Food Network Challenge Episodes
Season 8, Episode 1
Disney Celebration Cakes
Its an amazing race through Disneyland as four cake artists search for the perfect client to design a cake for. Winning designer earns $10,000 and a gold medal.
Season 8, Episode 2
Miley Cyrus’ Sweet 16 Cakes
Four pastry chefs design the most important cake of their careers, the Miley Cyrus Sweet 16 cake. Set in Disneyland, the competitors have to impress a panel of judges that include her grandmother and three of her biggest fans. Winning designer earns $10,000 and the chance to personally serve their cake to the pop star.
Season 8, Episode 3
Horror Cakes
This Challenge is not for the faint of heart. Four cake artists make realistic cakes based off an original horror story. The one that can tap into their dark side will take home ten grand and a gold medal.
Season 8, Episode 4
Surprise Birthday Cakes
In this Challenge, four veteran competitors must make a birthday cake for the ultimate Mystery Client, a person of exquisite taste and discrimination. It is Kerry Vincent, wedding cake designer, Hall of Fame Sugar Artist, and frequent Challenge judge.
Season 8, Episode 5
Blind Date Cakes
Challenge pairs up four eligible bachelors with four talented cake designers to make a birthday cake for a beautiful young woman. Only the bachelors will interview the bachelorette, and then they must interpret what she wants for the cake designers.
Season 8, Episode 6
Disney Classics Cakes
Four of the country's best pastry chefs square off to make cakes based on four of the most popular Disney films of all time: Pinocchio, Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. The competitors' talent and skill will be put to the test, because if their work isn't perfect, everyone will know. The winning pastry chef wins ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.
Season 8, Episode 7
Challenge: Last Cake Standing: Personal Best Cakes
In this first competition, it begins with six pastry chefs who think they have eight hours to showcase their skill and prove why they are the best of the best. Their task is to tell one story of their life in cake.
Season 8, Episode 8
Last Cake Standing: Elopement Cakes
The Five remaining competitors take a field trip to City Hall where they meet a couple who is getting married that very morning. Not only will the competitors stand as witnesses at the ceremony, they must create a wedding cake for the newlywed's reception party that night.
Season 8, Episode 9
Last Cake Standing: Extreme Superhero Cakes
The remaining four pastry chefs have come prepared to create a cake based on an original superhero, complete with extreme elements not usually seen in cake, like mechanics and fireworks.
Season 8, Episode 10
Last Cake Standing: Sweet 16 Sextuplets
In the final round of Last Cake Standing, the remaining three competitors must endure the longest competition in Challenge history, a 24-hour marathon. The finalists must make a five-foot tall birthday cake for a set of sextuplets who are turning sixteen.
Season 8, Episode 11
Shrek Cakes
The lovable ogre has just made his Broadway debut in "Shrek the Musical." And four top cake designers battle it out to make cakes inspired by scenes and characters in the musical: Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey and Lord Farquaad.
Season 8, Episode 12
Extreme Candy Carnivals
Carnivals are a colorful feast for the eyes. So, Challenge invites four top pastry chefs to create their own interpretation of a carnival scene in candy. They can use, chocolate, homemade candy, and sugar.
Season 8, Episode 13
Ice Age Cakes
Four cake artists go prehistoric in this Challenge by making cakes that celebrate the trials, triumphs and friendship of Manny the Mammoth and friends. The winning cake artist will take home ten grand and a gold medal.
