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The Best Episodes of Holiday Baking Championship

Every episode of Holiday Baking Championship ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Holiday Baking Championship!

The search to find the greatest holiday baker begins as amateur bakers enter the kitchen, where they show off their family traditions and superb baking...
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Network:Food Network

Best Episodes Summary

"Runners Up Redemption" is the best rated episode of "Holiday Baking Championship". It scored 8.5/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/25/2017. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sweet Secrets".

  • Runners Up Redemption
    8.5/108 votes
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    #1 - Runners Up Redemption

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/25/2017

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  • Sweet Secrets
    8.2/108 votes
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    #2 - Sweet Secrets

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/2020

    Host Jesse Palmer loves both cookies and pies, so he asks the nine bakers to make holiday cookie-topped mini pies. Then, Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall judge the pie pandemonium as the competitors celebrate fall with flavor combos such as pumpkin-cider and chestnut-chocolate in double crust, cream pies, slab pies, lattice pies and custard pies.

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  • Holiday Party Delights
    8.1/1015 votes
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    #3 - Holiday Party Delights

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/2017

    Bakers create eye-catching and tantalizing new holiday treats for seasonal parties; bakers create a dessert with an unusual candy cane flavor; for the main heat, they use a holiday cocktail as sweet inspiration; one unlucky baker goes home.

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  • Tradition! Tradition!
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #4 - Tradition! Tradition!

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/11/2017

    The bakers celebrate two classic holiday traditions: Hanukkah jelly doughnuts and ye olde fruitcake. They must create a dozen doughnuts featuring a challenging flavour combo. Then, they try their best to reinvent fruitcake.

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  • Twelve Days Of Christmas
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #5 - Twelve Days Of Christmas

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/2017

    Three bakers grab two last-minute holiday gifts and combine them into one dessert before creating a 12 Days of Christmas dessert. The winning baker walks away with 50,000 dollars and the title of Holiday Baking Champion.

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  • Season Of Sharing
    8.0/1015 votes
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    #6 - Season Of Sharing

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/2017

    In the pre-heat, eight bakers team up to make a dozen hand pies in a festive holiday shape; for the main heat, bakers create a holiday dessert duo inspired by classic holiday flavor combinations.

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  • Comfort and Joy
    8.0/1015 votes
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    #7 - Comfort and Joy

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/4/2017

    The five remaining bakers ignite the holiday spirit with a fiery, pre-heat dessert. While in the main heat, they take a traditional holiday cheese board and turn it into an unusual cheesecake.

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  • Getting Ready for Thanksgiving
    8.0/1013 votes
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    #8 - Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

    Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2022

    After a grocery delivery gone wrong, host Jesse Palmer tasks the bakers with creating tasty desserts featuring ingredients used to make Thanksgiving dinner, including carrots, cornbread stuffing mix and sausage. Then, the jolly gingerbread man knows that he could be more than just a cookie -- and it's up to the bakers to make it happen! In the end, judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall send one baker heading for the exit.

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  • Thanksgiving Genius
    7.8/1016 votes
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    #9 - Thanksgiving Genius

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/20/2017

    In the pre-heat, seven bakers must create a Thanksgiving dessert using a mystery canned fruit; in the main heat, bakers whip up new Turkey Day sensations by combining two traditional desserts.

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  • A New Holiday Spin
    7.8/1016 votes
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    #10 - A New Holiday Spin

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/2017

    The six remaining bakers create new takes on traditional holiday baking; inspired by an internet baking meme, for the pre-heat they use yellow cake mix to make anything but cake; in the main heat, bakers must holiday up a non-holiday dessert.

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  • Thanksgiving It My All
    7.8/1014 votes
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    #11 - Thanksgiving It My All

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/2019

    Jesse Palmer teaches the six bakers a lesson in repurposing holiday gifts in the first round, when they must turn panettone, the classic holiday Italian sweet bread, into an entirely new dessert. Then they're challenged to create a beautifully decorated cupcake mosaic inspired by a pair of holiday pajamas. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale send one baker packing

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  • Gettin' Gifty with It
    7.8/1014 votes
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    #12 - Gettin' Gifty with It

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2019

    Some of the tastiest treats of Hanukkah are gold-covered chocolate coins, and Jesse Palmer challenges the four remaining bakers to give the classic treat a twist by incorporating candied orange, espresso beans, smoked salt or toasted coconut and create a dessert highlighting their chosen flavor. In the second challenge, the competitors bake up delicious cheesecakes with an assigned crust and decorated with an edible shiny ice rink on top. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale get serious about which three bakers move on to the finale.

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  • Make New Friends, but Keep the Old
    7.8/1013 votes
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    #13 - Make New Friends, but Keep the Old

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 12/6/2021

    For the exclusive holiday desserts preheat, the six remaining bakers try to impress judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall by making tasty treats for guests with a dietary restriction. In the main heat, host Jesse Palmer challenges the competitors to update an assigned vintage holiday dessert to create a new Christmas delight.

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  • Holiday Hoopla
    7.7/1012 votes
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    #14 - Holiday Hoopla

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/20/2015

    Season 2 comes to a close with the final three bakers showing off their decorating skills, when making sugar cookie trees and cakes that represent an assigned holiday tradition.

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  • Trendsetting Turkey day
    7.7/1013 votes
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    #15 - Trendsetting Turkey day

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2019

    Jesse Palmer challenges the five bakers to create assigned desserts that are inspired by and look like Santa Claus. To secure their place in the final four, the bakers are tasked with creating impressive cakes made to look like another icy North Pole staple: an igloo. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale decide which bakers move on to the next round and which one goes home.

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  • Falling Into Winter
    7.7/1017 votes
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    #16 - Falling Into Winter

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2021

    The competition kicks off as host Jesse Palmer asks the twelve bakers to embrace the seasonal transition by making fall and winter doughnuts. For the main heat, the competitors combine holiday cheese board staples in creative apple and cheese desserts. A double elimination looms, and judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall must send two bakers home for the holidays.

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  • First Snow
    7.7/1013 votes
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    #17 - First Snow

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2022

    Season's greetings! Host Jesse Palmer gets some welcoming inspiration for the first Preheat as he challenges the 12 bakers to create meringue pavlova wreaths in yummy fall flavors. For the Main Heat, Jesse settles a long-standing debate over the best holiday dessert by dividing the kitchen into the pie team and the cake team. The better bake wins immunity for their whole team, and judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall send one baker from the losing team home.

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  • Holiday Essentials
    7.6/1011 votes
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    #18 - Holiday Essentials

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2018

    The pumpkin spice phenomenon hits the championship; for the pre-heat, nine bakers attempt to wow the judges with creative pumpkin spiciness; in the main heat, the bakers must combine a yule log with a classic holiday treat.

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  • Plenty of Gratitude
    7.6/109 votes
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    #19 - Plenty of Gratitude

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2018

    For the pre-heat, the eight bakers work in teams to make four different kinds of pies on the same sheet pan; in the main heat, the bakers embrace the stuffed feeling after the Thanksgiving meal by making stuffed cakes featuring seasonal ingredients.

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  • Holiday Survival Guide
    7.6/1013 votes
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    #20 - Holiday Survival Guide

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2019

    In the first challenge, Jesse Palmer tasks the seven bakers with taking a beloved holiday appetizer to a whole new level with baked Brie and jam mini pies. The main heat is all about being prepared for greatness as the bakers take a prepared ingredient and use it to make a crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving dessert. In the end, judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale send one competitor hom

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  • North Pole Vaulting
    7.6/1013 votes
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    #21 - North Pole Vaulting

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2019

    Nothing beats waking up to the smell of a holiday brunch, so Jesse Palmer challenges the three remaining bakers to make a Christmas morning brunch using the classic holiday flavors of gingerbread, cinnamon and eggnog. In the final round, the bakers must create cakes that are plaid both on the inside and the outside. Judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale crown one baker the Holiday Baking Champion and award the $25,000 prize.

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  • It's the Inside That Counts
    7.6/1018 votes
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    #22 - It's the Inside That Counts

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2020

    Host Jesse Palmer gives the seven bakers advent calendars filled with different types of chocolate to inspire them to make desserts with a surprise inside. Then, for the main heat, the competitors must bake one delicious cheesecake with three different flavors for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall.

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  • A Classic Christmas
    7.6/1019 votes
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    #23 - A Classic Christmas

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/2020

    Host Jesse Palmer asks the five bakers to pull out all the stops and create the most-delicious, over-the-top version of a holiday trifle. Then, the classics continue in the main heat when the competitors make the ultimate Charlotte royale for judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall, as well as the king of Christmas -- Santa Claus!

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  • Holidays in All the Ways
    7.6/1012 votes
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    #24 - Holidays in All the Ways

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 12/13/2021

    Host Jesse Palmer asks the bakers to create sweet potato and spice desserts in honor of Kwanzaa. In the main heat, the competitors make Christmas card cakes that depict a perfect family snapshot for a holiday card to capture the smiles of judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall. In the end, one baker heads for the exit.

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  • Holiday Rush
    7.6/1010 votes
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    #25 - Holiday Rush

    Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/2022

    The bakers feel the holiday rush as Jesse Palmer sends them through three heated challenges: create ugly sweater cakes, turn store-bought cake into tasty centerpieces and build a snowman croquembouche.

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