In a moment of serendipity, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli create an ice cream sandwich with a doughnut; they ask the kid bakers to turn unexpected baked items like waffles, blondies and cupcakes into outrageous ice cream sandwiches.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the kid bakers to make magic by creating a cake with a gravity-defying illusion on it.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are cooking something unusual in the science lab... it's the freaky flavor tarts challenge.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman put the eight young bakers in teams and challenge them to each make half a cake that combines with their teammate's half-cake to make a whole cake representing an opposites theme.

A new group of kid bakers introduce themselves via delicious "selfieclairs"; using a selfie as inspiration, the bakers create eclairs in assigned flavors and then decorate them to serve as a pate a choux pastry introduction.

Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with happy faces and sad faces.

The 10 young bakers are split into teams for the brownies vs. blondies challenge.

Duff and Valerie challenge the three finalists to create a Food Network Magazine birthday cake worthy of the $25,000 prize and the title of Kids Baking Champion.

The young bakers are challenged to create mini cheesecakes with colorful animal prints, from tiger and zebra stripes, to leopard and giraffe spots.

Duff Goldman's favorite ingredient is revealed in the season's kick-off challenge -- bacon cupcakes.

With spring and summer approaching, Valerie and Duff are reminded of hanging out at the beach; the remaining four bakers are challenged to create a cereal treat sand castle filled with two different baked goods.

Fruit is an essential component of baking, so Valerie and Duff dare the final three bakers to create fruit cakes, but not the holiday kind.

Valerie and Duff dare the four bakers to show off their skills by making 3D dinosaur cookies in the shape of a T. rex, velociraptor, stegosaurus, brontosaurus or triceratops.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli bring the galaxy into the kitchen by asking the five kid bakers to make colorful and imaginative intergalactic desserts.

Interior decorating is the inspiration as Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman dare five kid bakers to make beautiful decorations and mouthwatering layers in show-stopping trifles.

The remaining six bakers create Italian rainbow cookies featuring classic flavors like espresso.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman have fond memories of the lunches they took to school as kids, so they challenge the six kid bakers to look at lunch in a new way by turning common lunchbox foods into look-alike dessert masterpieces.

Ice cream cones are for more than just holding ice cream; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the seven kid bakers to create impressive ice cream cone cupcakes in order to stay in the game.

Potatoes aren't just for french fries anymore, now they're for decorating; Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman ask the eight remaining bakers to carve potato cutouts and create colorful potato-print cookies.

Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the eight kid bakers to use their imaginations to create a unicorn cake that illustrates a specific emotion.

The nine young bakers create llama cupcakes in a chosen flavor; hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman also welcome a special guest.

Eight bakers enter the kitchen to show off their traditions and baking skills.

Some of America's best bakers get set to prove their skills in this springtime baking championship.

Chefs mentor amateur cooks in an attempt to transform them from kitchen zeros to kitchen heroes.

America's top bakers gather to put their baking brilliance to the test.

Expert bakers go toe-to-toe to see whose cake creations will earn them the grand prize.

Eight innovative grillers, all less than 13, undergo six weeks of competition at the BBQ Ranch.

In each episode, four of the country's top bakers compete for a $10,000 prize in a cupcake-baking competition. The show consists of three rounds, with one contestant eliminated after each round. In round one, the contestants must baking a cupcake that is judged on taste alone. Baking three cupcakes is the task in the second round, when they are judged on both taste and presentation. Then, the remaining two bakers are each given a five-person team in the final round, in which they have two hours to make 1,000 cupcakes. The baker who the judges determine made the best cupcakes in all three rounds takes home the cash.

A dozen of the worst bakers in the United States are drafted into an intense, six-week baking boot camp, under the careful eyes of two famous chefs.

The country's top bakers battle it out to create Halloween's spookiest and most irresistible treats.

Coming up with ideas for dishes using the mystery ingredients provided on "Chopped" can be difficult for adult chefs with years of experience, so imagine how difficult it is for young chefs on "Chopped Junior." In this version of the long-running franchise, children are tasked with making something out of mystery-basket ingredients that don't seem to go together. The usual "Chopped" judges are joined by celebrity guest judges to determine which kids advance after each round. The winning cook earns the same $10,000 prize that adults win on the main show. If things get a little too intense for the youngsters, host Ted Allen is there to comfort them and encourage them to keep going.