Every season of Food Network Challenge ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Food Network Challenge!

Food Network's Wedding Cake Challenge

Birthday Cake Competition

Vegas Pastry Battle

Pizza Battle

Spooky Cake & Candy Cook-Off

Holiday Cake-Off

Six teams of student pastry chefs face off in the Happiest Place on Earth. On the line, a 14-thousand dollar scholarship and an internship in the prestigious Disney kitchens. These students will be tested. In eight hours, they will not only have to create four different desserts, but at the end of the day, they must also create a three foot tall chocolate and sugar centerpiece.

Challenge: Disney Dream Desserts

Food Network Chocolate Fantasy Challenge

Food Network Pastry Daredevils

Mystery Cake

Disney Dream Desserts

Fire & Ice

Elvis Birthday Cakes

National Pie Championship

Memphis in May BBQ

Campfire Cook-Off

Premier pastry chefs from twelve different countries travel to Las Vegas for a two-day competition that’s known for setting new standards in the industry. Each team shows its artistic talent with a sugar showpiece and a chocolate showpiece, and its culinary prowess with pastries

World Pastry Championship

Seafood Cook-Off

Teen Chef

Reno Rib Cook-Off

America's Bread Battle

Build a Better Burger

Gingerbread Championships

U.S. BBQ Championship

Culinary Team USA

The BBQ Circuit

Chocolate Festival Fantasies

Cowboy Cook-Off

Great Chowder Cook-Off

America's Best Pastry

Great Garlic Cook-Off

The nation's best bakers gather in Celebration, FL to enter their pies in the "grandmother" of all cooking contests. It's a cook-off to determine who has the best crust, and who is just flaky. Don't want to miss out on a visit to the Endless Pie Buffet.

Great American Pie Cook-Off

SPAM Cook-off

World Pizza Challenge

Here Comes the Cake

Secret marinades, heavenly fires, specially-designed grills and great cuts of beef-the grilling teams in Magnolia Arkansas pull out all their tricks because they know what's at "steak" at the World Championship Steak Cook-off.

The Great Steak Cook-Off

Extreme Pastry

Cowboy Challenge

BBQ Chili Challenge

The Great Cake-Off

Slam Dunk Skillet Showdown

World Bartending Championship

The Grove Park Inn Annual Gingerbread Competition in Asheville, NC is home to 250 of the nation's most inspired gingerbread artists who sketch, build and painstakingly decorate these stunning examples of holiday ingenuity. From royal residences to towns.

Gingerbread Challenge

Southern Living Cook-Off

All American Tailgating Cook-off

World Baking Cup

$100,000 Chicken Challenge

It's a cake competition with a mystery twist. The best cake makers in the country came to Phoenix with no idea what they'd be asked to do. Just hours before the competition, the theme was announced: sports cakes! Watch as the pros squirm under the pressure, with just a few hours to plan, and 7 hours to build world-class cakes.

Sports Cake Challenge

Ultimate Wedding Cakes

Ten of America's best grillers meet in Napa Valley to build the ultimate burger. Five competitors compete in the non-beef category for $10,000 and five competitors compete in the beef category for a whopping $50,000! Viewers will be treated to some of the most amazing burgers ever thrown on the grill...from salmon, to steak, to lamb and of course, good old ground beef. The recipes are mouth-watering and include flavors from around the globe, stretching from Morocco, to Hawaii, to Italy. After this Challenge, you'll never look at burgers the same way!

Challenge: Build a Better Burger 2

Food Network brings together five of the country's best pastry artists to design the perfect wedding cake for a real-life wedding. Watch as some of Food Network's biggest stars, including Giada De Laurentiis and Warren Brown, help the lucky couple choose their dream confection.

Challenge: Ultimate Wedding Cakes

Four teams compete in a unique competition that combines ice sculpture and pastry art. Each team consists of two competitors. Our experts have to come up with a sculpture that combines two very different elements under the umbrella theme of Fire and Ice. There will be many forces at work against the teams .heat, the clock and for some, almost no time to practice.

Challenge: Fire & Ice

Five of the country's top pastry chefs take on the world of architecture. Their goal? To recreate some of America's most amazing mansions. The twist? These mansions must be made out of gingerbread. You'll see Victorians, a Frank Lloyd Wright, a Vanderbilt mansion and a huge estate built by John Ringling, complete with a merry-go-round. At the end of the day, one of our gingerbread architects will walk away with $10,000.

Challenge: Incredible Edible Mansions

Five pastry chefs compete for $10,000 in their mission to create the ultimate sugar showpiece that not only demonstrates a musical theme but is also capable of movement (rocking and rolling). The competition lasts seven hours and the contestants will face three judges.

Rock & Roll Pastry

Sugar Showdown

Four top sugar artists meet in Beaver Creek to create an amazing four-foot tall sugar showpiece. The theme? The great outdoors. The twist? This is an elimination competition. There are three rounds and competitors must demonstrate specific skills such as sugar pulling and sugar blowing. The challenger who doesn't impress the judges after each round will be eliminated. At the end of the day, only two of our sugar artists will be left standing. And only one of those will go home with $10,000 in their pocket.

Challenge: Sugar Showdown

Ten chefs, all strangers, pair up in five teams of two. For the first part of the competition, they work separately. Then, in the final two hours, the teams get to work together. Their challenge: to come up with a cake that's worthy of $10,000. Only there's a twist...and it's a big one. The competitors won't find out until minutes before the competition WHO their partners are and WHAT the theme is. This is a competition that tests creativity and cooperation, all under a ticking clock.

Celebration Cakes

This challenge takes six amazing bartenders out of the bar and puts them on the beach. South Beach, that is. This show highlights the best of bartending--the best recipes, the fastest pours and the most incredible routines. Watch as our bartenders flip, twirl, pour and spin their way to $10,000.

Challenge: Bartender Battle

Five of America's hottest young chefs face off in one of America's hottest locales, South Beach, Miami during the South Beach Food and Wine Festival. Our chefs have to prepare an appetizer and an entree, both reflecting the culinary heritage of Miami. They have only 40 minutes for the appetizer and an hour for the entree. A panel of all-star judges decides who goes home with $10,000.

Challenge: Hot Chefs

Five home cooks compete with cookies for the grand prize of $10,000. Chocolate chip, spice, fruit and the unique signature cookie push our cooks to their creative limits as they challenge themselves and the clock in a quest to win the big money.

Challenge: Cookies

Candy Castles

Chocolate bridges over sugar moats, ice cream cone towers rising from cake-filled castles--and that's just a taste of what you'll see when four confectionary architects joust for the Challenge crown and $10,000! But sugar and chocolate aren't stable like steel and stone, so as walls crumble and sugar shatters, the clock becomes the enemy as the competitors race to bring their fairy-tale fortresses to life.

Challenge: Candy Castles

See skylines as you've never seen them before. Three pastry artists and one ice carver take on breakfast cereal and get architectural. Each chef must bring to life a city skyline, and it needs to be made out of stuff usually found in a bowl. New York, Las Vegas, SoHo and Baltimore get the cereal treatment, and one chef goes home $10,000 richer.

Challenge: Cereal Skylines

Four world champion pizza acrobats battle it out at Mall of America, attempting to toss, roll and spin their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. A fourth competition tests their pizza-making skills, as they each have 10 minutes to put together a gourmet pizza using none of America's top 10 ingredients. $10,000 goes to the pizziola with the most points at the end of the day.

Challenge: Pizza Champions

On location in Hawaii, four sculpting gurus transform over one hundred pounds of produce into tropical sculptures that rise above five feet. Using a variety of fruits and vegetables, the competitors try to carve, peel, and slice their way to a $10,000 prize. The competitors face tough conditions as they carve their fruit in the sweltering Hawaiian heat, but the real test will be moving the final sculptures, which weigh upwards of 300 pounds.

Fantasy Fruit Sculptures

Food Network Challenge travels to Hawaii where five renowned chefs compete in a Hawaiian luau using their own unique interpretations of traditional luau cuisine.

Luau Beach BBQ

World Championship Steak Cook-Off

Cartoon Cakes

This Challenge gives the heart-pounding excitement of a horserace a Food Network twist. Five Guinness World Records are on the line inside the home of movie magic, Universal Studios, and not one, but two competitors are going head to head in each event to see who can flip, carve, crack, peel or scoop their way into the record books. From pumpkins to pancakes, onions to oysters, you've never seen food move this fast!

Fastest Foods

Ten international pastry teams have come to Phoenix, Ariz., for the World Pastry Team Championship to prove who the best of the best is in a two-day culinary marathon. Team USA has taken first in the past two championships and they're aiming for a three-peat. But Team France and Team Japan plan on dethroning the reigning champs. A win here means taking home the $50,000 prize and the achievement of a lifetime.

World Pastry Team Championship

One culinary dream team tries to break the Guinness World Record for the Tallest Popcorn Sculpture. They have only four weeks to figure out how to make 5,000 pounds of popcorn stand over 16 feet tall. Then, in the heart of Disneyland, they'll have just one day to carve and decorate one of the biggest icons in the world: Mickey Mouse.

Popcorn Giants

Great American Seafood Cook-off

Six of the world's best cake decorators design culinary themed cakes with the grand prize of $10,000 and the honor of having the winning cake showcased at the first annual Food Network Awards.

The Cake Awards

Build a Better Burger 3

Chocolate Runway Challenge

This Sugar Arts Championship invloves some of the nation's top bakers and a host of cake enthusiasts. The competition in Tulsa is every bride's dream come true.

Wedding Cake Surprise

Over 80 top cake decorators travel from all over the world to compete in one of the world's premier wedding cake competitions. A cash prize and industry bragging rights are at stake.

National Wedding Cake Championship

They are the most recognized Disney princesses on the silver screen. In this challenge, five of the country's top cake designers transform Snow White, Belle, Cinderella and Jasmine into 3-foot tall cakes.

Princess Cakes

Five of America's best cake decorators travel to Disney World to compete in a cake competition where each cake revolves around a famous Disney villain.

Villain Cakes

Sweet 16

National Chicken Cooking Contest

It’s the season opener of barbecue competitions in Mobile, Ala. Over 90 teams have come out with their secret rubs, sauces and tricked out smokers to compete for their share of $20,000 in prize money. Many of these teams are now old friends because they compete against each other contest after contest. But this is their first competition of the year. Old friends aside, they’re serious about winning. Watch as seasoned pros deliver up award-winning recipes, race to beat the clock and find out whose barbecue drives the judges hog-wild.

Challenge: Bama-Que Cook-Off

Four of the world's best fruit sculptors squared off in Hawaii and dazzled fans by transforming every day produce into stunning works of art. A construction worker-turned culinary student took home the $10,000 that day, and now his more experienced competitors have returned to the Challenge stage to take him down. Tropical Treasures is the theme as the competition heads to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where fruit and sparks are sure to fly!

The Rematch: Fantasy Fruit Sculpture

Cirque De Soleil Cakes

Some of the country's greatest amateur bakers descend on Celebration, Fla., to find out once and for all who has the best pie in the land. The "best in show" winner takes home bragging rights and great cash prize.

Challenge: American Pie Festival

Challenge: Big Bash Caterers

Four top pastry chefs square off in competition to see who has the best ice cream skills. There are three rounds of competition: ice cream sundae, ice cream cake and ice cream specialty. The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold

Challenge: Ice Cream Clash

All bets are off in this Challenge, as eight top pastry chefs decorate cakes in teams of two. The only thing is, the chefs won't know who their partners are until moments before the competition begins. The winning team shares a $10,000 prize and gold medals.

Challenge: Tag Team Cakes

Last Cake Standing: Personal Best Cakes

Blind Date Cakes

America’s Best Burger

In this first competition, it begins with six pastry chefs who think they have eight hours to showcase their skill and prove why they are the best of the best. Their task is to tell one story of their life in cake.

Challenge: Last Cake Standing: Personal Best Cakes

The Five remaining competitors take a field trip to City Hall where they meet a couple who is getting married that very morning. Not only will the competitors stand as witnesses at the ceremony, they must create a wedding cake for the newlywed's reception party that night.

Last Cake Standing: Elopement Cakes

The remaining four pastry chefs have come prepared to create a cake based on an original superhero, complete with extreme elements not usually seen in cake, like mechanics and fireworks.

Last Cake Standing: Extreme Superhero Cakes

Four of the best food stylists compete over three rounds: breakfast, mystery lunch box, and romantic dinner for two. They don't need to make the food taste good; they need to make it look irresistible. The competitors with the best photographs will take home the prize.

Food Magicians

Sesame Street Cakes

Four cake artists will make cakes inspired by the fall collection of Stacey Bendet's fashion line, Alice + Olivia. What the competitors don't know is that fashion models with no culinary experience will assist them in making their cakes.

Fashion Cakes

Four top pastry chefs put their artist eye on interpreting the most awe-inspiring world wonders in chocolate. They can be ancient or modern, man-made or natural. But the chef that can do justice to their source will take home ten thousand dollars and a gold medal.

Chocolate Wonders

Amazing Pie Championship

Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that currently airs on the Food Network. Each episode, professional chefs compete in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal.

The Best Seasons of Food Network Challenge

The Best Seasons of Food Network Challenge

Season 10

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Season 9

Season 12

Season 13

Season 14