Spring Baking Championship Season 7

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Every episode and bake

Season seven ranks the bakers on a running Spring Board while ten episodes move from farm breakfasts and international celebrations to cookies, vacations, and a garden finale. This guide records every aired heat and includes one original home adaptation inspired by the pressed-flower party favors.

1. Episode 1 · Farm breakfast and milk

   Spring on the Farm

   Feb 22, 2021

   Fresh vegetables enter breakfast pastries before the bakers turn different milks into playful dancing-cow desserts.

   • Preliminary

     Twelve spring-vegetable breakfast treats

     Bake a dozen breakfast treats in 90 minutes using an assigned fresh spring vegetable such as squash, parsnip, fennel, zucchini, carrot, or beet.

   • Main

     Dancing-cow milk dessert

     Create a dancing-cow dessert in three hours using an assigned dairy or plant milk, then add an edible cowbell.

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2. Episode 2 · Holi and St. Patrick's Day

   Spring Celebrations

   Mar 1, 2021

   Holi inspires colorful spiced hand-held sweets, followed by green leprechaun desserts with an Irish-drink twist.

   • Preliminary

     Holi hand-held dessert

     Make a colorful hand-held dessert in 90 minutes using an assigned Indian spice such as cardamom, fenugreek, mace, coriander, or cinnamon.

   • Main

     Leaping-leprechaun dessert

     Create a leprechaun-inspired dessert in three hours with an assigned green ingredient, then incorporate Irish whiskey, Irish breakfast tea, or Irish cream.

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3. Episode 3 · Eggs, chicks, and Easter bread

   Spring Bunnies and Chickens, Oh My!

   Mar 8, 2021

   Edible eggs conceal a surprise flavor before the first bread main heat produces giant rabbit-shaped hot cross buns.

   • Preliminary

     Surprise-filled egg dessert

     Create an egg-shaped dessert in 90 minutes with a decorative spring chick and an assigned hidden praline, malted milk, or peanut butter flavor.

   • Main

     Hot cross bunnies with spread

     Bake giant rabbit-shaped hot cross buns in three and a half hours using an assigned dried fruit, then make a complementary jam or spread.

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4. Episode 4 · Proposals and weddings

   Spring Romance

   Mar 15, 2021

   Pairs compose proposal plates, then separately design matching halves of a wedding cake without seeing each other's work.

   • Preliminary

     Proposal dessert plate

     Working in pairs, make a proposal dessert plate in 90 minutes using an assigned chocolate-and-berry combination.

   • Main

     Love-is-blind wedding cake

     Each teammate makes one half of a spring wedding cake in three hours without seeing the other half; the joined cake must suit an assigned wedding style and include an aphrodisiac ingredient.

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5. Episode 5 · Baby gifts and showers

   Spring Babies

   Mar 22, 2021

   Gift-box disguises showcase paired spring flavors before themed baby-shower towers add coffee to the party.

   • Preliminary

     Baby-gift dessert

     Make a dessert in 90 minutes that resembles a baby-shower gift and uses lemon and thyme, rhubarb and ginger, or kumquat and mint.

   • Main

     Baby-shower dessert tower

     Build a dessert tower in two hours around an assigned baby-shower theme, then incorporate coffee when the twist is announced.

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6. Episode 6 · Pressed flowers and floral cakes

   Spring Flower Fiesta

   Mar 29, 2021

   Pressed blooms decorate small party favors before flower-flavored fantasy cakes rise in tiers.

   • Preliminary

     Twelve pressed-flower party favors

     Bake a dozen macarons, mini cakes, or mini pies in 90 minutes and decorate them with pressed dried flowers.

   • Main

     Tiered flower-fantasy cake

     Make a tiered cake in two and a half hours featuring an assigned floral flavor, then add an edible topper representing that flower.

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7. Episode 7 · Cookies, fruit, and ice cream

   The Spring Cookie Classic

   Apr 5, 2021

   Mini desserts combine stone fruit, ice cream, and cookie dough before classic cookie flavors inspire larger desserts and matching cookies.

   • Preliminary

     Stone-fruit cookie-and-ice-cream desserts

     Make six mini desserts in 90 minutes using assigned stone fruit, ice cream, and prepared sugar-cookie dough without making ice cream sandwiches.

   • Main

     Classic-cookie-inspired dessert

     Create a dessert in two hours inspired by an assigned classic cookie, then bake six examples of that same cookie style.

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8. Episode 8 · Campfires and crafts

   Spring Pastimes

   Apr 12, 2021

   Tropical-fruit skillet sweets suit a campfire, while craft-look cakes reproduce textile techniques in edible form.

   • Preliminary

     Six tropical-fruit skillet desserts

     Bake six campfire-style skillet desserts using an assigned tropical fruit.

   • Main

     Craft-look spring cake

     Decorate a cake to resemble an assigned craft such as needlepoint, lacework, patchwork, knitting, or crochet, then add an edible signature.

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9. Episode 9 · Destination desserts and vacations

   Spring Break

   Apr 19, 2021

   International desserts merge with familiar snacks before paired bakes form a vacation landscape.

   • Preliminary

     International-dessert snack mashup

     Combine an assigned international dessert with a familiar sweet snack in 90 minutes.

   • Main

     Two-dessert vacation landscape

     Build a family-vacation dessert scene from two distinct desserts in two and a half hours, then add a cocktail-inspired decorative element.

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10. Episode 10 · Songbirds and garden creatures

    Spring Gardens: The Birds and the Bugs

    Apr 26, 2021

    The finale starts with songbird desserts and miniature feeders, then ends with bug-decorated garden cakes hiding a surprise interior.

    • Preliminary

      Spring-songbird dessert

      Make a dessert in two hours inspired by an assigned spring songbird and add a miniature edible bird feeder.

    • Main

      Two-tier spring-garden cake

      Create a two-tier garden cake in five hours with two assigned garden bugs and a surprise design inside one tier.

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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 6

Orange Blossom Pistachio Mini Cakes

Tender pistachio cakes with orange blossom glaze and a restrained pressed-flower finish.

Time

48 min

Makes

12 mini cakes

Level

Easy

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Ingredients

• 140 g all-purpose flour
• 60 g finely ground pistachios
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 115 g unsalted butter, softened
• 140 g granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 120 ml whole milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 120 g powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 1/4 teaspoon orange blossom water
• Food-safe dried flower petals and chopped pistachios, for finishing

Method

1. Heat the oven to 175 C, or 160 C fan. Grease a 12-hole mini-cake or muffin pan.
2. Whisk the flour, ground pistachios, baking powder, and salt.
3. Beat the butter and sugar until pale. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla.
4. Fold in the dry ingredients in two additions, alternating with the milk. Divide among the prepared holes.
5. Bake for 16 to 19 minutes, until the cakes spring back. Cool for five minutes in the pan, then transfer to a rack.
6. Stir the powdered sugar, orange juice, and orange blossom water into a thick glaze. Spoon over the cool cakes and finish sparingly with petals and pistachios.

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 only flowers sold as food-safe; florist flowers may be treated with chemicals.

Orange blossom water is potent, so measure it rather than pouring directly from the bottle.

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Episode guide sources

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

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 7, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.