Christmas Cookie Challenge

Christmas Vacation

Five cookie makers are challenged to create cookies perfect for a Christmas in the tropics. Then, they must make an entire train out of cookies and fill it with more cookies featuring fun flavors like hazelnut and marshmallow.

Christmas Surprises

A mix-up means five gifted cookie makers must hack Halloween cookie cutters into classic Christmas cookies. Then they have to make cookie advent calendars with surprises hidden behind each day.

Some Assembly Required Christmas

Five cookie makers create two cookies on sticks: one representing the best part of Christmas for kids and another showing the best part for grown-ups. Then they make life-size Christmas stockings entirely out of cookies.

Modern Classics

Santa gets a makeover when five cookie makers design two different cookies: one showcasing Santa's new outfit and another featuring his new ride. Then they craft cookie picture frames for their cherished family photos.

Christmas Comes in All Sizes

Inspired by nesting dolls, five cookie makers whip up six cookies of the same design that get progressively smaller. Then they must craft a Christmas village entirely out of cookies.

Mr. and Mrs. Claus

In the decorating challenge, five talented cookie makers imagine what Christmas Eve looks like for Mrs. Claus. Then they have to craft gorgeous fireplace mantels out of cookies with nutty ingredients.

Colorful Christmas

Five trendy cookie makers have to create cookies that feature at least four shades of one color. Then they make the workshop glow with 3-D cookie creations that actually light up.

Homemade Holidays

Five cookie makers are challenged to create cookies that look like handcrafted gifts. Then they have to make cookie garlands featuring smoky ingredients like paprika, smoked almonds, Gouda and scotch.

Center of the Season

Five cookie makers face the dreaded slice-and-bake challenge, where the design must be baked into the cookie itself. Then they have to create showstopping centerpieces made of cookies using herbs and spices.

Merry Christmas Makeover

Five festive cookie makers decorate cookies showing beloved characters from the North Pole getting fit. Then they redesign and reconstruct Santa's house using only cookies infused with tahini, avocado, olive oil and more.

Colors of Christmas

Five creative cookie makers have to wow the judges with their colorless cookies, using only detail, texture and relief. Then they let loose with an explosion of color as they create tarts with layers of cookies, cream and fruit.

Picture-Perfect Christmas

Eddie Jackson invites five of the finest cookie makers to take on the world of fine art by assembling spectacular cookie mosaics. Judges Ree Drummond, Dwayne Ingraham and Gesine Prado decide if all the pieces fall into place.

Christmas Traditions

The five cookie makers have to craft creative Christmas cards out of cookies. Then they reach for new heights by building beautiful Christmas tree toppers out of cookies and incorporating mini marshmallows and maraschino cherries.

Christmas Mischief

The five cookie makers have to create Christmas character masks made of cookies. Then they're challenged to craft 3-D cookie displays capturing the adventures of a mischievous elf in the workshop.

Bright Lights, Big Cookies

Five cookie makers use classic cookie cutters to make dazzling designs that have nothing to do with the cutters' original shapes. Then they use edible stained glass to make cookie versions of traditional Christmas decorations.

Can You Crack This One?

Five clever cookie makers celebrate "piece" on Earth as they make festive puzzle cookies. Then they have to figure out how to craft a 3-D, standing nutcracker doll -- with a modern outfit -- out of cookies that contain walnuts, pecans or almonds.

Visions of Christmas

Five visionary bakers use cookies to show off their idea of Christmas future. Then they recreate the excitement of unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning by building baked and breakable gift displays filled with more cookies!

Homespun Christmas

Five talented cookie makers are tasked with creating Christmas cross-stitch cookies. Then the crafting continues as the bakers combine the beauty of a wreath with the fun of a Christmas character in one massive, 3-D cookie display.

Christmas Illusions

Five cookie makers make Christmas colors swirl by taking on the tie-dye cookie trend. Then, they decorate cookies that look just like savory holiday appetizers, but they must use classic crudite ingredients in their cookie displays.

Christmas Games and Music

Five talented cookie makers create mix-and-match Christmas character cookies. Then the bakers craft 3-D cookie displays inspired by holiday music and using ingredients that evoke classic Christmas songs, like pears, figs and chestnuts.

Christmas is Heating Up

Five talented cookie makers put their heart and soul into crafting cookies that celebrate Christmas weddings. Then the competition heats up as the cookie makers create 3-D Christmas trees inspired by plants found deep in the desert.

Returning Champs

Five former Christmas Cookie Challenge champions return to the workshop for another round of competition. After creating a Christmas village puzzle out of six perfectly interlocking cookies, they craft massive Christmas mantels with realistic fireplaces.

Self-Portraits

Five cookie makers recreate the feel of a cup of hot cocoa on a frosty Christmas morn by crafting holiday mugs out of cookies! Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson turn the workshop into a merry art museum and ask the cookiers to create cookie self-portraits.

Christmas Cookie Games

Five cookie makers play a game of Christmas opposites by flipping the cookie script on classic Christmas designs. Then the games continue as hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson ask for edible 3-D board games that they can actually play ... and then eat!

A Very Retro Christmas

Five top cookie makers create Christmas cookies that reflect decades past. Then, they craft 3-D edible snow globes with 360-degree shine, drawing flavor inspiration from globe-shaped ingredients like blood oranges, golden berries and grapes.

Christmas Chandeliers

Five cookie makers must take on the fault line dessert trend and create cookies decorated to reveal surprises beneath the icing. Then they have to defy gravity by building giant, hanging cookie chandeliers worthy of the finest Christmas dinner table.

Present for Santa Claus

Five festive cookie makers use their imaginations to decorate cookies that feature the perfect present for ol' Saint Nick. Then, the cookiers fashion the ultimate Christmas party-starter: life-size ugly Christmas sweaters!

Tsunami Cookies

Five merry cookie makers put their sweet spin on Christmas wreaths. Then, in a Christmas "pull-me-up" display challenge, the cookiers release a tsunami of icing that completely transforms their towering displays.

Reindeer Auditions

Santa's recruiting new animals for his team, and it's up to five cookie makers to come up with the candidates! After hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson select which reindeer replacements make the squad, the cookiers craft one-of-a-kind 3-D snowmen.

Christmas Couples

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson invite four cookie-making couples to make two Christmas gift tags -- one for each of them. Then, the pairs construct a fortress fit to withstand a snowball fight with a ready pile of "snowballs" in hopes of winning $10,000.

Gingerbread Parties and Downtown North Pole

The gingerbread men are having a North Pole party, and five cookie makers must come up with their costumes. Then, Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson find the bakers' inner architect with a challenge to construct candy-filled versions of Downtown North Pole.

Crafty Christmas

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson task five cookie makers with taking on a new trend in DIY Christmas decor -- string art! Then, the carnival comes to town as the remaining bakers construct Christmas cookie carousels that spin round and round for $10,000.

Christmas Roots

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson turn back the clock as five crafty cookie makers design their own interpretation of a young Santa and Mrs. Claus. Then, the bakers get to the root of Christmas by building cookie greenhouses with edible windows and herbs.

Our Better Angels

Five cookie makers reveal who's on Santa's list by creating cookies showing someone doing a good deed and another being naughty! Then, Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson have competitors create a display of cookie angel figurines filled with good spirits.

Christmas Then and Now

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson take Christmas way, way back when they challenge five cookie makers to make holiday cookies from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Then, the bakers craft 3D vehicles fueled with soda flavors for moving around the North Pole.

Wacky Christmas

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson are in for some big laughs as they ask five merry cookie makers to create edible Christmas comic strips. Then, the bakers create larger-than-life cookie ornaments that must incorporate some extra-small ingredients.

Christmas Behind the Scenes

Five fantastic cookie makers take hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson behind the scenes at the North Pole as they reveal what happens the day after Christmas. Then, the competitors help Santa park his sleigh with decorated and durable cookie rooftops.

A Very Gingerbread Puppet Show

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson are hosting a dramatic opening night in the Christmas cookie playhouse, where four gingerbread masters craft cookie stick puppets. Then, the bakers build grand gingerbread puppet theaters to perform a play for Ree and Eddie!

Redemption

It's redemption day as Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson welcome back cookie makers who came up just short of winning. They'll decorate cookies that call back to forgotten Christmas traditions and reveal what makes them tick with grandfather clocks.

Teams of Champions

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson welcome back eight former champions to prove who is the best of the best. In teams of two, the bakers weave magic to create Christmas cookie quilts and construct gigantic stadiums worthy of the finest North Pole games.

Elf the Movie 20th Anniversary

Inspired by Warner Brothers' Christmas movie "Elf," Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson challenge four cookie makers to create cookies that show Buddy's magical journey. Then, the bakers cobble together 3D pop-up cookie books with their favorite movie scene.

Out-of-This-World Christmas

Earthlings aren't the only ones having holiday fun as Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson ask four bakers to make cookies that reveal what Christmas is like on other planets. Then, the cookie makers craft rocket ships worthy of taking Santa to the stars.

Christmas on the Road

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson challenge four festive cookie makers to share the magic of Christmas vacation with two-sided picture postcards. Then, the merry trip continues as the three remaining cookie makers craft 360-degree Christmas camper vans.