- That is definitely not a Southern cake.
That is definitely not from the South, it can't be.
- I am Jazmine, I'm from Atlanta, Georgia,
and I brought a red velvet Bundt cake.
- I'm Mae Stone, and I'm from Dallas.
- Hi, my name is Daija Nealy
and I brought you a red velvet cake.
- Being a young girl from the South,
I helped my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen.
I wanted my food to taste like my aunt's
and my mother and my grandmother's,
the love that I grew up with.
So that's where it kinda started for me.
- Downtown, we deserve better honestly.
That's what we're known for.
We're known for our cake, our pies,
our fried food, barbecue. (chuckles)
Like that's what we do. (chuckles)
- And everything's bigger in Texas too anyways.
So I feel like naturally the baked goods
are just a hundred times better.
- Oh, blindfold.
- Oh, I have to,
oh, eyes closed.
- Alrighty, let's do it.
I hope that the other contestants know
that I've put forth my best effort into it
and it's not gonna taste exactly like my great-aunt's,
but it's still baked with love.
- This is the first cake.
- Okay.
- Doesn't smell like anything.
- Oh my -
- It smells good.
(Daija giggles)
- They put alcohol in it.
- Hm.
- I don't like to this one,
it tastes weird.
- Somebody is from the South,
somebody's grandmother is.
Somebody from the South here. (laughing)
- I'm not a fan.
Cake doesn't always have to have alcohol in it.
- It tastes like marijuana to me.
- It's a cake, red velvet? Not so much.
- Me likey.
- It's very crummy.
Like not even like crumbly,
which would like be bigger chunks.
It's like dust.
- It's kinda breaking apart.
- Lemme taste the frosting.
- It's passable as cake, but it's a little dry.
- Yeah, there's like a weird taste.
Maybe some of her extracts or something was bad.
- The icing is really soft.
so I think it just kind of depends on
if you're going for more of like a ganache hard icing
or a soft icing.
- It's a little flavorless, it's missing that flavor.
There's no dimension in it.
Like it just tastes like sweet and alcohol.
- It tastes musty.
Everyone tries their best, right?
I don't know.
- I really liked the smell.
It smells like it came from somebody's kitchen.
I do wanna give it a smell of 4.5.
- First smell, I'm rating it a four,
I think it smells good.
- I'm gonna give it a one
because it just really doesn't smell like anything.
Like it doesn't smell like cake,
it just smells like nothing.
- I mean, I like the texture, don't get me wrong.
I think, but I would kind of,
like I said, the icing was just super soft really.
So maybe, I can give it like a three.
- For texture, I'm giving it a two.
- I'm gonna give it a 2.5 just because it's,
it could use a little bit more butter or something in there
to kind of like make it more moist.
- I'm gonna say it's four.
- Overall, I'ma probably give it a three
just because the alcohol just,
it's just not for me.
- And for a taste, I'm sorry, I'm giving it a one.
Sorry. (chuckles)
I don't like it at all.
- I'm gonna win today because my cake is moist.
She is red velvet, she's not pink
and she's gonna taste good.
- Let me feel my way around here.
Oh, where are we?
- Smell like a cake? I don't know.
You just can't really get a smell
from a slice of cake, I guess.
- It feels kinda dry.
For sure. that's the first thing I noticed.
It's definitely a bit of overcooked on the outside.
I'm just gonna use my hands
because the fork is not working for me.
- It's sturdy though, it holds up.
I can say that.
- It doesn't really have much flavor.
- I'm searching for flavor a little bit.
I'm not tryna be mean, but I'm tryna search for it.
- It tastes like bread.
(Jazmine chuckles)
- I feel like this is my cake.
- It does not taste like red velvet cake to me.
- Yeah, I'm good.
- Yeah, it just kinda tastes like sweet bread with frosting.
- The first time by myself, I think I did pretty okay.
I think I did a pretty good, pretty darn good job,
you know? (chuckles)
- For smell, I'm gonna rate this at three.
- Smell.
The smell is good so I can give that a,
I can give the smell a three.
- I can't smell the cake so I give that a two.
- For a taste, it just doesn't really tastes
like red velvet to me,
but it doesn't taste horrible.
Like I don't wanna throw up
so I guess a three or 2.5.
2.5 for taste, texture three.
- Texture, I'd give it a four.
- [Producer] Are you overrating yourself?
- Maybe.
- I took it out, it wasn't ready
and then,
so I put it back in for like another 20 minutes.
Probably should have only did like 12.
So I probably give texture like a 3.5.
(Mae chuckles)
- You know what? Texture I can give this,
I can give this a two.
- Overall, I give myself a 3.5,
like I think I did a pretty darn good.
- Overall taste, I think I can just give that one,
like a one.
- I'm gonna win because I make delicious cake.
I make really good baked goods
and they always have lots of flavor.
Not because I'm cocky, but because it's true.
- All right.
- Okay. So the cake is moist.
It's moist to the touch, we like that.
- Okay, okay.
This was a good one.
- Okay.
- Yeah. I like this one. (chuckles)
- The icing kinda gives it a nice balance.
I'm not exactly sure what they do with the icing,
but the icing on here is really good,
and I'm not really a huge icing fan.
= I can tell just by how it feels that it's mine.
- [Producer] So you think yours is the best?
- No, yes. (chuckles)
- This is good.
I think most of the flavor is in the icing though.
- I don't think I would change much,
I think if anything,
I would work on the ganache topping.
- The overall smell of the cake,
I mean like a two,
because again, I can't really smell it
from a slice some reason.
- I can give the smell a 3.5, I guess.
I mean, 'cause it doesn't necessarily smell like anything,
but it doesn't smell bad either so that's a good thing.
- On smell, I'm rating my cake a five. (chuckles)
- The texture, I give that a solid four,
like that was really good.
- And on texture, I'm gonna rate my cake, a four.
- It's a little like gummy on the bottom though.
It's kinda hard here, but in the middle is cool.
So I just don't know if maybe that's a baking thing.
Sorry, so I think I can give,
I'll give the texture like maybe like a 2.5.
- On taste, I'm also rating my cake a five.
- Flavor is really good so I can give the flavor,
I mean, I can give the flavor of four.
- Overall. I give it a four.
- [Producer] So, you did win,
so go ahead and give your speech.
- I did? Yeah! (laughing)
Thank you, I'm so glad everyone enjoyed my cake.
The secret is to have fun when you bake,
I thought about that after.