Food Network Challenge

Ahoy mateys. Four cake decorators must bring to life the evil deeds of pirates of long ago. The cake designer who survives the perilous twists thrown their way, will reap a pirate's treasure worth 10,000 doubloons. Cake decorators not up to the job may have to walk the plank! To make the task even tougher these pirate cakes must be extreme.

Four cake designers create cake masterpieces inspired by the LEGO toy universe. But if the competitors want the $10,000 prize, they're going to have to overcome some surprise obstacles that are anything but child's play.

Four chocolatiers will create their version of a mythical creature and then bring it to life with some extreme effects. But there is magic and mischief afoot in the Challenge studio. And the competitors will have to work fast and smart to overcome it all win ten thousand dollars.

In this holiday special, four cake designers take on classic Christmas tales and carols. During the competition, those who have been nice get an extra gift. But the competitors who have been naughty get an unwelcome surprise. The person who can infuse their cake with a little Christmas magic will get a ten thousand dollar check in their stocking.

Four of the best cake designers in the country are charged with making cakes to celebrate the new adventures of Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and the gang in The Smurfs. The cake designer who best captures the little blue heroes in cake will take home $10,000

Take a trip back in time as four of the top cake artisans in all the land present cakes celebrating the colorful tradition of Renaissance Festivals. We toss in a twist for our lords and ladies and the fairest cake in the land takes home ten thousand dollars.

Top cake designers act as paleontologists in this extreme Challenge, as they bring giant dinosaurs to life. These cakes move, roar and even explode with fireworks, but only the biggest, baddest dino will rule this Challenge and help its owner take home ten thousand dollars.

Food Network Challenge is jammin' out to the totally tubular decade - the 1980's! Four cake designers will bust out awesome cakes that celebrate the fads, fashion and music of the decade of excess. And the competitors are in for a big surprise, as 80's pop superstar Tiffany will be on hand to judge! The grand prize of $10,000 and a trip to an Awesome 80's party is in store for the most radical cake.

Get ready for a showdown at the Challenge corral. Four top chocolatiers have to cowboy up to create scenes straight out of the old west--and make the scenes extreme. But a twist right out of the gate throws a the competitors off their game. Top showpiece of the day is worth ten thousand dollars

Four of the best donut bakers in the country fry up their ooey-gooey original donut recipes in the first Food Network Challenge featuring these scrumptuous breakfast staples! Donut lovers are in for a real treat as every kind of donut under the sun will be on display over the course of two rounds, and there's an added challenge - Each competitor must build their first EVER doughnut showpiece.

Four Sugar Artists will kick out four tres chic sugar ensembles, complete with accessories for four mannequins that are four miles away. These folks have got to be hip AND clever cause sugar, streets and stoplights don't mix. The smartest, most fierce sugar stylist takes home ten thousand dollars. As for the rest, well, they might need a broom and mini-vac.

Three mad scientists disguised as pastry chefs are taking on what sounds like an impossible task: build a Rube Goldberg machine - an elaborate machine that accomplishes a simple task - out of sugar. It's a crazy quest for $10,000 that pushes these chefs to their limits...and beyond. Can this be done?

Four Cake Designers make tasty cakes inspired by man's best friend. The challenge is to make a realistic life-size replica of a real-life show dog. The competitor with the perfect pooch takes home $10,000.

Four Cake Designers battle stage fright and the clock to create cakes that actually tell a joke! All the cakes are delivered to a live show at a comedy club, where the competitors take the stage to see if their cake is funny enough to take home $10,000.

Ten thousand dollars is on the table for the cake designer that tells the best urban legend story in cake. The added challenge on top of this Challenge is that the competitors must also make their cakes extreme.

Four regular families come to Challenge to prove that their Thanksgiving meal is the best around. What they don't know is a distant loved one has come to help them cook up the feast. By the end, one very happy family will walk away with ten thousand dollars.

It's three rounds of cookies like you've never seen before. Four top pastry chefs have come to Challenge armed with their best cookie recipes. What they don't know is that each round will also test their ability to adapt to some twists and turns. The competitor that earns the highest overall score over the three rounds will win ten thousand dollars.

In this Challenge, four chocolatiers create chocolate showpieces inspired by a mode of transportation. The hard part? These delicate chocolate vehicles will have to move. The winner will take home ten thousand dollars.

In this knock down, drag out Challenge, four cake designers make cakes inspired by teams in the Denver Roller Dolls League. There's plenty of drama, both in the competition kitchens--and on the skating rink. Best cake of the day earns its maker ten grand.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the popular television show Dora the Explorer, four cake designers will make cakes inspired by some of Dora's greatest adventures. However, the competitors find out that they have to go on an adventure of their own and perform a task in order to earn an item that they must incorporate into their cake design. Someone will crash and burn before it's done. And someone will go home with ten thousand dollars.

Three teams made of fruit and vegetable carvers, artists and construction workers accept the challenge to make a real looking landscape scene in food. The landscape that can fool the eye will earn one team ten thousand dollars.

Four chocolatiers pitch in to create a romantic backdrop for a gentleman who is going to propose to his girlfriend at the end of the show. The best and most personal showpiece wins one chocolatier ten thousand dollars -- and hopefully, win the guy the girl of his dreams.

Four cake artists have to make cakes to celebrate a tenth high school reunion. And who better to assist with the cake than the former classmates of the class of 2000? The rebel, the cheerleader, the jock and the nerd all have a bone to pick with each other. And it will be settled in the Food Network Challenge studio. The winning competitor will earn ten thousand dollars.

It's a battle of the sexes in this grill-off where three female Food Network stars face off against three male Food Network stars. They have three rounds to please both some mystery clients and a panel of discerning judges. The ten thousand dollar grand prize will be donated to charity.

Four cake designers tap into their dark side as they create original villains and tell their stories in cake. The cake designers also need to make their creations move or spin or shoot fire -- making for a truly extreme competition. The competitor who can wow the judges with both the story and the special effects will take home ten thousand dollars.

Four sugar artists take on a potentially impossible task in this Challenge: make a four foot tall science fiction scene in sugar. The catch? The showpiece must move. Potential for crashes and disaster looms. But the competitor that can make a great showpiece that is still standing strong at the end of the competition will win ten thousand dollars.

It's the toughest chocolate Challenge yet. Four ace chocolatiers visit Hersheypark to find inspiration for their own original chocolate roller coasters. Not only do they have to make their roller coasters move, they find out during the competition that they have to incorporate Hershey's candies into their design. It's a whole lotta work to get done in eight hours. And the competitor that can rise to this Challenge will take home ten thousand dollars.

Four cake artists know that they are at Challenge to design a cake to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the "Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant," a beauty pageant for young girls. What the competitors don't know is that the pageant mothers will help them make the cakes. These moms may not know cake, but they know how to win and definitely have their own opinions. The winning cake will earn one competitor ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

Four of the best cake designers in the country must make a cake for a couple celebrating their Golden Anniversary. The competitor that can distill 50 years of marriage and put it into one great cake will take home ten thousand dollars. But when the couple feels that the cakes aren't personal enough, all the competitors are at risk of being disqualified.

Four cake artists have to make a wedding cake for a tattooed couple. But this engaged couple doesn't want an ordinary wedding cake; they want an extreme cake that is a show stopper. So, to have a chance at ten thousand dollars, the cake artists have to figure out a way to make their cakes spin, shoot fire, and otherwise "wow" these discerning clients.

Four passionate barbecue teams come to Greenwood, South Carolina, armed with their best barbecue recipes. The teams must ace all four competition categories: pork, chicken, ribs and beef brisket in order to win $2500 and the title of "grand champion."

A cruise offers a variety of ways to build a unique vacation experience to suit each individual. In that spirit, four top pastry chefs will make cakes inspired by the fun, food, and relaxation that each person enjoyed on their four-day cruise to the Bahamas on Carnival Cruise Lines. However, there is a competition at the end of this cruise, and only one competitor can take home the ten thousand dollar grand prize. So, the pastry chefs must also do their research while on board so they can deliver a winning cake. The cakes must include at least three elements from the cruise experience.

Four top pastry chefs have eight hours to outwit physics by engineering world famous bridges in rice cereal treats. The first Cereal Bridges Challenge proved that a tall order. The question is: can these four build the bridges better and stronger than the first time around? The winning competitor will take home ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day. But at Challenge, two teams of pastry chefs have just eight hours to create an entire city out of chocolate, sugar and cereal treats. That means the skyline, the buildings and the life within the city. The team that best captures the spirit of their chosen city will earn ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

Two teams of three pastry chefs face off to build six feet tall gingerbread houses. Not only do they have to make the houses stand tall in just eight hours, the teams have to decorate the houses in the holiday spirit. The winning team will take home ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

Four top pastry chefs put their artist eye on interpreting the most awe-inspiring world wonders in chocolate. They can be ancient or modern, man-made or natural. But the chef that can do justice to their source will take home ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

Four cake artists will make cakes inspired by the fall collection of Stacey Bendet's fashion line, Alice + Olivia. What the competitors don't know is that fashion models with no culinary experience will assist them in making their cakes.

Four of the best food stylists compete over three rounds: breakfast, mystery lunch box, and romantic dinner for two. They don't need to make the food taste good; they need to make it look irresistible. The competitors with the best photographs will take home the prize.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Awesome amateur grillers from all over the country descend on Hico, Texas to put their steak recipes on the line. Best ribeye gets a gold medal and $2500 grand prize.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Some of the country's greatest home cooks descend on Dallas, Texas to find out once and for all who has the best dish in the land. The overall winner takes home a staggering 1 million dollar prize!

Four-foot tall sugar structures showcase the great outdoors. However, this is no ordinary competition. This is an elimination challenge--each round, contestants must showcase a specific skill.

They make food that makes your mouth water. Now four top food stylists show off the tricks of their trade while competing for $10,000. Over the course of three rounds, these superstar stylists pull out all the stops! They'll make ice cream that doesn't melt, make a mystery recipe look absolutely appetizing and even build an entire wedding spread from scratch. Each plate has to photograph perfectly in a competition where it's really all about eating with your eyes.

Four of the world's best fruit sculptors squared off in Hawaii and dazzled fans by transforming every day produce into stunning works of art. A construction worker-turned culinary student took home the $10,000 that day, and now his more experienced competitors have returned to the Challenge stage to take him down. Tropical Treasures is the theme as the competition heads to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where fruit and sparks are sure to fly!

Four of the nation's top cake designers compete to make the cake for a couple's engagement party, but there's one GIANT catch. The couple isn't engaged yet! The proposal happens right before the competition starts and the pressure builds from there. With $10,000 on the line, the four competitors have to create 3-foot cakes in just 7 hours, and they'll need to get inspiration from a woman who may or may not be happy with what her boyfriend just proposed.

Four top cake artists design cakes inspired by some of Dr. Seuss' s popular books, including Horton Hears a Who and Cat In The Hat! The winner takes home $10K.

Four top pastry chefs design exact replicas of some of the world's most famous landmarks entirely out of chocolate! The winner takes home $10,000.

Four pastry chefs must design a cake for a client they'll meet only moments before the competition begins. The winning cake takes home $10K and is served at the event.

The best in the country converge with no idea what shape the competition will take. Hours before the contest begins the theme is announced--Sports.

Five sugar masters take great risks in this competition. Not only does their design have to top five feet, but they have to maneuver it through an obstacle course. Competitors: Stephane Treand Sadruddin Abdullah Steven Weiss Kaushik Chowdhurry Scott Green Judges: Robert Bleifer Susan Stockton Ewald Notter

For the first time in the U.S., pastry chefs combine with bakers for a 2-day contest that showcases each of their unique talents and combined creativity.

The World Pizza Championships take place in Italy. Six American chefs are vying to be crowned pizza king. But, the Italians may have something to say about that. Taste, dough tossing, and acrobatics take center stage.

Ten international pastry teams have come to Phoenix, Ariz., for the World Pastry Team Championship to prove who the best of the best is in a two-day culinary marathon. Team USA has taken first in the past two championships and they're aiming for a three-peat. But Team France and Team Japan plan on dethroning the reigning champs. A win here means taking home the $50,000 prize and the achievement of a lifetime.

Chicago hosts the National Beef Cook-off. Amateur chefs will compete in four categories: New Dynamic Beef Dishes, Nuevo Latino Beef Dishes, Small Plates, Big Taste and Kids in the Kitchen. The winner of each category will win $10,000, with the runner-up in each receiving $5,000.

258 teams are gathered in Memphis for one of the most prestigious barbeque contests in the world. Competitors will compete in three categories: shoulder, ribs and whole hog. If they can beat out the other competitors in their category they'll win $3,000 and have a shot at the Grand Prize of $22,000.

Once again the Challenge cameras descend on one of the richest competitions in the culinary world - the $100,000 National Chicken Cooking Contest. Birmingham, Alabama plays host, but representatives from every state in the nation will be cooking up home-grown recipes sure to make your mouth water!

Four chefs will gather in Memphis to compete in the ultimate sandwich battle. The competition will contain 4, timed rounds: Hot, Cold, Panini, and a Signature round where the chefs will showcase their best tasting sandwich. After each round is judged, the chef with the highest score at the end of the challenge will win $10,000.

Four of the country's top cake designers do things with cake you've never seen before. Judged by Duff Goldman and his crew from Ace of Cakes, the competitors are encouraged to break all of the rules of cake decorating. The creator of the most radical cake takes home $10,000.

Five of America's best cake decorators travel to Disney World to compete in a cake competition where each cake revolves around a famous Disney villain.

They are the most recognized Disney princesses on the silver screen. In this challenge, five of the country's top cake designers transform Snow White, Belle, Cinderella and Jasmine into 3-foot tall cakes.

Four professional culinary artists trim a holiday tree entirely in edible decorations. Over the course of several timed rounds, the competitors will make edible garland, ornaments and then cap off their trees with an edible topper. Each chef is allowed an assistant, but won't know who their assistant is until moments before the competition begins. The competitors will have to figure out how to stay focused and quickly communicate their vision if they want any hope of taking home the $10,000.

Over 80 top cake decorators travel from all over the world to compete in one of the world's premier wedding cake competitions. A cash prize and industry bragging rights are at stake.

This Sugar Arts Championship invloves some of the nation's top bakers and a host of cake enthusiasts. The competition in Tulsa is every bride's dream come true.

Six of the world's best cake decorators design culinary themed cakes with the grand prize of $10,000 and the honor of having the winning cake showcased at the first annual Food Network Awards.

One culinary dream team tries to break the Guinness World Record for the Tallest Popcorn Sculpture. They have only four weeks to figure out how to make 5,000 pounds of popcorn stand over 16 feet tall. Then, in the heart of Disneyland, they'll have just one day to carve and decorate one of the biggest icons in the world: Mickey Mouse.

Ten international pastry teams have come to Phoenix, Ariz., for the World Pastry Team Championship to prove who the best of the best is in a two-day culinary marathon. Team USA has taken first in the past two championships and they're aiming for a three-peat. But Team France and Team Japan plan on dethroning the reigning champs. A win here means taking home the $50,000 prize and the achievement of a lifetime.

This Challenge gives the heart-pounding excitement of a horserace a Food Network twist. Five Guinness World Records are on the line inside the home of movie magic, Universal Studios, and not one, but two competitors are going head to head in each event to see who can flip, carve, crack, peel or scoop their way into the record books. From pumpkins to pancakes, onions to oysters, you've never seen food move this fast!

Food Network Challenge travels to Hawaii where five renowned chefs compete in a Hawaiian luau using their own unique interpretations of traditional luau cuisine.

On location in Hawaii, four sculpting gurus transform over one hundred pounds of produce into tropical sculptures that rise above five feet. Using a variety of fruits and vegetables, the competitors try to carve, peel, and slice their way to a $10,000 prize. The competitors face tough conditions as they carve their fruit in the sweltering Hawaiian heat, but the real test will be moving the final sculptures, which weigh upwards of 300 pounds.

Sugar showpieces go bigger than they ever have before. At Mall of America in Minneapolis, three top pastry chefs compete for a Guinness World Record for the Tallest Sugar Showpiece. Made entirely out of sugar, the chefs' pieces are modeled after well-known skyscrapers, and whoever tops out with the tallest piece will make Guinness history.

Four world champion pizza acrobats battle it out at Mall of America, attempting to toss, roll and spin their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. A fourth competition tests their pizza-making skills, as they each have 10 minutes to put together a gourmet pizza using none of America's top 10 ingredients. $10,000 goes to the pizziola with the most points at the end of the day.

See skylines as you've never seen them before. Three pastry artists and one ice carver take on breakfast cereal and get architectural. Each chef must bring to life a city skyline, and it needs to be made out of stuff usually found in a bowl. New York, Las Vegas, SoHo and Baltimore get the cereal treatment, and one chef goes home $10,000 richer.

Chocolate bridges over sugar moats, ice cream cone towers rising from cake-filled castles--and that's just a taste of what you'll see when four confectionary architects joust for the Challenge crown and $10,000! But sugar and chocolate aren't stable like steel and stone, so as walls crumble and sugar shatters, the clock becomes the enemy as the competitors race to bring their fairy-tale fortresses to life.

Five home cooks compete with cookies for the grand prize of $10,000. Chocolate chip, spice, fruit and the unique signature cookie push our cooks to their creative limits as they challenge themselves and the clock in a quest to win the big money.

Five of America's hottest young chefs face off in one of America's hottest locales, South Beach, Miami during the South Beach Food and Wine Festival. Our chefs have to prepare an appetizer and an entree, both reflecting the culinary heritage of Miami. They have only 40 minutes for the appetizer and an hour for the entree. A panel of all-star judges decides who goes home with $10,000.

This challenge takes six amazing bartenders out of the bar and puts them on the beach. South Beach, that is. This show highlights the best of bartending--the best recipes, the fastest pours and the most incredible routines. Watch as our bartenders flip, twirl, pour and spin their way to $10,000.

Ten chefs, all strangers, pair up in five teams of two. For the first part of the competition, they work separately. Then, in the final two hours, the teams get to work together. Their challenge: to come up with a cake that's worthy of $10,000. Only there's a twist...and it's a big one. The competitors won't find out until minutes before the competition WHO their partners are and WHAT the theme is. This is a competition that tests creativity and cooperation, all under a ticking clock.

Four top sugar artists meet in Beaver Creek to create an amazing four-foot tall sugar showpiece. The theme? The great outdoors. The twist? This is an elimination competition. There are three rounds and competitors must demonstrate specific skills such as sugar pulling and sugar blowing. The challenger who doesn't impress the judges after each round will be eliminated. At the end of the day, only two of our sugar artists will be left standing. And only one of those will go home with $10,000 in their pocket.

Six teams of student pastry chefs face off in the Happiest Place on Earth. On the line, a 14-thousand dollar scholarship and an internship in the prestigious Disney kitchens. These students will be tested. In eight hours, they will not only have to create four different desserts, but at the end of the day, they must also create a three foot tall chocolate and sugar centerpiece.

Ten of America's best grillers meet in Napa Valley to build the ultimate burger. Five competitors compete in the non-beef category for $10,000 and five competitors compete in the beef category for a whopping $50,000! Viewers will be treated to some of the most amazing burgers ever thrown on the grill...from salmon, to steak, to lamb and of course, good old ground beef. The recipes are mouth-watering and include flavors from around the globe, stretching from Morocco, to Hawaii, to Italy. After this Challenge, you'll never look at burgers the same way!

It's a cake competition with a mystery twist. The best cake makers in the country came to Phoenix with no idea what they'd be asked to do. Just hours before the competition, the theme was announced: sports cakes! Watch as the pros squirm under the pressure, with just a few hours to plan, and 7 hours to build world-class cakes.

Five Pastry Chefs face off over Chocolate. Their challenge, create a work of art made out of chocolate. And the theme for this work of art was "Dreams". The winner of the competition goes home 10-thousand dollars richer.

The Grove Park Inn Annual Gingerbread Competition in Asheville, NC is home to 250 of the nation's most inspired gingerbread artists who sketch, build and painstakingly decorate these stunning examples of holiday ingenuity. From royal residences to towns.

Secret marinades, heavenly fires, specially-designed grills and great cuts of beef-the grilling teams in Magnolia Arkansas pull out all their tricks because they know what's at "steak" at the World Championship Steak Cook-off.

The nation's best bakers gather in Celebration, FL to enter their pies in the "grandmother" of all cooking contests. It's a cook-off to determine who has the best crust, and who is just flaky. Don't want to miss out on a visit to the Endless Pie Buffet.

Premier pastry chefs from twelve different countries travel to Las Vegas for a two-day competition that’s known for setting new standards in the industry. Each team shows its artistic talent with a sugar showpiece and a chocolate showpiece, and its culinary prowess with pastries