Kids Baking Championship

Episode 1 | Bakin' with Bacon

Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in this season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes! The 12 young bakers must make a cupcake featuring bacon and an assigned ingredient like maple, chocolate or cherry.

Episode 2 | Spots and Stripes Forever

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli take the 11 young bakers on a safari of sweetness as they challenge them to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes to leopard and giraffe spots.

Episode 3 | Brownies vs. Blondies

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli raise the eternal question: Which are better, brownies or blondies? To settle the debate, they divide the 10 young bakers into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.

Episode 4 | Macaron Madness

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 both happy and sad faces.

Episode 5 | Opposites Attract

The eight young bakers work in teams to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme like fire and ice, night and day, land and sea or big and small.

Episode 6 | Freaky Flavors

For the freaky flavor tarts challenge, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli ask the young bakers to create a large tart featuring a freaky flavor like jalapeno, goat cheese, yuzu, pink peppercorn, anise, blue cheese or curry.

Episode 7 | Monkey See, Monkey Bake

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 monkey bread volcanoes.

Episode 8 | Let's Taco About Baking

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.

Episode 9 | Puzzle Me This

To earn a spot in the finale, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four remaining young bakers to make sugar cookie puzzles in assigned flavors like raspberry, butterscotch, spice or lemon.

Episode 10 | Desserts Doing Good

The remaining three young bakers create cakes using bake sale items like toffee, rice cereal treats or chocolate-covered pretzels. Their cakes have to illustrate a common bake sale theme like Drama Club, Dance Club or Chess Club.