Kids Baking Championship

The season kicks off with a new take on everyone's favorite: cake! Duff and Valerie throw a curve ball at the 12 kid bakers by asking them to make tiered and beautifully decorated cookie cakes.

Duff and Valerie have a special delivery for the kid bakers when they challenge them to use their creativity and turn pizza into a dessert.

Duff and Valerie celebrate her favorite flavor, lemon, by tasking the kid bakers with making lemon bar desserts. The kids must also highlight other flavors that pair well with lemon in their dishes.

Duff and Valerie challenge the kid bakers to work with the classic combination of cake and ice cream to create unique desserts.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman shake things up by asking the eight kid bakers to work in teams to create two different types of doughnuts that work together in one unified and delicious doughnut design.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the eight kid bakers to use their imaginations to create a unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the six kid bakers to look at lunch in a new way. From a PBJ sandwich to chicken nuggets, the bakers have to turn common lunchbox foods into lookalike dessert masterpieces.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts. The bakers must also use freeze-dried ingredients in their out-of-this-world creations.

To earn a place in the finale, the remaining four kid bakers are challenged to create a cereal treat sand castle filled with two different baked goods.

The Kids Baking Championship finale turns into a 10-year birthday celebration for Food Network Magazine as the three finalists are challenged to create a Food Network Magazine birthday cake worthy of the $25,000 prize.