Bake Sale
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2015
In the Kids Baking Championship, kids serve up two items for a bake sale.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2015
In the Kids Baking Championship, kids serve up two items for a bake sale.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2015
Kid bakers create sweet treats masquerading as savory dishes.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2015
Kid bakers create dough and delicious fillings for their stuffed puffs.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2015
Remaining kid bakers must create a huge celebration cake for when they win.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2016
For kickoff to the Kids Baking Championship, get ready to eat pies! For their first challenge, 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?
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2016
Time to hop on the "Eclairis Wheel" as the nine remaining kid bakers take on a sweeping new trend in baking: the radically elevated and decorated eclair. This cream-filled challenge will test the young bakers to the max!
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2016
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman turn up the heat and ask the remaining eight bakers to incorporate chilies, peppers, cayenne and more into their chocolate creations. The kid bakers must balance the heat in their sweets, so that they showcase the flavor without overwhelming the judges' taste buds.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2016
The French macaron is the new cupcake, so the seven remaining kid bakers must take on this extremely demanding dessert, producing three dozen colorful macarons and stacking them to at least five inches high.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2016
The six remaining kid bakers get creative as they invent lunch box desserts. The good news? Trading items is allowed. The bad news? Carrot sticks are tough to work into a dessert!
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2016
To celebrate candy in all its glory, the five remaining kid bakers must use three types of candy in a dessert but also keep it balanced, because it's a fine line between candymonium and candy overload!
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2016
The most beloved challenge from the first season of Kids Baking Championship is back with a twist. For 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." It's dinner in reverse!
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2016
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?
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 2, 2017
The carnival is in town for the Kids Baking Championship kick off! It's a thrill ride when Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman 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.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2017
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman 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!
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2017
The most beloved challenge of all pulls up a seat at the local diner! 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.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2017
In an ode to the outrageous psychedelic colors of tie-dye, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman head back to the 1960s and ask the remaining nine kid bakers to "color them wow" with mind-blowing tie-dye cakes.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2017
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 or German chocolate cake into trendy "throwback" eclairs.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2017
The remaining seven kid bakers become royal subjects to either Valerie "Queen of Pancakes" Bertinelli or Duff "King of Waffles" Goldman and must please their ruler by creating layer cakes made from waffles or pancakes. To increase the stakes, the winning side is immune from elimination.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2017
Today, there's an app for almost everything! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman provide app names like Snackchat, Clash of Carbs and Pastry Chef Go. Then, the remaining six kid bakers must design and create mobile app icons out of sugar cookies and explain what each app does.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2017
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.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2017
Kids Baking Championship goes mad scientist! Using futuristic tools, the final four bakers fight for a spot in the finale with molecular gastronomy inspired desserts. Which three kids will make it through the high-tech gauntlet?
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2017
For the finale, the last three kid bakers are given five hours 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?
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2018
The new season of Kids Baking Championship kicks off with a whole new take on everybody's favorite: cookie cake! Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make layered, tiered, stacked and beautifully decorated cookie cakes.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2018
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have a special challenge boxed up and ready to deliver to the 11 kid bakers. They must turn pizza into a sweet treat by creating dessert pizzas, but they must incorporate something that belongs on a real pizza into their pie.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2018
It's no secret that Valerie Bertinelli loves lemon, and lemon goes with so many other flavors. This challenge Duff Goldman and Valerie have the kid bakers celebrate lemon and its "best flavor friends" in the form of lemon bars. The result will be sour for one baker as they are sent home.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2018
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli have cake and ice cream on the brain, but they want a new approach. The bakers must use ice cream and an inspiration for their cake to create a colorful drip cake. As a twist, they must also create homemade ice cream to accompany their cake. One baker will melt in this challenge.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2018
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman shake things up by asking the bakers to work in teams to create designs made of doughnuts. Each baker will individually bake and decorate two dozen mini doughnuts, and then they will need to combine them to create a unified design. One baker will fall in the hole and be eliminated.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2018
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the bakers to create a unique two-layer unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion. The one who does not take the cake will gallop home.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2018
With only 6 bakers left Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman test their skills with lunchbox imposters, where they must make a dessert that looks like a common lunchbox food item, and they must also create a side dish to go along with it.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2018
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask the bakers to make something out of this world - an intergalactic dessert! Since astronauts eat freeze dried foods, the bakers must also use freeze dried ingredients. They must also make an edible sun to go with their galaxy dessert. One baker's dessert will not be stellar and will be sent home.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2018
With spring break just around the corner, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are dreaming about their beach vacations. They ask the remaining bakers to face the sandcastle sweets challenge and create a cereal treat sandcastle filled with two different baked goods to earn their place in the finale.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Mar 5, 2018
In the finale challenge, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli task the remaining three bakers to create a birthday cake in celebration of Food Network Magazine's 10th birthday. The winner will go home with $25,000 and the title of Kids Baking Champion!
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2018
A brand-new group of kid bakers introduce themselves via delicious "Selfieclairs"! Using a selfie as inspiration, the bakers create eclairs in assigned flavors and then decorate them to serve as a pate a choux pastry introduction.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2018
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating cakes with gravity-defying illusions on them. Whose extraordinary cake will rise to the top?
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2018
In a moment of serendipity, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman create an ice cream sandwich with a doughnut that gives them a great idea! The kid bakers will have to turn unexpected baked items like waffles, blondies and cupcakes into outrageous ice cream sandwiches.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2018
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love Italian food so much they're challenging the bakers to create lasagna dessert imposters! The bakers must create meat lasagna, spinach-and-mushroom lasagna or veggie-pesto lasagna imposters if they want to stay in the game.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2018
Thirteen-year-old singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne and her puppet Petunia hang out at the ballpark withValerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman while they enjoy their favorite stadium snack of all -- popcorn! This buttery treat inspires the Big Bake challenge where the kid bakers are tasked with making over-the-top popcorn desserts.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2018
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love birthday parties at the park so they're taking this inspiration to the Big Bake Challenge. The kid bakers are tasked with creating bite-sized birthday party desserts for an outdoor birthday party and serving them on mini picnic tables!
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2018
Thunder claps and lightning strikes greet the bakers but when the storms pass, a rainbow appears and inspires the final challenge -- rainbow cakes! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman want cakes that have rainbows on the inside and outside. Whoever has the best rainbow cake will win $25,000, a spot in Food Network Magazine and the title of Kids Baking Champion!
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2019
It's no secret that Valerie Bertinelli loves lemon, but Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in this season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes! Each of the 12 young bakers must make a cupcake featuring bacon and an assigned ingredient like maple, chocolate or cherry.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2019
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.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2019
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.
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2019
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 happy faces and sad faces.
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman put the eight young bakers in teams and challenge them 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.
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2019
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking up something unusual in the science lab ... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge! Each of the seven young bakers must create a large tart featuring a freaky flavor like jalapeno, goat cheese, yuzu, pink peppercorn, anise, blue cheese or curry.
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2019
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 dramatic and delicious monkey bread volcanoes.
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2019
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.
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2019
It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale, and this season, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are making it a sugar cookie puzzle. The four remaining young bakers must make sugar cookie puzzles in assigned flavors like raspberry, butterscotch, spice or lemon to earn a spot in the top three!
Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are hosting the ultimate bake sale for the finale. They challenge the remaining three young bakers to create cakes using bake sale items like toffee, rice cereal treats or chocolate-covered pretzels, but the cakes also have to illustrate a common bake sale theme like Drama Club, Dance Club or Chess Club. Only one baker will win $25,000, a spot in Food Network magazine and the title of Kids Baking Champion.
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to get creative and colorful. Cakes in assigned flavors like chocolate, red velvet and coconut are splattered with color -- the brighter and crazier, the better!
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the eight bakers to defend Bird Island or Pig Island in this round inspired by the Angry Birds 2 movie. Each baker makes a dozen cupcakes based on a movie character, then they team up to build an edible island.
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the seven young bakers to make a giant doughnut cake. Using Bundt cake pans, the bakers make a cake in an assigned flavor like strawberry or maple and then decorate it to look like an oversized doughnut.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2019
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.
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2019
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 the pokiest little critter -- a hedgehog!
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2019
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!
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are lost in space and challenge the three remaining bakers to create cakes that look like a spaceship, aliens or another planet. 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.
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2020
To kick off the season, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are going back to the 1970s as they challenge the 12 young competitors to make shag cakes. Each baker must make a cake in their chosen flavor and then decorate it to create a shag texture. Groovy, man!
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2020
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2020
It's the most anticipated episode of the season -- dessert impostors! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Order up!
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2020
Move over unicorns, there's a new animal after our hearts. The nine young 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!
Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2020
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.
Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2020
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.
Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2020
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, hazelnut or espresso.
Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2020
Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five bakers to create beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in showstopping trifles.
Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2020
Welcome to the Dinosaur Park! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four 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.
Episode: 8x10 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2020
Fruit is an important element of baking, so 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! One baker will walk away with the title of Kids Baking Champion.
Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: Dec 28, 2020
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.
Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Dec 28, 2020
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.
Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2021
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.
Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2021
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.
Episode: 9x05 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2021
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."
Episode: 9x06 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2021
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.
Episode: 9x07 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2021
The competition has gone to the dogs! Supercute puppies, to be exact. 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 cake that reflects their puppy's happy life after adoption on his or her first birthday.
Episode: 9x08 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2021
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.
Episode: 9x09 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2021
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. Successfully making two different delicious pie fillings and a tasty crust plus great decorations will land three bakers in the finale.
Episode: 9x10 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2021
For the finale, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman focus on biomes -- large regions of Earth with specific climates that are home to certain types of living things. The three final 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!
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Dec 27, 2021
To kick off this special season featuring the youngest cast ever, 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.
Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Jan 3, 2022
The Kids Baking Championship snack mine is the inspiration for this week's challenge as hosts and judges 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.
Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2022
In the grand tradition of dessert rivalries, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman divide the 10 kid 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! After the dust settles, one baker from the losing team is eliminated.
Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2022
Hosts and judges 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.
Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2022
Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight kid bakers to work in teams of two to build and decorate tasty and beautiful team puff designs made of two different colored and flavored cream puffs. In the end, one baker leaves the competition.
Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2022
It's the beloved imposters challenge, and 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.
Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2022
Zebra stripes are one of the most stunning designs in nature -- and they're even more striking inside a cake! 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 interior stripes. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2022
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. At the end of the mission, one baker is eliminated.
Episode: 10x09 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2022
In one of the most difficult challenges of the season, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman embrace the "loaded" foods trend by asking the remaining kid bakers to make loaded milkshakes from scratch topped with two different baked goods. All that baking and ice cream making will secure the three best bakers a place in the finale.
Episode: 10x10 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2022
In this over-the-top finale, hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the youngest final three bakers in the history of the show 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. In the end, one baker emerges as Kids Baking Champion, winning a spot in Food Network Magazine and $25,000.
Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2022
Four fan-favorite kids bakers dare to return to a kitchen that has been transformed into a spooky Halloween haunt. Hosts Duff Goldman and Maneet Chauhan challenge them to create a Halloween mask pie using ingredients the bakers collect while trick-or-treating, but they must be wary of a sudden, shocking twist! What isn't scary is the impressive $10,000 prize package of baking tools and equipment that goes home with the best pie-maker!
Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2022
In the spirit of gathering with old friends, hosts and judges Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli bring back four unforgettable kid bakers and challenge them to make turkey cakes. The bakers create pure holiday magic as they compete for a bountiful $10,000 prize package of Thanksgiving-themed baking tools and equipment.
Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2022
Four Kids Baking Championship winners return to show off their top-notch skills as they craft tasty holiday delights. Hosts and judges 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!
Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Dec 26, 2022
First impressions are everything in the business world, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman kick off the competition by giving the kid bakers free rein to show off their bestselling dessert using the psychology of color. Smart owners choose brand colors that highlight the most important aspects of their business, and one young baker is left feeling blue at elimination time.
Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Jan 2, 2023
A successful business often 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, such as Cheesecake and Eclairs, Pecan Pie and Donuts, Brownies and Tiramisu, and more. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2023
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. The winning cake earns immunity for their whole team, and one baker from the losing team is sent home.
Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2023
The key to growing a small business is getting good reviews, and food festivals are the perfect place for new customers to sample food and create "buzz." Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask the bakers to create festival-friendly desserts in a jar, like cheesecake, banana pudding, brownies, lemon meringue pie or strawberry shortcake. Then, the bakers taste each other's treats, and the business with the most "thumbs up" earns immunity from elimination, while the least successful dessert maker goes home.
Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2023
As any business owner knows, sales trends change all the time, and you have to keep up. In this cupcake challenge Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman assign each baker a cupcake flavor that reflects current market popularity, including snickerdoodle, s'mores, PB&J, strawberry lemonade, cinnamon toast and peanut butter chocolate. Then in a super-sized twist, each baker must pair up with their neighbor to create a new cupcake that will predict a trendy flavor in the future. When the flour settles, one baker is eliminated.
Episode: 11x09 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2023
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli know that in business sometimes you need to go to a fancy restaurant and 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 even escargot! When the check arrives, one baker is sent home.
Episode: 11x10 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2023
Part of running a successful business is being a good leader, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman hold interviews to hire two team leaders who will assign flavors in the cream puff cake challenge to give their team the best chance at winning. Bakers with the same flavors are put head-to-head during judgement, and the side with the most wins earns immunity for their whole team. One baker from the losing side heads for the exit.
Episode: 11x11 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2023
As a bakery owner, Duff Goldman receives some VERY unusual requests from customers, and he's using them as the inspiration for a "Make It Work" desserts challenge. In this test, bakers must make a delicious dessert using an unexpected flavor combination, like strawberry and balsamic or banana and grapefruit. The kid bakers who can go with the flow move on, while the least successful dessert maker goes home.
Episode: 11x12 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2023
This isn't your grandma's cookie! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to put their own stamp on one of today's biggest trends: the loaded cookie. They want the bakers to really go crazy while making batches of two different types of over-the-top cookies. The more toppings, filling and frosting the better for this semi-final challenge!
Episode: 11x13 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2023
The biz bakers make commercials and birthday cakes for the $25,000 prize!
Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2023
Four fan-favorite kid bakers dare to return to a kitchen that has been transformed into a spooky Halloween haunt. Duff Goldman and co-host Sam Seneviratne challenge them to create cemetery fault line cakes inspired by classic trick-or-treat candy bars, but beware, there is a sudden, shocking twist! What isn't scary is the very impressive $10,000 prize package of baking tools and equipment that goes to the best cake baker.
Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2023
Hosts Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown welcome four memorable kid bakers back to celebrate the abundance of Turkey Day by creating Thanksgiving buttercream boards featuring duos of buttercream, baked items and chocolate-dipped treats. The winning baker will be filled with gratitude when they take home the bountiful $10,000 prize package of baking tools and equipment.
Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2023
Hosts Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown bring the jolly 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 and equipment.
Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2024
Say "cheese" -- it's picture day! Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman meet the 12 kid bakers through picture-day portrait cakes. Each cake must have an edible photo on top and custom emojis that show off each baker's hobbies and interests. And don't blink, because in the end, the least successful baker goes home.
Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2024
It's every kid's favorite part of the school day -- recess! And what would recess be without the timeless game of hopscotch? Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the kid bakers to honor this classic game by making blondie hopscotch puzzles! Whose blondies will be hopping into Duff and Val's hearts and who will be hopping home?
Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2024
What's the tastiest fundraiser at school? A bake sale! For this challenge, hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are the customers as the kid bakers work in teams to decorate their own bake sale booth and stock it full of their assigned sweets. The baker with the least successful desserts will have to pack up their booth and go home.
Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2024
What do you get when you combine mosaic art and baking? You get one of the hottest trends in baking, mosaic pies! In this challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the kids to make these colorful pies filled with cubes of gelatin suspended in creamy pie filling. The mosaic that cracks under pressure will be headed out the door.
Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2024
The show is about to begin -- it's time for the school play! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the young bakers to work in teams to create a cake inspired by traditional theatrical masks. These happy/sad cakes bring out all sorts of emotions in the kitchen! And when the curtain falls, one baker must exit the stage.
Episode: 12x09 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2024
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman bring the fun and stakes of a spelling bee into the kitchen by asking the kid bakers to make spelling bee word tarts with assigned words on top. When the spelling bee ends, the baker that didn't use spell-check will take a bow and leave the competition.
Episode: 12x10 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2024
It's time for lunch, and cafeteria lunch dessert imposters are on the menu! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman assign each kid baker a different lunch menu with items they must "imposterize" and serve up on a classic cafeteria tray. When lunchtime is over, who will head back to class and who will head home?
Episode: 12x11 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2024
For this challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are honoring the school library by asking the young bakers to create book desserts. They can make any dessert, as long as it's decorated to look like a book! Sadly, on the last page, one baker's story comes to an end.
Episode: 12x12 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2024
It's school spirit day, and the theme is tie-dye! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to make tie-dyed doughnuts and ice cream with two different flavored swirls. It's a lot of color, a lot of flavors and a lot of fun as the four remaining bakers compete for the three spots in the finale. When the day is done, one baker will go home.
Episode: 12x13 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2024
The finale erupts with fun as the top three kid bakers face the final challenge, science fair volcano cakes. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the final bakers to make a cake that's not just delicious, it also has to look like a real volcano and erupt like one too! The baker with the best all-around volcano cake will win $25,000 and be crowned the Kids Baking Champion!
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Oct 5, 2016
Fan favorites from the Kid's Baking Championship return to the kitchen to take on two spooky challenges; something sweet and scary in the first heat; contestants must become mad scientists in the second heat and bake up a hybrid monster dessert.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Sep 26, 2019
Four fan-favorite kid bakers return for a Halloween-themed competition and battle it out for a baker's dream prize package that includes a blast chiller. The kids enter the kitchen to find Duff Goldman stuck in a spider web! After that initial surprise, he and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the bakers to embrace seemingly scary arachnids in the form of spider web desserts.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Dec 8, 2019
The young bakers must think on their feet as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge them to fill a mini fireplace mantel with "santastic" sweets. Special guest Casey Webb helps choose the winner of the baker's dream prize package of top-of-the-line baking equipment worth over $10,000.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Nov 8, 2020
Five fan-favorite kid bakers compete to win a $10,000 baker's dream package that includes a blast chiller! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman serve as hosts, mentors and judges as they challenge the bakers to create festive gingerbread house cakes.
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Jan 4, 2021
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Jan 11, 2021
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Jan 18, 2021
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Oct 18, 2021
Four former Kids Baking Championship competitors return to the kitchen to test their scare-abilities by making pumpkin patch pinata cakes in hopes of winning the ultimate Halloween treat -- a $10,000 dream baking package including a blast chiller. Host and judge Duff Goldman is joined by none other than season 5 champion Natasha Jiwani as a special guest judge.
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Nov 21, 2021
The holidays are here, and the Kids Baking Championship kitchen heats up as four fan-favorite kid competitors return for a new challenge. Host and judge Duff Goldman is joined by Season 4's Abby Martin, who offers her unique perspective as a former contestant. Duff asks the returning competitors to make a holiday candle tsunami cake with a poured sugar flame, and the best baker will win the ultimate $10,000 baker's prize package complete with a blast chiller!
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Nov 21, 2022
Hosts Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli bring back four unforgettable kid bakers to make Thanksgiving cakes. They create holiday magic while competing for a bountiful $10,000 prize package of baking tools.
Episode: S12 Special | Airdate: Jan 1, 2024
Duff Goldman dusts off his graduation caps and grabs that old yearbook as he revisits some of his favorite moments from Kids Baking Championship, crowning everyone from "class clown" to "most likely to become a professional pastry chef." Duff hands out awards to beloved alumni bakers, who give us the inside scoop on what they've been up to since their time on the show.
Episode: S12 Special | Airdate: Jan 15, 2024
Duff Goldman dives into the highlights and lowlights of the cutest season ever of Kids Baking Championship when the youngest bakers took over the kitchen. He sees what the youngsters are up to now, and welcomes the youngest baker of them all to the studio for a little Taekwondo and baking catch-up.
Episode: S12 Special | Airdate: Jan 22, 2024
People are always looking for baking tips and secrets when they watch Kids Baking Championship -- it's one of the most popular things about the show! To satisfy that hunger, host Duff Goldman elicits prime baking advice from alumni bakers as they dive into the ins and outs of competing. Along the way, Duff bakes up and assembles an over-the-top KBC tribute cake that encapsulates what makes the show so special.