Kids Baking Championship
The best young bakers compete against each other the become the next Kids Baking Champion by making the best dish, and inpressing the judges with presentation, taste and creativity.
Animal Kingdom: Scales, Feathers, Fur and Fins
S13 E1
For the kickoff challenge, 12 kid bakers create an animal texture tart decorated with creature-inspired features like scales, feathers, fur or fins; adding an edible version of their animals tail.
Frosting the Snowman
S13 E2
Four children head to the North Pole to show Santa's helpers their appreciation and bake them some special goods.
Amazing Animals: Doggone Good
S13 E3
Inspired by the animated movie "Dog Man," Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown pair up the remaining 10 kid bakers to create two-tiered "Dog Man" cakes; the bakers must incorporate an ingredient that all dogs and humans love, bacon!
Amazing Animals: Paws for Applause
S13 E5
The eight bakers are challenged by Goldman and Kardea Brown to make paw print gridiron desserts inspired by "Puppy Bowl" on Animal Planet; special guest Dan the Ref keeps everyone in line while real live football-playing puppies motivate the bakers.
Amazing Animals: Delightful Dessert Domes
S13 E6
Inspired by the movie "Smurfs," Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown ask the remaining bakers to create a dome cake that illustrates what kind of Smurf they would be; the bakers must make a cookie decorated to look like an animal found in Australia.
Amazing Animals: Animal Snackers
S13 E7
Rudy the mini horse joins Duff and Kardea Brown to challenge the bakers to create dessert imposters of their assigned animal's favorite food; for a twist, they must also incorporate an herb, spice or veggie that is safe for their animal to eat.
Amazing Animals: Going Underground
S13 E8
Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown embrace bugs by challenging the five remaining bakers to make edible terrariums featuring assigned insects; since bugs love flowers, the bakers must create an edible flower to feature in their terrarium.
Amazing Animals: Were You Born in a Barn?
S13 E9
Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown test the bakers' skills by asking them to build cookie animal houses; the young competitors must also whip up haystack cookies and a water trough of dipping sauce for the hungry animals.
Amazing Animals: You Belong in a Zoo
S13 E10
Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown challenge the final three bakers to create zoo cakes; the most successful cake maker will earn the title and win $25,000!
Sweets-Giving
S12 E2
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, with the winner taking home a bountiful $10,000 prize.
Bake to School: Bake Sale
S12 E3
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to 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.
Bake to School: Art Is in the Pie of the Beholder
S12 E4
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the remaining nine kid bakers to make colorful mosaic pies filled with cubes of gelatin suspended in creamy pie filling; the mosaic that cracks under pressure will be headed out the door.
Bake to School: School Play
S12 E5
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the young bakers to work in teams to create a cake inspired by traditional happy and sad theatrical masks.
Bake to School: Spelling Bee Buzz
S12 E6
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman bring the fun and stakes of a spelling bee into the kitchen by asking the remaining seven kid bakers to make spelling bee word tarts with assigned words on top.
Bake to School: Lunch Bell
S12 E7
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.
Bake to School: Library Visit
S12 E8
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.
Bake to School: Spirit Day
S12 E9
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to make tie-dyed doughnuts and ice cream with two different flavored swirls.
Bake to School: Science Fair
S12 E10
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the final three bakers to make science fair volcano cakes that are delicious but also erupt like a real volcano.
Trick or Eat
S11 E1
Fan-favorite bakers return to make Halloween treats in hopes of taking home a $10,000 prize package; Duff Goldman and Maneet Chauhan have some tricks in store as the bakers create a mask pie using ingredients collected while trick-or-treating.
Biz Kids: Smashing Success
S11 E2
A successful business captures the public's attention with a unique product or a new spin on familiar things; Duff and Valerie challenge the biz bakers to tantalize their customers by combining two treats into one dessert mash-up.
Biz Kids: Festival Fare
S11 E4
Food festivals are the perfect place to get reviews from new customers, so Duff and Valerie 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
S11 E5
Sales trends change all the time, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the bakers with making cupcakes in a popular flavor; 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
S11 E6
Duff and Valerie know that sometimes people need to sit down over a nice meal to seal a deal; to honor this tradition, the bakers create power lunch imposter desserts like crab cakes with wedge salad, steak with fries and escargot.
Biz Kids: Interview With a Baker
S11 E7
Good leadership sets successful business apart, so Valerie and Duff hold interviews for two team leaders who assign flavors in the cream puff cake challenge; bakers with the same flavors go head-to-head for judgement.
Biz Kids: The Customer Is Always Right
S11 E8
As a bakery owner, Duff Goldman receives some 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 dessert using an unexpected flavor combination.
Biz Kids: Cookies Are for Closers
S11 E9
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to put their own stamp on the trendy loaded cookie; they want the bakers to go crazy while making two different batches of cookies packed with extra toppings, filling and frosting.
Biz Kids: Birthdays Are Big Business
S11 E10
Birthdays keep bakeries busy all year round, so the kid bakers create commercials to sell Valerie and Duff on why they'd make the best birthday cake; the top cake maker wins $25,000 and the Kids Baking Championship title.
Float Like a Butterfly
S10 E1
Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask 12 kid bakers to pay homage to the brilliant transformation of the butterfly by making colorful carved butterfly cakes; after judging, one baker must leave the competition.
Light Up the Holidays
S10 E2
Four fan favorite kid competitors return for a new holiday challenge: making a holiday candle tsunami cake with a poured sugar flame; host Duff Goldman is joined by Abby Martin to offer her unique perspective as a former contestant.
Cereal Psych Out
S10 E4
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the nine kid bakers to turn miniature cookies and chocolate-covered dried fruit or nuts into cookie cereal; one baker is eliminated.
All Puffed Up
S10 E5
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
S10 E6
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
S10 E7
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; one baker is eliminated.
Cosmic Delights
S10 E8
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
S10 E9
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 secure a place in the finale.
Cityscakes
S10 E10
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 iconic city: San Francisco, New York City or Washington, D.C.
Flying Colors
S9 E1
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'
S9 E2
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.
Party in the Sky
S9 E3
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the 10 young bakers with working in teams to create vibrant and dazzling cupcake rainbows.
Three Square Meals
S9 E4
Dessert imposters; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine kid bakers to create breakfast, lunch and dinner imposters.
Picnic Time
S9 E5
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the eight young bakers to create portable hand pies and a dressed-up version of ants on a log.
The Spice Is Right
S9 E6
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the seven young bakers to create desserts that feature a Chinese five-spice powder, a blend of star anise, Szechuan peppercorns, fennel, cinnamon and clove.
Puppy Treats
S9 E7
To celebrate Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, Valerie and Duff 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.
Pie Squared
S9 E9
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
S9 E10
For the finale, the three remaining bakers must make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef; the baker with the best biome cake will win.
Season's Sweetings
S9 E101
Five fan-favorite kid bakers are challenged to create festive gingerbread house cakes.
Beyond the Fringe
S8 E1
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.
1, 2, 3 Delicious!
S8 E2
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Sammy Whammy
S8 E3
Valerie and Duff challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches.
Llama Drama
S8 E4
The nine young bakers create llama cupcakes in a chosen flavor; hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman also welcome a special guest.
Ice Cream Cone-a-Copia
S8 E6
Ice cream cones are for more than just holding ice cream; 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!
S8 E7
The remaining six bakers create Italian rainbow cookies featuring classic flavors like espresso.
Architectural Digestible
S8 E8
Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman dare five kid bakers to make beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in show-stopping trifles.
Dinomighty
S8 E9
Valerie and Duff dare the four bakers to show off their skills by making 3D dinosaur cookies in the shape of a T-Rex, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus or Triceratops.
The Fruit of Your Labor
S8 E10
Fruit is an essential component of baking, so Valerie and Duff dare the final three bakers to create fruit cakes, but not the holiday kind.
Splatter Up!
S7 E1
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 and the brighter and crazier, the better.
Desserts to the Rescue!
S7 E2
The eight bakers must choose to defend Bird Island or Pig Island in this round inspired by the animated film "The Angry Birds Movie 2"; bakers make a dozen cupcakes based on a character from the film, then team up to build an edible island.
I Doughnut Know What to Think!
S7 E3
Seven young bakers must make a giant doughnut cake, using Bundt cake pans and an assigned flavor like strawberry or maple, and then decorating to look like an oversized doughnut.
International Intrigue
S7 E4
The six young bakers must create imposters that look like international dishes, such as sushi or shish kebab, but taste like dessert.
Hole-y Hedgehogs
S7 E5
Five young bakers must make a poke cake with fillings such as pureed fruit or pudding, but as an added challenge, they must make the finished dessert look like a hedgehog.
Out of This World
S7 E7
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the three remaining bakers to create cakes that look like a spaceship, aliens or another planet.
Tricks and Treats
S7 E8
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.
North Pole Edition
S7 E9
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli lead eight talented young bakers through tasty challenges designed to find the most impressive and creative baker.
Bakin' With Bacon
S6 E1
Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes.
Spots and Stripes Forever
S6 E2
The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots.
Brownies vs. Blondies
S6 E3
The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.
Macaron Madness
S6 E4
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.
Opposites Attract
S6 E5
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.
Freaky Flavors
S6 E6
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge.
Monkey See, Monkey Bake
S6 E7
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman know that sometimes one can make something extraordinary out of ingredients found at home; they challenge the six young bakers to turn packaged biscuit dough into dramatic and delicious monkey bread volcanoes.
Let's Taco About Baking
S6 E8
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
S6 E9
It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale; this time, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman make it a sugar cookie puzzle.
Selfieclairs
S5 E1
A 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.
Defying Gravity
S5 E2
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating a cake with a gravity-defying illusion on it.
Ice Screamers
S5 E3
In a moment of serendipity, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli create an ice cream sandwich with a doughnut; they ask the kid bakers to turn unexpected baked items like waffles, blondies and cupcakes into outrageous ice cream sandwiches.
Imposters Italiano
S5 E4
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love Italian food so much they challenge the bakers to create lasagna dessert imposters; the bakers must create meat lasagna, spinach-and-mushroom lasagna or veggie-pesto lasagna imposters.
You're in the Ballpark
S5 E5
Darci Lynne, a 13-year-old singing ventriloquist, and her puppet, Petunia, hang out at the ballpark with Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman while they enjoy their favorite stadium snack of all -- popcorn.
Winning Colors
S5 E7
Thunder claps and lightning strikes greet the bakers, but when the storms pass, a rainbow appears and inspires the final challenge of rainbow cakes; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman want cakes that have rainbows on the inside and outside.
Pizza For Dessert
S4 E2
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.
Lemon BFFs
S4 E3
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.
Cake and Ice Cream 2.0
S4 E4
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask bakers to get creative with a classic combination, cake and ice cream.
Doughnuts Go Nuts
S4 E5
The bakers work in teams to create designs made of doughnuts; each baker individually bakes and decorates two dozen mini doughnuts, and then combines them to create a unified design.
Unicornucopia
S4 E6
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
S4 E7
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have fond memories of the lunches they took to school as kids, so they challenge the six kid bakers to look at lunch in a new way by turning common lunchbox foods into look-alike dessert masterpieces.
Out of This World
S4 E8
Duff and Valerie bring the galaxy into the kitchen by asking the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts.
Sand Castle Sweets
S4 E9
With spring and summer approaching, Valerie and Duff are reminded of hanging out at the beach; the remaining four bakers are challenged to create a cereal treat sand castle filled with two different baked goods.
Cover Story Cakes
S4 E10
Duff and Valerie challenge the three finalists to create a Food Network Magazine birthday cake worthy of the $25,000 prize and the title of Kids Baking Champion.
Life Is a Carnival
S3 E1
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.
I Lava Volcano
S3 E2
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have the 11 remaining kid bakers create volcano bundt cakes and edible boulders.
Comfort Food Dessert Imposters
S3 E3
The remaining 10 kid bakers must make a comfort food dessert imposter; meatloaf; fried chicken; mac and cheese.
Color Me Wow!
S3 E4
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman head back to the 1960s when they make the nine kid bakers create tie-dye cakes.
Throwback Eclairs
S3 E5
The remaining eight bakers must put a modern spin on old-school desserts like coconut cream pie or German chocolate cake.
Breakfast Desserts
S3 E6
The remaining seven kid bakers compete to impress Valerie and Duff with layer cakes made from waffles and pancakes; the winning side is immune from elimination.
Mobile App Cookies
S3 E7
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.
Pet Shop Joys
S3 E8
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.
Molecular Kidstronomy
S3 E9
The final 4 bakers use futuristic tools to make molecular gastronomy-inspired desserts.
Pie a la Mode
S2 E1
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 10 best young bakers in the United States to turn the classic pie into an art form.
Eclairs Gone Wild
S2 E2
The nine remaining bakers take on a new trend in baking -- the radically elevated and decorated eclair.
Hot Chocolate
S2 E3
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman turn up the heat when they ask the remaining eight bakers to incorporate chilies, peppers, cayenne, and more into their chocolate creations.
Macaron Stackaron
S2 E4
The seven remaining bakers must take on a demanding dessert, producing three dozen colorful French macarons.
Lunchbox Desserts
S2 E5
The six remaining bakers get creative as they invent lunch box desserts; the good news is that trading items is allowed.
Candymonium
S2 E6
The five remaining bakers must use three types of candy in a dessert but also keep it balanced; it's a fine line between candymonium and candy overload.
Dessert Impostors 2.0
S2 E7
It's dinner in reverse for the four remaining bakers who must make a dessert item that looks like a savory dish and also create a savory cupcake for dessert.
Bake Sale
S1 E1
The bakers must serve up two delicious signature items for a bake sale; midway through the challenge, Duff and Valerie reveal that they must also make a third item using a classic childhood flavor combination.
Dessert Imposters
S1 E2
The bakers are asked to create sweet treats that masquerade as a savory items, such as tacos and bagels.
Celebration Cake
S1 E4
The four remaining bakers are tasked with creating a celebration cake for the moment they win, along with baked party gifts that complement their cake in flavor and design.