Name: Holiday Baking Championship
Uploaded: 2025-07-30T17:52:40.000Z
Description: Bakers compete in the Holiday Kitchen for a chance to win $25,000. They celebrate the season as they share family traditions and show off superb baking skills in front of tough-love judges.

Bakers compete in the Holiday Kitchen for a chance to win $25,000. They celebrate the season as they share family traditions and show off superb baking skills in front of tough-love judges.

WBD - Sweet Escapes

Eight bakers have to put their best cookie forward in the first two challenges. First, they make their best holiday cookie using an assigned baking tool, and in the next challenge, they must use holiday ingredients.

Holiday Cookie Madness

The seven remaining bakers take classic holiday flavors into a tasty new territory. In the first challenge, they create a swirled treat using eggnog. Then they have to play nice with varieties of sugar and spice for their second dessert.

Classic Holiday Flavors

The six remaining bakers take on pie. In the first challenge, they have to make their best dessert using store-bought pie crust. In the second challenge, the bakers create three different pies with three different crusts.

Not the Holidays Without Pie

The five bakers left in the Holiday Baking Championship take the polarizing fruitcake someplace new and reinvent the biggest holiday cake of all, the yule log.

The Great Holiday Cake-Over

The four bakers are first tasked to use the classic holiday flavors of peppermint and hot chocolate in a dessert and then create a blown-out holiday breakfast complete with three sweet dishes.

Great Holiday Traditions

In this epic finale, the three remaining bakers have just one challenge. Each baker constructs holiday gingerbread worlds filled with all sorts of treats. The baker who can impress the judges will take home $50,000.

Gingerbread Worlds

The Holiday Baking Championship kicks off as 10 bakers take on a nutty chocolate dessert in the first challenge and beautifully decorated holiday pies in the main heat. At the end of each episode, one baker will be eliminated.

We're Nuts for the Holidays

This week, it's time to get crafty. The remaining nine bakers attempt to amp up the visual impact of holiday baked goods as they create festive candy-cane and holiday-wreath desserts.

Holiday Craftiness

The eight remaining bakers make 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 center when sliced.

Stuffing Is the Best Part

The seven remaining bakers make Thanksgiving-themed desserts. After using canned cranberry sauce in round one, they make desserts highlighting assigned ingredients: sweet potato, pumpkin, apple, pear, pomegranate, carrot or lemon.

Thanksgiving Around the Corner

In this week's challenges, the six remaining bakers revel in the warm flavor of ginger. They must make mini desserts highlighting candied ginger, then create three different types of holiday cookies inspired by family traditions.

Ginger, Spice, Everything Nice

The five remaining bakers celebrate a couple of favorites by reinventing two Hanukkah classics: rugalach and macaroons. Then they must create their own unique version of a holiday croquembouche.

World Class Classics

Re-gifting is the theme of the week, as the four remaining bakers must make a dessert inspired by a candy-apple gift, then figure out how turn the contents of a traditional gift basket into a delicious dessert.

Re-Gifting

The final three bakers compete to transform different holiday traditions into intricately delicate cakes. The winner will be crowned Holiday Baking Champion.

Holiday Hoopla

The bakers turn seasonal hot beverages like hot chocolate and apple cider desserts. Then, the culinary artisans show off their decorating skills by creating a filled bundt cake wreath.

Signs of the Season

Clash of the Grandmas star Norma Zager joins Bobby Deen to lend her expertise to the remaining eight bakers as they make cookies and pies in a Thanksgiving-themed competition.

Grandma's Turkey Day Favorites

The remaining bakers combine their favorite Thanksgiving desserts into one by creating elegant trifles. Then, they have to produce Thanksgiving imposter cupcakes that will make everyone take a second look.

Thanksgiving Joy

The remaining bakers are tested on how well they can make a dessert featuring toasted marshmallows, and they get the chance to put a fresh spin on an old holiday classic by "blinging out" yule logs.

Hearth and Home

Who doesn't love surprises, especially during the holidays? The bakers must whip up a dessert inspired by an ugly Christmas sweater, and then they have to create edible gift boxes filled with a bevy of treats.

Sweet Surprises

The remaining bakers make edible dessert stockings and then take their designs to new heights by building colorful cream puff Christmas trees.

Christmas Morning

The final bakers make snacks for North Pole characters. Then they're challenged to bake and decorate a North Pole-inspired cake, with the best creation earning one baker the crown of Holiday Baking Champion and a $50,000 prize!

Live From the North Pole

Nine bakers must create eye-catching and tantalizing new holiday treats for seasonal parties. They create a dessert with an unusual candy cane flavor and then use a holiday cocktail as sweet inspiration before one baker goes home.

Holiday Party Delights

Eight bakers team up to make a dozen hand pies in a festive holiday shape. Then the competitors create a holiday dessert duo inspired by classic holiday flavor combinations.

Season of Sharing

Seven bakers must create a Thanksgiving dessert using a mystery canned fruit. Then the competitors whip up new Turkey Day sensations by combining two traditional desserts.

Thanksgiving Genius

Six bakers are creating new takes on traditional holiday baking. Inspired by an internet baking meme, they use yellow cake mix to make anything but cake. Then they're challenged to "holiday up!" a non-holiday dessert.

A New Holiday Spin

Five bakers "ignite" the holiday spirit with a fiery dessert. Then they take a traditional holiday cheese board and turn it into an unusual cheesecake.

Comfort and Joy

The bakers celebrate two classic holiday traditions: Hanukkah jelly doughnuts and ye olde fruitcake. They must create a dozen doughnuts featuring a challenging flavor combo. Then they try their best to reinvent fruitcake.

Tradition! Tradition!

Three bakers grab two last-minute holiday gifts and combine them into one impressive dessert before creating a 12 Days of Christmas dessert. The winning baker walks away with $50,000 and the title of Holiday Baking Champion!

Twelve Days of Christmas

Runner-up teams from previous seasons battle it out in Christmas-inspired dessert challenges for a chance to win $10,000.

Runners Up Redemption

The pumpkin spice phenomenon hits the Holiday Baking Championship! For the pre-heat, nine bakers try to wow the judges with creative pumpkin spiciness. In the main heat, they must combine a yule log with a classic holiday treat.

Holiday Essentials

For the pre-heat, the eight bakers work in teams to make four different kinds of pies ... on the same sheet pan! In the main heat, the bakers make stuffed cakes featuring seasonal ingredients.

Plenty of Gratitude

In the pre-heat, the seven bakers must make a dessert combining cranberry and another flavor of the season. The main heat challenges the bakers to create a sweet treat that pairs coffee with an unusual flavor of coffee syrup.

Turkey Day Delights

In the pre-heat, inflatable holiday decorations inspire the six bakers' cute cream puff displays. In the main heat, the bakers dazzle the judges with hand-painted eggnog cakes.

Holiday Artistry

The Festival of Lights ignites creativity in the pre-heat, when the five bakers have to update traditional rugelach with unexpected new flavors like cardamom, grapefruit, guava paste, peanut butter or chai.

Light and Inspiring

The four bakers have to combine common pantry ingredients in a new version of a classic holiday dessert. For the main heat, they must use two key fruitcake components in a new dessert.

New Family Classics

Three bakers remain in the competition, and in the final main heat, they channel holiday gift shopping by creating a cake that is decorated like a gift on the outside and reveals a surprise inside when sliced.

Gifts of Greatness

Six previous Holiday Baking Championship winners step back into the kitchen for a new competition judged by Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale.

Homecoming Special

Four talented bakers face challenges focused on melted snowman desserts and Christmas ice cream cakes. Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale bring Christmas cheer as they determine which baker deserves the $10,000 prize.

Christmas in July

In the first challenge, host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to introduce themselves with edible place cards and one-bite signature holiday desserts. The main heat is all about holiday wreath cakes and holiday ingredients.

Gearing Up for the Holidays

Three runners-up from previous Holiday Baking Championship competitions are back, and all they want for Christmas is a second chance to win.

Sweet Revenge

The popularity of holiday spiced nuts inspires Jesse Palmer's challenge to the nine bakers: Use the crowd-pleasing holiday gift in spiced nut desserts. Then each baker must make three pies with different decorated crusts.

Filling Grateful

Host Jesse Palmer offers tips for surviving holiday madness and shares highlights from five seasons of Holiday Baking Championship competitions.

Holiday Survival Guide

Jesse Palmer asks the eight bakers to create a dozen kicked-up apple cider doughnuts decorated with seasonal themes. Then the competitors must transform a classic holiday yule log into a festive Thanksgiving roll cake.

Thanksgiving It My All

In the first round, the seven bakers make baked Brie and jam mini pies. The main heat is all about being prepared for greatness as the bakers take a prepared ingredient and use it to make a crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving dessert.

Trendsetting Turkey Day

The six bakers must turn panettone, the classic holiday Italian sweet bread, into an entirely new dessert. Then they're challenged to create a beautifully decorated cupcake mosaic inspired by a pair of holiday pajamas.

Gettin' Gifty with It

The five bakers create desserts that are inspired by and look like Santa Claus. Then they're tasked with making impressive cakes that look like another icy North Pole staple: an igloo.

North Pole Vaulting

The four remaining bakers give Hanukkah's gold-covered chocolate coins a twist by incorporating candied orange, espresso beans and more. Then they bake up cheesecakes decorated with edible shiny ice rinks.

Traditions with a Twist

The three bakers make a Christmas morning brunch using gingerbread, cinnamon and eggnog. Then they must create cakes that are plaid both on the inside and the outside, and one baker is crowned the winner and takes home $25,000.

Christmas Day Delights

Host Jesse Palmer kicks off the competition for 12 bakers with holiday decorated quick bread wreaths. In the main heat, the competitors must make a winter hat cake to charm judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

Holiday Style

Host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to highlight a nut or seed in a holiday dessert. Then, the competitors must use a fundamental holiday ingredient in unseasonable desserts, like icebox cakes or fruit tarts.

Holiday Goodie Games

Host Jesse Palmer asks the nine bakers to make holiday cookie-topped mini pies. Then, it's pie pandemonium as the competitors celebrate fall with flavor combos such as pumpkin-cider and chestnut-chocolate in cream pies, lattice pies and more.

Take Holiday Pies by Surprise

The challenge for the eight bakers is to turn breakfast items into Thanksgiving desserts; Friendsgiving potluck-inspired desserts are made to impress judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

Hosting the Holidays

Host Jesse Palmer gives the seven bakers advent calendars filled with chocolate to inspire them to make desserts with a surprise inside. Then, for the main heat, the competitors must bake one delicious cheesecake with three different flavors.

It's the Inside That Counts

Jesse Palmer challenges the competitors to work in teams to create a twist on traditional Hanukkah jelly doughnuts; the bakers get creative with holiday decorated upside-down cakes to satisfy the judges.

Topsy-Turvy Holidays

Host Jesse Palmer asks the five bakers to create an over-the-top version of a holiday trifle. Then, the classics continue in the main heat when the competitors make the ultimate Charlotte royale for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

A Classic Christmas

Jesse Palmer kicks things off by asking the final four competitors to create a holiday macaron tower. In the main heat, the bakers must feature an assigned icing style -- marzipan, buttercream or mirror glaze -- in a stunning cake to win $25,000.

Christmas Windows in Time

The judges take a behind-the-scenes look at the journey to the finale.

Holiday Baking Championship

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