Summer Baking Championship

Just landing at his beach rental, a hungry Jesse Palmer asks ten amazing bakers to whip up faux ice cream bars in summer flavors. Then, the bakers put judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Damaris Phillips into sunny "spirits" with summer cocktail tarts.

Jesse Palmer is on a cruise with an elevated water ride! Inspired by the ride's inner tubes, the bakers create giant, colorful inner tube cakes. Then, the bakers use Jesse's island excursion to make snorkeling lagoon cheesecakes with see-through gelatin.

While fueling up at a lakeside hotel breakfast buffet, Jesse Palmer challenges the bakers to make sweet and savory breakfast treats. Then, Jesse has been picking berries by the lake, and it's the bakers' job to turn them into mile-high summer pies.

Jesse Palmer uses Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 as inspiration for the bakers to design core summer travel memory desserts. Then, the bakers make emotion cakes so that judges can experience ALL the feelings before choosing whose cake doesn't bring joy.

Jesse Palmer uses his perfect road snack -- a chocolate bar -- to challenge the bakers with creating road trip portable desserts. Then, the bakers go glamping as they cook up glam summer cobbler desserts before the judges decide who takes a hike.

Cruising through the American Southwest, Jesse Palmer tasks the bakers with creating sweet and handheld dessert tacos. Then, the bakers highlight beautiful Sedona with tres leches cakes that celebrate everything from desert sunsets to hot air balloons.

Jesse Palmer invites ten bakers to travel to iconic summer destinations and bake up the most inventive and delicious treats for judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Damaris Phillips! At the end of the trip, one baker will win the grand prize of $25,000!