Fantasy Baking Championship

Don’t go in the water, or make out in your tent, or turn your back to camera because Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship has brought us all to Camp Devil’s Food Lake and no one is getting out alive! In a thriller/killer two-hour premiere, we meet our intrepid bakers and promptly lose TWO OF THEM, as they succumb to the serial killer (pie) and what lies beneath the lake (cake). Join us in our first ever LIVE episode, as we welcome back the season of spooky, fall madly in love with a new crop of killer bakers, and resurrect the John Henson fan club. 

Prepare yourselves for a season of deadly deliciousness! 

Bakers of the world, we are back!  There's a slight crispness in the air, an occasional blustery wind blowing through the trees and spices of the pumpkin variety have emerged from hibernation, so you know what that means: it's time for Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship!  And for us four dumdums, that means it's DRAFT DAY!!  We're shaking things up a bit this year with live episodes and a new and improved draft format, but we guarantee the same disastrous bakes and a host with enough confidence for all of us (we're lookin' at you, Chris).  In any case, one thing is certain: it's about. to get. SPOOKY!  Let's do this!

The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzin’, and three bakers are about to bake the best damn garden-themed finale cakes you’ve ever seen. IT’S THE DAY OF THE SHOW, Y’ALL! In what’s clearly the best finale cake-off to date, the three remaining bakers transport us to a magical fairyland, a local farm, and Duff’s backyard, and we could not be more excited. Join us as we break down the hair-splittin-est finale EVER, we learn why New Orleans wants Chris dead, and we crown a brand new Fantasy Baking Championship Queen Bee! 

Friends, neighbors, and fellow gluttons, put your hands together and help us welcome Spring Baking Championship host and celebrated foodie Ali Khan to FBC!!! It was a total blast to interview Ali, and though you’ll find no spoilers ahead, you WILL learn so much about our current Host with the Most and get a peek behind the scenes to hear just how challenging it is to shoot a baking show during a pandemic. Hint: It’s WAY challenging. Join us for the entremets, stay for the bug tacos, and find yourself enchanted by the fascinating Mr. Khan!  Follow Ali on Twitter and Instagram @alikhaneats!

More About Ali: 

Ali Khan is a television host and multi-hyphenate creative in the food and comedy space.

The current host of Food Network’s Spring Baking Championship, is most known for his breakout series, Cheap Eats, which ran for 5 seasons on Cooking Channel, internationally on Food Network currently streaming on Discovery Plus. He is a regular on The Best Thing I Ever Ate, a judge on Food Network’s Chopped + Chopped Junior and recently launched his own Youtube Series, Ali vs The Dome.

His food writing has appeared in magazines and award winning digital publications. Ali is also an official spokesman for FARE, a food allergy advocacy group.

Show. Us. Your. CAAAAAAKES!!!  The bakers are baring it all this Spring Break, as SBC gets wild and worldly with international destination-inspired snacks, and edible vistas that had us trying to remember what it was like to leave our houses.  Brush up on your diorama lingo and secure all loose articles because the Spring Baking Championship's Penultimate episode is leaving the station, and that first drop is a dooooozy!  

S'mores, anyone?  Our bakers answer the Spring Baking Championship's bizarre spring camping invitation with a resounding meh, as they're challenged to consider such things as "how DOES one cook a kiwi in a skillet?" and "what kind of psychopath brings passion fruit on a camping trip?" and "CAN you just add the word Spring to the front of anything and make it a March - May activity"?  There's something for everyone in this episode, as "indoor people"  are treated to a crafting challenge guaranteed to stitch up at least one of our beloved bakers.  Who has to take the long canoe ride home from Camp SBC?  Let's find out...

Calling all ye Cookie Monsters (and golfers?), gather round! This week’s episode of Spring Baking Championship featured maximum NomNomNom as our bakers were asked to reimagine cookies of all stripes, and we were asked to reimagine ever fitting back into our pants.  We learned that golfing is not 100% a trash sport (ice cream sandwich cookies are its staple snack??), stone fruits - in season May through October - are a “spring flavor”, and there is at least one cookie that will throw each of your Fantasy Baking Championship hosts into a rage.  Join us for the controversy, stay for the snickerdoodles! 

Spring has official SPRUNG and you know what that means, SEASONAL ALLERGIES!! The bakers flex their flower power in their most fragrant challenge to date that found our beloved judges hard pressed to send anyone packing!  Grab a Claritin and join us on a Springtime morning stroll through floral cake groves and fields of pizza frittes!  

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes TOWERS AND TOWERS OF BAKED GOODS because Spring Baking Championship has got Baby Fever, and they're throwing a shower to be remembered! In this episode, we answer all of the most essential baby-themed baking competition show-related questions: Should coffee be on every parent's registry? (Yes!) Did Natalie just start the next baking trend with her functional cookie rattle? (Also Yes!) Is a Baby Sharknado only cute to people without kids? (3x Yes!). Join us as we try to remove the image of those creepy baby dolls from our minds and edge one step closer to crowning this season's champ!

Love is in the air (albeit a month after Valentine's Day), and our bakers are paired up for this season's first team challenge!  With a pre-heat that had us all saying "Yes" and a main heat that proved love truly is blind, this episode reminded us just how much we love this group of bakers and just how tight this competition is right now!  What is "desert chic"?  Is "Tropulence" really a thing?  And, just how much does Jen love Mandy Patinkin?  Swipe right and let's get into it!