About this season
Hosts and judges Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli will lead eight talented kid bakers through challenges designed to find the most-impressive and creative young baker. In each challenge the contestants, ranging in age from 10 to 13, will be tested on their baking skills and originality as they whip up delectable desserts, including creative cakes, mouthwatering cookies and pastries.
Episodes (10)
1. Bakin' With Bacon
Aired 7 January 2019 • 60 min
Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes.
2. Spots and Stripes Forever
Aired 14 January 2019
The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots.
3. Brownies vs. Blondies
Aired 21 January 2019
The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.
4. Macaron Madness
Aired 28 January 2019
Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with happy faces and sad faces.
5. Opposites Attract
Aired 4 February 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman put the eight young bakers in teams and challenge them to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme.
6. Freaky Flavors
Aired 11 February 2019
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge.
7. Monkey See, Monkey Bake
Aired 18 February 2019
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman know that sometimes one can make something extraordinary out of ingredients found at home; they challenge the six young bakers to turn packaged biscuit dough into dramatic and delicious monkey bread volcanoes.
8. Let's Taco About Baking
Aired 25 February 2019
Dessert impostors come in all shapes and sizes, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing.
9. Puzzle Me This
Aired 4 March 2019
It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale; this time, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman make it a sugar cookie puzzle.
10. Desserts Doing Good
Aired 11 March 2019