The chocolate is flowing in the Baking Show Tent this week and the laughs don’t stop coming on this episode of The Cooling Rack. James and Michael are here again to offer uninformed critiques of the bakes and unsolicited opinions on email structure.

Signature – Chocolate Sandwich Cookie (0:00)

Super Duper! It’s Old School week in the Baking Show Tent and James & Michael are totally here to break down the episode bake by bake. (Insert some sort of reference to Jell-O here.)

Signature – Coffee Cake (0:00)

It’s Bread Week in the Baking Show Tent and boy, does everything look delicious! James and Michael breakdown all the bakes, as per usual, give an update on their Baking Brackets and offer some completely unsolicited, unrelated opinions. But what else is new?

Signature – Povitica (0:00)

SNAPS FOR THAT! It’s Biscuit Week in the GCBS Tent and Michael and James are here to breakdown all the highs, lows, crumbles and cracks of the week, as well as an update on their Baking Brackets. We’ve also got another “Aurora on Record” in store this episode, so don’t miss out!

Signature – Savoury Crackers (0:00)

The latest season of The Great Canadian Baking Show is officially underway and Michael & James are here with their recap of Cake Week! The guys discuss the bakers in action, their faves from Week 1, as well as their brackets for next week. Aurora, one of the new hosts of GCBS, also stops in to drop some behind the scenes details in our new segment, “Aurora on Record.”

Signature – Lucky Number Cake (0:00)

We’re back! WE’RE BACK! Hard to believe it’s already time for another season of The Great Canadian Baking Show, and with it another season of The Cooling Rack! In this season’s Prep Week special, Michael and James give their initial impressions of the bakers from Season 3.

This year the guys also had the opportunity to go on the set of the show and meet the judges and hosts. Our interview with Bruno & Kyla starts at 35:10 and our interview with Aurora & Carolyn starts at 51:05. (Sorry if there’s any airplane noise in the interviews—we were outside!)

We’ve got lots of exciting and fun new content for this new season, so be sure to subscribe to The Cooling Rack so you don’t miss a thing!

Here we are! We’ve arrived at Finale Week for Season 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show. James and Michael, as per usual, break down their thoughts on all the bakes of the week, their thoughts on the winner and their hopes for Season 3.

We’d like to thank all the listeners, as well as the actual Great Canadian Baking Show, for another really fun season.

Signature – Swiss Roll

It’s the Semi-Final and Michael and James are excited to get down to business discussing all of the lovely French bakes in the Tent this week! Competition is fierce! The guys also give their thoughts on who they think will win next week.

Signature – Mille-Crêpe

It’s Chocolate Week in the Baking Show tent and for the first time this season Michael and James are also joined by a guest: Season 2 contestant Devon Stolz! Michael and James do their regular rundown of all the challenges and at the end of the episode interview Devon (around 45:00).

Signature – Chocolate Tart

Delicate! Delectable! Delightful! It’s Pastry Week in the Baking Show Tent and Michael and James are here to break down all the bakes from the most recent episode. Somewhere, somehow along the way they also get into a discussion of Cher’s new ABBA album. SNAP OUT OF IT!

Signature – Slab Pie