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Spring Baking Championship

  • Food Network
  • United States
  • 2015 to present
  • 11 seasons
  • Returning series

About Spring Baking Championship

The pastel-toned corner of Food Network's championship franchise builds its rounds around spring itself: Easter, Mother's Day, garden parties, and enough floral cake toppers to stock a greenhouse. The judging panel has anchored the show since day one even as the host chair rotated, so the standards never wobble. If the Holiday edition is a fireplace, this one is an open window in April.

The format

Each episode pairs a short preheat challenge, whose winner earns an edge, with a spring-themed main heat that eliminates one baker. The bracket runs until a single champion takes the $25,000 prize.

The prize

$25,000

Hosts & judges

Hosts

  • Bobby Deen2015 to 2016
  • Jesse Palmer2017, then 2023 to present
  • Ali Khan2018 and 2021
  • Clinton Kelly2019 to 2020
  • Molly Yeh2022

Judges

  • Nancy Fuller2015 to present
  • Duff Goldman2015 to present
  • Lorraine Pascale2015 onward, early seasons
  • Kardea Brownrecent seasons through 2025

Where to stream

Food Network, HBO Max, and discovery+ in the US; check Food Network Canada and discovery+ UK abroad.

USFood NetworkHBO Maxdiscovery+Hulu
CAFood Network (Canada)
UKFood Network UK / discovery+

Verified July 2026. Streaming availability changes often, so check the platform before you subscribe.

Seasons

Eleven springtime seasons and counting, every one archived below.

SeasonAiredEpisodes
Season 1Apr 26, 2015 to May 31, 20156
Season 2Apr 10, 2016 to May 15, 20166
Season 3Mar 12, 2017 to Apr 9, 20177
Season 4Mar 12, 2018 to Apr 30, 20188
Season 5Mar 18, 2019 to May 6, 20198
Season 6Mar 9, 2020 to May 4, 20209
Season 7Feb 22, 2021 to Apr 26, 202110
Season 8Feb 28, 2022 to May 2, 202210
Season 9Mar 6, 2023 to May 8, 202310
Season 10Mar 4, 2024 to May 6, 202411
Season 11Mar 10, 2025 to May 19, 202511

Each season guide will contain episodes, bakes, cast when available, and sources. Winners stay tucked away below so nothing gets spoiled by accident.

Season winners

Tap a season to reveal its winner. Nothing is spoiled until you ask.

Season 1Reveal
Season 2Reveal

Jane Soudah

South Pasadena, California

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Season 3Reveal

Jordan Pilarski

Amelia Island, Florida

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Season 4Reveal

Nacho Aguirre

San Antonio, Texas

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Season 5Reveal
Season 6Reveal

Sohrob Esmaili

San Francisco, California

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Season 7Reveal

Keya Wingfield

Richmond, Virginia

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Season 8Reveal
Season 9Reveal

Luke Deardurff

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Season 10Reveal

Steven Tran

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Season 11Reveal

Priya Winsor

St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

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Every winner is verified against a cited source: Wikipedia and verified press per season.

Every Spring Baking Championshipwinner in one place →

Gear seen on this show

Specific kit tied to Spring Baking Championship, each labelled with how solid the attribution is. When the exact model is not sold on Amazon we say so and point you at a buyable equivalent instead of faking a link.

Stand mixer (studio kit anchor)

KitchenAid Artisan / Professional stand mixers

Reported

The Food Network championship kitchens are stocked with KitchenAid stand mixers; the same kit recurs across Holiday, Kids and Spring, so we attribute once and re-theme. Buyable, and the natural gateway into the stand-mixers guide.

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