Top Chef: Just Desserts - Season 2

Top Chef: Just Desserts - Season 2

Season 2

The second season of Top Chef: Just Desserts was broadcast on Bravo. It featured 14 pastry chefs fighting to win the title of Top Chef.
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Episodes10
Datesaoût 24, 2011 - oct. 26, 2011
Previous Season

Episodes

Showpiece
Season 2Episode 160 min

Showpiece

Fourteen top pastry chefs come together for season two of Top Chef: Just Desserts to determine who is the sweetest chef of all. For their first Elimination Challenge, the chefs need to bring out their A-game when they're tasked with creating a showpiece based off of a popular fairytale story.

août 24, 2011
Sweet Symphony
Season 2Episode 260 min

Sweet Symphony

To celebrate the opening of the 9th Season Orchestra of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the chefs must work in teams to create a cake experience in three movements to be served to the symphony members and patrons after their performance.

août 31, 2011
Villa Rosa
Season 2Episode 360 min

Villa Rosa

Bigger isn't always better -- this week's Quickfire challenges the chefs to develop a bold and complex flavor within a teeny tiny space. The winner will be placed in the voting pool to become one of Extra's new "Dessert Delight" flavors. For the Elimination Challenge, the remaining 12 cheftestants must channel their inner diva and create the ultimate "dessert-scape" spread for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump, who is throwing a lavish party for her fabulous friends.

sept. 7, 2011
Pure Imagination
Season 2Episode 460 min

Pure 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 where everything in the room has to be edible. Original cast members of the movie will be on hand to see if the chefs have created a land of sweet dreams.

sept. 14, 2011
Make a Splash
Season 2Episode 560 min

Make a Splash

This week's Quickfire tasks the chefs with creating their own candy bar -- naming and packaging it. Then, the chefs must beat the heat as they make frozen treats suitable for cooling off on a hot summer day. To win this challenge, they must also brand their treat and create their own uniforms for a complete experience for the patrons at the Water Slide Park.

sept. 21, 2011
Sabotage
Season 2Episode 660 min

Sabotage

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.

sept. 28, 2011
Death by Chocolate
Season 2Episode 760 min

Death by Chocolate

Time to make the donuts. This week's Quickfire Challenge will have 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.

oct. 5, 2011
Step Right Up
Season 2Episode 860 min

Step 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.

oct. 12, 2011
Dessert in Disguise
Season 2Episode 960 min

Dessert 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.

oct. 19, 2011
Finale
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Finale

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.

oct. 26, 2011

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