- Hello my name is Calah Leah.
And today I'm gonna have two chefs compete
to make my dream dessert.
(laughs)
- [Alexis] Hi, I'm Alexis.
- I'm Calah.
- Nice to meet you.
- I'm Matthew, nice to meet you.
I love your glasses.
- Thank you.
- If you could come up
with any dish in the world,
what would it be?
- A cookie cupcake.
- So when Calah said she wanted
to do a cupcake,
I was really happy.
But then she kept going.
- [Calah] And put the chocolatey flavor cupcake.
No, not the cupcake, but the cookie.
- The cookie.
- [Calah] So chocolate with white chocolate
chips in them.
- [Alexis] Okay, so like a chocolate mix?
- [Calah] Yeah.
Then you put the glaze,
then you put the cupcake...
- On top of the glaze.
- Yeah.
- Okay. - Got it, got it.
- [Alexis] And then what's on top
of this cupcake?
- The glaze, then the cookie.
The glaze again.
- The whole layering aspect
of this cookie cupcake contraption,
that's when I got worried.
- [Calah] Pink frosting,
like strawberry frosting.
- [Matthew] Strawberry,
even better. - [Alexis] That sounds good.
- Then you put the other thing,
the other layer.
- The other layer?
- Yeah 'cause,
they cut it in half.
- Right, right, right, right,
right, right, right.
I'm wondering about the size.
Is it gonna topple over?
Maybe I should make something bigger.
Or maybe I can mini.
Do you like any decorations,
do you want it to be simple
or do you want it to be kind of wild?
- Well not like wild wild.
- Okay.
- Like wild enough.
- I think chocolate cupcake,
white chocolate, chocolate cookies,
and strawberries are a great mashup.
As long as the structural integrity
stays in tact,
we'll be good.
- Do you think we can do it?
- Yes.
- Okay, cool.
- I think you can do it, a lot.
- I think we should go do it.
- We've got cookie on the bottom,
glaze, cupcake half,
more glaze, cookie, frosting,
cupcake half, and more frosting.
Am I feeling confident?
I think I'll get there.
- I'm going to first make a really
nice round chocolate cake.
Then have some great strawberry buttercream frosting.
Then a giant chocolate cookie
with white chocolate chips,
more frosting, another layer of chocolate cake.
I'll put frosting with a lot of great garnishes
like fresh strawberries.
- [Alexis] Matthew's an amazing cook.
He does really great work.
He's gonna be a good competitor.
I'm gonna make a really moist chocolate cake,
put some strawberry glaze on it.
A cookie that fits perfectly on top.
Frosting, strawberries, cake,
and then repeat.
- Alexis will do her best.
I know I'ma do my best.
But I hope I come out on top.
I'm starting with my chocolate,
white chocolate chip cookies.
And then gonna move onto
the cupcake that I'm turning into
just a normal chocolate cake.
- I too am starting with my cookies.
And then makin' like a mini six inch cake.
I just sifted my two flours.
I'm using regular flour and bread flour.
So I'm gonna brown the butter.
So it's gonna get this really dark, nutty color.
It'll boil a bit since some
of the fat cooks off.
So I just added a bit of water
to bring it back up to a cup.
Now I'm gonna add the sugars.
So adding brown sugar.
White sugar.
And then we're gonna add the browned butter.
Oh my god that looks amazing.
- So right now, I'm starting with the butter,
brown sugar and regular white sugar
to cream together for my cookies.
And now I'm adding the eggs, flour,
cocoa powder, baking soda.
So I'm pushing my cookie dough into
the same size cake tin
that my cake will be baked in.
So that way they're all evenly sized.
In order to do some cool decorations on top,
I think I might make some
interestingly shaped cookies.
What I wanna try to do
is make a little cookie sign
that I can stick in the cake,
and it'll say 'Calah' on it.
- That's so cute.
- If I can somehow spell her name
out in white chocolate.
- Do you wanna try this?
- It's good.
Wanna try some of this?
- It's really good.
They're both really good.
You have more of a chocolate cookie.
- I do, yes.
- [Alexis] So that's also gonna be different.
- [Matthew] Okay, cool.
Like normal cookie batter. - I'm just doing
chip on chip.
One ice cream scoop
equals one cookie.
But since I want this to be bigger,
maybe three of them.
- [Matthew] Go big or go home.
I'm going into the oven now.
Here I go.
- I mean
so far I feel pretty good.
- She didn't do exactly what I think
Calah wanted with the cookie.
I think maybe Calah was looking
for that chocolate cookie
with the white chocolate chips.
So that's what I'm aiming for.
While you were gone,
they tried to get me
to say some mean things about you.
- Did you say anything?
- [Matthew] No.
I was considering thinking,
I could be like,
"Bring it on, (bleep)."
But that's so not my nature.
I'm doing the same creaming thing
for the cake.
Just like I did for the cookie.
Just to help it aid a little bit
and it's little more liquidy,
I'm gonna add a little bit of oil as well.
- I am going to boil water.
And then add cocoa powder
to it as my first step to the cake.
The hot water, the cocoa powder
is gonna make a more intense flavor
than if you just added plain cocoa powder.
Or if you added cocoa powder
to cold water.
I'm gonna sift the flour, baking soda,
sugar, and salt.
So now adding the cocoa.
- Now that my cake batter is done,
I'm putting them into these cake tins.
- And so it's actually interesting
to see how different our batters are.
Yours is much more thick
and actually looks more cake-like.
Whereas mine is
pretty liquidy.
I'm gonna start on my glaze.
And I'm gonna use a ricer
to actually mash the strawberries.
I realize this looks kinda gross.
But it's just an easier way
to get it all kind of pulpy.
- And now I'm gonna move on
to making the strawberry buttercream.
I'm not creaming, necessarily the butter anymore.
It's more just kinda aerating it.
And then adding the freeze-dried strawberries
that I've crushed up.
And that's gonna give me a really
bright pink strawberry frosting.
Oh yeah.
Almost like strawberry ice cream.
- Okay, that is so good.
- Thank you.
- [Alexis] I'm gonna start on my buttercream.
I'm going to add powdered sugar.
Vanilla.
Again, salt.
Strawberry and raspberry jam.
Wow, that's sweet.
- I think we're at the easy part
that we've all done before,
which is make frostings,
cakes, and cookies.
The layering and the decoration is
what's not as confident about.
- I feel really confident flavor-wise.
I feel like the decorating,
what does a nine year old like?
I don't know.
Maybe I'm terrible with kids
and I just didn't know it.
- I'm really excited for Calah
to try my cake.
I think it looks so pretty
and I have all of these little touches
that I'll think she'll
really take to heart.
I tasted the cookie and the cake,
and I like how it tastes.
I just hope it's enough
to win her vote.
- I will say that I think my chocolate cake
might seal the deal.
It's so moist and it's so fluffy.
And I just think when she has a bite of it,
it'll be hard to say no.
- Okay you two, what do ya got for me?
- [Matthew] We have our cakes.
- They're a little different from what you drew,
but I hope they're good.
- I hope so.
- This is really tall.
- It's like a big tall tower.
- [Alexis] Oh gosh!
I feel pretty happy with the cake.
It looks like what she drew.
And I think she's gonna like it.
So we've got the chocolatey layers.
There's a strawberry glaze.
There's the chocolate chip cookies
with white and semi-sweet chocolate.
- This is good.
Tastes like chocolate,
with chocolate.
And it's so moist.
- I think she's really into
my chocolate cake.
- So right here, we have all these
really fun emojis for you.
If you had to describe the cake you just tried,
which one would you choose?
- [Calah] That one.
- Oh!
- Thank you.
That's such a compliment. - That's so great.
Calah is about to try my cake.
And I'm really excited.
I know she's gonna love it.
I think the cookie with her name on top
is really gonna push it over the edge.
Here is a simple chocolate cake.
And then inside, there is a
strawberry buttercream frosting.
- Oh god, it tastes just like a brownie.
So hard.
- So this is the cookie part,
and then you gotta try the cake by itself too.
- That's good.
- So Calah, you've chosen my emoji.
But now you've gotta choose Matt's.
- [Calah] That one.
- Oh! - Oh!
I'll take it.
I'll take it, I love heart eyes.
- Do you need to try anything else
before you make your final decision?
- I can give you a huge bite of that.
- Yeah.
- Oh my god, that's so precious.
- Layin' it on thick, Matthew.
Layin' it on thick.
- This is good.
This is the best cookie I've ever had.
- Whoa!
- I think the winner is
number one.
- Thanks Calah.
You did great too.
Finally.
You know, I really needed this win.
- I lost.
I expected her to really not notice
the nuances that I could've
put into the cake,
so I kept it really simple
and focus on the decoration.
But maybe I should've taken
those extra moments to really put in
all the extra pizazz and flavor
into the cake,
and the cookie itself.
- 'Cause you're the winner,
you get a big,
a big frame
of my picture that I drew.
- Thank you so much.
This is amazing.
This is so, so sweet.
It kind of,
it kind of looks like it, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, kind of.
- I feel pretty good.
What am I gonna do with this,
hang it over my bed,
put it in my living room,
send this to my mom?
I don't know.
I'm pretty proud though.
Do you wanna try?
Do you wanna try it?
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