Holiday Baking Championship

- Season 4

(2017)

In the Season 4 premiere, nine bakers must create eye-catching and tantalizing new holiday treats for seasonal parties; in the pre-heat, bakers create a dessert with an unusual candy-cane flavor; for the main heat, they use a holiday cocktail as sweet inspiration; one unlucky baker goes home.

In the pre-heat, eight bakers team up to make a dozen hand pies in a festive holiday shape; for the main heat, bakers create a holiday dessert duo, inspired by classic holiday flavor combinations.

In the pre-heat, seven bakers must create a Thanksgiving dessert, using a mystery canned fruit; in the main heat, bakers whip up new Turkey Day sensations by combining two traditional desserts.

The six remaining bakers create new takes on traditional holiday baking; inspired by an internet baking meme, for the pre-heat they use yellow cake mix to make anything but cake; in the main heat, bakers must holiday up a non-holiday dessert.

The five remaining bakers ignite the holiday spirit with a fiery, pre-heat dessert; in the main heat, they take a traditional holiday cheese board and turn it into an unusual cheesecake.

The four remaining bakers celebrate two classic holiday traditions: Hanukkah jelly doughnuts and ye olde fruitcake.

The final three bakers grab two last minute holiday gifts and combine them into one impressive dessert.

In the Christmas special of Holiday Baking Championship, hosts and judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale welcome back runner-up teams from previous seasons to battle it out for another chance to win. In the pre-heat, baking teams must use real letters to Santa to inspire a holiday dessert. For the main heat, teams bake and decorate cupcakes before assembling them into one giant edible holiday tree. The winning team earns $10,000 in holiday cash.