1. Challenge: American Pie Festival

3. Challenge: Ice Cream Clash

Sep, 2008

Four top pastry chefs square off in competition to see who has the best ice cream skills. There are three rounds of competition: ice cream sundae, ice cream cake and ice cream specialty. The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold

4. Challenge: Tag Team Cakes

Sep, 2008

All bets are off in this Challenge, as eight top pastry chefs decorate cakes in teams of two. The only thing is, the chefs won't know who their partners are until moments before the competition begins. The winning team shares a $10,000 prize and gold medals.

5. The Great American Seafood Cook-Off II

6. Challenge: The Next Great Chef

7. Challenge: Big City Cakes

Four of the country's best cake artists square off to build four American city skylines out of cake in just eight hours. Can Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle be built in a day? The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold medal.

8. Challenge: Cereal Bridges

Four top pastry chefs compete to build four famous bridges with rice cereal treats. Can these pastry chefs replicate some of the world's greatest architectural feats? Or will their bridges collapse? The winner earns a gold medal and a $10,000 prize.

9. Challenge: Texas Steak Cook-Off

Awesome amateur grillers from all over the country descend on Hico, Texas to put their steak recipes on the line. Best ribeye gets a gold medal and $2500 grand prize.

10. Battle of the Brides

Four cake artists are in for a surprise when they learn they'll be designing wedding cakes for brides they've just met, and the brides will actually be assisting them. Will these novice bridezillas help or hurt them in their quest to create the perfect wedding cake? The stakes are high, since the winning chef gets $10,000 and the winning bride assistant gets to have her dream cake recreated at her wedding.

11. Build a Better Burger III

12. Chocolate Masterpieces

Four master chocolatiers will try to replicate world-famous sculptures using only chocolate. Will a twelve-hundred pound chocolate sculpture make it to the judge's table without crashing to the floor? If so, its creator has a shot at the $10,000 prize.

13. Challenge: Italian Family Feast