- [Kaylanee] Hi, my name is Kaylanee, I'm nine years old
and today I'm gonna have two chefs competing
to make my dream dish.
(mummy noises)
(intense music)
- [Alix] Hi, Kaylanee!
- Hi!
- I'm Alix.
- [Alexis] I'm Alexis.
So, Kaylanee, what would mummies eat?
- Hmm, maybe something with bugs,
like a plate with like rainbow bugs.
This is the scorpions.
- [Alexis] Cool.
- [Kaylanee] They have long tails.
- What are some of your favorite flavors?
- I like strawberry, chocolate, vanilla.
- I'm actually excited that she likes
fruity flavors and chocolate and vanilla.
I'm definitely gonna go with a sweet dish this time.
- [Kaylanee] And then
- [Alix] So, these are the spiders?
- [Kaylanee] Yes. - [Alix] Lots of legs
on those spiders.
- Okay, she's saying scorpions and spiders,
and how am I gonna make a scorpion?
What else is on the plate?
- [Kaylanee] Sticks.
- [Alexis] Sticks
- [Alix] Sticks, like,
- [Kaylanee] This is the main meal.
- [Alexis] And these are the sticks?
- [Kaylanee] Yes.
- So the mummies like to eat sticks?
- Yes, like brown old sticks.
- [Alix] Yeah
- [Kaylanee] And then little ants.
- [Alexis] Oh. - Ants on a stick.
- [Kaylanee] These are the llama eyes, at the side.
- [Alix] Llama eyes
- I love that there's llamas with the mummies.
- Yeah, llamas.
These are like Peruvian mummies.
- Peruvian mummies.
(laughter)
- Here's what I know about mummies:
They live in the dessert, and they're dead.
- [Kaylanee] I'm gonna use all these blues,
and make like a huge, like dip.
- When you say dip.
- Like, like tears dip
from the llamas
they cry. - Tears dip
- Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.
I have no idea.
- This is the filling for the eyes,
and it's gonna be like strawberry.
- Kaylanee, do you think we can make your mummies dish?
- Yes. - Yes!
- You do? Thank you! - So confident.
- I think we can wrap this up.
So here's my plan,
for the sticks, I'm gonna make a chocolate bark
out of pretzels and coconut
and I'm gonna put little sprinkles on top for ants.
For the scorpions and spiders,
I'm gonna be making the bodies
out of Oreo truffles and coating them in
candy melts for the colors.
For the llama eyes, I'm gonna be making
strawberry cupcakes with a strawberry icing
and a strawberry in the middle.
And for the llama tears, I'm gonna be making
a blueberry flavored whipped cream
and coloring it blue and green.
- For the branch, I'm going to use Rice Krispie treats
to make some whimsical branch,
and then I'm gonna cover it with melted chocolate.
Then, for the insects and the llama eyes,
I'm also going to make little rounds of
Rice Krispie treats
and cover them with a marshmallow fondant.
And then, I'm gonna add lots of fruit,
maybe some chocolate covered blueberries, some sprinkles,
it'll be imaginative.
(upbeat music)
- I'm gonna start by getting my cupcakes in
so they have time to bake.
I am using just a basic yellow cake mix
but I'm gonna add some strawberry jam to that
to give it a strawberry flavor
'cause she said she really loves strawberry.
So, I'm gonna hit her over the head with some strawberry.
- (laughs) Rice Krispie treats are really easy to make.
I'm gonna melt the butter,
add the marshmallows,
stir it down until it's nice and smooth.
- I've never dyed cupcakes purple before.
I do know that when they bake,
the color kind of fades but,
I'm gonna just go with it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
These marshmallows are almost at the right consistency.
Marshmallows.
- Purple cupcakes, done.
Wow, we're so in unison.
Just right into my greased cupcake tin. Yum!
I didn't wanna fill them too full
because they will puff up.
So I'm gonna pop these in the oven
at 350 to bake and then,
we'll move on.
- I'm gonna, oh, I'm gonna try to shape these
into a whimsical branch but um, mmm.
Okay, this feels like a whimsical branch
is not gonna happen.
These Rice Krispie treats are not turning out
the way I thought they would be.
- Next, I'm gonna move onto making my truffles
for the bugs.
It's a two ingredient cookies and cream truffle.
All they take are Oreos and cream cheese.
I'm gonna grind up the Oreos
and get it to a nice fine powder.
Oh (ding) I always forget these things.
Oh (buzz)
Gah! (ding)
Does it go the other way?
Oh
(intense music)
(buzz)
(ding) - Can help you?
- Yeah (laughs)
- Okay, move.
(ding)
- See?
(buzz)
(laughs) (ding)
I use food processors almost every day of my life
and I have never had such trouble
than I've had today.
(ding)
- What is happening?
I think you need a new one.
- How many people does it take?
- Oh, okay wait
- To turn on a food processor?
- Okay wait, as Alix was struggling,
this is firming up so whimsical branch might happen.
Stay tuned.
(food processor whirring)
(multiple dings)
Great, you got it to work!
- Oh my God, I almost just died
and came back as a mummy.
Okay. Goodbye and good riddance to this thing.
- So actually while I was trying to help Alix the
Rice Krispie treat started to solidify a bit
so I can actually mold it now.
- Wow!
- My vision is back. - That worked out.
So now I'm gonna add my cookie crumbs
to some cream cheese.
Now that I have gotten this into like a paste kind of thing
I'm just gonna start rolling them into balls.
So this will be like the bodies of each of my bugs.
Okay I'm gonna go pop these in the fridge
so they can set and then we'll move on.
(lively music)
(Mummy sounds)
- Gonna make some llama eyes.
Now that my tree and llama eyes
and insects are made,
I'm gonna go put this in the freezer.
- Y'all you have to walk like a mummy.
- Ooh
(laughter)
- So now I'm going to move on to my sticks.
Crush up some pretzels. Cool.
- Got my frozen - Oh yum
- Rice Krispies whimsical treat
- Whimsical treat
It is
- It is. Totally is.
So now I'm gonna melt the chocolate
and then pour it over the tree,
so she loves chocolate, looks like a tree.
- So now, I'm gonna grab the cupcakes actually.
- Oh wow
(laughter)
- So I definitely overfilled them a little.
But on the bright side, the bright purple side,
they still got a lot of color.
So now I'm gonna add the pretzels
to this melted chocolate.
Coconut, sweetened coconut.
I'm just gonna glop these down.
- What are you making?
- Like kind of like a chocolate bark thing.
You know? - That's cool.
- I don't know what really qualifies as chocolate bark.
It's usually just chocolate with some stuff in it.
And hopefully the chocolate bark looks like sticks
because of all that texture.
- So my chocolate is silky and smooth.
Just drizzle it first.
This kind of looks like bark.
- It does, yeah.
So my candy melts are melted and now I'm gonna start
coating my truffles in their colors
to make the rainbow bugs.
- I'm gonna move on to my marshmallow fondant,
which I have to be honest
I haven't made before. - Fondant
- Regular fondant is what you would find on wedding cakes
or a lot of cakes it's like kind of sickly sweet.
So you've marshmallows,
add little bit of water and microwave.
Okay so my marshmallows are totally melted,
then powdered sugar, stir.
So I'm just stirring until it becomes really stiff
and all the powdered sugar gets kind of
absorbed into the marshmallow.
- So I'm just gonna break apart these pretzels
to make some bug legs.
- Ooh, this feels
wrong?
I'm kneading it and it feels too soft,
but it's also kind of working, so
I think I'm just gonna go with it.
I'm just gonna flatten one out.
- Ooh
- It's so smooth
- Look at that
Okay, and I'm just gonna try stick these legs
into my truffles. Hopefully this goes okay.
So I'm running into a little bit of a problem
with these truffles.
Because the candy coating has set,
me putting the legs into it is cracking the coating.
I don't know how this is all going to turn out.
I'm going to try to use a skewer instead
and create a hole before I try to shove
the pretzel stick in.
K. Bug one is done.
- I'm now going to dye this one
so I'm gonna use just a drop of gel food coloring.
Gel food coloring is more intense color
and it's not as liquid
so it's not gonna change the consistency
as much as liquid food coloring would.
- I have these little candy eyes
- and I feel like they'll - Oh
make the bugs really come to life.
- That's, that's really good.
So I'm not totally sure if I'm doing this right.
It's really malleable which makes it really easy for me.
But typically I think it should be a little stiffer.
Um, but it looks good.
Well the marshmallow fondant's actually
covering these bugs really well.
It looks smooth they're brightly colored,
I think she's going to love it.
- Okay. So I'm gonna start assembling my llama eyes.
I'm going to take out some of the center
and I'm just gonna pop that right in there.
- I'm gonna use the bottom of a piping tip
to cut out some eyes for the llamas.
- Now I'm going to make the frosting for the cupcakes.
This is cream cheese and butter. Softened.
A little bit of vanilla.
This is powdered sugar I pre-sifted.
So now I'm going to add some more
strawberry jam to this.
- Llama eyes.
- This frosting is a little bit loose
so I think I'm going to pop it in the fridge
before I frost the cupcakes so it can kinda
firm up a little.
- And so I'm just putting little eyes
on my little rainbow blobs.
Which are representative of the bugs.
- Finally. I'm at the end I'm going to do the blue tears.
- I uh forgot about that
(laughter)
- I forgot the llama tears.
I always forget something.
But it's like on the edge of the drawing.
I can't imagine she's actually going to notice.
I'm going to melt some chocolate
and then make some chocolate covered blueberries.
- I'm just making whipped cream.
So I'm doing heavy whipping cream,
a little sugar and some vanilla.
- So my chocolate's melted so
I'm just going to toss some blueberries in there
and then put them on this little sheet tray.
- So now I'm going to add some blueberry jam
because she said it tasted like blueberries.
- Wow. You are really,
wow we have such different strategies.
- Last time I lost to Alexis because
she went even bigger than the drawing.
And I went pretty literal.
This time, I'm going pretty literal.
So now I'm going to color this blue.
And then I'm going to color this one green. Okay.
- Okay
- I'm ready to play
(laughter)
(mummy sounds)
Okay what am I doing?
- Ah
- It's okay. You can still piece it back together.
- Ooh, this was a dumb idea. The tree is breaking.
Why did I do this?
I should have put it down on a greased parchment paper.
But sticks break, right?
It should be fine.Yeah. Ah, sure. It's fine.
It's fine. Okay I have to be perfectly honest.
I didn't actually think about
what the flavor was going to be.
Like if she was going to enjoy eating this.
- Really?
- Yeah. Why? Why did I do that?
- I was so - You've come so far
- I was so cocky. It's a lesson.
Honestly it looks kind of weird.
I don't know, it doesn't match the drawing.
I'm not feeling good.
- Looks beautiful. You did it. - Thanks!
- We did it
- Yeah
(classical music)
- Putting together my dish, I'm actually super proud.
It looks like her drawing,
I just hope it all tastes good and that she really loves it.
- I went big, it's imaginative
and it's Rice Krispie treats, it's chocolate, it's fruit.
This may not look like Kaylanee's drawing,
but I hope she really likes it.
- Bring me my mummy dish.
(upbeat music)
It just looks like the picture.The sticks look so good.
It's hard
- That doesn't sound good.
- That's good
- [Kaylanee] I like the chocolate filling.
Mmmm. Strawberry is my favorite.
- She seems to like it all so far, so I've got some hope.
- I wanna try some of this.
This is blueberry
Well in this like picture it's almost like cyan.
This is not cyan. This is dark green.
- Cyan? I don't even know what that is!
Best of luck Alexis.
- Oh my. This is huge.
I feel like the sticks, whoever the chef is,
know I like strawberries.
And then eyes,
I just see eyes everywhere.
The only thing I don't see is the dip.
- Remember earlier when I said that
I hope she wouldn't remember that there were no llama tears?
She noticed.
- Oh okay.
Is this Rice Krispie treats?
The filling's good.
I feel like everything is made out of Krispie treats.
I'll try purple.
Rice Krispie Treats.
- They say there's no such thing
as too much of a good thing,
but when it comes to Rice Krispie treats,
it's apparently not true.
- I don't like these. They don't have any flavor.
- Do you not want to swallow that?
- Mm m
- It's like mushy. And marshmallows melted.
The marshmallows are not my favorite.
- Hi Kaylanee
Which one did you like better?
The cupcakes or the Rice Krispie treats?
- I liked the cupcake.
- Ahhh
(laughter)
- That was you?
- Yay
- You didn't have the sauce.
- No. Can't win everything.
Alix deserves it. Hers was amazing.
- Chef Alix, since you're the winner, you get my drawing.
- Thank you so much. Finally!
I've been raised from the dead.
Well, I'll be taking this to my grave.
(laughter)
Get it, like mummies? In the grave.
(upbeat music)