Pequenos Confeiteiros

Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge: bacon.[Food Network]

The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots.[Food Network]

The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.[Food Network]

Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with happy and sad faces. [Food Network]

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman put the eight young bakers in teams and challenge them to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme.[Food Network]

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge.[Food Network]

Valerie and Duff know that sometimes one can make something extraordinary out of ingredients found at home. They challenge the six bakers to turn packaged biscuit dough into dramatic and delicious monkey bread volcanoes.[Food Network]

Dessert impostors come in all shapes and sizes, so Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five young bakers to make sweet dessert tacos that look like the real thing.[Food Network]

It's always a puzzle to determine which three bakers will make it to the finale. This time, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman make it a sugar cookie puzzle.[Food Network]

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman host the ultimate bake sale for the finale. They challenge the remaining three bakers to create cakes using bake sale items like toffee or rice cereal treats with a bake sale theme.[Food Network]