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s12e08 · 2025-12-23
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Holiday Baking Championship
Food Network Reality
What it is
The search to find the greatest holiday baker begins as eight amateur bakers enter the kitchen, where they show off their family traditions and superb baking skills. To survive the challenges from week to week, they must prove their abilities in front of our tough-love judges: Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller and Lorraine Pascale. Hosted by Bobby Deen, this baking championship is the sweetest way to celebrate this holiday season.
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8 this season · 94 totals02e01 We're Nuts for the Holidays 2015-11-02 02:00
We're Nuts for the Holidays
The Holiday Baking Championship kicks off as 10 competing 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!
s02e02 Holiday Craftiness 2015-11-09 02:00
Holiday Craftiness
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.
s02e03 Stuffing Is the Best Part 2015-11-16 02:00
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 center when sliced open.
s02e04 Thanksgiving's Just Around the Corner 2015-11-23 02:00
Thanksgiving's Just Around the Corner
The seven remaining bakers get creative with Thanksgiving-inspired desserts, and in the first round, their sweets feature canned cranberry sauce. Then, in the main heat, the bakers must invent a dessert highlighting their assigned harvest ingredient: sweet potato, pumpkin, apple, pear, pomegranate, carrot or lemon.
s02e05 Ginger and Spice and Everything Nice 2015-11-30 02:00
Ginger and Spice and Everything Nice
In this week's challenges, the six remaining bakers revel in the warm, taste bud-tingling flavor of ginger. They must make mini desserts highlighting candied ginger, then create three different types of holiday cookies inspired by family traditions.
s02e06 World Class Classics 2015-12-07 02:00
World Class Classics
Every culture has their own holiday traditions, and the five remaining bakers celebrate a couple of favorites by reinventing two Hanukkah classics: rugelach and macaroons. Then, they must create their own unique version of a holiday croquembouche.
s02e07 Re-Gifting 2015-12-14 02:00
Re-Gifting
The five remaining bakers must make a candy apple dessert inspired by a candy apple gift, then figure out how turn the contents of a traditional gift basket into a delicious dessert.
s02e08 Holiday Hoopla 2015-12-21 02:00
Holiday Hoopla
The last three bakers must show off their decorating chops by baking and beautifully decorating a sugar cookie tree; in the final heat, the bakers need to transform their assigned holiday tradition into an intricately decorated cake.