The BEST episodes of Kids Baking Championship
Every episode of Kids Baking Championship ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kids Baking Championship!
In Food Network’s series Kids Baking Championship, hosts and judges Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli will lead eight talented kid bakers through challenges designed to find the most-impressive and creative young baker. In each challenge the contestants, ranging in age from 10 to 13, will be tested on their baking skills and originality as they whip up delectable desserts, including creative cakes, mouthwatering cookies and pastries.
#1 - Defying Gravity
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/13/2018
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating cakes with a gravity-defying illusions on them. Whose extraordinary cake will rise to the top?
#2 - Ice Screamers
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/20/2018
In a moment of serendipity, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli create an ice cream sandwich with a doughnut ... which 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.
#3 - Imposters Italiano
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/27/2018
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.
#4 - You're in the Ballpark
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/3/2018
Thirteen-year-old singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne 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! This buttery treat inspires the Big Bake challenge where the kid bakers are tasked with making over-the-top popcorn desserts.
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#5 - Bite-Sized Birthday Party
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/2018
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!
#6 - Winning Colors
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/17/2018
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!
#7 - Selfieclairs
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/6/2018
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.
#9 - Sammy Whammy
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2020
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!
#10 - Freaky Flavors
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2019
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.
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#11 - 1, 2, 3 Delicious!
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2020
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
#12 - Beyond the Fringe
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2020
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!
#13 - Out of This World
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/16/2019
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.
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#14 - Beauty Is in the Pie of the Beholder
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/9/2019
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!
#15 - Hole-y Hedgehogs
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/2/2019
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!
#16 - International Intrigue
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/26/2019
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.
#17 - I Doughnut Know What to Think!
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/19/2019
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.
#18 - Desserts to the Rescue!
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/12/2019
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.
#19 - Splatter Up!
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/5/2019
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 and the brighter and crazier, the better.
#20 - Desserts Doing Good
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2019
Valerie and Duff 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.
#21 - Puzzle Me This
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2019
It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale; Valerie and Duff make it a sugar cookie puzzle.
#22 - Let's Taco About Baking
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2019
Dessert impostors come in all shapes and sizes, so Valerie & Duff challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing.
#23 - Monkey See, Monkey Bake
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2019
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.
#24 - Mama Mia!
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/2020
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.
#25 - Llama Drama
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2020
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!