Can These Chefs Create A Kid's Dream Dessert?

- Hello, my name is Calah Leah. And today I'll have two

chefs

compete to make the

dessert

of my

dream

s. (laughs) - Hello, I'm Alexis. - I'm Calah. - Nice to meet you. - I'm Matthew, nice to meet you. I love your glasses. - Thank you. - If you could think of any dish in the world, what would it be? - A cookie cake. -So, when Calah said that he wanted to make a cupcake, I was very happy. But then she moved on. - And put the chocolate flavored cake. No, not the cupcake, but the cookie. - The cookie. - So chocolate with white chocolate chips. - Well, do you like a chocolate mix? - Yes.

Then you put the frosting, then you put the cupcake... - On top of the frosting. - Yes, good. - I got it, I got it. - And then what's on top of this cupcake? -The frosting, then the cookie. The frosting again. -The whole layering aspect of this cookie and cupcake contraption, that's when I got worried. - Pink frosting, like strawberry frosting. - Strawberry, even better. - That sounds good. - Then you put the other, the other layer. - The other layer? - Yes, because they cut it in half. - Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.

I wonder about the size. It's going to fall? Maybe I should do something bigger. Or maybe you can mini. Do you like some decoration, do you want it to be simple or do you want it to be a little wild? - Well, not like wild wild. - Well. - Pretty wild. - I think chocolate cupcake, white chocolate, chocolate cookies and strawberries are a great combination. As long as the structural integrity remains intact, we'll be fine. - Do you think we can do it? - Yes. - Okay, great. - I think you can do it, a lot. - I think we should go do it. - We have cookie on the bottom, frosting, half a cupcake, more frosting, cookie, frosting, half a cupcake and more frosting.

I feel safe? I think I'll get there. - First I'm going to make a very nice round chocolate cake. Then, have some great strawberry buttercream frosting. Then a giant chocolate cookie with white chocolate chips, more frosting, and another layer of chocolate cake. I'll frost it with lots of great garnishes, like fresh strawberries. - Matthew is a fantastic cook. He does a great job. He will be a good competitor. I'm going to make a very moist chocolate cake and put some strawberry frosting on it. A cookie that fits perfectly on top. Frosting, strawberries, sponge cake and then repeat. -Alexis will do the best she can.

I know I will do the best she can. But I hope to reach the top. I'm starting with my chocolate white chocolate chip cookies. And then I'm going to move on to the cupcake that I'm going to turn into a regular chocolate cake. - I'm also starting with my cookies. And then make like a mini six inch cake. I just sifted my two flours. I'm using regular flour and bread flour. So I'm going to brown the butter. So you'll get this very dark, nutty color. It will boil a little as some of the fat is released.

So I added some water to make it a cup again. Now I'm going to add the sugars. Then adding brown sugar. White sugar. And then we'll add the browned butter. OMG, that looks amazing. - Right now, I'm starting with butter, brown sugar, and regular white sugar to form a cream for my cookies. And now I'm adding the eggs, the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking soda. So I'm pushing the cookie dough into a cake pan the same size that my cake will be baked in. That way they will all be the same size. In order to make some cool decorations on top, I think I could make some interesting shaped cookies.

What I want to try to do is make a little cookie sign that I can stick on the cake that says "Calah." - That is so cute. -If I can somehow spell her name in white chocolate. - Do you want to try this? - It's good. Do you want to try some of this? - Is very good. Both are really good. You have more of a chocolate cookie. - I do, yes. - Then that will be different too. - It's good, awesome. Like regular cookie dough. - I'm just doing chip on chip. One scoop of ice cream is equivalent to one cookie.

But since I want this to be bigger, maybe three of them. - Go big or go home. Now I'm going to the oven. Here I go. - I want to say that so far I feel pretty good. -She didn't do exactly what I think Calah wanted with the cookie. I think maybe Calah was looking for that white chocolate chip cookie. So that's what I aspire to. While you were away, they tried to make me say some bad things about you. - Did you say something? - No. I was considering thinking I could say, "Go ahead, (beep)." But that's not my nature.

I'm doing the same with the cream for the cake. Just like I did with the cookie. Just to help it a little bit and make it a little more liquid, I'm going to add a little bit of oil too. - I'm going to boil water. And then add cocoa powder as the first step towards the cake. Hot water and cocoa powder will produce a richer flavor than if you just added plain cocoa powder. Or if you added cocoa powder to cold water. I'm going to sift the flour, baking soda, sugar and salt. So now we add the cocoa. - Now that my cake batter is ready, I'm going to put it in these cake pans. - And so it's really interesting to see how different our hitters are.

Yours is much thicker and actually looks more like a cake. While mine is quite liquid. I'm going to start with my frosting. And I'm going to use a food mill to mash the strawberries. I realize this seems a little gross. But it's just an easier way to make it all a bit pulpy. - And now I'm going to move on to making the strawberry buttercream. I'm not necessarily churning the butter anymore. It's more like airing it out. And then adding the freeze-dried strawberries that I have crushed. And that will give me a very bright pink strawberry frosting.

Oh yeah. Almost like strawberry ice cream. - Okay, that's very good. - Thank you. - I'm going to start with my buttercream. I'm going to add powdered sugar. Vanilla. Again, get out. Strawberry and raspberry jam. Wow, that's sweet. - I think we are at the easy part that we have all done before, which is making frostings, cakes and cookies. The layers and decoration is what doesn't give me so much confidence. - I feel very confident about the taste. I feel like decorating, what does a nine year old like? I don't know. Maybe I'm terrible with kids and I just didn't know it. - I'm very excited for Calah to try my cake.

I think it looks really nice and I have all these little details that I think she'll really take seriously. I tried the cookie and the cake and I like the taste. I just hope it's enough to win her vote. - I will say that I think my chocolate cake might seal the deal. It's so moist and so fluffy. And I think when I take a bite, it'll be hard to say no. - Well you two, what do you have for me? - We have our cakes. - They are a little different from what you drew, but I hope they are good. - I hope so. - This is very high. - It's like a big tall tower. - Oh my God!

I feel very happy with the cake. It looks like what she drew. And I think she's going to like it. Then we have the chocolate layers. There is a strawberry glaze. There are chocolate chip cookies with white and semisweet chocolate. - This is good. It tastes like chocolate, with chocolate. And it's so humid. - I think he really likes my chocolate cake. - Here we have all these really fun emojis for you. If you had to describe the cake you just tried, which one would you choose? - That. - Oh! - Thank you. That's a great compliment. - That's very cool.

Calah is about to taste my cake. And I'm very excited. I know you will love it. I think the cookie with her name on it will really push him over the edge. Here is a simple chocolate cake. And then inside, there's a strawberry buttercream frosting. -Oh God, she tastes just like a brownie. Very difficult. - This is the cookies part, and then you have to try the cake alone too. - That's good. - So Calah, you have chosen my emoji. But now you have to choose Matt's. - That. - Oh! - Oh! I'll take it. I'll take it, I love heart eyes. - Do you need to try something else before making the final decision? - I can give you a big bite of that. - Yes. - Oh my God, that's so precious. - Don't worry, Matthew.

Putting it thick. - This is good. This is the best cookie I have ever tried. - Oh! - I think the winner is number one. - Thank you Calah. You did great too. Finally. You know, I really needed this win. - I missed. I was hoping she wouldn't really notice any nuances she might have put into the cake, so I kept it very simple and focused on the decoration. But maybe I should have taken those extra moments to really give all the extra pizzazz and flavor to the cake and cookie itself. - Because you are the winner, you will get a big, very big frame of my drawing that I made. - Thank you so much.

This is incredible. This is so, so sweet. In a way it seems that way, right? - Yes. - Yes, more or less. - I feel pretty good. What am I going to do with this? Hang it over my bed, put it in my living room, and send this to my mom? I don't know. I'm pretty proud though. You want to try? Do you want to try it? (upbeat music)