Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown

The baking teams are tasked with creating holiday memory snow globe scenes in gingerbread; they must also make a treat using the most common baking ingredient to represent snow — coconut.

The Abominable Snowman inspires the challenge theme, "A Monster Christmas"; the teams must make an oozing caramel dessert to go with their display.

Host Jesse Palmer challenges the teams to create a holiday light show out of gingerbread and pair their glittering creations with the lightest of all desserts: choux pastry; judges Nacho Aguirre, Kardea Brown and Breegan Jane choose the winning team.

The best part of shopping at the holidays is seeing all the window decorations, so the baking teams are asked to turn their favorite holiday window scene into a gingerbread display with an animated element and a champagne dessert.

Gnomes love a good holiday party, so host Jesse Palmer challenges three teams of bakers to create a gingerbread scene depicting gnomes hangin' for the holidays; the teams also have to create a cardamom dessert to go with their scene.