[upbeat music playing]
- Okay, Jacob. Go ahead.
- All right. Let's see what it is.
- We're doing golf.
- [Renee] I thought
[Jacob] I suck at golf.
- [Steve] Mini-golf.
- [Jacob] We all need an individual course.
[Renee] Each team has a course.
[Rodolfo] We need
to connect all three together.
[Steve] Cake obstacle.
[Cindy] Additional edible obstacle.
[Jacob] Judges play course.
[Brandi] Oh, jeez. Okay.
Let me say,
it's nice to hear some other voices.
I knew you were creative.
I've seen your work.
I'm excited to work with you.
I'm gonna tap right into your brain,
your brain
We just figured out what the mission is.
It is a putt-putt golf course.
Now we're broken off into two teams.
How can we make it a theme,
all of our ideas?
- We need to "putt" them together.
- Putt them together. I like that. Not bad.
There's a Yellow Course
and a Green Course.
We all have to develop our own holes,
but have some continuity between us.
What are you guys thinking?
Hey, everybody. I am excited,
because today we are gonna have a ball.
Look at that.
Looks just like the real thing. Okay.
Willman is lining up the putt.
Oh!
The bakineers are baking and building
their very own edible mini-golf holes.
For the first time in this competition,
they're working in teams
to create two big and delicious courses.
The stakes are enormous, but the holes,
well, they are miniature.
Mmm.
[Taylor] Does anybody, immediately,
when they think putt-putt,
have some idea that comes to
- What are you thinking?
- Unicorns!
- Flowers!
- Graveyards. Graveyards.
- Wait, what did you say?
- Graveyards.
- [Taylor] Yeah.
- Yeah!
[Taylor] Heaven, hell and Hawaii.
How do we connect that
with her unicorns and my Hawaii?
[Renee] What if
something happened in Hawaii
that died on the graveyard
and then went to heaven?
- [Cindy] Are you gonna make any animals?
- I'm making a turtle.
[gasps]
Rest in peace, turtle!
And then we can name him.
And then he somehow ends up in heaven.
- He ends up in our unicorn heaven.
- [Renee] Turtle heaven!
- Name your turtle.
- [Renee and Randi] Fred.
- Fred.
- [Jacob] Fred.
- Oh, my God! That was so weird.
- [laughing]
Fred!
- What are you thinking?
- It has to be contrast, right?
- Dark and white balance. Yeah.
- [Joey] All right.
If you're going dark,
then I'll hit 'em with colors.
- Candyland or something.
- We are in Candyland. Let's go that way.
- Sweet stuff. Candy.
- The life of the baker.
- We could do something
- Ice! Like purgatory on ice.
- Like you're waiting on ice.
- We love the snow in Kentucky. That's big.
Life, purgatory, heaven and hell.
So, we've got a cycle going, right?
- Like a sweet cycle!
- That'll be our course name? Sweet Cycle?
- I'll make mixes, get the cakes going.
- Stop talking, start moving!
- Okay, guys. Let's go.
- Go, go, go.
[all] Yeah!
Let's do it, guys.
[clock ticking]
- [Sara] Yeah, buddy!
- Okay, I'll go get our stuff.
- [Cindy] Okay!
- [Menuka] Go, Green! Go, Green!
[Cindy] You know
where the cupcake pans are?
Thank you.
We're teammates now.
- So, we can help each other.
- It's so great.
Hi, judges!
- Hello.
- Hi, Justin.
This mission is crazy that you've created.
How's it gonna work?
Each of these bakineer teams has 13 hours
to design, bake and build their own
three-hole edible mini-golf course.
All the fun for each hole has to fit
within a five-by-ten allotted space.
Each of these courses have to be
cohesive and themed,
and everyone on that team
can help one another.
But each individual bakineering duo
is responsible for one hole
within their team's course.
We'll play both courses
in their entirety.
We will choose
our favorite one overall.
That entire combined team
will be safe from elimination.
That'll leave us
with a combined losing team
from which we'll have to decide
which duo are going home today.
- Wow, harsh. A lot is on the line.
- It is.
Randi, I'm gonna build the ramp to start,
'cause we've got that raised platform.
From an engineering point of view,
each of these holes has to feature
two obstacles.
One has to be
at least three feet high and functional.
That means something has to move.
There could be rotation,
or a swinging element.
Something can move up or down.
But the key factor is that it has
an engineering principle incorporated.
The main obstacle
needs to be made of cake,
and it needs to tie into the overall theme
of the course and the taste.
Isomalt, cornstarch.
[grunts]
Except for the underlying structural
and engineering components,
everything has to be totally edible
and amazingly delicious.
But we will be putting on Astroturf.
If we were to putt on frosting,
I think it would be a little messy.
- [Taylor] Steve.
- Yeah?
Will chocolate come off
of wood fine if I can unfold this,
or should I line it with
wax paper or spray it?
I would line it with parchment paper,
then pour the chocolate,
then lift the whole thing out
and pass the mold onward.
- Cindy and Taylor. How are you?
- Hi, guys!
[Andrew] Hello.
[Dr. O] So, your engineering elements
are what?
Two big elements. Got a isomalt bridge
and then, for the larger one, we've got
a unicorn sitting on top of a doughnut,
and, as an added obstacle,
it has a tongue that wiggles in between.
- A tongue?
- Yeah.
- [Cindy] A doughnut's tongue.
- This'd be the color of a doughnut tongue?
[Dr. O] Ah, I see.
So, starting off on our mini-golf hole,
you'll see our main obstacle,
a very happy doughnut
with a very dangerous swinging tongue.
[Cindy] That's made
out of cake and ganache.
[Taylor] On top of the doughnut
is our unicorn pal,
who's made of Rice Krispies
and modeling chocolate.
If you make it through, past the swinging
tongue of death,
you'll hit a bank, which I made
out of sheet cake and fondant.
Our dessert is a coffee chiffon cupcake
with salted coffee cream
and a almond brittle,
and that's sitting on top of the doughnut.
The unicorn is protecting them.
So, are you all making three separate,
completely disjointed holes,
or is there some
- Something bringing the three together?
- Fred is bringing it together.
Yeah, we got a turtle.
Ah!
- Yeah.
- A turtle, who's the architect, of our
- The turtle architect.
- [Taylor] Yeah, exactly.
- It sounds very Cindy and Taylor.
- Yes!
- Best of luck.
- Thanks, guys.
[upbeat music playing]
[clock ticking]
- [Rodolfo] So, Sara.
- Yes.
I'm doing coconut fudge in one,
coconut pastry cream in the other one,
and I'm gonna start
the Italian buttercream very soon.
I'll get this done.
We should do isomalt eyes that can spin.
- That'll spin. Correct.
- I can go on top?
We look forward
to developing a Candyland theme
that's gonna just hit them
with vibrant colors
and also bring back
some nostalgic memories
that they may have gone through as kids.
I am Mini-Golf Champion of the World.
My kids know it. They've never beaten me.
I'm a father of two kids.
My kids are my whole world.
I'm here to win.
I wanna make my kids proud.
They're gonna start here.
Okay? They're gonna tee.
And they're gonna tee
through a sleeping unicorn.
For this challenge,
I engineered a Candyland
that has a beautiful baby unicorn.
Go through the baby unicorn
through the mouth.
Out the other side,
you'll find a mechanic door
that opens and closes
for a gingerbread man.
After the gingerbread man, you need to go
over a river of chocolate
that has a bridge
made out of Rice Krispie treats,
chocolate, graham crackers.
Coming down from that bridge,
you will find an amazing expl*si*n cake.
And then you'll find the ramp
that has on top a rotating merry-go-round.
And inside of that ramp,
you'll find the hole.
As a team, I'm feeling
that we are upon a new challenge.
We got close last time,
but our engineering is
gonna take us to the top this time,
because we have ramps, we have bridges,
we have mechanisms with electronics
that are going to work this time.
Because we are planning ahead.
Joe, what's your tasting
What's your delicious dessert?
I developed a raspberry-whiskey Charlotte.
[Brandi] Ooh!
[Joey] We're gonna do a whiskey cream
and then build it up with raspberries.
Almost like a terrine,
but an open-faced cake kind of thing.
That sounds good.
[clock ticking]
Bakineers! Only ten hours left!
Ten hours. Ten hours.
Let's go. We're okay!
For, like, unity of design
between all the Yellow Team,
I'm making the same flags and signage,
so we all look cohesive.
I don't think this is enough butter.
That's not light and fluffy.
What do you have? Sugar?
Just sugar, butter and vanilla.
Now I just put two eggs.
You're not whipping it high enough.
Take the torch and heat it.
The mountains are gonna be
on the corner on the edge
so that it blocked the judges' way,
so that they're forced
to go through the isomalt bridge.
Maybe, like, bones type of thing?
And golf ba*ls?
We came up with a graveyard theme,
and we're trying to tie it in
with everybody's theme as the Yellow Team.
So, the golf course,
we arrive at this massive gravestone,
which you play the ball through.
When you reach the other side,
you're now involved
with the chocolate bridge
that you have to putt over
onto a three-foot-wide cake hole
that you have to putt into.
So then, on top will sit the turtle.
So, he's sitting on top,
just hanging out in the swamp.
We also are incorporating Fred
into each one of the holes.
Yay!
[singsong voice] It looks good!
It looks good!
As for our main obstacle,
which is inside of the tombstone,
this is a laser-cut piece of wood
covered with chocolate
that's gonna be obstructing the ball
from going through.
Failing again in the third mission
has made it so that I have
a new instilled fire in me.
I don't just need to make
something work in Mission Four,
I need to blow the judges away.
Show them what I got.
- Look!
- Oh, yeah. Cool.
- That's how fast it moves.
- Sweet.
It's just enough time
for them to putt it through.
The edible portion of this is
a graveyard chocolate cake,
drenched in raspberry blood,
covered with a cream cheese,
dark chocolate frosting.
This normally takes
about three hours in the oven.
I'm doing thin sheets.
I've always wanted to be the best
in my game. Not everybody does.
School for me was very difficult.
I suffered from dyslexia.
Growing through the school system,
I was just put down like,
"Eh, guy's lazy.
He doesn't wanna learn. Can't teach him."
So, from that I think
I've pushed through boundaries,
maybe more than other people would put
because they don't have those struggles,
and I proved them wrong.
- Steve, what are you working on?
- I'm making the putting hole for the back.
- I'm raising it, covering it in fondant.
- Oh, I love that.
[clock ticking]
Fore!
[Joey] Hey!
- h*!
- Told you that'd get their attention.
Rodolfo and Sara,
you won a big boost in the last mission.
Well, it happens to be
something literally very big
that should help improve your score.
Immunity. It says immunity right on it.
- What? Oh!
- It's from the Bank of Immunity.
[gasps]
Oh!
- I'm pretty jealous.
- I am too.
First of all, we had two advantages,
and none of them were as cool as immunity.
What that means is no matter what happens,
you guys are safe in this mission.
You mean
I did all these Rice Krispies for nothing?
You know, I just did a little math,
and I know, a magician doing math, LOL.
But, seriously, Green Team,
if you end up on the bottom,
it means Brandi and Menuka
and Joey and Mario each have
a 50/50 shot at going home.
Ooh!
- Anyway, have fun, guys!
- [judges laugh]
No pressure though. It's okay. Thanks.
Can you send the whole Yellow Team home,
so we can enjoy it?
[Brandi laughing]
[clock ticking]
This is like a cloud
that came from my dreams.
Your dreams are this cute?
[Steve] Did you grease your hands?
Spray each hand,
and then just rub your hands together.
We're making Renee's hands
modeled out of chocolate
Fill 'em up.
which come out of the river at you,
as you go over the chocolate bridge.
Look at Steve and Renee.
I think they're doing a mold. Cool!
[Steve] Gonna put this in the fridge
to set.
I heard you had some macadamia nuts.
- They're in the oven. You can't have 'em.
- Oh, man.
- I need all of them.
- All right.
[clock ticking]
Menuka's making the ice rink.
[Brandi] He's making the channel
for our trapdoor.
Hopefully, by the time that's done,
the cakes will be
out of the oven and chilled,
and then we'll
Ready to be start building.
- It's a team effort. It's a team effort.
- Sure is. I love it. Freakin' love it.
For this mission, we are building
a polar-themed mini-golf hole.
In the middle,
the golfer will have to hit the ball
through a giant iceberg
where there's a trapdoor.
- The height Is this enough, you think?
- Yeah.
When the ball goes through the iceberg,
Menuka's gonna engineer a magic trick.
- So we just place the ball right in here.
- Yeah.
Joey and Mario
are doing a similar thing, right?
If theirs doesn't work,
we'll make it like this one.
- Exactly like this one.
- Nice job.
The ball will change colors
when it goes through the iceberg to,
hopefully, impress the judges.
On top of the iceberg will be
cute little butternut squash penguins
with modeling chocolate for the wings.
Airbrush 'em, make 'em look realistic.
Right, these two little guys are done
and ready to be painted.
The dessert portion will be
lemon cake with lemon curd
and cream cheese buttercream.
[clock ticking]
Four hours left!
[groans]
Just breathe, Brandi. Just breathe.
I'm gonna ganache it. So, do you think
white ganache or chocolate ganache?
I'm gonna use
colored cocoa butter to color it.
Right. I would do it on white.
- I wouldn't use a dark compound.
- Right?
[clicks tongue] Go, girl.
- What are you working on?
- Ganache.
- I'm gonna let it
- For the turtles?
Yeah, for the turtle. For Fred.
So, our mini-golf course is
going to be Hawaiian-themed.
Once you hit the ball, you're gonna go
through a giant volcanic lava rock
made out of Rice Krispie treats
and then coated in chocolate,
which Fred, our giant turtle,
will be sitting atop.
Once you're past Fred's giant lava rock,
you're gonna go up this wooden ramp,
and then you'll go past
our giant volcano and geyser,
made out of sheet cake covered in fondant,
and have chocolate lava streaming down it.
Fred the turtle
is going to be the cake part.
He's going to be Turtle cake. How apropos.
It's a delicious, light chocolate cake
with salted caramel icing
and toasted macadamia nuts.
How are you on icing, Jacob?
Way enough.
[clock ticking]
Cindy, do you have freeze spray near you?
- I do!
- Could you hand it to me?
Yah. Don't do it too much,
'cause making it too cold cracks isomalt.
[Steve] All right.
Let's get these in the freezer.
- Sara?
- Yes, sir.
What are you building there?
I'm driving the Struggle Bus.
About to throw this one through a wall.
We have landed
on a "heaven and hell" theme.
Our course starts with a big ramp
made of stacked cakes
and Rice Krispie treats
that represents the Tree of Life.
At the top,
you've got the two gate options.
One, a small door for heaven,
because the pathway to heaven is narrow.
Make it through this hole,
you get a hole-in-one.
Make it through the hell hole,
you'll go through the seven deadly sins.
[Rodolfo] For the desserts,
I'm gonna do a dark chocolate cake
with a coconut filling and a coconut fudge
and a coconut pastry cream.
Less chat. Play.
- [Joey] Jammed again.
- [Mario] Jammed in the mouth.
It's got to be soft.
I'm worried the ball may
get stuck inside of the unicorn.
[Joey] We've learned the importance
of testing over the past few missions.
We gotta understand
that nothing is gonna work
just because we're good guys.
It's gonna work
because we tested it a thousand times
and understand the principles
of our crafts.
It didn't give me a problem before.
[Mario] Try again.
It needs to be foolproof.
Jammed, didn't it?
- Hola!
- Mario! Hola!
- How are you?
- Good.
- How are you doing?
- The engineering's
- Electronic is on. Testing as we build.
- [Joey] We're testing and testing.
I decided to bring all the tools,
so I can be close to Joey and communicate,
'cause I think
that after our first mission,
we were very apart. I was over there,
just geeking on my own stuff.
I grew up in a family of engineers.
My dad's an engineer.
My brother's an engineer.
I love challenging myself.
I think that that's what keeps me alive,
makes my blood pump.
Every opportunity to perform
is an opportunity to excel.
So, challenges are for driven people,
and I consider myself a driven guy.
At the moment, I can see a lot of wood.
I'm intrigued how you're gonna cover it.
We have that into consideration,
and we are gonna do the best we can.
[Joanne] This is super exciting.
Thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys.
- Good luck.
[Brandi] Are you stressed out?
I think it's the biggest lie when you say,
"I'm fine," you know,
you're not always fine.
I noticed that when I give you a hug,
you seem to calm down.
- With my kids, I have a hug timer.
- Uh-huh?
So, it goes off three times a day.
And when it goes off, I just
We stop what we're doing
and we hug each other.
- Want me to set a hug timer?
- Let's put a hug timer on.
[Brandi] I'll set one.
Yeah, you guys should learn from us too.
We're gonna do a hug time.
- [Sara] Group hugs in 20 minutes?
- Yeah!
[timer beeping]
We got the hug timer. Done.
[grunts]
- I'm good.
- [Sara] Towels over here?
One more.
I am adding Rice Krispie Treats
on the border of the chocolate river.
This cable needs to come in the front?
We could hide them through here,
now that the cake is in place.
Unless you wanna slide this forward.
We can put it back here.
- We're gonna do the other ones
- We can think about it.
- Don't forget the unicorn horn, okay?
- Okay.
[Joey] I don't wanna go out there
with a colorful horse.
- [timer beeping]
- It's the hug timer, Menuka.
- Hug time, hug time!
- Hug time!
- Group hug time! Real quick.
- Hug time! Group hug time!
Yeah. You good?
- That's a good hug.
- That is a good hug!
- [Joey] You guys are hugging?
- Here we Okay!
- How are you guys doing?
- Good.
- Yeah.
- All right.
[clock ticking]
[Cindy] Okay. I'm good on the doughnut.
I'm gonna start
doing some drips on the mountains.
Three, two
I am so excited.
I'm, like, screaming inside,
because I'm seeing
something that is working.
It's time for you guys
to prepare for the stress test.
Your tee time is fast-approaching.
- Golfing gloves on.
- Go get limbered up.
[clock ticking]
Teams, only 30 minutes left!
[tense music playing]
In a way, it's okay,
because it's a graveyard.
You may not have
all your fingers and toes.
- [Renee] Ew!
- We can just lay the fingers in place.
[Taylor] Oh, my goodness.
Bakineers, five minutes left!
I'll move the fences,
'cause they're very fragile, okay?
- Here's your sign.
- Love it.
- You like it? Good to go.
- Thank you.
[Justin] Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.
Wires and whisks down! Your time is up!
Dude, we got issues.
We're out of time,
and I just realized
that we forgot the unicorn horn and ears.
But it's a baby.
Babies don't have horns when they grow up.
- It's a baby unicorn. Problem solved.
- There you go. It's how you sell it.
I'm not saying anything,
but as a perfectionist, I know
- [softly] Dude, it looks awesome.
- Bakineers!
Are you ready for your Baking Impossible
mini-golf stress test?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yes!
- All right!
- [Justin] I'm very excited.
In fact, I brought my golf bag.
Got everything I need in it.
Got my golf ball.
And, of course, I've got my
Got my club.
- Let's play!
- Oh, my God.
Bakineers,
it is time
for your stress test to begin.
[Jacob] Jesus.
Hello, judges. Hey, can I get a ride?
- Yeah, hop in.
- All right.
- Yes!
- Thank you, my friend.
Keep it on the right side of the road.
Teams, come on down!
[Renee] Yay!
[coughing]
- You guys were downwind. I apologize.
- [laughing] We're good.
Welcome to your Baking Impossible
Mini-Golf Stress Test.
Today, we'll play each of your two courses
and then choose our favorite overall.
The team from our favorite course
is safe from elimination.
Sadly, one bakineering duo
from the losing course
will be going home today.
Remember, you're all fighting
for a chance to win the $100,000 prize
and the title of World's Best Bakineers.
Up first, Yellow Team.
The theme of Thrills, Frills and Chills.
Bringing the frills,
we have Cindy and Taylor.
- Andrew, you want me to drive this time?
- Oh, I got it.
[Dr. O chuckling]
Oh!
- Let me get on.
- [Justin] Okay, right side of the road.
We're excited
the judges get to play our hole first,
because that means
we get to set their expectations.
They're not comparing it
against any other hole.
Just don't hit the unicorn.
Cindy and Taylor,
tell us about your mini-golf hole.
[Taylor] Our golf hole is Unicornucopia.
This course fits
with the whole rest of ours,
and our scenic landscape
of Thrills, Chills and Frills.
And this'd be the?
- Frills.
- [Justin] This is the frills.
[Taylor] You'll notice a few
common elements between all of them.
The first of which is our friend,
Fred the turtle,
which you'll see
on all golf course employee uniforms,
as well as in each of our courses,
and on our flag.
Talk us through
what everything is made of.
From the front to the back,
we've got tee markers,
which are made of white chocolate coating.
Our giant doughnut is fully cake.
The unicorn is fondant and Rice
- Modeling chocolate.
- Why don't you take over.
[Cindy] The unicorn is modeling chocolate,
and then we have edible glitter,
and an isomalt bridge.
- Go, Joanne. Very excited.
- [Joanne] Okay.
- Watch the swing of that tongue.
- Oops, I didn't mean to hit it.
- That's one.
- No, no, no, no!
[upbeat music playing]
[judges] Oh!
[judges exclaiming]
Man!
[judges exclaiming]
The glitter trap. Okay, here we go.
[Dr. O] Oh!
[all] Yeah!
- [Justin] Nice!
- That was hard!
- [Dr. O] New course record.
- [Justin] How'd it feel?
- It was fun.
- Cindy and Taylor, thanks so much.
This is fun.
Got us off to a great start.
Judges, grab your clubs,
and let's travel on.
And now for the chills
of Chills, Thrills and Frills.
Steve and Renee.
I definitely feel like this course is
going to be a wow factor for the judges.
Here we are at the second hole already.
Steve and Renee.
Our hole is called
Fred's Golf Ball Graveyard,
where Fred the turtle
is now in a graveyard
in a bone-chilling scene.
For the engineering perspective,
we have the motor
in front of the tombstone.
So, we have Renee's hands,
that have been crafted out of chocolate
with broken fingers,
as she's climbing out of the grave.
We have chocolate fences,
and then the whole putting green
at the end is an edible chocolate cake,
drenched in a blood raspberry syrup,
covered with a cream cheese,
dark chocolate graveyard frosting.
[judges] Mmm.
- [Dr. O] Okay.
- Never had graveyard frosting.
Andrew, you're playing this hole.
[Dr. O] He missed.
[Justin] Nice.
[Joanne] Oh!
- [Justin] The grave.
- [Steve] Right to the hand.
[Justin] He's having to hit that ball
back down to the base of the bridge.
- Not bad. Not bad. Here.
- Okay.
- [Joanne] Oh, nice!
- [Justin] Nice! Up and over the bridge.
You're in the Oreo crumb pit right now.
[all] Yay!
- Nice.
- Really good.
Steve, Renee, thanks for letting us play
Fred's Golf Ball Graveyard.
- Judges, to hole number three.
- Okay.
And finally our thrills
for Frills, Chills and Thrills,
Randi and Jacob.
Wow, Fred got big.
I would like to welcome you to Hawaii,
aka, Fred's Thrilling Paradise.
You'll notice that Fred is
a very curious little turtle there.
He does peek his head out
ever so occasionally.
We also have our steaming volcano up here,
made entirely of cake.
There are a few surprises, assuming
you do sink the ball in the hole,
including our predictable geyser.
I know that geysers are known
for being unpredictable,
but I will say,
if you do get the ball in the hole,
our geyser will start
to go off in celebration.
- That's a big "if."
- [Jacob] Yes.
It's all edible.
The lava rock is sculpted
from Rice Krispie treats.
Our lava pit is chocolate
and rice cereal treats.
Fred himself is your dessert treat.
So, he is a chocolate cake
with salted caramel buttercream,
caramel and toasted macadamia nuts.
[Justin] Well, Dr. O,
this is your time to shine.
[Dr. O gasps]
Oh, my Oh, buddy.
- How many strokes penalty is the?
- [Randi] The lava pit?
[Justin] It's in the lava pit right there?
- Eight, maybe?
- Yeah, maybe eight.
All right, he's putting for eagle here.
[softly] Dr. O hasn't got
a hole-in-one in him.
[loudly] Did you say
Dr. O could never do a hole-in-one?
- That's exactly what I said, Joanne.
- With these muscles
- [judges chuckling]
- [Dr. O] Whoo!
[all] Oh!
Dr. O, explain to us the science
behind what happened.
I could've made a hole-in-one.
I added suspense.
[Justin] This is exciting.
There we go! Dr. O with a three.
[all] Yay!
- And wait for it.
- [Dr. O] The flag! Wow!
We got the flag and geyser!
Predictable geyser.
- All right.
- Was it as fun as it looked?
It was really fun.
[Justin] That's it for the Yellow Course.
Randi, Jacob, thank you so much.
[Rodolfo] Whoo!
[suspenseful music playing]
[Randi] Poor Fred.
Cindy and Taylor,
please bring us your cake.
[Taylor] Sounds good.
[Joanne] Thank you.
This is a coffee chiffon cupcake
with a salted coffee cream
and a almond brittle.
Well, the coffee chiffon cake
is light and airy.
The cream is well-infused with coffee
and it's well-balanced.
I'd love to see a little bit more depth
in terms of your pastry talents.
Everything has been
a whipped cream or a sponge cake.
As far as the engineering
of your course goes,
the obstacles weren't really obstacles.
The tongue in the doughnut is perhaps
more of a distraction than an obstacle.
Everything worked. That's good.
Nothing blew my mind.
The isomalt bridge did impress me.
Understood.
Cindy, Taylor, I do think
from a playability point of view,
we maybe could've brought
some of those other amazing cake elements
onto the course
to perhaps be more of an obstacle.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
Steve and Renee.
[Steve] So, here we have
dark chocolate cake
drenched with raspberry coulis,
layered with a dark chocolate,
cream cheese frosting.
Steve, I love this cake.
There is a nice acidic element to it.
Having a little bit of acid
is like having a little bit of salt.
It wakes up the flavors,
and, when you eat it,
it makes you want to keep going back,
because it's not all one note.
Thank you.
I think you've designed
a very striking mini-golf hole today.
Some of the aspects that I really enjoyed
were how you had that color grading
between your Astroturf
to blend with your theme.
The chocolate bridge
I thought was very clever.
I loved to see the ball travel
over something edible
and you're not relying on support.
Very well done on those aspects.
Steve and Renee, you're a team,
but I have to address Renee.
Renee, great job.
- Yay!
- Every mechanism worked beautifully.
You have your wind vane shutter mechanism
on your tombstone there.
And the bridge design is
a beautiful, functional chocolate bridge.
Everything just came together really well
from an engineering perspective,
and so, I gotta say,
Steve, you need to step up your game, man,
to match Renee.
- Okay?
- I'll try.
Randi and Jacob.
[Randi] This is a Turtle cake,
after Fred.
He was very sweet
to allow you to taste him.
It is a chocolate cake
with salted caramel icing,
caramel and roasted macadamia nuts,
and a little bit
of ganache on the outside.
- The cake is really delicious.
- Thank you.
It is really rich and chocolatey.
I love the crunch.
It adds a really nice textural component
to the whole cake.
I love even the little bit
of ganache on the edge
that adds a little bit of bitterness,
because it's a little sweet in the middle.
Mmm-hmm.
I think you've designed
a stunning-looking course.
A particular mention would have to go
to your completely edible mountain,
and the tunnel,
and, of course, Fred on top.
Playability-wise, that volcano,
could it have been more center stage?
Could we've taken a tour around it?
It was perhaps a little bit
straight line of sight, play-wise,
from the start to the end.
[Dr. O] Randi and Jacob,
I first have to apologize to you both
for making your course seem so easy.
I know it really is
a very difficult course.
But if I were to talk
about the engineering,
there were some elements
that I absolutely loved,
and they were the rewards
at the end, right?
Once you get the ball in the hole,
stuff happens.
Triggered activity
that is wonderful.
Thing I like about you guys
is that you typically make stuff
that tastes good, looks good and works.
So, when are you gonna win a round?
- I don't know.
- Hopefully soon.
Randi and Jacob, thank you very much.
And, Yellow Team, well done.
Okay, Green Team,
your theme was Sweet Cycle.
First up, we've got Joey and Mario.
I think the judges will find
our course exciting.
They were saying that
all other courses were not very exciting
in terms of There's not many obstacles.
We have 11 obstacles in our course.
First hole of the Green Course
belongs to Joey and Mario.
Tell us about your hole.
[Mario] In front of you, judges,
our very young, male unicorn.
I say he's very young,
because he hasn't developed yet his horn.
So you will need to go with the ball
through his mouth, coming out of his tail.
- [Justin] Comes out the butt?
- Yeah.
And then you're gonna find Sugar Mountain.
Through the Sugar Mountain
and come out of gingerbread man's mouth.
After that, you will need to go
through our s'more bridge,
and then you need to go
through a ramp uphill and make your hole.
[Justin] Joey, can you talk us through
what everything is made of?
[Joey] The unicorn
is made entirely out of cake.
When you get to Sugar Mountain,
this is gingerbread, royal icing.
We have a cereal treat bridge
that's covered in s'mores,
and gets to our cake
and our final dessert,
the raspberry Charlotte.
I've gotta prove myself
after the Yellow Course.
Ooh! Ooh
[Andrew] This isn't going to be glamorous.
I've seen Arnold Palmer do this technique.
It's called "gagging the unicorn."
- I guess this [laughs] Okay.
- [Justin] Don't Google that.
[Dr. O] Oh!
[Justin] He's unfazed by the unicorn.
Very nice putt.
[Joanne] Nice.
- Good putt.
- A perfect layup.
- Well done. Perfect layup.
- [Joanne] Well done!
[Justin] And up and He decided to take
[Mario] I made it concave.
the scenic route. He likes the view.
He's taking in the view
here at the top, Andrew.
- Well done. Perfect layup.
- [Andrew] This is very cautious play.
[Joey and Justin exclaiming]
- [Justin] It was so close.
- I'm gonna snooker cue this in.
- Snooker cue?
- I'm gonna go for an unconventional
[Justin] He's using the shaft in his club.
[cheering]
[Justin] Ten.
- Joey and Mario, thanks very much.
- Thank you.
Let's see
what hole number two holds for us.
Up next in the Sweet Cycle,
Brandi and Menuka.
I'm excited about this stress test!
Honestly, I want to play so bad,
because it's so cool, you know?
I wanna play bad.
But at the same time, in my mind,
what happens now The magic trick fails?
[chuckles nervously]
Welcome to the Penguin Land.
Our beautiful, mini-penguin-themed,
putt-putt course.
As I was looking around the kitchen,
I saw butternut squash, and I thought,
"Those would be so cute as penguins."
The top of the penguin is
made out of modeling chocolate.
Tell us what's happening engineering-wise.
We have a trap door. So, basically,
you have to time yourself very well.
And also,
there's a tiny surprise inside too.
So, this time,
I don't want to overcomplicate things,
because, as you know,
I'm a champion of overcomplicating things.
And Brandi, where's the cake
we're going to be tasting?
It's in the top of the snow cave.
I did a lemon cake with a lemon curd,
and a cream cheese buttercream.
[Joanne] Ooh!
I do have to ask. I noticed
that the penguins have a note here
to Titus and Larkin.
[Brandi] Those are my kids.
- Is this dedicated to Titus and Larkin?
- It is.
We usually go snow tubing up north,
and we're always playing
in the snow together, sledding.
It's one of our
favorite things to do, so
- All right, Joanne, do us proud.
- Okay.
Joanne is at the tee.
- She made it.
- [Joanne] Wait a minute!
- That's not my
- Wait!
- That's not my ball.
- [Brandi and Menuka] It's a magic ball!
Magic!
- It turned from purple to green! Wow!
- [Brandi] Little bit.
I got this. Okay, here I go.
[all cheering]
- Yes!
- That was so effortless and confident.
Joanne with the birdie.
[Dr. O] I know. Magic trick and a birdie.
Judges, on to hole number three.
And, finally, for the Sweet Cycle,
Sara and Rodolfo.
While I'm looking at the Green side,
I don't see any matching elements
that are bringing the team together.
And when I look at the Yellow side,
I'm seeing the flags and the pins,
and I feel like we're stronger
in the cohesive course element,
in comparison.
Sweet Cycle is the name of our course.
Made it to the final judgment. All right?
So, you are standing at the gates.
Heaven and hell.
As we all know,
it's very difficult to get to heaven.
Very small door.
But if you make it through, you're golden.
You'll be gifted
a final reward of the hole-in-one.
More likely, you'll be going through hell,
where you'll tackle all seven sins.
You wanted a challenge, Dr. O?
Challenge is here.
The first sin is greed.
We go through, chipping over
the lazy river that is sloth,
into the Red-Light District
representing lust,
into the Hall of Mirrors for vanity,
and down the Envy Eyes,
gluttony, and then wrath is the final.
Just like at the end
of a golf course in putt-putt,
the ball goes in, it doesn't come out.
That's the end.
Step up to the tee box, Dr. O.
He knows how much kinetic energy
to give for that height.
Of course I do.
[all exclaiming]
[Sara] So close.
If you wanna hit it like that, you can.
- Are you ready?
- [Sara] Sure.
Hit.
There you go.
There you go! All right.
He's in the land of greed right now.
[all cheering]
- Check!
- Knowing Dr. O, he's avoided vanity.
All right.
- That was an accident. That's two.
- Stopped it there. Cheeky stop of it.
[all laughing]
This is supposed to be the easy part.
Yeah. Oh!
Uh-oh.
- This is it.
- [Sara] There you go!
[all] Yay!
Hole-in-twelve!
Rodolfo, Sara. Thank you so much.
Green Team,
would you slice up some cake for us?
[upbeat music playing]
Joey, Mario, bring us your cake.
[Joey] I provided to you today
a light ladyfinger cake
with a vanilla Chantilly cream
and raspberries.
The ladyfingers are really light
and the cream adds a lot of nice flavor.
For me, it's a little bit dry.
The assembly. It feels
a little bit like an afterthought.
I feel like you spent a lot of time
creating a really fun course,
and then, at some point you thought,
"Oh, we need to add cake,"
and then you put this in the carousel.
I really liked the look of your course.
I think it's very fun.
Loved all those detailed edible elements,
but I could see the mechanisms.
Would've liked to see more of the bridge,
and less of the exposed mechanism.
I love that things moved on your course.
I liked the eyes on the gingerbread man.
I loved the moving carousel cake.
It was a lot of fun.
The wooden border?
I'm like, "Why did they do that?"
Couldn't they have put an edible border?
These aren't normal courses.
They're bakineered courses.
So I would've preferred
that you had bakineered something.
Also, the unicorn itself
should have been engineered in a way
that the ball could actually make it
through the obstacle. Yours got stuck.
Joey, Mario, thank you very much.
Up next, Brandi and Menuka.
[Brandi] I made a fresh lemon cake
with a lemon-curd filling
and cream cheese buttercream.
The cake is beautifully done.
The layer of lemon curd adds
a really nice brightness to the cake.
The cream cheese buttercream is a nice,
creamy contrast.
I do feel like the cakes
that we have gotten from you
have been similar.
I love that you have a voice in pastry,
but I would also love to see
you show off other elements of your voice.
Mini-golf holes are meant to be fun,
and you gave us a fun moment
when we saw our ball change color.
- [Joanne] Wait a minute!
- Your ball turned from purple to green!
I think you've hit the spirit
of this challenge on the head with that.
Thank you.
One thing that I think
could have been improved is,
although you told Joanne
that she had to go through the tunnel,
she really did not have to go
through the tunnel, right?
- It was an option to go around the tunnel.
- Yes.
And I think that's not the best design
for your particular course,
'cause you have
that wonderful magic trick.
And, finally, Rodolfo, Sara.
I did a brute chocolate powder cake.
So, I added a little sour cream
to bring a little moisture for the cake.
And then I did a coconut fudge
and a coconut pastry cream.
Rodolfo, you have baked us, I think,
the richest, darkest
Sure. [chuckles]
deepest chocolate cake
that we have had during this competition.
It's a lot to eat. I don't know
if I could continue eating it.
It is that rich.
Rodolfo and Sara,
speaking as
the world's greatest mini-golf player
in the history of humanity,
I'd have to say
that your course is well-engineered.
I love that there was
a heaven and hell path.
I wish that there were
some moving mechanical elements,
like you have in a mini-golf course,
but there were so many individual things
that I absolutely just enjoyed looking at.
And overall very clever and creative.
Rodolfo, Sara, thank you very much.
- Well done.
- Thank you, guys.
Good game. Good game.
- Well, judges, that was fun.
- Mmm. That was fun.
You've got a lot
to discuss and deliberate.
I'll let you guys chat.
I'm gonna go hang with the teams.
[tense music playing]
[Andrew] Joanne, Dr. O,
we split our teams of bakineers
into two larger teams,
the Yellow Team and the Green Team.
One of those teams is gonna win,
and we're going to pick a winner
from that team
who's gonna get a big advantage
in the next mission.
Sadly, on the other team,
we're gonna be sending
a duo of bakineers home today.
So, I'm worried,
because of Sara and Rodolfo's immunity,
I know that
if our team isn't the top course,
we're in the bottom two no matter what.
I'm feeling really confident
going into this elimination,
and I hope the judges appreciate
all of the little details we put into it.
I think, as a whole, our team looks great.
Ultimately, do we know
who failed this mission?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- You guys have a decision?
- Yes, we do.
[dramatic music playing]
One bakineer duo will win today's mission
and earn a big boost for the next one.
And, sadly, from the losing course,
one pair will have faced
their final mission today.
Cindy and Taylor, Steve and Renee,
Randi and Jacob.
Your course today was really cohesive.
There was a clear theme
running throughout.
You all worked together really well,
and that showed in your bakineered course.
Now that leaves the Green Course,
also known as the Sweet Cycle.
Joey, Mario.
Brandi, Menuka.
Rodolfo and Sara.
I'm sorry to say the judges did not think
your course was as successful.
Which sadly means
that one of you bakineering teams
will be going home today.
Rodolfo and Sara,
you earned immunity from the last mission,
so that does mean
it's either Joey and Mario,
or Brandi and Menuka
who will be going home today.
It was a really tough decision
for us today.
The team going home today is
Joey and Mario,
I'm very sorry to say
today was your final mission.
I loved how fun your course was,
and particularly your edible bridge,
but I think the level of finish did differ
in different parts of the course today.
Well, I love how you've shown us
how you can improve with each mission.
And your design work was much improved,
but there were still elements
that were unpolished.
You're all so amazingly talented.
It's been my pleasure to know you.
We may be going home,
but we're going back as different people.
Give it up for Joey and Mario.
[Joey] Leaving here a better chef
than when I walked in.
I feel like brothers now.
I always had my guard up,
and it was funny to understand
that someone can get to know me so quickly
only because he wanted to.
Working with Joey's
been a great experience.
You're a lovely person.
[emotional music playing]
[Andrew] On to the big moment.
- The winning team today is
- Is
Is going to be revealed
by my golf skills
[softly] Here we go again.
[Justin] yet again.
How fun is this? I actually have a
A purple ball for Cindy and Taylor.
I've got a pink ball for Randi and Jacob.
And a orange ball for Steve and Renee.
So, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna putt the ball
that corresponds to the winning team
at the winning team,
and that is how you'll know
that you're the winning team.
I've been practicing for this.
[dramatic music playing]
[Justin] Hmm.
Let's see.
Hold on.
[all laughing]
[Randi] Oh, my goodness.
This sucks.
Congratulations, Steve and Renee.
I'm dancing.
Yes, this is good.
[Renee] It's just like, "Oh!"
We redeemed ourselves, and we're excited.
We're gonna rock this,
and I'm just feeling amazing
at this point.
Congratulations.
Each one of the judges scored you guys
with a pass in this mission,
which means you'll get
a very big boost in the next mission.
And you'll find out more
about that very soon.
[Steve exhales]
Now, bakineers,
normally I would start
the next mission right now,
but I don't know.
Sometimes, it's kind of nice
to be fashionably late.
[doors opening]
[Taylor] Oh, my God.
[jazz music playing]
[Justin] Who are those mysterious people?
[Randi] Oh, my God.
[Justin] And more importantly,
how are those people
going to impact your future
in this competition?
Bakineers, you'll find out soon enough.
[Taylor] No way.
- Are we gonna have dancers?
- [Renee] Ah!
I'm gonna die.
[theme music playing]
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01x04 - Fore! The Love of Mini Golf
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Each episode presents a cast of contestants with a challenge that combines baking with engineering, often described using the portmanteau "bakineering".
Each episode presents a cast of contestants with a challenge that combines baking with engineering, often described using the portmanteau "bakineering".