Food Network Challenge Episodes
Challenge: American Pie Festival
Some of the country's greatest amateur bakers descend on Celebration, Fla., to find out once and for all who has the best pie in the land. The "best in show" winner takes home bragging rights and great cash prize.
Challenge: Big Bash Caterers
Four top chefs square off in a competition to see who has what it takes to cater a gala event for the Denver Ballet Company. Will the chefs fall on their faces as time ticks off the clock? The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold medal.
Challenge: Ice Cream Clash
Four top pastry chefs square off in competition to see who has the best ice cream skills. There are three rounds of competition: ice cream sundae, ice cream cake and ice cream specialty. The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold
medal.
Challenge: Tag Team Cakes
All bets are off in this Challenge, as eight top pastry chefs decorate cakes in teams of two. The only thing is, the chefs won't know who their partners are until moments before the competition begins. The winning team shares a $10,000 prize and gold medals.
Challenge: Extreme Holiday Cakes
Pyrotechnics meet pastry in this Challenge. Four top cake artists square off to make Christmas cakes that spin, smoke and explode. However, mechanical ambition leaves everyone ripe for failure. The competitor that can blow the roof off of Christmas will take home $10,000 and a gold medal.
The Next Great Chef
Four young chefs on the verge of culinary greatness vie for the title of "The Next Great Chef." They have two rounds to impress with a signature appetizer and a signature entrée. The chef who can deliver the complete package of creativity, ambition, and technique will win $10,000 and a career-making title.
Challenge: Big City Cakes
Four of the country's best cake artists square off to build four American city skylines out of cake in just eight hours. Can Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle be built in a day? The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold medal.
Challenge: Cereal Bridges
Four top pastry chefs compete to build four famous bridges with rice cereal treats. Can these pastry chefs replicate some of the world's greatest architectural feats? Or will their bridges collapse? The winner earns a gold medal and a $10,000 prize.
Battle of the Brides
Four cake artists are in for a surprise when they learn they'll be designing wedding cakes for brides they've just met, and the brides will actually be assisting them. Will these novice bridezillas help or hurt them in their quest to create the perfect wedding cake? The stakes are high, since the winning chef gets $10,000 and the winning bride assistant gets to have her dream cake recreated at her wedding.
Birthday Bombshell
It s a bombshell all right. Four cake artists are shocked to discover they have to create the perfect birthday cake for triplets who are about to turn eighteen. Can these chefs create a birthday cake that incorporates the ideas of three teenagers with different tastes? The one who succeeds will take home $10,000 and a gold medal.
Chocolate Masterpieces
Four master chocolatiers will try to replicate world-famous sculptures using only chocolate. Will a twelve-hundred pound chocolate sculpture make it to the judge's table without crashing to the floor? If so, its creator has a shot at the $10,000 prize.
Challenge: Italian Family Feast
Three top Italian chefs face off for a $10K prize to put a new twist on the Italian family recipes that they grew up with. What these chefs don't know is that their families have come to help them cook.
Challenge: America's Best Burger
Ten competitors battle it out to see who makes the best burgers in America at the Build a Better Burger Cook-Off in Napa Valley, California. In the alternative competition, five amateur grilers will compete for $10,000 with burgers made from poultry, pork and seafood. The stakes are even higher in the beef burger competition, with five backyard cooks fighting for the $50,000 grand prize.
