Next Great Baker Season 3
Next Great Baker is an American television series that airs on TLC, hosted by Buddy Valastro, the star of his own reality series, Cake Boss. The show features contestants participating in challenges that test their baking and decorating skills. Each week, a contestant will be eliminated; the last contestant standing will win a grand prize package that varies by season; other prizes for winning a challenge or the week's competition are also offered during the series.
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Next Great Baker Season 3 Full Episode Guide
A winner is crowned after the final three contestants compete in Las Vegas in the Season 3 finale.
The final three contestants look back at the most-memorable moments from Season 3.
The final four contestants bake cakes to honor their mothers. Buddy recruits surprise helpers for the competition.
Former NFL player Michael Strahan asks the contestants to bake a birthday cake for his talk-show cohost, Kelly Ripa, that will be presented to her on TV.
The contestants split into teams of men and women to create theme cakes for the bakery’s portfolio, but a late change in the rules by Buddy intensifies the competition.
Contestants create cakes resembling classic Italian meals.
The competitors create wedding cakes, but they have to change course when the brides alter their design plans.
The contestants discuss the casting process, their first day at the bakery and emerging rivalries.
The remaining chefs form two teams to create life-size cakes of guest judges, Comics Judy Gould and Carol Leifer.
The remaining chefs are tasked with creating a cake for the cast of Broadway's newest musical, one that pays homage to the holiday film, "A Christmas Story", after which their creations are judged by the movie's star, Peter Billingsley.
The chef-testants prepare to construct and decorate 3-foot-tall cakes that pay homage to their favorite childhood fantasies by creating a superhero cake; a surprise judge for the week worries the participants that they may be smashed to pieces.