Campeonato de reposteros: fiestas

Nine bakers must create eye-catching and tantalizing new holiday treats for seasonal parties. They create a dessert with an unusual candy cane flavor and then use a holiday cocktail as sweet inspiration before one baker goes home.

Eight bakers team up to make a dozen hand pies in a festive holiday shape. Then the competitors create a holiday dessert duo inspired by classic holiday flavor combinations.

The bakers must create a Thanksgiving dessert using a mystery canned fruit.

Seven bakers must create a Thanksgiving dessert using a mystery canned fruit. Then the competitors whip up new Turkey Day sensations by combining two traditional desserts.

Six bakers are creating new takes on traditional holiday baking. Inspired by an internet baking meme, they use yellow cake mix to make anything but cake. Then they're challenged to "holiday up!" a non-holiday dessert.

Five bakers "ignite" the holiday spirit with a fiery dessert. Then they take a traditional holiday cheese board and turn it into an unusual cheesecake.

The bakers celebrate two classic holiday traditions: Hanukkah jelly doughnuts and ye olde fruitcake. They must create a dozen doughnuts featuring a challenging flavor combo. Then they try their best to reinvent fruitcake.

Three bakers grab two last-minute holiday gifts and combine them into one impressive dessert before creating a 12 Days of Christmas dessert. The winning baker walks away with $50,000 and the title of Holiday Baking Champion!

Runner-up teams from previous seasons battle it out in Christmas-inspired dessert challenges for a chance to win $10,000.