Top Chef: Just Desserts

Top Chef: Just Desserts

Top Chef: Just Desserts is an American reality competition show, spun off from Top Chef. It premiered on the cable television network Bravo on September 15, 2010. Top Chef: Just Desserts features pastry chefs competing in a series of culinary challenges, focusing on pastries and desserts. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Top Chef and Project Runway, and distributed by Bravo and Tiger Aspect USA. It is hosted by Gail Simmons, with head judge Johnny Iuzzini, head pastry chef at Jean-Georges. Other judges include Hubert Keller, owner of restaurant Fleur de Lys and a Top Chef Masters finalist, and Dannielle Kyrillos, "an entertaining expert and Editor-at-Large of DailyCandy".

Reality

Seasons

1. Mr. Chocolate

Air Date: 2010-09-15

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.

2. Cocktail With a Twist

Air Date: 2010-09-22

The eleven remaining pastry chefs must create a dessert out of a cocktail.

3. Glee Club

Air Date: 2010-09-29

Teams compete in a bake sale, raising money for the pep squad and glee club; guest judge Sylvia Weinstock.

4. Lucent Dossier

Air Date: 2010-10-06

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to recreate the exotic flaming desserts associated with the Lucent Dossier Experience.

5. Edible Fashion

Air Date: 2010-10-13

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.

6. Black & White

Air Date: 2010-10-20

The remaining pastry cheftestants make black and white desserts.

7. Dessert Wars

Air Date: 2010-10-27

The cheftestants go head to head in the first-ever "Dessert Shop Wars."

8. Celebritea Party

Air Date: 2010-11-03

The final five pastry cheftestants must create fun and unique desserts.

9. Ben and Sylvia's 61st

Air Date: 2010-11-10

The final four cheftestants are challenged with making an anniversary cake for Sylvia Weinstock.

10. Finale

Air Date: 2010-11-17

The final three chefs face off in a four-star four-course sweet and savory dessert challenge for the title of "Top Chef: Just Desserts."

1. Showpiece

Air Date: 2011-08-24

For their first elimination challenge, the chefs are tasked with creating a showpiece based on a popular fairy tale.

2. Sweet Symphony

Air Date: 2011-08-31

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.

3. Villa Rosa

Air Date: 2011-09-07

For the Elimination Challenge, the remaining 12 cheftestants create the ultimate “dessert-scape” spread for 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Lisa Vanderpump.

4. Pure Imagination

Air Date: 2011-09-14

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.

5. Make a Splash

Air Date: 2011-09-21

The chefs must beat the heat as they make frozen treats suitable for cooling off on a hot summer day.

6. Sabotage

Air Date: 2011-09-28

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.

7. Death by Chocolate

Air Date: 2011-10-05

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.

8. Step Right Up

Air Date: 2011-10-12

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.

9. Dessert in Disguise

Air Date: 2011-10-19

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.

10. Finale

Air Date: 2011-10-26

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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Rating

5.0/10

Release Date

2010-09-15

Episodes

20 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Hubert Keller

Hubert Keller

Self - Judge

Gail Simmons

Gail Simmons

Self - Host

Johnny Iuzzini

Johnny Iuzzini

Self - Head Judge

Videos

Production Companies

Magical Elves