If you're a fan of "Nailed It!", a baking show where amateur bakers attempt to recreate a professional dessert, you know that there's been a Jacques Torres-sized hole in your heart this summer without new episodes of the show on Netflix. Thankfully, host Nicole Byer stopped by "The Late Late Show with James Corden" to give us a truly hilarious challenge to tide us over.
Corden tasked some of his VERY brave staffers to recreate a professional's cake of his likeness in an HOUR, which even Byer was floored by. Seriously, I can barely make and frost a cake from a boxed mix in an hour, Corden.
Ultimately, I have no ground to stand on in regards to judging these cakes because I would have probably just cried in protest, but I'm still gonna give my two cents. The results across the board were not that bad but also did not look much like Corden, tbh—especially Olivia's, which was ROUGH. Please note the Twizzlers sticking out of the neck and the stray pile of cake next to the sculpture. Just inspired work, really.
Corden and Byer got some A-list help in judging from Michael Douglas (casual!), and ultimately, the winner was Jenna, whose cake was, in my very expert opinion, the best rendering of Corden's mug.
But, in Byer's words, all of the cakes were "delightful and terrifying in their own way." And that's really all that matters, right?
You can watch the first three seasons of "Nailed it!" on Netflix streaming right now.
