Food Network Challenge

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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."

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Challenge celebrates one of the most-beloved holiday films of all time, A Christmas Story. Host Ian Ziering welcomes four competitors, and there's no shortage of "Oh ffffudge!" moments on this wild ride. One competitor is sent home, and the remaining three go on to vie for $10,000 and the ultimate prestige title, Food Network Challenge Champion.

Ian Ziering hosts a flurry of action in the kitchen as four cake artists hop off the bunny slope and take on a black diamond challenge: winter sports cakes. The judges send one Challenger home after the first round, and the final three skate to the finish line, but only one will take home the gold medal and $10,000.

Challenge celebrates the 80th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz.