Anyhow, Sheetal has picked vanilla as the main ingredient. "What goes with vanilla?" Mike ponders. Ice cream? Tapioca? Republicans? I'm trying to help you here, Hat Guy. But Hat Guy is too busy spilling cream all over the floor of the pantry to pay me any never-mind. The contestants have 90 minutes to make a dessert; someone's getting sent home at the end of that time.
David, who is firmly in the anti-dessert camp -- "I don't do dessert, I don't eat dessert, I don't like dessert" -- will be making a vanilla crème brûlée. Sheetal, who got us into this vanilla-laden mess, will be making a vanilla sponge cake layered with vanilla custard. She points out that she's never made this dish before, but it's not like that was a handicap in the venison challenge. Sharone is trying his hand at a butterscotch napoleon. "With three different delicious nuts," he adds. Sharone, Sharone, Sharone -- that's three kinds of the most amazing nuts. Have you learned nothing from Gordon Ramsay?
The judges expect big things from Whitney -- WHO IS JUST 22! -- since she's the best baker of the bunch. She's preparing some profiteroles with a vanilla cream in the middle. Graham strides up to Lee's station -- "I can smell the confidence from here," he says. No, that's just Axe Body Lotion. Lee's making some sort of French toast concoction. Mike's a jittery, hat-wearing mess. He's making a trifle, but I'm hearing words like "custardy pudding'" and "spongecake" so for all I know, he's going to wind up with a stew. That's actually not that far-fetched a scenario, as the producers treat us to a Goofus-and-Gallant-style segment where David talks about how calm he is when cooking while Mike's molecules speed up to the point where he can pass through walls.
With time winding down, Sheetal's sponge cake is looking a little oozy, what with its innards leaking out onto her working station. Bet someone's sad she didn't pick berries, huh? "Sheetal's dessert looks to be a disaster," the pleasantly voiced narrator says a tad too pleasantly under the circumstances. Sheetal ponders how to turn the parts of her dish that were previously garnishes into something she can put on a plate. She needn't fret too much -- so long as Mike's hideous-looking trifle remains part of the competition, one need never fear elimination.
And we're out of time. The judges will taste all six desserts, and the winner gets an advantage for the competition. The only advantage the worst dish will get is cab fare home. So let's start things off with Sharone and his mille-feuille with mixed nuts and a vanilla zabaglione sauce. He does love his splattery dishes, but the judges like his dessert. "That is delicious," Graham says, as the camera cuts to Lee stewing in his own juices. David's turn -- it's a vanilla crème brûlée with a mango orange vanilla coulis. "You know what brûlée means?" Gordon asks, because David's dish looks decidedly un-brûléed. "I think we'll crack before that brûlée cracks," Gordon sneers. Indeed, the surface of the dessert is a gooey, crack-free mess. That said, everything else about David's dish apparently merits no further snark from Gordon.