Kids Baking Championship

Pie a La Mode

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 10 best kid bakers in the country to elevate classic pies to an art form, but what's pie without homemade ice cream?

Eclairs Gone Wild

The nine remaining kid bakers take on a sweeping new trend: the radically elevated and decorated eclair. This cream-filled challenge will test the young bakers to the max.

'Hot' Chocolate

Valerie and Duff turn up the heat and ask the remaining eight bakers to incorporate chilies, peppers, cayenne and more into their chocolate creations.

Macaron Stackaron

The seven remaining kid bakers must take on the demanding French dessert, producing three dozen colorful macarons and stacking them to at least five inches high.

Lunch Box Desserts

The six remaining kid bakers get creative as they invent lunchbox desserts. The good news? Trading items is allowed. The bad news? Carrot sticks are tough to work into a dessert!

Candymonium

The five remaining kid bakers must use three types of candy in a balanced dessert.

Dessert Impostors 2.0

The four remaining kid bakers must make a dessert item that looks like a savory dish and also create a savory cupcake for "dessert."

Spring Break Cakes

In the final challenge, the three remaining kid bakers battle it out for the title of Kids Baking Champion while making spring break-themed cakes. Which baker will emerge the winner and take home $25,000?

Life Is a Carnival

Valerie and Duff ask the 12 best kid bakers in the country to create carnival-themed cupcakes and incorporate carnival treats like kettle corn, frozen bananas and cotton candy.

I Lava Volcano

Valerie and Duff task the 11 remaining kid bakers with creating volcano Bundt cakes that spew smoke and edible boulders. The red-hot challenge will test these amazing bakers to their fiery core!

Comfort Food Dessert Imposters

The remaining 10 kid bakers must create a comfort food dessert imposter -- meatloaf, fried chicken, mac and cheese and more -- to keep their place at the table.

Color Me Wow!

In an ode to the outrageous psychedelic colors of tie-dye, Valerie and Duff head back to the 1960s and ask the remaining nine kid bakers to "color them wow" with mind-blowing cakes.

Throwback Eclairs

What were desserts like when hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman were kids? The remaining eight bakers must update old-school desserts like coconut cream pie and German chocolate cake into trendy "throwback" eclairs.

Breakfast Desserts

The remaining seven kid bakers become royal subjects to either Valerie "Queen of Pancakes" Bertinelli or Duff "King of Waffles" Goldman and must create layer cakes made from waffles or pancakes.

Mobile App Cookies

The remaining six kid bakers create mobile app icons out of sugar cookies and explain what each app does to the judges.

Pet Shop Joys

Cute little pets serve as the inspiration for incredible sweets when the last five kid bakers standing must create a dessert inspired by the animal they are paired with: guinea pig, turtle, rabbit, mini pig or silkie chicken.

Molecular Kidstronomy

The final four bakers turn into mad scientists using futuristic tools to create gastronomy-inspired desserts. Which three kids will make it to the finale?

Superhero Grand Finale

For the finale, the last three kid bakers have to create an original superhero cake and describe their superhero's powers during tasting. Who will win this last challenge and fly off with $25,000?

Cookielicious

The season kicks off with a new take on everyone's favorite: cake! Duff and Valerie throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make tiered and beautifully decorated cookie cakes.

Pizza for Dessert

Duff and Valerie have a special delivery for the kid bakers when they challenge them to use their creativity and turn pizza into a dessert.

Lemon BFFs

Duff and Valerie celebrate her favorite flavor, lemon, by tasking the kid bakers with making lemon bar desserts. The kids must also highlight other flavors that pair well with lemon in their dishes.

Cake and Ice Cream 2.0

Duff and Valerie challenge the kid bakers to work with the classic combination of cake and ice cream to create unique desserts.

Doughnuts Go Nuts

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman shake things up by asking the eight kid bakers to work in teams to create two different types of doughnuts that work together in one unified and delicious doughnut design.

Unicornucopia

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the eight kid bakers to use their imaginations to create a unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion.

Lunchbox Impostors

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the six kid bakers to look at lunch in a new way. From a PBJ sandwich to chicken nuggets, the bakers have to turn common lunchbox foods into lookalike dessert masterpieces.

Out of This World

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts. The bakers must also use freeze-dried ingredients in their out-of-this-world creations.

Sand Castle Sweets

To earn a place in the finale, the remaining four kid bakers are challenged to create a cereal treat sand castle filled with two different baked goods.

Cover Story Cakes

The Kids Baking Championship finale turns into a 10-year birthday celebration for Food Network Magazine as the three finalists are challenged to create a Food Network Magazine birthday cake worthy of the $25,000 prize.

#Selfieclairs

A brand-new group of kid bakers introduce themselves with selfie-inspired eclairs in a variety of assigned flavors.

Defying Gravity

Duff and Valerie challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating cakes with gravity-defying illusions on them.

Ice Screamers

Kid bakers are tasked with turning unexpected baked items like waffles, blondies and cupcakes into outrageous ice cream sandwiches.

Imposters Italiano

The bakers must nail a variety of lasagna dessert imposters if they want to stay in the game.

You're in the Ballpark

Thirteen-year-old singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne and her puppet Petunia join Valerie and Duff at the ballpark while the kid bakers are challenged with making over-the-top popcorn desserts.

Bite-Sized Birthday Party

The kid bakers are tasked with creating bite-sized birthday party desserts for an outdoor party and serving them on mini picnic tables!

Winning Colors

The finale has arrived and the kid bakers are challenged with making beautiful rainbow cakes for a chance to win the grand prize.

Bakin' with Bacon

Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in this season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes! The 12 young bakers must make a cupcake featuring bacon and an assigned ingredient like maple, chocolate or cherry.

Spots and Stripes Forever

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli take the 11 young bakers on a safari of sweetness as they challenge them to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes to leopard and giraffe spots.

Brownies vs. Blondies

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli raise the eternal question: Which are better, brownies or blondies? To settle the debate, they divide the 10 young bakers into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.

Macaron Madness

Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with both happy and sad faces.

Opposites Attract

The eight young bakers work in teams to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme like fire and ice, night and day, land and sea or big and small.

Freaky Flavors

For the freaky flavor tarts challenge, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask the young bakers to create a large tart featuring a freaky flavor like jalapeno, goat cheese, yuzu, pink peppercorn, anise, blue cheese or curry.

Monkey See, Monkey Bake

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman know that sometimes you can make something extraordinary out of ingredients you have at home. They challenge the six young bakers to turn packaged biscuit dough into monkey bread volcanoes.

Let's Taco About Baking

Dessert impostors come in all shapes and sizes, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing.

Puzzle Me This

To earn a spot in the finale, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four remaining young bakers to make sugar cookie puzzles in assigned flavors like raspberry, butterscotch, spice or lemon.

Desserts Doing Good

The remaining three young bakers create cakes using bake sale items like toffee, rice cereal treats or chocolate-covered pretzels. Their cakes have to illustrate a common bake sale theme like Drama Club, Dance Club or Chess Club.

Splatter Up!

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to get creative. Cakes in assigned flavors like chocolate, red velvet and coconut are splattered with color -- the brighter and crazier, the better!

Desserts to the Rescue!

In a challenge inspired by The Angry Birds Movie 2, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight bakers to make 12 cupcakes based on a character from the film. Then they team up to build an edible island.

I Doughnut Know What to Think!

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the seven young bakers to make a Bundt cake in an assigned flavor like strawberry or maple and then decorate it to look like an oversized doughnut.

International Intrigue

The six young bakers must fake it to make it as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge them to create imposters that look like international dishes, such as sushi or shish kebab, but taste like dessert.

Hole-y Hedgehogs

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to each make a poke cake with fillings such as pureed fruit or pudding. To increase the cuteness factor, they must decorate it to look like a hedgehog.

Beauty Is in the Pie of the Beholder

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman present the four young bakers with late-summer fruit and challenge them to bake a beautiful, delicious pie. Only the cream of the crop will make it to the finale!

Out of This World

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the three remaining bakers to create space-themed cakes. Only one out-of-this-world baker will claim $25,000, a spot in Food Network Magazine and the title of Kids Baking Champion.

Tricks and Treats

Four fan-favorite kid bakers return for a Halloween-themed competition. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge them to make spider web desserts for a shot at the baker's dream prize package.

North Pole Edition

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the young bakers to fill a mini fireplace mantel with "santastic" sweets. Special guest Casey Webb helps choose the winner of the baker's dream prize package worth over $10,000.

Beyond the Fringe

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are going back to the 1970s as they challenge the 12 young bakers to make cakes in their chosen flavor and decorate them to create a shag texture.

1, 2, 3 Delicious!

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.

Sammy Whammy

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Order up!

Llama Drama

Move over unicorns, there's a new animal after our hearts. The nine bakers must create llama cupcakes in a chosen flavor. Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman also welcome a special guest -- a real live llama!

One Potato, Two Potato

Potatoes aren't just for french fries anymore -- they're for decorating. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight remaining bakers to carve potato cutouts and create colorful potato-print cookies.

Ice Cream Cone-a-copia

Ice cream cones are for more than just holding ice cream. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the seven kid bakers to create impressive ice cream cone cupcakes in order to stay in the game.

Mama Mia!

For this Italian-bakery themed challenge, hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the remaining six bakers with creating Italian rainbow cookies featuring classic flavors like apricot, cherry, almond, lemon or hazelnut.

Architectural Digestible

Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five kid bakers to create beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in showstopping trifles.

Dinomighty

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four young bakers to show off their baking and building skills by making 3-D dinosaur cookies in the shape of a T. rex, velociraptor, stegosaurus, brontosaurus or triceratops.

The Fruit of Your Labor

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the final three bakers to make fruit cakes, but not the holiday kind. Instead, they have to make cakes that look like actual fruit.

Flying Colors

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman embrace the brushstroke decorating trend by asking the 12 young bakers to create colorful and delicious brushstroke mini cheesecakes.

Garden of Eatin'

Garden-themed decorating is gaining in popularity, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create garden cakes decorated with actual fruits, herbs and other natural ingredients -- no glitter, sprinkles or fondant allowed.

Party in the Sky

What's that beautiful arc of color in the sky? It's a rainbow! For this challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the 10 young bakers with working in teams to create vibrant and dazzling cupcake rainbows.

Three Square Meals

It's the most-anticipated challenge of the competition -- dessert imposters! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine kid bakers to create breakfast, lunch and dinner imposters.

Picnic Time

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love picnics, but desserts don't always fit into a picnic basket. They challenge the eight young bakers to create portable hand pies and a dressed-up version of "ants on a log."

The Spice is Right

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the seven young bakers to create desserts that feature Chinese five-spice powder, a blend of star anise, Szechuan peppercorns, fennel, cinnamon and clove.

Puppy Treats

To celebrate Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman pair each of the six bakers with an adorable, adoptable puppy and challenge them to create a birthday cake that reflects their puppy's happy life after adoption.

Edible Expressions

In the cookie face challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge each of the five bakers to create a giant cookie face with 3-D features that communicate an assigned expression like happy, sad, angry, surprised or excited.

Pie Squared

Why have one kind of pie when you can have two? Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the four young bakers with creating a two-flavor sheet pan pie, and the winners make it to the finale.

Location, Location, Location

For the finale, the three remaining bakers must make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef. The young baker with the best biome cake earns $25,000 and the title of Kids Baking Champion!

Float Like a Butterfly

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 12 kid bakers to pay homage to the brilliant transformation of the butterfly by making colorful carved butterfly cakes. After judging, one baker leaves the competition.

Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 11 young bakers to use three snack items -- potato chips, pretzels and chocolate candies -- in one delicious kitchen sink dessert. In the end, one baker goes home.

Dessert Rivals

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman divide the 10 young bakers into two teams for a good old-fashioned chocolate vs. peanut butter throwdown. To up the stakes, the winner of the challenge will earn immunity from elimination for their entire team!

Cereal Psych Out

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the nine kid bakers to turn miniature cookies and chocolate-covered dried fruit or nuts into cookie cereal. Glass of milk, anyone? One baker is eliminated.

All Puffed Up

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight kid bakers to work in teams of two to build and decorate tasty, beautiful puff designs made of two different colors and flavors of cream puffs. In the end, one baker leaves the competition.

BBQ LOL OMG

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the young bakers to create grilled dessert imposters with side dishes like ribs and mac 'n' cheese or hot dogs and baked beans. The least successful baker goes home.

Earn Your Stripes

For this challenge, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the six remaining kid bakers to take a walk on the wild side and make zebra cakes with striking interior stripes. In the end, one baker is eliminated.

Cosmic Delights

For this challenge, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the bakers to combine a lot of small parts to create one big whole by making cosmic cupcake pull-aparts decorated to look like the sun, a rocket, Saturn, a comet or the moon.

Shake, Shake, Shake

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman embrace the "loaded" foods trend by asking the kid bakers to make loaded milkshakes from scratch topped with two different baked goods. The three best bakers will secure a place in the finale.

Cityscakes

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the final three bakers to make a championship-worthy, two-tiered cityscape cake that captures the quintessential sights of an assigned iconic city: San Francisco, New York City or Washington D.C.

Trick or Eat

Four fan-favorite bakers return to make Halloween treats in hopes of taking home a $10,000 prize package! Hosts Duff Goldman and Maneet Chauhan have some tricks in store as the bakers create a mask pie using ingredients collected while trick-or-treating.

Gobble Goodies

In the spirit of gathering with old friends, hosts Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli bring back four unforgettable kid bakers to make turkey cakes. They create pure holiday magic while competing for a bountiful $10,000 prize package of baking tools.

All-Star Holiday Homecoming

Four Kids Baking Championship winners return to craft tasty holiday delights. Hosts Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the champs to bring the holiday cheer with decked-out Yule logs for a chance to win a stunning prize package worth $10,000!

Biz Kids: Great First Impressions

First impressions are everything in business, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman give the kid bakers free rein to show off their bestselling dessert using the psychology of color. In the end, one young baker is left feeling blue at elimination time.

Biz Kids: Smashing Success

A successful business captures the public's attention with a unique product or a new spin on familiar things. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the biz bakers to tantalize their customers by combining two sweet treats into one dessert mash-up.

Biz Kids: Logo-A-Gogo

All businesses need a logo, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the biz bakers with putting their own design on a logo cake. The kids will go head-to-head in a team challenge that finally decides which cake flavor is better, chocolate or vanilla.

Biz Kids: Festival Fare

Food festivals are the perfect place to get reviews from new customers, so Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli have the bakers create festival-friendly desserts in a jar. After tasting each other's treats, the baker with the most likes wins immunity.

Biz Kids: 8 Little Bakers Go to Market

Sales trends change all the time, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the bakers with making cupcakes in a popular flavor. Then, each baker pairs up with their neighbor to create a new cupcake that will predict a trendy flavor in the future.

Biz Kids: Power Lunch Imposters

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli know that sometimes you need to sit down over a nice meal to seal a deal. To honor this tradition, the bakers must create power lunch imposter desserts, like crab cakes with wedge salad, steak with fries and escargot!

Biz Kids: Interview with a Baker

Good leadership sets successful business apart, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman hold interviews for two team leaders who will assign flavors in the cream puff cake challenge. Bakers with the same flavors are put head-to-head for judgement.

Biz Kids: The Customer Is Always Right

Bakery owner Duff Goldman receives unusual requests from customers, and he's using them as inspiration for a "Make It Work" challenge. The bakers learn to go with the flow by making a delicious dessert for Duff and Valerie with an unexpected flavor combo.

Biz Kids: Cookies Are for Closers

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to put their own stamp on the super-trendy loaded cookie. They want the bakers to really go crazy while making two different batches of cookies packed with extra toppings, filling and frosting.

Biz Kids: Birthdays Are Big Business

Birthdays keep bakeries busy all year round, so the kid bakers create commercials to sell Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman on why they'd make the best birthday cake. In the end, the top cake maker wins $25,000 and the Kids Baking Championship title!

Bloodcurdling Bakes

Duff Goldman and Sam Seneviratne invite four fan-favorite kid bakers to their haunted Halloween kitchen and challenge them to create cemetery fault line cakes inspired by candy bars. What isn't scary is the $10,000 prize package that goes to the winner!

Sweets-Giving

Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown welcome four kid bakers back to celebrate Turkey Day with Thanksgiving buttercream boards featuring duos of buttercream, baked items and chocolate-dipped treats. The winner will take home a bountiful $10,000 prize package!

Reindeer Games

Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown bring the merriment when four unforgettable kid bakers return for the holidays to make reindeer cakes with 3D antlers. The winning baker takes home all the gifts in the $10,000 prize package of seasonal baking tools.