List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes

This is a list of episodes for the Food Network cooking competition series Holiday Baking Championship. The series has been presented by Bobby Deen (seasons 1–3) and Jesse Palmer (seasons 4+) and judged by Nancy Fuller (seasons 1+), Duff Goldman (seasons 1+), Lorraine Pascale (seasons 1–6), and Carla Hall (seasons 7+).
There were 8 professional and home bakers competing in a 6-episode baking tournament. One person was eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete in a single, all-day round for the grand prize of $50,000.
There were 10 contestants competing in an 8-episode baking tournament. In this season there's mid-round twists in several of the second rounds (in the form of an extra ingredient the contestants had to add to their confection). One person was eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $50,000.
^Note : John Marasco's brother, Dante, competed in season 1 And He Is Eliminated In 3rd Episode
There were 9 contestants competing in a 7-episode baking tournament. One person was eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $50,000. At the end of this season, there was a Holiday Baking Championship special episode where the three past season winners competed against three child bakers from the Kids Baking Championship.
^Note 1 : Episode 8 was a special episode. Kids Baking Championship "fan favorite" contestants (Jackson Fujimori from season 1 and Matthew Merrill and Jane Haviland from season 2) vs. the three Holiday Baking Championship winners (season 1 winner Erin Campbell, season 2 winner Maeve Schulz-Rochford, and this season's winner Jason Smith). They competed for a chance at $10,000.
^Note 2 : Jason Smith was the first home cook to win Holiday Baking Championship. He later went on to win season 13 of Food Network Star.
As with the previous season, 9 contestants competed in a 7-episode baking tournament. One person was eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the $50,000 grand prize. There was an additional special episode that aired on Christmas Day bringing up runner-up contestants from previous seasons for a one-episode showdown.
^Note 1 : Amy Strickland also appeared in season 2 of Halloween Baking Championship; she was forced to withdraw from that competition due to stress concerns since she was 6 months pregnant.
^Note 2 : Episode 8 was a special episode. Six runner-up competitors from previous season finales returned to battle it out for a chance to win $10,000 (They were paired up into teams of two representing their respective seasons: Bill Lipscomb and Naylet Larochelle from season 1, Steve Konopelski and Adalberto Diaz from season 2, and Cheryl Storms and Shawne Bryan from season 3).
As with the previous season, 9 contestants competed in a 7-episode baking tournament where one contestant was sent home every week until the final three remain. However unlike previous seasons, the prize money has been halved this year; the winner gets $25,000 as well as a spot in Food Network Magazine and their own video on foodnetwork.com.
^Note 1 : Julia Perugini was previously featured as a competitor on Christmas Cookie Challenge.
^Note 2 : In Episode 8, six past baking champions (from the various baking spin-offs) return in a "best of the best" competition. The judges (Nancy, Duff, and Lorraine) also served as hosts. The contestants were: Maeve Rochford from season 2, Jason Smith from season 3, and Jen Barney from season 4 of Holiday Baking Championship, Jordan Pilarski from season 3 and Nacho Aguirre from season 4 of Spring Baking Championship, and Michelle Antonishek from season 2 of Halloween Baking Championship.
^Note 3 : In episode 2, there was a teams event causing two people to win the advantage.
12 bakers enter the kitchen to compete for the $25,000 prize, a chance to be featured on the Food Network Kitchen app, and the title of Holiday Baking Champion. New this year, the bakers will be ranked on the "Naughty or Nice" list after each challenge. The lowest ranked baker after each main heat will be eliminated from the competition. However, in the first episode of the season, the lowest ranked baker after the first pre-heat was eliminated.
^Note 1 : On December 20, prior to episode 8, there was a special hour-long episode titled Sweet Secrets. This was hosted by judges Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller, and Carla Hall. They offered a behind-the-scenes look at the set where Holiday Baking Championship is filmed and discussed topics relating to this season such as: their favorite and least favorite desserts up to this point, the road to the finale with the finalists and their strengths/weaknesses, their relationships with each other on and off set, how they went about the whole elimination process of picking the least successful baker, and also showed a small sneak peek of the finale at the end.
^Note 2 : In season 7, there were some small deviations from the elimination pattern of previous seasons: in the first episode, there was an elimination in both the preheat and the main heat; and in the finale, there were four bakers instead of three and three rounds instead of two, with all four bakers completing in the preheat, after which the two lowest performing bakers in the preheat went head-to-head in an elimination challenge, and finally the remaining three bakers competed in the final round. Additionally bakers were ranked in every round, both preheat and main heat, of every episode on the "Naughty or Nice List"
12 bakers enter the kitchen to compete for the $25,000 prize, a chance to be featured in Food Network magazine, and the title of Holiday Baking Champion. Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller, and Carla Hall return to judge with Jesse Palmer hosting.
New this year: in the first 5 weeks, if any baker won both the Preheat and Main Heat in the same week, they would be immune from elimination the following week and Jesse Palmer sometimes gave the bakers non-spoken indicators of when time starts, such as when a Christmas tree on set lit up in episode 1 or he chopped a log in episode 2. The lowest ranked baker after each main heat will be eliminated from the competition. However, at the end of the first episode, there was a double elimination with two bakers being sent home.
^Note 1 : In episode 1, it was revealed Naomi was approved to be on season 7, but due to a conflict schedule with becoming a naturalized citizen at the same time as when this show was filmed the previous year, she took care of that over being on the show then and was allowed to be on the show this year.
^Note 2 : Jody and Adam made the best cornucopia, so they were both safe from elimination this week, which was announced before Jody was announced in the top two.
^Note 3 : Jody won immunity from elimination for week 5, by winning the Preheat and the Main Heat on week 4, making him the first baker to win immunity on Holiday Baking Championship.
^Note 4 : Adam won immunity from elimination for week 6, by winning the Preheat and the Main Heat on week 5, making him the second baker to win immunity on Holiday Baking Championship.
Season 11 is themed around holiday parties and is hosted by Jesse Palmer with Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Carla Hall as judges. This season, bakers receive a cash bonus of $1,000 each time they win a pre-heat.
Four bakers and self-professed holiday fanatics, competed in a special summer episode of Holiday Baking Championship where the winner got $10,000. The host was Jesse Palmer and the judges were the same as always: Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Lorraine Pascale.