Baking Challenge 2026
Attempt to make something different every week.
Pulled the Reddit list.
I may change the weekly topics up a little since I don't follow sports but we'll see when the weeks arrive
- Week 1 - January 4: New year, new recipe
- Week 2 - January 11: Jams / Preserves
- Week 3 - January 18: Mini / Giant (Make a giant or a miniature dessert)
- Week 4 - January 25: Meringue
- Week 5 - February 1: Nuts and Seeds
- Week 6 - February 8: Winter Olympics
- Week 7 - February 15: Piped
- Week 8 - February 22: Uruguay
- Week 9 - March 1: Chocolate
- Week 10 - March 8: Pi Day (3.14)
- Week 11 - March 15: Reduce (Small batch bake)
- Week 12 - March 22: Reuse (Use an old favorite recipe / a family recipe)
- Week 13 - March 29: Recycle (Use a leftover ingredient from a previous bake)
- Week 14 - April 5: Savory Polarity (use seasonal ingredients)
- Week 15 - April 12: Laminated
- Week 16 - April 19: Herbs
- Week 17 - April 26: Breakfast / Brunch
- Week 18 - May 3: Low Sugar
- Week 19 - May 10: Geometric / Shapes
- Week 20 - May 17: Berries
- Week 21 - May 24: With a hole
- Week 22 - May 31: 48 hour challenge (bake something that takes two days to make due to resting times or several components)
- Week 23 - June 7: Quick Bread (Chemical leavener, no yeast)
- Week 24 - June 14: Showstopper
- Week 25 - June 21: Summer/Winter Solstice 1 (Bake with ingredients representative of summer/winter)
- Week 26 - June 28: Toppings
- Week 27 - July 5: Enriched dough
- Week 28 - July 12: FIFA World Cup (Choose a recipe from one of the 4 semi-finalist countries)
- Week 29 - July 19: Crusty (Pies and Tarts)
- Week 30 - July 26: Contrasts
- Week 31 - August 2: Rice and Beans
- Week 32 - August 9: Recreated
- Week 33 - August 16: Central Europe
- Week 34 - August 23: Fast and furious (Bake something in 1 hour or less)
- Week 35 - August 30: Toasted (Use a toasted ingredient, or toast one yourself!)
- Week 36 - September 6: Appetizer (Create the first course in a 3-course meal)
- Week 37 - September 13: Entree (Create the second course in a 3-course meal)
- Week 38 - September 20: Dessert (Create the third course in a 3-course meal)
- Week 39 - September 27: Sweet Polarity (use seasonal ingredients)
- Week 40 - October 4: Amusement park / fair
- Week 41 - October 11: Indigenous American
- Week 42 - October 18: Pantry
- Week 43 - October 25: Yeasted
- Week 44 - November 1: Vegetables
- Week 45 - November 8: Physically leavened (Air or steam leavening, no chemical leavener or yeast)
- Week 46 - November 15: Dietary Restriction
- Week 47 - November 22: Spices
- Week 48 - November 29: Viral Recipes
- Week 49 - December 6: Caramel
- Week 50 - December 13: Cookies
- Week 51 - December 20: Summer/Winter Solstice 2
- Week 52 - December 27: Nemesis