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Holiday Baking Championship Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
Holiday Style
Mon, Nov 2, 202084 mins
Host Jesse Palmer kicks off the competition for 12 bakers with the kind of dessert people are embracing at home -- holiday decorated quick bread wreaths. Then, to spice things up, Jesse reveals the rankings of every challenge will appear on the new naughty or nice list. If a baker is naughty, there's no hiding it. In the main heat, the competitors must make a winter hat cake to charm judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Carla Hall.
Episode 2
Holiday Goodie Games
Mon, Nov 9, 202042 mins
Host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to highlight a nut or seed in a holiday dessert. Then, the competitors spin a wheel to determine which fundamental holiday ingredient -- holiday spice, dried fruit or holiday spirits -- they must add to unseasonable desserts, like icebox cakes or fruit tarts. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall make the call on which bakers pull it off.
Episode 3
Take Holiday Pies by Surprise
Mon, Nov 16, 202042 mins
Host Jesse Palmer loves both cookies and pies, so he asks the nine bakers to make holiday cookie-topped mini pies. Then, Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall judge the pie pandemonium as the competitors celebrate fall with flavor combos such as pumpkin-cider and chestnut-chocolate in double crust, cream pies, slab pies, lattice pies and custard pies.
Episode 4
Hosting the Holidays
Mon, Nov 23, 202042 mins
Jesse Palmer challenges the eight bakers to turn breakfast items, like French toast, into Thanksgiving desserts. Then, the competitors team up to create Friendsgiving potluck-inspired desserts to impress judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.
Episode 5
It's What's on the Inside That Counts
Mon, Nov 30, 2020
The seven bakers get advent calendars filled with different types of chocolate to inspire them to make desserts with a surprise inside. Then, for the main heat, the competitors must bake one delicious cheesecake with three different flavors for the judges.
Episode 6
Topsy-Turvy Holidays
Mon, Dec 7, 2020
Jesse Palmer challenges the six competitors to work in teams to create jelly doughnut-inspired desserts, a twist on traditional Hanukkah jelly doughnuts. Then, the bakers get creative with the yummiest, gooiest holiday decorated upside-down cakes to satisfy the judges.
Episode 7
A Classic Christmas
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Host Jesse Palmer asks the five bakers to pull out all the stops and create the most-delicious, over-the-top version of a holiday trifle. Then, the classics continue in the main heat when the competitors make the ultimate Charlotte royale for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall, as well as the king of Christmas -- Santa Claus.
Episode 8
Christmas Windows in Time
Mon, Dec 21, 2020
Jesse Palmer kicks things off by asking the final four competitors to honor the holiday tree in the form of a beautifully decorated macaron tower. In the Christmas past, present and future main heat, the bakers must feature an assigned icing style in a stunning cake that evokes their assigned time period -- marzipan from the past, buttercream from the present or mirror glaze from the future. In the end, the judges will decide the one baker who will be crowned Holiday Baking Champion and walk away $25,000 richer.
Episode 9
Sweet Secrets
Sun, Dec 20, 202042 mins
In this holiday special, judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall look back at how the final four bakers made it to the finale. They reveal the best bakes of the season, some of the slip-ups, which bakers stood out and who had a roller coaster ride. Plus, they give an exciting behind-the-scenes view into how the show is made and how the judges came to some of their toughest decisions.
