Name: Sweet Genius
Uploaded: 2025-07-30T17:52:44.000Z
Description: America's premier pastry chefs are given inspiration, surprise ingredients and a limited amount of time to create magical and inventive desserts in this ultimate food competition. Confectionary master Ron Ben-Israel hosts.

America's premier pastry chefs are given inspiration, surprise ingredients and a limited amount of time to create magical and inventive desserts in this ultimate food competition. Confectionary master Ron Ben-Israel hosts.

WBD - Sweet Escapes

The heat is on when the lights go off! Darkness is the inspiration for the first test.

Dark Genius

Don't crack under pressure! In the first test of genius, the chefs must cook frozen desserts that include hard-boiled eggs.

Hard-Boiled Genius

Chef Ron Ben-Israel decides which chef has hidden genius within through a final test featuring masquerade masks and candy apples.

Hidden Genius

On a wing and a prayer, the chefs try to create amazing frozen desserts with candied ginger and squid ink as mandatory ingredients.

Candied Genius

Then in the second test, are diamonds a chef's best friend? The competitors are given that glistening inspiration as well as mandatory ingredients, duck fat and fusilli, as they attempt to make delicious baked desserts.

Glistening Genius

When the chefs are encouraged to think globally in the second test, are they in for a world of trouble?

Global Genius

With a disco ball as inspiration and carbonated candies as a mandatory ingredient, the final two chefs must rock out delicious desserts if they want to secure the Sweet Genius title and the $10,000 prize.

Disco Genius

Fire! The chefs are burning to jump to it when they see the inspiration for the first test.

Fiery Genius

The chefs will either sink or swim trying to create chocolate desserts with a breakfast treat and a fall snack.

Golden Genius

Prophetic cookie and strong cheese in a chocolate dessert; candy test with vegetable and citrus fruit; the best cake.

Dancing Genius

A master musician inspires creative choices in the first test, as the chefs churn out chocolate desserts with cheese and Thai chilies as ingredients.

Magic Genius

The chefs are struck by a bolt of inspiration as the first test begins, and they must find a way to make a pasta and spicy candy work in their chocolate desserts.

Electrifying Genius

Flamingo inspired chocolate desserts; childhood inspiration in the candy round; ingredients native to Southeast Asia to make a cake.

Puzzled Genius

The chefs must create dishes from marshmallows and water chestnuts that leave Chef Ron Ben-Israel speechless.

Speechless Genius

There's no crying in Sweet Genius, where a baby-themed chocolate test is the chefs first challenge.

Baby Genius

Two families feel the heat in the chocolate test. Will the mandatory ingredients ground them before they take flight?

Relative Genius

The inspiration for the chocolate desserts test is sure to get the chefs' minds spinning with genius ideas about how to make best use of the mandatory ingredients.

Genie Genius

A slithering inspiration gives the chefs a fright in the dessert round. Then one chef who is able to bake a genius cake with a stinky cheese is rewarded with $10,000.

Serpentine Genius

The chefs must figure out how to use a soup and Italian side dish in flickering chocolate desserts. Then in the final test, chefs must devise a fluid plan for creating water-inspired cakes from Japanese candy and grape leaves.

Glowing Genius

Animal inspiration and breakfast cereal ingredient in chocolate dessert; candy art; retro hairstyle in the final cake test.

Lofty Genius

In the first round, chefs create desserts by using an exotic fruit and a ballpark favorite. Round two includes a seriously strong British staple as an ingredient and then the $10,000 prize goes to the noblest cake.

Plane Genius

Ron Ben-Israel inspires the chefs with canine cuteness and entertaining. With two chefs left, a charming, chiming object gets imaginations ticking. But who will create the better cake from a supermarket treat and aromatic grass?

Cuckoo Genius

It is Halloween time, time for everyone's favorite Sweet Genius to stir up some devilish trouble in his World of Desserts.

Halloween Genius

The heat is on with an erupting volcano as the inspiration for the first test. Will the chefs' chocolate desserts made from pink beans and an exotic fruit explode with flavor?

Heated Genius

Sweet fruit filling and chorizo in chocolate desserts; pizza dough and chicory coffee; cakes from sticky spread and a colorful veggie.

Wicked Genius

The inspiration for the first test comes straight from the Thanksgiving banquet, as does one of the mandatory ingredients.

Turkey Genius

With $10,000 at stake, the last two chefs are given a fair attraction as an inspiration, but can they be fairly certain that Chef Ron will enjoy their cakes made from a classic cookie and a leafy herb?

Squeaky Genius

Ron Ben-Isreal has holiday surprises for the competitors! A North Pole ambassador, a fabled pudding and a yuletide candy are the first test. The last chefs make chocolate treats with beets and a magical inspiration.

Holiday Genius

Competitors make chocolate desserts from chicken stock and a Southern candy treat. Finally, a heavenly, twinkling inspiration and two assertive ingredients make for an intriguing final match-up.

Twinkling Genius

Where there's smoke, there's inspiration! The chefs make a chewy fruit and meaty hors d'oeuvres work in their chocolate desserts and combine a Middle Eastern dip with a desert delight while inspired by a Native American talisman.

Dream Catching Genius

Chef Ron introduces the chefs to his rockin' first inspiration, and it's crunch time when the chefs get a fruity cereal as a mandatory ingredient.

Electric Genius

The chefs rocket into the competition, creating space-themed chocolate desserts.

Sci-Fi Genius

Chef Ron has another entertaining, inspiring surprise for the competitors as they concoct ways to incorporate a shockingly colorful tuber.

Samba Genius

A matrimonial-themed test has the chefs wondering what to do with two white mandatory ingredients. Will they marry well with the finalists' cakes? And who will earn the $10,000 prize money?

Sweet Genius

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