Cooking

Saturday

2:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship The bakers are challenged with five different styles of yule log cakes.

4:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship The competitors create heartfelt messages on top of a favorite Thanksgiving dessert: pie.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship The competitors work in teams to create cornucopia bread baskets filled with holiday breads.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship In honor of the Hanukkah oil that kept burning, the bakers must create Hanukkah olive oil cakes.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking

Championship The competitors update an assigned vintage holiday dessert to create a new Christmas delight.

8:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship Host Jesse Palmer asks the bakers to create sweet potato and spice desserts in honor of Kwanzaa.

9:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship The competitors take on holiday party theme cakes and incorporate lights into their designs.

Sunday

2:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Four previous winners return for the holidays to take on more of Guy Fieri’s games.

HIST The Food That Built America Tom Carvel discovers that half-melted ice cream is a surefire hit with customers. (In Stereo)

3:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Guy uses a dreidel to give the chefs their budgets for a festive family favorite.

HIST The Food That Built America A chemist invents a condensed soup that brings this rare luxury to the nation for the first time. (In Stereo)

TRUTV Fast Foodies Jillian Bell has the chefs elevate the game with a modern-day, gourmet, fast food chicken sando.

3:30 p.m. TRUTV Fast Foodies Reggie Watts brings a dish of fast food royalty for the chefs to cook.

4:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Guy Fieri’s two sons and nephew face off with all-star chefs and weird ingredients.

HIST The Food That Built America Herman Lay takes regional and small-time chips business to a national scale. (In Stereo)

TRUTV Fast Foodies Oscar-nominated writers Kenny and Keith Lucas bring a duo of fast food delicacies to the kitchen.

4:30 p.m. TRUTV Fast Foodies Adam Pally and Jon Gabrus boldly challenge chefs to re-create an item combining fast food classics.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Christmas Cookie

Challenge The cookie makers create 3D Christmas trees inspired by plants found deep in the desert.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Christmas Cookie

Challenge Five cookie makers flex their skills with classic cookie cutters.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Christmas Cookie

Challenge Cookie interpretations of young Santa and Mrs. Claus; cookie greenhouses with edible windows. (N)

8:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Wars Creating a Santa from a specific period in history. (N)

9:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown Livening the holiday spirit with gingerbread creations from the grand masters of their craft. (N)

Monday

4:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Wars Three remaining teams of cake artists show how Santa celebrates the off-season with a side job.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Wars The two remaining teams of cake masters and sugar artists face off for their final festive battle.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship Jesse Palmer uses the five-way turkey as inspiration; the competitors create a flight of pies.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship Jesse Palmer asks the bakers to turn steakhouse desserts into decadent holiday treats. (N)

8:00 p.m. FOOD Kids Baking Championship Four Kids Baking Championship winners return to craft holiday delights. Hosts Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the champs to bring the holiday cheer with decked-out Yule logs for a chance to win a stunning prize package worth $10,000! (N)

9:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown

The teams create gingerbread versions of holiday parades and incorporate hot cocoa in a baked item. (N)

Tuesday

4:00 p.m. FOOD Chopped Eight singleand-ready-to-mingle chefs are set up with blind dates as their teammates.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Chopped Golden baskets are packed with the fanciest of ingredients, including caviar potato chips and sushi.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Chopped Four chefs set out to make perfect pies; an abundance of protein means meat pies are in order.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Chopped In addition to the three mandatory ingredients in each basket, the competing chefs have to share a colossal fourth ingredient in every round. It’s a shockingly big surprise that takes some getting used to. (N)

8:00 p.m. FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Carla Hall ushers in an all-pastry holiday extravaganza with chefs Alex Guarnaschelli, Damaris Phillips and Zac Young. (N)

9:00 p.m. FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Chefs Lambert Givens and Jesse Houston try to ring Bobby Flay’s bell.

9:30 p.m. FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Chef Tiffani Faison and Jeff Mauro (The Kitchen) give Bobby Flay a royal pain.

Wednesday

4:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Guy Fieri invites four GGG superfans to Flavortown Market for a night of twisted games and mischievous shenanigans! For the first round, Guy serves up a whole grocery list of games for the chefs to play while they cook up their signature dishes.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Guy uses a dreidel to give the chefs their budgets for a festive family favorite.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Guy spins a wheel to determine whose least favorite ingredients wind up in their steak house dinner.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Judges combine numbers and letters while making best pasta dish using only up to eight ingredients.

8:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Remaining Flavortown judges form teams of two to prepare a regional seafood dish on limited funds.

9:00 p.m. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games

Remaining five judges prepare their best cheese dish while playing Flavortown’s hardest games.

Thursday

4:00 p.m. FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Buddies Anne Burrell and Marc Murphy bring in international cuisine expert chefs.

4:30 p.m. FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Chefs Trisha Perez Kennealy and Cesar Aldrete face each other in a battle of strip steaks.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship The 12 bakers create fall pavlova wreaths and divide into cake and pie teams.

7:00 p.m. PBS Cooking on the Wild Side

FOX Hell’s Kitchen The chefs step up to compete one-on-one in an ingredient game show. (N) (In Stereo)

FOOD Holiday Baking Championship

Jesse Palmer tasks the bakers with creating desserts featuring ingredients from Thanksgiving dinner.

7:30 p.m. PBS Cooking on the Wild

Side

9:00 p.m. FOOD Holiday Baking Championship Jesse Palmer uses the five-way turkey as inspiration; the competitors create a flight of pies.

Friday

4:30 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives Creative hot dogs and sammies; waffles and beer cheese pretzels; short rib tacos and chicken torta.

5:00 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives Savory chicken sopes and posole; cannelloni and seafood cioppino; veggie sammies and pig and grits.

5:30 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives Fricassee de pollo; duck fried rice; homemade popcorn; pork.

6:00 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives All types of tacos; polka and pierogies; fried chicken.

6:30 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Hand-pulling noodles; beef rolls; barbecued fish tacos.

7:00 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives In Puerto Rico, a local gem is serving off-the-hook pork trifongo and shrimp empanadas.

7:30 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives In Logan, Utah, a joint serving specialties like blackened chicken pasta and a marrow butter burger.

8:00 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives (N)

9:00 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives There are chicken and steak arepas; winning wings from a food truck in Laramie, Wyo., and more.

9:30 p.m. FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and

Dives In Philadelphia, fried PB&Js and tacos; in Phoenix, pork sammie.