In April 2009, a special version of "Challenge" was launched called Last Cake Standing. This series began with six competitors, with an elimination at the end of each episode until only three competitors remained. The challenges in this series were often harder and longer and with more twists than those in the 'normal' series. The finale was the longest in challenge history, giving the last three remaining competitors, Courtney Clark, Mary Maher, and Bronwen Weber, 24 hours to design and create their cake for a set of sextuplets. Ultimately, Mary Maher was crowned champion, winning a $50,000 grand prize.
In April 2011, Food Network launched a second series of Last Cake Standing, in a separate "spin-off" format with eight competitors and a $100,000 grand prize.
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Famous quotes containing the words cake and/or standing:
“The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)