Hosts Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown challenge the bakers to make pull-apart Halloween cupcakes with a scary ingredient and a hot pepper on, a ghost pepper.
Four children head to the North Pole to show Santa's helpers their appreciation and bake them some special goods.
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!
Inspired by Disney Lookout Cay, Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown ask the bakers to create sea animal desserts in an ocean or beach setting; special guests Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse drop by to award the winning baker a Disney Cruise Vacation!
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.
Rudy the mini horse joins Duff and Kardea 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.
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.
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.
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!
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman meet the 12 kid bakers through portrait cakes with an edible photo on top and custom emojis that show off each baker's hobbies; the least successful baker goes home.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the kid bakers to honor the recess game of hopscotch by making blondie hopscotch puzzles; one baker will be hopping home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to make tie-dyed doughnuts and ice cream with two different flavored swirls.
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.
First impressions are everything, 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.
Four kid bakers gather to make turkey cakes for a $10,000 prize package.
The biz bakers are tasked 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young bakers must face the creepy pumpkin patch for this challenge and create 3D pumpkin patch pinata cakes.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask 11 young bakers to use three snack items: potato chips, pretzels and chocolate candies to make one delicious kitchen-sink dessert; in the end, one baker will go home.
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 the entire team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the 10 young bakers with working in teams to create vibrant and dazzling cupcake rainbows.
Dessert imposters; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine kid bakers to create breakfast, lunch and dinner imposters.
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.
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.
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.
In the cookie face challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge each of the five bakers to create a giant cookie face with 3D features that communicate an assigned expression, like happy, sad, angry, surprised or excited.
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.
Five fan-favorite kid bakers are challenged to create festive gingerbread house cakes.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Valerie and Duff challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches.
The nine young bakers create llama cupcakes in a chosen flavor; hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman also welcome a special guest.
Potatoes aren't just for french fries anymore, now they're for decorating; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight remaining bakers to carve potato cutouts and create colorful potato-print cookies.
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.
The remaining six bakers create Italian rainbow cookies featuring classic flavors like espresso.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The six young bakers must create imposters that look like international dishes, such as sushi or shish kebab, but taste like dessert.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the three remaining bakers to create cakes that look like a spaceship, aliens or another planet.
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.
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli lead eight talented young bakers through tasty challenges designed to find the most impressive and creative baker.
Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes.
The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots.
The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.
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.
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.
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman host the ultimate bake sale for the finale; they challenge the remaining three bakers to create cakes using bake sale items like toffee or rice cereal treats with a bake sale theme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love birthday parties at the park so they take their inspiration to the Big Bake Challenge; the kid bakers are tasked with creating bite-sized birthday party desserts for an outdoor birthday party.
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.
Duff and Valerie throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make layered, tiered, stacked and decorated cookie cakes.
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.
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.
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.
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the eight kid bakers to use their imaginations to create a unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion.
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.
Duff and Valerie bring the galaxy into the kitchen by asking the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts.
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.
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.
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.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have the 11 remaining kid bakers create volcano bundt cakes and edible boulders.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman head back to the 1960s when they make the nine kid bakers create tie-dye cakes.
The remaining eight bakers must put a modern spin on old-school desserts like coconut cream pie or German chocolate cake.
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.
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.
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.
The final 4 bakers use futuristic tools to make molecular gastronomy-inspired desserts.
The last three kid bakers have five hours to create an original superhero cake and describe their superhero's powers during tasting.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 10 best young bakers in the United States to turn the classic pie into an art form.
The nine remaining bakers take on a new trend in baking -- the radically elevated and decorated eclair.
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.
The six remaining bakers get creative as they invent lunch box desserts; the good news is that trading items is allowed.
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.
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.
The three remaining bakers battle it out for the title of "Kids Baking Champion" while making spring break-themed cakes.
The bakers are asked to create sweet treats that masquerade as a savory items, such as tacos and bagels.
The bakers are hard at work creating the dough and delicious fillings for their stuffed puffs, when Duff and Valerie announce a savory twist.
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.