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.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 0h 0m

Release: 2015

Rating: 7.2

Season 1 - Kids Baking Championship
2015-02-02
"Kicking off the Kids Baking Championship, the kid bakers work to serve up two delicious signature items for a bake sale."
2015-02-09
"In this challenge, the kid bakers are asked to create dessert imposters \u2014 a sweet treat masquerading as a savory item. How convincingly will the bakers be able to make delicious sweets that look like tacos and bagels?"
2015-02-16
"The kid bakers are hard at work creating the dough and delicious fillings for their stuffed puffs, when Duff and Valerie announce a savory twist."
2015-02-23
"The four remaining kid bakers are tasked with a massive challenge for the finale: create a celebration cake for the moment they win, along with baked party gifts that complement their cake in flavor and design. Which finalist will become the Kids Baking Champion and take home the prize package that includes $10,000?"
Season 2 - Kids Baking Championship
2016-01-04
""
2016-01-11
""
2016-01-18
""
2016-01-25
""
2016-02-01
""
2016-02-08
""
Season 3 - Kids Baking Championship
2017-01-02
"The carnival is in town for the Kids Baking Championship kick off! It's a thrill ride when Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the 12 best kid bakers in the country to create carnival-themed cupcakes and incorporate carnival treats like kettle corn, frozen bananas and cotton candy."
2017-01-09
""
2017-01-23
"Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the remaining nine kid bakers to pay tribute to the 1960s by creating outrageous psychedelic tie-dye cakes."
2017-01-30
"Eight kid bakers remain for the challenge of updating old-school desserts, including coconut cream pie and German chocolate cake, into trendy \u00e9clairs."
2017-02-06
"Breakfast desserts is the theme for a challenge in which waffles or pancakes must be used to make layer cakes."
2017-02-13
"Six kid bakers remain for the challenge of designing mobile app icons out of sugar cookies."
2017-02-20
"Cute little pets serve as the inspiration for incredible sweets when the last five kid bakers standing must create a dessert inspired by the animal they are paired with, which could be a guinea pig, turtle, rabbit, mini pig or silkie chicken."
2017-02-27
"Kids Baking Championship goes mad scientist! Using futuristic tools, the final four bakers fight for a spot in the finale with molecular gastronomy inspired desserts. Which three kids will make it through the high-tech gauntlet?"
2017-03-06
"For the finale, the last three kid bakers are given five hours to create an original superhero cake and describe their superhero's powers during tasting. Who will win this last challenge and fly off with $25,000?"
Season 4 - Kids Baking Championship
2018-01-01
"Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make layered, tiered, stacked and beautifully decorated cookie cakes."
2018-01-08
"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."
2018-01-15
"Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli celebrate her favorite flavor, lemon, by challenging the 10 kid bakers to create lemon bar BFF desserts that highlight lemon and some of its best flavor friends."
2018-01-22
"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."
2018-01-29
"Valerie and Duff ask the eight kid bakers to work in teams to create two different types of doughnuts that come together in a unified doughnut design."
2018-02-05
"With their plush tails, pointy ears, brightly colored manes and, of course, magical horns, there\u2019s a lot to love about unicorns. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the eight kid bakers to use their imaginations to create a unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion."
2018-02-12
"Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have fond memories of the lunches they took to school as kids, so they\u2019re challenging the six kid bakers to look at lunch in a new way. From a PBJ sandwich to chicken nuggets to a turkey wrap, the bakers have to turn common lunchbox foods into lookalike dessert masterpieces."
2018-02-19
"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."
2018-02-26
"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."
2018-03-05
"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."
Season 5 - Kids Baking Championship
2018-08-06
"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."
2018-08-13
"Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating a cake with a gravity-defying illusion on it."
2018-08-20
"In a moment of serendipity, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli create an ice cream sandwich with a doughnut \u2026 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."
2018-08-27
"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."
2018-09-03
"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."
2018-09-10
"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."
2018-09-17
""
Season 6 - Kids Baking Championship
2019-01-07
"Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes."
2019-01-14
"The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots."
2019-01-21
"The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge."
2019-01-28
"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."
2019-02-04
"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."
2019-02-11
"Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge."
2019-02-18
"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."
2019-02-25
"Dessert impostors come in all shapes and sizes, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing."
2019-03-04
"It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale; this time, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman make it a sugar cookie puzzle."
Season 7 - Kids Baking Championship
2019-08-05
"The nine young bakers are challenged to make colorful splatter-art cakes."
2019-08-12
"Bakers make cupcakes based on movie characters that live on an edible island."
2019-08-19
"The seven young bakers use Bundt cake pans to make giant doughnut cakes."
2019-08-26
"Bakers must make imposter dishes that look like international dishes."
2019-09-02
"Bakers must make poke cakes that look like hedgehogs."
2019-09-09
"Bakers must bake a pie with late-summer fruits."
2019-09-16
"For the final episode, the bakers are tasked with creating cakes that look like a spaceship, aliens or another planet."
N/A
"No description"
Season 8 - Kids Baking Championship
N/A
"No description"
2020-01-13
"Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla."
2020-01-20
"It's the most anticipated episode of the season \u2014 dessert impostors! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Order up!"
2020-01-27
"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 \u2014 a real live llama!"
2020-02-03
"Potatoes aren't just for french fries anymore -- they're for decorating. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight remaining bakers to carve potato cutouts and create colorful potato-print cookies."
2020-02-10
"Ice cream cones are for more than just holding ice cream. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the seven kid bakers to create impressive ice cream cone cupcakes in order to stay in the game."
2020-02-17
"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."
2020-02-24
"Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five bakers to create beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in showstopping trifles."
2020-03-02
"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."
2020-03-02
"Fruit is an important element of baking, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the final three bakers to make fruit cakes, but not the holiday kind. Instead, they have to make cakes that look like actual fruit! One baker will walk away with the title of Kids Baking Champion."
Season 9 - Kids Baking Championship
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
Season 10 - Kids Baking Championship
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
Season 11 - Kids Baking Championship
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
2023-01-16
"The key to growing a small business is getting good reviews, and food festivals are the perfect place for new customers to sample food and create \"buzz.\" Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask the bakers to create festival-friendly desserts in a jar, like cheesecake, banana pudding, brownies, lemon meringue pie or strawberry shortcake. Then, the bakers taste each other's treats, and the business with the most \"thumbs up\" earns immunity from elimination, while the least successful dessert maker goes home."
2023-01-23
"As any business owner knows, sales trends change all the time, and you have to keep up. In this cupcake challenge Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman assign each baker a cupcake flavor that reflects current market popularity, including snickerdoodle, s'mores, PB&J, strawberry lemonade, cinnamon toast and peanut butter chocolate. Then in a super-sized twist, each baker must pair up with their neighbor to create a new cupcake that will predict a trendy flavor in the future. When the flour settles, one baker is eliminated."
2023-01-30
"Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli know that in business sometimes you need to go to a fancy restaurant and sit down over a nice meal to seal a deal. To honor this tradition, the bakers must create power lunch imposter desserts, like crab cakes with wedge salad, steak with fries and even escargot! When the check arrives, one baker is sent home."
2023-02-06
"Part of running a successful business is being a good leader, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman hold interviews to hire two team leaders who will assign flavors in the cream puff cake challenge to give their team the best chance at winning. Bakers with the same flavors are put head-to-head during judgement, and the side with the most wins earns immunity for their whole team. One baker from the losing side heads for the exit."
2023-02-13
"As a bakery owner, Duff Goldman receives some VERY unusual requests from customers, and he's using them as the inspiration for a \"Make It Work\" desserts challenge. In this test, bakers must make a delicious dessert using an unexpected flavor combination, like strawberry and balsamic or banana and grapefruit. The kid bakers who can go with the flow move on, while the least successful dessert maker goes home."
2023-02-20
"This isn't your grandma's cookie! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to put their own stamp on one of today's biggest trends: the loaded cookie. They want the bakers to really go crazy while making batches of two different types of over-the-top cookies. The more toppings, filling and frosting the better for this semi-final challenge!"
2023-02-27
"There is one event that is the staple of any baking business, and it keeps Duff busy all year round -- birthdays! In order to find out which flavor they\u2019ll be making, the kid bakers must record a commercial for their baking business and sell Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman on why they'd make a great birthday cake. The top commercial maker will assign the flavors, and the best young baker wins $25,000 and the title of Kids Baking Champion!"
Season 12 - Kids Baking Championship
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
N/A
"No description"
Season 13 - Kids Baking Championship
2024-10-07
"Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown challenge 4 fan favorite kid bakers to make pull apart Halloween cupcakes with one of the hottest peppers around: ghost peppers! Then a ghoulish twist puts the $10,000 prize of baking tools and equipment on the line"
2024-10-14
""