Competitors showcase their skills in baking and pastry, focusing on technique, artistry, flavor, innovation, and inspiration.
Award-winning pastry chef Stephanie Boswell and her team focus on one crashing bakery and figure out how to completely makeover their business. To stop these pastry shops from bleeding money, she must freshen up stale recipes and revamp dingy storefronts, along with HGTV designers Lauren Makk and Breegan Jane, to get customers back in the door. Stephanie does not sugarcoat the truth from the bakery owners as she diagnoses their problems. With her sharp eyes, razor wit and loving compassion, Stephanie can transform these battered pastry shops and bakeries into gleaming showrooms filled with delicious sweets and vibrant, eye-popping desserts.
A group of talented bakers are tasked with creating tasty and imaginative holiday showpieces that exemplify what Easter is all about.
Boswell was most recently the executive pastry chef of the Peninsula Beverly Hills. She is also the mastermind behind the Faberge Egg and the Foie Gras Candy Bar, which was deemed “a must-do in Las Vegas” by Anthony Bourdain. She previously judged Food Network's “Halloween Baking Championship” for 2 seasons and, in 2022, hosted "Bake or Break". In 2019, she hosted "Baking Bad" on the Cooking Channel. She has also appeared on a few other baking/cooking competition shows as a judge.