A Palmerton native and her teammate took home the $100,000 top prize Wednesday night as champions of the “Crime Scene Kitchen” competition on Fox.

Natalie Collins-Fish, who graduated from Palmerton Area High School in 2004, along with baking partner Luis Flores, bested 11 other duos throughout the show, which culminated with a birthday cake for judge Yolanda Gampp that blew the well-known cake artist away.

For the winning piece, Collins-Fish and Flores made a three-tier cake.

The top tier was a vanilla confetti cake with raspberry buttercream, topped with an individual slice of birthday cake and candle.

The second tier featured a lemon blueberry cake coated with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream.

The bottom layer was devils food cake with chocolate folded into it, a bananas Foster filling and a caramel diplomat cream.

The team added coffee to the chocolate cake to intensify the flavor.

“I need a moment alone with this cake,” Gampp said after tasting it. “I need to hold onto something because I’m going to fall over.”

After high school, Collins-Fish attended culinary school in upstate New York, where she graduated in 2006. She has lived in Las Vegas since August 2006 and owns her custom cake business, Cake Lyfe by Nattie J.

“We’re going to be able to open our own bakery, give back to our families and just, make our lives better,” Collins-Fish said on the show after they were declared the winners.

Almost immediately after the show’s finale, a post on the Palmerton Here and Now Facebook page announcing the result drew over 200 likes.

“It was so awesome to watch someone I knew compete on this show,” posted Tammy Dettmer Strahan. “She did amazing.”

“Congratulations,” added Levina Irvin. “We’ve been watching her all along. She really deserves to win this. How exciting.”