- The presentation on this is fantastic.
- This isn't a pound cake.
So if that's what they were planning on eating
they'd be upset.
- My aunties are Jamaican, so they would probably
tear this cake up, they wouldn't put it out.
(horn sounding)
(upbeat music)
- Hey, I'm Candace.
And today I'm gonna win this pound cake challenge
because my pound cake is the best.
Why?
Well, mainly because I say so.
But I'm a really good baker and I'm a great cook.
All my friends are always like,
"Candice throws down in the kitchen."
I bake a really, really good pound cake.
- Hi I'm Jordan.
I've been baking for about 10 years.
I started my own cake pop business.
So I know my cake is gonna win,
one, because I already know how to bake.
And two, because I called in the big guns and called my mom.
- What's up, what's up, what's up?
It's ya boy, Reggie B.
I made a pound cake today and I am so excited.
I don't typically bake all that often,
but I just like making everything I eat anyway.
With this cake, I am very, very confident.
I think it's gonna beat the other cakes,
no shade to the other competitors, of course,
but I'm here to win.
- So I called on a bunch of people.
My momma don't make pound cake
'cause pound cake is not a Jamaican thing, I'm Jamaican.
But I did call one of my friends who is like a master baker.
And then I put my own little twist in it.
It's a four hour recipe.
So four hours of love went into that pound cake.
So I hope y'all feel it.
(upbeat music)
- The presentation on this is fantastic.
It's meticulous.
Like someone took their time plating this cake.
- It's really fancy with the fruit and whatnot.
They went the extra mile.
Same with the icing on there.
- Came with little berries.
This is meant to be more than just a dessert,
it's an experience.
Off looks alone you won a bunch of points from me.
- It smells like pound cake,
it doesn't smell like any different than a pound cake would.
- It smells good, it smells sweet.
It looks pretty moist.
- I wanna say it's moist, but the taste will really know.
(eating)
- Yo damn.
(laughing)
They showed up.
This is good.
- It's not bad.
- This is really, really good.
- The icing is good.
- I don't wanna accuse them of buying it from the store.
But it is like, this tastes like professional cake.
- It definitely tastes
like you could've bought it at a store.
I know it was homemade.
- This isn't like a hobby cake, this is on point.
This is a solid pound cake.
- I'm glad it's not the regular royal icing,
it's the sugary icing.
- And it's thick.
- It's dense.
- I had trouble cutting down through it
'cause it was dense.
And the moisture's there too.
- The cake itself in the middle is definitely moist,
but the outside is kinda dry.
I would eat it again, I would survive with this.
- Yo yummy,
yummy.
- It's good, I'm not complaining.
- On a scale from one to 10.
I can't front.
Absolutely no cap in this statement.
This is a nine out of 10.
- Like a six.
- Hold on, I need one more bite.
- The aunties would know it's not my mom's
but I think they'd eat it.
While cake pops are very similar to, I guess a pound cake,
I decided I needed to call in the big guns.
So I called my mom and I got her recipe.
Her cake is hands down the best pound cake I have ever had.
It's super moist, it's really, really, really good
with some vanilla ice cream.
You're definitely gonna wanna piece.
(upbeat music)
- I am a little underwhelmed.
- This is a traditional pound cake.
It's what I was expecting to see.
- It's cute.
- I mean, it looks good, it looks traditional.
- It's not like aesthetically pleasing.
I mean it kinda just looks like regular degular pound cake
and it smells, I mean, it's not that strong smelling.
I have to bring it really close to my nose to get anything.
- I'm just not sure if I love the smell.
I was hoping to smell a little hint of vanilla.
- It's plain.
- It's just like cake.
(mischievous music)
- Mm.
- Hmm.
- Mm.
- It's pound cake.
- It nailed the pound cake taste.
But past that, it didn't really seek to impress me.
- It's not bad.
If this cake was at a party, I'd probably eat half of it,
not the whole thing.
- I mean, it kinda tastes like pound cake
you'd get at a function, just like, oh, here's poundcake
'cause we had to make something for a bunch of people.
- It's the traditional pound cake
but there's something about the density of it.
I'm not sure if it's 10% under cooked.
- Maybe it stayed in too long or whatnot,
but it was like a crunchy chewy experience.
I didn't like the work I had to put in to that first bite.
- It shouldn't be really airy, like an angel cake.
And it shouldn't be thick like a cheesecake,
but somewhere in between.
- I don't feel special eating this cake.
No risks were taken here.
The cake lacks identity.
- I rate this,
(drum roll)
five.
- This one was not for me.
I'm going to give this cake a six
because it is not a bad cake,
but it is not a special cake for me.
- My aunties are Jamaican
so they would probably tear this cake up.
Not in a good way.
They wouldn't put it out.
(horn sounding)
- I really feel like I killed it with this one.
It's very unorthodox much like everything else I do.
There's some frosting on it,
there's some surprises inside.
It's a marble pound cake.
So that's vanilla and chocolate mixed together,
there's some chocolate chips in there too.
It's very, very moist.
So I think my cake is going to win off moistness alone.
Is that a word?
Moistness, moistocity.
(upbeat music)
- I am not excited about this cake at all.
I really really don't like icing.
I don't like chocolate, and it has both of those things.
- I love chocolate.
I'm a big, big, big, big, big chocolate fan.
So I'm already excited to try this.
It looks like it's gonna be pretty good.
- It also looks like, I guess a marble cake,
not a pound cake,
so I feel like someone didn't follow the instructions.
It looks like there's chocolate chips in it too,
so I'm not enthused.
- It looks like it could be a little dry on the inside
but the chocolate on the outside may work it out.
All right, let's taste it.
- I have to eat around the chocolate
'cause I don't want any parts of that.
(mischievous music)
- Hmm.
- This is a chocolate cake.
- I like it.
The taste tastes really good.
It's a good enough amount of sweetness,
it's not too sweet, it's not too tangy.
- But it tastes like chocolate,
it does not taste like a pound cake.
- Traditionally it's not pound cake if there's frosting,
'cause that would just be like a regular yellow cake.
So it's a good cake, but I don't know if it's pound cake.
The frosting is good though, I'm not gonna lie.
It's chocolate.
- No ma'am, mm-mm.
- I would give this cake a seven.
- A two.
The first thing my aunties would say
is this isn't a pound cake.
So if that's what they were planning on eating
they'd be upset.
- I love chocolate.
And it was, it's good.
Just not really pound cake, and a tad bit dry.
(drum roll)
(party horn sounding)
I'm excited, I won.
I knew it though.
I put a lot of love into that pound cake.
Four hours of love.
They tasted it.
I liked the other pound cakes as well.
I would probably just see what was in it,
maybe give 'em a few tips
on how to make it a little better, but good job everyone.
I'm gonna have mine.
All right this is bomb, y'all.
I'm sorry.
I know it's mine but it's so good.
(upbeat music)