What are Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman doing at a pizza parlor? And why is Duff putting sprinkles on pepperoni pizza? It turns out they have a special challenge boxed up and ready to deliver to the 11 kid bakers. The kids have to get creative to turn pizza into a sweet treat by creating dessert pizzas.
It's no secret that Valerie Bertinelli loves lemon, but Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in this season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes! Each of the 12 young bakers must make a cupcake featuring bacon and an assigned ingredient like maple, chocolate or cherry.
To celebrate candy in all its glory, the five remaining kid bakers must use three types of candy in a dessert but also keep it balanced, because it's a fine line between candymonium and candy overload!
The French macaron is the new cupcake, so the seven remaining kid bakers must take on this extremely demanding dessert, producing three dozen colorful macarons and stacking them to at least five inches high.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman roll out everyone's favorite challenge: dessert imposters! The nine kid bakers are asked to make desserts that look like breakfast, lunch and dinner foods. Then the hosts look back at quirky and playful moments from past challenges.
It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale, and this season, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are making it a sugar cookie puzzle. The four remaining young bakers must make sugar cookie puzzles in assigned flavors like raspberry, butterscotch, spice or lemon to earn a spot in the top three!
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love Italian food so much they're challenging the bakers to create lasagna dessert imposters! The bakers must create meat lasagna, spinach-and-mushroom lasagna or veggie-pesto lasagna imposters if they want to stay in the game.
Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli celebrate her favorite flavor, lemon, by challenging the 10 kid bakers to create lemon bar BFF desserts that highlight lemon and some of its best flavor friends.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman turn up the heat and ask the remaining eight bakers to incorporate chilies, peppers, cayenne and more into their chocolate creations. The kid bakers must balance the heat in their sweets, so that they showcase the flavor without overwhelming the judges' taste buds.
It's the beloved imposters challenge, and hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the young bakers to create grilled dessert imposters with side dishes like ribs and mac 'n' cheese or hot dogs and baked beans. The least successful baker goes home.