- Hi, my name is Marina and I'm eight years old.
Today two chefs are gonna compete to make my dream dish.
(witch laugh)
- Hello! - Hi Marina!
- Hi!
- I'm Rie.
- I'm Katie.
So what do you think a witch would eat?
- I think they would eat frogs.
- Marina's saying she wants a frog.
That's a very specific amphibian.
Wanna draw it for us?
- [Marina] This is a plate.
- A plate. - A plate, all right.
- That's a frog that the good witch would eat.
- Do you know fog is edible?
So maybe I buy a frog and I cook it.
- [Marina] And I would like pink broccoli.
- Pink broccoli.
- [Marina] Yeah I love broccoli.
- Marina likes broccoli.
I'm so impressed with the children that like vegetables.
I'm an adult and I don't eat vegetables.
Which is not the message I want to send.
Eat your broccoli, kids.
- Do you like cauliflower?
- Not really.
- [Both] Okay.
- Pink broccoli, I thought, "ah ha!"
Dye cauliflower into pink.
And then she said she doesn't like cauliflower.
- [Katie] So what are we drawing now?
- [Marina] Hair.
- [Both] Ohhhh.
- [Marina] It's like spaghetti but it's hair.
- [Katie] It's hair.
Okay.
- [Marina] Yeah.
- Usually if you find hair on your dish
you will send it back.
But this time she asked for it.
- Because most witches are ugly.
So they need good hair.
- Yeah so this is like how she,
she eats this, she's just gonna like
get some luscious locks going on?
Is she taking this hair from other people?
- Yeah she's ripping hairs out.
- Oh Okay. - Whoa.
- [Riel] What's that?
- [Marina] It's a fly.
- Oooooh. - Oh okay.
- Yum. (laughter)
Flies.
I'm kinda excited about the flies.
I'm not sure why.
- So Marina, what kind of food do you like?
- I love chocolate.
- Chocolate, okay.
Is there any fruit you like?
- I love grapes, strawberries.
- There's a lot going on on this plate,
but I am pretty confident that I can wow Marina.
And I'm just gonna sit back and work my magic.
Like a witch.
Okay I think we have everything we need.
This is great.
- [All] Away we go!
- So here's my plan.
For frog I'm going to carve cantaloupe look like frog
and use grapes for eyes and put blueberry.
For the flies, I'm going to
make chocolate-dipped strawberries
with white chocolate wings on it.
For broccoli I'm going to make pink mashed potato
and blanched broccoli on top.
For the hair, I'm going to make threads
made out of melted sugar.
- I'm gonna make a giant Oreo cookie sandwich
with a strawberry cream filling.
I'm going to cover that in green candy melts,
make marshmallow eyes, make some candy melt feet and legs,
and that's gonna be my frog.
Then I'm gonna make flies out of chocolate-covered pretzels
and some Raisinettes.
Then I'm gonna make some broccoli out of sugar cookies
and a strawberry frosting
with some freezer dried strawberries on the tops.
And finally I'm gonna make some hair out of cookie dough
and put a little chocolate base on the bottom of that.
- I'm gonna do mashed potato first.
'Cause it's gonna take awhile.
I hope it's gonna turn pink.
- [Katie] How are you gonna turn it pink?
Are you using like a dye or?
- [Rie] I'm gonna start with beets.
And if it doesn't turn pink I have a food coloring.
But I don't wanna use it if I don't need to.
- I'm gonna make my Oreo cookie dough right now.
I'm gonna cream my butter with my sugar.
I just added egg and I added some vanilla extract.
I just put some flour, cocoa powder,
and some baking soda in here.
I am not gonna immediately do this.
I used this spatula to incorporate
the sifted dry ingredients just so that it didn't
get all over the place.
You're welcome, Rie.
- [Rie] Thank you.
- [Katie] And then I used the beaters to incorporate
a little bit more.
And now I'm using my hands to really like
get it all together.
And then after I'm finished with this,
I'm gonna wrap it up in some plastic wrap
and I'll chill it for a little bit.
I'm gonna go let this chill.
I'll be right back.
- So now I am going to make chocolate-dipped strawberry.
- Now I'm gonna make my sugar cookie dough.
I'm first gonna mix flour, baking powder, we've got salt,
and oh.
I just put my sugar in that.
Well I just put my sugar in my dry ingredients.
Sugar is a wet ingredient so I'm just, I think,
Rie says it's fine.
Rie has more cooking (laughter drowns out speaking)
- So it seems like Katie is very nervous.
She's messing up the process of making cookies.
But we are friends.
I wanna support her no matter what.
Even though we are competitors.
- Okay well no sugar with the butter.
So that's okay.
We're okay.
- So water is boiling.
I'm going to add potato.
I'm making white chocolate.
- Wings?
- Wings.
- Cool.
Okay gotta let this chill.
You're doing great Rie.
- [Rie] Thank you.
- [Katie] Your little wings look really real!
- [Rie] Thank you.
- [Katie] My Oreo cookie dough has chilled
and I'm gonna do two things for it.
So this is gonna make like the body of the frog.
I'm gonna roll this out and cut it into two big circles
and then I'm gonna try to make some like cookie spaghetti
for the experiment of a lifetime.
- So what is your idea?
Like how? - My idea...
I'm taking this lime juicer
and I'm gonna squeeze dough through it.
- She showed me the lemon squeezer to make cookie hair,
and I'm not sure how it's gonna turn out.
- [Katie] Okay ready?
Oh God.
Please work.
Oh! - Oh my God!
You did it!
- Cookie hair! - Oh that's crazy.
- Just a weird thing to say.
The cookie spaghetti works!
This is a thing.
We are making this a thing.
- Okay so I'm gonna heat up cream.
Now my potatoes are done.
I'm going to put them in a ricer with beets.
- Oh my goodness.
Oh the beets coming out.
How scary.
- Secret to good mashed potatoes is don't use
food processor because it makes it gummy.
So I used big ricer.
And I'm putting a lot of butter.
That makes a little delicious.
Also I learned from this show
that kids love cheese.
- So my dough has been chilling.
I'm now rolling it out.
And these are gonna be my pink broccoli cookies.
Very rough cookies.
- Now I'm blanching broccoli.
- [Katie] Nice.
- [Rie] You have to salt your broccoli like sea water.
- Right now I'm making the filling for the frog cookie
and the frosting for the broccoli.
So first I'm gonna do some cream cheese
and a little butter.
I like to do the cream cheese.
It will cut the sweetness down a bit.
(grinding)
Why can't I handle that?
Okay now I'm gonna add the strawberry preserves.
We can always add, you can't take away.
- [Rie] Well this look like a fly.
- Those look cute!
- [Rie] Let's go to fridge.
All right now I'm gonna carve this cantaloupe.
- [Katie] This is exciting.
- [Rie] I'm cutting half moon.
It's open mouth and I'm gonna stuff with grapes.
- [Katie] Ooooh.
Is that his feet?
- Yeah.
- Oh my God!
Rie that's so cute.
I'm gonna crush some dehydrated strawberries
at the very top of these guys so that they
have the broccoli tops.
- [Rie] So this is gonna be eyeball.
Look!
- [Katie] Oh my gosh!
- [Rie] Does it look like a frog though?
- [Katie] Yeah.
I wanna be his friend. - It's almost
I'm so proud of myself right now.
So I'm just gonna put in a nice little stand.
- Did you just say you're so proud
of yourself right now?
- Yeah!
With my frog.
- Are you displaying it?
- Yeah. - Oh my!
Again a new side of you right now.
Right now I'm whipping up some whipped cream
and I'm gonna fold the frosting in just
so that it's a lighter filling for the cookie.
Okay great.
Cookie, done.
I'm gonna go put that in the fridge while I
melt my candy melts.
- I'm melting sugar and it's gonna be look like a caramel.
- And I just melted some chocolate and I'm gonna be making
my flies right now.
I'm using chocolate covered raisins and some clips.
So do you just eyeball when it's ready?
Like you don't use a thermometer?
- I was gonna use thermometer but I've done that before
I feel like I overestimated myself.
- Oh no.
- I think it's too dark now.
Sorry.
Gotta go.
For the sugar hair, I've made it before.
I'm pretty confident so I didn't look recipe
but it's not working.
- Redo, redo, take two.
- Take two.
So thread stage.
- Thread stage.
Okay the thread stage.
- It's 215.
- Okay.
- So this time I'm gonna
- So I think that's under a boil, soft ball.
- I think I was a little bit too relaxed today.
(laughing) I didn't even measure how much sugar I added.
What if I have to do a third time?
- You know, Rie, third time is the charm.
- Yeah! - Three is a magic number.
So I'm gonna put this cookie in this.
Should I pour it over it?
What would you do Rie?
- I would pour over.
- Okay.
Whatever Rie says, I'm gonna do it.
Okay pouring over it.
Here goes nothing.
I need to go put this in the fridge right now.
Okay.
- [Rie] If I fail this time, I'm gonna follow the recipe.
Katie, I think I have to do it again.
- Okay.
Third time's a charm.
- Third time's a charm.
- Three is the magic number.
This is our motto.
Rie is starting over.
And I'm alarmed.
I've never seen this before.
She is human.
She's maybe beatable.
- Okay so I'm using the rest of my candy melts.
I've put it in a bag.
I'm gonna try to pipe out some legs and some feet
for my frog.
- Well I failed a second time
so I'm looking at a recipe.
Half cup of sugar and half cup of corn syrup.
Okay it looks better than before.
- I'm gonna make a weird lily pad for plating.
Out of purple. - Oh you should do it.
- 'cause she drew a purple plate.
- Yeah.
It kinda look like witch.
It's like bubbling.
- I'm gonna put on the eyeballs now.
Crazy.
- I love it.
- Hello!
I'm a frog!
(laughter)
That's his voice.
- Oh yeah it's happening.
- It's cracking.
Oh no.
Everything is coming together
but my frog is starting to crack.
I really gotta just get this guy together.
Okay, it's okay.
He's good enough.
No one needs to see that some of his cookie fell away.
Oh hey, you're making it!
- It's finally working.
I follow the recipe.
Third time is a charm.
Look like a spider web.
- It looks cool.
It looks like you're a witch right now.
You're like...
Abracadabra.
- I'm having fun, Katie.
- Me too!
(Rie laughing)
- I'm putting his feet.
Oooooh his feet are funny.
Look at that!
- All right, I'm gonna plate.
- His like one leg is so much bigger than the other leg.
- Broccoli.
- [Katie] I think that Rie's frog is really fun.
And mine is like kinda creepy.
But I like him.
He has personality.
I named him Jerry.
We did it!
(laughing)
- My cantaloupe frog, it doesn't look like Pinterest fail.
My flies look delicious.
My broccoli turned out super pretty.
I gave everything Marina wanted.
And I'm pretty confident.
- I'm really happy with how my dish turned out.
The frog is so cute and fun.
My broccoli turned out to look like pink broccoli.
And if Marina likes sweets, she's gonna like this.
- Bring on my witches feast.
(witch cackle)
Wow.
I think it looks amazing.
I love the frog.
It's really cool.
I love that there's grapes inside of it.
I'll try the hair first.
Wow the hair is really good.
Wow it tastes like the broccoli that my mom makes.
It tastes exactly how I wanted it to taste.
- Mama's cooking is the best.
My confidence boosts up.
- Wow it's really soft.
I really like it.
I'm gonna try the pink.
I don't really know what it tastes like.
Oh it's starting to taste not that good.
It tastes like mashed potatoes.
I don't really like mashed potatoes.
- Who doesn't like mashed potatoes?
I also put cheese in there.
And she hates it.
- I don't really like regular mashed potatoes.
So I just think I don't like the pink ones either.
- The pink mashed potato
might have cost me for the competition.
- Wow!
That looks amazing.
I like how the frog looks like that.
I really like the bugs.
It looks really artistic.
That's really good.
I'll try the broccoli next.
Wow these are like strawberries.
Wow this tastes really good.
This is like chocolate covered raisins.
- What?
I made bugs taste good?
- The hair.
Wow the hair is really good.
Taste like brownie.
I think the lily pad is white chocolate
but it doesn't taste that good.
- Ugh!
She doesn't like the lily pad.
That was a last minute decision.
I shouldn't have done it.
But it's the only thing she doesn't like
so I think I'm still in the game.
- Hello!
- Hello.
- Hi!
- Hi.
- So which one did you like better?
The melon frog or the cake frog?
- It's really hard to choose,
but I like the melon frog better.
(gasp) - NO.
- Yay!
- Chef Rie, because you won, you got my drawing.
- Thank you so much!
This is so cool.
- I'm so sad.
- Winner, winner, witch dinner.
- Thank you for telling us "witch" on you liked better.
(witch cackles)
(upbeat jazz music)