Gail Simmons as Herself - Host
Episodes 20
Mr. Chocolate
Twelve of America's best pastry chefs converge in Los Angeles for this first-of-its-kind dessert competition. The chefs must create a dessert using America's favorite ingredient: chocolate. They must cook for 50 chocolate lovers, including guest judge Jacques Torres.
Read MoreCocktail With a Twist
The eleven remaining pastry chefs must create a dessert out of a cocktail.
Read MoreLucent Dossier
The pastry cheftestants are challenged to recreate the exotic flaming desserts associated with the Lucent Dossier Experience.
Read MoreEdible Fashion
The pastry cheftestants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.
Read MoreBlack & White
The remaining pastry cheftestants make black and white desserts.
Read MoreDessert Wars
The cheftestants go head to head in the first-ever "Dessert Shop Wars."
Read MoreCelebritea Party
The final five pastry cheftestants must create fun and unique desserts.
Read MoreBen and Sylvia's 61st
The final four cheftestants are challenged with making an anniversary cake for Sylvia Weinstock.
Read MoreSweet Symphony
To celebrate the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the chefs must create a cake experience in three movements to be served to the symphony members and patrons after their performance.
Read MoreVilla Rosa
For the Elimination Challenge, the remaining 12 cheftestants create the ultimate “dessert-scape” spread for 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Lisa Vanderpump.
Read MorePure Imagination
It’s the 40th anniversary of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and to celebrate, the chefs will work as one team to create a Pure Imagination Room.
Read MoreMake a Splash
The chefs must beat the heat as they make frozen treats suitable for cooling off on a hot summer day.
Read MoreSabotage
The remaining pastry chefs will be given a “License to Ill” as they raid the first ever “Top Chef Beastie Boys Pantry,” where they must use the ingredients, named after the band’s popular songs, to create a Beastie Boys-inspired dessert appropriate for a street art event.
Read MoreDeath by Chocolate
This week’s Quickfire Challenge has the chefs selecting perfect pairings of coffee and donuts, while the Elimination Challenge will result in death… by chocolate. The cheftestants must create a chocolate showpiece under a veil of secrecy.
Read MoreStep Right Up
This week’s Elimination Challenge has the remaining chefs clowning around at the Top Chef Carnival where they have to upgrade classic carnival cuisine into something suitable for a fine dining audience.
Read MoreDessert in Disguise
Don’t judge a book by its cover in this week’s penultimate episode as the chefs must create a dessert that tastes like one, but doesn’t look the way it tastes.
Read MoreFinale
It all comes down to this -- the final three chefs will compete in a Top Chef version of the Prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Competition -- which is the World Series of Competitions in the pastry world. Only one can take the title of Top Chef: Just Desserts.
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