Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown

The baking teams are tasked with creating holiday memory snow globe scenes in gingerbread. And because a snow globe is nothing without snow, they must also make a treat using the most common baking ingredient to represent snow -- coconut!

The Abominable Snowman comes out of hiding to startle the gingerbread teams and inspire their challenge theme -- A Monster Christmas. Monsters love an oozy dessert, so the teams must make an oozing caramel dessert to go with their display.

The holidays cue jaw-dropping light shows in neighborhoods around the world. The baking teams are challenged to create a holiday light show out of gingerbread and pair their glittering creations with the lightest of all desserts, choux pastry.

The best part of shopping at the holidays is seeing all the window decorations. The baking teams are asked to turn their favorite holiday window scene into a gingerbread display with an animated element and a champagne dessert.

Which magical creatures love a good holiday party? Gnomes! Host Jesse Palmer challenges three teams of bakers to create a gingerbread scene depicting gnomes hangin' for the holidays. The teams also have to create a cardamom dessert to go with their scene.

Carla Hall challenges three teams to show what the holidays will look like in the future using gingerbread and a very space-age ingredient: freeze-dried berries. Judges Stephanie Boswell and Kalen Allen help decide whose display is worth a $10,000 prize.