Le championnat de pâtisserie junior

It's picture day! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman meet the 12 kid bakers through portrait cakes with an edible photo on top and custom emojis that show off each baker's hobbies. Don't blink, because in the end, the least successful baker goes home.

It's every kid's favorite part of the school day -- recess! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the kid bakers to honor the classic recess game of hopscotch by making blondie hopscotch puzzles! One baker will be hopping home.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to work in teams to decorate their own bake sale booth and stock it full of their assigned sweets. The baker with the least successful desserts will have to pack up their booth and go home.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the young bakers to work in teams to create a cake inspired by traditional happy and sad theatrical masks. When the curtain falls, one baker must exit the stage.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman bring the fun and stakes of a spelling bee into the kitchen by asking the remaining seven kid bakers to make spelling bee word tarts with assigned words on top.

For this challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are honoring the school library by asking the young bakers to create book desserts. They can make any dessert, as long as it's decorated to look like a book!

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the kid bakers to make tie-dyed doughnuts and ice cream with two different flavored swirls. It's a lot of color, flavors and fun as the four remaining bakers compete for the three spots in the finale.