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Season six runs ten single-challenge episodes built around bacon cupcakes, animal-print cheesecakes, team cakes, expressive macarons, unusual tart flavors, dessert impostors, and a bake-sale finale. This guide captures every aired brief and includes one original maple-bacon cupcake adaptation for a home kitchen.
Episode 1 · Sweet and savory cupcakes
Bacon anchors the opening cupcakes, with each baker balancing it against an assigned sweet partner such as maple, chocolate, or cherry.
Challenge
Bacon cupcakes
Make cupcakes that feature bacon alongside an assigned complementary ingredient, including maple, chocolate, or cherry.
Episode 2 · Animal prints
Mini cheesecakes become a safari display through colorful tiger, zebra, leopard, and giraffe patterns.
Challenge
Animal-print mini cheesecakes
Bake mini cheesecakes and decorate them with colorful animal markings such as tiger or zebra stripes and leopard or giraffe spots.
Episode 3 · Team bar-cookie showdown
Two teams settle the brownie-versus-blondie debate, with the best individual bake earning safety for the whole winning side.
Team Challenge
Brownies or blondies
Working on an assigned brownie or blondie team, make an individual bar-cookie entry strong enough to earn immunity for the entire team.
Episode 4 · Expressive citrus macarons
Citrus-flavored macarons must show both happy and sad faces while retaining the precision of the French sandwich cookie.
Challenge
Happy and sad citrus macarons
Create citrus-flavored macarons in two expressive sets, decorating half with happy faces and half with sad faces.
Episode 5 · Paired opposites
Partners make separate half-cakes that must join cleanly into one design about opposites, then absorb a surprise ingredient.
Team Challenge
Two-part opposites cake
Each teammate makes half of a cake so the joined halves express an assigned pair such as fire and ice, night and day, land and sea, or big and small, then incorporates a surprise ingredient.
Episode 6 · Unusual tart flavors
The bakers translate a challenging savory, floral, spicy, or aromatic ingredient into a balanced large tart.
Challenge
Freaky-flavor tart
Create a large tart led by an assigned unusual flavor such as jalapeno, goat cheese, yuzu, pink peppercorn, anise, blue cheese, or curry.
Episode 7 · Tropical bread volcanoes
Packaged biscuit dough becomes pull-apart monkey bread shaped into a smoking volcano and flavored with assigned tropical fruit.
Challenge
Tropical monkey bread volcano
Use packaged biscuit dough to build a monkey bread volcano, flavor it with an assigned tropical ingredient, and use dry ice for the eruption effect without making the dry ice edible.
Episode 8 · Fiesta dessert impostors
Sweet tacos must imitate assigned savory fillings and arrive as a complete plate with a churro component.
Challenge
Dessert taco impostor with a churro
Make a sweet taco that convincingly resembles an assigned savory taco filling, then add a churro to complete the dessert plate.
Episode 9 · Edible puzzles
The semifinalists turn flavored sugar cookies into working puzzles and add a separate key-shaped cookie for the final requirement.
Semifinal
Flavored sugar cookie puzzle
Create an interlocking sugar cookie puzzle in an assigned raspberry, butterscotch, spice, or lemon flavor, then add a separate cookie shaped like a key.
Episode 10 · Bake-sale finale
The final cakes combine a familiar bake-sale treat with a school-club theme such as drama, dance, or chess.
Final
Bake-sale item and school-club cake
Bake a cake that incorporates an assigned sale item such as toffee, rice cereal treats, or chocolate-covered pretzels and visually represents an assigned school-club theme.
Inspired by the briefs
These are original Baking Show Guide adaptations for a home kitchen. They are inspired by the challenge briefs, not the contestants' recipes or an official recipe from the show.
Inspired by Episode 1
Tender maple cupcakes with tangy cream cheese frosting and a crisp bacon finish.
This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief, not a contestant recipe or an official Food Network recipe.
Cook the bacon until crisp and drain it thoroughly so it does not soften the frosting.
Refrigerate frosted cupcakes and bring them toward room temperature before serving.
Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. foodnetwork.com, tvguide.com.
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Paige Goehner
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| Baker | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Paige Goehner | n/a | n/a |