Jeri Jacquin

Currently streaming on the Roku Channel is a signal that the holidays are here as THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW: Celebrity Holiday bakes up the goods.

This year hosted by Casey Wilson and Zach Cherry, celebrities Joel McHale, Phoebe Robinson, Heather McMahan, DeAndre “DJ” Jordan, Ego Nwodim, and Arturo Castro will be judged Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. Their culinary talents (maybe) will be judged on three challenges and the final creations.

First, for their Signature Bake, they are making sandwich cookies with the filling of their choice. and the only instruction is to make something that invoke holiday memories. The minute they are told to “bake!”, the chaos begins with only one hour and forty minutes to impress Paul and Prue. The offerings of snowmen, Christmas tree decorations and many more are up for judging. Paul knows what he is looking for and is not about to cut them any slack and Prue is enjoying the sweets.

For the Technical Challenge, they have no idea what they will be baking. All they know is Paul loves to push the limits of reading instructions. Making six Sufganiyot (jelly donuts) that are pure perfection, they have only two and a half hours to complete the task. It is clear that there is no way the excitement can be contained – especially when one particular celebrity is thrilled to be using a ‘proving drawer’ for the first time!

Finally, to get the coveted GABS Cake-Plate, the gang’s final challenge is the Show Stopper Challenge. They are asked to make a novelty cake decorated as their favorite childhood toy. Using sponge cake, they can use any filling of their choice and they have a little over three hours to make it all come together. Prue knows what can happen if they are not accurate in their measurements for their cakes to stand up to the decorations.

Joel is banging a drum which is close to his comedy roots (ba-da-dum), Ego is making the toy of her childhood dreams that actually works for her time baking, Phoebe is doing something that has Paul questioning her color choices, DJ recalls the best Christmas present he ever received and its going to be proudly atop his vegan cake, Heather is working on an homage to her blondeness in strawberries, and Arturo is twisting his colors in eggnog while Prue runs off with a certain ingredient.

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I am a huge fan of THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW and never miss a season (and have even re-watched seasons). Witnessing the changes the show has take and always happy to see the return of Paul Hollywood and Prue. Let’s be honest here, when Paul stares with those icy blue eyes, the world stops spinning. That being said, he also knows his profession and even in good fun he lets each baker know what they can do better next time.

Watching the fun, excitement and creativity in each of the celebrities is always fantastic and with the holidays it’s a tasty good start. The competition has these six contestants talking to themselves, being openly hilarious and even helping one another a bit to bring goodies to the holidays. I’m a tad jealous that they are in the tent but I’m determined to someday stand inside it myself, not to bake – just stand.

THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW: Celebrity Holidays is truly a fun way to start the holidays. Watching these celebrities come together, enjoy each other’s company and learns so much than they could have imagined is so cool. Baking has already started in many households to prepare for Thanksgiving so there are plenty more days till Christmas to become our best creative selves. Each of the challenges offers up new and exciting ideas to test out on friends and family.

Am I going to give away the winner? Of course not! I’m not a Scrooge so gather the bakers together and have a great time watching THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW: Celebrity Holidays.

In the end – it is everything delicious!

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