Spring Baking Championship Season 11

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Every episode and bake

Season eleven turns eleven normalized episodes into a Little Shop of Spring Magic, moving through bees, Minecraft, rainbows, illusions, foraging, and a gravity-defying finale. This guide records every aired challenge, including the semifinal bake-off, and includes one original home adaptation inspired by the honey-pie heat.

1. Episode 1 · Personal flowers and honeybees

   Welcome to the Little Shop of Spring Magic

   Mar 10, 2025

   Flower desserts introduce thirteen bakers before assigned honeys flavor showstopper pies and their bee-inspired decorations.

   • Preliminary

     Personality flower dessert

     Create a dessert in two hours based on a flower that symbolizes the baker's personality.

   • Main

     Bee-inspired honey pie

     Make a showstopping pie in two and a half hours featuring an assigned honey and three-dimensional bee-inspired decoration that also uses honey.

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2. Episode 2 · Blocky fruit and fantasy landscapes

   The Magical World of Minecraft

   Mar 17, 2025

   Square fruit entremets establish the block theme before paired Overworld and Nether cakes connect through edible portals.

   • Preliminary

     Square fruit entremets

     Make a precisely square entremets centered on an assigned fruit.

   • Main

     Connected Minecraft landscape cakes

     In teams, make complementary Overworld and Nether landscape cakes and connect them with an edible portal.

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3. Episode 3 · Madeleines and rainbows

   The Magic of Spring Colors

   Mar 24, 2025

   Tea-flavored madeleines rise into colorful towers before fruit cheesecakes display rainbows outside and ombre layers within.

   • Preliminary

     Tea-flavored madeleine tower

     Build a colorful tower from madeleines in two and a half hours, flavoring them with an assigned tea.

   • Main

     Rainbow fruit cheesecake

     Create a cheesecake in two and a half hours with a rainbow exterior and ombre interior based on an assigned color and fruit.

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4. Episode 4 · Dessert illusions

   April Fools': Spring Fake Outs

   Mar 31, 2025

   Chocolate eggs conceal baked whites and yolk-like fillings before full desserts masquerade as savory dinners.

   • Preliminary

     Six faux chocolate eggs

     Make six realistic chocolate-shell eggs in two and a half hours, each containing a baked component and a filling resembling a yolk.

   • Main

     Savory-dinner dessert deception

     Create a complete dessert in three hours that convincingly looks like an assigned savory dinner.

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5. Episode 5 · Childhood favorites and clocks

   Spring Forward & Spring Backward

   Apr 7, 2025

   Childhood desserts receive grown-up polish before side-standing cakes turn assigned clocks into edible structures.

   • Preliminary

     Elevated childhood dessert

     Make a refined version of a favorite childhood dessert in 90 minutes.

   • Main

     Top-forward clock cake

     Build a cake standing on its side in two and a half hours and decorate its face after an assigned clock design.

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6. Episode 6 · Candles and remixed classics

   Out with the Old, In with the New

   Apr 14, 2025

   Scented-candle ideas become desserts with working edible votives before teams translate carrot cake and lemon meringue pie into four classic forms.

   • Preliminary

     Scented-candle dessert with edible votive

     Make a dessert in 90 minutes inspired by an assigned candle scent and serve its sauce or spread as a working edible votive.

   • Main

     Carrot-cake or lemon-meringue classic remix

     In teams, transform carrot cake or lemon meringue pie into assigned charlotte russe, Paris-Brest, opera cake, or tiramisu for head-to-head judging.

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7. Episode 7 · Forest creatures and garden produce

   The Magic of Spring Foraging

   Apr 21, 2025

   Printed roll cakes hide citrus among forest creatures before oversized macarons stack with vegetables and Fresno chile.

   • Preliminary

     Forest-creature printed roll cake

     Make a citrus roll cake in 90 minutes with an imprime pattern depicting a magical forest creature.

   • Main

     Tiered garden macaron cake

     Stack large macarons into a tiered garden cake in two and a half hours using an assigned fresh vegetable, then incorporate Fresno chile.

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8. Episode 8 · Butterflies and magical gardens

   Secret Garden

   Apr 28, 2025

   Butterfly napoleons test paired precision before long tabletop cakes turn magical-garden themes and lemongrass into a blind tasting.

   • Preliminary

     Butterfly-shaped napoleon

     In teams of two, make a napoleon in two hours shaped and decorated like an assigned butterfly species.

   • Main

     Magical-garden tabletop cake

     Create a long tabletop sheet cake in two hours based on an assigned magical-garden theme and incorporate lemongrass.

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9. Episode 9 · Floating desserts and glowing ice cream

   Floating Islands

   May 5, 2025

   Tropical floating islands sit beneath spun-sugar cages before ice-cream bombes reinterpret flambe desserts with fluorescent color.

   • Preliminary

     Tropical floating island

     Create a floating-island dessert with an assigned tropical fruit and enclose it in a spun-sugar cage.

   • Main

     Glow-in-the-dark ice-cream bombe

     Make an ice-cream-filled cake bombe inspired by an assigned flambe dessert, including alcohol and food-safe fluorescent color.

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10. Episode 10 · Fraisier cakes and personal spring desserts

    The Road to the Finale

    May 12, 2025

    Personalized fraisiers identify two safe finalists before the bottom pair bake meaningful spring desserts in sudden death.

    • Preliminary

      Personalized fraisier cake

      Make a classic strawberry fraisier in two hours with a customization that expresses the baker's personality.

    • Elimination

      Personally meaningful spring dessert

      The bottom two bakers have 60 minutes to make a spring dessert with personal meaning; the aired bakes were yuzu-curd pavlovas and cardamom spice cakes.

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11. Episode 11 · Marie Antoinette floral cakes

    Crowning the Champion

    May 19, 2025

    After the semifinal result is revealed, three finalists turn extravagant Marie Antoinette hairstyles into towering floral cakes.

    • Main

      Marie Antoinette hairstyle cake

      In five hours, create a sky-high layer cake based on an assigned spring-garden, sailing-ship, or peacock hairstyle and feature a floral flavor.

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Inspired by the briefs

Bake it at home

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

Orange Blossom Honey Custard Pie

A crisp pastry shell filled with orange-blossom honey custard and finished with sesame-honey brittle.

Time

1 hr 40 min

Makes

One 23 cm pie, serving 8

Level

Moderate

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Ingredients

• 250 g all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 140 g cold unsalted butter, cubed
• 3 to 4 tablespoons ice water
• 4 large eggs
• 120 g orange blossom honey, divided
• 300 ml heavy cream
• 120 ml whole milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Finely grated zest of 1 orange
• 1/4 teaspoon orange blossom water
• 40 g sesame seeds
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Method

1. Mix the flour and salt, then rub in the butter until pea-size pieces remain. Add enough ice water to bring the dough together. Flatten, wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
2. Roll the dough and line a 23 cm pie pan. Chill for 20 minutes. Heat the oven to 190 C, or 170 C fan.
3. Line the shell with baking paper and weights. Bake for 18 minutes, remove the weights, and bake for 8 minutes more. Lower the oven to 160 C, or 145 C fan.
4. Whisk the eggs with 90 g honey. Whisk in the cream, milk, vanilla, orange zest, and orange blossom water. Pour into the shell.
5. Bake for 27 to 32 minutes, until the edge is set and the center still trembles slightly. Cool completely.
6. Heat the remaining honey in a small pan until bubbling and amber, stir in the sesame and baking soda, then spread thinly on baking paper. Cool, break into shards, and arrange on the pie just before serving.

This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief, not a contestant recipe or an official Food Network recipe.

The brittle is the bee-inspired honey decoration; keep it dry until serving.

Orange blossom water is stronger than orange blossom honey, so do not exceed the measured amount.

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Episode guide sources

Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. foodnetwork.com, foodnetwork.com, en.wikipedia.org.

Season result

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 11, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

en.wikipedia.org, soapcentral.com, stalbertgazette.com.