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00:01Previously on MasterChef Generations,
00:03you have to cook for the LA FC.
00:05Anna, you've got the immunity pin.
00:07You will decide which generations
00:09will be teaming up together.
00:10So millennials are going to team up
00:12with our baby boomer friends.
00:15Players are arriving.
00:16Rebecca, how much time left?
00:18Lord, have mercy.
00:19Rebecca.
00:19I'm moving the steak.
00:20I'll sear, you finish.
00:21Blue team, it's not even remotely near.
00:25Help him out.
00:26The winning team is red team.
00:30I feel like I just scored a goal.
00:32The person going home tonight is Chris.
00:37Tonight on MasterChef Generations,
00:39it's the baking challenge for the ages.
00:41Nice haircut.
00:42Oh, yeah.
00:43You look like a nice Tennessee boy, huh?
00:45Devil baby.
00:46Now, your challenge is to bake the most amazing birthday cake.
00:51That's a big challenge.
00:52I don't know if I'll be able to do it.
00:53Let's go.
00:54How many ounces are in one pound?
00:55This tends to be the Key League's Hill
00:57for most of the home cooks.
00:58Oh my god, this is going to be hell.
00:59My wrist.
01:00This is not for the faint of heart.
01:02This is a mayonnaise cake.
01:03Mayonnaise cake.
01:04This is in trouble.
01:05It's a disaster.
01:05That is not going to stack.
01:07It's inedible.
01:08It's a mess.
01:09What were you thinking?
01:10What were you thinking?
01:21Woo!
01:22Let's go, people!
01:22Woo!
01:23Let's go!
01:24Come on, guys!
01:25Woo!
01:26Woo!
01:27Woo!
01:27Woo!
01:28Woo!
01:30I feel like I'm walking into my own birthday party.
01:32We're celebrating me.
01:34I could literally fit in there.
01:36Birthday and cake are synonymous,
01:38so we're going to need some cake.
01:40And I'm pretty sure we're going to be the ones making it.
01:42Oh my heavens.
01:44Oh my goodness!
01:46Those are Gen X pictures, man.
01:48Yeah, exactly.
01:49Yeah.
01:52Here they come.
01:53Oh!
01:54Oh!
02:03Nice haircut.
02:06Oh, yeah.
02:09Yeah, no, that wasn't a haircut.
02:10That was a glass bowl from my mother's kitchen
02:12that just went on top of my head.
02:13And look at Aaron.
02:15You was, I mean, honestly.
02:17Looked like a nice, innocent boy, huh?
02:19Look at that smile.
02:20Joe, did you forget your homework?
02:21Did you upset your mom?
02:22The devil baby.
02:24You nailed it.
02:25Now, these photos are a huge clue
02:29ahead of tonight's challenge.
02:32Because we're going to celebrate everyone's favorite day,
02:34no matter what generation you come from.
02:36It's your birthdays!
02:38Yes!
02:38Come on!
02:41So tonight, as part of our big birthday celebration,
02:44your challenge is to bake yourselves
02:46the most amazing, beautiful birthday cake.
02:50Yes!
02:51Because here's the good news.
02:53You can make whatever you want.
02:56From an elevated version of a favorite cake
02:59growing up as a child, or maybe the cake that you wished
03:02you had on your birthday.
03:03No matter what direction you take,
03:05we'd like to see a cake with at least two layers that
03:08looks and tastes outstanding.
03:10Yes, chef.
03:11OK, Anna.
03:12Hello.
03:14You were the winning captain of the red team
03:15in the last challenge.
03:17And you won the challenge before that, Anna.
03:19You are on quite the winning streak.
03:22I hope it doesn't end.
03:24I hope it does.
03:26No.
03:28Well, tonight, you do not have the immunity pin.
03:31But thanks to that win last time,
03:33you have earned yourself an amazing advantage, which
03:37we'll get to in a moment.
03:38OK, all of you, please head to your stations.
03:42I'm not a very good baker.
03:43So having an advantage, let's see
03:46if I can somehow use it to protect
03:48myself from elimination.
03:50Now, as you can see, you've got all the essentials
03:53to make an amazing birthday cake.
03:56Flowers, sugar, stand mixers, you name it, you've got it.
04:01Anna, for being the winning team captain,
04:04you get a great advantage tonight.
04:06You get to choose one generation that will not get to use
04:11their stand mixers tonight.
04:14No way.
04:15Are you kidding?
04:17That's a big challenge.
04:19There's no way.
04:20That's right.
04:22One generation will have to do all their mixing by hand.
04:27You'll be doing it old school.
04:29Right, Anna, if you're ready, please make your way up here.
04:37So Anna, which generation will be using a whisk tonight?
04:43The last time around, the boomers helped so much,
04:47and I just cannot do that to them.
04:48Wow.
04:50You're safe.
04:51I decided to pick Gen Z.
04:54Gen Z.
04:57Very good bakers.
04:58They do rely on technology, and there's five of them.
05:04Anna, rejoin your millennials.
05:06Good choice.
05:07Head back to your station.
05:08Thank you, Anna.
05:09Thank you, Anna.
05:11Everybody is coming after Gen Z.
05:13I don't blame them. I would too.
05:14With a team this good, you've got to take them down somehow.
05:16But I'm freaking out.
05:17I can barely bake a cake with a stand mixer,
05:19and baking it without one with just a whisk in my muscles,
05:23I don't know if I'll be able to do it.
05:25OK, now listen up.
05:26You've got 90 minutes to bake a delicious, beautiful birthday
05:30cake.
05:31Now, the immunity pin is up for grabs again tonight,
05:37along with another big advantage in the next challenge.
05:42Wow.
05:44But I promise you, if your cake falls
05:46short of the MasterChef standard,
05:48then you could be eliminated tonight.
05:51Right, is everybody ready?
05:52Yes, chef.
05:53Your 90 minutes starts now.
05:57Let's go, guys.
05:57Come on.
05:58Let's go.
05:59Good luck.
06:00Come on.
06:01Powdered sugar.
06:03I need strawberries.
06:04Let's not drop this.
06:06Oh, I don't need that.
06:07How many ounces are in one pound?
06:0916.
06:13Don't over mix the foam.
06:16Come on, baby.
06:20Oh my god, this is going to be hell.
06:24This birthday cake challenge tonight
06:26is by far the toughest challenge we've had so far.
06:29Baking is chemistry, and it's very, very precise.
06:32And there's no room for error from the first step.
06:35Yeah, and this tends to be the Achilles' heel for most
06:37of the amateur home cooks.
06:38Jeez.
06:41And Anna, with the big advantage,
06:43she took out the Gen Z's.
06:44Gents, what do you think about that?
06:45When you have a stand mixer, you have the luxury
06:47of taking your ingredients and pouring them in slowly.
06:50And you have complete control.
06:52Yep.
06:53When you're whisking by hand, you lose all that control.
06:54Exactly.
06:56The biggest issue is that Gen Z will also lose a lot of time
06:59without the stand mixers.
07:00And the great irony is she gave it to the generation that is
07:04custom to short-cutting everything.
07:06Literally, there's an app for this.
07:07Like, I mean, they don't show you
07:08how to hand whisk in TikTok.
07:11OK.
07:13I am making a lemon cake with whipped cream frosting
07:17and a raspberry jam.
07:19The only sweets I like are lemon sweets.
07:21That's why I'm doing a lemon cake.
07:22And I've always had that since I was little bitty.
07:24But I'm definitely very anxious because I'm doing everything
07:27by hand, the old caveman type of way.
07:31So I'm in my own personal little H-E double hockey
07:34stick at the moment.
07:39Look at Mert.
07:40It looks like Mert's starting a fire.
07:41What's he doing with that whisk?
07:42What's he doing?
07:43Yeah.
07:44I've never seen that technique before.
07:46I've never seen anyone whisk like that.
07:48Mert, blow on it, it may catch fire.
07:51What's this?
07:52One of the boomers told me about this.
07:53So I'm trying their technique.
07:54Yeah, I'm not so sure, Mert.
07:56What the hell is that?
07:57It's working.
07:58It's working.
07:5915 minutes gone.
08:00We're down to 75 minutes to go.
08:05Come on, Jennex.
08:06Whip it.
08:07You got this.
08:08Yeah, baby.
08:10Hi, Kimberly.
08:10Hi!
08:12Anna has ice running through her veins.
08:14How happy are you not to have gotten that cruel fate
08:17of not having a stand mixer?
08:18I'm so excited that she gave us a little pity party
08:21and let us have a break.
08:22All right, so Kimberly, you're a baker, huh?
08:25No, I'm not a baker.
08:25You're not a baker.
08:26I've baked one cake in my life.
08:28So what are you making?
08:29Well, I was thinking back on my childhood
08:31when I was 10 years old.
08:32My mom threw me a big strawberry shortcake party.
08:35And so I'm going to make a vanilla classic cake
08:37with a strawberry frosting and a strawberry jam
08:40for the filling in the middle.
08:42So having my own garden, I do a lot of preserving.
08:44And so I'm kind of trying to give
08:46it a new garden, fresh twist.
08:48So you make a lot of jams and do preserving.
08:49You know that in a cake, a jam is really pivotal
08:52to manage the amount of moisture,
08:54to make sure it's syrupy and dense enough that it
08:56doesn't tear the cake apart.
08:58So you have to cook these strawberries.
08:59Correct.
09:00And you also have to let them cool down.
09:01I got a lot to do.
09:02Good luck.
09:03Thanks, guys.
09:04Appreciate it.
09:06It's hot in here.
09:08And it's not just because of my looks.
09:1065 minutes remaining.
09:13Your cake batter should be in the oven.
09:17Everyone's cakes in?
09:18Almost.
09:19All right.
09:20Hustle, hustle.
09:21All right, let's keep going.
09:23OK, the millennials got their cakes in.
09:25That is fast.
09:27Perfect.
09:28All right.
09:29And now the boomers got theirs in, too.
09:30Ah.
09:41I don't like how this thing is mixing.
09:44Absolutely dying right now, dying.
09:46I think some of the Gen Zs are getting
09:47critically behind at this point.
09:49They look far from putting their cakes in the oven.
09:52You're really seeing the penalty of the hand whisk at this point.
09:56That's right.
09:57Anna, you're ruining my life.
09:59My arms hurt so bad.
10:00Oh, my god.
10:05Guys, you've got to get those cakes in the next couple
10:07of minutes, as soon as you can.
10:08You've got to get it in the oven.
10:10Let's go, move.
10:12Come on, Annie, it's got to go in.
10:14Come on.
10:17Oh, my god.
10:25We're down to 55 minutes remaining.
10:28Your cake batter should be in the oven.
10:32See, look, we're getting there.
10:33We're getting there.
10:35Come on, honeys, have fun.
10:37Oh, there you go.
10:39There you go, Hayley.
10:40Let's go.
10:41Let's get this.
10:43Right, you should be getting that frosting together now.
10:45So frosting, honestly, you've got to start that early,
10:47in order to make sure that that frosting is silk,
10:50it's glossy, it's beautiful, there's no lumps.
10:52Now, when you've got a stand mixer,
10:53it's so easy, because you've got the velocity of the mixer.
10:56But with the frosting by hand, that's
10:58going to be very difficult for the Gen Zs.
11:00My wrist.
11:01My arm.
11:05Boomers, you're quiet.
11:06Everybody good?
11:07We're still booming.
11:09OK, boomy.
11:10Had many birthdays.
11:12I just had my 70th birthday.
11:14I did everything but said no candles.
11:16Can you imagine 70 candles on a cake?
11:18It'd be like the burning of Atlanta.
11:20No, ain't going to be none of that.
11:23All right, I am good.
11:25Becca.
11:26Yes, Chef.
11:27What's the cake? What are you doing?
11:28So I am doing a chocolate cake with a peanut butter
11:31buttercream, and a peanut brittle toffee
11:34with a chocolate ganache.
11:35This is a mix of desserts that I've had,
11:37and a mix of my ideal birthday cake.
11:39And then are you pivoting with no stand mix?
11:41How are you going to get that frosting perfectly smooth?
11:43This is half peanut butter, half butter.
11:44So because the butter is already creamy, it's already smooth,
11:47I didn't have to take as much time to get it creamy.
11:49Love that idea.
11:50Just be careful that temperature doesn't rise.
11:52Otherwise, that fat's going to come out.
11:53Absolutely.
11:54How many layers are you doing?
11:55Three.
11:56Let's go, Becca.
11:58We asked for just two.
12:00Yeah, I've got confidence in my baking skill,
12:02and that I know what I'm doing.
12:04A tough week last week.
12:05Tonight, we're hoping not just redemption,
12:06but bounce back beyond belief.
12:08Absolutely.
12:09Love it. Keep it up, girl.
12:09Keep it up.
12:10Thank you, Chef.
12:11Good.
12:13Hi, Chef.
12:14Hello, Rebecca. How are you?
12:15How are you, Joe?
12:15How are you doing?
12:16What is the cake?
12:17This is a chocolate mayonnaise cake.
12:19And so it's an egg mayonnaise cake.
12:21Back in the 40s, you know, they didn't have eggs,
12:24or maybe they had one or two.
12:25They would extend them and make mayonnaise.
12:27And this is my mom's and great grandma's recipe.
12:30And it's something that I've made many times before.
12:33Only thing I haven't done is made this a three-layer cake.
12:36So I'm taking a little risk.
12:37Look, I think that you've already
12:39conveyed your experience to the rest of the competitors.
12:42Like, you're one to watch.
12:43Do you think you can win this?
12:44I do.
12:45Good luck.
12:46You have a few more minutes.
12:48All right, here we go.
12:50I'm making a tres leches cake.
12:52My forearms are going, veins are popping.
12:55I'm just hoping I get this whipped cream whipped in time
12:58and not mess up.
12:59Oh, boy.
13:02Ah!
13:03Fatima.
13:04Hi.
13:06Tell me about the cake.
13:07So I'm making a white cake.
13:09It's going to have a caramel filling with coconut,
13:12because we had a lot of coconut candies growing up.
13:14And the frosting is going to be Italian meringue.
13:17Italian meringue?
13:18Yes, it is.
13:19Whipped by hand?
13:20Yeah.
13:21And this is the first time I'm going to be trying this.
13:23Man, you're not taking this easy, are you?
13:24I'm trying to prove a point here.
13:25We're strong.
13:26We're Gen Z. And we get things done.
13:28Admirable.
13:29But I'm nervous about the Italian meringue,
13:31because it's one of the most difficult frostings
13:33on the planet.
13:34Because you have to mix that sugar and those egg whites
13:36to get it airy.
13:37But you don't have a stand mixer.
13:38A stand mixer to help, so good luck.
13:42I got this.
13:43I got this. Come on.
13:44Arthur.
13:45Hey, guys.
13:46What do you have going on here, sir?
13:47So I'm making a fresh strawberry whipped cream
13:50birthday cake.
13:51It's a cake that I've had not just once, but pretty
13:53much every birthday.
13:55I loved the freshness of it, and the berries, and the rice.
13:57OK, a fresh, simple cake would be delicious.
13:59But what's going to distinguish yours?
14:00Adding a lemon and lemon zest to it, and using fresh berries.
14:03Oh, cool.
14:04Are you going to master it this with something, maybe?
14:06Yes, with sugar.
14:07Just lemon and sugar?
14:08Yes.
14:09I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
14:10There are some insanely ambitious,
14:12complicated cakes out there.
14:13Yes.
14:14You're playing a high-risk game, because the more simple it is,
14:16the more perfect it has to be.
14:17Correct.
14:18Good luck to you.
14:1940 minutes to go.
14:21Guys, you've got to get those cakes out of the oven
14:22now, so they can cool completely before you frost.
14:25Let's go.
14:26I've got cake today.
14:27Hallelujah.
14:30Beautiful.
14:31Boom.
14:35Oh, I love you.
14:36OK.
14:38Come on.
14:40Frosting's not coming together.
14:45Kamei.
14:45How you doing, Chef?
14:46How you doing?
14:47This is in trouble.
14:48I think I'm going to redo the frosting.
14:49Well, I can just see the lumps in that.
14:51Yes.
14:51And you have a stand mix.
14:52And you have no excuse.
14:53So what happened?
14:55I don't know why it broke.
14:56I'm going to redo it right now.
14:57Yeah, make sure that cream is nice and ice cold.
14:59Tell me about the cake. What are you doing?
15:00So I'm doing a confetti cake.
15:01When I was a kid, this is the cake I love the most.
15:04And this type of cake was actually
15:06invented on my birthday year, 1989.
15:08So it was very popular in the 90s.
15:10But I've elevated this cake a bit
15:11because I add lemon and lemon zest
15:13and lemon extract throughout.
15:14Yeah, I love that.
15:15Restart that frosting, please.
15:16Yes, Chef.
15:17Good luck.
15:19All right.
15:20Come on.
15:22Come on.
15:23There she is, Anna.
15:24You had a big advantage earlier to literally throw
15:28an entire generation into a chaotic mess.
15:31Yes.
15:32Who are you targeting there?
15:33Becca and Adam are great bakers.
15:35So it was my only choice.
15:36Tell me about your cake.
15:37What are you doing?
15:39So growing up in Ukraine, you know what we had?
15:40Condensed milk.
15:41We would take those really thin, flavorless wafers
15:44and layer it with boiled condensed milk.
15:47And that was my birthday cake.
15:49I'm using dulce de leche, which is pretty
15:51much boiled condensed milk.
15:52And I'm making caramel frosting for brown butter coffee cake.
15:57Are the sponges out of the oven yet?
15:59Very temperamental.
16:00Where are they?
16:01In the oven.
16:02Are they still in the oven?
16:03Yes.
16:04Oh, my god.
16:05I know.
16:06How long have they got to go?
16:07I think maybe two minutes.
16:08And those sponges need to get cooled down, right?
16:10Yes, I know.
16:11Yeah, I think you're running out of time a little bit, don't you?
16:13I am.
16:13I hate baking.
16:14Man.
16:15Good luck.
16:17Dear, oh, dear.
16:18That's a little warm still.
16:19This one's good.
16:2130 minutes remaining.
16:22We should start to assemble our cakes.
16:25Come on, guys.
16:26Let's go.
16:27Come on.
16:28Come on, Kamei.
16:31Kamei from the millennials.
16:32She is a little bit behind.
16:34The first frosting she broke, the cream was overwhipped.
16:37And so the whole thing almost looked like scrambled eggs.
16:39Uh-oh.
16:40And so she has to start that again.
16:42Guys, Anna is running so far behind right now.
16:44Her cake just came out of the oven.
16:46Hopefully, it'll cool down in time.
16:48Man.
16:48Oh.
16:51This just takes a lot of energy.
16:53Oh, my god.
16:55Here's my biggest worry tonight, Fatima from Gen Z.
16:59She's doing a white cake.
17:01And she's covering this thing with an Italian meringue.
17:04An Italian meringue without a stand mixer?
17:06That is a very complicated technique
17:08that only experienced bakers can do.
17:09Yeah, absolutely.
17:10And if you're not fast enough on the whisk,
17:12then the sugar hits the bottom and solidifies.
17:14So she could be in trouble with that.
17:16Ay, ay, ay.
17:18This is hard.
17:19This is hard.
17:20I think Fatima's a bit of a tailspin.
17:22She's in a bad space.
17:23I think she'd bit off more than she can chew
17:24with this Italian meringue.
17:25Yeah.
17:27It looks like Anna may have delivered a deadly blow
17:28to Gen Z tonight.
17:31Right.
17:40We are down to our final 20 minutes.
17:43We should now all be assembling and decorating our cakes.
17:48Speed up.
17:49Come on.
17:49Come on, come on.
17:51Stress.
17:53Looking good.
17:56Oh, that's so much better.
17:57Oh, my god.
17:58Finally.
17:59You got it, buddy.
18:00Came together.
18:02Fatima, how are you?
18:03Doing OK.
18:04She needs a lot of energy.
18:06That's a hard one to do.
18:07You're doing great.
18:09Fatima's still on that Italian meringue.
18:11You good?
18:12I can do this.
18:13Almost there.
18:13Come on, you got it, Fatima.
18:16Come on, boomers, let's go.
18:17Boomers in the house.
18:19Hi, Christopher.
18:20What cake are you making?
18:21This is the forbidden cake, which
18:22is a black forest cake with whipped cream
18:25and maraschino cherries on it.
18:27This is when you went to a birthday party
18:29when you were a kid, and you saw that white cake
18:32with the strawberries on it.
18:33And that's what they let you have.
18:34And then all the adults were having that beautiful cake.
18:37Unctuous, chocolatey, rich.
18:38Can I have some of that?
18:40And then, no, no, there's alcohol in it.
18:41There's like rum, or there's something like that.
18:43I'm making that for her.
18:44So you're going to load this up with booze, chocolate.
18:47Exactly.
18:47I love that.
18:48So the alcohol, you have Kirsch?
18:50Yes, I do.
18:50Cherry brandy?
18:51Yes.
18:52And are you doing a ganache or icing?
18:54I'm just doing whipped cream.
18:55Just whipped cream?
18:56It's going to look old school, baby boomer-ish.
18:58Look, old school is fine.
19:00It needs to be delicious, though.
19:01Absolutely.
19:02Good luck, Christopher.
19:04All right, let's make this happen.
19:08Let's make it go.
19:10Giggs.
19:11Yeah?
19:12So what is this, like a compromise?
19:13They didn't take away your stand mixer,
19:14but you're using the handheld mixer.
19:16That's a little bit old school.
19:17Yeah.
19:18It's kind of, I'm more in control.
19:19All right, what's the cake, Giggs?
19:21It's a vanilla cake with a blueberry frosting.
19:23I'm making that because growing up, it was all in a box.
19:26So, you know, as I get older, if I decide to make a cake,
19:28I throw a lot of fruit in it.
19:30What is that?
19:31This is blueberry cream cheese frosting.
19:34I'm making it as healthy as I can.
19:35Yeah, but this is MasterChef, and someone's
19:37going home tonight.
19:38Make sure it tastes good.
19:39I get it.
19:40I get it, you know?
19:40Good luck to you.
19:43Good, proud of you, Mr. Cake.
19:46Go, Gen Z.
19:48Mert, it looks beautiful.
19:50Isn't it funny, the ones that dealt the big blow tonight
19:53seem to be handling it very well.
19:55The Gen Zs look like they've caught up.
19:56Yeah.
19:57Hayley's demeanor has definitely changed.
19:59Yeah.
20:00You can see that she turned the corner there, but.
20:02I'm worried about Fatima.
20:03Yeah.
20:04That cake is wobbling in the middle.
20:05And she's messing with it a lot.
20:07Fatima thinks she's going to be able to save
20:09that cake with a blowtorch, but it's not going to happen.
20:11No, and actually, it might be causing more damage.
20:13No.
20:14It's going to soften up the meringue that's
20:15holding it together.
20:18Oh, my goodness.
20:19Look at Arthur.
20:20He cut the fruit too big.
20:21That is not going to stack.
20:23He's going to struggle to keep those layers
20:24upright.
20:25And the inside's a mess.
20:27Last five minutes.
20:29Five minutes to go, guys.
20:30Come on, keep it going.
20:32Make it pretty, everyone.
20:34Oh, it's sliding.
20:36All right, guys, look, Anna's having some real problems
20:38with the construction of her cake.
20:39It's tilting.
20:40She's like really forcing it to kind of keep it straight.
20:42The aesthetic is going to definitely
20:44be not to her standard.
20:46Work with me.
20:49Last two minutes.
20:50This is it.
20:51Let's go.
20:52Come on, guys.
20:52Two minutes, guys.
20:54Oh, no, you didn't put your name on it.
20:55I did it, yeah.
20:5860 seconds to go.
21:00Last minute.
21:00Come on.
21:01It's been a freaking mess.
21:02I don't know what else to do.
21:04So Rebecca, look at the size of that cake.
21:06The lean is almost like the leaning tower of Pisa.
21:09She's making a lot of technical errors.
21:13Oh, man, look at Anna's.
21:14It's a disaster, and it keeps on falling down.
21:17You got it, Anna.
21:18You got it.
21:18Anna, nice and easy.
21:20Let's go, guys. Push.
21:21Let's go.
21:22This is not for the faint of heart.
21:2410, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and stop.
21:34Hands in the air.
21:35Oh, my god.
21:38Oh, that was crazy.
21:40That was crazy.
21:41My arms hurt.
21:41Good job.
21:43Anna, you didn't quit.
21:44The piping's beautiful.
21:45Come on, girl.
21:46You're not going anywhere. Don't worry.
21:47Don't worry.
21:48You're not going anywhere.
21:51Right now, my cake is falling.
21:52There is nothing I can do.
21:53I cannot fix it.
21:54I cannot touch it.
21:55I cannot freeze it.
21:57I can't believe it's happening.
22:00I can't believe I might be going home.
22:04I'm just disappointed.
22:17All of you, well done completing that cake challenge.
22:20But only one home cook will win that elusive immunity pin,
22:25and they'll take their entire generation
22:29to the safety of the balcony with them tonight.
22:32But who's ever baked the worst cake
22:35from the remaining generations is in danger.
22:38Gents, shall we?
22:39Yes.
22:44Hello, Becca.
22:45So you have three layers.
22:47Yes.
22:48Very bold to go three levels.
22:49But the question was, was it kneaded?
22:53I mean, that's, you're confident with the filling?
22:55Yeah, I soaked it, but it needs to hold its structure,
22:57so I didn't want to over soak it.
23:01I feel really nervous.
23:02I think the judges are even more critical
23:05because all eyes are on Gen Z.
23:07Were you happy with the Italian meringue at the end?
23:10Given that I didn't have a standing mixer,
23:12I think I did a pretty good job.
23:14If you taste that, Italian meringue is smooth and fluffy.
23:18You can see how green it is.
23:20Yeah.
23:24Jeet, you happy with the glazing?
23:25Its evenness?
23:27With my skill and caliber of it,
23:28I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
23:32Kame, you happy?
23:34I am happy that the frosting finally came out.
23:40OK.
23:41Anna, did you put this together when the sponges were warm?
23:43I think the frosting was too soft.
23:45It's a shame.
23:46It's a shame.
23:47Damn.
23:51Kimberly, what is this right here?
23:52I made the filling, kind of like a quick jam.
23:58So I'm a little worried that everyone in my generation
24:00made a strawberry cake.
24:01What are you doing with the strawberries?
24:02I covered them in raw sugar.
24:05But I'm hoping that mine stands out.
24:06It's a bit rustic.
24:07It's a bit simple.
24:09And even though I'm not a professional baker,
24:10I'm proud of how I made this cake look.
24:12On the inside, you have a layer of cake,
24:15then a layer of fruit.
24:16An ungodly amount of strawberries.
24:18Is that a good idea, you think?
24:19Yeah.
24:26Giggs, your name is Giggs, though, right?
24:28Could have put a little less here, no?
24:30It ran out of room.
24:31Are you happy with the consistency of this?
24:33I am, yeah.
24:34What's inside?
24:35Because this tastes a little pasty.
24:37I added a little bit of flour, yeah,
24:38and then more powdered sugar.
24:40Tighten it up.
24:41Raw flour and an icing.
24:42Yes, just a little bit.
24:47Rebecca, tough night, right?
24:51Yeah, got a little wonky.
24:55Christopher, are you happy with the way it came out?
24:58I feel like it could be better.
25:00Yeah.
25:04Look, it was tough, man.
25:05This is hard.
25:06A lot of good cakes out there.
25:07Yeah, some pretty good cakes.
25:08Both of those cakes look like they
25:10could have been in any bakery.
25:11All right, so the question is, who made
25:12the worst cakes of the night?
25:14Oh, man.
25:15Yeah?
25:16Yeah.
25:18Tonight, we'll be tasting the best
25:20cake from each generation.
25:22The first cake from Gen Z is positively eye-catching,
25:27especially without a stand mixer.
25:30Please step forward.
25:32Becca.
25:36Anna's goal was to target us, to take me down,
25:39to take Gen Z down.
25:40It didn't work.
25:42And today, we proved that technology just helps us
25:45live our lives.
25:46But if you take it away, we can whisk with the best of them.
25:51Right, Becca, tell us what you made, please.
25:53I made a three-layer moist chocolate cake
25:56covered in peanut butter buttercream
25:58with chocolate ganache and peanut brittle toffee.
26:01Right, Becca, this thing looks beautiful.
26:04Like it's just come out of a top French patisserie.
26:05Why three layers on a night like tonight,
26:07when we only asked you for two?
26:09Because I could.
26:10I knew I had the ability to do it.
26:11Yeah, in order for that to work,
26:13it has to be the right ratio of filling
26:14inside. Are you confident?
26:16Yes.
26:17Mm-hmm. Shall we?
26:18Let's do it.
26:22Wow.
26:24Happy with that, Becca?
26:25Yes.
26:31Fantastic.
26:33Sponge cake is light, contrast to the rich creaminess.
26:35It's got that peanut butter chocolate crunch.
26:38And I love that you pushed the salt right to the limit.
26:40Good job.
26:42Yeah, it has that nougat-y situation happening,
26:44which I really enjoy.
26:45Smart choices.
26:47Cake tastes delicious.
26:48The sponge is cooked beautifully.
26:49And it's got the right ratio.
26:51I think that's the really pleasing aspects.
26:52Well done. Good job.
26:54Great job.
26:56Good job, Becca.
26:57Atta boy.
27:01So the cake that we love the most in the millennials
27:04has some very complex flavors that came together in the end.
27:07Please come forward, Kamei.
27:09Woo-hoo!
27:12Woo, Kamei!
27:13That's Kamei!
27:15Given the obstacle that I just went through with my frosting,
27:18I am shocked.
27:19So what you have in front of you is a lemon confetti
27:22cake with vanilla and lemon in the sponge,
27:25vanilla buttercream frosting, and rainbow sprinkles.
27:29I don't think there's a better example of a millennial cake
27:32than this.
27:33It's well-constructed.
27:34Good job.
27:35Thank you, Joe.
27:36Shall we?
27:36Is that what you wanted in the center?
27:42Close, chef.
27:49Love it.
27:50It's very vanilla.
27:51I can taste the lemon.
27:53The icing is not too rich.
27:55And it's actually quite delicious.
27:57Thank you, Joe.
27:58I'd love just attention to detail how it relates to flavor.
28:01The icing is just so smartly put.
28:03You see that?
28:04It's just a little there.
28:05You could have easily gone overboard
28:06with the icing on top.
28:07Delicious.
28:08Thank you, chef.
28:09Kamei, the lightness of this cake is delicious.
28:11The aeration in the sponge is incredible.
28:13If I was you, I would have gone that extra yard and put
28:15a lemon curd in the center.
28:17But you're a joy to watch, because you never give up.
28:19Congratulations.
28:21Thank you so much.
28:22Yay, Kamei!
28:24OK, the best cake from Gen X.
28:28Obviously, it has some strawberries on it.
28:31Please come forward, Kimberly.
28:34Oh!
28:35Good job, Kimberly.
28:39I made a vanilla cake with a strawberry jam filling
28:43and a strawberry buttercream frosting.
28:46Looks delicious.
28:47It's symmetrical.
28:48You put things together with care, and it's eye-catching.
28:51Shall we?
28:58Very nice, very pink.
29:01Wow.
29:01OK, Ken.
29:08Kimberly, the magic here for me, personally,
29:10is that there's a tartness that's very present here.
29:13And I think this kind of cake needs it.
29:15Good job.
29:16Sponge is delicious.
29:18Kimberly, it's elegant.
29:20I love the frosting.
29:21But this center needs more of that beautiful jam.
29:24All right, heard.
29:25I like the restraint of this cake.
29:28It feels like you could eat it for breakfast.
29:30Good job.
29:33Good job, Kimberly.
29:38Good job, girl.
29:39It reminds me of a Victoria sponge back home.
29:41It's done beautifully.
29:43Right, Baby Rivers, our favorite cake from your generation.
29:47This cake was very well constructed
29:49and artfully decorated as well.
29:53Please, make your way forward.
30:04Right, Baby Rivers, our favorite cake from your generation.
30:08Please, make your way forward.
30:12Christopher.
30:13Yeah!
30:14Woo!
30:15Woo!
30:16This is my first time in the top, and it's with a cake.
30:20I'm not the cake guy, but I'm thinking,
30:22cake actually looks pretty good.
30:24I made a black forest cake.
30:25It's got three layers, whipped cream,
30:27and maraschino cherries on it.
30:29I think this cake, of all the cakes this evening,
30:31I think this cake, of all the cakes this evening,
30:33has the most professional aesthetic.
30:35Good job.
30:37Shall we?
30:38Talk to me about the construction of the layers.
30:40I soaked the sponge in sour cherry syrup and cherry liqueur.
30:45Smart.
30:48Not bad.
30:56Talk about a showstopper.
30:58This sponge cake is airy and fluffy,
31:00and I can really taste the Kirsch.
31:01Good job.
31:03One of the best sponges I tasted tonight,
31:05as far as moistness, consistency,
31:06and the lightness of the cream, top notch.
31:09Christopher, the cake's delicious.
31:11I think it's your best performance
31:12in this competition so far.
31:13So yeah, this cake deserves a smile.
31:15Woo!
31:16Woo!
31:16We love it!
31:17We love it!
31:19Nice job, buddy.
31:21Get that beam, Chris!
31:23Right, you have given us something to chat about.
31:27Tough one, this one.
31:29So, Becca's.
31:31I thought it was really good.
31:32Kamei's.
31:33Man, what a fun cake.
31:34Kimberley's.
31:35That was fun.
31:36I needed more jam, though.
31:37How about Christopher's?
31:38Actually, it's his best performance.
31:39Get that beam, Chris.
31:41Save us.
31:42Are we happy?
31:43Yes.
31:44Yeah?
31:46Tonight's best cake, congratulations,
31:49goes to Becca.
31:54Woo!
31:55Woo!
31:56Yes!
31:58You win the immunity pin.
32:00And to think that you did it all without a stand mixer.
32:05The rest of you, head back to your generations.
32:07Well done.
32:08Good job.
32:08Becca, come on up here.
32:09Congratulations, girl.
32:10Yeah!
32:11Yeah!
32:12Well done.
32:13You and all of Gen Z are safe from elimination.
32:17Get yourself and your team up to the safety of the balcony.
32:21Off you go.
32:21Hi, Sam.
32:24The fact that last challenge, I was at rock bottom,
32:27and I felt like a failure.
32:29To come into this challenge and to make something
32:31that the judges loved and to win this immunity pin,
32:33it feels amazing.
32:35I love it.
32:36It's my new best friend.
32:37Hey, Gen Z's, well done.
32:39For Timo, honestly, that Italian meringue is grainy.
32:43You would have been in the bottom for sure.
32:45Now, unfortunately, there was one cake from the remaining
32:49three generations that did not meet the standard we were
32:53looking for tonight.
32:54Now, the first cake comes from the millennials.
32:57And this individual knows who they are.
33:03Sorry, Dana.
33:05I feel like I'm melting.
33:06I feel like things are surreal.
33:09I can't breathe.
33:12I made a brown butter coffee-flavored cake
33:15with salted caramel frosting, chocolate whipped cream,
33:18and chocolate ganache.
33:20I think you really wanted to do something really
33:22elaborate, but ambition got the better of you here.
33:25The cake is lopsided and literally falling apart.
33:29Shall we?
33:30So what is in between the layers, please?
33:33It's salted caramel frosting, and the layers
33:35are drizzled with vanilla syrup.
33:38It's incredibly dense.
33:43So much frosting.
33:45Oh, that's a lot of frosting.
33:52Ana, the sponge cake is wrong.
33:54It's coarse.
33:55The filling is off balance, too dense.
33:57The frosting is inedibly sweet.
34:00Like, every component is flawed.
34:02Yeah, I mean, you have a third of an inch of frosting twice.
34:06It is just a hit of sweetness that is taking
34:08over my palate, sadly, Ana.
34:10I'm sorry.
34:12Yeah, instantly within that first mouthful,
34:14it is incredibly sweet.
34:17I love the salted caramel, but it's almost sickly sweet in a
34:20way that I cannot take a second bite.
34:23Thank you, Ana.
34:25Dang.
34:28OK, the cake from Gen X looks like it has
34:31some structural issues as well.
34:33Please come forward.
34:35Arthur.
34:36I'm not ready to go home.
34:37Go get him, Arthur.
34:39I certainly don't want to go home for a cake
34:40that I'm proud of.
34:42I made a fresh strawberry and whipped cream birthday cake
34:45with a lemon sponge.
34:46And then in the middle, it's packed with a ton
34:48of fresh strawberries and toasted almonds on the side.
34:51To the naked eye, it doesn't look that bad,
34:52but I know that the amount of strawberries inside
34:56is going to be a bit of a tough one,
34:57because they're quite sort of big and bulky.
35:00Let's have a look.
35:02This is a mess.
35:10This is effectively like strawberries and cream
35:13with two pieces of pound cake over it.
35:15It's just too simple for me.
35:17Yeah, I think this cake is clunky.
35:19And what's in front of me is a cake that has a slightly
35:21dried pound cake to it.
35:22And the strawberries, you're asking to marinate them
35:24when you have them that big.
35:25And in an abbreviated time limit,
35:27you're not going to get that maceration
35:28that you want for the strawberries.
35:29But I think the lemon is the saving grace here.
35:32It is overloaded with cream.
35:34A beautiful strawberry jam would
35:35have been a nice alternative.
35:36Yeah.
35:37But it's a tough one, this one, Arthur.
35:38It's not good.
35:41Damn.
35:42Wow.
35:46All right, so the cake from the Baby Boomers
35:47that disappointed us, please come forward.
35:51Giggs.
35:55My cake, maybe it could have been a little better
35:58in certain areas, but Anna's didn't look too good.
36:00At least mine is not leaning.
36:02And so maybe I might squeeze on by.
36:06I made a vanilla cake with blueberries
36:08and cream cheese frosting.
36:10Yeah, listen, I know it's a cake competition,
36:13but all jokes apart, a man of your age
36:15should not be putting your name on your cake.
36:17And then it's not even spelled correctly.
36:19So it's a cake to get inspired by childhood memories,
36:23not a cake made by a five-year-old.
36:25I got more nervous when I heard the flour
36:27going inside that frosting.
36:29I've never heard that in my life.
36:31Why would you put flour?
36:33Just to thicken it up a little bit.
36:34I can't taste it.
36:35I tasted the-
36:36Oh, you're a judge now?
36:39Giggs, help me out.
36:40Help me out?
36:41Yeah, no, but I'm just, I'm concerned.
36:43That's crazy.
36:43What were you thinking?
36:47What were you thinking?
36:57Giggs, you don't put raw flour in a frosting, period.
37:01Raw flour is raw.
37:02Like, people are not meant to eat raw flour.
37:05It needs to be cooked.
37:07Hopefully it'll taste good.
37:09Giggs, tell me the layers.
37:11It's a layer of blueberries with some whipped cream
37:15in the middle.
37:17Oh, my god.
37:25Listen, the sponge is light.
37:26Let's get that absolutely clear.
37:28But unfortunately, that's where it ends.
37:30I'm really struggling with that flour in the frosting.
37:33It's inedible.
37:36It's useful, but it's tough to find a beacon of light here.
37:40Giggs, this tastes like blueberry pancakes to me.
37:43Doesn't taste like cake.
37:50Anna, Arthur, Giggs, we need a very serious moment.
37:53Please excuse us.
37:58OK, boy, I'm in shock.
38:00Major failures out there.
38:03Just pray.
38:05The only one of the three cakes you could eat is office.
38:07Yeah, yeah, I agree.
38:08Anna's was inedible.
38:10Inedible.
38:12Apart from the construction of the cake,
38:15I'm talking about how imbalanced it was
38:17with the amount of frosting.
38:18Yeah.
38:19The problem with Giggs is that it was just
38:21the raw flour in the frosting was a massive mistake,
38:25maybe the most egregious mistake of the evening.
38:27But I mean, based on the mistake of both of those cakes,
38:30how do you choose?
38:31Here's the deal, we can't set the precedent
38:33of having two cakes that bad.
38:34We can't accept that.
38:41This is really hard.
38:42Man.
38:46Tough, tough, tough, tough.
38:48Anna, Arthur, Giggs, we've talked at length.
38:51And we've come to a very difficult conclusion.
38:55Leaving tonight is Giggs and Anna.
39:13Oh!
39:14Oh!
39:15Oh!
39:16Oh!
39:19It's simply not fair just to send one of you home tonight.
39:23Both of your cakes had egregious mistakes.
39:26Arthur, please say goodbye and head back to your station.
39:33Thanks, brother.
39:34Thanks, baby.
39:35Thanks.
39:36Man.
39:39Anna, you came into this competition like a storm.
39:41An incredibly exciting.
39:44Young, dynamic Ukrainian chef that has food in her blood.
39:48And watching you rise over those last couple of challenges
39:52has been so exciting to see.
39:55But tonight, you had that advantage
39:57by trying to take out Gen Z. And unfortunately, it backfired.
40:00You ended up taking out yourself.
40:03Giggs, a muscle-bound baby boomer,
40:05and you'll go down in history in this competition
40:07as someone that's fun, loving, and constantly energized.
40:11Tonight, unfortunately, that flower in your frosting
40:14was something that we've never witnessed before.
40:16We're going to miss you both.
40:18Come and say goodbye, Giggs.
40:19Come on, man.
40:20Anna, come and say goodbye.
40:21What do you want?
40:24Thank you so much, guys.
40:26I really appreciate it.
40:27It's not the end, OK?
40:30The Giggs that came into the MasterChef kitchen
40:33was kind of naive, I guess.
40:35So I felt like I grew from this.
40:37It's like life.
40:39You've got to experience it, whether it's good or bad.
40:42And then you just take from what you learn and move on.
40:51I'm proud of myself of what I was able to do
40:53in the MasterChef kitchen.
40:54But I wanted to take it to the next level.
40:58I do think that I have a calling with food.
41:00And this cake does not define me as a cook.
41:04Two phenomenal chefs.
41:07Bye, Anna.
41:07Bye, guys.
41:08Giggs.
41:11Next time on MasterChef Generations,
41:14we're taking a trip down memory lane.
41:16Under that box are iconic ingredients
41:19from your childhood.
41:20Cheese whiz!
41:21It's meat.
41:22I don't know what any of that is.
41:23Becca!
41:24Hi, Chef.
41:25You'll choose which generation has to cook with each box
41:28of ingredients.
41:29Oh, my god.
41:30He could be in trouble tonight.
41:32Just a little bit.
41:33I'm not scared.
41:33We'll see.
41:35Becca threw you under the bus.
41:36Yeah.
41:37I love it!
41:38What kind of a sick world do you live in?
41:39Unfortunately, we can't eat that.
41:41Oh, my gosh.
41:42Oh, dear.
41:43You've absolutely fucked it.