Best Baker in America

Eight of America's top bakers gather to put their baking brilliance to the test. In the first skills challenge, the bakers create upside-down cakes, then make a double barrel or three-tiered wedding cake for 50 people.[Food Network]

Seven bakers remain; for the skills challenge they make two different flavors of macarons. In the master challenge, the bakers make their dessert classic baked Alaska, using torched meringue, cake and ice cream.[Food Network]

The six remaining bakers must make perfect mini fruit tarts in the skills challenge. Then, the bakers must make their original version of a St. Honore cake, which must contain elements of puff pastry and pate au choux.[Food Network]

Five bakers are left; they tackle the creme brulee. For the Master Challenge, they bake an opera cake, a six-layer masterpiece, which must feature the flavor of hazelnut.[Food Network]

The four remaining bakers vie for the finale as they make mini mirror glaze cakes -- perfectly mirrored on the outside with layered mousse on the inside -- in the Skills Challenge. [Food Network]

The pressure is on as the final three bakers take on the most revered and beloved of all baking ingredients: chocolate. [Food Network]