Kids Baking Championship
Eight kid bakers contend for the title of Kids Baking Champion. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli lead these talented young bakers through tasty challenges designed to find the most impressive and creative baker.
- 2015-2025
- 13 seasons
- Discovery Family Channel
- Game Show, Reality
- TV-G
Eight kid bakers contend for the title of Kids Baking Champion. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli lead these talented young bakers through tasty challenges designed to find the most impressive and creative baker.
Season 7 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2019
Episode 1
Splatter Up!
Mon, Aug 5, 2019 42 mins
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to get creative and colorful. Cakes in assigned flavors (given in randomized paint cans) like chocolate, red velvet, and coconut are splattered with color -- the brighter and crazier, the better. Also, the young bakers must include a personal interest as inspiration to decorating their cakes. The winner receives a paint splattered apron that Valerie and Duff have each signed.
Episode 2
Desserts to the Rescue!
Mon, Aug 12, 2019 42 mins
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the eight bakers to defend Bird Island or Pig Island in this round inspired by the "Angry Birds Movie 2." Each baker makes a dozen cupcakes based on a selected movie character, then they team up to build an edible island. The central island should be composed from a cereal treat.
Episode 3
I Doughnut Know What to Think!
Mon, Aug 19, 2019 42 mins
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the seven young bakers to make a giant doughnut cake. Using Bundt cake pans, the bakers make a cake in an assigned flavor like strawberry or maple and then decorate it to look like an oversized doughnut. The twist challenge this time requires the inclusion of coffee flavor to the cake.
Episode 4
International Intrigue
Mon, Aug 26, 2019 42 mins
It's dessert impostor time again on the Championship. The six young bakers must fake it to make it as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge them to create impostors that look like international dishes, such as sushi or shish kebab, but taste like dessert.
Episode 5
Hole-y Hedgehogs
Mon, Sep 2, 2019 42 mins
America's young bakers are greeted with a display featuring a bush, a pig, a large pin, and a cake; wonder what it could mean? Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to each make a poke cake (a sheet cake with holes poked in after baking, and the holes are then filled with delicious pudding or sauce) with fillings such as pureed fruit or pudding. To increase the cuteness factor, they must decorate it to look like the pokiest little critter -- a hedgehog. Cake flavors are assigned with cute stuffed hedgehog toys.
Episode 6
Beauty Is in the Pie of the Beholder
Mon, Sep 9, 2019 42 mins
The bakers enter the kitchen the find the judges feasting on a bounty of fresh farm fruits. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman present the four young bakers with late-summer fruit and challenge them to bake a beautiful, delicious pie. But not just a pie, but a "pie art pie." The judges want to see intricate crusts, cool designs, and perfectly baked pies. For a twist challenge, what goes better with pie than fresh, flavored ice cream? Only the cream of the crop will make it to the finale.
Episode 7
Out of This World
Mon, Sep 16, 2019 42 mins
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are lost in space and challenge the three remaining bakers to create cakes that look like either a spaceship, aliens, or another planet as determined by the random space rock the bakers selected. The most out-of-this-world cake wins, and only one baker will claim $25,000, a spot in Food Network Magazine, and the title of Kids Baking Champion.
Episode 8
Tricks and Treats
Thu, Sep 26, 2019 42 mins
Four fan-favorite kid bakers return for a Halloween-themed competition and battle it out for a baker's dream prize package that includes a blast chiller. The kids enter the kitchen to find Duff Goldman stuck in a spider web. After that initial surprise, he and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the bakers to embrace seemingly scary arachnids in the form of spider web desserts.
Episode 9
North Pole Edition
Sun, Dec 8, 2019 42 mins
The second KBC special focuses on Christmas and the Holiday Season. The young bakers must think on their feet as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge them to fill a mini fireplace mantel with "santastic" sweets. The bakers must also "write" a baked letter to Santa using a walnut flavor for the twist challenge. Special guest Casey Webb helps choose the winner of the baker's dream prize package of top-of-the-line baking equipment worth over $10,000 including a blast chiller.