Fantasy Baking Championship – Details, episodes & analysis

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! 

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!

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…

4 friends. 4 unhealthy addictions to Baking Championships. One competition.

Welcome to the SERIES PREMIERE of Fantasy Baking Championship!  In this episode, Chris, Jen, J.T., and Kim discuss the origins of the podcast, their "teams" for the season and dive right into an episode recap of the Season 5 Premiere of Halloween Baking Championship!  Who will be first on the block to bake this week?     

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!