Show guide
Food Network's youngest bracket puts genuinely skilled young bakers through scaled-down championship challenges, with the hosts doing as much coaching as judging. The tone is the whole point: critiques are honest but kind, eliminations come with encouragement, and the bakes are regularly better than anything an adult viewer could manage. It is the rare kids' competition that takes the baking completely seriously.
Young bakers face themed challenges each week, with the hosts judging on taste, presentation, and technique and one baker eliminated per episode until a champion is crowned. The winner takes home $25,000 in most seasons.
$25,000 in most seasons ($10,000 plus a kitchen remodel in season 1)
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Thirteen seasons of the youngest bracket, every one archived below.
| Season | Aired | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Feb 2, 2015 to Feb 23, 2015 | 4 |
| Season 2 | Jan 4, 2016 to Feb 22, 2016 | 8 |
| Season 3 | Jan 2, 2017 to Mar 6, 2017 | 10 |
| Season 4 | Jan 1, 2018 to Mar 5, 2018 | 10 |
| Season 5 | Aug 6, 2018 to Sep 17, 2018 | 7 |
| Season 6 | Jan 7, 2019 to Mar 11, 2019 | 10 |
| Season 7 | Aug 5, 2019 to Sep 16, 2019 | 7 |
| Season 8 | Jan 6, 2020 to Mar 10, 2020 | 10 |
| Season 9 | Jan 4, 2021 to Feb 19, 2021 | 10 |
| Season 10 | Dec 27, 2021 to Feb 21, 2022 | 10 |
| Season 11 | Dec 26, 2022 to Feb 27, 2023 | 10 |
| Season 12 | Jan 1, 2024 to Mar 1, 2024 | 10 |
| Season 13 | Jan 6, 2025 to Mar 3, 2025 | 10 |
Each season guide will contain episodes, bakes, cast when available, and sources. Winners stay tucked away below so nothing gets spoiled by accident.
Tap a season to reveal its winner. Nothing is spoiled until you ask.
Hollis Johnson
Full season guide →Rebecca Beale
Full season guide →Aidan Berry
Full season guide →Linsey Lam
Full season guide →Natasha Jiwani
Full season guide →Paige Goehner
Full season guide →Trevin Alford
Full season guide →Graysen Pinder
Full season guide →Keaton Ashton
Full season guide →Nadya Alborz
Full season guide →Naiel Chaudry
Full season guide →Lila Smethurst
Full season guide →Micah Parsons
Full season guide →Every winner is verified against a cited source: Wikipedia and verified press per season.
Specific kit tied to Kids Baking Championship, each labelled with how solid the attribution is. When the exact model is not sold on Amazon we say so and point you at a buyable equivalent instead of faking a link.
Stand mixer (studio kit anchor)
The Food Network championship kitchens are stocked with KitchenAid stand mixers; the same kit recurs across Holiday, Kids and Spring, so we attribute once and re-theme. Buyable, and the natural gateway into the stand-mixers guide.
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