This week on Baking Scraps, we’re taking the show on the road! Lisa is recording from a hotel room in Kelowna, Steven is somewhere in a hotel room in the southern United States, and Vincent is still away. Somehow, against all odds, we managed to make it work!

Joining us this week is special guest and Great Canadian Baking Show alumnus Candice Riley as we dive into Vintage Week.

We’re talking all things retro, from the bakers’ vintage-inspired creations to the technical challenge of Flapper Pie, complete with a graham cracker crust, rich vanilla custard, and a towering mountain of meringue.

We’ll discuss the week’s triumphs, mishaps, and judging decisions, with plenty of laughs along the way. Different hotels, different countries, and a whole lot of baking to unpack!

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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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