In the first ever Cupcake Wars all-vegan showdown, four vegan bakers fight to have their cupcakes at the opening day celebration for the inaugural Los Angeles Green Festival.
Giada is giving herself a challenge! She coming up with four dishes each with only five ingredients that you can prepare in just 15 minutes: Rigatoni With Red Pepper, Almonds and Bread Crumbs; Salmon With Puff Pastry and Pesto; Croissant Panini; Biscotti-Gelato Sandwiches and Espresso.
It's the spine-tingling finale of Halloween Wars! The final two teams made up of an expert pumpkin carver, a cake artist and a sugar master have slaughtered their competition, and now they're facing off in one last epic showdown. The team that can best illustrate a terrifying worldwide outbreak and the race for an antidote will be crowned Halloween Wars champions and win $50,000! LeeAnna Vamp, actress, model and horror culture icon, serves as guest judge.
Yee haw! Saddle up, because on this episode of Unwrapped, we're taking a trip back to the old west. Visit a Wild West town in Illinois, see how whiskey is made and learn the jerky secrets to smoked meats. Next, see why huckleberries are so rare in these parts and visit a replica of an old fort for some authentic wild western cuisine. Finally, wake up with a traditional cup of cowboy coffee.
In this day and age, donuts aren't just for dessert! We're frying a batch of donuts for every meal of the day starting off in Minneapolis, MN, with a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich made on a sweet glazed donut. For lunch, we're in Texas for donuts loaded with barbecue brisket. When dinner rolls around, we're checking out donut burgers and donut French onion soup. If you've got a donut-shaped hole in your soul just waiting to be filled, you won't want to miss this!
Sugar craft specialist Eloise Durrant has a commission like no other: a gravity-defying, five-tier cake that will hang upside down like a chandelier. Meanwhile, Phil and Christine Jensen embark on one of their biggest and most ambitious cakes to date -- a seven-foot-long cake with a Wallace and Gromit theme estimated to take over 400 hours to complete.
Each team gets an out-of-order recipe and the recruits must work together to figure out how to unscramble it. Then Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence tell the recruits they are being left alone in boot camp, but secretly watch every move from a remote command post. For the main dish challenge, the recruits learn the ugly truth of sausage making. The tasting is a potluck dinner, so their sausages must impress both the Chefs and their fellow recruits.
New York is the city that never sleeps. Andrew Zimmern pulls the night shift to explore the hidden world that fuels the Big Apple and finds out why feeding hungry New Yorkers is an all-night job.
No one can resist a fresh pie coming out of the oven! Chefs Alton Brown, Anne Burrell, Scott Conant and Sam Choy reveal their best ever sweet and savory pie creations. Discover the ultimate Shepherd's Pie, a surprising and scrumptious Grape Caramel Pie, an ancient Turkish Borek recipe with a twist and a luscious take on the classic cream pie. Flaky, tasty, comforting and ... easy as pie!