The WORST episodes of Holiday Baking Championship
Every episode of Holiday Baking Championship ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Holiday Baking Championship!
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.
#1 - Runners Up Redemption
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/25/2017
In the Christmas special of Holiday Baking Championship, hosts and judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale welcome back runner-up teams from previous seasons to battle it out for another chance to win. In the pre-heat, baking teams must use real letters to Santa to inspire a holiday dessert. For the main heat, teams bake and decorate cupcakes before assembling them into one giant edible holiday tree. The winning team earns $10,000 in holiday cash!
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Homecoming Special
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/24/2018
Six previous Holiday Baking Championship winners step back into the kitchen for a new competition judged by Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale. Competitors Maeve Rochford, Jason Smith, Jen Barney, Jordan Pilarski, Nacho Aguirre and Michelle Antonishek bring their very best for a shot at a second Holiday Baking Champion title. In the pre-heat, the bakers are teamed up to turn the lightest of all pastries -- pate a choux -- into eclair holiday light strings. For the main heat, the teams take on the metallic trend with stunning monochromatic gold and silver Christmas cakes.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#3 - Christmas in July
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/8/2019
Four talented bakers celebrate Christmas twice a year; host Jesse Palmer leads them through hotly contested challenges focused on melted snowman desserts and cool and creamy Christmas ice cream cakes.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Traditions with a Twist
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/2019
Some of the tastiest treats of Hanukkah are gold-covered chocolate coins, and Jesse Palmer challenges the four remaining bakers to give the classic treat a twist by incorporating candied orange, espresso beans, smoked salt or toasted coconut and create a dessert highlighting their chosen flavor. In the second challenge, the competitors bake up delicious cheesecakes with an assigned crust and decorated with an edible shiny ice rink on top. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale get serious about which three bakers move on to the finale.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#5 - Christmas Day Delights
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/2019
Nothing beats waking up to the smell of a holiday brunch, so Jesse Palmer challenges the three remaining bakers to make a Christmas morning brunch using the classic holiday flavors of gingerbread, cinnamon and eggnog. In the final round, the bakers must create cakes that are plaid both on the inside and the outside. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale crown one baker the Holiday Baking Champion and award the $25,000 prize.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#8 - Stuffing Is the Best Part
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/15/2015
The eight remaining bakers begin by making their best holiday whoopie pies that evoke a randomly-assigned theme of turkey, pumpkin, Pilgrims or fall foliage. Then, they must create stuffed holiday cakes that reveal a surprise center when sliced open.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#9 - Ginger and Spice and Everything Nice
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/29/2015
In this week's challenges, the six remaining bakers revel in the warm, taste bud-tingling flavor of ginger. They must make mini desserts highlighting candied ginger, then create three different types of holiday cookies inspired by family traditions.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#11 - Attitude of Gratitude
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/15/2021
The baking teams are tasked with creating holiday memory snow globe scenes in gingerbread. And because a snow globe is nothing without snow, they must also make a treat using the most common baking ingredient to represent snow -- coconut!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#12 - Thanksgiving's Just Around the Corner
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/22/2015
The seven remaining bakers get creative with Thanksgiving-inspired desserts, and in the first round, their sweets feature canned cranberry sauce. Then, in the main heat, the bakers must invent a dessert highlighting their assigned harvest ingredient: sweet potato, pumpkin, apple, pear, pomegranate, carrot or lemon.
Watch Now:iTunes#13 - Classic Holiday Flavors
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/16/2014
The seven remaining bakers take classic holiday flavors into tasty new territory. In the first challenge, they create a swirled treat using eggnog and have to play nice with varieties of sugar and spice for their second dessert.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#14 - Signs Of The Season
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/2016
For the pre-heat, host Bobby Deen challenges the nine bakers to take seasonal hot beverages like hot chocolate and apple cider a step further by turning them into desserts. Then, in the main heat, these culinary artisans show off their decorating skills by creating a filled Bundt cake wreath.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#15 - Gingerbread Worlds
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/2014
In the epic finale, the three remaining bakers have just one challenge, but it's a massive one. Each baker taps into a favorite holiday memory and then constructs gingerbread worlds filled with all sorts of treats. The baker who can impress the judges the most will become the Holiday Baking Champion and take home $50,000!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#17 - A New Holiday Spin
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/2017
The six remaining bakers are creating new takes on traditional holiday baking. Inspired by an internet baking meme, for the pre-heat they'll use yellow cake mix to make anything but cake. Then in the main heat, bakers must "holiday up!" a non-holiday dessert.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#18 - Tradition! Tradition!
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/11/2017
The four remaining bakers celebrate two classic holiday traditions: Hanukkah jelly doughnuts and ye olde fruitcake. Duff Goldman helps introduce the pre-heat challenge in which bakers must create a dozen doughnuts featuring a challenging flavor combination. Then for the main heat, bakers try their best to reinvent fruitcake.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#19 - New Family Classics
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/2018
The remaining four bakers are going cocoa-loco for the holiday season in the chocolaty pre-heat, when they have to combine common pantry ingredients like balsamic vinegar, potato chips, oatmeal, red wine, olive oil and more in a new version of a classic holiday dessert. For the main heat, the bakers must use two key fruitcake components in a new dessert.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#20 - Holiday Cookie Madness
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2014
The eight bakers have to put their best cookie forward in the first two challenges of this competition. First, they'll have to make their best holiday cookie using an assigned baking tool and in the second challenge, they must use holiday ingredients to impress the judges with three different kinds of cookies.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#21 - Holiday Party Delights
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/2017
To kick things off, nine bakers must create eye-catching and tantalizing new holiday treats for seasonal parties. In the pre-heat, bakers create a dessert with an unusual candy cane flavor and then, for the main heat, they use a holiday cocktail as sweet inspiration. One unlucky baker goes home.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#23 - It's Not the Holidays Without Pie
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/23/2014
In this episode, the six remaining bakers take on the crusty, sweet goodness of pie. In the first challenge, they have just 30 minutes to make their best dessert using store-bought pie crust. In the second challenge, the bakers create three different pies with three different crusts.
Watch Now:iTunes#24 - We're Nuts for the Holidays
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2015
The Holiday Baking Championship kicks off as 10 competing bakers take on a nutty chocolate dessert in the first challenge and beautifully-decorated holiday pies in the main heat. At the end of each episode, one baker will be eliminated!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#25 - Holidays in All the Ways
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/13/2021
Host Jesse Palmer asks the bakers to create sweet potato and spice desserts in honor of Kwanzaa. In the main heat, the competitors make Christmas card cakes that depict a perfect family snapshot for a holiday card to capture the smiles of judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall. In the end, one baker heads for the exit.
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