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It’s the finale, y’all! And we are all cordially invited to doff our fanciest duds and visit Hotel Henson for some killer nuptials! In a finale designed to truly celebrate our bakers’ craft - no tricks or twists or sudden deaths - we are treated to the cheesiest, dreamiest snacking boards and the most dramatic, delectable black wedding cakes we’ve ever seen. The BEST way to cap a killer season, and the best way to make OUR journey to the thirteenth floor, where these four dum dums are taking up residence!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP7) 1:00:15

3 years ago1:00:15

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Halloween Baking Championship opens this week’s episode with the most terrifying taunt yet: John Henson as into a 1920’s thirst trap bartender.... MEOW, fellow bakers. Me. OW. After creating boozy throwback death eclairs in the pre-heat, our bakers must face their worst fears whilst producing not one, not two, but THREE ENTREMETS IN TWO HOURS. What did we learn from this episode? A) Even terror sloths are adorable B) Zac is a killer baker, a drag queen AND a shark attack survivor C) Black Licorice can go to Hell? If you answered D) all of the above, you were watching the same episode as us! Break out that side of ranch and join us on the couch as we dish on the penultimate episode of season 8!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP6) 1:09:06

3 years ago1:09:06

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Is that a shard of glass in your eye, or are you just watching the grossest Halloween Baking Championship season ever? Maybe both (and we’re into it)! HBC serves up a preheat full of jigglin’ eyeballs and heebie jeebies and then the bakers must twin out on identical cakes inspired by the creepy girls living in room 222. The scariest part? They all KILLED this challenge, which meant one beloved baker was sent to the 13th floor for the tiniest flaw. Join us this week for your fill of eye veins, haunted bed ruffles, and horrifically good flavor combinations!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP5) 1:18:32

3 years ago1:18:32

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MEAT CAKES??? How do you spell “full body vocal gross-out shudder”? Cause we did a LOT of that this episode, and we likey. Our bakers follow up some light arson in the preheat with quite possibly the grossest challenge (and CAKE: we’re lookin’ at you, Kristi) in Halloween baking history. We never would have expected a baking competition show to viscerally remind us that we are all quite literally made out of meat, but here we are. Top their incredible performances with the fact that Chris now has to bake a prosciutTOE cake, and these hosts give this episode five knives!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP4) 1:13:13

3 years ago1:13:13

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Maggots, maggots, maggots! Halloween Baking Championship brings the noise and the funk this week in two heats designed to horrify our senses. In maybe the most disgusting thriller yet, the bakers were challenged to deliver us the most putrid, rotting dishes they could, using fermented ingredients and their grossest horror instincts. *insert hurl sound* We’ll be honest. The smashed dessert killer challenge was a little bit of a letdown after a thrilling pre-heat, but if it got John Henson to axe through a door Jackie Nic style, sign us up. JOHN SMASH!!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP3) 1:00:59

3 years ago1:00:59

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No Thriller. All Killer. And, TWO bakers take a trip to the 13th floor ALL in a one hour episode?? Food Network, what are you doing to us?! In this week's trip to Hotel Henson, our fearless bakers team up to create haunted maze cakes delicious enough to make anyone risk getting lost inside them. Join us as we trim the delectable hedges on this episode, break down the fact that none of us know what an entremet is, bid a fond farewell to two of our beloved bakers and acknowledge the record-setting exit of one of our FBC hosts from the competition!…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP2) 1:18:36

3 years ago1:18:36

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In a daring publicity stunt for his notorious hotel, John Henson announces a new pet-friendly policy with a celebrity appearance from Dreamworks’ Puss n’ Boots. In a challenge that makes as much sense as the cross-promotion, our beleaguered bakers must turn their Choux into shoes and try not to die doing it. Next, they must make that most famous cake none of us have ever heard of, the "soccer tour"*! These chocolate cakes surprisingly featured zero yellow cards or athletic legs but DID include some beautiful mirror glazes. The episode culminated in a sudden-death bake off featuring two bakers we're not ready say good-bye to and the baked good every baker inexplicably hates: the cupcake. OH THE HORROR!!! * Sacher-Torte, if you're Austrian.…

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Halloween Baking Championship (SE8:EP1) 1:08:18

3 years ago1:08:18

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Welcome back to Spoooky Season, Y'all!!! This year, we're all making an extended visit to Hotel Henson, where we can check out anytime we like, but we can NEVER LEAVE. And who would want to, with this many gory, gushing, guh-licious desserts on tap? Blueberry danish severed face pie?? Yes, please. This place has everything: a creepy host, bleeding cakes, a rotting grandma, strawberry intestines... Need we go on? No, we need not. Hotel Henson sells itself. So unpack your bags, throw on your monogrammed robe, and be sure to check that complementary lobby cookie for razors, cause this is gonna be a season to DISMEMBER. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!…

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Prologue to Halloween Baking Championship (Season 8): THE DRAFT 29:30

3 years ago29:30

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There's a crispness in the air and a spooky, pumpkin spice infused fog rolling in over the hill so, you know what that means...it's time for Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship, y'all!! And for us four dumdums, that means it's DRAFT DAY!! Join us as we prepare to check in to John Henson's 'Hotel of Horrors' by placing our team selection fates in the hands of the Wheel of Death™! LET'S DO THIS!!…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP10) 55:04

3 years ago55:04

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What the everloving CLUCK?!? Spring Baking Championship caps off a doozy of a season with a sprinkle-covered nightmare of their own making! After our beloved contestants pour their hearts out in a tearjerker of a pre-heat, the show continues with the psychological torture springing a tone-deaf head-to-head, sudden death bake off on them, causing one of our beloved bakers to call it quits. WHEW. Has this show officially jumped the shark? Are they actually conducting a psychological experiment? On a lighter note, how badly do we all want to taste Jaleesa’s outrageous chocolate cake? Tune in as we celebrate these bakers one more time and slowly lose our minds as the spring chaos has one last crack at us all!…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP9) 1:11:59

3 years ago1:11:59

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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……

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP8) 1:16:44

3 years ago1:16:44

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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?…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP7) 55:31

3 years ago55:31

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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!…

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Interview with Tom Smallwood 55:09

3 years ago55:09

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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…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP6) 1:02:40

3 years ago1:02:40

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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.…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP5) 1:23:26

3 years ago1:23:26

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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...…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP4) 1:02:32

3 years ago1:02:32

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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!…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP3) 1:23:51

3 years ago1:23:51

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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!…

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Interview with Renee Loranger 38:56

3 years ago38:56

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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/…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP2) 1:07:04

3 years ago1:07:04

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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!…

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Interview with Adina Schaefer-Morgan, Guillermo Salinas and Megan Baker 50:22

3 years ago50:22

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Like all good killers, three 2021 Halloween Baking Finalists Adina Schaefer-Morgan, Guillermo Salinas and Megan Baker have popped up when you least expect them! Join us as we dissect the bloody guts of the Halloween Baking Championship process, see what haunted memories remain from Camp Devils Food Lake and get a gentle reminder of just how delightfully hilarious these three finalists (and friends!) truly are! Follow Adina on Instagram @sweetsbyadinamarie Follow Guillermo on Instagram @guillermosalinasart and @just.vanilla.bakes Follow Megan on Instagram @thirstywhalebakery…

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Spring Baking Championship (SE8:EP1) 1:15:37

3 years ago1:15:37

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And we're back! The groundhog saw his shadow this year, but no one tell Food Network because spring has sprung in the kitchen, and we are HERE FOR IT. Spring Baking Championship welcomes a new host (Hi, Molly!) and twelve new bakers to the kitchen, challenging them to present a fruity self-portrait tart (how? what? here comes the spring chaos!), and following up with a floral bonanza cake that ain't yo mama's Publix bakery birthday cake, no sir. There'll be critters! And ribbons! And enough flowers to make you almost believe it's spring! Put on your stretchy pants and join us as we break down our favorite dishes and begin our spring fling with these delightful culinary craftspeople!…

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Prologue to Spring Baking Championship (Season 8): THE DRAFT 39:01

3 years ago39:01

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The ground is beginning to thaw, the birds are beginning to chirp and flowers are beginning to bloom which can only mean one thing, it's time for Spring Baking Championship!! Chris, Jen and J.T. assemble at the big board to draft and set the teams. Who will take the first victory of 2022? Only fate knows but, right now, it's anyone's game!! Let's Do This!! NOTE: This episode was recorded LIVE on our Facebook page and, as such, our audio isn't QUITE up to our usual standards. We'll be back in form for our regular episodes this Friday!…

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Holiday Baking Championship (SE8:EP8) FINALE 1:37:39

3 years ago1:37:39

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Ho Ho Ho, Bakers of the World! After 8 weeks of holiday cheer, four of our beloved bakers have reached the final episode and we went LIVE on Monday night to celebrate! Join us as we delight in these four charcuties (yeah, you heard us), stress eat over the Christmas piñata of Sudden Death, get heated on the "wrapped vs. unwrapped" candy cane debate, and raise a glass to what has to be one of the most talented groups of bakers collectively to reach the finals! Happy Holidays to all and, to all, a good night!…

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Interview with Sabrina Coombs and Jose Marchán 50:45

3 years ago50:45

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Bakers of the world, we found another present hiding under the tree just for you...an interview with Holiday Baking Championship finalists Sabrina Coombs and Jose Marchán! We get the inside scoop on their journey to HBC, their approach to ensuring all the judges were happy with their bakes AND their secret motivation to keep pushing through (SPOILER: It was Dollywood)! We're serving up the perfect appetizer for tonight's finale so, pull up a chair, grab a fork and let's DIG IN! Follow Jose on Instagram @jsm.pastry and @sugardramabyjsm Follow Jose on Twitter @thejosemarchan Follow Sabrina on Instagram @chefsabrinaalicia…

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Holiday Baking Championship (SE8:EP7) 1:17:43

3 years ago1:17:43

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Bakers of the world, we've already reached the PENULTIMATE episode of this season of Holiday Baking Championship! In this episode, sweet potatoes and spice take the stage in a Kwanzaa inspired pre-heat and our bakers send along some holiday cheer in a main heat featuring *checks notes* rectangular family card cakes (what?!). Join us as we ask age old questions like, "What is mace?" and "Can you eat mashed potatoes with chopsticks?" and, of course, find out which of our beloved bakers are taking a sleigh ride into next week's finale!…

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Holiday Baking Championship (SE8:EP6) 1:14:38

3 years ago1:14:38

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Get ready for a visit from the ghost of desserts past as Holiday Baking Championship takes us back to a time when jello was hot and folks preferred their Alaska baked. Are there actually grasshoppers in a grasshopper pie? Can Adam make us believe Ambrosia is indeed the food of the Gods? How adorable is Marilyn? Join us for these questions and more, as your hosts careen through this episode on the rickety bobsled that is Winter 2021!…

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Interview with Adam Monette and Jody O’Sullivan 53:20

3 years ago53:20

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Bakers of the world, do we have an early Christmas present for you... Team Kim is IN THE HOUSE as bakers Adam Monette and Jody O’Sullivan from this season of Holiday Baking Championship join us for an intimate tete a tete about all things HBC! The guys spill the tea on how they got on the show, who's the easygoing-est baker (spoiler alert, it's Marilyn DUH), and what it's like for your greatest baking failure to be captured ON CAMERA! So, pull up a chair, grab a slice of fruit cake (the GOOD kind) and let's dig in! Follow Jody on Instagram @chefjodyosullivan Follow Adam on Instagram @chefamonet…

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Holiday Baking Championship (SE8:EP5) 1:09:51

3 years ago1:09:51

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It’s the Festival of Lights, y’all! In celebration of the 8 crazy nights, our beloved bakers must make delish olive oil cakes that delight and compete for the last remaining immunity, which TEAM KIM TAKES AGAIN BECAUSE SHE IS UNSTOPPAB---J.T. here. Kim will not be writing the rest of this description. ANYWHO! In the main heat, bakers must upcycle a dud of a holiday dish and make it something delectable. How do you make a fruitcake good? Is banana pudding a holiday dessert? Who DOESN'T love a crème brûlée? Grab a cup of boozy nog and join us as we chew over these questions and more!…

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Holiday Baking Championship (SE8:EP4) 1:11:09

3 years ago1:11:09