Summer movies are the best, and host Jesse Palmer uses Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 as inspiration for the bakers to design core summer travel memory desserts inspired by the core memories that help make people who they are. After bringing their emotions to life, the bakers create emotion cakes so that judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Damaris Phillips can experience ALL the feelings before deciding whose cake doesn't bring joy.
Valerie Bertinelli loves everything about football season, especially the halftime feast. This year's big game features new takes on old favorites, and Valerie is joined by actor Angela Kinsey, her husband, Josh Snyder and food writers Jo Stougaard and Jenn Harris. Just like a big game, there are two competing champion recipes for wings, but only one will take home the trophy for the best wings of the season.
In season 1, the remaining two chefs walk into the hallowed halls of Kitchen Stadium to complete their final test: Attain Greatness. With the Chairman looking on and host Alton Brown commentating from the side, the two finalists compete in a head-to-head final showdown by commencing in an official Iron Chef America battle.
Duff is up to his eyeballs in cakes, as he and Geof build a replica of Wrigley field for a man's 80th birthday. Duff drives 11 hours to deliver the cake in person. Richard creates the ultimate groom's cake - a 10-point buck for an avid hunter. It's also a week of weddings - two of Mary Alice's friends are getting married and their cakes have to be extra special.
Duff is up to his eyeballs in cakes as he and Geof build a replica of Wrigley Field for a man's 80th birthday. Duff drives 11 hours to deliver the cake in person. Richard creates the ultimate groom's cake — a 10-point buck for an avid hunter. It's also a week of weddings. Two of Mary Alice's friends are getting married and their cakes have to be extra special.
Mary Alice gets a personal tour of Geof's hometown when the two deliver a cake for "Relay for Life." Duff rocks out with the choir of PS22 when he takes a Grammy-inspired cake to New York's famous singing public school.
Teamwork makes the dream work! 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 come together in one unified and delicious doughnut design.
Tyler Florence visits Huntsville, Ala., where two local teams of aspiring restaurateurs compete to win their very own food court restaurant, rent-free for a year! It's team Perkins & Sons hotdogs vs. team Kettle n' Spouts shrimp-and-grits as they go head to head in the ultimate battle testing their concept, marketing their brand, and attempting to outsell their competition at Madison Square Mall.
It's Filipino vs. Costa Rican cuisine as two teams battle for the chance to win a food court restaurant in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Friends Joyce and Lisa hope a successful Filipino restaurant will help Joyce bring her family together in the U.S., while husband and wife Ray and Kristine got engaged in Costa Rica and hope to prove to their son the value of following your dreams.