Great Chocolate Showdown

Ten home bakers enter the kitchen and put their spin on a chocolate carousel filled with decadent mini desserts; in the Elimination Challenge, the bakers give a sweet introduction to who they are with a dessert.

The remaining nine home bakers play with pastry, as they master the art of choux; in the Elimination Challenge, the bakers must keep their cool and serve an epic ice cream sandwich.

Home bakers try to combine vegetables and chocolate.

Seven home bakers make chocolate pasta.

With sweet safety off the table, the top six bakers must create a scrumptious illusion by mastering a gravity-defying cake; the home bakers create desserts using a flavor of tea.

The five remaining home bakers do the chocolate truffle shuffle and create a picture-perfect display made entirely out of chocolate; the bakers get botanical and must present a dessert bursting with floral flavor.

The final four bakers are in for a big surprise as they must master the daunting macaron and its larger cousin the macaronade; with the finale one challenge away, the bakers look to the runway for their dessert inspiration.

The home bakers are challenged to tell their baking story through four delectable dessert chapters; only one baker will have the happy ending of walking away with the grand prize.