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Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 8 Step Right Up

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

This week's elimination challenge has the remaining chefs clowning around at the Top Chef Carnival where they have to upgrade classic carnival cuisine into something suitable for a fine dining audience. Francois Payard serves as guest judge.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 9 Dessert in Disguise

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

Don't judge a book by its cover in this week's penultimate episode as the chefs must create a dessert that tastes like one, but doesn't look the way it tastes. Suzanne Goin and Cat Cora serve as guest judges.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 4 Lucent Dossier

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The pastry chef'testants are challenged to recreate the exotic flaming desserts associated with the Lucent Dossier Experience. For one chef, the pressure becomes too much and they are forced to leave the competition.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 7 Dessert Wars

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The six remaining pastry chef'testants take no prisoners when they go head to head in the first-ever "Dessert Shop Wars."

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 7 Death By Chocolate

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

Time to make the donuts -- this week's quickfire challenge will have the chefs selecting perfect pairings of coffee and donuts, while the elimination challenge will result in death... by chocolate. The chef'testants must create a chocolate showpiece under a veil of secrecy. Mark Isarel and Wylie Dufresne serve as guest judges.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 10 Finale

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

And then there were three... the final three chefs face off in a 4-star 4-course sweet and savory dessert challenge for the title of Top Chef Just Desserts.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 4 Pure Imagination

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

It's the 40th Anniversary of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and to celebrate, the chefs will work as one team to create a Pure Imagination Room where everything in the room has to be edible. Original cast members of the movie will be on hand to see if the chefs have created a land of sweet dreams. Guest judge will be Ron Ben Israel.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 5 Edible Fashion

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The pastry chef'testants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 9 Ben and Sylvia's 61st

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

In this penultimate challenge, the final four chef'testants are challenged with making an anniversary cake for Sylvia Weinstock, one of the world's most famous wedding cake designers.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 5 Make a Splash

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

This week's Quickfire tasks the chefs with creating their own candy bar -- naming and packagaing it. Then, the chefs must beat the heat as they make frozen treats suitable for cooling off on a hot summer day. To win this challenge, they must also brand their treat and create their own uniforms for a complete experience for the patrons at the water slide park.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 1 Mr. Chocolate

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

Twelve of America's best pastry chefs converge in Los Angeles for this first-of-its-kind dessert competition and have to impress Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 3 Villa Rosa

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

Bigger isn't always better -- this week's Quickfire challenges the chefs to develop a bold and complex flavor within a teeny tiny space. The winner will be placed in the voting pool to become one of Extra's new "Dessert Delight" flavors. For the elimination challenge, the remaining twelve chef'testants must channel their inner diva and create the ultimate "dessert-scape" spread for "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Lisa Vanderpump, who is throwing a lavish party for her fabulous friends.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 3 Glee Club

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The ten remaining pastry chef'testants are divided into teams and go head to head in a bake sale to raise money for a local high school pep squad and glee club.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 2 Sweet Symphony

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

To celebrate the opening of the 9th Season Orchestra of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the chefs must work in teams to create a cake experience in three movements to be served to the symphony members and patrons after their performance. Margaret Braum serves as guest judge.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 6 Sabotage

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The remaining pastry chefs will be given a "License to Ill" as they raid the first ever "Top Chef Beastie Boys Pantry," where they must use the ingredients, named after the band's popular songs, to create a Beastie Boys-inspired dessert appropriate for a street art event. Jordan Kahn and Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz serve as guest judges.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 0 Top Chef Just Desserts Sneak Peek

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

This season 14 pastry chefs will see if they have what it takes to out bake, out blend and out brulee the competition where the main focus is the Achilles heel of most chefs: desserts.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 2, Episode 1 Showpiece

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

Fourteen top pastry chefs come together for season two of Top Chef Just Desserts to determine who is the sweetest chef of all. For their first elimination challenge, the chefs need to bring out their A-game when they're tasked with creating a showpiece based off of a popular fairytale story.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 2 Cocktail With a Twist

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The eleven remaining pastry chefs must create a dessert out of a cocktail. One of the chef's theatrics upsets the group resulting in a heated fight.

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Season 1, Episode 8 Celebritea Party

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:48:51 -0400

The final five pastry chef'testants must create fun and unique desserts for Food & Wine Magazine's "Celebritea" Party.