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Season ten celebrates spring events across eleven normalized episodes, from tropical breaks and the equinox to prom, the Derby, music festivals, and a two-part wedding finale. This guide records each aired challenge and includes one original home adaptation inspired by the mint-julep eclair heat.
Episode 1 · Tropical flowers and adventures
Tropical flowers and ingredients shape the opening desserts before citrus cakes depict favorite outdoor adventures.
Preliminary
Tropical-flower dessert
Create a baked dessert in two hours modeled on an assigned tropical flower and featuring an assigned tropical ingredient.
Main
Spring-adventure citrus cake
Make a cake depicting a favorite outdoor spring-break adventure and incorporate an assigned citrus fruit.
Episode 2 · Spring equinox and flowers
Purple ube desserts contrast day and night before flower-shaped dome cakes use blossoms as flavor and decoration.
Preliminary
Day-or-night ube dessert
Make a purple ube dessert themed around either day or night to represent the spring equinox.
Main
Floral dome cake
Create a dome cake in two and a half hours using an assigned flower as both the principal flavor and the decoration.
Episode 3 · Awards and sparkling celebrations
Berry hand pies arrive as award envelopes before teams make sparkling-wine bubble cakes.
Preliminary
Twelve berry envelope hand pies
Bake a dozen envelope-shaped hand pies filled with an assigned fresh berry.
Main
Two-tier sparkling bubble cake
In teams of two, build a two-tier bubble cake flavored like an assigned sparkling-wine cocktail.
Episode 4 · Insects and world environments
Insect-inspired plated desserts honor biodiversity before regional baked Alaskas pair global ingredients with dramatic meringue.
Preliminary
Insect-inspired plated dessert
Create an elevated plated dessert visually inspired by an assigned insect or bug.
Main
Regional baked Alaska
Make a baked Alaska in two hours inspired by an assigned geographic region and featuring an assigned global ingredient in the ice cream or cake.
Episode 5 · Holi and Songkran
Holi doughnuts carry Indian flavors before teams honor Thailand's Songkran festival with elephant cakes.
Preliminary
Holi-filled doughnuts
Make filled doughnuts celebrating Holi with assigned saffron, rose, turmeric, or pistachio flavor.
Main
Songkran elephant cake
In teams, make a Songkran celebration cake in three hours featuring an elephant and assigned mango, pandan, Thai basil, or coconut flavor.
Episode 6 · Prom corsages and gowns
Macaron corsages begin prom night before tsunami cakes reveal flowing edible ball gowns.
Preliminary
Macaron corsage
Create a wearable-looking prom corsage from macarons in 90 minutes.
Main
Prom-gown tsunami cake
Make a flavored tsunami cake shaped like a prom gown in two hours so the released glaze completes the dress, then add fruit-punch flavor.
Episode 7 · Tea parties and May flowers
Tea-party petit fours lead into pull-apart shortcake wreaths built around maypoles and fresh fruit.
Preliminary
Tea-party petit fours
Make refined petit fours in 90 minutes for an April-showers tea party.
Main
Maypole shortcake wreath
Create a pull-apart floral wreath from mini shortcakes in two hours, featuring a maypole and an assigned fresh fruit.
Episode 8 · Mint juleps and Derby horses
Jockey colors brighten mint-julep eclairs before carrot desserts honor the horses without becoming carrot cake.
Preliminary
Twelve mint-julep eclairs
Make a dozen eclairs in 90 minutes flavored like an assigned mint-julep variation and decorated in bright jockey-silk colors.
Main
Derby carrot dessert
Create a non-carrot-cake dessert in two hours featuring carrots, carrot roses, and tempered white-chocolate decoration.
Episode 9 · Desert music and New Orleans jazz
Desert-flavored cupcake crowns resemble succulent headpieces before snowball syrups flavor jazz-inspired entremets.
Preliminary
Succulent cupcake crown
Design a wearable-style crown of cactus-flower cupcakes with an assigned desert ingredient such as prickly pear, chipotle, dates, or mesquite flour.
Main
Jazz-inspired snowball entremets
Make an entremets inspired by New Orleans jazz and flavored with an assigned snowball syrup.
Episode 10 · Borrowed flavors and heirloom recipes
A sudden-death round borrows flavor ideas from rivals before the final three modernize the judges' family recipes.
Elimination
Borrowed-flavor dessert
The bottom two bakers create desserts based on flavor inspirations borrowed from other semifinalists: key lime pie or tiramisu.
Preliminary
Modernized heirloom dessert
Reinvent one judge's family recipe: sandwich cookies, tea cakes, or lemon-soda Bundt cake.
Episode 11 · Stained-glass wedding cakes
The three finalists complete the wedding celebration with tall cakes based on the stained-glass trend and assigned spring motifs.
Main
Three-tier stained-glass wedding cake
In five hours, make a three-tier wedding cake using a stained-glass design and an assigned flower-bouquet, bird, or dragonfly 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 8
Crisp choux eclairs filled with bourbon-free lemon-mint pastry cream and finished with pale green glaze.
This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief, not a contestant recipe or an official Food Network recipe.
This family-friendly version evokes mint-julep flavors without bourbon.
Dry choux shells thoroughly in the lowered oven so they remain crisp after filling.
Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. foodnetwork.com, en.wikipedia.org.
The winner stays hidden until you choose to reveal it.
Steven Tran
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Everyone recorded for Season 10, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.
| Baker | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Nickey Boyd | n/a | n/a |
| Robert Gonzalez | n/a | n/a |
| Steven Tran | n/a | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |