Holiday Baking Championship

The twelve bakers embrace the seasonal transition by making fall and winter doughnuts; the competitors combine holiday cheese board staples in creative apple and cheese desserts.

The bakers team up to take on boozy desserts and challenged with five different styles of yule log cakes in 10 different flavour combinations.

The nine bakers make Mason jar fruit desserts. The competitors create heartfelt messages on top of a favourite Thanksgiving dessert: pie.

The Abominable Snowman comes out of hiding to startle the gingerbread teams and inspire their challenge theme -- A Monster Christmas. Monsters love an oozy dessert, so the teams must make an oozing caramel dessert to go with their display.

In honour of the Hanukkah oil that kept burning, host Jesse Palmer asks the seven remaining bakers to create festive Hanukkah olive oil cakes.

The six remaining bakers make tasty treats for guests with a dietary restriction. Then, host Jesse Palmer challenges the competitors to update an assigned vintage holiday dessert to create a new Christmas delight.