The eight bakers have to put their best cookie forward in the first two challenges of this competition. First, they'll have to make their best holiday cookie using an assigned baking tool and in the second challenge, they must use holiday ingredients to impress the judges with three different kinds of cookies.
Seven of the country's best Food Trucks start the cross country journey in Southern California. An early twist leaves the teams scrambling. They think they are starting in LA, but quickly learn that the first city they must conquer over 100 miles away in San Diego. How will they handle this switch? Teams will struggle to find a location, source their food, and market their trucks in a brand new city. After a frenetic weekend, the truck who makes the least amount of money will be sent home.
Honey is the most mentioned food in the Bible: The only food produced for us by animals. It's a sweetener, it's an antiseptic, it's amazing. Alton Brown shows just how amazing with his recipes for Honey Plums, Honey Mustard Dressing, Sweet and Sour Dessert Sauce and Aunt Verna's Orange Cake.
Ali Khan is on the hunt for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack deals in Las Vegas that won't break the bank. In a place famous for all things sinful, it's no surprise that there's a delectable and wildly diverse food scene as well. Ali goes all in on a wickedly good day of eating in the desert, starting with an Elvis-inspired king of a breakfast -- banana French toast bread pudding. Then it's tacos to die for as he tracks down a legendary chef whipping up handcrafted al pastor tacos. At snack time, Ali finds himself in the hands of an artisanal pastry chef whose treats might be too beautiful to eat. Finally, he ends his day with some award-winning pizza slices that rock.
Join host Alfonso Ribeiro and savor the flavor of some tasty treats, from Eli's scrumptious Bavarian Apple Tart to Necco's classic bite-size Mary Jane. Then, the mystery of the orange-colored, banana-flavored Circus Peanuts is solved, and find out why there's no dip necessary for Snak King's spicy Salsitas.
Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the five kid bakers to create beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in showstopping trifles.
Oliver is the mayor of Miami Gardens, Florida, and his perfect wedding cake features local landmarks and his university colors of orange and green. But his fiance, tech entrepreneur Pandwe, insists on a cake with natural beauty and vintage, 1920s-era glamour. Miami's top cake designers vie for the chance to make an elegant orange and green cake worthy of the mayor and his new first lady.
The place to go in Virginia for authentic, old-fashioned barbecued spare ribs is Buz and Ned's Real Barbeque in Richmond. Buz thinks he has been picked to teach the tricks of the trade for a new Food Network special, but doesn't know that Chef Bobby Flay is showing up to teach a little lesson called Throwdown! Bobby's betting his Asian-inspired spare ribs score top marks over Buz's barbecued beauties and it's up to the judges to decide who gets to move to the head of the class.