The Kitchen hosts are taking requests for easy, new and creative recipes! Sunny Anderson keeps it simple and satisfying with her Easy Smothered Chicken, and Katie Lee Biegel shares how easy it is to make her Grilled Red Curry Lamb Chops with an Arugula, Fennel and Citrus Salad. Jeff Mauro and his co-hosts rank common kitchen mistakes and offer some easy fixes. Geoffrey Zakarian cooks up a low-carb yet flavorful Almond Chicken Paillard with Arugula and Apple. Finally, Alex Guarnaschelli shares tips and tricks for baking the perfect Chocolate Cake with Easy Chocolate Frosting.
Chef Bobby Flay's first job was at a New York City pizzeria, but Damaris Phillips grew up on "Southern" pizza, so they debate what makes the perfect pie over crispy Crust Dippers served with sweet and savory sauces. Then, Bobby fires up his outdoor pizza oven to make a Spicy Margherita Pizza with a Fried Egg on top. For dessert, it's more pizza with Damaris' Almond-Chocolate Pizza with Bourbon-Plumped Raisins and a Cinnamon Sugar Crust.
When the holiday season arrives in Vermont, snow caps the green mountains and powdered sugar falls like snowflakes in Gesine Prado's kitchen. To celebrate the season, Gesine hosts a gingerbread house-making party for her friends, and the menu is equally festive. She bakes Pistachio Cinnamon Stars and Gingerbread Cookies in cheerful shapes, and she sets out Sugared Spicy Almonds for snacking. Gesine's centerpiece is a Chocolate Yule Log with a Gingerbread Ax Topper that knocks her guests off their feet.
Bakery owners come to Carlo's Bakery to show Buddy Valastro their signature dishes including a Chocolate-Cinnamon-Pecan Roll, Salty Sweet Pretzel Bark, a Fancy Almond Cake and a Savory Meat Pie. The difficult obstacles lead to the nail-biting final moments of the competition where one baker is forced to change their recipe on the fly and another has a full-on machine meltdown. In the end, Buddy and his advisors are left with making the difficult decision of whose signature dish was best.