Meadow Roberts

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are going back to the 1970s as they challenge the 12 young competitors to make shag cakes; each baker must make a cake in their chosen flavor and then decorate it to create a shag texture.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the 11 young bakers to create assigned Neapolitan desserts featuring chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.

Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the remaining 10 bakers to create desserts that look like sandwiches. Order up!

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.

For the finale, the three remaining bakers must make cakes based on a specific biome: rainforest, desert or coral reef; the baker with the best biome cake will win.

To celebrate Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, Valerie and Duff pair each of the six bakers with an adorable, adoptable puppy and challenge them to create a birthday cake that reflects their puppy's happy life after adoption.