Season 12

Four Cake Designers battle stage fright and the clock to create cakes that actually tell a joke! All the cakes are delivered to a live show at a comedy club, where the competitors take the stage to see if their cake is funny enough to take home $10,000.

Four Cake Designers make tasty cakes inspired by man's best friend. The challenge is to make a realistic life-size replica of a real-life show dog. The competitor with the perfect pooch takes home $10,000.

Three mad scientists disguised as pastry chefs are taking on what sounds like an impossible task: build a Rube Goldberg machine - an elaborate machine that accomplishes a simple task - out of sugar. It's a crazy quest for $10,000 that pushes these chefs to their limits...and beyond. Can this be done?

Four Sugar Artists will kick out four tres chic sugar ensembles, complete with accessories for four mannequins that are four miles away. These folks have got to be hip AND clever cause sugar, streets and stoplights don't mix. The smartest, most fierce sugar stylist takes home ten thousand dollars. As for the rest, well, they might need a broom and mini-vac.

Four of the best donut bakers in the country fry up their ooey-gooey original donut recipes in the first Food Network Challenge featuring these scrumptuous breakfast staples! Donut lovers are in for a real treat as every kind of donut under the sun will be on display over the course of two rounds, and there's an added challenge - Each competitor must build their first EVER doughnut showpiece.

Get ready for a showdown at the Challenge corral. Four top chocolatiers have to cowboy up to create scenes straight out of the old west--and make the scenes extreme. But a twist right out of the gate throws a the competitors off their game. Top showpiece of the day is worth ten thousand dollars