{"id":100949,"date":"2020-01-10T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=100949"},"modified":"2020-01-10T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:50:14","slug":"netflix-nailed-challenges-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/netflix-nailed-challenges-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Netflix &#8220;Nailed It&#8217; challenges impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoWrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sFoTIyNnN0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=center>\n<p>\nAre the Netflix &#8220;Nailed It&#8217; challenges impossible?  That&#8217;s the question I asked myself when I saw this show.  The program gave inexperienced or self proclaimed &#8216;bad&#8217; bakers just 45 minutes to recreate a princess doll cake.  The cakes, shown below, have a high level of detail most of which can not be done until the cake is covered in fondant.  The kicker for me was that the contestants had to bake, COOL and decorate the cakes in the given time.  You can see the contestants efforts on the right.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.48.58-pm-550x276.png\" alt=\"nailed it princess doll cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100951\" data-wp-pid=\"100951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.48.58-pm-550x276.png 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.48.58-pm-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.48.58-pm-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.48.58-pm-400x201.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.50.43-pm-550x259.png\" alt=\"Are the Netflix &quot;Nailed It&#039; challenges impossible\" width=\"550\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100950\" data-wp-pid=\"100950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.50.43-pm-550x259.png 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.50.43-pm-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.50.43-pm-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-10.50.43-pm-400x188.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm-550x279.png\" alt=\"nailed it how to cook that\" width=\"550\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100960\" data-wp-pid=\"100960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm-550x279.png 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm-400x203.png 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-1.46.35-pm.png 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best way to see if something is possible is of course to try it myself.  I also invited Zoe, an experienced cake decorator and cake shop owner to try it with me.  We had 45 minutes on the clock, watch the video to see how it went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"nailed it! challenge\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100952\" data-wp-pid=\"100952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-1200x675-cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to play along at home and try it for yourself I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/chocolate-cake-recipe\/\">my rich chocolate cake recipe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/buttercream-cupcake-frosting-recipes\/\">buttercream recipe<\/a>.<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/netflix-nailed-challenges-impossible\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"nailed it! challenge\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nailed-it1-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"100952\" \/><\/a><p>&nbsp; Are the Netflix &#8220;Nailed It&#8217; challenges impossible? That&#8217;s the question I asked myself when I saw this show. The program gave inexperienced or self proclaimed &#8216;bad&#8217; bakers just 45 minutes to recreate a princess doll cake. The cakes, shown below, have a high level of detail most of which can not be done until the cake is covered in fondant. The kicker for me was that the contestants had to bake, COOL and decorate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,748],"tags":[31,3358,3357,952,2213,3356,1022,2245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100961,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100949\/revisions\/100961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}