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Now THIS is more like it. Usually on Ultimate Cake Off, we get the most extreme, over-the-top cake decorators in the business, working in service of the daintiest formal-event challenges imaginable -- a birthday for a classical music prodigy, a ballet performance, a doily factory grand-opening.

Okay, so we made that last one up. But finally, this week, these exemplars of excess, these purveyors of frosted decadence, have met their match: a monster truck rally. Considering that what these people do for a living is the culinary equivalent of leaping over a row of flaming school buses in a tricked-out, 20-foot-tall Ford pickup, it only makes sense.

So, after fixing ourselves a plate of corn chips smothered in Velveeta and 20 ounces of Midwestern pilsner in a plastic cup, we settled in for the show. Bring on the screaming crowds, the megaphones, the exhaust!