Christmas Cookie Challenge

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson host a dramatic opening night in the Christmas cookie playhouse, where four gingerbread masters craft cookie stick puppets; the bakers also build grand gingerbread puppet theaters to perform a play.

Cookie makers who came up just short of winning will decorate cookies that call back to forgotten Christmas traditions and reveal what makes them tick with grandfather clocks.

Eight former champions in teams of two weave magic to create Christmas cookie quilts and construct gigantic stadiums worthy of the finest North Pole games.

Inspired by Warner Bros.' Christmas movie "Elf," four cookie makers create cookies that show Buddy's magical journey, and then cobble together 3D pop-up cookie books with their favorite movie scene.

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson ask four bakers to make cookies that reveal what Christmas is like on other planets; the cookie makers craft rocket ships.

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson challenge four festive cookie makers to share the magic of Christmas vacation with two-sided picture postcards; the merry trip continues as the three remaining cookie makers craft 360-degree Christmas camper vans.

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson celebrate a country Christmas by asking four countrified cookie makers to create two different cowboy Christmas designs; the remaining bakes create fully functional farmhouse cookie jars filled with their own cookies.

Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson challenge four cookie makers to dream up their own Christmas movie and decorate a cookie poster for it; they create a vintage TV showing their favorite scene from the classic holiday film A Christmas Story.