Top Chef: Just Desserts

Season 2

2011 · 10 episodes

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.

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Showpiece

   24 Aug 2011

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

2. 2

   2. Sweet Symphony

   31 Aug 2011

   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. 3

   3. Villa Rosa

   7 Sept 2011

   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. 4

   4. Pure Imagination

   14 Sept 2011

   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. 5

   5. Make a Splash

   21 Sept 2011

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

6. 6

   6. Sabotage

   28 Sept 2011

   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. 7

   7. Death by Chocolate

   5 Oct 2011

   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. 8

   8. Step Right Up

   12 Oct 2011

   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. 9

   9. Dessert in Disguise

   19 Oct 2011

   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. 10

    10. Finale

    26 Oct 2011

    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.