry,
The only one that gets filled is a croissant.
We are making croissants
With a cream cheese and strawberry jam filling.
Fadi: This might be one of the first times
That I feel really, really good about our investigation.
Amber: You could do a lot of things.
You could do a danish.
You can do a turnover.
You can do a cruffin, which is like a croissant muffin.
(bell dings)
It was a light bulb, like--
Yass: Aha!
Isn't that what you do?
Yass and amber: Aha!
Yass: A cruffin, if feels like it works.
The popover pan is going to give you that narrow shape.
I've never had one of those.
Amber: A cruffin is basically a croissant muffin, right?
And sometimes it's filled with different fillings.
So we're making a croissant muffin.
They have the fillings of strawberry and cream cheese.
Yass: This is for a hundred--
Amber: This is for $100,000.
Yass: Thousand dollars.
We've perfected our craft of detective.
Amber: We've made it this far,
But we've been wrong before.
Camille: I am lost, laissa, for real.
Laissa: Ok.
Camille: I am definitely not helpful today.
The feeling I had in the kitchen was the one
When you're four years old in a supermarket
And you lost your mom and time is clicking.
(timer beeps)
Laissa: I'm just thinking about the molds that you saw.
What about cruffins?
Do you put fillings on it?
Camille: I had, yes, there's filling.
Laissa: No, ok, ok.
We are going with the cruffins.
Camille: I don't know how to make that though.
Laissa: Ok, I don't know either.
We are going to think what makes more sense for us.
Camille: For this first bake,
We're making croissant muffins
Filled with cream cheese and strawberry jam.
Laissa: Just one minute.
Just one minute, ok?
Camille: Ok, yeah.
Laissa: It should be clear
When you have something to bake,
And for me, it's not clear at all.
Every time, it gets harder and harder and harder.
Yass: Are you all right?
I see you're doing math in your head?
You need a calculator?
Amber: Yeah, I was, we got two hours.
Yass: We still got to fill it.
Everything that we've learned from each bake,
We're now applying it to this new challenge.
Amber: Timing is everything.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass.
Yass: Oh, hello, our favorite friend.
Amber: Oh, hello.
Joel mchale: You are two bakes away
From $100,000 if it goes well.
Amber: No pressure, 100k if it goes well.
Joel mchale: The stakes couldn't be higher.
Amber: They're pretty high right now.
Joel mchale: What would you do with it?
Amber: I've worked really, really hard in my business,
And I want to use that to continue to grow
What we're building for ourselves.
Joel mchale: Right,
'cause you guys met at that conference.
Amber: We did.
Yass: Yes, we did.
Amber: We did.
Joel mchale: For women of color.
Amber: Yes.
Joel mchale: And you were the only two pastry chefs?
Yass: Yeah.
Amber: Yep.
Joel mchale: That's incredible.
Amber: Crazy.
Getting some of this money
Would help me to continue to increase
What I'm trying to do with my company
And for other women of color who want to be chefs
And don't have jobs in the pastry world
Because there aren't any.
I can provide that.
Joel mchale: You seem very cool and collected
Other than that poor mixer that you're destroying.
I'm a little confused.
I'm looking for fadi and t.
T: Oh, they got eliminated.
Fadi: Yeah.
Joel mchale: They did?
T: No, they didn't.
They're top four.
Three, top three.
Fadi: (laughs) top three.
Joel mchale: So $100,000.
T: $100,000.
Joel mchale: What would you do with it?
T: Part of my winnings, I'm going to invest
In taking some kind of advanced pastry course
With actual like master pastry chefs,
And school's expensive, so.
Joel mchale: Yeah, so the self-taught bakers
Would be classically trained.
T: That's the goal.
Fadi: Yeah.
(rolling pin bangs)
Joel mchale: There's a fist fight happening.
T: Someone is french and angry.
Camille: Everything is fine.
Everything is under control.
T: Do you think in addition to croissants,
You were supposed
To actually just bludgeon someone to death?
Crime scene kitchen.
Fadi: Oh, my god.
(timer beeps)
Joel mchale: 90 minutes remaining!
(camille speaks french)
Curtis stone: When you're making a laminated dough,
You need to firmly fold
Or pound the dough and butter together and let it rest,
And that's going to create that beautiful rise.
Yass: We got to roll 'em out, proof 'em, bake them,
And we still have to fill 'em.
Amber: Yep.
Yass: We need to cool them
Before we can put the filling in.
Take a deep breath.
Curtis stone: This kind of bake
Usually takes a lot of time,
But there's $100,000 up for grabs.
Now, that's life-changing money.
So not only do you have to handle all the pressure,
But you've got to bring your absolute best.
It's going to be very, very interesting to see
Whether they can hold it all together for the finale.
Amber: We're cutting it close on time.
Yass: How are you feeling?
Amber: Stressed!
(suspenseful music)
Joel mchale: Welcome back.
It's the crime scene kitchen finale,
And our finalists are vying for a $100,000 grand prize.
T: Ok, I'm calling it.
Fadi: Gorgeous!
Amber: So I'm just going to let 'em cool.
Don't look at 'em.
Let them do their thing.
Joel mchale: Well, here we are, guys.
It's the finale, and today, all the bakers
Have to compete in two bakes and be judged on both.
Yass: Your pacing is driving me.
Amber: I'm sorry.
I got to do it though.
Joel mchale: So how are they doing?
Curtis stone: We have three teams
All making a laminated dough.
Camille and laissa, and amber and yass
Are both making croissant muffins
Filled with strawberry and cream cheese,
While fadi and t are making croissants
Filled with strawberry and cream cheese.
So the smell of that is just so good, isn't it?
Joel mchale: Tell me about a laminated dough.
Curtis stone: It's a yeast-based dough,
And you layer it with butter,
And then you fold that butter in.
And what you're trying to do is get many layers of butter
Throughout the dough so that when it bakes, it rises.
You need the time to let it proof,
And that's going to basically let them rise
So then when they go in, they'll bake nice and evenly.
Joel mchale: So let's talk about fadi and t.
Yolanda gampp: Even though they're our only
Self-taught bakers left, every technique,
It's as if they have studied
Without actually going to school.
Curtis stone: Maybe they're not the most technical.
Maybe they're not the most pretty.
But I tell you what, they give you flavor.
Every single thing that we've eaten this season
That's made us go, "oh, my goodness,"
A lot of it's come out of their kitchen,
So I can't wait to see their croissant.
(camille sighs)
Yolanda gampp: Laissa and camille
Are making croissant muffins.
One thing I love about camille and laissa
Is they have such attention to detail,
But sometimes that's what gets them.
Joel mchale: They are as stressed out
As I have ever seen them in this competition.
I'm worried.
Curtis stone: You should be worried,
Because look, they've just pulled them out of the oven.
They only have 20 minutes.
So in that 20 minutes, they have to let it cool fully,
Because if you try and stuff a cold jam
Or a cream cheese filling into a warm thing,
Of course, it's going to melt.
It sounds like a long time, but it's not.
This thing's full of butter,
So it takes longer to cool down than a piece of bread does
When it comes out of the oven.
Yolanda gampp: So we might have a melted mess
If they don't cool enough.
Camille: Be careful, it's hot.
I think we need the,
It's good to have the jam inside.
Joel mchale: Amber and yass.
Yolanda gampp: Amber and yass work so well together.
Amber has a vast knowledge of baking.
They are making exactly the same thing
As camille and laissa.
So if this is the right bake, it's going to come down
To the smallest of details and the taste.
Yass: We do not have a lot of time on this clock.
Curtis stone: It took them a while to figure out
In their mind what was made.
If these two are wrong
And fadi and t are the only ones to have guessed it,
Then they're going to have a big lead
Going into the second bake.
T: Ok, I think it's time to fill these babies.
Fadi: Let's do it.
(camille speaks french)
T: Ooh, hi, hemorrhaged.
It's ok.
It's ok, go back in.
(timer beeps)
Joel mchale: One minute!
(camille gasps)
Yass: You're panicking.
Fadi: Yeah, that feels more balanced to me.
Camille: This is what we're presenting.
Judges: Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Joel mchale: That's it!
That is time!
Amber: That was super, super tough and stressful.
You know, we've worked so hard.
I don't want to leave empty handed.
I don't want to leave without that 100k.
Joel mchale: Time to be judged.
Amber and yass.
Fadi: Is that a cruffin?
T: I don't know what it is.
Yolanda gampp: Well, well, well, what do we have here?
Amber: We have a croissant muffin, called a cruffin.
It is filled with a cream cheese filling
And a strawberry jam.
Laissa: The same thing as us.
T: I would have never even thought of a cruffin.
Yolanda gampp: How did you follow the clues
In the crime scene kitchen today?
Amber: We found a popover pan.
The popover pan had grease residue on the inside of it.
T: I didn't know you filled a cruffin.
Like, it's already so packed.
Fadi: It's dense.
Curtis stone: This feels a little compact.
T: It's a very dense lamination.
(suspenseful music)
Curtis stone: The flavor is certainly there.
Unfortunately, the texture's a little less successful.
Yolanda gampp: The filling is really good,
But the texture is off.
The question is, is the mystery dessert a cruffin?
Amber: I hope it is.
Yolanda gampp: Hopefully, it is.
Curtis stone: Good luck, guys.
Yass: Thank you.
Amber: Thank you, guys.
Joel mchale: Laissa and camille.
T: More croissant muffins.
So I just hope it's croissants.
Yass: Oh, they look good.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Wow.
Camille: You have cruffins
Filled with cream cheese and a strawberry jam.
It was really hard because we were lost.
The only thing that I could think of
Was the cruffin and croissant.
(suspenseful music)
Curtis stone: Was the cruffin completely cool
When you filled it?
Camille: No.
Curtis stone: Because when you've put
Your cream cheese filling in, it's melted.
It's made your dough just a little heavier
Than I think it should be.
Don't get me wrong.
You can see all of these beautiful layers,
And the lamination is certainly there.
Yolanda gampp: We've already tasted
Another set of cruffins.
If cruffin is the mystery dessert,
We are going to have to really get nitty gritty
About the difference between yours and yass and amber's.
But there's also a possibility
That it's not the mystery dessert.
Fadi: Oh my god.
Yolanda gampp: Thank you.
Camille: It can be the most beautiful dessert
In the world, if it's not the right one,
You're out of the game anyway.
I have to stop talking.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t.
Amber: Fadi and t walk out
With six of the largest croissants I think I have ever seen.
Yass: It could be right.
Amber: I am 100% worried, without a doubt.
T: We made croissants
Filled with a strawberry jam and a cream cheese filling.
We found the bismarck tips that tells me
That something was injected after it was baked,
And the only one that I could fill like that
Was the croissants.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Curtis stone: It's remarkably light
Knowing that you filled it,
Which is exactly what you want it to be.
Look at the lamination here.
I mean, what you want is all of these lovely little layers,
These little pockets of air.
Yolanda gampp: They're beautifully golden on the outside.
The filling is delicious.
Fadi: Yay, yay, yay.
Yolanda gampp: I love all of it.
Curtis stone: What you've put in front of us
Is absolutely delicious.
And if what pops up out of the confectionator 3000
Is a stuffed croissant,
Then you're a big step closer to that $100,000.
T: We have been getting by this whole competition
With almost correct.
But this is the finals.
We have to be fully correct.
If we're right--
Fadi: It gets us one step closer to the $100,000.
Camille: There's only one winner.
And we don't want to be called the finalists.
We want to win this.
Amber: This $100,000 is going to be based
On these two bakes, that's it,
So we cannot afford a misstep
Right in this part of the game.
Joel mchale: Welcome back
To the crime scene kitchen finale.
You guys have baked the first of two mystery desserts
That will win one team the $100,000 prize.
Here's where things stand.
Camille and laissa, and amber and yass made cruffins,
Which are muffin-shaped croissants,
With a cream cheese and strawberry filling.
And fadi and t have made croissants,
Also with a cream cheese, strawberry filling.
Confectionator 3000, reveal the mystery dessert.
(dramatic music)
Camille: We're hoping that the cruffins
Are coming out of the confectionator 3000.
T: I mean, I am super confident
That these are croissants.
Amber: I hate how long it takes
For this thing to come down.
Laissa: Oh my goodness, what is that?
Joel mchale: The mystery dessert is
Croissant muffins
With a strawberry and cream cheese filling.
Camille: You got it right!
Laissa: Yeah, I did, you know.
Camille: Oh.
Amber: We got it 100% correct.
What an amazing time to finally figure out
How to figure out the crime scene kitchen.
(yass laughs)
Fadi: So frustrating.
We might not be able to recover from this because--
T: We literally were the only team to get it wrong.
Joel mchale: Curtis, what clues
Should the teams have unraveled?
Curtis stone: Here's how
They should have solved this one.
You all deduced that the rectangular block of butter
Meant laminated dough, but the key clue
Was the used popover pan in the dishwasher,
Which meant you were making croissant muffins.
T: We didn't see the popover grease.
So like, I guess that's it.
Fadi: Yeah.
T: You know.
Curtis stone: The piping tips
Along with the used pastry bags of vanilla cream cheese
And strawberry jam in the trash
Told you the desserts were stuffed with these fillings.
Joel mchale: You've all made the same thing.
Unfortunately, fadi and t, the only thing you didn't do
Was make it in a popover pan.
Fadi: C'est la vie (chuckles), as the french say.
Yolanda gampp: Fadi and t, your bake was outstanding,
But if you are to stand a chance of winning tonight,
Your detective work in the next round has to improve.
Joel mchale: So now, it's time for our final bake.
Guys, this is the last bake
Standing between one team and the $100,000 prize.
The winners will be the team that performs best
Across both bakes.
Yolanda, you set the final mystery dessert.
Yolanda gampp: In every way,
This will be the biggest bake you've attempted on the show.
And since it is the finale,
You'll have five hours for the bake,
So it's vital that you read all the clues
In the crime scene kitchen correctly.
Joel mchale: There are three minutes
On the clock. (camille gasps)
Amber: I'll take it, but it also makes me nervous.
Laissa: Three minutes.
It means it's going to have a lot of things in there.
Camille: It's going to be hard.
Laissa: Oh, yeah.
Joel mchale: Fadi and t!
Do your thing.
Fadi: Here we go.
Joel mchale: Each team will get the same amount of time
To examine the same clues.
T: A ton of butter.
Fadi: Our journey has been very tumultuous,
But this specific crime scene investigation
Is the one that is leading to $100,000,
So we need to be 100% correct.
T: Oh, lordy, ok.
Six, eight, 10-inch cake pans.
We have three 10-inch, three eight-inch,
And three six-inch cake pans.
That means three tiers, three layers each.
This is going to be a monster of a bake. (laughs)
I have a cocktail menu, mai tai, a mango margarita,
A dark and stormy, the mojito,
A hurricane, and a pina colada.
We have to figure out how to translate one of these drinks
And it's three ingredients into a three-tier cake.
Yass: All right, cocktails, a mai tai, alcohol.
I see six cocktails on this list.
I know it's a major clue.
We can't be making a six cocktail cake,
So we have to find more clues.
Amber: Yeah.
Smell this real quick.
Yass: Lime?
Amber: I see a pan.
It could be a lemon, or lime curd?
Yass: There's quite a few cocktails on here with lime.
We need to find another clue.
Amber: Is that coconut?
Yass: What is that?
Lemon and lime.
I see that there are two zesters.
One has like lemon, the other one has lime zest on it
'cause I smelled that.
Amber: It's a dark rum syrup.
Smell it.
Maybe a dark and stormy.
Is that on there?
Yass: Dark and stormy, rum.
Amber: Dark and stormy.
Coconut.
Camille: Rum.
Laissa: Rum, rum.
Go, go back to the menu.
Go back to the menu.
So I find a bottle of rum, also a dark rum syrup,
So I know we need to use rum in our cake.
Camille: Everything is rum.
Laissa: We have maraschino cherries
And have fresh pineapple.
And I see there is fresh pineapple
And the maraschino cherries.
Camille: Ok, ginger.
I'm so confused.
I don't know which way to go.
Laissa: Look, look, look, then have alcohol here.
Camille: The lime that I tasted,
That's the only thing that I'm 100% sure.
Fadi: This is a lime curd.
T: Lime curd?
Fadi: Yeah.
T: There's a bunch of fruit here.
Fadi: I see ginger,
But I don't see it processed in any way,
So I don't think ginger is a part of this equation.
So we're going to just go ahead
And eliminate the dark and stormy.
T: Pineapple, cherry, right here.
Fadi: There's pineapple and cherries in the fridge.
T: We also know that there was a lime curd made.
Fadi: So we're leaning towards the mai tai
As the inspiration for the whole tiered cake.
Amber: This is a leaf.
I go around to the island
And it is filled with decorating utensils.
What is that?
Yass: Little bamboos.
Amber: So there's going to be
Some type of fondant bamboo and fondant flowers.
Now I got to try to remember all of this sitting here.
Laissa: I see the metal things, umbrella.
Whatever we're making is going to have a lot of decoration.
Fadi: The monstera leaves.
Gosh, we have to look at the colors too.
I'm really looking at the island, trying to memorize
All the different tools, colors, and textures
That I'm seeing because these are all going to be
Decorative elements that are critical
To winning the grand prize.
Wafer paper.
Yeah, they made monstera leaves out of wafer paper.
(timer beeps) (alarm blares)
Laissa: 10 seconds.
T: 10 seconds.
Camille: Oh my god!
(camille speaks french)
Yass: (indistinct) please.
Amber: Check the cake pans.
Yass: Ok, one, two, three.
One, two, three.
Three.
Amber: Big tins too.
Joel mchale: And that is time!
(beep)
Laissa: That three minutes went by so fast.
Camille: It was way too much information for me.
Joel mchale: Ok, you'll now have five hours
To create the final mystery dessert of the season.
It's the most time we've ever given you.
Judges: Ready.
Guess.
Bake!
(timer beeps)
Laissa: Ok.
You first.
Camille: Ok, I have three-tier cake.
The rum that was used.
Did you taste it in the bottle?
Laissa: I didn't.
I was distract with your menu.
I didn't have time to go to my side.
Camille: You didn't go to your side?
Laissa: No.
(beep)
I still don't know how that happened.
We had three minutes.
Camille: We are in trouble.
You didn't go to your side?
Laissa: No.
(beep)
I still don't know how that happened.
Camille: You might have missed something,
But I missed many things too.
We have things to make.
We make the batter.
We make the buttercream.
We make the rum syrup.
We make things.
No matter what's going to happen, we're going to think about it.
We need to focus.
We want to win.
Amber: All right.
Yass: There was three cake pans.
Amber: Uh-huh.
We got five hours to make a three-tier cake.
Yass: Ah, this is going to be tough.
Amber: I picked up the simple syrup
And it smelled like a dark and stormy.
And I was like,
"how does this smell like a dark and stormy?"
I turned the bottle around and it was a rum.
Yass: Mm-hmm.
It was like the light bulb went off.
Amber: It was like god said dark and stormy.
Laissa: You said pineapple and coconut.
That's what you want to make, the pina colada?
Camille: I think it's too obvious but--
Laissa: Is the pina colada that had the many fruits?
Camille: Yeah.
Laissa: And the sponge are soaked with a dark rum syrup.
Camille: We need to work.
Laissa: And the filling, it's lime buttercream.
Camille: Ok.
For the second bake, we're making a pina colada cake.
Laissa: It's flavored with pineapple and coconuts,
Topped with white buttercream.
We are not confident at all
That this is the correct mystery dessert.
T: So fadi, we're making a mai tai cake.
Fadi: Yep.
T: It's going to feature alternating layers
Of pineapple and cherry cake.
We are making a mai tai three-tier cake
Soaked in rum simple syrup, then filled with lime curd,
And pineapple, and maraschino cherry chunks.
We were the most wrong on the first bake,
So we cannot have another popover pan situation.
Fadi: Yeah.
T: We need to get every clue right.
Joel mchale: Guys.
Fadi: Yeah.
Joel mchale: $100,000 bake.
How do you feel?
T: I mean, it feels so great.
We're here because we should be.
It's just really hard
And a little bit terrifying of a challenge.
Fadi: This is our biggest challenge.
We want to leave no doubt that we deserve the grand prize.
Joel mchale: $100,000, guys.
No pressure.
T: $100,000.
Fadi: Bye, joel.
Joel mchale: 100,000.
Laissa and camille.
Laissa: Hello.
Joel mchale: It's that guy that's coming to tell jokes
And annoy you on the most important bake of your life.
Camille: Right, exactly.
Joel mchale: I mean, yes, it's $100,000.
The stakes have never been higher.
Laissa: We really want to win this thing.
Joel mchale: I know, yeah, right?
Laissa: For me, it's really about winning,
Because I haven't worked for more than eight years.
I was just taking care of my kids, my family.
And I wouldn't trade that for anything,
But coming back to the work world,
I have doubts about myself.
And winning, I would be more confident.
And with the money?
Put that together--
Camille and laissa: That would be great.
Joel mchale: Yeah.
Laissa: I left the restaurant industry
Because it was too stressful, and here I am.
And in fact, with all the stress that still happened
In the crime scene kitchen, I love it,
And I still want to come back.
Joel mchale: Ok, guys, carry on.
Laissa: Thank you, joel.
Joel mchale: Au revoir, gerard depardieu.
(laissa speaks french)
Joel mchale: Domo arigato.
Here I am, the host of crime scene kitchen, ken jeong.
Amber: You don't say. (laughs)
Joel mchale: So this is the final bake.
Amber: Yes!
Joel mchale: Are you guys nervous?
Amber: We're very nervous, very anxious.
A cake like this, you don't do it in five hours.
Joel mchale: Really?
Amber: No.
And it's a lot of money.
Yass: Winning this $100,000,
My heart will probably bust out of my chest.
Joel mchale: I'm very excited to try this cake.
Amber: Thank you. (chuckles)
Joel mchale: Whoo!
Yass: You sacrifice a lot to be a baker.
(timer beeps)
Joel mchale: 90 minutes remaining in your last bake ever!
Amber: So I feel like I smelled a dark and stormy.
Like, that was the first thing that came to my mind.
But I know that ginger is in a dark and stormy.
I know that rum is in a dark and stormy.
Yass: Uh-huh.
Amber: So I'm making a dark and stormy simple syrup
And it's just not sitting right with me
To put ginger in this.
Yass: If we were supposed to use ginger,
I believe we would've saw it on the zester.
I'm thinking another cocktail.
Amber: Time is going by so fast.
We got to make a decision quick,
But one decision could cost us $100,000.
Joel mchale: Welcome back to crime scene kitchen
Where our teams are baking their last dessert ever
In hopes of winning the $100,000 prize.
Needless to say, it's tense out there.
Yass: Can you believe it?
This is our final bake.
Amber: Ma'am.
(yass laughs)
Yass: How did we get here?
Amber: Sweat and laughter.
Yass: And a lot of heart palpitations.
Amber: Heart palpitations.
This is the finale.
Yass: It is the finale.
Amber: It is for $100,000.
Yass: Mm-hmm.
Amber: We don't have time to go back and forth.
We just got to make something
And use the flavors that we know we saw.
Yass: Yes.
Amber: That's it.
Pina colada makes sense
Because that flavor would really pair well--
Yass: With the lime.
Amber: With that lime curd.
We really didn't see any remnants of ginger
Used in the crime scene kitchen.
Yass: So we are going to scrap the dark and stormy.
You had lime and zest.
Amber: And so because of that,
We're going to change our cake
To a pina colada-inspired cake,
Three-tier, three-layer butter cake
Soaked in dark rum simple syrup, a lime buttercream,
And garnished with fondant flowers and bamboo decor
'cause we're going to put the lime in the coconut
And drink it all up.
There you go.
Joel mchale: Yolanda, you set
The final bake of the season.
So what's happening?
Yolanda gampp: I think I was very hard on them.
All of the teams are making a three-tiered cake,
And they've all decided to name it after a cocktail.
Fadi and t are making a mai tai cake.
Amber and yass were originally going to make
A dark and stormy cake,
But now they've changed it to a pina colada cake.
Camille and laissa are making
A pina colada-inspired cake too.
Curtis stone: This is the toughest challenge
That we've set.
All three teams look like they're struggling in there.
Camille: Ugh, I broke it.
Curtis stone: We have camille and laissa.
I mean, look at that back table.
It looks like a junk sale.
And to me, that means stress.
Camille: It's just falling apart.
Laissa: At this very moment,
The decoration is starting to fall apart.
(timer beeps)
Joel mchale: Five minutes!
Amber: Did it just get really hot in here?
Fadi: Oh, I'm going to get it.
Camille: All around, I don't know what to do.
Laissa: I don't know, do whatever.
Get the flowers, get the petals, do something.
Yass: I'm walking away.
Camille: Don't, oh my, oh my, oh!
Fadi: Camille.
Amber: We got time.
(beep)
(camille speaks french)
Judges: Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Joel mchale: And that is time!
(camille screams)
Amber: Whoo!
(fadi groans)
Joel mchale: Congratulations.
This is our final tasting, everyone.
Yass: We finished.
Amber: We finished.
Whoo.
Joel mchale: For one last time, laissa and camille.
Camille: What the heck?
Laissa: We have no idea what we're supposed to bake.
Camille: We just hope that ours is good enough to win.
Laissa: I'm not looking forward for this moment.
Yass: This is going to be really good.
Amber: Yeah.
Yolanda gampp: What do we have here?
Camille: You have pina colada cake.
Laissa: Pineapple cake on the top, coconut in the middle,
And pineapple again on the bottom.
Camille: The inside is a lime buttercream,
And the outside is a vanilla buttercream.
And all the cakes were soaked in dark rum syrup.
Yass: You know, they could have this.
Should we be worried?
Amber: Yeah.
Camille: We saw a menu
With a lot of different drinks on there.
Fadi: A lot of drinks.
Amber: It was a lot of drinks.
Camille: We tried to process
All the information from the menu, and we had a hard time.
Unfortunately, the flowers
Were not supposed to look like petals.
They broke when we tried to assemble.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Curtis stone: It's a very moist cake.
The pineapple really comes through.
Joel mchale: Mm-hmm.
Curtis stone: Sweet, but not overly sweet.
Fadi: It sounds lovely.
Yolanda gampp: I love the natural coconut flavor
That comes through with the run.
It's delicious.
Curtis stone: Following a really successful first bake,
You've created a beautiful three-tier cake
That has lovely flavor.
I wish it was decorated with some more finesse.
But if there was a pina colada cake
Baked in that crime scene kitchen,
You are right in this for the $100,000.
Good luck, guys.
(group applauds)
Joel mchale: Fadi and t.
Laissa: Oh, yes.
Amber: Pretty.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Yolanda gampp: What do we have here?
T: We have a three-tiered mai tai-inspired cake.
Camille: When I see theirs, I'm like, oh my god.
Mai tai.
I feel like something is wrong.
We feel like we missed so many things.
T: The layers of sponge
Are alternating cherry and pineapple
With a lime curd in between each layer
And a rum buttercream.
Fadi: Breathe, breathe.
Yolanda gampp: It's very tropical.
It makes me think of a mai tai, that's for sure.
Fadi: That was the vibe
We were getting from everything, so.
Amber: We thought about a mai tai.
Yass: We could have very easily missed something.
Curtis stone: The cake is very light,
And it is just a tiny bit dry.
With a bit more of that rum syrup,
Not only would've we gotten more rum,
But we would've probably got
A slightly moist crumb on the cake as well.
Yolanda gampp: The lime curd is really punchy
And bright and tart.
I like that you colored it and it's not way over.
Fadi and t: Yeah.
Yolanda gampp: But have you made the right dessert?
That's the question.
Joel mchale: Last but not least, amber and yass.
Camille: Oh.
Fadi: All right.
Wow.
Joel mchale: Look at that.
Curtis stone: Whoa.
Joel mchale: Wow.
Camille: Their decoration is beautiful.
Yolanda gampp: What do we have here?
Amber: We took reference from the pina colada
With dark rum syrup filled with a coconut buttercream.
This middle layer is filled with a lime curd
And a lime buttercream.
Fadi: That is.
T: That is like crisp.
Amber: First, I honestly thought
It was a dark and stormy,
But we didn't see remnants of ginger anywhere.
Yolanda gampp: This cake is very well decorated.
Curtis stone: To think that you did this in five hours,
It's quite unbelievable.
Yolanda gampp: I really love the way the layers look.
This is a great cake.
Joel mchale: Yeah.
Yass: Thank you.
Camille: Damn.
Curtis stone: The flavor of your lime is just wonderful,
And your balance on the rum I think is perfect.
Yolanda gampp: This cake tastes like a cocktail.
Joel mchale: It really does.
Curtis stone: There's a $100,000 question here.
What was made in that crime scene kitchen?
Who's made us the $100,000 cake?
You guys are sitting really pretty.
Amber: It definitely went better than the first bake.
Whether or not it wins us that $100,000 or not,
We just have to see.
Joel mchale: So that is the end of the final tasting.
We have two cakes inspired by a pina colada
And a mai tai cake.
Remember, the judges will decide who gets the $100,000
Based on how you did across both bakes tonight.
Here we go.
(dramatic music)
Amber: Please let this be a pina colada cake.
Yass: Please let this be.
Amber: Please let it have the fillings that we had.
Fadi: This has to be it.
Like, I really hope it's mai tai.
Amber: This cake with the bamboo, with the flowers.
That's what's coming out of the confectionator.
We claim it.
Joel mchale: The mystery dessert is
A dark and stormy cake.
(suspenseful music)
Amber: Yo, in the jugular, like... (laughs)
Joel mchale: A three-tiered, three-layered cocktail cake
With alternating tiers of ginger, lime, and ginger cake.
Fadi: Ginger, nobody got.
It's maddening, honestly.
Joel mchale: Soaked in a rum syrup
With a lime curd buttercream filling.
The cake is decorated with wafer paper leaves,
Modeling chocolate bamboo, and sugar flowers.
This is the first time this season
That no teams correctly worked out
What the mystery dessert was.
Laissa: Nobody got the dessert right.
I don't know how they're going to decide the winner.
Joel mchale: Yolanda,
How were they supposed to figure this out?
Yolanda gampp: Here's what they should have seen
In the crime scene kitchen.
The baking tins in the dishwasher
Indicated a three-tier, three-layer cake was made.
The crucial clues were the dark rum simple syrup
And the ginger and the lime on the zester in the sink.
Yass: With ginger?
Amber: Damn.
Yolanda gampp: Of the drinks on the cocktail menu,
Only one had all three of those elements,
The dark and stormy cocktail, the inspiration for the cake.
The design and sculpting materials on the island
Reflected the decorations for the cake, sugar flowers,
Modeling chocolate bamboo, and wafer paper leaves.
Joel mchale: Thank you, yolanda.
The judges are going to have to see
Who got closest to the two mystery desserts in every detail
And look at taste and execution.
Laissa: Winning this compensation for me is so important
On so many levels
That I don't know even how to start to explain.
Amber: This isn't just about us getting $100,000.
It's what it really means to us
To use that money for our dreams and for our family.
T: We are so close to possibly winning $100,000
That I can start actually thinking about
What would I do with it?
Joel mchale: Welcome back
To the crime scene kitchen grand finale.
A life changing $100,000 is at stake.
We're about to name
The champions of crime scene kitchen season two.
Curtis stone: This was by far
The hardest decision that we've had to make.
If one team had discovered the zester with ginger
And worked out dark and stormy was the cake theme,
They would have likely won outright.
Nobody did that.
We had to take a really close look at those cakes
And consider them
Alongside the desserts from your first bake.
Yolanda gampp: Amber and yass,
The inside of your cake missed the mark
But was perfect at matching
All the decorative elements of the mystery dessert.
Curtis stone: Camille and laissa,
Your cake was moist and tasty.
But on the exterior, your presentation was underwhelming
And contained elements that there were no clues for.
Yolanda gampp: Fadi and t,
Your cake was a carnival of color,
But there were many details throughout the cake
That were not in the mystery dessert.
Curtis stone: There was one cake
We felt stood out in this round overall,
And that, combined with guessing well in the first bake,
Will see this team crowned crime scene kitchen champions
And take home $100,000.
Joel mchale: All right, guys, here we go.
Confectionator 3000,
Who are the champions of crime scene kitchen season two?
(dramatic music)
It's amber and yass!
(group cheers and applauds)
Camille: Yes, yeah!
Joel mchale: Yeah!
Whoo!
Yolanda gampp: Whoo!
Joel mchale: Amber and yass, congratulations.
You are our champions.
Yass: Thank you.
Joel mchale: Other than weeping, how do you guys feel?
Yass: Overwhelmed.
When we decided to sign up to do this show,
I told amber that from this point moving forward,
We're going to celebrate ourselves no matter what happens.
We're going to encourage each other.
Ugh.
We're going to cheer for each other
And just be grateful for the moment and the experience
And live in it,
Because amber and I have heard a lot of nos.
Amber: So many.
Like, we couldn't even get money for our business.
Like, it was that many.
Yass: And to receive a yes but to also do it together.
Look, that's our name.
Amber: Yo, that's our name.
(yass laughs)
(group cheers and applauds)
Yolanda gampp: You can see the love and respect
You have for each other,
And you can tell that you're hard working and passionate.
Curtis stone: You guys baked beautifully for us,
All of you.
We were so honored to try everything that you made,
And you've impressed us, no end.
So just desserts.
Congratulations.
Yass: Thank you.
Amber: Thank you.
Joel mchale: And now, all that's left to do
Is present the crime scene kitchen trophy.
Here it is.
(groupd cheers and applauds)
Amber: It's my name.
Joel mchale: That's for you guys.
Congratulations.
Amber and yass: Thank you.
Amber: This is our name on a trophy.
Electric ladies.
Yass: Season two of crime scene kitchen.
Amber: Hey!
Yass: Season two of crime scene kitchen.
That's all I have.
(amber and yass laugh)
Joel mchale: Goodnight, everyone!
(group cheers and applauds)
(dramatic music)
(singer vocalizes)
(serene music)