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, the bakers tackled three very different birthday celebrations. For the Signature, it was Lapis Legit, a rich, beautifully layered Indonesian spice cake requiring patience, precision, and a whole lot of time under the broiler.

The Technical brought us Birthday Bao, also known as Peach Longevity Buns. Despite their peachy appearance, there’s no actual peach involved. Instead, these delicate steamed buns are filled with lotus seed paste, an ingredient none of us have ever worked with before.

And for the Showstopper, it was time for a birthday doughnut extravaganza. The bakers had to create an impressive display of doughnuts, balancing flavour, creativity, technique, and presentation.

Join us as we discuss the triumphs, the challenges, and our favourite moments from Birthday Week, with Andrew (and Steven, as always) sharing his own insider perspective from his time in the tent. And make sure to tune in to the Great Canadian Holiday Baking Show on CBC and the CBC Gem app on November 29!

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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 was the Technical: a completely out-of-the-box and fun tie in to picnics. We appreciated the creativity, but CELERY-FLAVOURED COOKIES? We have questions.

We also had what might be one of the funniest moments of the season when a baker accidentally made a rather spicy comment that somehow slipped past the CBC censors. Naturally, we were shocked, delighted, and entirely incapable of resisting the opportunity to take the inappropriate humour even further.

This is also our last recap with Vincent for a little while (possibly the rest of the season), as he’s heading off to Japan for three weeks. We’ve had such a wonderful time recapping with our Fabulous Baker Boyz, and we’re so glad we got to squeeze in one more episode together.

Grab your picnic blanket and join us for Week 4 of Baking Scraps. It’s a good one!
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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 rose to the occasion!

Along the way, one mystery ingredient had us breaking into song, and we had a wonderful time recapping all the tropical flavours, baking triumphs, and tent drama with the Fabulous Baker Boyz. Naturally, we dressed for the occasion!

Listen to our Week 3 recap of The Great Canadian Baking Show with Baking Scraps and the Fabulous Baker Boyz. It’s definitely getting hot in the tent this week! 🔥
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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 technical challenge: Maamoul Mad Bil Ashta, a Lebanese dessert that had us debating whether it even counts as a cookie when it’s essentially served in squares. We also had some strong opinions about orange blossom water, with Lisa firmly in the hate camp and Vincent happily on the love side. At least we could all agree that the bakers did a fantastic job!

For the showstopper, the bakers created Milky Way cookie displays featuring two different kinds of cookies and incorporating milk in some way. There were some seriously good bakes, plenty to discuss, and lots of fun catching up with each other after our Thanksgiving hiatus.
Of course, we had to say goodbye to another baker, which is always the hardest part.

And don’t worry, we’re already back at it: our Week 3 Tropical Week recap drops tomorrow!

Join us for all the baking talk, opinions, disagreements, and love for the best part of baking.
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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.

And this season, there’s another reason to celebrate: The Baking Scraps are back! After hanging up their podcasting aprons and declaring themselves retired from regular episodes, Lisa and Cristina couldn’t stay away when Canada’s favourite baking show hit its tenth season. Just as they’ve done for the past two seasons, they’re back to recap all the highs, lows, triumphs, near-misses and game-changing decisions in the Tent. And as usual, they’ve brought reinforcements: the Fabulous Baker Boyz, Steven Levitt and Vincent Chan from Season 5 of The Great Canadian Baking Show. Together, the four bring their expert thoughts, insider perspectives and very strong opinions to every bake, wobble and buttercream emergency (and don't forget the fashion!).

What better way to kick off a decade of Canadian baking than with a classic Cake Week? The Signature Challenge sends the bakers back to Season 1 with a nostalgic Battenberg cake, putting their precision, patience and creativity to the test. Next up is a distinctly Canadian Technical: a Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake that has the bakers navigating a delicious mash-up of two iconic treats. And for the Showstopper, it’s all about "10", with each baker challenged to create a spectacular interpretation of the number and reveal what a decade of The Great Canadian Baking Show means to them.

There are stunning creations, ambitious ideas, first-week nerves and enough big beautiful bakes to make the Tent feel even smaller. As the new bakers find their feet, early frontrunners emerge, dreams begin to rise and the first Star Baker of Season 10 is crowned.

So grab a slice, settle in and join Lisa, Cristina, Steven and Vincent as The Baking Scraps come out of retirement for one very special mission: recapping another season of The Great Canadian Baking Show. Ten years of the best show on CBC deserves a proper celebration...and we’re just getting started!
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