Spring Bake: Die Frühlingsbäckerei

Jesse Palmer welcomes 12 bakers to the kitchen, where they create desserts that prove their baking passion to Duff Goldman, Kardea Brown and Nancy Fuller. They revisit the dessert that sparked their love for baking and make cakes inspired by a loved one.

Things get heated when host Jesse Palmer challenges the bakers to spice up bento box cakes using ingredients that are also aphrodisiacs. To avoid elimination, they make desserts featuring passionfruit and chiles that perfectly balance passion and heat.

The ten remaining bakers face the darker side of love with challenges dedicated to ill-fated romances. Host Jesse Palmer requests they create flaky Spring Fling Napoleons and pair up in their first team challenge to create break-up cakes.

It's April Fool's Day in the kitchen! Jesse Palmer tasks the remaining bakers with creating "fool for love" tarts and embracing the holiday of pranks by serving judges Duff Goldman, Kardea Brown and Nancy Fuller cakes that look like pies.

Host Jesse Palmer instructs the bakers to look to the stars and create celestial mousse cakes, Then, the bakers pair up in a team challenge to make romantic croquembouche arbors and floral macarons that are fit for the judges' spring garden party.

Jesse Palmer challenges the bakers to make soda shop cupcakes and extra shaggy cakes.[Food Network]

There's no better way to show you're in love than with delicious desserts baked from the heart. Jesse Palmer has the bakers pull out all the stops to create breakfast-in-bed muffin towers and decadent chocolate pies in hopes of wooing over the judges.

Spring Baking goes global as Jesse Palmer tasks the bakers with celebrating their love for the flavors of the world. They create blind date mashup desserts and get really cheesy with cheesecakes that feature exotic and international flavors.

Host Jesse Palmer springs into the season with a Mother's Day celebration! For the bakers to show Mom how much she means to them, they create bouquets of tulips and rosé-infused desserts before the judges decide who moves on to the finale!

Jesse Palmer is throwing a Spring Baking wedding! The bottom two bakers create doughnut wedding shower favors before the final three create proposal desserts and dream wedding cakes to win the judges' hearts, the championship title and $25,000.