* Baking it *
[explosion]
-* Mix it, make it * -* Baking it *
- * Grannies taste it * -* Baking it *
* Mix it, make it, whisk it, bake it *
* Baking it *
***
Hello, bakers.
ALL: Hi.
[applause]
First off, Maddie and April,
love your matching mother and daughter brooches.
Congratulations on your win last time.
Indeed. And everyone else, how are you guys feeling?
How are you doing?
You've got one challenge under your belt.
-Woo! -Woo, yeah!
-Way better. -Not so scary, right?
-Wrong. -Dead wrong.
Because today we're asking you to face your greatest fears.
-Oh, no! -That's right, Amy.
We want you to bake an edible representation
of what scares you the most.
-AMY: Hmm. -Maybe it's heights.
-Yes. -Spiders?
-Yes. -MAYA: Fear of the ocean?
-Roller coasters? -Yes and yes.
-The word moist? -Always.
Let me ask you this. What if, I don't know,
you're a person who's, like, afraid of a lot of things?
I usually would call you a crybaby
and shame you publicly,
but here you just have to choose one.
Okay. And what if you're just, like, I don't know,
like the kind of person that has a hard time making a choice
and making a choice is one of their phobias.
I guess you got to choose one.
Okay. But we've got no other news to drop, right, Maya?
Nope, Amy. No twist at all.
Psych.
[Maya] Now, not only do you have to bake your phobia,
you have to fill it with goo.
AMY: A gooey center?
Who do I need to talk to?
Great question, Amy.
Yes, a gooey center is a center made of goo.
-AMY: Oh. -So when we cut it open,
-it oozes out. -Eww...
And sometimes when it oozes out, you make sounds like, "Ew!"
Or you go, "Damn, girl..."
Or you go, "Awooga."
Either way, I'm going to cover my eyes
because it's going to be gross.
MAYA: Good idea. Bakers, be brave,
because today you are making what I like to call
"Phobia Bakes" or "Phobie Cakes."
Do we like that?
That was my nickname in college, "Phobie Cakes."
-I like "Phobie Cakes" -Whatever it is,
I wanted to make me say,
"Ooh, bakers, you nasty."
Oh, and one more thing. This is a big ol' bake!
Now, in the words of my Nonny Gigi,
"Bake it and fill it with goo!"
-Okay. -AGNES: Mamma mia.
I kind of want to do something savory
just to, like, switch it up. Yeah.
-Okay, let's do-- -Let's do snakes and vines,
I think that's the perfect combination.
Snakes and vines. Let's do...
Butter chicken or something.
With a spider, like, a black widow.
Okay, okay.
Black fondant, a head, some pincers.
Okay, I know this might be a little unorthodox,
but I think we should make, like, a medicine-themed cake.
OMONIVIE: I like that you're flipping it
-on its head. -Yeah, yeah.
What do you think about putting blood on the inside of it?
Yeah! Well, I know you, you hate blood.
White chocolate mold on top.
-Yes, for eyes. -For eyes.
Because you don't like being looked at.
Ironically.
It's a good question, what makes a phobia?
Because I feel like a phobia is that
you truly cannot even be around at all
or think about it or look at pictures of it.
Right, right. Like '90s fashion.
Yeah. You mean like how we used to dress
-when we first got to SNL? -MAYA: That's right.
It was fine when we were doing it,
but then when I look back at, like, jeans under a skirt,
I'm like, "Oh, God, oh, God, I can't breathe."
-Oh. -I get, like--
I get-- I go pale.
-Hi, Keith and Corey. -Hi, brothers!
-What's going on? -MAYA: How are you?
-AMY: How're you guys doing? -Scared.
-We can breathe after this. -Are you scared?
-Yes. -You're scared of the challenge?
-BOTH: Yeah. -What are your phobias?
It's spiders. We decided to do
a chocolate coffee cake filled with strawberry puree.
KEITH: On the outside of our cake,
we're going to do some marshmallow spider webs
with blackberry spider eggs.
And the strawberry middle is going to be, like,
-the thing that gushes out? -The ooze.
-Like blood.
-MAYA: That's nasty. -And venom.
Where does your fear come from?
When did you develop your phobia?
I mean, just seeing a spider, like when I was a kid--
-Just seeing them? -Just seeing them,
they just looked really creepy.
So you haven't been bitten by a radioactive spider?
No, but I've been-- not yet. If it was radioactive,
I probably wouldn't mind that.
But if it's just a regular spider,
why get bit without the superpowers?
Good point.
It's a dream come true for us to be here together.
I mean, we've been baking
and cooking all of our lives together.
KEITH: And our father, he used to give us
the responsibility of creating the different dishes.
So breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Most people go to culinary school,
and that's the life that they take. I'm self-taught.
So when people started just asking me to make things,
for baby showers, birthdays, housewarmings, I was like,
"Oh, do you think I'm that good?
I mean, I know I'm that good, but I didn't know that
-you knew it, too." But... -And I think with his skills
and my creativity, I mean, the mash-up of both of us,
we're always a dynamic duo, so.
It looks like you're already doing
-a great job with your spiders. -They're beautiful.
-COREY: Thank you. -And I don't even like spiders.
Oh, look at that.
I think they're essential to keeping our world alive.
But they can essentially stay away from me.
They can essentially-- [laughing]
***
RAVI: Just eyeball everything.
RAVI: Alright, so we got some turmeric going in.
Not too much, just a little bit. Chili powder.
That smells delicious.
Go a little heavy on it.
Ravi, what you got cooking?
We're making butter chicken baos.
In the shape of a snake and a mouse.
Mmm. Did y'all make that before at home?
-I make butter chicken at home. -REEMA: All the time.
-We've never made baos. -REEMA: It'll be fine.
I'll be good, y'all'll do good.
My fear is mice. Rodents, mice, little--
little creepy crawly things and Ravi's afraid of snakes,
so it kind of goes together.
It's a good dough. It's a good dough.
RAVI: God, I hope we get a Gigi Diggity again.
REEMA: Oh, my God. Two Gigi Diggities in a row?
-RAVI: For this-- -REEMA: I would die.
RAVI: I would be so happy.
We're not over-filling our pans today, Barika.
-No, we learn from our mistakes. -We are not.
-It's called growth, sis. -Growth.
Today is the bounce back.
OMONIVIE: Nice and creamy, just how we like it.
-Hi, Yuki. -Hi, Omonivie.
-AMY: Hey, girl, hey. -How are you, biffle?
Well, recuperating from last week,
so we're just trying to incorporate
-the feedback we got. -Yes.
And they gonna see something different today.
-Yeah? -Yes.
-We're feeling a lot calmer. -Yes.
And you guys are making something based on your phobias.
We are going to be making a red velvet cake.
And our "Phobie Cake"
is actually going to be a white coat
for white coat syndrome,
which represents my profession
and a lot of fear for a lot of people.
Can you explain what white coat syndrome is?
You know, I'm sure a lot of people can relate
to having a fear of doctors, right?
It's actually a real diagnosis
that your blood pressure is gonna increase.
So when you go to the doctor's office
and they check your blood pressure,
I feel it's going to be higher than normal
-just because you're nervous. -AMY: Yes.
It's a really scary experience for people,
and I can definitely relate to that.
Growing up, I was in and out of the hospitals with my dad,
who was unfortunately suffering from kidney disease,
and it was a really difficult experience.
I felt like hospitals were so cold.
We were constantly talking to these physicians
that didn't understand him, didn't understand our culture
and our background,
and that was just really frustrating and disappointing.
So after my dad passed away,
that's when I decided that I wanted to be a physician
and I wanted to be what I did not see growing up
and that was a Black female physician.
And I want to make sure that my patients feel comfortable,
especially my patients of color.
I want to be a place where they feel they could be safe,
where I can care for them in a very compassionate way.
So for me as a physician,
I actually don't wear a white coat.
Our hospital has a tradition
for all their new residents where we have these really
comfortable that we wear with our names on the back
-and we just wear our scrubs. -MAYA: Some doctor swag.
So when we go to a patient's room, they're just like,
"Okay, you look like a regular, degular person."
And that's the kind of, you know,
environment and the culture we try to foster.
I want every hospital to be like that.
AMY: Yeah, that's great.
How is this going to be oozy?
The inside is going to be a spill cake
with some chocolate ganache blood
that will ooze out and there'll be some organs on the inside
-as well as that will spill out. -Organs!
-That will come out? -YUKI: Yes.
-MAYA: Wow! -Oh, this is fun.
MAYA: Yeah, I know.
I just feel like if you're ever interested in,
you know, leaving the Bay Area and want to move into
someone's house and be their full-time doctor and just--
-OMONIVIE: You know... -YUKI: Spread the word.
OMONIVIE: I could do that.
Comfort and hug them all the time.
-I mean, I'm available. -YUKI: On call doctor.
How's that hand coming?
Good.
SEVN: I don't know what I would do without you.
I would probably go crazy.
Hi, Kandyy.
-Hi, Kandyy and Sevn. -Hi.
-Hello. -How is it going?
Ooh, we're coming at a good time.
What are you making?
We're making a trypophobia arm.
-Trypophobia? -Tell us what that is.
We're afraid of large clusters.
Clusters.
Ugh.
The word-- the word, it's, ugh,
it's a fear of clusters, a bunch of holes,
or a bunch of things in one area.
It's disgusting, I don't like talking about it.
-I'm getting goosebumps now. -I'm uncomfortable.
Give me an example.
An example? When I was five years old,
I stepped in an ant bed
and there was a thousand ants over my feet.
And they all bit me and the next day
it was like a lot of bumps in one section.
Oh, a bumpy section of skin.
-Does it always have to be skin? -KANDYY: Mm-mm.
It could be like a bunch of little rocks
in one area. That--
Do you have this too? You both have this?
-We both have it. -Oh, you have it, too?
-Yes. -Was that part of your match?
Were you like, "You got trypophobia?"
-Mm-mm. -Try not to talk about.
Really? You can't even talk about it?
-AMY: Oh, my God. -It makes me want to puke.
-It makes you want to puke? -Just thinking about
-what we have to do now... -It's really bothering you.
-It's grossing you out. -KANDYY: So for this cake,
we are going to be making
a 3D zombie hand that has trypophobia.
It is a chocolate cake filled with a strawberry filling,
all covered in fondant.
And we're going to have, like, pimples on it.
KANDYY: We're gonna have pimples to pop.
-Oh, this is gonna be good. -MAYA: Pimples to pop?
-This is our blood. -Wait, blood and pimples?
It's going to be really gruesome,
but it's going to be fun to eat.
Let's just say it's going to be nasty.
It's gonna be real nasty.
-Yeah. -A beautiful nasty mess.
Why did we decide to do this challenge?
We just wanted to see, like, blood and guts and, like,
pimple popping, like, just... [fart noise]
Just, like, stuff going, like... [fart noise]
and... [fart noise] and, like,
you know, the kind of stuff that moms love.
Yeah. There's really no other reason.
* Baking it *
* Spiders, heights, other spiders *
* So many reasons to be afraid *
* Face your fears, face the bake *
* Set your nightmares on fire *
* Watch the flames burn higher and higher *
* Climb heights, kiss a spider *
* Bake your fears away *
* And kiss the spider *
***
AGNES: What are you making?
We're making macaroons
that look like ladybugs. They're my biggest fear.
-AGNES: Oh, ladybugs? -GEORGE: Really?
AGNES: Those are the nicest bugs.
I cannot stand ladybugs.
It's hot and steamy, okay?
Just how I like my men.
-Hot and steamy! -She's single.
Yeah, they taste good.
Back home, as often as we can, we'll try to incorporate
some healthier ingredients to our bakes,
but today we're gonna be using
some more traditional ingredients
to keep up with other bakers.
Atta boy, Allen!
The grannies, they're not here to hit their protein goals,
they're not here to hit their calorie intake.
They want the flavor and we're going to bring it.
All right, first batch is full.
Just hoping that these cupcakes taste good.
-AMY: Hi, Matt and Allen. -ALLEN: Hey, how's it going?
AMY: How are you guys doing?
MAYA: What are you guys making?
So we are making strawberry shortcake cupcakes.
We're gonna do a vanilla cake,
and then we have a strawberry filling to go on the inside
and it's going to be topped with our cream cheese frosting.
And what fear are you representing?
So, the strawberry filling is going to kind of represent
blood because, I mean--
Yeah, I have a weird thing with blood.
Like, any time I see anybody else's blood,
I get super, super lightheaded.
For the cupcakes, we're going to kind of decorate them
to look like eyes. Because me being an introvert,
I don't like being watched or anything.
So, like, when there's a ton of people, like,
watching me get a little anxious and so--
-Ironically, right? -Like a television show?
Yeah. It's crazy, like, I could never imagine being on one.
-I don't think I could do it. -I get it.
AMY: You're doing great, you're doing great.
Maybe one day, though.
I was homeschooled pretty much my whole life,
so I didn't really go out and get much social interaction.
Being shy in college is a very hard thing to do.
I pretty much sat up in my dorm room by myself
every single day. I would not go out and interact with people.
But when I met Allen,
he claimed me as his introvert,
and throughout the years he's just helped me open up
-and just made life better. -He's definitely my best friend.
We've been roommates ever since
and we do kind of everything together,
whether it be cooking or the gym.
MATT: When we go to the gym together to work out,
kind of coordinate our fits together, you know,
whether it be shoes, colors of clothes.
-We have matching earrings. -We have matching earrings.
-Matthew can bench more. -I am stronger.
-I can squat more. -He can squat more.
I will admit he can squat more,
but I can deadlift and bench more.
MAYA: How would you feel if you look down the barrel
of one of these cameras and just--
Just talked to it? Just faced your fear right now.
MAYA: Look AMY: See, you're doing great.
My-- my palms are sweating, is that normal.
-Are they? -Did it get, like,
a thousand times hotter in here?
You know, people should see what you see.
Yeah, let's-- Can we show the--
what all the cameras look like?
Cameras, can you film each other?
-[scary music] -AMY: I mean, there's
a lot of cameras in here.
MATT: There's a lot.
That is a big deal.
See, it's easier when I'm baking because
-I don't pay attention to them. -We can guarantee
we'll either help you beat your phobia
or we'll make it doubly as bad.
So that's what we can guarantee you.
-Thank you. -All right.
MATT: Thank you very much.
-My hands did get really sweaty. -I can tell.
Like, ugh, I didn't like that.
How you feeling, my fondant queen?
OMONIVIE: It's been a long time since I did anatomy,
so I'm trying to do all these, like, body organs
and body parts to line the cakes.
YUKI: So you're building, like, a human body over there?
OMONIVIE: Something like that.
ALLEN: Oh. Hm. I don't know. So what we're working with,
I think some of them look a little shaky,
but I think there's a couple of them that look really good.
Not too spicy? Salt's good?
Need anything else?
It's still really spicy.
RAVI: Yo, that's not spicy at all.
Growing up, butter chicken, it was one of
my favorite things to eat that my mom would make.
-REEMA: It still is. -RAVI: And, you know,
since she taught that to me,
I usually make it, like, once or twice a week.
I think it's so funny because I often tell people like,
well, Indian food isn't just butter chicken.
RAVI: But it's the best thing. Like, there's so much more
to Indian cuisine.
-It's my favorite thing. -It's his favorite.
And I want to share that with the grannies.
But as the only ones doing something savory,
we feel like we're taking a risk right now.
I feel like if it's even remotely spicy,
they're going to say it's way too spicy.
The grandmas can handle it, I promise.
I'm hoping that we stick out to their grandmas.
Hopefully they see us as risk takers
and trying to think outside of the box.
Baking doesn't always have to be sweet,
which I think people forget.
It's a baking competition, not a sweets competition.
I apologize to everybody
because it's probably going to smell like
a lot of burnt spices right now.
GEORGE: Grandmas here!
-Hello. -Hi.
Hi!
Hi, bakers!
Hey.
-Hi. -You hungry?
-Starved! -Yes.
* The chairs are rockin' *
* The grannies are talkin' *
* About you *
Guess what today's challenge is?
I can't guess. What?
A baked good of your worst phobia.
Oh, gee.
And it also has to have an ooze factor.
That's gonna be disgusting.
A "phobiake". A "phobiae".
-"Phobiake". -Like I said,
a phobia and cake together.
Everybody get out your dictionary.
We'll just call it a phobia bake.
So, what are you looking for in a phobia bake?
Well, obviously, we gotta look for the flavor.
It's a little hot.
It's good?
Some of the other previous times,
the flavor wasn't always there.
And the creativity of it presenting it the way they do,
that's important to me.
-Ooh, those look good. -Ooh.
Dang. We whippin' it up.
I want to look at it and go, "Wow."
You know, that's a fear of flying.
Yes. You want to be able to recognize it right away.
-And then add details, too. -Ooh, spooky.
If it's going to be a rat, I want to see that tail,
even though it's going to scare the heck out of me.
-ANNE: Are you that afraid? -Yes!
SHERRI: You put me in a room with mice, I'm going crazy.
That's my phobia. I'm always going to have that fear.
That's not gonna change.
-Hello, Maddie and April. -Hello!
-How are you? -Great.
How are y'all?
How are you feeling after your big win?
-It's good. -Excited.
You've got your brooches on.
We do. We're very excited.
-Congratulations. -Thank you.
Oh, thank you. It was all her. I just followed the lead.
That's such a mom thing to say. I can totally relate.
-Doesn't that feel good? -It really does.
Okay, tell us what you're making.
So today we're making Mom's favorite, which is macaroons.
My biggest phobia is ladybugs.
So for this challenge, we are making a macaroon cookie
filled with a raspberry orange curd
and a orange cream cheese frosting.
Why do you hate ladybugs?
APRIL: So in the south,
ladybugs run the south.
And you would think, "Oh, it's a sweet little bug."
-No, it's not. -They are not.
-They bite. -They do?
I didn't know they bit. I've never been bitten by one.
-And they'll pee on you. -Legit.
Yes, they do. That's all they do.
Legit. They do.
To all the people that are watching:
You have been lied to about ladybugs.
They are not cute. They are not nice.
All they do is bite you and pee on you.
Can you say pee? Can you say pee on TV?
So they swarm areas?
-They don't like to be cold. -Oh, they don't want to be cold?
-Because they're ladies. -They're like, "I'm cold."
"Oh, no, I'm cold."
So they come into your house and they come in droves.
I came in one time and I thought the ceiling had fallen
because there was a black hole. It was ladybugs.
-What? -I would avoid home.
I would go to a friend's houses, I hate ladybugs.
It was awful. Now we have taken care of it.
Maddie and April were really helping us
dismantle the ladybug myth,
the idea that ladybugs are these cute insects.
But in reality, they bite you and they pee on you.
The ladybug, we're finding out,
is not as ladylike as she'd like us to think.
-Hi, Agnes. -MAYA: Hi, Agnes.
-Where's George? -Hey.
-AMY: He's here. -MAYA: Hi, George.
Movin' and groovin', like always.
-Runnin' back and forth. -Hey, how are you guys doing?
Doing great. Today is so much better.
-Tell us what you're making. -We're making a waterbug cake.
-She's really scared of-- -Pull apart cupcake.
Pull apart cupcake that's a waterbug.
Yes. That is my biggest--
-A waterbug. -A waterbug cake.
Yes. it's a chocolate cupcake with the filling
of vanilla cream and banana.
And then a Nutella drizzle with the vanilla buttercream.
MAYA: Ooh, buttercream.
I bet the term waterbug is regional.
They're called something else--
Cockroach. Oh, mother, cockroach.
I grew up with, like, my mom had to pull out the chancletas,
-it's a sandal. -Chancletas!
So we put a chancletaup.
Pow!
You should make up a dance called the chancleta.
[humming]
Pow!
I like this dance.
Now, this seems like an obvious question,
but why do you guys hate waterbugs?
All right, so a waterbug or two there, I'm like...
kill them. You know what I mean?
-Yeah, it's a New York thing. -Yeah, New York.
We're New Yorkers, we get it.
GEORGE: Badabing. Badaboom.
There was one time when I walked into the house
and it was like, waterbug there, waterbug here.
-ANGES: Nine. -GEORGE: Everywhere.
We counted, like, nine waterbugs.
I just flew out of the house, I couldn't stand it.
Your didn't even touch the ground.
-You were like... whee! -Yeah.
There was smoke behind me.
[laughing]
They had waterbugs. They had nine.
Nine waterbugs.
Nine.
You couldn't pay me money to squash a waterbug.
-There's a waterbug. -MAYA: Waterbug.
Right near the kitchen
and then I turn around there was nine.
Nine waterbugs, right above us. That's disgusting.
-Waterbugs. -Waterbugs.
It's disgusting.
* Baking it *
Amy, do you have any fears or phobias?
You know, I think probably one of my biggest fears
is sending a text to the wrong person.
Ooh, yeah, that sounds like a legitimate fear.
Yeah. And I wish that led to a phobia of my phone,
but I love my phone.
But I wish I had a phobia of my phone.
Yeah, I wish I was scared...
-Yeah. -...of my phone.
If I could date my phone, I would love to.
-Really? -Yeah. I love my phone.
-My phone's perfect. -[laughing]
This smells really, really good.
MATT: Look at that. Beautiful.
MATT: I think the ganache is all melted.
-ALLEN: Okay. -MATT: Oh, there's
-a little clump. -ALLEN: Yeah.
-MATT: Okay. -ALLEN: Ooh, that looks gross.
We're gonna have to do something to make it white.
Yeah, I'll go get some food coloring.
-White. -Add the white.
Is it just me or is this
just not really getting any lighter?
It can never be too white.
Oh, actually, I need to pour some more in there.
-Do a touch more. -I'm gonna add
a little bit more white,
and I think that's as good as we're gonna get.
That's fine. It can be an off-white.
-As long as it's not yellow. -Off-white.
RAVI: These are so good, they'll have you "bao"ing
-out of respect. -REEMA: "Bao"ing down.
-Hi, Rema. Hi, Ravi. -Hi.
-MAYA: Hi. How are you? -AMY: Wow, these are cool.
We're making butter chicken baos.
-Ooh. -RAVI: Yeah. For this challenge,
we're going to make a bao stuffed with butter chicken
shaped like mice,
and also a steam bao shaped like a snake.
REEMA: I think they're gonna love these.
RAVI: We put a little mozzarella cheese inside.
-Savory. -RAVI: When they eat it,
it should be a nice, cheesy, oozy flavor coming out.
Okay. This is exciting for a couple of reasons.
-That's right. -I love, you know,
all the baking and the sweetness,
but who doesn't love cheese?
Who doesn't love cheese?
Lactose intolerant people.
-Oh, yeah. -Oh, and vegans, yeah,
I guess they don't. And what's that?
-What did you make? -We're making little mice.
So these are the things that we filled in with
a butter chicken, filling with a bunch of cheese
for reassurance.
-Yeah. -Just so it's oozy enough.
Oh, right, because you have to get the ooze factor.
You got to get the ooze factor.
You guys really threw us off with that one.
AMY: Are you afraid of mice, too?
-Oh, my gosh. I'm so afraid. -She's afraid.
Like little rodents, mice, rats,
guinea pigs, hamsters, all the little...
The little-- On the floor. Not a fan?
-No. -AMY: But hamsters and guinea--
People think they're so cute. They're not cute.
-AMY: Not for you. -They're not cute, Amy.
Mice are just-- they freaked me out
ever since I was a little kid.
When I was in preschool, I lived in India with my grandparents.
There was just always these little mice running around.
To me, they were just, like, the creepiest little things
and they crawl up on you.
And then I saw a dead one, and it freaked me out even more.
My grandpa literally picked it up by the tail and just,
like, chucked it outside.
Who picks up a dead mouse by the tail
like it's no big deal?
So, yeah, I don't know.
They just creep me out.
Did you know there's a giant rodent, by the way?
MAYA: Oh, capybara?
-Capybara? Yeah. -What is that?
-AMY: It's... Well... -It's like, bigger than your--
It's like a rodent that's, like, bigger than your bathtub.
-[gags] -AMY: That, you know what--
That's what she does.
So you don't like that?
-REEMA: Uh, no. -Okay.
[capybara squawking]
-Cheers. -Cheers.
NORMA: Good health to everybody.
Good health, friendship, lifetime.
-HARRIET: Why are we drinking? -ANNE: Why aren't we drinking?
HARRIET: Why are we drinking today?
-It'll relax us. -It'll help us face the fear,
that's right. And so we're gonna be just, like,
-in our Zen-- -ANNE: Mellow.
SHERRI: I have a filthy martini.
Well, I'll tell you, this is my relaxer.
That cocktail must be pretty potent.
I was gonna say--
Harriet's moving forward in her chair as we speak over here.
-Oh, yeah. -This is really gonna
help me, though. Seriously.
Because I don't really want to see that mouse.
ANNE: Imagine with the ooze. I know, that's gonna be, ew.
Yuck. I don't know about that ooze factor, because,
I mean, it could be pretty gross.
I think it's gonna be gross.
Oozies is always gross.
Yes.
This is pretty oozy.
It's so gooey.
I'm gonna try keeping these filled more,
just so we can ensure ooziness.
It's gotta ooze. It's not gonna ooze in the paper.
No matter what, it's gonna ooze all over.
Okay. I got two pimples done.
If the fondant gets hard, you can't break it.
I'm not taking the fondant off.
We'll put the stuff in before the fondant.
We're coming off of a lot of critical feedback
from the last bake. So how can we make sure
to master this ooze? Here's our blood.
I'mma let it set for a little bit.
I know that I want to use a chocolate ganache texture
because I really want to make sure that it stays
that liquidy, oozy kind of feel.
Okay, I gotta frost these cakes.
All right. But to make sure that
the ooze doesn't seep into the layers of the cake,
I'll add a fine coat of butter cream frosting
because the butter in the frosting
serves as kind of like a coating protector.
There would be nothing worse than to cut into this cake
and no blood come out because it's all soaked
into the cake layer.
The good thing is the ganache has already set
so that'll be fast to pour in.
-Hello, bakers. -BAKERS: Hi.
So, we thought having to confront your worst fears
was enough drama for one episode of TV.
But Peacock said there had to be more.
So we added one final twist to help you get over
your fears once and for all.
After the grannies judge, your phobia bakes.
You are gonna destroy them.
-Oh, yes. -Yes!
-MATT: Can I throw it at a wall? -Can I make mine blow up?
Face your fears by smashing them.
MAYA: Which means each of you need to choose
an element of destruction from the Baking Itarmory,
which is inside that fridge.
Ooh, I like that.
Now, for the first time in Baking Ithistory,
open ze armory!
Bankers choose your implement of destruction!
Woah!
The pink bat, the pink bat, I got the pink bat.
Can I get by?
Well, yeah, we're two moms,
so we love smashing and blowing things up.
And you did see the joy in the baker's eyes
when we told them they could smash it.
I'm so happy. I'm so happy.
-What is that? -It's a billy stick!
Yo, it's real, Reems.
Oh, nunchucks, no way!
These would be funny to punch your cake.
-Ooh. -I would enjoy that.
I think we should keep these and punch cakes later.
I'm sure there's a club in New York where
you can pay money for a cake punching.
New York's hottest club is Cake Punch.
And you just punch it in there, and then you're like, ooh,
when you pull it out you're like, "I can't get it off."
Ow.
* Baking It *
You know, we gave the bakers their choice of implements
of destruction from our armory of implements of destruction.
I got to say, I was fascinated, Amy, by what they chose.
Oh, I have the same one at home.
-Yeah. -It goes with my glasses.
And your earrings.
YUKI: So, I figured why not be stylish?
And we're making a red velvet cake,
so we're just kind of color coordinating.
-Yeah. -Ooh, that's a good grab.
-Are you ready for it? -Yes.
-Power tools! -AMY: Oh, my.
-Oh, wow. -That looks terrifying.
I'm just ready. I'm ready.
We got nunchucks. We got nunchucks.
-Excellent. -I'm so excited to use them.
Do you know how to use them?
-Correctly? -Correctly? No.
Don't take my eye out, I just want to know.
-AMY: Oh, my God. -Nunchucks with a twist.
I caught some things they did not choose.
Nobody chose the tennis racket.
I got it because it has pink on it.
-Oh! -You sure did.
I love, like, sweet Kandyy holding the bat, being like,
"Yeah we're gonna smash it", like, so sweet, like,
"Yeah, I'm gonna smash it with a bat."
Yeah.
Can't you just imagine the cake coming through that?
-Ooh, squishing through that. -That's nice.
And just the satisfaction
of beating something to death with this.
I should keep this.
Ooh, a clown shoe? Come on now.
That's pretty funny.
Oh, hey!
-Hey, I grabbed a billy stick. -Oh, my.
I didn't know what it was.
You look comfortable with a billy stick,
I'm just gonna say that.
Can you imagine me just--
You're going to go medieval on it.
Absolutely.
Why did you choose the-- what would you call that?
Swingy spikey thing?
Swingy spikey thing.
I believe there's a real term for it.
Hopefully someone will Google it.
And then the tried and true,
like, I'm going to beat the dust out of a rug.
I think these are all, like, props from '80s movies.
The tennis racket, the golf club,
they're all something Rodney Dangerfield would have.
"Hey, looks like I got to smash something around here
-to get what I want." -Right?
Bakers, you have 15 minutes to face your fears
and choose your goos.
I at least want to get the fingernails on.
We gotta hurry up.
-Are you sure? -It's already leaking, no!
The buttercream is melting and now the puree is starting
to seep out of the side of the cake.
It's [bleep]ing coming out, damn.
There's no time for us to take this cake apart
and try to do this over.
So we're really just hoping and praying that we still have
enough ooze inside to where when we cut into this cake--
I'm going to give it like a couple more.
It still oozes out enough to get us to the next challenge.
I hope this ooze, I hope this ooze, I hope this ooze.
I'm freaking out, but I'm keeping my cool.
Close it so the steam stays in.
-Take it off. -Do you think it's done?
I don't know. I feel like it's not.
AGNES: Hurry up. We gotta put in the fridge.
You got to walk away.
It's not leaking anymore, which is a blessing.
No, but I have to clean up the parts that were leaking, though.
Reema, these are, like, taking a little bit longer
to set than I'd like.
REEMA: Well it's 'cause you keep opening it.
-This is a bump in the road. -They're all not great
so I'm just molding the way
that I want to make them look better.
Do you think it's gonna harden by the time?
It looks better than it did 10 minutes ago.
The medicine bottle, where's that going to go?
MAYA: Baker's! Time's up!
Just kidding. Terrifying, right?
That's how we want your bakes to make us feel.
But you doo have 5 minutes left, so bake for your lives!
-Okay. Okay -Okay.
All right, we gotta move, we gotta move, we gotta move.
Pull 'em, pull 'em, pull 'em. Okay, you do it, too.
-Five minutes. We got to hurry. -Crumble something.
-This is looking good. -ANNE: Look at the guys' cake.
HARRIETT: I know. I love it.
There's some kind of goop going around it.
-KANDYY: Don't set it on fire. -SEVN: I'm not.
APRIL: Ladybugs. -We don't like ladybugs.
-Amy, do you hear that? -What?
The time call is coming from inside the house.
-AMY: Oh! -MAYA: Your time is up
in five, four, three, two, one.
-AMY: Time's up. -GEROGE: Oh, my God.
OMONIVIE: Lord have mercy.
Well, we'd love to taste everything.
Yes.
[spooky music]
Okay, first up is Kandyy and Sevn.
-I'm feeling ready. -Oh, all right.
Well, tell us what your phobia is.
We both share her phobia, which is...
Trypophobia.
KANDYY: We are afraid of things being too close together,
or in clusters, or mainly just holes.
So our cake is a dark chocolate cake filled
with a strawberry oozing filling.
And I also left have some fresh chopped strawberries in there
to give you some texture
so it's gonna be juicy when you bite into it.
And I got something up my sleeve.
So we have two oozing factors.
We have a pimple. So we're going to squeeze that.
Oh, gross! That's so nasty.
Oh, the doctor's putting her gloves on.
Talk about jumping into the spirit of the thing.
That's not a pimple, that's a small country.
[laughing]
KANDYY: Okay, now we're going to pop our pimple.
Listen, I hope it doesn't squirt this way.
Ew!
NORMA: Oh, gross!
How is that not part of your phobia?
-I love popping pimples. -Ew!
-Oh, you're one of those. -Yeah,
I like seeing the ooze come out.
-I love it so much. -No, no.
Everybody is a freak. Everybody is a freak.
Everybody has a little bit of freak.
Hey, everybody.
Don't knock my freak.
Hey, hey, my freak.
So I guess let's go ahead and cut into it.
Okay.
KANDYY: Okay. There we go.
-KANDYY: We got a little bit. -Oh, they got a little bit.
Yes, yes, yes. Oh, it's coming.
I don't know, but she's been in the ground a while.
-She's been marinating. -Her blood is congealed.
Yeah, she's been marinating. You're going to love her blood.
-I'm scared to eat it. -Don't be scared.
The cake is nice and moist.
And I'm glad you put all those strawberries in there.
Yeah the strawberries- Really delicious.
Very good strawberries.
ANNE: And you got a lot of icing between the layers, too.
-That's good. -Thank you.
-The bake on this is perfect. -Thank you so much.
The buttercream is good.
I want to probably just liked a little bit more strawberry.
Even though it did ooze, just a little bit more.
-Okay. -And your fondant work.
She's the fondant-- she gets the crown for that.
It's great. I mean, with the detail on that.
I will tell you this.
Your arm is beautiful.
-Thank you. -I mean, honestly,
it's realistic. It would scare someone,
-honestly, It really would. -Thank you so much.
Okay, so you're going to smash your phobia cake.
Do you need a hand or?
-I got these two. -Do you need a hand, oh!
-[laughing] -Okay, we're ready.
Napkins up.
Rejection!
-Yeah! -Woo!
There we go! How does that feel?
It feels great. It feels great.
It's a hell of a stress reliever, right?
-It is, yeah. -Next are Matt and Alan.
-How's it going? -Hi.
-How are you all going? -Very good.
ALLEN: So we have a vanilla cupcake
with a strawberry filling,
and then on top, we have a black buttercream frosting.
And what is your phobia?
As you can see, the top are decorated as eyes.
And my phobia is I don't do well in crowds or, like,
with a lot of people staring at me. I was very introverted.
I didn't want to go out and, like, hang out with people.
But then I met Allen and he really, like,
brought me out of my shell. The inside of the cupcake,
we have a strawberry filling, and that's going to be the ooze
'cause, I mean, I guess, Allen,
he's not too big of a fan of blood.
I just don't do blood. I passed out the first time.
Don't feel bad, I pass out at the sight of blood.
Right, so hopefully you don't pass out
to the inside of our cake, but we'll see.
And I like the idea about the eyes
and you are here on this baking show.
He's right, you did a lot with him.
-He's brought me a long way. -That's really great.
So, yeah, if you want to we can go ahead and cut into it.
-Why don't you let us taste it? -Oh, and let's see the ooze.
Yes, ma'am.
MATT: Not very much ooze,
but, yeah, it's right in there.
I can handle that much ooze.
Here you go, you can pass it around if you want to.
SHERRY: I do like the different color eyes.
-ALLEN: Thank you. -SHERRY: Blue, brown, green.
The bake on it, It's a little dry.
Okay?
-I love the strawberry. -Thank you.
This ooze is bursting with flavor.
I wish there was just a little bit more of it in there,
-it was just that good. -Thank you.
I'll tell you, your icing...
The icing is very, very- It's delicious, okay?
Not too sweet, but sweet enough.
Thank you.
But the eye doesn't taste good.
Yeah, there's some- it's the white.
-There's something missing. -What is this white again?
So it's just milk chocolate.
We melted it down as we would a milk chocolate ganache.
And what about-- what's the red on it?
-It's just edible marker. -Okay, that's what I got.
I got a strange taste when I tried to taste it.
I didn't know if it had a flavor.
NORMA: Yeah, it's got flavor.
Alright, guys, it's all eyes on you.
-Woo! Go for it! -Keep going, keep going.
-Yeah, get that eye! -Oh!
[cheering]
Guys can go take that nunchuck and go lick it over there.
-AMY: Maddie and April. -Oh?
SHERRI: What does that look like to you?
MADDIE: Today we made French macaroons,
and there's a raspberry orange curd
in the middle that's going to ooze out
and a orange cream cheese buttercream.
-Very, very cute. -Very cute.
Maddie is deathly afraid of ladybugs.
-Not a fan. -Ladybugs love to flock
to the south because they don't want to be cold.
-Oh, yeah. -And during November
and December, ladybugs come in and sequester themselves
-into the house. -Wow.
And they bite. Did you know ladybugs do bite?
-I had no idea. -I didn't know that.
We know about ladybugs. Don't let them fool you.
They tinkle on you, apparently.
-AMY: All right. -Let's see the oozy, oozy.
-ANNE: Oh, yeah, there we go. -Yeah, okay.
They're little, but mighty and definitely a phobia.
This is just precious. Look at it.
Too cute. Too cute. Bzzz.
Well, I'm impressed with the little feet on the side,
because that's a sign of a good macaron
when you have that little foot there.
-Really? -Yeah.
Mm! Sticks to your teeth. Yes.
Perfect bake on the macaroons because that's hard.
The flavors come through. You can taste the orange.
It's a wonderful combination of flavors.
Thank you.
Crispy around the edge. Sticky.
You can't have a macaroon if it doesn't stick to your teeth.
Oh, honey.
[laughing]
I hear you, girl. I hear you.
-This just great. -Mm, I know what you mean.
There's nothing else to say here,
except let's send those ladybugs back to hell.
I agree.
-Okay. -Yes!
-Ooh! -HARRIET: Wowzah.
[applause]
NORMA: She liked that a little too much I think.
-That felt amazing. -Nice!
* Baking it *
All right, Yuki and Omonivie. Please come up.
Well, hello.
NORMA: Hello. My goodness. What have we here?
-Doctor in the house? -ANNE: Wow.
So, as you can see, it's a white coat.
And believe it or not,
the white coat syndrome is a weird thing.
If you've ever been to the doctor
and you're nervous and you're anxious,
it actually makes your blood pressure go up just by being
in the room with a doctor.
So this is a red velvet cake to match the insides.
We actually have some blood that's gonna spill out.
-HARRIET: Oh my. -And a surprise organ
that hopefully will pop out as well, so.
Oh, no.
[suspenseful music]
-Oh! -Ew! Ooey gooey!
ANNE: Oh, God, it does look like blood.
NORMA: Oh, that really oozed.
And at the center of it all, we have the heart.
-Yeah, I see that! -There's a little
-chocolate heart in there. -Oh, my God, look at that.
-It's still oozing. -Let's see.
Mm. How many bottles of red food coloring did you use?
-Just a hint. -Really? Very tasty.
Excellent. The color's gorgeous.
Thank you for the cream cheese frosting.
It's really delicious.
Moist. The layers are perfect.
Tastes like my grandmama's red velvet cake.
It's bloody good. It is bloody good.
-Thank you. -It's really beautiful.
It really is. And it tastes fabulous.
Really does. You did a great job.
-Beautiful crumb. -The texture is lovely.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
I'm going to give you girls a two snaps up,
and request a second helping over here please.
Yes!
That's important to get those snaps.
Wow, you guys. That's a big deal.
-Wow. -Well, you know what they say.
A mallet a day keeps the doctor away.
-True. -True.
So think about your student loans.
-Oh! -[cheering]
YUKI: Do it again, do it again!
One more time! One more!
-I get to be debt free! -That was satisfying.
NORMA: Well, that's the end of that cake.
AMY: All right, Agnes and George.
-Hello, grannies. -Well, hello.
-Hi, grannies. -Ooh. Oh, my God.
-Look at that bug. -Oh, wow.
-Ooh! That's a big ol' bug! -Oh, God. Ew.
Our phobia is water bugs.
We made a chocolate cupcake filled with vanilla cream,
bananas, drizzled Nutella, and a vanilla bean buttercream.
What is your ooze?
-The vanilla cream. -The vanilla cream.
So, you know, when you smash a water bug,
the white stuff comes out?
So that's what we're trying to do.
That is seriously disgusting.
I seen a few of them in my time doing plumbing.
And people still live in New York
with those things running around?
Norma. The best city in the world.
-Bite your tongue, Norma. -Yeah, sure.
That's why all the water bugs go there.
You know why the water bugs go there.
-To make it. -To make it big.
And if they could make it there, honey,
they can make it anywhere.
AMY: That's right.
Oh!
See that ooze right there?
-Oh, yeah. -Oh.
The crumb is perfect. Nice and moist.
-The icing is chocolatey. -Thank you.
It's delicious, I taste the bananas, everything.
Yeah, the icing is really good.
Mm-hmm. Icing is very tasty.
Good and chocolaty. Overall delicious.
Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. So good.
I agree with what everyone said.
-You're all in agreement. -Yeah.
Okay, guys, no more clowning around. Let's smash this bug.
-All right. -Good one.
-Yuck. -Again.
-One more time. -Hey!
Go for the head!
[applause]
-That poor shoe. -Tasty water bug.
All right, let's see the work from Keith and Corey.
KEITH: We're deathly afraid of spiders. Arachnophobia.
But it's definitely the black widows
that haunt our nightmares.
So we decided to make a web of eggs that will soon be
hatching to crawl over all of us.
I hope you got your bug spray.
We have a double chocolate cake infused with coffee,
and it's going to have a strawberry puree filling
that's gonna ooze out.
How did you create those eggs?
It's blackberries. And it was Corey's idea
-to spray paint them gold. -That is genius, Corey.
It's just as gross as anything can be.
-ANNE: Very, very well done. -Thank you.
Okay, so let's get some ooze.
Dun-dun-dun.
[tense music]
Oh.
KEITH: Not as much as we wanted.
COREY: Not as much ooze as we wanted,
but still a little gooey.
I did think that was gonna ooze a little bit more.
The filling started to seep out as we were constructing it-
So I patched it up with some buttercream
and stuck it back in the fridge to kind of solidify it
and I think that that's the reason
why the cake didn't ooze as much.
You said chocolate. You hit us with chocolate.
I agree.
You taste a little bit of the coffee in there too?
Yes and that's what intensifies that flavor,
-that chocolate. -Thank you.
There's one thing I would ask you for.
It's more filling between the layers.
It's almost nonexistent.
If you had a little bit more that ooze-
-Damn it. -More of that gooey-ooey,
-but it's delicious. -Thank you.
Well, what you did was clever, but we really wanted to be,
-like, grossed out. -Me, too. I want to go.
I like that, you know.
Okay, so let's see
how Charlotte's Web should have ended.
[laughing]
-Yeah! -Save some for me!
Brothers, brothers, brothers.
-That was very satisfying. -Yes.
* Baking it *
Reema and Ravi.
-Hello, everybody. -Hello.
RAVI: So we decided to bring some spice into your life today.
REEMA: We decided to make butter chicken baos for you.
I'm terrified of mice.
So we've got a whole array of little
butter chicken mice and Ravi's just terrified of snakes,
he always has been.
Rubber snakes, you know, anything.
He's so easy to scare.
I don't know why.
I know why. Because snakes are gross.
-Thank you. -When I was really little,
I spent a year in India with my grandparents.
And in our house in the village,
there would always be a little mice,
like, running around.
And, like, I woke up with one in my blanket once.
-SHERRI: My phobia is mice. -Is it?
-Yes. -Oh, you get it then!
Oh, yes, yes. I'm terrified.
Oh, well, you're going to have so much fun
digging right into this.
-Ooh! -Okay! Ew!
That's nasty. That's gross.
-It really is gross. -Really gross
All righty. I won't be able to taste it.
NORMA: Now I'm afraid of butter chicken.
REEMA: Sorry!
You have a butter chicken phobia, too?
Now!
Okay, let's see.
SHERRI: Oh, Lord. This is delicious.
Oh, thank God. Okay.
Oh, my goodness. Perfect amount of spiciness
because I love spice, but it's not too spicy.
-Not too spicy. -But you can feel
just that little heat.
Delicious. And it's your Indian spices
that I really enjoy.
Thank you.
The filling is wonderful, but my dough is not cooked.
-Oh, no. -Yeah, You see that?
-It's not doughy. -We had different, like,
levels of the steamer, and I think maybe that was the one
where we were running out of time.
All right, you two get these butter chicken rats
off my snake infested tray.
[cheering]
Get 'em!
Gross!
Uh, oh, Gigi don't look.
Okay, don't look, Gigi, don't look.
I almost made Gigi Sherri throw up, which, like,
I mean, I felt kind of bad about, but it means we, like,
did our job also.
-Good job. -Good job.
You really grossed me out, seriously.
[laughing]
Oh, my God. That really got you.
Yeah, it did.
The grannies are going to have to figure out
which phobia bake is better, and that's terrifying.
That scares me to death.
Bakers, all of your phobia bakes,
also known as "phobieakes", or, as I like to call them,
"Phobie cakes" will keep me up at night. So thanks for that.
Yeah. Now our grannies are going to summon the courage
to pick a winner and scare up a brooch.
I have to say, this was tough for us
because you all really did an extraordinary job.
I mean, you scared us all to death.
It was fabulous. Really.
However, there was one team that really brought the ooze.
The winners of today's bake are...
Yuki and Omonivie!
[cheering & applause]
-[Bleep] -Really!
Your take was beautifully executed,
the detailing was wonderful,
and of course, the ooze factor on your cake really was gross.
I mean, the blood came out
spilling out of there with a heart.
I'm surprised it wasn't beating, but I was afraid to look.
So for that, we congratulate you as our winners.
-[applause] -Come and get your brooch!
YUKI: Oh, I'm so excited!
-And here they are. -Congratulations!
Here you are, girls.
We are officially brooch baddies.
-YUKI: So happy! -OLMONIVIE: I feel like
this is not just a win for us, but a win for my dad,
who I lost on this medical journey
but continue to inspire me every day.
I know it's about baking, but for me,
it's like-- So much more.
Continue with the dream, right?
And try not to doubt myself and have those fears
and be the best physician I can be.
Now it's the part of the show that we fear the most.
We have to send one of the teams home.
Gigi Sherri, can you please go ahead and do the sad part?
This was really hard for us grannies,
because you all really stepped up to the plate
and baked really good.
However, unfortunately,
the team that's leaving today is...
Matt and Allen.
Your bake on your cupcake, it was a little tough.
And then the eyeball...
it had a different consistency and an off, like, flavor.
But let me tell you something.
Matt, you overcame being an introvert.
Here you are on Baking It national TV
for millions of people.
And I'll tell you, to have a friend like
you standing by his side and picking him up.
Your friendship is beautiful.
So you're winners already.
You know you can't leave
without a hug from Gigi and the grannies.
Okay.
[applause]
SHERRI: That was so sad for me.
-I love you guys. -ALLEN: We love you, too.
SHERRI: And I want those earrings.
This has been such an unbelievable experience.
Like, I couldn't imagine doing this with anybody else.
If anything, it's just brought us closer.
And you're a great friend to bring him here.
You're not going to grow just staying in your comfort bubble,
you know, you got to go out there and take risks,
'cause if you don't take them, you never know, like,
-what they could lead to. -All right, I need a tissue.
Thank you for sparing us.
Thanks to him, I was able to get this amazing experience
and create new friends for life.
That in itself is an incredible feat for us, so--
-Yeah. -We're very proud of ourselves.
COREY: You're my brother for life,
you know, you know what it is.
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