Chefs Brian and Sasha cater a gig thrown by...Chef Jesse! Jesse co-hosts a dinner party with actress Alison Sweeney, featuring dishes from the new book they co-authored. A Santa Monica jeweler has Chefs Stuart and Manouschka amaze her wealthy clients with foods inspired by her pricey white diamonds, red rubies and black onyx. Diggity Dave, the former co-host of Pimp My Ride hires Chef Brooke to cook her specials for his girlfriend and her friends...yet the tables are turned when said girlfriend hires another chef for the event.
The Kitchen hosts are cooking up delicious recipes using ingredients from their very own pantries, in their very own kitchens! Katie Lee kicks things off with her Pantry Pull Pasta Puttanesca, then Jeff Mauro whips up a flavorful Crispy Skin Salmon Provencal with Charred Red Cabbage Salad. Two Iron Chef recipes use a pantry staple -- Alex Guarnaschelli's White Bean Dip and Geoffrey Zakarian's Three Bean Salad. Plus, Sunny Anderson makes Grilled Bananas Foster, and the virtual happy hour is complete with Geoffrey's Tequila Bumble Bee cocktail and Katie's Grape Lime Ricky mocktail.
Five creative cookie makers are dreaming of a white Christmas as Eddie Jackson challenges them to decorate cookies using only detail, texture and relief. Judges Ree Drummond, Dwayne Ingraham and Gesine Prado decide which colorless cookies stand apart from the rest. Then the bakers let loose with an explosion of color as they create cookie tarts with layer upon layer of giant cookies and luscious cream. They also brighten up their cookie displays with vibrant ingredients like pomegranates, red currants, kiwis and matcha in the hope of walking away with the grand prize of $10,000.