Professional bakers Margaret Braun and Leigh Grode join the hosts as judges.

Each competition involves three teams of bakers, in which they have 9 hours to make cakes for a particular client—all of them must meet minimums on height and food content.

(Some episodes also feature a skills test, in which each baker decorates a small cake, also for the right to take a team out for thirty minutes).

Dana Herbert, a baker from Bear, Delaware, participated in a Season 1 competition for Legoland California; he did not win.

In 2011, he would become the first champion of TLC's Next Great Baker, in which he would become an intern for Buddy Valastro at Carlo's Bake Shop.