01x02 - Off to the Robot Races

[bunniefuu]

[electronic dance music playing]

Mission two, Robot?

Two foot by one foot.

- [Menuka] Base modular kit.

- [Taylor] Protect a jelly-cream dessert.

[Renee] A 550-square-foot obstacle course.

[Randi] And it needs to do speed,

stability, agility. Shock absorption?

- Let's do it.

- All right. [laughing]

- No. No high five.

- Oh, I missed it, I missed it.

[electronic music playing]

Oh, hello again, humanoids.

Welcome back to Baking Impossible.

Our bakineers are

already into their next mission,

baking and building incredibly awesome,

incredibly adorable,

functional and delicious robots,

like my buddy who brought a treat

because he doesn't want me

to take a bite out of him.

Mmm!

Needs more salt.

[Menuka] All right.

- We're gonna make something really cool.

- [Brandi] Yeah, let's see.

You have any experience with robots?

Not really.

[Justin] Since our eight teams are busy

masterminding their edible robots,

I have one important question to ask,

what are they gonna name

these tasty friends?

R2 Sweet Tooth? Wall-Eat?

C-3POMG That's Delicious?

I could do better and I will work on it.

But first, let's talk to our brain trust.

- Hello, brain trust of judges.

- Hello, Justin.

How you guys doing?

Our teams are hard at work.

What do they have to bake and build today?

Each team of bakineers has to design,

bake and build

an incredible,

edible and functional robot.

Let's build a tank.

- [Sara] An actual tank?

- We make a real tank.

I don't want it to be all military.

Can it be a fun-loving tank on the inside?

[Joey] Let's get a name for this beast.

Something like Peanut Butter.

Peanut Buttercup.

[Mario] Why don't we do a pi nut?

- Like, pi, 3.141.

- [Joey] Pie?

- You wanna make a pie?

- [Mario] Pi nut.

Listen. I'm no math guy. I'll make you

a pie, but I don't know about that pi.

What about, like, Elvis? Elvis-inspired.

- I think I like that.

- It could have dancin' blue suede shoes.

The robots will have to survive

another Baking Impossible stress test.

Their robots will have to speed,

traverse and survive an obstacle course

meant to rigorously test their creations

for both their mechanical

and edible ingenuity.

He needs to be able to navigate,

potentially in small spaces,

- around objects.

- Okay.

I really like a steering arrangement

called reverse tricycle,

which is exactly what it sounds like.

We need to make a tank.

This thing needs to be able to be punched.

Then get back up and keep going.

These robots are gonna have to be

at least two feet in length or width

and at least one foot tall.

We don't know what he has to do yet.

So let's keep the mass low.

Not do anything tall.

I'll push you to do everything light.

Okay.

All the teams have to start

with the same electronic

and structural parts.

They have a pantry full of robotic parts

that includes motors,

claws, beams, wheels,

- tracks, computer brains.

- Wow.

[Hakeem] So, the sky's the limit.

- Have to do jelly.

- Jelly-filled.

So maybe a doughnut with a filling.

Robot parts aside,

let's not forget that everything else

in this robot has to be edible,

and we're asking them

to bake an ooey-gooey confection

that has a creamy center.

Something with jam or cream or jelly.

We're cranking up the complexity

to the next level.

We're looking for a robot

that can complete the course,

but also that has successfully protected

that delicious dessert on the inside.

So they're gonna want to think

carefully about an exoskeleton,

because there might be

some heavy impacts on the course

and we don't wanna see

an ooey-gooey dessert

splattered over the course.

It said it had to protect our dessert.

What's something that's really hard?

- Coconut.

- Coconut.

Do you have any American dessert

that's very light or something like that?

- Like, um, cookies or something.

- [Rodolfo] Where are you from?

- I'm from Buffalo. Oh! Yes.

- Do you have

Okay, so like, sponge candy.

It's a thing we have

that's like a hard thing, but very light.

- Solid, let's do it.

- We got this.

- [upbeat music playing]

- [timer ticking]

- Watch your back. Right behind you.

- These pro-encoders DC drivers.

This is really fun. Look at all the stuff

I got to make a robot.

I'll get started on the pate a choux.

[Jacob mumbles indistinctly]

Oh, wow. Look at that, fresh coconut.

- Hello!

- Hey, guys! How are you?

- How are you?

- Good. How are you?

Wow, you guys are hard at work.

- You're sweating.

- Whew!

- [Andrew] This is the coconut station.

- We try to get the meat out.

[Joanne] Tell us about

what you're making today.

We're going to make insect-inspired robot.

So, our robot is a very low-profile robot,

and it's a track system.

[Brandi] And I'm gonna cover the parts

with pineapple skin,

dusted in silver luster dust.

The coconut shells will be

protecting our dessert.

Fabulous.

- So, why a scorpion?

- I like scary, creepy things.

[all laugh]

I'm a weirdo.

And I love a lifelike robot.

That's what I do. I'm a toy designer.

I fall in love with the robotics, um,

after seeing Star Wars.

[chuckling]

I couldn't understand the story.

I was too young

and my English wasn't that perfect,

but I noticed

they had these little gizmos, C-3PO.

And I knew right away that I want to be

this person who making those things.

When I first came to the States

from Sri Lanka,

I worked in a gas station in the nighttime

and I go to school in the daytime.

It was pretty hard.

Then after I graduate,

I found a very good job

and I design toy

and I license some of the toys

to the big companies.

Most of the stuff I design,

it's never been done before,

which is double cool.

[laughs]

Brandi, as a cake designer,

how are you feeling

working with an engineer like Menuka?

I think it's so cool to see

what all I'll get to learn from him,

so I can take it back

and use it in my business.

My name is Brandi Romines,

and I am from Lexington, Kentucky.

I'm a baker, a wife and a mom to two kids.

I like to bake things

that are not on Pinterest.

I have raging middle kid syndrome.

I got no attention as a child.

So, any way that I can

grab attention with my work,

I'll just go crazy

and think outside the box,

and not the norm.

Brandi, I'd love to know

what we're going to be tasting.

Baby scorpion eggs.

- [Andrew] Ooh.

- [Joanne] Oh!

[Brandi] A coconut cookie thin

that I'm molding into little shapes

so that they'll look like a little egg.

There's a little bit

of coconut-lime jelly in the bottom

and then some whipped

mascarpone whipped cream to go on top.

- That sounds delicious.

- [Brandi] So

[Joanne] It sounds fragile.

It is.

Are you worried about all the

Whatever's gonna be happening with this?

- I am worried that engineer Menuka

- Man of doom

- [laughs]

- But Menuka says that we're gonna be okay,

and this is why we have

some good protection.

- [upbeat music playing]

- [timer ticking]

[Rodolfo] I'm gonna put the baking soda

and then you can watch

the reaction happening.

[Sara] This is my sponge candy?

All my Buffalo friends will be so happy.

- Yeah.

- [Sara] What's in yours?

Uh, just vinegar,

corn syrup and baking soda.

[Cindy] I'm gonna eat this. So good.

Cindy and I are making a watermelon robot.

[Cindy] Named Walter the Watermelon.

[Taylor] Walter is made of watermelon,

fondant, modeling chocolate,

and attached to a rubber track

that bring the robot forward and back.

I love watermelon.

For the dessert, I am making

a pate a choux pastry

with a craquelin topping. On the left side

is a strawberry-watermelon mousse,

and on the right side is a basil cream.

I'm literally getting, like,

watermelon juice all over me. [chuckles]

We're well into our bake and build.

Teams are making edible robots.

Over here, Cindy and Taylor,

- they've got watermelons.

- Oop!

- [Renee] How are you?

- Steve and Renee, mixing up chocolate.

- Chocolate.

- [Justin] Delicious.

- Vanessa and Shanice, how you doing?

- Very good.

Good, I'm just getting my steps in.

- You be careful now. [laughs]

- [Justin] All right.

Menuka, come on, show me the robot.

I cannot do robot,

but I can do a slide dance.

I don't know.

I'm bad with doing the robot.

I'm horrible. I'm so sorry.

[Justin] Nina and Hannah.

- [Hannah] Hey.

- How we doing?

- [Nina] We're great!

- [Justin] Action-packed.

Doing something secret.

- [Justin] What's in the thing?

- Ramen!

- That's ramen.

- Ramen, ramen. Ramen?

[upbeat music playing]

[Nina] We need to make something

that's not gonna break

while this bot goes through this course.

So, we're gonna make

an edible, kind of like a plywood almost.

We're crushing up ramen

and tempering chocolate,

and the ramen acts

like, uh, pieces of wood,

and the chocolate acts like a polymer,

kind of like a glue.

So I created a new wood for you.

And that's a hole.

Stop!

So, Menuka,

did I tell you about my gummy bear idea?

So, I'm melting down gummy bears.

I'm making edible glue.

I discovered that melting down gummy bears

in a microwave, after they re-hardened,

they were very stretchy.

So, I said that to Menuka and he was like,

"You should try adding chocolate."

I'm gonna add the chocolate

and see what it does.

[Menuka] All right.

[Brandi] And so, when we did

we made almost like, an edible epoxy.

We plan to use our gummy glue

to attach the pineapple skin

to our robot parts.

Nothing that stuff won't stick to.

- You should trademark them.

- We should patent this.

[timer ticking]

I'm doing, uh, the blue suede shoes now.

Oh, perfect. Okay, cool.

- [Steve] How's it going, Renee?

- [screwdriver whirring]

Um, probably about ten minutes

to put the wheels on

and then we'll have

all the bottom finished.

Steve and I are creating Roger Rover,

who is a robot on the surface of Mars

that is also a candy factory.

Anything Mars or rover related,

I instantly get attached to

because that's what I work with every day.

I love how the bot matches my outfit.

That was totally intentional.

I helped design the antennas

and the RF components

that are on the Artemis missions for NASA.

And that's actually gonna be used

to send humans to Mars.

- Hello, Renee.

- How are you?

- Wonderful. Steve, how are you?

- Hello, Steve. [chuckles]

Welcome to our station.

We had a little bit of operator error

with your boat,

I think it'd be fair to say.

How are you leading on the engineering?

I need to be focused.

And I'm going to learn and leverage

from that past experience

to be really game-face,

heads down when I'm driving the robot

around the course,

so I don't make that mistake again.

Do you have a contingency plan

for if you just happen to get excited?

- [Steve] I'll just grab the controller.

- [all laugh]

As long as we get this thing running,

we'll be in the game.

- Okay.

- Now it's on my partner.

- Best of luck.

- Thank you.

Good luck, guys.

- [upbeat music playing]

- [timer ticking]

Concentrating on my caramel now.

- [Menuka] What are you making now?

- [Brandi] Coconut-lime jelly.

- Wow.

- It said "jelly-filled."

I'm really scared of that obstacle course.

I really hope he's gonna make it.

Our baby bot.

- You're gonna drive it, right?

- Yeah.

I'm a junior in college,

studying mechanical engineering

as my major.

I'm the youngest person here.

However, I've been making things

with my hands for over half my life.

My dad introduced me to engineering

around sixth or seventh grade.

The project that I am most proud of

that I built with my dad

is something we call the techno desk.

The rule of the techno desk is

everything has to do something.

So, there's an actual

antique gooseneck speaker

that is connected to a weather radio

that I rewired, so it all talks together.

There's a shredder,

there's a place to charge your phone,

a sensor that lets you know

when your mail's arrived,

there's a reset button

for your Wi-Fi router, like

And we made this.

Oh, it's such a special project to me.

I have a techno desk and it's just lovely.

I love using it. [chuckles]

Nina, what are you working on?

Marmalade. I'm gonna make

- the orange marmalade.

- Ooh!

Yummy.

- Hello. How are you?

- Hello.

- Good, how are you?

- [Andrew] Fantastic.

The jaws of defeat. There was

a few engineering problems with your boat.

What are you changing in your approach?

[chuckles]

Um, definitely weight distribution.

But to counteract that,

we're gonna line the inside with fondant

to weigh it down.

Just in case it gets hit,

I wanna make sure

it can take a hit and keep going.

Our robot is a researcher

on a different planet.

Uh, planet Patch. His name is Archie Bot.

[Hannah] The body is

Rice Krispies covered in fondant.

We both like older things,

so we wanted to go with

kind of like a cute, little, beat-up,

old little robot dude.

We came out with a new compound

that's basically

a brand-new edible medium.

- So, I crushed up ramen noodles.

- Yes.

And then I tempered chocolate,

and I made the mix.

Then rolled it out and,

if you wanna knock on wood.

- That's amazing!

- May I

- [Joanne] Ooh!

- [Nina] We'll have these super, galaxy,

meteoroid cookies be protected

by this compound.

For this mission,

we have to do something jelly-filled,

so I'm making Linzer cookies

and a homemade orange marmalade.

They're made with my grandma's recipe.

I grew up in Slovakia

and my parents own a restaurant,

so I was always in the kitchen.

So, when I was 18, I packed up my bags

and came to the US

just to kind of see a different world.

I went to culinary school.

Now, I own Nina's Fresh Bakery

in Jupiter, Florida.

And I'm very proud of my business.

I mean, I had $1,500

when I showed up here in the US.

I cannot believe I'm here.

This is a dream.

It's This is amazing.

Pinch me. [chuckles]

- You feeling confident?

- [Hannah] Yeah.

As long as she makes it move,

I can make it edible.

[all chuckle]

[timer ticking]

We need to keep in mind

that we're carrying desserts and cake and

Yeah, we don't know

what kind of track we'll be running on.

Could be a racetrack,

could be a dirt road.

This feels like something

that maybe has not been done ever.

- Sewing watermelon together with

- [Cindy] Cool.

Good. Nice.

[Vanessa] I'm gonna spray the wafer paper

with a little glitter.

Me and Shanice are creating a piñata bot.

Her name is Fiesta.

Basically, it brings

a celebration to your storefront.

Our robot is gonna be a rectangular shape,

completely covered in wafer paper,

airbrushed in several different colors

and shredded

to replicate a piñata's flakes.

My arms are gonna be so sore after this.

And then we're using tempered chocolate

for the entire body.

Tempered chocolate when it sets,

it gets rock solid,

so we decided

tempered chocolate would be our best bet

to go through all these obstacle courses.

Inside, it's covering and protecting

our doughnuts filled with guayaba

and queso crema drizzle,

with a little bit of graham crackers.

- [dramatic music playing]

- [timer ticking]

What you got going on?

- [Rodolfo] I made the pate a choux.

- [Sara] Pate a choux?

[Rodolfo] With my Portuguese accent.

[chuckles]

These are the top parts

that I'm talking about.

- [Taylor] Do they melt down?

- [Cindy] Yeah.

- They're so beautiful.

- Yay.

[Joey] I'm doing two different fillings.

We got peanut butter mousse,

then we come in

with chocolate pudding.

[Brandi] See how cute these are gonna be?

They're gonna be

little baby scorpion eggs.

[timer ticking]

Bakineers, can I have your attention?

As you remember,

Cindy and Taylor won the last mission,

which earned them a big boost.

- Great.

- What?

- Yeah.

- Boo. Boo!

Since you won the last mission,

you've earned a sneak peek

at this mission's stress test.

Oh, my gosh.

Bummer.

[Sara groans]

- [Brandi] That sucks.

- That sucks.

What you see back there will definitely

affect your entire bakineering approach.

Know what? I might be willing

to answer a few questions of yours too.

Huge advantage.

Follow me.

- Okay.

- [Cindy gasps]

Welcome to the second stress test.

Oh, my God.

Like, those What are those?

I'm gonna talk you through

the whole thing now.

You're gonna want to watch out for this.

- [popping sounds]

- [Cindy squeals]

[Taylor] What's that terrain made of?

What is it?

- [Andrew] So, those are mini marshmallows.

- [Cindy and Taylor gasp]

- [Andrew] There's about 10,000.

- [Taylor] That's a beast to get through.

- I thought they were rocks. [laughs]

- I thought so too.

So, he just needs

to get through that first.

Pause, then go.

Oh, my God.

- I wish it was

- Maybe they'll tell us.

[Rodolfo chuckles]

Off you go. Back to the bake and build.

Thank you so much.

All right.

- That was actually really helpful.

- That was really helpful.

- [upbeat music playing]

- [timer ticking]

[humming]

[Mario] Why is he going backwards?

Do we have marshmallows?

- Yeah, but let's do it, like Hide it.

- Yeah.

[Taylor] Okay.

Luckily, we have the advantage.

[Cindy] Oh, yeah.

[Taylor] They get in there, but it doesn't

do anything that's a problem.

Okay, sweet.

[Taylor] No need for design change.

- [Cindy] Make sure we throw these away.

- Yeah. [chuckles]

[dramatic music playing]

[drill whirring]

It moves really, really slow.

That's without anything on it.

Every robot's gonna have

a lot of trouble on this course.

[Vanessa] Go forward.

[Shanice] Vanessa, this is

how slow it is at 500%.

[Vanessa] Something has to be wrong.

[Shanice] Back tires aren't even spinning.

[Vanessa] I know.

- Does it turn left and right?

- [Shanice] It literally turns like that.

Right now, there's no weight on this.

This doesn't weigh at all.

- So, what's gonna happen when we put

- [Shanice] I don't know.

You wanna try to code this?

[tense music playing]

I don't know. Figure it out, then.

Ay-ay-ay.

- [upbeat music playing]

- [timer ticking]

Bakineers, two hours.

[Rodolfo] Here we go.

[Sara] We're doing this?

- We're gonna assemble here.

- Sweet.

And every corner. We hit it with fondant.

[Mario] Love it.

- How's everything coming?

- [Brandi] Good.

[Menuka] Those pineapple is

for the skin of the robot?

Shh. He's, like, telling our secret.

Don't start blabbing everything.

[rattling]

[Jacob] I love him!

Is this not the coolest thing

you've seen in a long time?

[timer ticking]

One hour left.

[Renee mutters]

We need to start decorating,

'cause clock's ticking.

This looks really good.

[Sara] It's not burning?

- No, because here is still wet.

- [Sara] Those look great.

- Hold it. It's quick. You gotta move.

- Get ready to rip it off.

- Dude, you gotta move. I gotta lay it on.

- Lay it on.

Just lay it on.

I'm gonna re-solder. That's it.

[fast-paced music playing]

[Hannah sighs]

[whispers] Oh, my God.

I am close to tears looking at Archie Bot,

and not for the aesthetics,

but because I was disappointed in myself

that I couldn't get the code to work.

He's not turning.

He goes backwards when I tell him to turn.

I'm feeling very stressed about it

because there's literally not enough time.

[Hannah] Archie Bot can only go

forwards and backwards.

These other ones look like

they can go forwards, backwards,

and left and right.

That's two more directions

than ours can go.

To make it go left, these go backwards

and the other one goes forward.

I programmed it to do that

and it doesn't follow it.

There's no time to troubleshoot.

You guys wanna go prepare

for the stress test?

- I'll take it from here.

- Let's do this.

[Justin] See you soon.

Bakineers, our brain trust is off

to prepare for the stress test.

You've got 20 minutes.

[timer ticking]

- [Rodolfo] Here?

- [Sara] It isn't holding until

- [Rodolfo] Yeah.

- It's coming off.

We have to hold some pressure on it.

[Steve] Okay. Dessert.

It's very good.

Bakineers, five minutes.

- [Rodolfo] Five minutes.

- [mock screams]

[Brandi] All right, that's gonna stay.

I can't quit fooling with that.

[Mario] I need to paste something there,

so hurry up.

"Hurry up," he says.

Hold this. Just hold this still.

- Give me some more modeling chocolate.

- [timer ticking]

- [can hissing]

- We got this, we got this, bro.

- Homey, what?

- [Nina] We need to put the cookies in.

[Brandi] Menuka, I'm getting ready

to put these on.

Ten, nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four,

three, two, one.

Screwdrivers and spatulas down,

your time is up.

[all applauding]

Bakineers, are you ready

to face your robot reckoning?

I've got a tasty little friend

who's gonna lead the way.

- Aww.

- Come join.

It's a slow, dramatic build. Okay.

Maybe he'll go faster.

Petey, meet us there.

[all chuckle]

Behold your robot obstacle course.

- [Rodolfo] Whoa!

- [Renee] Oh, my gosh!

- [all gasp]

- [Rodolfo laughs]

[dramatic music playing]

[Renee laughing]

Oh, my God!

- [Nina] What is that?

- Ice cream.

- [Joey] We gotta go through that course.

- [Nina] That's marshmallows.

- [Renee] Oh, my gosh. [laughs]

- [Justin] You all look thrilled.

Bakineers, welcome to our best-in-bot

robot obstacle course.

Also known as

the bust-a-bot robot obstacle course.

[contestants laugh]

[Andrew] Here's how it works.

Each of your edible bots will start

at the starting line.

Your robot goes

through the candy cane slalom,

then it's on to Candy Mountain

and its sugar dust cannons.

[popping]

- [Sara] Oh, my gosh.

- Oh, my gosh!

[Renee laughs]

Think I just peed.

Next, your robot will have to

make it through

this marshmallow Winter Wonderland,

then it's on

to one of my personal favorites,

the swing of Ding Dongs.

You don't wanna Google

"swing of Ding Dongs." Okay?

[all laughing]

[Andrew] Here you'll have to

perfectly time your movements

to survive

the swinging chocolate pendulums.

Then your robots will have to

carefully traverse this narrow bridge,

cross the finish line.

We'll be judging your creations on design,

functionality, ingenuity and taste,

and how well your bots protect

your ooey-gooey dessert.

You know, this challenge also inspired me

to protect my own little tasty treat.

[coughing]

[clears throat]

[all cheering, laughing]

[Justin] Which is a gift for the loser.

- So, we'll see who gets that.

- [all laugh]

Until then, I'll give it to Andrew.

Thank you. Just leave it there.

[all laugh]

[Andrew] You have five minutes

for your bots to complete the course.

But, in order to pass this mission,

it must cross the finish line

and still have all its robot bits intact.

If not,

you will have failed this stress test.

If your bot is obliterated,

then your desserts better be

good enough to save you.

If it's not, you could be out of here.

All right, let's get

the robot dessert destruction started.

Shall we?

Up first, Brandi, Menuka, you're up!

[all cheer]

[Brandi] Here we go.

We went with the scorpion theme.

I sliced all the skin off the pineapples

and dried it out in the microwave

to cover all the parts.

To protect our desserts,

we used coconut shells.

And then we made

almost like an edible epoxy

with gummy bears

and chocolate for them to sit on.

For this robot,

I went with a very high gear ratio

with a really big driver.

I want to keep everything low.

I don't want to do the same mistake we did

with the Viking ship,

because I want to have a nice stability.

[Justin] Let's see if the scorpion

has some bite.

Please place your robot

on the starting line.

- Are you ready?

- [Menuka] Ready.

Your race begins in three, two, one,

- go.

- [dramatic music playing]

All right.

Scorpion versus the candy cane slalom.

There she goes.

[Menuka] Keep going,

keep going, keep going.

- [Justin] She's going up the ramp.

- [Menuka] Those are powerful motors.

- [Brandi] Yeah!

- [contestants cheer]

- [Justin] Up Candy Mountain.

- [cannon pops]

[Justin] Oh, that scared

the candy out of me.

He doesn't need those tracks.

Down the ramp, well done.

Candy Mountain is

in the books for this bot.

Boy, this'll be interesting

without the belts.

[all exclaiming]

[Justin] It looks like these marshmallows

are putting the bot in a sticky situation.

[Sara] Go! Come on!

[all cheering, applauding]

[Justin] Oh, boy.

Time is ticking.

No!

- [chuckles]

- [contestants groaning]

[Justin] This one is

a real nail-biter, judges.

Yay!

Time is running out.

[Brandi] Go!

- [Justin] Through the swing of Ding Dongs.

- [Brandi] Yay!

- Oh, my God!

- [Joey] Come on!

[contestants cheering]

[Justin] Will he or won't he?

- It has achieved an impossible miracle!

- [all cheering]

- The scorpion has crossed the finish line.

- [laughing]

- [contestants cheering]

- [Brandi] Whoo!

Brandi and Menuka,

I have to say that when I saw your bot,

I was impressed at the start.

But, clearly,

you had a bit of difficulty on the course,

and it had to do with your tracks.

The marshmallow pit was a bit too much

and the tracks came off.

In a really strange way,

the failings of the robot

shows its strengths,

because this robot had a lot of power

and a lot of robustness,

so even after all it went through

It left the piece all over the board.

it still made it to the end.

So, very good job.

- Thank you.

- [Hakeem] You're welcome.

Brandi, Menuka. Congrats.

You've made it through the stress test.

Now we want to know what we get to taste.

[Brandi] Okay.

[gasps]

Yay!

- [Justin] Success? Survived?

- [Brandi] Yeah.

Here.

The dessert is a baby scorpion egg.

There you go. Just crack the egg,

which is a coconut thin cookie.

And encased is

some coconut-lime jelly

with some mascarpone whipped cream on top

to balance out the sweetness of the jelly.

Brandi, I really am so taken

by this adorable idea of the eggs,

uh, with the coconut tuile

and the mousse inside.

It's really fun to eat,

but the tuile is a little bit chewy.

I think it's really ingenious

what you've done with the pineapple,

in particular, is very striking.

Your ingenious use

of that gummy bear, chocolate mixture.

I'm sure you're probably keeping that

a closely-guarded secret recipe

- [Brandi clicks tongue]

- for that adhesive.

That's what this competition is all about.

You're discovering new, edible composites.

Thank you so much.

- Thank you.

- Well done.

[Brandi sighs]

Randi, Jacob, let's meet your bot.

[Jacob] King is our 1950s jukebox,

inspired by Elvis.

[Justin] Here we go.

[Jacob] Yeah.

Oh.

- [Hannah] Hey.

- [Justin] Tight corner there, nice.

Elvis lives.

- [cannon pops]

- [Justin] Oh!

Go, go, go, go!

- The King can

- [Andrew] Yeah!

- [Justin] Oh!

- [all cheer]

[all groan]

- [Randi] Go!

- [Jacob chuckling] Whoa!

[laughs]

[Randi] All right!

- Oh, come on.

- [Justin] Go.

- [Hakeem chuckles]

- [Jacob] Come on, King. Come on, man.

Did he sustain some damage from that hit?

[Jacob] He may have.

- Maybe.

- Yeah.

[Joanne] Oh, yeah.

[Jacob] We appear to be a little stuck.

[Justin] Oh, looks like

that's it for The King.

That's okay.

Randi, Jacob, we're very excited

to taste whatever lurks in that jukebox.

There they are.

Ah.

[Justin] All right.

Randi, this dessert is fantastic.

- Thank you.

- [Joanne] The cake is moist.

- It's very well-balanced.

- [Randi] Thank you.

I don't think there's anything

I'd do differently.

That's wonderful.

I really like the fact

that when you look at The King,

we can't see any of those parts.

You made your own gingerbread,

and the use of a lighter material on top,

- very well done.

- Thank you.

I love the design of the cake.

You made large pieces,

but you have a very small DC motor.

I can certainly understand

why the batteries would go dead,

but I love the lights,

I love the moving parts in the inside.

[imitates Elvis] So, thank you.

Thank you very much.

[all laughing]

Vanessa and Shanice.

- Get your creation.

- [all applaud]

[Shanice] Our robot's name is Fiesta.

We kind of wanted to take

a fun and celebratory spin on it.

[Justin] Go!

- [Vanessa] Wait.

- You're all right.

- [Justin] Ooh!

- Nice.

- [Joanne] Wow.

- [Justin] Nice pivot.

Very nice.

Come on, girl, keep moving.

[robot whirring]

Why is it doing that?

Come on.

I wonder if one of our motors are dying.

That sounds like

a will-not-engage-in-a-gear.

- Maybe Fiesta needs a siesta.

- Yep.

[Justin] Last call in three,

- two, one.

- [all groan]

- [buzzer sounds]

- [Brandi] Hey, good job, girls.

One of the first things

that jumps out at me

is the structure of your wheel.

You have this triangular structure

that might not have been my first choice.

Okay, it would not have been

my first choice.

And the reason it's so unstable

is because each of those three gears

that engages that track

have to have tension on them at all times,

or else those gears are gonna disengage,

and you're gonna have a spinning motor,

just like you have now.

Even though

Fiesta couldn't finish the course,

we still wanna taste these doughnuts.

[Joanne] I am thrilled

that you made a doughnut.

I really like

the cream cheese frosting on top.

The guava paste is delicious.

The doughnuts themselves,

um, could be a little bit lighter.

How do you guys feel like

you worked together in this mission?

We started getting stressed out

and kinda clashing.

I think that was reflected in your design.

The engineering and the baking

looked a bit separate.

We want things

that look beautifully integrated,

and I think it perhaps could've been

a little bit more cohesive.

- [contestants applaud]

- Up next, Nina and Hannah.

[contestants cheer]

[Nina] Meet Archie Bot from planet Patch.

Meteoroids hit planet Patch constantly.

[Nina] He collects these meteoroids,

which are our dessert portions.

[Hannah] His main body and his trailer is

Rice Krispies covered in fondant,

except for

where the meteoroids are stored.

We basically made this "edible" plywood

from crushed-up ramen

and tempered chocolate,

so they're gonna protect the cookies.

All right. Nina, Hannah,

let's see if Archie Bot

can handle the stress test.

- You wanna pop him on the starting line?

- [Hannah sighs]

Okay. Nina, Hannah,

Archie Bot, you guys ready to go?

- Yes.

- Three, two, one.

Go.

Go. All right.

- [Nina] Go! No!

- Not the whole body.

[Nina] No!

- [gasps] Oh! Ooh.

Okay, so he doesn't turn.

[Joey chuckles]

[chuckles]

So, I'm going to pivot him.

[Nina] Put it straight. Do it quick.

[Hannah] I'm trying, man. [grunts]

- Don't go right.

- [Nina] No!

[Renee yells]

- [Joanne] Oh, no!

- Oh, no. Oh!

Oh, my goodness.

- This

- [laughs]

Go!

Archie's looking to turn this around,

except he cannot turn.

- No!

- [Nina groans]

[Hannah] Stop it.

I'm getting a heart attack.

[laughing] You can't do that.

I love how every time

you're surprised that he can't turn.

[both laughing]

[Hannah groans]

- No.

- [all laughing]

Oh, my God. Oh, God.

[laughter continues]

- [Hannah] Go!

- [Justin] All right, Archie!

- Go!

- [cannon pops]

- [Hannah shrieks]

- [cannon popping]

[Hannah groaning]

[Nina] Go into the marshmallows.

[Hannah] Go!

- [Justin] Go, go, go, go, go!

- No, he's not gonna make it.

It's amazing

how difficult the marshmallows are.

It's a real test of how well

they've distributed their traction.

[Hannah] sh**t.

One of the motors is smoking.

[groans]

The other three died.

I think that's it for Archie.

Aww.

[Hannah] Let's call it.

Poor Archie's dreams

have gone up in smoke.

- All right, give it up for Archie Bot.

- [Brandi] Aw, good job!

[Hakeem] Nina and Hannah,

your design fell short.

I thought it looked pretty robust.

It looks well-balanced.

I like the trailer

as a nice little trick for stability,

but your DC motors are burning out

because your robot is way too heavy.

The weight

of all the edible materials you used

was far greater

than what those motors could handle.

And because your robot was so heavy,

that's why it couldn't turn.

Our engineers have to really step it up

on the performance

and function side of things.

There is $100,000 at stake.

And if I had $100,000 at stake,

I'd be taking it really seriously.

Nina and Hannah, you've unfortunately

failed the stress test.

But we're very excited to see

what treat

Archie Bot's been holding out on us.

[Nina] So, these are my grandma's recipe.

It's a Linzer cookie

with homemade orange marmalade.

And I used disco dust

to do the galaxy effect on it.

Nina, your grandmother knows

how to make marmalade.

- Oh!

- [Joanne] But in these baking challenges,

I do wanna see all of your pastry skills.

Going forward,

maybe push yourself a little bit more

to show us

a little bit more of your pastry talents.

Design-wise,

you gave yourselves a lot of work to do.

You had a lot of quantity,

in terms of covering

and maybe there had to be sacrifices

on quality as you went along.

There was so much area to cover.

It was always gonna be a tough task.

One thing I did love about your design

was your discovery

of an entirely new material,

chocolate-ramen noodles.

It's the edible version

of reinforced concrete.

So, really clever use.

So, congratulations on that discovery.

- Thank you.

- Thanks.

Up next, Steve and Renee.

[Renee] This is Roger Rover,

the Candy Factory.

Three, two, one, go.

[motor whirring]

[Justin] Roger is having a bit of trouble

crossing the starting line.

Come on. That might be

a bad sign of things to come.

- It's not going anywhere.

- Miscalculation on my part.

Clock's ticking.

I believe we miscalculated

the amount of weight capacity

that my design can handle.

- Oh, no.

- [buzzer sounds]

[Justin] Joey, Mario.

[Joey] We'd like

to introduce you to Pi-nut.

You ready to race?

- Pi-nut.

- [applause]

- [cannon pops]

- [Renee shrieks]

- [Renee] Scares me every time.

- [Andrew] It's moving better.

- [Renee] No!

- [Sara] No!

- [contestants groaning]

- [laughs]

That's a hard one to come up back from.

- [buzzer sounds]

- [all applaud]

[laughing]

[Justin] Sara and Rodolfo.

[Sara] Let us introduce you

to Howie the Howitzer.

[Justin] Bring it on.

[Sara] Yes, come on, come on,

come on, come on.

Go, go, go, go!

- [cannon pops]

- [Justin] Oh, my God.

- Scared me!

- [cannon pops]

- Good job, Howie!

- Every time.

[all cheering, then groaning]

- [gasps, then laughs]

- [Justin groans]

Let's see that again in slo-mo.

- [all groan]

- [gasps]

- [Sara groans]

- [Andrew] Oh! [laughs]

Ooh!

Oh.

[Sara] Okay.

- Oh, no!

- [all groan]

[dramatic music playing]

Now, bakineers,

unfortunately, you failed the stress test.

But, luckily, you've saved some desserts

in case your bots crashed.

Let's just hope

they are good enough to save you.

Steve and Renee.

Pastry chef to pastry chef,

this is an exquisite dessert.

- Thank you.

- [Joanne] Nice job.

Thinking from

these two disciplines, Steve,

we know you're an amazing chocolatier,

but, clearly, as an engineering material,

it can be very heavy.

And, Renee, I think perhaps you could've

Do a weight test earlier on.

[Justin] Sara, Rodolfo.

[Rodolfo] So, it's a pate a choux

with a salted caramel

and pastry cream.

Here we go.

I love this filling.

It's creamy, it's a little salty,

the choux are delicate,

and it was a stunning presentation.

Thank you.

From a bakineering point of view,

I enjoyed

you using that kind of pancake camouflage.

I thought that was ingenious.

But all your edible parts

weren't adhered well enough,

so everything just fell apart.

[Justin] Joey, Mario.

The peanut butter mousse

and the chocolate pudding

are well done.

- [Joey] Mm-hmm.

- [Joanne] The center is gooey,

- as we requested.

- [Joey] Mm-hmm.

The cake is a little bit dry.

I had a lot of doubts about it.

The first doubt that I had

was that heavy weight on the top.

I feared exactly what happened to it.

It fell right on its face.

Cindy and Taylor.

[Taylor] This is our friend Walter.

At the top,

we've got a mix of modeling chocolate

and fondant and isomalt for decor.

We have a full-size watermelon,

which holds all the electronics,

as well as the pastry

that Cindy put together.

- Ta-da.

- [Cindy giggles]

Cindy, Taylor, is Walter ready to race?

- Yep.

- Yes.

Let the race begin in three, two, one.

- Go.

- [tense music playing]

- Walter.

- [Justin] Wow, Walter!

Through the candy-cane figure-eights.

Candy-cane figure-eights no problem.

Effortlessly approaching Candy Mountain.

Oh. No sweat.

[cannon pops]

- Ooh!

- [Justin] Walter did not flinch.

Walter did leak

- a little juice there, I think.

- [all chuckle]

[Justin] All right.

Approaching the marshmallow.

Hello. The Winter Wonderland.

- Whoa!

- [all exclaim]

[laughs]

- [shrieks]

- Just effortless!

Now, hopefully, he'll make it through.

[all exclaim]

[Justin] Little bump on the tail there.

Oh, boy.

- Walter's

- [all exclaim, then cheer]

[Justin] Here goes.

[contestants applauding]

[Justin] Up the ramp!

- Down the finish line!

- [Cindy laughing]

[all cheering, applauding]

[upbeat music playing]

[Justin] Wow!

Let's eat this dude's heart.

- [Andrew] Thank you.

- It is a heart.

[Cindy] Inside Walter's heart

is heart-shaped pate a choux pastries

with a craquelin topping.

On one side is

a strawberry-watermelon cream,

and on the other is a basil-infused cream.

The watermelon isn't meant to be

a full-on flavor, but a note on your nose,

as well as the basil,

and then the strawberry brightens it up.

Cindy, you've done a really lovely job

with this pate a choux.

The craquelin topping

makes it nice and crispy on top.

The creams are really well-flavored.

It did get soggy underneath.

I think sitting in the watermelon,

it's a little bit of a humid environment

that may have compromised the texture

on the bottom.

Cindy and Taylor, I loved everything

about the engineering of your design.

Instead of making a robot

that was robust, or fast, or agile,

you went for all of the above.

Your robot made it

through that course like it was nothing.

Congratulations.

- Thank you so much.

- Thanks.

I think you've got the smarts

to think of something edible

to connect that head to that body,

instead of twine.

I think there were solutions there,

but I think what you've done today

is ingenious.

Thank you.

Cindy, Taylor. Well done. Congrats.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, guys.

Good job.

Judges. I bet you have a lot to discuss.

Leave you to it. I'll hang with the

bakineers. We'll check in with you soon.

[dramatic music playing]

It's not easy to bring an engineer

into pastry and pastry into engineering.

We got so far

in putting the thing together.

We have a really good product,

and then for it not to move,

that was extremely disappointing.

I think it's very possible

that we could be going home from this.

[tense music playing]

Bakineers, this is Baking Impossible,

and this challenge really stressed

the important part of that, didn't it?

Not many of your robots made it

through our stress test intact.

And trust me, things are only going to get

more challenging as we move forward.

By now, you know how this works.

You get a pass or a fail from each of us

from our respective fields.

But only one team can win this mission

and earn some much-needed help

in the very next one.

And, of course, one team's time

in the workshop will end today.

Nina and Hannah, Vanessa and Shanice.

Unfortunately,

one of you will be heading home.

Judges, it's a difficult decision, I know.

But which team of bakineers is it?

Nina and Hannah.

This has been your final mission.

[poignant music playing]

Nina and Hannah,

your robot didn't perform well enough

to keep you in the competition.

Also, we think you could have been

more ambitious with your dessert.

Unfortunately, your grandma's cookies

weren't enough to save you this mission.

Nina and Hannah, thank you guys so much.

Give it up for Nina and Hannah, everybody.

[all applauding]

[Hannah] I'm not happy to be going home,

but, at the same time,

I've learned a lot.

I'm not walking away empty-handed.

[Nina] This is such a great competition.

I am taking away

lots of friends and memories,

and I can't wait to see

what the other teams get to build.

Vanessa and Shanice, you are safe.

You'll be moving on to the next mission.

Brandi and Menuka.

Cindy and Taylor. Congratulations.

You are the top two teams

for this mission.

The winning team is going to be revealed

by my little robot friend here.

- [robot whirring]

- [Rodolfo chuckles]

- [Justin] Hey, dude.

- He's so cute.

- Okay.

- [all chuckle]

Yeah.

- [chuckles]

- [Justin sighs]

- [Justin] He's cute.

- He is cute.

[upbeat music playing]

[Justin] Cindy and Taylor.

[all applauding]

Cindy and Taylor,

we loved Walter the robot.

It exemplified everything

we want to see in bakineering.

Clever use of the edible.

It was neat as a pin,

and you completed the course

in the fastest time.

Walter was engineered to a tee

and crushed that course.

I love what you guys did.

Keep up the good work going forward.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

You guys had passes from all of our judges

and you will earn an incredible advantage

in the next mission.

And now you have some souvenirs.

Judges, what do you say?

Should one thing lead to another?

- That leads to another.

- And another.

And another.

Which then causes me to do this.

[female announcer]

Mission launch in three, two, one, go.

- [Shanice] Be careful.

- [electronic dance music playing]

[theme music playing]