Baking Scraps

It’s Birthday Week in the Great Canadian Baking Show tent, and we’re celebrating with a whole lot of layers, some surprising ingredients, and plenty of doughnuts. With Vincent off exploring Japan, our friend Andrew Evers, Season 7 alumnus, joins us for Week 5. And he has some exciting news of his own: he’s returning to the tent for The Great Canadian Holiday Baking Show on November 29! This week,...

It’s Picnic Week on The Great Canadian Baking Show, and we were SO here for all the savoury baking this week! Normally we’d call this Bread Week, but the bakers packed their picnic baskets instead, and we wanted to taste absolutely EVERYTHING they made. From gorgeous savoury picnic breads to spectacular bread baskets filled with sandwiches, the bakers really brought their A-game. And then there wa...

Things are heating up in the tent! 🌴☀️ For Week 3 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, the bakers took on Tropical Week! The Signature Challenge was a tropical-flavoured flan cake, the Technical was one of Lisa’s all-time favourite bakes to make at home, with a few added twists, and the Showstopper was a towering Pavlova stack that came with its own set of challenges. Thankfully, all the bakers ros...

We’re back with our recap of Week 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show ! After missing last week’s episode because of Thanksgiving, Lisa, Cristina, and the Fabulous Baker Boyz, Vincent Chan and Steven Levitt, are reunited and ready to talk all things Milk & Cookies. First up, the bakers made a dozen dunkers with a dunking sauce, and we loved the variety and creativity on display. Then came the...

Ten seasons, ten brand-new bakers, and one Chai-normous Cake Week! The Great Canadian Baking Show is back for its milestone 10th season, and the Tent has never looked sweeter. A fresh batch of talented home bakers from across Canada arrive ready to prove they have what it takes to rise to the occasion, bringing big personalities, creative ideas and some serious baking ambitions along with them. An...

In this special season finale of Baking Scraps, we take you along on our whirlwind trip to Toronto for a weekend filled with baking, friendship, and unforgettable memories. From judging a butter tart competition to reconnecting with members of the Great Canadian Baking Show family, every day was packed with adventure. We share the highlights of our travels, the incredible people we met, the delici...

If sourdough feels confusing, intimidating, or like it secretly hates you, this one’s for you. We’re talking starter drama, common mistakes, lazy baker shortcuts, and why your sourdough probably just needs a little patience. Sourdough expert Claire Watson joins us to tell us how she got into sourdough, explain who Linda the sourdough starter is, and hopefully demystify some of the stressful things...

This week on Baking Scraps, we’re flipping the script as Great Canadian Baking Show Season 5 winner Vincent Chan takes over the mic to interview Lisa and Cristina. They get into how they each fell in love with baking, the shows that pulled then in, and how an Instagram connection turned into real-life friendship (and a lot of baking together). We chat behind-the-scenes baking show realities, our f...

This week on Baking Scraps, we’re bringing back one of our favourite conversations from our first year, with The Great Canadian Baking Show judges Bruno Feldeisen and Kyla Kennaley. This episode is full of baking stories, behind-the-scenes moments, and so much insight from two incredibly talented bakers. Going back and listening to this one reminded us why we loved it so much the first time, and w...

Today’s episode of Baking Scraps is a little different and so much fun! We opened up the inbox and read your baking confessions, and wow, you all did not disappoint. Kitchen disasters. Secret shortcuts. Guilty pleasures, recipe fails, and the little things bakers never admit out loud. This episode is full of laughs and the kind of chaos only fellow bakers truly understand! Some of these confession...

Tat Effby (The Caketoonist) joins Baking Scraps to celebrate the release of her debut cookbook Bake Your Sweet Time, bringing her signature humour and refreshingly practical approach to baking. She shares how her journey took off, why she’s all about saving time in the kitchen, and what baking looks like when you stop trying to make it perfect. Tat brings humour and honesty to this episode, which...

In this episode of Baking Scraps , Lisa and Cristina sit down with pastry chef and Food Network competitor Aaron Davis for a candid, behind-the-scenes conversation about what it actually takes to build a career in baking when you’re still figuring life out. Aaron shares how a childhood spent moving shaped his ability to adapt quickly, connect with people, and stay grounded in unfamiliar environmen...

In this episode of Baking Scraps, Lisa and Cristina sit down with Megan Stasiewich from Season 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, a baker whose creativity and artistry made her an early standout in the tent. The conversation begins with genuine fangirl energy as both hosts share how Megan inspired their own baking journeys. Megan reflects on her experience entering the competition during the ear...

In this episode of Baking Scraps, Lisa and Cristina reconnect with returning guest Niki Behjou, one of the podcast’s earliest supporters, to chat about how far everyone has come since Niki first appeared on the show while launching her NikiBakes cookbook. Niki shares encouragement, behind-the-scenes insights, and thoughtful advice about building a baking presence. The conversation also touches on...

Chris Stefanski sits down with Lisa and Cristina to talk about his path into baking and his experience competing on The Great American Baking Show . Chris shares how he first got serious about baking and what pushed him to apply for the show. He walks through the audition process and the moment he found out he would be stepping into the famous tent. The conversation moves into the reality of filmi...

This week on Baking Scraps , Lisa and Cristina are joined by Joanne Mandet , winner of Season 9 of The Great Canadian Baking Show , talking travel, coming home, and the kind of joy that lives in simple, beautiful moments. Jo shares what it was like for her to compete on the show: the nerves, the lack of sleep, the balancing act with family and work, and the quiet decision to trust her own style in...

This week on Baking Scraps, we’re talking about what it really feels like to put yourself out there. With Cristina away on vacation, Lisa and special guest (and expert on applying to baking shows) Steven Levitt sit down with hopeful home bakers who have experience applying to baking shows and know the vulnerability of hitting “submit”. Some are still applying; some have decided to step back; all o...

In this heartfelt episode of Baking Scraps, Lisa and Cristina sit down with The Great Australian Baking Show finalist Vanessa Furci for a conversation that is so much more than Bake Off. Vanessa shares how her Italian heritage shaped her love of food, growing up cooking alongside her nonna in a garage kitchen filled with big tables, loud laughter, and even bigger flavours. Now a nurse working in o...

This week Lisa and Cristina are joined by GCBS Season 9 finalist Ryan Gridzak for a reflective, honest conversation about his journey on the Great Canadian Baking Show and everything that came after. We talk about the application process, the reality of filming, and how much time has passed since stepping out of the tent, along with what it feels like to look back on the experience with perspectiv...

This episode brings together three incredible Bake Off champions for a lively, heartfelt, and wonderfully nerdy deep dive into the world of competitive baking. Lisa and Cristina are joined by Peter Sawkins, winner of Great British Bake Off 2020, Laura Foo, winner of Great Australian Bake Off 2023, and Loïc Fauteux-Goulet, winner of Great Canadian Baking Show 2023. Each baker shares the winding pat...

Get ready to meet Adela Mou, finalist of The Great American Baking Show Season 3 - a self-taught home baker from Brooklyn who blew us away with her bold flavours, creativity, and fearless experimentation.  From decorating ice-cream cakes as a teen at Cold Stone Creamery, to quietly baking birthday cakes in college, Adela carved her own baking path, inspired by global flavours, especially Asia...

This week we sit down with two of the three incredible finalists from Season 9, Jo and Ryan, for a conversation that is honest, funny, emotional, and full of the heart that made this season so special. They take us through their journeys into baking, the surprises and struggles of auditioning, the surreal moment of seeing themselves in the tent, and the behind the scenes stories that made us laugh...

This week we sit down for a full recap of the episode and a heartfelt look back at the season, made even sweeter because Cristina and Lisa were finally together in Vancouver for the finale party thrown by three of the bakers to watch Jo, Zoe and Ryan in the Finale. There is plenty of laughter, plenty of reminiscing, and plenty of the joyful chaos that always seems to follow our little baking famil...

Lisa and Cristina welcome Jennifer Tsang to the show and celebrate her incredible run on The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 9. Jennifer shares how her love of baking began in childhood and how support from her family and friends helped her take the leap to apply. She talks about the surprise of meeting fellow contestants on the flight to Toronto and the excitement of stepping into the tent for...

In this episode of Baking Scraps , we sit down with the most recent baker to leave the Great Canadian Baking Show, Margaret Bose-Johnson, to dig into her incredible journey, her gluten-free baking expertise, and the highs and lows of competing in the tent. Margaret shares how her love of baking began on her family’s sugar beet farm, opening up about supportive parents, early baking experiments tha...