Nothing is ever normal in the sideshow tent, so Vivian Chan and Zac Young challenge the three teams of bakers to imagine a dangerous snake charming gone wrong. In addition, each team must bake a sideshow sweet treat with a surprise inside to complement their jaw-dropping snake cake.
Michael Symon and hilarious TV star Billy Gardell embark on an uproarious adventure in Los Angeles filled with laughter, hijinks and visiting a perfect balance of legendary food joints and new spots on the scene. They compare a famous old-fashioned chili burger with an imaginative contemporary take, swing through the city's Koreatown for table-side barbecue and tour downtown's best brewery where they have a bar games faceoff.
Tyler Florence jets to Montpellier, France, in learn the local technique for making omelettes. Then he heads for Valencia, Spain, where he teams up with Maria Castillo, doyenne of traditional Spanish tortillas. Finally, he returns home to New York City to make his version of the ultimate omelette.
It's all about the throwback when Tia Mowry cooks some of her favorite recipes for her favorite girlfriends, while a photo album updates in front of our eyes! With recipes for: Homemade Chicken Stock, Collard Greens, Cornish Hens, Raspberry Cosmo, and Chocolate Banana Almond Milk-less Milkshake
Frugal foodies rejoice! From huge servings of hot chicken and supersized subs to one-of-a-kind gourmet pizza and some of the biggest burgers around, you always get a bang for your buck at these Food Paradise finds.
Giada prepares some Tuscan classics, like Chicken Florentine and a warm salad of Cannellini Beans with Herbs and Prosciutto. And for dessert, Zuccotto. An inspiring menu from the land of sunshine and romance.
We found the most unique sweets to suit your morning cup o' Joe. Abraco's morning pastries are packed with bold flavors like black sesame cardamom spiced cake and saffron sugar babka. Crespella adds a taste of Italy to your coffee with their crepes flavored and topped with tiramisu and cannoli. Bang Bang Pie in Chicago bakes decadent pies, from blueberry to a frozen sage lemon summer pie. Angel Food Bakery in Minneapolis serves donut bread pudding and tres leche cupcakes.
Duff is making a cake for Zoomerang, the annual benefit gala for the Maryland Zoo. This year's theme is Pink Flamingos, so he visits the zoo for inspiration. Duff makes a pair of flamingo cakes, explaining the difficulty of balancing a cake on the long, skinny legs of a flamingo. Geof invents a new dessert, the rice-krispie cannoli -- to make the flamingos beaks. The gang blows off steam at the end of a long week by dressing up and going to Zoomerang, where their cakes are a huge hit.
Duff gets to collaborate with his old friend Warren Brown of Sugar Rush when a DC couple orders a Capitol-Dome-shaped cake from Charm City that will sit on top of a cupcake tower from Cake Love.
A bride orders an unusual groom's cake for her heavy-metal-loving fiance, a flaming Fist of Rock. Sherri must sculpt a realistic fist out of modeling chocolate, and uses Duff's fist as a model.
Pies are anything but humble in the hands of these innovative bakers. Whether it's a Seattle shop that imagines pies on sticks or in jars, a San Francisco baker who likes his pies on the spicy side, or pies both deliciously peculiar and uniquely down-home coming from New York City, the pie has arrived.
The week starts with Duff giving cake-decorating lessons to a local troop of Brownies. Duff has been asked to make a crab-themed 50th birthday cake for Baltimore's most famous seafood restaurant, Phillips Harborplace. Duff has also been asked to appear on the Tonight Show, to make a birthday cake for Jay Leno.