Top Chef: Just Desserts

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20101h

Top Chef: Just Desserts is an American reality competition show, spun off from Top Chef. It premiered on the cable television network Bravo on September 15, 2010. Top Chef: Just Desserts features pastry chefs competing in a series of culinary challenges, focusing on pastries and desserts. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Top Chef and Project Runway, and distributed by Bravo and Tiger Aspect USA. It is hosted by Gail Simmons, with head judge Johnny Iuzzini, head pastry chef at Jean-Georges. Other judges include Hubert Keller, owner of restaurant Fleur de Lys and a Top Chef Masters finalist, and Dannielle Kyrillos, "an entertaining expert and Editor-at-Large of DailyCandy".

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Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 2010

The first season of Top Chef: Just Desserts was broadcast on Bravo. It featured 12 pastry chefs fighting to win the title of Top Chef.

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1. Mr. Chocolate

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.

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2. Cocktail With a Twist

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

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3. Glee Club

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

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4. Lucent Dossier

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

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5. Edible Fashion

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.

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6. Black & White

The remaining pastry cheftestants make black and white desserts.

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7. Dessert Wars

The cheftestants go head to head in the first-ever "Dessert Shop Wars."

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8. Celebritea Party

The final five pastry cheftestants must create fun and unique desserts.

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9. Ben and Sylvia's 61st

The final four cheftestants are challenged with making an anniversary cake for Sylvia Weinstock.

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10. Finale

The final three chefs face off in a four-star four-course sweet and savory dessert challenge for the title of "Top Chef: Just Desserts."

Cast

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Hubert Keller

Self - Judge

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Gail Simmons

Self - Host

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Johnny Iuzzini

Self - Head Judge

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