Complete season guide
Complete season breakdown
Season seven contains seven regular competition episodes, beginning with splatter cakes and character cupcakes before moving through giant doughnuts, international dessert impostors, hedgehog poke cakes, artistic fruit pies, and a space-cake finale. The guide excludes the later Halloween and holiday specials and includes one original coffee-maple Bundt adaptation.
Episode 1 · Color and personal interests
Assigned-flavor cakes become bright splatter paintings whose decorations also reveal one of each baker's interests.
Challenge
Personal splatter cake
Bake a cake in an assigned flavor such as chocolate, red velvet, or coconut, cover it with a vivid splatter design, and decorate it around a personal interest.
Episode 2 · Angry Birds character islands
Character cupcakes are combined into team displays built around an edible Bird Island or Pig Island made from cereal treats.
Team Challenge
Character cupcakes and an edible island
Make twelve cupcakes based on an assigned character from The Angry Birds Movie 2, then join a team to construct Bird Island or Pig Island around a central cereal-treat structure.
Episode 3 · Oversized doughnuts
Bundt cakes are decorated as giant doughnuts, with assigned cake flavors and a late coffee-flavor requirement.
Challenge
Giant doughnut Bundt cake
Use a Bundt pan to make an assigned-flavor cake that looks like an oversized doughnut, then incorporate coffee into the flavor profile.
Episode 4 · International dinner impostors
The bakers create sweet dishes that visually pass for assigned savory foods from around the world.
Challenge
International dessert impostor
Create a fully sweet dessert that convincingly resembles an assigned international savory dish, such as sushi or shish kebab.
Episode 5 · Filled animal cakes
Assigned-flavor poke cakes receive a sauce or pudding filling through their holes and are then transformed into hedgehogs.
Challenge
Hedgehog poke cake
Bake an assigned-flavor sheet cake, poke and fill it with a puree, pudding, or sauce, and decorate the finished cake as a hedgehog.
Episode 6 · Late-summer fruit and pastry art
Late-summer fruit pies must pair sound baking with an intricate decorative crust, then receive a matching scratch-made ice cream.
Semifinal
Pie-art fruit pie with ice cream
Bake a late-summer fruit pie with an elaborate decorative crust, then make a complementary flavored ice cream for the twist.
Episode 7 · Outer space finale
The final cakes take the three-dimensional form of an assigned spaceship, alien, or planet.
Final
Outer-space cake
Create a finale cake shaped and decorated as an assigned spaceship, alien, or planet.
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 3
A tender coffee cake baked in a Bundt pan and finished like a maple-glazed doughnut.
This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief, not a contestant recipe or an official Food Network recipe.
Instant espresso powder supplies coffee flavor without thinning the batter.
Cool the cake fully before glazing so the doughnut-style finish stays opaque.
Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. foodnetwork.com, tvguide.com.
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Trevin Alford
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Everyone recorded for Season 7, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.
| Baker | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Trevin Alford | n/a | n/a |