Spring Baking Championship Season 6

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Every episode and bake

Season six runs nine episodes through natural transformations, spring skies, pets, outdoor team challenges, colorful music, decluttering, flowers, Mother's Day travel, and graduation. This guide records all eighteen aired challenge briefs with their assigned themes and twists, and includes one original home-kitchen adaptation inspired by the cherry-and-herb challenge.

1. Episode 1 · Fruit geometry and transformation

   Spring's Natural Wonders

   Mar 9, 2020

   Precisely patterned fruit tarts open the season before fault-line cakes reveal one spring state transforming into another and absorb a flavored-salt twist.

   • Preliminary

     Geometric spring-fruit tart

     In two hours, make one precisely patterned geometric tart featuring two selected spring fruits from kiwi, strawberry, rhubarb, mango, and lemon.

   • Main

     Spring-transformation fault-line cake

     In three hours, make a fault-line cake showing an assigned transformation such as bare trees to blossoms, hibernation to activity, nest to hatched eggs, rain to sun, or caterpillar to butterfly, then incorporate flavored salt.

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2. Episode 2 · Equinox skies and stargazing

   Spring Skies

   Mar 16, 2020

   Blinged-out doughnuts capture sunrise or sunset before celestial desserts depict night-sky phenomena under a ten-minute time loss.

   • Preliminary

     Sunrise or sunset doughnuts

     In 90 minutes, make twelve highly decorated doughnuts themed to either sunrise or sunset.

   • Main

     Celestial spring-night dessert

     In three hours, create a dessert representing an assigned Milky Way, Northern Lights, supermoon, shooting star, or meteor shower, then lose ten minutes when the clock springs forward.

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3. Episode 3 · Cats, dogs, and outdoor play

   The One About Puppies and Kitties

   Mar 23, 2020

   Orange cat flavors shape whimsical eclairs before dog breeds and their favorite activities become sporty desserts with edible bones.

   • Preliminary

     Orange kitty eclairs

     In 90 minutes, make twelve cat-themed eclairs flavored with assigned butterscotch, marmalade, clementine, or ginger.

   • Main

     Sporting-dog dessert

     In two hours, make a dessert depicting an assigned dog breed and spring activity, such as a flying-disc Australian shepherd, tennis-playing Labrador, skateboarding dachshund, or kayaking poodle, then add an edible dog bone unless exempted by the preliminary advantage.

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4. Episode 4 · Hiking and cycling

   Spring in the Great Outdoors: Team Challenges

   Mar 30, 2020

   Pairs coordinate portable fruit treats for a hike, then build bicycle scenes from individual Paris-Brest wheels and shared trail backdrops.

   • Preliminary

     Paired hiking treats

     Working in pairs for 90 minutes, make complementary hand-held hiking treats using a shared assigned pineapple, blueberry, raspberry, or peach flavor.

   • Main

     Paris-Brest bicycle scene

     As a team in two hours, make individual Paris-Brest bicycle wheels and combine them into a two-wheeled dessert on an assigned country lane, city park, desert canyon, or vineyard trail backdrop, then add assigned goat cheese, grape, champagne, or fig.

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5. Episode 5 · Colorful treats and music

   Trolls World Tour

   Apr 6, 2020

   Tiny monochromatic sweets lead into spring-fruit cakes interpreted through seven musical styles and finished with matching character toppers.

   • Preliminary

     Tiny colorful treats

     In 90 minutes, make twelve tiny treats centered on an assigned green, yellow, blue, red, pink, purple, or orange color.

   • Main

     Musical Troll spring-fruit cake

     In two hours, make a spring-fruit cake inspired by assigned classical, pop, country, hip-hop, funk, techno, or rock music, then add the matching Troll character cake topper.

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6. Episode 6 · Minimalism and creative reuse

   Spring Declutter

   Apr 13, 2020

   Nut flours support desserts that are both flourless and flower-less, then yard-sale objects inspire decorative sweets using repurposed kitchen scraps.

   • Preliminary

     Flourless, flower-less minimalist dessert

     In 90 minutes, make a minimalist dessert with no wheat flour and no flower decoration, using assigned pecan, Brazil nut, hazelnut, walnut, almond, or pistachio flour.

   • Main

     Yard-sale object dessert

     In two hours, make a dessert inspired by a selected embroidered runner, cross-stitch, quilt, pillow, sign, or decorated jar, then incorporate a discarded ingredient such as coffee grounds, orange peel, or used tea leaves.

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7. Episode 7 · Cherry blossoms and flower crowns

   Spring Flower Power

   Apr 20, 2020

   Cherry desserts combine assigned crumble styles with spring herbs before flower-crown cakes turn specific blooms into edible headpieces.

   • Preliminary

     Cherry, crumb, and herb dessert

     In 90 minutes, make a cherry dessert with assigned crumble, crisp, brown Betty, cobbler, or buckle structure and assigned rosemary, pineapple sage, lemon verbena, lavender, or thyme.

   • Main

     Flower-crown cake

     In two hours, make a cake decorated as an assigned peony, pansy, tulip, poppy, or daffodil flower crown, then add an edible ribbon.

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8. Episode 8 · Margaritas and pool floats

   Mom's Spring Getaway

   Apr 27, 2020

   Fruit-and-chile margarita desserts set a vacation mood before realistic pool-float sweets gain edible pools.

   • Preliminary

     Fruit-and-chile margarita dessert

     In 90 minutes, make a margarita-inspired dessert using assigned blackberry and jalapeno, passion fruit and habanero, watermelon and serrano, or mango and bird's-eye chile.

   • Main

     Pool-float look-alike dessert

     In two hours, make a baked dessert that resembles an assigned flamingo, seahorse, peacock, or swan pool float, then place it in an edible pool.

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9. Episode 9 · Graduation and prom

   Spring Senioritis - Class of 2020

   May 4, 2020

   The finalists make both rolled and dippable graduation sweets before decade-specific prom cakes take visual direction from live model sketches.

   • Preliminary

     Graduation buffet dessert pair

     In two and a half hours, make two desserts for an assigned kindergarten, high-school, or college graduation buffet: one rolled dessert and one diploma-shaped dessert served with a dipping sauce.

   • Final

     Decade prom cake

     In four hours, create a prom-night cake inspired by the 1950s, 1960s, or 1980s and by a quick sketch made from a matching prom-date model.

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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 7

Cherry Thyme Crumble Bars

Buttery oat bars layered with tart cherries, lemon, and a restrained note of fresh thyme.

Time

1 hr 7 min

Makes

16 bars

Level

Easy

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Ingredients

• 225 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
• 260 g all-purpose flour
• 90 g rolled oats
• 150 g light brown sugar
• 50 g granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 450 g pitted sour cherries, fresh or frozen
• 80 g granulated sugar, for the filling
• 25 g cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan. Line a 20 cm square pan with baking paper, leaving an overhang.
2. Mix the flour, oats, brown sugar, 50 g granulated sugar, salt, and baking powder. Stir in the melted butter until clumps form.
3. Press two thirds of the mixture firmly into the pan. Bake for 12 minutes, then set aside while making the filling.
4. Toss the cherries with the remaining 80 g sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, lemon zest, and thyme. Spread the mixture over the warm base.
5. Crumble the remaining oat mixture over the cherries, leaving a few small gaps for steam.
6. Bake for 28 to 32 minutes, until the fruit bubbles at the edges and the crumble is golden.
7. Cool completely in the pan, then chill for one hour before lifting out and cutting into sixteen bars.

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

Use frozen sour cherries without thawing and add five minutes to the baking time if needed.

Measure the thyme lightly; it should sharpen the cherry flavor rather than dominate it.

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Episode guide sources

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

Season result

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 6, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, ice.edu.