Kids Baking Championship
The best 10 to 13-year-old bakers compete against each other for the title of Kids Baking Champion.
Genre: Game-Show, Reality-TV
Cast:Duff Goldman , Valerie Bertinelli , Linsey Lam , Abby Martin , Justice Faustina , Aidan Berry , Kaniyah Cary , Sam Occhiogrosso , Alex Czajka , Paige Goehner , Ellora Martinez , Sarah Patel , Matthew Merril , Cole Frederickson , Natasha Jiwani , Naiel Chaudry , Bryn Montgomery , Nadya Alborz
S1.E1 ∙ Bake Sale
Kicking off the Kids Baking Championship, the kid bakers work to serve up two delicious signature items for a bake sale. Duff and Valerie reveal that the kids must also make a third item using a childhood flavor combination.
S1.E2 ∙ Dessert Imposters
The kid bakers are asked to make sweet treats masquerading as savory items.
S1.E3 ∙ Stuffed Puffs
The bakers are given the task of making two dozen puff pastry desserts, when Duff and Valerie announce a savory twist.
S1.E4 ∙ Celebration Cake
Season 1 comes to an end with the four remaining kid bakers given the massive challenge of creating a celebration cake for the moment they win, plus they have to make complementary baked party gifts.
S2.E1 ∙ Pie a la Mode
Season 2 begins with a pie challenge, during which the 10 kid bakers must create the right balance of crust and filling. But that's not all, when they are asked to make a flavored ice cream from scratch, to go with their baked treats.
S2.E2 ∙ Eclairs Gone Wild
The nine remaining kid bakers are challenged to make artfully decorated éclairs.
S2.E3 ∙ 'Hot' Chocolate
Eight bakers remain for the challenge of incorporating chilies, peppers and cayenne into their chocolate creations.
S2.E4 ∙ Macaron 'Stackaron'
The seven remaining kid bakers take on the extremely demanding French macaron, producing three dozen of the colorful confection and stacking them to, at least, 5 inches high.
S2.E5 ∙ Lunchbox Desserts
The six remaining kid bakers get creative, when they invent lunch box desserts. The good news is trading items is allowed, but the bad news comes when they learn such snacks as carrot sticks, potato chips and cheese have to be used in their sweet recipes.
S2.E6 ∙ Candymonium
The five remaining kid bakers must use three types of candy in a dessert, while being careful to avoid overloading their dish.
S2.E7 ∙ Dessert Impostors 2.0
The four remaining kid bakers face a dinner in reverse challenge, which requires them to make a dessert item that looks like a savory dish; and a cupcake that's not sweet at all.
S2.E8 ∙ Spring Break Cakes
In the Season 2 finale, the three remaining kid bakers battle it out for the prize of $25,000. Their challenge is to make a cake with a spring break theme.
S3.E1 ∙ Life Is a Carnival
The carnival comes to town, and Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have the 12 best kid bakers in the country make carnival-themed cupcakes with carnival treats like kettle corn, frozen bananas and cotton candy.
S3.E2 ∙ I Lava Volcano
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have the 11 remaining kid bakers create volcano bundt cakes and edible boulders.
S3.E3 ∙ Comfort Food Dessert Imposters
The remaining 10 kid bakers must make a comfort food dessert imposter; meatloaf; fried chicken; mac and cheese.
S3.E4 ∙ Color Me Wow!
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman head back to the 1960s, when they make the nine kid bakers create tie-dye cakes.
S3.E5 ∙ Throwback Eclairs
The remaining eight bakers must put a modern spin on old-school desserts, like coconut cream pie or German chocolate cake.
S3.E6 ∙ Breakfast Desserts
The remaining seven kid bakers compete to impress Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman with layer cakes made from waffles and pancakes; the winning side is immune from elimination.
S3.E7 ∙ Mobile App Cookies
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman provide app names, like Snackchat, Clash of Carbs and Pastry Chef Go, and the remaining six kid bakers must design and create mobile app icons out of sugar cookies and explain what each app does.
S3.E8 ∙ Pet Shop Joys
Pets serve as inspiration, when the last five kid bakers must create a dessert inspired by the animal they are paired with: guinea pig, turtle, rabbit, mini-pig or Silkie chicken.
S3.E9 ∙ Molecular Kidstronomy
The final four kid bakers use futuristic tools to make molecular-gastronomy-inspired desserts.
S3.E10 ∙ Superhero Grand Finale
For the finale, the last three kid bakers have five hours to create an original superhero cake and describe their superhero's powers during tasting.
S4.E1 ∙ Cookielicious
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.
S4.E2 ∙ Pizza for Dessert
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have a special challenge boxed up and ready to deliver to the 11 kid bakers; the kids have to get creative to turn pizza into a sweet treat by creating dessert pizzas.
S4.E3 ∙ Lemon BFFs
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli celebrate her favorite flavor, lemon, by challenging the ten kid bakers to create lemon bar BFF desserts, that highlight lemon and some of its best flavor friends.
S4.E4 ∙ Cake and Ice Cream 2.0
Creativity is the name of the game, and Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli have a classic combination in mind -- cake and ice cream.
S4.E5 ∙ 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.
S4.E6 ∙ 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.
S4.E7 ∙ 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.
S4.E8 ∙ 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.
S4.E9 ∙ 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.
S4.E10 ∙ 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.
S5.E1 ∙ Selfieclairs
A new group of kid bakers introduce themselves via delicious "selfieclairs"; using a selfie as a inspiration, the bakers create eclairs in assigned flavors and then decorate them to serve as a pate a choux pastry introduction.
S5.E2 ∙ Defying Gravity
Duff and Valerie challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating cakes with gravity-defying illusions on them.
S5.E3 ∙ Ice Screamers
Kid bakers are tasked with turning unexpected baked items like waffles, blondies and cupcakes into outrageous ice cream sandwiches.
S5.E4 ∙ Imposters Italiano
The bakers must nail a variety of lasagna dessert imposters if they want to stay in the game.
S5.E5 ∙ 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.
S5.E6 ∙ 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!
S5.E7 ∙ 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.
S6.E1 ∙ 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.
S6.E2 ∙ 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.
S6.E3 ∙ 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.
S6.E4 ∙ 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.
S6.E5 ∙ 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.
S6.E6 ∙ 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.
S6.E7 ∙ 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.
S6.E8 ∙ 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.
S6.E9 ∙ 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.
S6.E10 ∙ 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.
S7.E1 ∙ 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!
S7.E2 ∙ 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.
S7.E3 ∙ 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.
S7.E4 ∙ 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.
S7.E5 ∙ 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.
S7.E6 ∙ 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!
S7.E7 ∙ Out of This World
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are lost in space and challenge the three remaining bakers to create cakes that look like either a spaceship, aliens, or another planet as determined by the random space rock the bakers selected. The most out-of-this-world cake wins, and only one baker will claim $25,000, a spot in Food Network Magazine, and the title of Kids Baking Champion.
S7.E8 ∙ Tricks and Treats
Four fan-favorite kid bakers return for a Halloween-themed competition and battle it out for a baker's dream prize package. Duff and Valerie challenge the bakers to embrace seemingly scary arachnids in the form of spider web desserts.
S7.E9 ∙ North Pole Edition
Four beloved kid bakers from previous seasons create the most spectacular treats for Santa.
S8.E1 ∙ 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.
S8.E2 ∙ 1, 2, 3 Delicious!
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
S8.E3 ∙ Sammy Whammy
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Order up!
S8.E4 ∙ 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!
S8.E5 ∙ 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.
S8.E6 ∙ 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.
S8.E7 ∙ 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.
S8.E8 ∙ 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.
S8.E9 ∙ 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.
S8.E10 ∙ 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.
S9.E1 ∙ Brushstrokes and Garden Cakes
Embracing the brushstroke decorating trend, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 12 kid bakers to make brushstroke mini cheesecakes that are both colorful and delicious. Then there's a garden cake challenge with real fruit, herbs and other natural items as decorations.
S9.E2 ∙ Cupcake Rainbows and Best Moments
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman put the 10 kid bakers in teams and challenge them to create dazzling and vibrant cupcake rainbows. Then the hosts revisit the most memorable moments and kid baking creations from the first eight seasons of Kids Baking Championship.
S9.E3 ∙ Dessert Imposters and Best Bits
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the ten young bakers with working in teams to create vibrant and dazzling cupcake rainbows.
S9.E4 ∙ Picnic Desserts and Kid Commentary
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." Tune in to see which young baker can bring a picnic surprise.
S9.E5 ∙ The Spice is Right
Desserts get a balanced hit of sweet, savory, bitter and sour from Chinese five-spice powder, which is a mix of star anise, Szechuan peppercorns, fennel, cinnamon and clove. For this challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the seven young bakers to create Chinese five-spice desserts to stay in the game.
S9.E6 ∙ 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.
S9.E7 ∙ 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.
S9.E8 ∙ Sheet Pan Pies and Biomes
The kids are tasked with creating a two flavor sheet pan pie, and then the three remaining bakers make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef. The baker with the best cake earns the title of Kids Baking Champion.
S10.E1 ∙ Float Like a Butterfly
Making Butterfly cakes. Who will be the first to go.
S10.E2 ∙ Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Useing potato chips, pretzels, and chocolate to make a kitchen-sink desert.
S10.E4 ∙ Cereal Psych Out
Cookies and Moose. It's whats for breakfast. Someone will go away and someone will get a puppy.
S10.E5 ∙ All Puffed Up
Are you a Cream Puff? Not these kids. They take on the Cream Puff with a little imagination. But one will not make the grade and go home.
S10.E6 ∙ BBQ LOL OMG
Desert Imposter. The kids will make your favorite Picinic Food with Cake. Yum Yum. When you are given Lemons you make Desert?
S10.E7 ∙ 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.
S10.E8 ∙ Cosmic Delights
Cupcakes in Space. The kids are given the task of making cupcakes into space objects. I hope no one gets abducted.
S10.E9 ∙ Shake, Shake, Shake
In one of the most difficult challenges of the season, hosts and judges Valerie and Duff embrace the "loaded" foods trend by asking the remaining kid bakers to make loaded milkshakes.
S10.E10 ∙ Cityscakes
In this over-the-top finale, hosts and judges Valerie and Duff ask the youngest final three bakers in the history of the show to make a championship-worthy, two-tiered cityscape cake.
