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.
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 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.
The eight young bakers work in teams to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme like fire and ice, night and day, land and sea or big and small.
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.
A new group of kid bakers introduce themselves via delicious "selfieclairs"; using a selfie as a inspiration, the bakers create eclairs in assigned flavors and then decorate them to serve as a pate a choux pastry introduction.