Holiday Baking Championship

Episode 1 | We're Nuts for the Holidays

Season 2 kicks off with 10 competing bakers taking on a nutty chocolate dessert in the first challenge and beautifully decorated holiday pies in the main heat. In the end, one person will be eliminated.

Episode 2 | Holiday Craftiness

The remaining nine bakers get crafty as they attempt to amp up the visual impact of holiday baked goods, while creating festive candy cane and holiday wreath desserts.

Episode 3 | Stuffing Is the Best Part

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 c...

Episode 4 | Thanksgiving's Just Around the Corner

Seven bakers remain when the challenge is to get creative with Thanksgiving desserts, featuring canned cranberry sauce. Later, harvest ingredients, including sweet potato, butternut squash, apple, corn, pomegranate, carrot and fig...

Episode 5 | Ginger and Spice and Everything Nice

Candied ginger is highlighted in mini-desserts created by the six remaining bakers, who also must prepare three different types of holiday cookies, inspired by family traditions.

Episode 6 | World Class Classics

The five remaining bakers are asked to reinvent two Hanukkah classics: rugelach and macaroons. Then, they must create their own unique versions of a holiday croquembouche.

Episode 7 | Re-Gifting

Re-gifting is the theme, when the four remaining bakers make a candy-apple dessert; and later, they must figure out how to turn the contents of a traditional gift basket into something deliciously sweet.

Episode 8 | Holiday Hoopla

Season 2 comes to a close with the final three bakers showing off their decorating skills, when making sugar cookie trees and cakes that represent an assigned holiday tradition.