The BEST episodes of Holiday Baking Championship season 7

Every episode of Holiday Baking Championship season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Holiday Baking Championship season 7!

The search to find the greatest holiday baker begins as eight amateur bakers enter the kitchen, where they show off their family traditions and superb baking skills. To survive the challenges from week to week, they must prove their abilities in front of our tough-love judges: Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller and Lorraine Pascale. Hosted by Bobby Deen, this baking championship is the sweetest way to celebrate this holiday season.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: Food NetworkStatus: Continuing
It's the Inside That Counts
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8.18
17 votes

#1 - It's the Inside That Counts

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2020

Host Jesse Palmer gives the seven bakers advent calendars filled with different types of chocolate to inspire them to make desserts with a surprise inside. Then, for the main heat, the competitors must bake one delicious cheesecake with three different flavors for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

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Holiday Style
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8.13
24 votes

#2 - Holiday Style

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2020

The competition kicks off for 12 bakers with holiday decorated quick bread wreaths. In the main heat, the competitors must make a winter hat cake to charm the judges.

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Christmas Windows in Time
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8.12
17 votes

#3 - Christmas Windows in Time

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/2020

Dressed as a Christmas tree, host Jesse Palmer kicks things off by asking the final four competitors to honor the holiday tree in the form of a beautifully decorated macaron tower. In the Christmas past, present and future main heat, the bakers must feature an assigned icing style in a stunning cake that evokes their assigned time period -- marzipan from the past, buttercream from the present or mirror glaze from the future. In the end, judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall will decide the one baker who will be crowned Holiday Baking Champion and walk away $25,000 richer!

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Holiday Goodie Games
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8.06
16 votes

#4 - Holiday Goodie Games

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2020

Host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to highlight a nut or seed in a holiday dessert. Then, the competitors spin a wheel to determine which fundamental holiday ingredient -- holiday spice, dried fruit or holiday spirits -- they must add to unseasonable desserts, like icebox cakes or fruit tarts. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall make the call on which bakers pull it off.

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Topsy-Turvy Holidays
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7.93
15 votes

#5 - Topsy-Turvy Holidays

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/2020

Host Jesse Palmer is turning things on their heads as he challenges the six competitors to work in teams to create jelly doughnut-inspired desserts, a twist on traditional Hanukkah jelly doughnuts. Then, the bakers get creative with the yummiest, gooiest holiday decorated upside-down cakes to satisfy judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

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Take Holiday Pies by Surprise
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7.89
18 votes

#6 - Take Holiday Pies by Surprise

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/2020

Host Jesse Palmer loves both cookies and pies, so he asks the nine bakers to make holiday cookie-topped mini pies. Then, Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall judge the pie pandemonium as the competitors celebrate fall with flavor combos such as pumpkin-cider and chestnut-chocolate in double crust, cream pies, slab pies, lattice pies and custard pies.

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Hosting the Holidays
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7.88
16 votes

#7 - Hosting the Holidays

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/2020

Host Jesse Palmer challenges the eight remaining bakers to turn breakfast items, like French toast, into amazing Thanksgiving breakfast desserts. Then, the competitors take common Friendsgiving potluck dishes, such as glazed carrots, and use them in a dessert to impress judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall. Plus, since Friendsgiving is all about community, they're doing it in teams.

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A Classic Christmas
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7.84
19 votes

#8 - A Classic Christmas

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/2020

Host Jesse Palmer asks the five bakers to pull out all the stops and create the most-delicious, over-the-top version of a holiday trifle. Then, the classics continue in the main heat when the competitors make the ultimate Charlotte royale for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall, as well as the king of Christmas -- Santa Claus!

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