List of Spring Baking Championship episodes

Preliminary Heat: Bake a dozen cupcakes inspired by flowers, in 75 minutes. All the cupcakes will be featured in Food Network magazine May issue.

Winner: Dwayne (His advantage was exclusive first pick of fruit in the next round.)

Main Heat: The contestants have 75 minutes to bake a fresh fruit upside down cake. Dwayne's advantage allowed him to choose pineapple for his cake. and it was off-limits for every other baker.

Winner: Dwayne Ingraham

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert in 1 hour that highlights honey, and it must be the only sweetener used. Simone used rosemary honey, Dwayne used orange blossom honey, Damiano used acacia honey, Juliana used orange blossom honey & white clover honey, Kristine used avocado honey & wildflower honey, Sandy used avocado honey & clover honey, Andy used orange blossom honey & acacia honey.

Winner: Dwayne (His advantage was 10 minutes of help from judge Lorraine Pascale.)

Main Heat: The bakers have 90 minutes to make two desserts; one featuring lemon and one featuring lime.

Winner: Damiano Carrara

Preliminary Heat: Bake a dessert highlighting coffee and cream in 1 hour, meant to honor mother's day.

Winner: Andy (His advantage was exclusive use of special ingredients for the next round.)

Main Heat: The contestants have 90 minutes to make a mother's day brunch featuring one sweet and one savory baked dish (quiche was off-limits as a savory dish).

Winner: Simone Faure

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert on a stick in 1 hour.

Winner: Damiano (His advantage was being able to use his own ice cream machine in the next round.)

Main Heat: The bakers have 2 hours to make a birthday cake and ice cream. While Damiano got his own ice cream machine, the other four bakers had to share a separate machine.

Winner: Damiano Carrara

Preliminary Heat: Make a pie fit for a picnic in 90 minutes.

Winner: Dwayne (His advantage was a 10-minute head start in the main round.)

Main Heat: The contestants have 90 minutes to make a patriotic dessert featuring the colors red, white, and blue.

Winner: Andy Chlebana

Preliminary Heat: Make three different wedding inspired baked goods for a dessert bar in 3 hours.

Winner: Andy (His advantage was assigning the cake flavors in the final round.)

Main Heat: The final three have 4 hours to make a spring wedding cake using one of the judges' favorite cake flavors. Andy chose vanilla (Nancy's favorite flavor). He gave Dwayne chocolate (Duff's favorite flavor). And he gave Damiano lemon (Lorraine's favorite flavor).

Winner of $50,000: Andy Chlebana

Preliminary Heat: Make an inventive shortcake in 1 hour without using any kind of berries. Susana Mijares suffered a fairly deep cut that caused her to miss the pre-heat but she returned in time to compete in the main heat.

Winner: Dan (His advantage was exclusive use of his berry of choice in the main heat.)

Main Heat: The competing bakers have 2 hours to make a tiered, naked cake featuring berries. Dan's advantage made it so he was the only one who could use strawberries in his naked cake. The mid-round twist is to add key limes to their cakes.

Winner: Susana Mijares (she had an advantage next episode; the first and only carry-over advantage one of the series thus far.)

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert, inspired by classic ballpark treats, in 1 hour. For having best dish in the previous episode's main heat, Susana got to assign the baseball snacks to her contestants. She chose pretzels for herself and gave popcorn to Kenny, root beer to Dustin, peanuts to William, sweet potato fries to Jane, tortilla chips to Audrey, and churros to Dan.

Winner: Audrey (Her advantage was assigning the barbecue dish themes in the main heat.)

Main Heat: The competitors have 2 hours to make barbecue dessert imposters. Audrey picked ribs and corn on the cob to recreate as a dessert. Susana was assigned chicken legs & coleslaw. Jane was assigned lamb chops and grilled vegetables. Dan was assigned t-bone steak & 3-bean salad. Kenny was assigned salmon and grilled asparagus. Dustin was assigned grilled shrimp and pasta salad. And William was assigned sausage and potato salad.

Winner: Audrey McGinnis

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert fondue, including something to dip into it, in 45 minutes.

Winner: Jane (Her advantage was a ten-minute head start in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers must create a rainbow dessert featuring five different colors (red, orange, yellow, green, & blue). Jane had a full two hours while the others had 1 hour and 50 minutes. The mid-round twist is to add the color black to their desserts.

Winner: Jane Soudah

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert, in 1 hour, using a specific farmstand vegetable. Kenny got beets, Audrey got fennel, Jane got summer squash, Susana got zucchini, Dan got tomatoes.

Winner: Jane (Her advantage was access to precooked bacon and bacon fat in the main round)

Main Heat: The competitors have 90 minutes to bake a dessert that features bacon and eggs. The mid-round twist is to add coffee flavor into the desserts.

Winner: Dan Langan

Preliminary Heat: Make a mother's day dessert in 1 hour inspired by gift boxes chosen at random. Susana got a coffee mug, Dan got a bracelet, Jane got a purse, and Kenny got perfume. Duff's mother, Jackie Winch, helped judge this round.

Winner: Kenny (His advantage was 10 minutes of help from Damiano Carrara, the runner-up from the previous season.)

Main Heat: The bakers had to pair an unusual ingredient with chocolate and they had 90 minutes to bake it. Dan got Gorgonzola cheese, Jane got aromatic bitters, Kenny got Earl Gray tea, and Susana got curry powder. The mid-round twist is to add sugar work to their desserts.

Winner: Jane Soudah

Preliminary Heat: Make the ultimate groomsmen welcome basket in 90 minutes. The basket must feature two sweet treats and one savory snack.

Winner: Jane (Her advantage was the ability to assign destination themes in the final round.)

Main Heat: The final three have five hours to make a wedding cake based on a travel destination. Jane got to assign the destination theme for the cakes; she chose Hawaii and assigned Mexico to Dan and Italy to Susana.

Winner of $50,000: Jane Soudah

Preliminary Heat: Make a decorative treat shaped like an egg, as well as an edible nest to hold the dessert egg, all in 90 minutes.

Winner: Heather (Her advantage was exclusive use of a cake flavor in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had three hours to make a bunny cake. For her advantage, Heather chose to make a chocolate cake and none of the other cakes could use that flavor. The mid-round twist is to make a dozen baby bunny cupcakes to complement their bunny cake.

Winner: Fausto Barragan

Preliminary Heat: Pairing up into teams, the contestants have 90 minutes to make tropical themed deserts based on the fruit written on a slip of paper inside a souvenir tiki mug. Courtney & John got "banana", Jordan & Fausto got "mango", Adam & Daniela got "key lime", and Heather and Samirah got "pineapple".

Winners: Adam & Daniela (Their advantage was first choice of destination theme in the main heat.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to make a dozen vacation doughnuts inspired by a vacation destination blindly chosen from luggage tags. Adam chose "NYC Adventure", Daniela chose "Amusement Park", Heather chose "Vegas Getaway", Fausto chose "Poolside Resort", Samirah chose "Mountain Retreat", Courtney chose "Spring Cruise", John chose "Beachcomber's Dream", and Jordan chose "Whitewater Rafting". The mid-round twist is to bake an additional half dozen doughnut holes, decorated to fit their theme.

Winner: Courtney Rezendes

Preliminary Heat: Make a mint julep inspired dessert in one hour.

Winner: Fausto (His advantage was a five-minute head start in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 85 minutes (Fausto had 90 minutes) to make springtime cookie garlands containing three different types of cookies. The mid-round twist is to incorporate a rose element, in honor of the "Run for the Roses" horse-racing theme of the show.

Winner: Jordan Pilarski

Preliminary Heat: In one hour, make a brownie that has been given a springtime "remodel"

Winner: Adam (His advantage was the ability to assign flavored liqueurs in the mid-round twist.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 90 minutes to re-imagine a classic French Napoleon pastry as a springtime dessert. The mid-round twist is to incorporate a flavored liqueur into the desserts. Adam chose cherry liqueur, then assigned raspberry to Jordan, almond to John, orange to Courtney, lemon to Daniela, and elderflower to Fausto.

Winner: Daniela Copenhaver

Preliminary Heat: Make a mother's day fruit tart in 1 hour and write (and recite) a short poem dedicated to their mother.

Winner: Adam (His advantage was first pick of dessert themes in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 90 minutes to modernize an old-fashioned dessert. For his advantage, Adam got to choose first from a set of predetermined desserts, then he chose who would get to pick next. Adam chose peach cobbler, then John chose bread pudding, Courtney chose chocolate cream pie, Daniela chose pineapple upside down cake, and Jordan ended up with lemon meringue. The mid-round twist is add maraschino cherries into their modernized desserts.

Winner: Jordan Pilarski

Preliminary Heat: Make a dozen whoopie pie garden "critters" in one hour. The types of critters were written down on garden markers: John grabbed "butterflies", Jordan grabbed "bumblebees", Courtney grabbed "caterpillars", and Adam grabbed "ladybugs".

Winner: Daniela (Her advantage was 10 minutes of help from Jane Soudah, the winner of the previous season)

Main Heat: The contestants had to make a drip cake, in 90 minutes, in homage to spring rains. The mid-round twist is to make a 3-D, edible rainbow to put atop their cakes.

Winner: Daniela Copenhaver

Preliminary Heat: Make three Memorial Day picnic items ‒ two sweet and one savory ‒ in two hours.

Winner: Jordan (His advantage was exclusive use of special star molds and cutters in the final round.)

Main Heat: The final three have five hours to make an American flag dessert in honor of Memorial Day.

Winner of $50,000: Jordan Pilarski

Preliminary Heat: Make a mini tie-dye cheesecake, in 90 minutes, featuring a fruit chosen from a stand (Aaron got mango, Cristina got blueberries, Deepal got rhubarb, Caleb got cherry, Ruby got strawberry, Nacho got fig, Jessica got plum, Heather got peach, Michelle got raspberry, Andrew got nectarine).

Winner: Cristina (Her advantage was picking her herb and color in the main heat.)

Main Heat: They had 2 hours to make naked ombre cakes and they had to pick from a group of herbs and colors. Cristina chose rosemary and the color blue that paired with it. Deepal got sage & the color blue. Ruby got sorrel and the color purple. Aaron got parsley and the color green. Michelle got coriander and the color red. Caleb got fennel and the color orange. Heather got thyme and the color purple. Jessica got mint and the color green. Andrew got basil and the color red. Nacho got lavender and the color orange. The mid-round twist is to make a 3-D chocolate decoration for their cake.

Winner: Aaron McInnis

Preliminary Heat: Make flower arrangement cupcakes in 90 minutes that incorporate a special flower essence. Nacho got hibiscus, Cristina got rose, Aaron got orange blossom, Caleb got honeysuckle, Ruby got magnolia, Jessica got lavender, Andrew got elderflower, Heather got violet, Deepal got jasmine.

Winner: Cristina (Her advantage was exclusive use of special decorations and stencils in the second round.)

Main Heat: They had 2 hours to make edible, mirror-glazed gazing balls. The mid-round twist is to add an edible garden gnome.

Winner: Ruby Bloch

Preliminary Heat: Pairing up into teams, the contestants have 90 minutes to make a dozen mini pies that correspond with a pie filling they picked from a table with four pie tins. Caleb & Heather got "nut", Nacho & Ruby got "cream", Aaron & Cristina got "fruit", and Deepal and Jessica got "custard".

Winners: Nacho & Ruby (Their advantage was a 10-minute head start in round 2.)

Main Heat: Each round 1 duo had to grab a picnic basket and use the three ingredients inside to make cohesive desserts in 90 minutes (Ruby & Nacho got 100 minutes). They couldn't make the same dessert. Ruby & Nacho's basket contained peaches, potato chips, and salami. Caleb & Heather's basket contained cucumbers, red bell peppers, and yogurt dip. Deepal and Jessica's basket contained watermelon, prosciutto, and olives. Aaron & Cristina's basket contained breadsticks, goat cheese and mushrooms. The mid-round twist is to add ice cream that complements both duos' desserts.

Winner: Caleb Fischer

Preliminary Heat: Make one dozen springtime éclairs in 90 minutes using a "spring theme" found in one of several plastic eggs hidden around the kitchen. Heather's theme was "honeybees", Aaron's theme was "sunshine", Nacho's theme was "rainbows", Caleb's theme was "palm trees", Ruby's theme was "spring greens", Cristina's theme was "cherry blossoms", and Jessica's theme was "wild flowers".

Winner: Cristina (Her advantage was not having to use hard boiled eggs in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers have 2 hours to create edible baskets filled with two different baked treats. One of the desserts must incorporate hard boiled eggs. The mid-round twist is for each baker to pick a jelly bean flavor and use it in one of their treats. Ruby got tangerine, Jessica got black licorice, Aaron got coconut, Caleb got blueberry, Heather got green apple, Cristina got pineapple, and Nacho got cinnamon.

Winner: Caleb Fischer

Preliminary Heat: Choose a berry from a table display and make a dozen tiny desserts in 1 hour. Heather grabbed blueberries. Caleb grabbed golden berries. Cristina grabbed raspberries. Ruby grabbed huckleberries. Aaron grabbed strawberries. Nacho grabbed blackberries.

Winner: Ruby (Her advantage was 10 minutes of help from Jordan Pilarski, the winner of the previous season)

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to make spring pattern roll cakes with a different kind of berry than they used in the pre-heat. Caleb used huckleberries. Ruby used golden berries. Heather used strawberries. Aaron used blueberries. Nacho used raspberries. Cristina used blackberries. The mid-round twist is making a half dozen patterned cookies to join their cake.

Winner: Nacho Aguirre

Preliminary Heat: With agave syrup as the only sweetener, the contestants have 90 minutes to make desert themed desserts. Written on the back of cacti, each baker must pick a plant and make a different dessert: Heather must make a flourless cake, Aaron must make an ice cream sandwich, Caleb must make cupcakes, Cristina must make doughnuts, and Nacho must make a tart.

Winner: Cristina (Her advantage was assigning dry ingredients in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to make succulent themed cakes and they had to include a specific dry ingredient, as assigned to them by Cristina. She picked pink peppercorn then assigned caraway seeds to Aaron, sesame seeds to Caleb, black pepper to Nacho, and anise seeds to Heather. The mid-round twist is to incorporate prickly pears into the cakes.

Winner: Heather Wong

Preliminary Heat: Make a dessert combining avocado and another ingredient on display, all in 1 hour. Heather picked oranges, Cristina picked chocolate, Nacho picked limes, and Caleb picked ginger.

Winner: Nacho (His advantage was being able to switch desserts with one of his contestants.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 90 minutes to "spring-ify" a winter dessert chosen blindly from warm weather props. Nacho initially got pecan pie but he traded it for Cristina's bread pudding. Heather got pumpkin pie and Caleb got peppermint swirl brownies. The mid-round twist is to add coffee to their dessert.

Winner: Nacho Aguirre

Preliminary Heat: They had 90 minutes to combine two unusual, "ugly" fruits into one dessert. Caleb combined finger limes with dragon fruit. Cristina combined jackfruit and rambutan. Nacho combined cherimoya with African horned melon.

Winner: Cristina (Her advantage was assigning the colors in the second round.)

Main Heat: The final three have 5 hours to make to make a geode cake, including the sugar crystals, from scratch. Cristina chose blue for her candy geode color and assigned amber to Caleb and purple to Nacho.

Winner of $50,000: Nacho Aguirre¹

Preliminary Heat: Bake a dozen spring animal donuts in 90 minutes. Each contestant grabbed an animal cutout that they would base their doughnut on. Cory got "swan", Marqessa got "skunk", Kendra got "porcupine", Jordan got "fox", Jessica got "white-tailed deer", Riccardo got "black bear", Saber got "chipmunk", Karina got "otter", Kevin got "beaver", and Tracey got "raccoon".

Winner: Riccardo (His advantage was first choice of cake ingredient in the second round.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to make a watercolor cake that showcases a chosen ingredient. Roccardo got to choose first and went with strawberries. Jessica chose cherries, Cory chose fennel, Saber chose apricots. Marqessa chose carrots, Jordan chose fennel, Tracey chose carrots, Kevin chose apricots, Karina chose strawberries, Kendra chose cherries. The mid-round twist was to add a three dimensional representation of their chosen fruit or vegetable using a specific edible sculpting material chosen on a first-come, first-serve basis. Jessica and Kendra had to use gum paste, Cory and Jordan had to use fondant, Karina and Tracey had to use marzipan, Riccardo and Marqessa had to use isomalt, Saber and Kevin had to use modeling chocolate.

Winner: Tracey Marionneaux

Preliminary Heat: Make a pie in 90 minutes by picking a blue ribbon that represents a seasonal ingredient. Every ribbon ended up saying "rhubarb", meaning all the bakers had to make their version of a rhubarb pie.

Winner: Saber (His advantage was exclusive use of the popcorn popper and deep fryer.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to make an oversized dessert inspired by a specifically chosen fair food. Cory got deep fried cookie dough. Marquessa got churros. Jordan got deep fried candy bar. Karina got pecan cinnamon rolls. Jessica got Belgian waffle on a stick. Kevin got funnel cake. Riccardo got caramel apple. Tracey got cheesecake on a stick. Saber got fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The mid-round twist was to incorporate chocolate covered bacon.

Winner: Cory Barrett

Preliminary Heat: Working in teams of 2, the bakers had 90 minutes to combine two baked goods into two dozen mash-up treats. They're paired up via blindly picking envelopes with mash-up suggestions: Tracey & Karina got 'bundt cake + blondie'. Jordan & Marqessa got 'whoopie pie + upside-down cake'. Riccardo & Saber got 'brownie + cupcake'. Cory & Kevin got 'sandwich cookie + muffin'.

Winners: Cory & Kevin (Their advantage was being able to switch around any of the teams.)

Main Heat: Staying in their teams, the bakers had 2 hours to make 4 cream tart cakes ‒ 2 cakes each with different flavors. The cakes had to be shaped like a different letter and spell a word that reminded them of spring. Tracey & Karina remained a team (their word: "Love") Cory & Kevin also remained a team (their word: "Rain") but they rearranged two teams to pair up Marqessa with Saber (their word "Rose"), and Jordan with Riccardo (their word: "Lush"). The mid-round twist was to incorporate a "superfood" into their cakes. Marqessa & Saber had to add coconut. Tracey & Karina had to add Brazil nuts. Jordan & Riccardo had to add green tea. And Cory & Kevin had to add ginger.

Winner: Marqessa Gesualdi

Preliminary Heat: Use canned biscuit dough to make one large dessert, or one dozen mini desserts, in 1 hour. The bakers must also incorporate one of three southern beverages. Cory, Jordan, and Tracey got sweet tea. Marqessa and Riccardo got lemonade. Karina and Saber got bourbon.

Winner: Cory (His advantage was 10 minutes of help from the season 3 Holiday Baking Championship winner, Jason Smith.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to give traditional southern cakes a springy makeover. Saber got red velet cake. Karina got a poke cake. Jordan got a lane cake. Marqessa got coconut layer cake. Cory got hummingbird cake. Riccardo got Texas sheet cake. Tracey got a tunnel of fudge cake. The mid-round twist was to incorporate various southern ingredients: Saber grabbed sesame seeds, Marqessa grabbed pickled peaches. Tracey got sorghum molasses. Jordan got pepper jelly. Karina got boiled peanuts. Cory got cola. Riccardo got apple butter.

Winner: Saber Rejbi

Preliminary Heat: Bake a gooey marshmallow dessert in 1 hour. The contestants chose colored egg decals out of an Easter basket that would indicate the main color scheme of their dessert. Tracey picked pink, Saber picked yellow, Marqessa picked green, Cory picked orange, Karina picked blue, and Riccardo picked purple.

Winner: Karina (Her advantage was assigning the flavors in the second round.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to make a dessert that looks like an Easter bonnet/hat. They had to incorporate a specific tropical flavor. For her advantage, Karina chose lychee for herself, then assigned pineapple to Riccardo, mango to Cory, key lime to Saber, kiwi to Marqessa, and passionfruit to Tracey. The mid-round twist was to include malted milk ingredients into the desserts. Karina and Cory grabbed chocolate malt balls. Tracey and Saber grabbed malted milk eggs. Marqessa and Riccardo grabbed malted milk powder.

Winner: Karina Rivera

Preliminary Heat: Bake 6 individual walnut and honey desserts, with bee decorations, in 90 minutes. Each baker got to choose a variety of honey from a table: Saber used orange blossom honey, Cory used acacia honey, Karina used clover honey, Tracey used wildflower honey, and Riccardo used heather honey.

Winner: Cory (His advantage was exclusive use of special molds and decorating accessories.)

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to make an enchanted spring forest cake with berries. The contestants all grabbed cards with different wild berries to use: Karina got huckleberry, Cory got gooseberry, Saber got marionberry, Tracey got boysenberry, and Riccardo got lingonberry. The mid-round twist was to add edible moss to the cakes.

Winner: Riccardo Menicucci

Preliminary Heat: Make 6 individual desserts with rose wine and a cheese pairing grabbed from a table, all in 90 minutes. Cory used Manchego, Riccardo used blue cheese, Karina used chevre, and Saber used triple cream brie.

Winner: Saber (His advantage was first, and exclusive, choice of 3 pink decorative ingredients for the next round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to make an all pink dessert in honor of the "Kentucky Oaks". They grabbed little toy stick horses which highlighted a pink ingredient they had to use in their dessert. Saber got pink pluots, Cory got pink lemons, Riccardo got pink grapefruit, and Karina got pink dragonfruit. The mid-round twist was to add a rose element to their desserts.

Winner: Cory Barrett

Preliminary Heat: Make two dozen baked items, two different treats per dozen, inspired by cocktails. They had 2 hours. Cory used mimosa as his inspiration, Saber used mojito, and Karina used mai tai.

Winner: Cory (His advantage was first choice of a gift box with coffee flavor in the final round.)

Main Heat: The finalists had 5 hours to make cakes inspired by coffee flavors a mother would like, and they had to personalize the cakes by decorating it with a gift their mother of choice would like. For his advantage, Cory chose from three gift boxes and had the option of giving away his first choice if he didn't like it. He picked dirty chai latte and gave it to Karina. His second choice ended up being salted-caramel macchiato. Saber ended up with cafe mocha. For the first time, a finale round of the spring baking championship has a mid-round twist: they had to make an edible box filled with candy.

Winner of $25,000: Cory Barrett

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