Everything About Kids Baking Championship

Baking And Kids

It is not easy to believe, but baking is one of the easiest art forms, that the child can enjoy. Kids always love to play with different doughs and colours as well. Baking involves mixing and experimenting with different colours and textures. It can start at a very early stage for the child and keep enhancing with time. When the child is about a year old and has better motor skills, one can experiment with new mixes and doughs. This even helps in strengthening their motor skills and confidence.

Kids will love to mix and transfer from one bowl to another and even get to learn the names of the ingredients used. It is not a good idea to leave them alone as putting the baked stuff in ovens and microwaves would need a helping hand. Apart from this, they can even use moulds of their choice and carve different cookie shapes. Baking with kids is a good opportunity to spend time, teach them new words and make them independent.

Everything About Kids Baking Championship

This is a reality show that will feature the kids who compete for the best baker amongst them. The judgement basis is the presentation skills, creativity as well as taste. This championship made under the Food Network by Levity Entertainment Group.

The first season of the Kids Baking Championship offered many prizes for the winners. The other seasons only featured 25,000$ prize and an article/recipe published. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli will be hosting and judging all seasons.

It is accessible to all the kids and below is the certain criterion for the basis of selection: ·

• This is open to the kids from 8-13 years of age·
• It is only opened to the kids from the United States.
• The participants should be open to baking challenges every week.
• All participants need to upload a photograph.
• The photograph should also have their three best bakery creations.
• One can even upload a small video of three minutes. This is optional but encouraged.
• All applications need a signature of the guardian or a parent, or they may disqualify.

Kids Baking Championship Season 7 And Season 8

Season 7

Season 7 for the Kids baking championship was the same as the preceding ones. It was again the test of baking skills for the kids from the United States. 

Some unique features of this season are:

• This is the only season that had nine contestants as against ten or twelve in the preceding seasons.
• This aired between 5th August-16th September 2019.
• A total of nine young bakers competed for the title.
• Judged and hosted by Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman·
• The winner’s prize was 25,000$ and a small corner in the Food Network Magazine.
• The winner of this season is Trevin Alford who was 11 years of age and was from Washington, Indiana. He already had a bakery, had won the school championship of future chefs at school and wanted to be a pastry chef.
• The runners up were Tarek Husseini and Sophie Tate

Season 8

Season 8 is the latest and started on 6th Jan 2020, with the same championship as the previous ones. It will be giving tough and challenging tasks for the kids to display their baking skills. Few distinguishing features are as below:

• This season featured 12 contestants as against all other seasons.
• This is being aired on 6th Jan 2020- 21st March 2020.
• A total of twelve young bakers are competing for the title.
• The championship is Judged and hosted by Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman.
• The winner’s prize is 25,000$ and a small corner in the Food Network Magazine.
• This season is going to be a test for their decoration abilities.
• It is a challenge to make Shag cakes, ice-cream sandwiches etc.
• This season is still aired and is not yet over.
• Few episodes are not yet finished, so the finale is yet to happen.
• Winners are not disclosed yet.

Thus, such forums serve as a good opportunity for the kids to showcase their best. It prepares them for new challenges in life. It offers more visibility and confidence to the child. The championship opens them to the external world and makes them work under experts, getting the best of knowledge. It is important to encourage the child to follow his passion and keep horning their skills.