Fantasy Baking Championship

All aboard! It’s wine-o’clock, and Spring Baking Championship is celebrating with a booze cruise of an episode! How do you incorporate cheddar and wine into a cake? Could cocktails convince the judges to like cupcakes? Will Dennis EVER be granted an advantage? Grab your life preservers because this episode is a wild penultimate ride…

Just when you think the Spring chaos may have reached its peak, the team at SBC whips up yet another jumbo cookie salad sized surprise with the return of Carolyn!  In this episode, our beloved bakers take on an Easter Bunny-sponsored preheat featuring candy themed Pâte à Choux, before teaming up to put the "CUTE" in charcuterie with main heat farm animal-inspired dessert boards.  What could be BAAAAAAAH-D? 

Pinkies up Bakers of the World, cause we're taking a trip to Scone Country! Spring Baking Championship asks our bakers to start the day off right with carbs and butter in a pre-heat featuring the Best Biscuit Nancy Has Ever Had... Then it's off to art school... on the farm?  Bakers must whip up painterly cakes featuring scenes from Molly's farm using only a palette knife.  Two floating tractors, one tomato fiasco and a Nice Looking Chicken later, and we are one week closer to the finale and crowning our Spring Baking Champion! 

Bakers of the world, do we have a sweet Springtime treat for you!  Current Spring Baking Championship baker, FBC favorite and Team J.T. superstar Tom Smallwood joins us on the pod to talk about diving, dodgeball, drag, and oh yeah, baking! Come for the behind-the-scenes dish, and stay to find out why he's the friend you need to have (which only PARTLY has to do with baked goods).  Everything's coming up Tom!

Follow Tom on Instagram @cheftom_pastry and on Twitter @PastrychefTom

Bakers of the world, grab a cup of milk cause this one’s SPICY. Spring Baking Championship takes us out to the ballgame…to distract us from a main heat that’s so Basic™ y’all burned Twitter to a crisp with hot takes. We’re here for it (and you), with our own salty rage feelings, flying burritos, and other trash bag desserts for the ages. Join us in this dumpster, as we light a fire fueled entirely by cookie salad.

Better late than never! The spring chaos continues as our intrepid bakers tackle Cherry Blossom Season, and your Fantasy Baking Championship hosts fight an ill-timed lawnmower in this festive and floral episode! Cherry blossoms two ways! A schmear of Kindness! The return of the advantage to the pre-heat winner AND the twist! It’s enough to make the bakers (and us) a little misty...

Bakers of the world, we are four episodes in to this season of Spring Baking Championship and the chaos we have come to expect from Spring is being delivered by the basket!  A pre-heat that asks our beloved bakers to turn an upside-down cake on its head - wouldn't that be a regular cake?  A main heat modern take on a traditional pie - a.k.a. "Jen's Dream Heat"?  A pre-heat winner who gets no advantage in the main heat, despite crushing the challenge AND giving us all the feels while doing it?!  And, WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE MAIN HEAT TWISTS?!?!  Grab a slice, embrace the chaos and let's get into it!

Hang on to your tea cart because this one’s a wild ride!  And we don’t mean the Spring Baking episode - that one is perfectly civilized and spectacular and features an edible porcelain pineapple teapot that’s so exquisite it makes us want to throw things- no, we’re talking about THIS episode of FBC.  Long time listeners, you’re no stranger to our weird back-road car trip detours, but this one really takes the tea cake.  We don’t know what happened, but if you’re here SPECIFICALLY to hear us fawn over cookies the size of a steering wheel and outrageous edible tea cups, you have our full permission to fast forward at will.  Otherwise, sit down, tighten your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the teacup at all times because this episode is DEFINITELY a Mad Hatter affair!

Camp Devil’s Food Lake is not done with us yet as Halloween Baking Champion Renee Loranger joins us with the gory details of how she hacked and slashed her way to victory with nothing but an icing spatula and a killer instinct! Longtime friends of the pod know that Renee has often popped in to encourage us in our own baking (if you can call it that), and it was a devilish delight getting to dish with her post-victory.  The opening of her dream bakery Sugar Pop!  What Reality Show is she gunning for NEXT?!  Also, BRANDED DRUMSTICKS! Join us for a bloody good time...

Follow Renee on Instagram at @renee_k_loranger

Follow her bakery, Sugar Pop Baking Co. on Instagram @sugar_pop_bakingco

And check out the official site HERE: https://www.sugarpopbakingco.com/

Laissez les bons temps rouler!  Host Molly Yeh admits she's butchering Cajun French but letting the good times roll right into the kitchen as the bakers head down to the big easy for some Mardi Gras madness.  Our bakers put the fat in Fat Tuesday with King cake inspired treats followed by a boozy parade float cake fit to carry a krewe of Beignets right into our judges' mouths.  Is a beignet just a square donut?  How much cinnamon is too much cinnamon?  Why is there a plastic baby in my cake??  Join us for these questions and more as we welcome a new surprise baker (hello Stephon!) and crown (or rather, ribbon?) this year's Mardi Gras King baker!