Top Chef: Just Desserts

Twelve of America's best pastry chefs converge in Los Angeles for this first-of-its-kind dessert competition and have to impress Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres.

The eleven remaining pastry chefs must create a dessert out of a cocktail. One of the chef's theatrics upsets the group resulting in a heated fight.

The 10 remaining pastry cheftestants are divided into teams and go head to head in a bake sale to raise money for a local high school pep squad and glee club.

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to recreate the exotic flaming desserts associated with the Lucent Dossier Experience. For one chef, the pressure becomes too much and they are forced to leave the competition.

The pastry cheftestants are challenged to create outrageous edible fashion.

The remaining pastry cheftestants must make a bold statement with black and white desserts for a special anniversary party for the Los Angeles Times.

The six remaining pastry cheftestants take no prisoners when they go head to head in the first-ever "Dessert Shop Wars."

The final five pastry cheftestants must create fun and unique desserts for Food & Wine magazine's "Celebritea" Party.

In this penultimate challenge, the final four cheftestants are challenged with making an anniversary cake for Sylvia Weinstock, one of the world's most famous wedding cake designers.

And then there were three… 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".