Fantasy Baking Championship

Spring has SPRUUUUUUUNG!!!  (Did you picture Nancy in your head as you read that?)  Episode 1 of Spring Baking Championship came in like a lion with our eleven new bakers showcasing their design skills with geometric tarts and a 3-HOUR FAULT CAKE!  We get to know our bakers, make copious apologies for, ahem, BUTCHERING their names, and we wax philosophical about... Bear Butts.  Break out your "marshmallow chicks" and hazmat suit, and join us for the beginning of one baker's pastel ride to glory!

The birds are beginning to chirp, the flowers are beginning to bloom and the seasonal aisle at CVS has turned to a familiar shade of pastel.  You know what that means...we're gearing up for a brand new season of Food Network's Spring Baking Championship!  Kim is looking to repeat, Chris is looking to regain and Jen & J.T. are looking to grab their first taste of championship glory, but it all begins with baker selections from the draft board.  So, let's crack open a Cadbury egg and let the games begin!!

Happy (ALMOST) Spring, y'all!!  Did you miss us?  We miss you!  But, we are BACK with a very special BONUS episode.  You know the feeling, it's late February and you run into that old friend you've been meaning to catch up with forever.  You're sitting there with your coffee and suddenly they say, "Oh!  I've got something for you!  A little late holiday present."  You open it up and it's the ONE THING you REALLY wanted and didn't get?  That's this episode.  We recently had the chance to catch up with Holiday Baking Champion Melissa Yanc and she is EVERY BIT as delightful as you imagine her to be.  So, sit back, relax and enjoy a little holiday afterglow courtesy of your friends at Fantasy Baking Championship!

It's the Holiday Baking Championship FINALE, y'all!  Join us for brunch under your favorite plaid Christmas blankie, as one of our bakers whips up a $25,000 victory and Chris eats his feelings.  We bid a fond farewell to the holidays, celebrate our three talented finalists and determine WHO among us will be baking that five hour plaid cake!  Join us one last time (for now) as we fake it 'til we bake it!

All that glitters IS gold!  Holiday Baking Championship kicks off this episode with an elevated Hanukkah gelt challenge and these bakers bring the bling.  We whip up some sweet 80's references as only a wacky ice skating ring cheesecake challenge could inspire, and J.T. sheds tears for his beloved Chef Geoff as four becomes three heading into the HBC finale!  

There were so many unexplained dumbbells in this episode, and we're not even talking about us!  The final five become the "Final Four" as our bakers tackle pre-heat Santa Claus sweet treats, main heat igloo cakes with merengue frosting and we start to sweat the desserts we know we're going to be making in the final weeks of this competition.  PLUS, we pay homage to our very first (totally real*) sponsor Joe's Beardnets with some brand new merch!

Two weeks to go and it's anyone's guess as to who will become this season's Holiday Baking Champion!  One thing we do know, we're on this sleigh ride 'til the bitter sweet end.  Giddy-up, let's go!

*not a real company

'JAMAS, 'JAMAS, 'JAMAS!!!  Jesse brings the heat with breakaway pants as the bakers tackle a Christmas jammies pull-apart cupcake challenge.  Chris's pocket AI weighs in on the correct way to say Panettone, we wax philosophical about our greatest kitchen blunders, and we pour one out for Canada's sweetheart and fan favorite @grammabears Janet.  Bring on the poly-blend!  

Can you BRIE-LIEVE we're already halfway through this season of Holiday Baking Championship?!  This episode was all about transforming pre-packaged ingredients into elevated Thanksgiving delicacies and we are Gruyère for it (that works, right?)  So, let's crank open that can of cranberry sauce (*GLOP* *GLOP* *GLORP*) as we give thanks for these incredible bakers and inch one step closer to finding out who's taking home that cheddar /end puns here!

In which we jam out with Holiday Baking Championship (Season 6) baker and conversationalist extraordinaire Geoff Blount!  Do you ever imagine someone to be truly delightful and it turns out they are EVEN MORE DELIGHTFUL than you imagined?  Enter Geoff.  Join us for a ride behind the scenes of Holiday Baking Championship as we deep dive into Geoff's philosophies on baking, teaching and jigsaw puzzles.  Are you ready for some #BlountForce?  Listen on!

Snowman Army, hold up!  This episode is a cornucopia of Thanksgiving deliciousness!  The contestants take on a "Thanksgiving log" cake while we confront feelings about a cake being rolled (HINT: It should NOT be: FIGHT US!)  We fantasize about an Apple Cider doughnut main heat, "debate" foods that should and shouldn't touch and bring in the spirit of Danny Trejo for a guest appearance.  GOBBLE, GOBBLE y'all!