Nailed It!
Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. It's part reality contest, part hot mess.
Seasons
1. First Date to Life Mate
Air Date: 2018-03-09
Under the watchful eyes of an iconic cake designer, contestants decorate complicated cake pops and a bespectacled, three-tiered wedding cake.
2. Fantasyland
Air Date: 2018-03-09
The bakers do their best to make jelly-filled doughnuts fit for a pirate before tackling an edible tower with a princess on top.
3. Head Under Water
Air Date: 2018-03-09
Two daunting desserts -- a chocolate-filled "hot tub" and an open-mouthed shark cake -- have the hapless home cooks struggling to stay afloat.
4. Weird Science
Air Date: 2018-03-09
Contestants loosen up a food scientist with a cupcake-cocktail pairing before serving him questionable slices of a bubbling volcano cake.
5. Big in Japan
Air Date: 2018-03-09
A YouTube star known for her fondant work watches the bakers try to copy two of her most popular Japanese-themed cakes.
6. In Your Face!
Air Date: 2018-03-09
Dogged contestants are seeing double when they're asked to paint their portraits on a cookie before building an edible bust of Donald Trump.
1. High Society
Air Date: 2018-06-29
The contestants raise the bar with two half-baked "high society" challenges: late-night munchie-inspired pancakes and a gravity-defying tea cake.
2. Fictitious and Delicious
Air Date: 2018-06-29
It's "happily ever after" or bust when the bakers try to make fairy tale cupcake pops, then stack cakes in the form of a majestic unicorn.
3. Tailgate, Failgate
Air Date: 2018-06-29
The cooks divide and conquer to fill sections of a savory snack stadium before building a cake that looks like a barbecue grill.
4. Holi-daze
Air Date: 2018-06-29
'Tis the season to be scary when the bakers try their hands at holiday cookies before constructing an elaborate gingerbread house.
5. Zoo You Bake?
Air Date: 2018-06-29
The contestants face their fears (with very sharp knives) when they carve an animal out of a watermelon and bend cake into the shape of a snake.
6. Out of This World
Air Date: 2018-06-29
Space-themed challenges throw the hapless bakers for a loop when they're asked to make cosmic cupcakes and a supersized solar system cake.
7. Bonus: 3, 2, 1...Ya Not Done!
Air Date: 2018-06-29
Five fabulous "Nailed It!" fans visit the test kitchen for a challenge so extra, we had to make it a bonus episode.
1. The Marvel Episode!
Air Date: 2019-05-17
The bakers summon their not-so-super powers to make Marvel-themed cupcakes with detailed cookie toppers and a daunting "Black Panther" cake.
2. Cake-O-Phobia
Air Date: 2019-05-17
What's scarier than a cook who can't read a recipe? A trio of creepy-crawly bug cookies and a terrifying clown cake that tastes like cotton candy.
3. Masterpiece or Disasterpiece?
Air Date: 2019-05-17
The amateur bakers attempt to imitate the masters with gingerbread self-portraits and a sculpted cake replica of Michelangelo's David.
4. Prehistoric Bakes
Air Date: 2019-05-17
The contestants turn back time -- and mangle time management -- with inside-out Neanderthal cupcakes and a tropical-flavored T. rex cake.
5. Oui Can't Bake!
Air Date: 2019-05-17
The pressure's on to make perfectly puffed éclairs and a layered bust of Napoleon Bonaparte for not one but two esteemed French chefs.
6. Ready to Wear, Ready to Eat
Air Date: 2019-05-17
Two high-fashion challenges put the bakers' hopeless skills to the test: fondant-covered doll cakes and an edible headdress heaped with fruit.
1. Let's Get Lit
Air Date: 2020-04-01
Two bookish treats inspired by literature set the bakers up for epic fails: Shakespearean stained-glass window cookies and a pop-up "Moby Dick" cake.
2. The One with the '90s Theme
Air Date: 2020-04-01
Edible ice cream boom boxes made with liquid nitrogen and a fresh and fly fondant-covered cake? Oh, snap — that sounds like a '90s challenge.
3. Indiana Fails and the Temple of Slop
Air Date: 2020-04-01
Terror awaits the contestants as they take on two technically demanding desserts: chocolate eggs and a layered sphinx cake, both full of surprises.
4. Chariots of Failure
Air Date: 2020-04-01
The bakers go for the gold — and miss masterfully — with sports-medal cookies and an elaborate swim cake that's topped with a waffle cone torch.
5. Jungle Bungle
Air Date: 2020-04-01
Jam-filled animal pastries and a coffeecake shaped like a sloth push the contestants out of their comfort zones — and the results are wild.
6. Howdy, Failure!
Air Date: 2020-04-01
A Western-themed round inspires deep-fried cowboy-duck doughnuts, a root beer-infused rodeo cake ... and really bad flavors.
7. The Big Bake Theory
Air Date: 2020-04-01
From self-frosting bubbling beakers to record-breaking rockets, these science-inspired sweets ask the impossible — and invite kids into the kitchen.
8. I Do ... Hope I Don't Fail
Air Date: 2020-04-01
The bakers commit to re-creating wedding day desserts, including wedding band mini-cakes and a Vegas-themed masterpiece with moving parts.
1. An Ungodly Mess
Air Date: 2021-03-26
Stacked Greek god statue cupcakes and snake-headed Medusa makeover cakes take Herculean effort and skill — and these awkward results are epic.
2. The Burbank State Fair
Air Date: 2021-03-26
It's a Ferris wheel of fails as the teams make treats with a state-fair theme — from caramel corn knockdown-doll clowns to roller-coaster cakes.
3. We're Gonna Need a Bigger Cake
Air Date: 2021-03-26
Baking duos go off the deep end with desserts inspired by the wonders of the ocean, including marine animal mini cakes and enormous edible octopuses.
4. Travel Dos and Donuts
Air Date: 2021-03-26
Putting their own spin on travel, the bakers make terrible spiced-doughnut tourists and deflated hot-air balloon cakes. It's destination disaster.
5. I've Failed and I Can't Get Up!
Air Date: 2021-03-26
Candy-jeweled brooch cookies? Inviting cookie-jar cakes? These sugary sweets are just like the ones Grandma used to make — if Grandma couldn't bake.
6. Can't Believe It's Cake!
Air Date: 2021-03-26
From splashy cereal-bowl cakes to towering hamburgers with fries, these attempts at hyperrealistic treats are so bad, you won't believe your eyes.
1. Im-Paw-sible Cakes
Air Date: 2021-09-15
A funny, furry pet theme finds the cooks concocting giant exotic-animal cookies, then re-creating Nicole's adorable dog, Clyde, in cake form.
2. Paranormal Pastries
Air Date: 2021-09-15
The bakers make candy apple aliens and a sculpted Loch Ness monster cake based on mysterious creatures from outer space... and the freshwater depths.
3. C'est Jacques!
Air Date: 2021-09-15
Treats inspired by "Mr. Chocolate" Jacques Torres include lollipop portraits and a cake spiced with cocoa and cayenne. Mais oui laugh? But of course!
4. History in the Baking
Air Date: 2021-09-15
From cupcakes celebrating famous Black women to a towering Tuskegee Airmen cake, this episode honoring Black history aims high — and achieves hilarity.
5. There's a Party in My Mouth!
Air Date: 2021-09-15
Terrible bakers take on a trio of festive holiday-hat mini cakes before tackling a pop-up Groundhog Day cake that's full of surprises.
6. Everyone Romaine Calm
Air Date: 2021-09-15
A gardening theme gives life to doughy gnomes atop miniature pies and a healthy-ish veggie-patch cake packed with carrots and zucchini.
1. Cobra Kai
Air Date: 2022-10-05
Bake first. Bake hard. Have mercy! The hapless contestants dig deep to make colorful "Cobra Kai" soft pretzels and a Halloween dance fight cake.
2. The Witcher
Air Date: 2022-10-05
Frosted creature faces and a cake conjured from the world of "The Witcher" beget wicked fails — just as the prophecy foretold.
3. Umbrella Academy
Air Date: 2022-10-05
Delightfully offbeat treats scream "Umbrella Academy," from a trio of Griddy's Doughnuts action figures to a towering Hazel and Cha-Cha cake.
4. Slime Time
Air Date: 2022-10-05
The going gets gross — really gross — when the bakers tackle ooey, gooey carved pumpkins and an alien autopsy cake leaking edible slime.
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Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
2018-03-09
Episodes
43 (7 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
Magical Elves