Top Chef: Just Desserts

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.

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

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

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

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.

The remaining pastry cheftestants make black and white desserts.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.