The WORST episodes of Kids Baking Championship
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
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 - Garden of Eatin'
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/28/2020
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 -- no glitter, sprinkles or fondant allowed.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#3 - Location, Location, Location
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/2021
For the finale, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman focus on biomes -- large regions of Earth with specific climates that are home to certain types of living things. The three final bakers must make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef. The young baker with the best biome cake earns $25,000 and the title of Kids Baking Champion!
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#4 - Pie Squared
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/15/2021
To earn a spot in the finale, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask four kid bakers to impress them with a two-flavor sheet pan pie. Then the three final bakers must make a cake that reflects one of Earth's biomes: desert, rainforest or coral reef.
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#10 - 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!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#11 - Puppy Treats
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/1/2021
The competition has gone to the dogs! Supercute puppies, to be exact. To celebrate Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman pair each of the six bakers with an adorable, adoptable puppy and challenge them to create a cake that reflects their puppy's happy life after adoption on his or her first birthday.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#12 - Dinomighty
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/2020
Welcome to the Dinosaur Park! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four bakers to show off their baking and building skills by making 3-D dinosaur cookies in the shape of a T. rex, velociraptor, stegosaurus, brontosaurus or triceratops.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#14 - Throwback Eclairs
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2017
What were desserts like when hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman were kids? The remaining eight bakers must update old school desserts like coconut cream pie or German chocolate cake into trendy "throwback" eclairs.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#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!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#16 - Eclairs Gone Wild
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2016
Time to hop on the "Eclairis Wheel" as the nine remaining kid bakers take on a sweeping new trend in baking: the radically elevated and decorated eclair. This cream-filled challenge will test the young bakers to the max!
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#17 - Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2022
The Kids Baking Championship snack mine is the inspiration for this week's challenge as hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 11 young bakers to use three snack items -- potato chips, pretzels and chocolate candies -- in one delicious kitchen sink dessert. In the end, one baker goes home.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#18 - Dessert Imposters 2.0
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2016
The most beloved challenge from the first season of Kids Baking Championship is back with a twist. For dessert imposters 2.0, the four remaining kid bakers must make a dessert item that looks like a savory dish and also create a savory cupcake for "dessert." It's dinner in reverse!
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#21 - Out of This World
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2018
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli bring the galaxy into the kitchen by asking the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts. And because astronauts in space eat freeze-dried foods, the bakers must also use freeze-dried ingredients in their out-of-this-world creations.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#22 - Cake and Ice Cream 2.0
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2018
Creativity is the name of the game, and Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli have a classic combination in mind -- cake and ice cream! They challenge the nine kid bakers to take new and creative approaches, like ice cream cone drip cakes, to their cake and ice cream desserts.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes#24 - 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!
Watch Now:iTunes#25 - 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.
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