Worst Cooks in America
Worst Cooks in America is an American reality television series that premiered on January 3, 2010, on the Food Network. The show takes 12 to 16 contestants (referred to as "recruits") with very poor cooking skills through a culinary boot camp, to earn a cash prize of $25,000 and a Food Network cooking set. The recruits are trained on the various basic cooking techniques including: baking, knife skills, temperature, seasoning and preparation. The final challenge is to cook a restaurant quality three-course meal for three food critics.
Cake Wars
Cake Wars is an American reality competition series which was first broadcast on June 29, 2015, and aired on the cable TV channel Food Network. "Cake Wars" is a spinoff of Food Network's popular baking reality series "Cupcake Wars". Jonathan Bennett hosts a competition where four bakers face off to have their cakes featured in a special event, in addition to a $10,000 prize. Star pastry chefs Waylynn Lucas, Ron Ben-Israel and Richard Ruskell judge which cakes are worthy of headlining parties for things such as "The Simpsons", "The Sound of Music", DC Comics, and more. The first season of the show ran for eight episodes and later seasons of the show ran for thirteen episodes. There was also an annual Christmas-themed spin-off of the show called "Cake Wars: Christmas" which made its debut the same year as "Cake Wars" and is identical and similar to another annual holiday-themed show called "Halloween Wars" which is for Halloween instead of Christmas.