Food Network HD Host Jesse Palmer challenges the teams to create a holiday light show out of gingerbread and pair their glittering creations with the lightest of all desserts: choux pastry; judges Nacho Aguirre, Kardea Brown and Breegan Jane choose the winning team. 2026-11-12 The baking teams are tasked with creating holiday memory snow globe scenes in gingerbread; they must also make a treat using the most common baking ingredient to represent snow — coconut. 2026-11-12 The Abominable Snowman inspires the challenge theme, "A Monster Christmas"; the teams must make an oozing caramel dessert to go with their display. 2026-11-12 The best part of shopping at the holidays is seeing all the window decorations, so the baking teams are asked to turn their favorite holiday window scene into a gingerbread display with an animated element and a champagne dessert. 2026-11-12 Jesse Palmer tasks the bakers with turning beautiful holiday designs into mini-tart mosaics; the bakers make merry and bright double-barrel wrapping paper cakes that feel like the perfect gift for judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller. 2026-11-12 After learning the latke basics, Jesse Palmer has the bakers fry up latke-inspired desserts; the bakers' imaginations run wild while creating letterboard holiday bars to put judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller in the holiday spirit. 2026-11-13