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 8 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Beyond the Fringe
Mon, Jan 6, 2020 42 mins
To kick off the season, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are going back to the 1970s and shag carpeting as they challenge the 12 young competitors to make shag cakes. Each baker must make a cake in their chosen flavor (determined by grabbing one of 12 records) and then decorate it to create a shag texture. American buttercream and a grass tip on a piping bag are the main tools of the day. The twist challenge requires adding a fruity flavor to their cakes. The winner receives an autographed picture of Valerie and Duff in their 70s clothes, groovy, man.
Episode 2
1, 2, 3 Delicious!
Mon, Jan 13, 2020 42 mins
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Once the bakers pop a balloon they receive their assigned baked good (macarons, blondies, eclairs, etc.) that will need to be "neapolitanized" in today's challenge.
Episode 3
Sammy Whammy
Mon, Jan 20, 2020 42 mins
The bakers arrive to find Duff slicing meat in a butcher/sandwich shop set. What do sandwiches have to do baking? It can only mean that it's the most anticipated episode of the season -- dessert impostors. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Sandwiches must be one of the 10 featured sandwiches in the "sandwich shop." The twist challenge, as always, is to create a side dish to go with their featured sandwich, this time it is coleslaw. Order up.
Episode 4
Llama Drama
Mon, Jan 27, 2020 42 mins
Move over unicorns, there's a new animal after our hearts. The nine young bakers must create one dozen llama cupcakes in a chosen flavor. Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman also welcome a special guest -- Michu, a real live llama. The winning cupcake, MAY just inspire Duff's next tattoo.
Episode 5
One Potato, Two Potato
Mon, Feb 3, 2020 42 mins
Potatoes aren't just for french fries anymore -- they're also for decorating. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight remaining bakers to carve potato cutouts and create one dozen colorful, potato-print cookies. Duff and Valerie give a demonstration on making a stamp out of a potato with a cookie cutter and using gel coloring to achieve the desired design. The twist challenge asks each baker to add their "monogram" initial to a cookie.
Episode 6
Ice Cream Cone-a-copia
Mon, Feb 10, 2020 42 mins
Ice cream cones are for more than just holding ice cream. Pour some cake batter into these edible vessels and have a new way to hold a cupcake. Hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the seven kid bakers to create six impressive ice cream cone cupcakes in order to stay in the game. For the twist challenge, why not add some homemade ice cream to place alongside these cupcakes?
Episode 7
Mama Mia!
Mon, Feb 17, 2020 42 mins
It appears Valerie has opened a bakery, because the bakers are greeted with the "Bertinelli Bakery" featuring an assortment of Italian-inspired desserts. For this Italian-bakery themed challenge, hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the remaining six bakers with creating Italian rainbow cookies featuring assigned classic flavors like apricot, cherry, almond, lemon, hazelnut, or espresso. The twist challenge asks for a pizza inspired side dish.
Episode 8
Architectural Digestible
Mon, Feb 24, 2020 42 mins
The bakers enter the kitchen to find Valerie and Duff painting a room? Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five bakers to create beautiful interior decorations and mouthwatering layers in showstopping trifles. A twist comes along requiring the use of granola in the trifle.
Episode 9
Dinomighty
Mon, Mar 2, 2020 42 mins
Welcome to the Dinosaur Park, viewers. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the four bakers to show off their baking and building skills by making 3-D dinosaur cookies (that can stand on their own) in the shape of an assigned dinosaur either: T. rex, velociraptor, stegosaurus, brontosaurus, or triceratops. The twist challenge asks the bakers to create an egg to go along with their dinosaur creation.
Episode 10
The Fruit of Your Labor
Mon, Mar 2, 2020 42 mins
Fruit is an important element of baking, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the final three bakers to make fruit cakes, but not the holiday kind. Instead, they have to make cakes that look like actual fruit. The bakers are assigned either an orange, pineapple, or watermelon. One baker will then walk away with the title of Kids Baking Champion.