Chopped Junior

- Season 5

(2017)

Chef Amanda Freitag, YouTube star Harley Morenstein and actress Anika Noni Rose (The Quad (2017) and Power (2014)) judge pizza-themed challenges; mushrooms and a creamy Italian sauce for the appetizer; challenging dough and more sauce in the entrée round; cheese and wild fruit.

Chefs Dan Churchill and Marcus Samuelsson and actress Allison Williams are the judges; an exciting twist on chicken and waffles in the appetizer basket; the entrée round combines a sweet, tropical icing with pork; a coconut beverage for dessert.

Chef Scott Conant, model Ashley Graham and The Next Food Network Star (2005) contestant Jernard Wells judge; a fancy boxed assortment in the appetizer round; chocolate with a stinky cheese for their entrees; for dessert, what looks like chocolate-covered bugs.

Cliff Crooks, Bethenny Frankel and Geoffrey Zakarian judge; French toast and cereal in the first basket; making eggs against the clock in the entrée round; breakfast-themed cake and a grownup breakfast beverage in the dessert round.

Chefs Maneet Chauhan and George Mendes and actor Kevin McHale judge; something stares back in the appetizer basket; a cute candy creation and a twist on garlic bread in the entrée round; vegetable brownies in the dessert round.

Food Network's Valerie Bertinelli, ballerina Misty Copeland and chef Chris Santos are the judges; beets and a block of octopus in the appetizer round; a salmon-like fish fillet in the entrée round; and edible piano keys for the desserts.

A fun twist on a classic comfort food and pricey truffles in the appetizer round; large blue squash in the entrée round; out-of-this-world lollipops and green fruit in the dessert round; journalist Michelle Park, chef Chris Santos and Ruben Studdard are the judges.

The kid chefs make appetizers with corn and playful cookies; a finger food and some beautiful produce in the entrée basket; a baked good and something covered in caramel in the dessert round; Ryan Guzman, Sunny Anderson and Geoffrey Zakarian are the judges.

Cheese rinds and takeout leftovers in the appetizer round; unwanted produce for the entrée; forgotten fruit and baking leftovers for dessert; Amanda Freitag, Sam Kass and Marc Murphy are the judges.

The young chefs prepare fried food dishes for judges Alex Guarnaschelli, Rebecca Lang and Zachary Quinto; a popular Southern beverage and seafood in round one; the kids pair Southern caviar with a savory batter in the entrée round; fried ice cream in the dessert round.

Junior chefs integrate the mystery basket ingredients into taco-inspired dishes, the entree round gets prickly and a cake in the third basket contains a sweet surprise. Chef Scott Conant, Martita Jara and actress Kym Whitley judge.

The junior chefs cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for the judges; breakfast consists of Middle Eastern pancakes and cotton candy; for lunch, the chefs must use frozen fast food and raw burgers; finalists make dinner with a cut of lamb and an Arabic dessert.

Kids celebrate mac and cheese in all three rounds; appetizers must contain the ready-to-make version; fancy cheese must be worked into entrees; incorporating mac and cheese in dessert; judges are actress Betsy Brandt, and chefs Marc Murphy and Nguyen 'Wyn' Tran.