Top Chef: Just Desserts - Season 2

First aired: 8/24/2011 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.

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Episodes

1. Showpiece

Aired: 8/24/2011

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

2. Sweet Symphony

Aired: 8/31/2011

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. Villa Rosa

Aired: 9/7/2011

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. Pure Imagination

Aired: 9/14/2011

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. Make a Splash

Aired: 9/21/2011

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

6. Sabotage

Aired: 9/28/2011

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. Death by Chocolate

Aired: 10/5/2011

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. Step Right Up

Aired: 10/12/2011

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. Dessert in Disguise

Aired: 10/19/2011

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. Finale

Aired: 10/26/2011

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.