Kids Baking Championship
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| Kids Baking Championship | |
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| Starring | Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Food Network |
| Release | February 2, 2015 |
Kids Baking Championship is a competitive reality baking program produced by Levity Entertainment Group for the Food Network. The competition involves children competing to make the best dish, and are judged on presentation, taste, and creativity. All six seasons of the series have been hosted and judged by actress Valerie Bertinelli and baker Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes. In 2018, the show enjoyed its highest ratings ever that also eclipsed Duff Goldman's earlier show, Ace of Cakes, as the highest rated series in the networks history.
The first season of the series featured several prizes for the winner of the competition, including $10,000, a full kitchen remodel for their parent's home, an article/recipe in Food Network Magazine, and their winning cake sold as a re-creation by Charm City Cakes, along with the 'Kids Baking Champion' title. That season had a pool of eight contestants. Subsequent seasons feature only the title and a prize of $25,000 for the winner, with the FNM article/recipe restored in season four, with the contestant pool rising to ten in season two, and twelve in subsequent seasons.
Season 1
Contestants
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollis Johnson | 13 | Jacksonville, Florida | Winner |
| 2 | Annika Coffman | 12 | Boise, Idaho | Runner-Up |
| 3 | Jackson Fujimori | 11 | Torrance, California | Finalist |
| Natalie Venable | 11 | Westlake Village, California | ||
| 5 | Cody Vasquez | 12 | Gilbert, Arizona | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| 6 | Payton Peliz | 10 | San Francisco, California | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| 7 | Caroline Binkley | 13 | Delaware, Ohio | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
| Anthony Smith | 11 | Rochester, New York |
Elimination table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1 | Hollis | IN | IN | HIGH | winner |
| 2 | Annika | HIGH | LOW | WIN | RUNNER-UP |
| 3 | Jackson | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | FINALIST 1 |
| Natalie | IN | WIN | IN | FINALIST 1 | |
| 5 | Cody | WIN | IN | ELIM | |
| 6 | Payton | LOW | ELIM | ||
| 7 | Anthony | ELIM | |||
| Caroline | ELIM | ||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, but did not win.
- (FINALIST) This baker was in the finals.
- (WIN) This baker won the baking challenge.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough for them to stay in the competition.
- (LOW) This baker was last to be called safe.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
^1 : Jackson and Natalie were eliminated before the winner was announced.
Episodes
| No. in Episode |
Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Bake Sale" | February 2, 2015 | |
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The first challenge is to make 2 baked goods fit for a bake sale, in two hours. In the middle of the baking, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli give the bakers a twist: to incorporate peanut butter and jelly. Winner: Cody Winner's Dishes: Lemon Pound Cake and a Razzleberry Pie (Raspberries, Blackberries and Blueberries.) Recipe Incorporated: Raspberry Vanilla Pudding Pie with Peanut Butter Crust Lost: Anthony and Caroline Loser's Dishes: Anthony – Blueberry Lattice Pie, Chocolate Mousse Tart and a Peanut Butter Jelly cookie. Caroline – Upside-Down Peach Tart with Oatmeal Lace Cookies and Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes. | |||
| 2 | "Dessert Imposters" | February 9, 2015 | |
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The 6 bakers are tasked to make a dessert imposter that looks savory but is actually sweet. The 6 choices were bagel (Hollis), sushi (Annika), pizza (Payton), taco (Cody), burger (Natalie), and spaghetti (Jackson). Duff and Valerie throw in the challenge of making the bakers incorporate a side kick to the original plan. Winner: Natalie Winner's Dish: Vanilla Cupcake Bun, Brownie Meat Patty, Coconut Lettuce, Licorice Tomatoes, and white chocolate Thousand Island Dressing with a sidekick of parmesan cheese fries (apples fried and baked with powdered sugar.) Lost: Payton Loser's Dish: Snickerdoodle Cookie Crust with Marshmallow Cheese, Peanut Butter Cups as olives, Gummies as peppers and fondant as pepperoni with a sidekick of garlic bread (pie dough rolled with cinnamon and sugar and baked with icing.) | |||
| 3 | 1 | "Stuffed Puffs" | February 16, 2015 |
| 4 | "Celebration Cakes" | February 23, 2015 | |
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The 4 bakers are challenged to make a celebration cake for the finale. The cake must be at least three layers. Valerie and Duff throw another twist and tell the kids they need to make a "party favor" and give the kids ideas. Annika make a dark chocolate cake with a raspberry cream coat and frosting. Jackson makes a lemon cake. Hollis makes a lemon cake. Natalie creates a lemon cake with cream cheese frosting. Jackson attempts to make macarons, but they crack. He then makes shortbread. Annika makes lemon bars. Hollis makes a sugar cookie. Natalie makes a cake-in-a-jar. The judges have two standouts; Annika and Hollis. Hollis wins the 10,000 dollars, her cake in Duff's collection and the industrial kitchen set. Winner: Hollis | |||
Lost: Natalie, Jackson, and Annika
Season 2
Ten talented young bakers compete for the title of Kids Baking Champion and $25,000. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are the hosts and judges again.
Contestants
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rebecca Beale | 13 | Graham, Texas | Winner |
| 2 | Yahshimabet Sellassie-Hall | 12 | Oakland, California | Runner-Up |
| 3 | Matthew Merrill | 11 | Great Falls, Virginia | |
| 4 | Peggy Fischer | 10 | St. Johnsbury, Vermont | Eliminated in Episode 7 |
| 5 | Jane Haviland | 10 | Ann Arbor, Michigan | Eliminated in Episode 6 |
| 6 | Alex Portis | 12 | Monroeville, Pennsylvania | Eliminated in Episode 5 |
| 7 | Emma Wensing | 11 | Austin, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 4 |
| 8 | Colby Lacasse | 10 | Blue Hill, Maine | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| 9 | Ryan Wilson | 10 | Danville, California | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| 10 | Alex Alcorta | 10 | Austin, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
Elimination table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1 | Rebecca | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | WINNER |
| 2 | Matthew | IN | IN | LOW | WIN | HIGH | WIN | LOW | RUNNERS-UP |
| Yahshimabet | HIGH | IN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | LOW | LOW | ||
| 4 | Peggy | IN | LOW | WIN | LOW | WIN | IN | ELIM | |
| 5 | Jane | WIN | IN | LOW | HIGH | LOW | ELIM | ||
| 6 | Alex P. | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | ELIM | |||
| 7 | Emma | IN | HIGH | IN | ELIM | ||||
| 8 | Colby | LOW | LOW | ELIM | |||||
| 9 | Ryan | LOW | ELIM | ||||||
| 10 | Alex A. | ELIM | |||||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker finished in second place.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
- (WIN) This baker won the baking challenge.
- (LOW) This baker's dish was one of the weakest and in the bottom.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough for them to stay in the competition.
Episodes
| No. in Episode |
Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 (5) | "Pie à la Mode" | January 4, 2016 | |
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The new set of bakers are challenged to make a perfect pie. They can choose any flavor they want, but a twist gives them the task of making ice cream too. Winner: Jane Winner's Dish: Jane's Grandma Jean's pecan pie with a side of chocolate shaved ice cream. Lost: Alex A. Loser's Dish: A chocolate cream pie with a cinnamon ice cream. | |||
| 2 (6) | "Eclairs Gone Wild" | January 11, 2016 | |
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The bakers are given the task of making eclairs that have "gone wild" with color and flavor. A twist arrives with the bakers making creme puffs in the shape of their favorite animal. Winner: Rebecca Winner's Dish: A caramel bacon eclair with a mouse cream puff filled with a lime and a raspberry pastry cream. Lost: Ryan Loser's Dish: A cookie butter eclair with a snail cream puff filled with the same eclair pastry cream. | |||
| 3 (7) | "'Hot' Chocolate" | January 18, 2016 | |
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The bakers are given the challenge of creating any chocolate intensive dessert, but a twist shows up requiring that they use chiles, hot spices and hot sauce in their dessert. Winner: Peggy Winner's Dish: A chocolate cayenne brownie with a raspberry coulis and a sriracha ice cream. Lost: Colby Loser's Dish: A chocolate cayenne cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting with a chocolate cayenne ganache. | |||
| 4 (8) | "Macaron Stackaron" | January 25, 2016 | |
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The remaining kids are given the challenge of creating macarons of any flavor. The twist is that they must stack them to 5 inches tall. If they do not stack them to the requires height, they are not eligible to win, but it does not mean they are out of the competition. Winner: Matthew Winner's Dish: A chocolate cherry macaron and a S'mores macaron. Lost: Emma Loser's Dish: A chocolate macaron filled with a cream cheese frosting and raspberry coulis. | |||
| 5 (9) | "Lunch Box Desserts" | February 1, 2016 | |
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The bakers are given the task of creating desserts using items in a lunch box. The twist is that they must use another item given out: banana chips or carrots. Winner: Peggy Winner's Dish: A chocolate zucchini cake with an orange sauce and a coconut carrot ice cream. Lost: Alex P. Loser's Dish: An open-faced ice cream sandwich featuring an almond butter cookie with a pumpkin seed ice cream with sauteed strawberries and carrots. | |||
| 6 (10) | "Candymonium" | February 8, 2016 | |
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The excited bakers are challenged to create desserts using 3 types of candy. The twist is that they must use a blow torch somewhere on their dessert in a way that makes sense. Winner: Matthew Winner's Dish: a peanut butter chocolate sachertorte with a torched meringue. Lost: Jane Loser's Dish: A sour candy cake with a sugar stick frosting with chocolate candies and torched marshmallows. | |||
| 7 (11) | "Dessert Imposters 2.0" | February 15, 2016 | |
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The bakers are challenges to make dessert imposters, the favorite challenge from last season. The twist is that they must create a savory cupcake along with their sweet imposter. Winner: Rebecca Winner's Dish: A BLT with yellow cake bread, white chocolate lettuce, strawberries as tomatoes, marzipan bacon and buttercream mayonnaise with a corn cupcake with mashed potato frosting. Lost: Peggy Loser's Dish: Nachoes with phyllo dough chips, lemon curd cheese, white cake as chicken, and lime zest as cilantro with a butternut squash cupcake with a guacamole frosting. | |||
| 8 (12) | "Spring Break Cakes" | February 22, 2016 | |
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For the final challenge, the bakers are given the task of creating cakes based on common "Spring Break" destinations: the beach (Rebecca), the amusement park (Matthew) and camping (Yahshimabet). The twist is that they must include a curd filling in their cake. Winner: Rebecca Winner's Dish: A lemon chiffon cake with a strawberry buttercream with lemon and strawberry curd, decorated to look like the beach. Runners-Up: Matthew, Yahshimabet Matthew's Cake: A chocolate cake with an orange buttercream filled with an orange curd and decorated to look like a roller coaster car found at an amusement park. Yahshimabet's Cake: A mocha cake and a chai spice cake with buttercream and filled with orange curd white chocolate ganache, decorated to look like a camping trip. | |||
Season 3
Contestants
Source for first names, hometowns, and age:[1]
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aidan Berry[2] | 12 | Shalimar, Florida | Winner |
| 2 | Justice Faustina[2] | 12 | Napa, California | Runner-Up |
| 2 | Kaniyah Cary[2] | 10 | Portsmouth, Virginia | |
| 4 | Cole Frederickson[2] | 12 | Thousand Oaks, California | Eliminated in Episode 9 |
| 5 | Audra Tow[2] | 11 | Aurora, Colorado | Eliminated in Episode 8 |
| 6 | Jason Intravartolo[3] | 11 | Seattle, Washington | Eliminated in Episode 7 |
| 7 | Reese Smith[2] | 10 | Bloomfield Hills, Michigan | Eliminated in Episode 6 |
| 8 | Maya Jindal[2] | 9 | Great Falls, Virginia | Eliminated in Episode 5 |
| 9 | Keili Gorczyca[2] | 10 | San Francisco, California | Eliminated in Episode 4 |
| 10 | Dylin Musgrove[2] | 12 | Augusta, Georgia | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| 11 | Charlotte d'Arabian[2] | 10 | Coronado, California | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| 12 | Brooke Cumberland[2] | 9 | Old Greenwich, Connecticut | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
Elimination table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| 1 | Aidan | IN | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | WIN | IN | LOW | WIN | WINNER |
| 2 | Justice | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IMM | WIN | HIGH | LOW | RUNNER-UP |
| Kaniyah | WIN | HIGH | IN | LOW | HIGH | IN | IN | WIN | LOW | RUNNER-UP | |
| 4 | Cole | IN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | IN | IMM | HIGH | IN | ELIM | |
| 5 | Audra | IN | IN | LOW | IN | IN | IMM | LOW | ELIM | ||
| 6 | Jason | LOW | LOW | WIN | IN | IN | LOW | ELIM | |||
| 7 | Reese | HIGH | IN | IN | LOW | LOW | ELIM | ||||
| 8 | Maya | IN | IN | LOW | IN | ELIM | |||||
| 9 | Keili | IN | IN | IN | ELIM | ||||||
| 10 | Dylin | IN | LOW | ELIM | |||||||
| 11 | Charlotte | LOW | ELIM | ||||||||
| 12 | Brooke | ELIM | |||||||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, but did not win.
- (WIN) This baker had the best dish and won the challenge.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough to keep them in the competition.
- (LOW) This Baker was in the bottom, but wasn't the last to be called safe.
- (LOW) This baker had one of the weakest dishes and was in the bottom.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
- (IMMUNE) This baker was immune in a team challenge.
Episodes
| No. in Episode |
Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Life Is a Carnival" | 1/2/17 | |
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Winner: Kaniyah Winner's Dish: A vanilla popcorn cupcake with a vanilla buttercream frosting. Lost: Brooke Loser's Dish: A lemon cupcake with a sweet pretzel filling and a vanilla frosting. | |||
| 2 | "I Lava Volcano" | 1/9/17 | |
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Winner: Aidan Winner's Dish: A passionfruit cake with a banana buttercream with cream-filled cookie boulders. Lost: Charlotte Loser's Dish: A ginger cake with a chocolate ganache frosting with chocolate and fondant boulders. | |||
| 3 | "Comfort Food Dessert Imposters" | 1/16/17 | |
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The remaining bakers must create a comfort food dessert imposter — meatloaf (Cole), fried chicken (Justice), mac and cheese (Audra), PB&J (Keili), chili (Reese), roast beef sandwich (Maya), hot dog (Dylin), meatball sub (Aidan), grilled cheese sandwich (Kaniyah), and a burrito (Jason). The bakers are then asked to make a side of chips and salsa. Winner: Jason Winner's Dish: A crepe tortilla filled with pound cake as chicken and chocolate as refried beans with a side of chocolate and buttercream salsa with crepe chips. Lost: Dylin Loser's Dish: A vanilla hot dog bun with a vanilla buttercream hot dog, mustard, ketchup and relish, with a side of cherry salsa with phyllo dough chips. | |||
| 4 | "Color Me Wow!" | 1/23/17 | |
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The bakers are given the challenge of creating a tye dye cake to resemble the 60's. A twist is that they must make a swirled ice cream. Winner: Cole Winner's Dish:A fruit flavored cake dyed multiple colors with a fruit swirl ice cream. Lost: Kelli Loser's Dish: An apple cinnamon cake with lemon and raspberry with a swirl ice cream. | |||
| 5 | "Throwback Eclairs" | 1/30/17 | |
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The kids are challenges to make eclairs based of old desserts: Coconut Cream Pie (Cole), Black Forest Cake (Justice) German Chocolate Cake (Maya), Chocolate Pecan Pie (Audra), Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Reese), Cherry Cheesecake (Kaniyah), Banana Cream Pie (Aidan) and Grandmas Apple Pie (Jason). A twist comes in when the kids must make something with dried fruit. Winner: Justice Winner's Dish: An eclair filed with chocolate cherry whipped cream topped with a chocolate apricot ganache. Lost: Maya Loser's Dish: An eclair filled with chocolate pastry cream and topped with dates. | |||
| 6 | "Breakfast Desserts" | 2/6/17 | |
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Valerie, the queen of pancakes, and Duff, the king of waffles challenge the bakers to make cakes out of one of the two breakfast items. Team are decided with a coin draw, and the winning side does not face elimination. A twist is that they must use breakfast cereal in their dessert. Justice, Audra, Aidan and Cole were Team Waffle, and Kaniyah, Jason and Reese were Team Pancake. Winner: Aidan Winner's Dish: a cinnamon roll style waffle with swiss meringue buttercream topped with cinnamon crunch cereal and a side of cinnamon crunch cereal ice cream. Lost: Reese Loser's Dish: A carrot cake pancake with a vanilla buttercream topped with melted chocolate and a cherry. | |||
| 7 | "Mobile App Cookies" | 2/13/17 | |
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The bakers are given the task of creating sugar cookies to resemble apps and must explain what the app does. For example: SnackChat, DessertCraft, Noodle Maps, etc. A twist is that the bakers must use citrus in their dessert. Winner: Justice Winner's Dish: An orange cookie with a glaze and artistic app designs. Lost: Jason Loser's Dish: An orange cookie with a vanilla glaze and designs. (Jason had no explanation for his apps) | |||
| 8 | "Pet Shop Joys" | 2/20/17 | |
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The bakers are challenged to create desserts based on animals: a rabbit, a turtle, a silky chicken, a guinea pig and a mini pig. The twist is that the bakers must include a friend for their mini pet dessert. Winner: Kaniyah Winner's Dish: A pineapple upside down cake with a cat sugar cookie and a pineapple ice cream. (Kaniyah's animal was a rabbit). Lost: Audra Loser's Dish: A banana cake with a vanilla frosting and fondant chickens with a mini pet friend of a fondant egg the chicken laid. (Audra's animal was a silky chicken). | |||
| 9 | "Molecular Kidstronomy" | 2/27/17 | |
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The bakers are given the difficult task to create desserts with molecular ingredients: the smoking gun, the maltodextrin, etc. The twist is that the bakers must use old fashioned whisks in some way. Winner: Aidan Winner's Dish: A S'mores tart with a graham cracker crust, a smoked chocolate ganache, peanut butter snow and whipped cream. Lost: Cole Loser's Dish: A smoked apple pie with an apple ice cream and peanut butter snow with whipped cream. | |||
| 10 | "Superhero Grand Finale" | 3/6/17 | |
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The bakers are given the final task of creating cakes resembling a made up super hero. The twist is they must create a super villain too. Winner: Aidan Winner's Dish: a lemon rosemary olive oil cake with a swiss meringue buttercream with a cookie super villains. His hero is named Prism, and he created color. His super villain is Dismal, and he makes everything gray and dull. Runners-Up: Kaniyah, Justice Justice's Dish: A rose water cake with a vanilla butter cream and a rice cereal treat villain. His hero was Weather Man, and he controls the weather. His super villain is The Evil Sun, and he wants it to be hot all year long. Kaniyah's Dish: A lemon rosemary blueberry cake with a vanilla buttercream and a cookie villain. Her hero is Catastrophe Girl, who prevents the catastrophes from happening. Her super villain is Mr. Rotten Potato, who stayed in a refrigerator too long and turned evil. | |||
Season 4
Contestants
Source for names, age, and hometowns:[4]
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place |
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| 1 | Linsey Lam | 13 | Closter, New Jersey | Winner |
| 2 | Abby Martin | 13 | Franklin, Wisconsin | Runner-Up |
| 2 | Alex Czajka | 12 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| 4 | Bryn Montgomery | 11 | South Hill, Virginia | Eliminated in Episode 9 |
| 5 | Julia Betz | 12 | Key Biscayne, Florida | Eliminated in Episode 8 |
| 6 | Luke Jonsson | 13 | Rancho Santa Margarita, California | Eliminated in Episode 7 |
| 7 | Aditya Pillutla | 12 | Cary, North Carolina | Eliminated in Episode 6 |
| 8 | Soleil Thomas | 12 | Livingston, New Jersey | Eliminated in Episode 5 |
| 9 | Beverly Hepler | 10 | Foster City, California | Eliminated in Episode 4 |
| 10 | Grady Holloway | 11 | Chesterfield, Missouri | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| 11 | Gareth Bennett | 10 | Gaithersburg, Maryland | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| 12 | Michael Platt | 11 | Bowie, Maryland | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
Elimination Table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| 1 | Linsey | IN | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | WIN | HIGH | WIN | LOW | WINNER |
| 2 | Abby | IN | WIN | IN | WIN | WIN | IN | WIN | LOW | LOW | RUNNER-UP |
| Alex | LOW | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | IN | LOW | LOW | HIGH | WIN | RUNNER-UP | |
| 4 | Bryn | IN | IN | LOW | IN | WIN | HIGH | IN | IN | ELIM | |
| 5 | Julia | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | ELIM | ||
| 6 | Luke | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | LOW | IN | ELIM | |||
| 7 | Aditya | WIN | LOW | WIN | IN | IN | ELIM | ||||
| 8 | Soleil | IN | LOW | IN | LOW | ELIM | |||||
| 9 | Beverly | HIGH | IN | LOW | ELIM | ||||||
| 10 | Grady | IN | IN | ELIM | |||||||
| 11 | Gareth | LOW | ELIM | ||||||||
| 12 | Michael | ELIM | |||||||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, but did not win.
- (WIN) This baker had the best dish and won the challenge.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough to keep them in the competition.
- (WIN) This baker was on the winning team of the challenge.
- (LOW) This baker had one of the weakest dishes and was in the bottom.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
Episodes
| No. in Episode |
Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Cookielicious" | 1/1/18 | |
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The new season of Kids Baking Championship kicks off with a new take on everybody's favorite: cake! Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make layered, tiered, stacked and beautifully decorated cookie cakes with their name in them in an edible way. Winner: Aditya Winner's Dish: Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Cake with Spiced Buttercream. Lost: Michael Loser's Dish: Peanut Butter Chip Cookie Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream. | |||
| 2 | "Pizza for Dessert" | 1/8/18 | |
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The bakers are challenged to make a dessert pizza, and the twist is that they have to use a common pizza ingredient on their dessert pizza: tomatoes, bacon, basil, hot peppers, ricotta cheese. Winner: Abby Winner's Dish A blondie crust with caramel, bacon and pretzel topping. Lost: Gareth Loser's Dish: A pie dough crust with raspberry ricotta buttercream with fresh raspberries. | |||
| 3 | "Lemon BFFs" | 1/15/18 | |
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The bakers must make lemon bars in honor of Valerie's favorite flavor. The twist is that the bakers must include an edible lemon decoration. Winner: Aditya Winner's Dish: Lemon blueberry bars with blueberry coulis. Lost: Grady Loser's Dish: Lemon raspberry bars. | |||
| 4 | "Cake and Ice Cream 2.0" | 1/22/18 | |
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Bakers were tasked with making a drip ice cream cake. The twist was to make real ice cream on the side. Winner: Abby Winner's Dish: A pistachio cake with a pistachio butter cream, white chocolate drips and a pistachio ice cream. Lost: Beverly Loser's Dish: A chocolate chip cake with a buttercream, ganache drips and a chocolate chip ice cream. | |||
| 5 | "Doughnuts Go Nuts" | 1/29/18 | |
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The bakers were challenged with making artistic doughnuts, and they would be working in teams. Teams: (Linsey and Luke, Bryn and Soleil, Aditya and Alex, Julia and Abby) Winner: Bryn Winner's Dish: Maple Bacon Doughnut with potato chips. Lost: Soleil Loser's Dish: Lemon Blueberry Doughnut . | |||
| 6 | "Unicorncopia" | 2/5/18 | |
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The bakers must bake a unicorn cake that shows a specific emotion: Bryn – Shy, Luke – Angry, Julia – Surprised, Abby – Worried, Aditya – Sad, Alex – Loving, Linsey – Happy. The twist is that the bakers must bake up a name tag for their unicorn, and must choose a name: Alex – "Milo", Lindsey – "Fred", Aditya – "Duff Jr.", Julia – "Pinkie", Luke – "Balf", Abby – "Dash", Bryn – "Bell". Winner: Linsey Winner's Dish: A confetti cake with colorful piping, a gold horn with a name tag. Lost: Aditya Loser's Dish: A lavender cake with a sugar cookie name plate. | |||
| 7 | "Lunchbox Impostors" | 2/12/18 | |
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The lunchbox impostors had return to Kids Baking Championship, as the six remaining bakers must turn lunchbox items into desserts: tuna salad sandwich (Luke), peanut butter and jelly (Abby), chicken nuggets (Bryn), bologna sandwich (Linsey), turkey wrap (Julia), or a ham and cheese sandwich (Alex), with the twist being Duff and Val making them include a juice box juice to their dessert: strawberry lemonade (Alex), orange juice (Julia), apple juice (Luke), grape juice (Linsey), mixed berry (Abby), and passion fruit juice (Bryn). Winner: Abby Winner's Dish: A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bread (white cake), peanut butter (pastry cream), and mixed berry jelly (juice w/ strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, etc.); as a side, a strawberry whipped cream (aka strawberry yogurt). Lost: Luke Loser's Dish: A tuna salad sandwich with bread (vanilla cake), mayonnaise (whipped cream), tuna (marshmallows), and carrots and celery (orange and green coating chocolate); as a side, an apple juice granola. | |||
| 8 | "Out of This World" | 2/19/18 | |
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The Kids Baking Championship has gone out of this world, as the final five bakers must bake intergalactic desserts using freeze-dried ingredients (like the astronauts): bananas (Bryn), apricots (Julia), strawberries (Linsey), peaches (Alex), or mangoes (Abby); as a twist, make an edible sun. Winner: Linsey Winner's Dish: Strawberry sugar cookies with a black, purple, pink and blue royal icing swirled on top of it. A sun made out of rice cereal treat covered with yellow coating chocolate with gold luster dust mixed into peppermint extract painted on top. Lost: Julia Loser's Dish: Cream puffs with apricot pastry cream and topped with white chocolate ganache. A sun made out of rice cereal treat covered with yellow coating chocolate and orange sprinkles. | |||
| 9 | "Sand Castle Sweets" | 2/26/18 | |
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To the beach, the final four kid bakers go, making cereal treat sand castles with a dozen baked goods hidden inside, and as a twist, use pineapple in some way with their entry. Winner: Alex Winner's Dish: A combination normal and chocolate cereal treat soldier-style castle, with his soldiers being a dozen pineapple sable dough Pina Colada tarts. Lost: Bryn Loser's Dish: A pineapple-infused cereal treat castle held up with ice cream cone turrets and yellow coating chocolate, with a dozen orange-pineapple, starfish-shaped sugar cookies. | |||
| 10 | "Cover Story Cakes" | 3/5/18 | |
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Abby, Alex, and Linsey are the final three kids bakers remaining, and to finish, they are making birthday cakes for "Food Network" Magazine in order to win a story on the magazine, $25,000, and the title of Season 4 Kids Baking Champion! Happy 10th Birthday Food Network Magazine! Winner: Linsey Winner's Dish: Chocolate cake with a coconut filling, raspberry buttercream, covered in marbled fondant and cake toppers (a Food Network logo, eight candles, a number 10, all done with fondant). Runners-Up: Alex and Abby Abby's Dish: Vanilla bean cake with strawberry and lime buttercreams decorated with frosting-and-pearl flowers, each layer wrapped in fondant (bottom with fondant "balloons", the top rolled on with sprinkles and a fondant "10" cake topper. Alex's Dish: Pumpkin spice cake with spiced pastry cream and orange cream cheese frosting, wrapped in white fondant and covered in green, yellow, blue, and red fondant, in addition to a donut-like number 10 (rice cereal treats) cake topper. | |||
Season 5
9 talented young bakers compete for $25,000
Contestants
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natasha Jiwani | 13 | Bellevue, Washington | Winner |
| 2 | Matthew Azuma | 12 | Glendora, California | Runner-Up |
| 2 | Taylor Inouye | 12 | Kailua, Hawaii | |
| 4 | Issi Neufield | 11 | Coppell, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 6 |
| 5 | Saylor Herrin | 11 | Ailey, Georgia | Eliminated in Episode 5 |
| 6 | Davey Treen | 10 | Akron, Ohio | Eliminated in Episode 4 |
| 7 | Mekdes Bass | 10 | Boulder, Colorado | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| 8 | Enzo Cosani | 10 | Orlando, Florida | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| 9 | Zach Atlas | 13 | New York, New York | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
Elimination Table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| 1 | Natasha | IN | WIN | IN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | WINNER | |||
| 2 | Matthew | IN | IN | IN | LOW | WIN | LOW | RUNNERS-UP | |||
| Taylor | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | IN | HIGH | |||||
| 4 | Issi | IN | LOW | IN | WIN | LOW | ELIM | ||||
| 5 | Saylor | HIGH | IN | WIN | IN | ELIM | |||||
| 6 | Davey | IN | IN | LOW | ELIM | ||||||
| 7 | Mekdes | IN | IN | ELIM | |||||||
| 8 | Enzo | LOW | ELIM | ||||||||
| 9 | Zach | ELIM | |||||||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, but did not win.
- (WIN) This baker had the best dish and won the challenge.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough to keep them in the competition.
- (LOW) This baker had one of the weakest dishes and was in the bottom.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
Season 6
12 young bakers compete for $25,000
Contestants
| Rank | Baker | Age | Location | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Sams | 13 | Vancouver, British Colombia | |||
| Paige Goehner | 11 | Blaine, Minnesota | |||
| Meadow Roberts | 10 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | |||
| 4 | Jaxon Remillard | 11 | Mansfield, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 9 | |
| 5 | Nyah Rosado | 11 | New Rochelle, New York | Eliminated in Episode 8 | |
| 6 | Madison Totaro | 11 | Austin, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 7 | |
| 7 | Karthik Vemparala | 11 | Somerset, New Jersey | Eliminated in Episode 6 | |
| 8 | Jenna Alnatur | 9 | Clifton, New Jersey | Eliminated in Episode 5 | |
| 9 | Misha Jones | 12 | Annapolis, Maryland | Eliminated in Episode 4 | |
| 10 | Gavin Crawford | 11 | Houston, Texas | Eliminated in Episode 3 | |
| 11 | Brooklyn Kyzar | 13 | Silverhill, Alabama | Eliminated in Episode 2 | |
| 12 | Kasey Moeggenborg | 13 | Rockford, Michigan | Eliminated in Episode 1 |
Elimination Table
| Place | Contestant | Episode | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Davis | IN | IN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | WIN | IN | WIN | WIN | ||||||||||
| Meadow | WIN | IN | IN | IN | LOW | IN | WIN | IN | HIGH | ||||||||||
| Paige | IN | HIGH | IMM | LOW | WIN | IN | LOW | HIGH | LOW | ||||||||||
| 4 | Jaxon | LOW | IN | IN | WIN | HIGH | IN | IN | LOW | ELIM | |||||||||
| 5 | Nyah | IN | IN | IMM | IN | WIN | HIGH | LOW | ELIM | ||||||||||
| 6 | Madison | IN | WIN | IMM | IN | WIN | LOW | ELIM | |||||||||||
| 7 | Karthik | HIGH | IN | IMM | IN | IN | ELIM | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Jenna | IN | LOW | LOW | LOW | ELIM | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Misha | HIGH | LOW | WIN | ELIM | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Gavin | IN | IN | ELIM | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Brooklyn | LOW | ELIM | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Kasey | ELIM | |||||||||||||||||
- (WINNER) This baker won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, but did not win.
- (WIN) This baker had the best dish and won the challenge.
- (HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
- (IN) This baker's dish was good enough to keep them in the competition.
- (WIN) This baker was on the winning team of the challenge.
- (IMMUNE) This baker was immune in a team challenge.
- (LOW) This baker had one of the weakest dishes and was in the bottom.
- (ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship
See also
References
- ^ "Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman Are Back with a New Batch of Young Bakers on 'Kids Baking Championship'" (Press release). Food Network. December 5, 2016. Archived from the original on January 15, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017 – via FutonCritic.com.
{{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cornelius, Coree (January 2, 2017). "Coronado 5th Grader Charlotte d'Arabian Baking up a Storm on Food Network Show". The Coronado Times. Coronado, California. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) Note: Photo caption gives contestants' full names. - ^ Eng, Heidi (January 5, 2017). "Jason Intravartolo on Kids Baking Championship". Seattle, Washington: KING-TV. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) Additional January 8, 2017. - ^ "Food Network Premieres New Season of Kids Baking Championship, 1/1". (January 1, 2018). Retrieved January 8, 2018.