Melissa Camacho

Fourteen pastry chefs try to outbake, outblend, and outbrulee the competition in the ultimate dessert challenge. They begin with a soda-fountain dessert.

American pastry chefs vie to be the best. They create a candy world fit for original cast members of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

America's best pastry chefs compete in a battle of the desserts. They make a cake for the orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The pastry cheftestants get stuck into a challenge creating a new flavour of gum with a $25,000 reward as an incentive, and make a dessert for a restaurant.

The final serving of the series sees the three remaining chefs create a display case with a wide range of sweet treats inside. Only one can be the top chef.

The sweet but tough US dessert contest continues with the `cheftestants' creating a new candy bar and making refreshing summer treats.