Kids Baking Championship

Hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman embrace the brushstroke decorating trend by asking the 12 young bakers to create colorful and delicious brushstroke mini cheesecakes.

Garden-themed decorating is gaining in popularity, so the hosts challenge the 11 young bakers to create garden cakes decorated with actual fruits, herbs and other natural ingredients.

What's that beautiful arc of color in the sky? It's a rainbow!

It's the most-anticipated challenge of the competition -- dessert imposters! Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine kid bakers to create breakfast, lunch & dinner imposters.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love picnics, but desserts don't always fit into a picnic basket.

Hosts ask the seven young bakers to create desserts that feature Chinese five-spice powder, a blend of star anise, Szechuan peppercorns, fennel, cinnamon and clove.

To celebrate Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman pair each of the six bakers with an adorable, adoptable puppy and challenge.

In the cookie face challenge, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge each of the five bakers to create a giant cookie face with 3-D features.

Why have one kind of pie when you can have two? Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman task the four young bakers with creating a two-flavor sheet pan pie, and the winners make it to the finale

For the finale, the three remaining bakers must make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef.