Great British Bake Off fans have found a new obsession as Netflix drops the US-based baking show.
Kitchen disasters, sweet delights, and tough competition are all familiar ingredients of the streaming service’s latest reality offering – Blue Ribbon Baking Championship.
The premise sees ’10 award-winning bakers from state fairs across the United States compete in the biggest blue ribbon Bake-Off yet.’
Over eight episodes the bakers go head-to-head in a series of challenges to ‘claim the title of America’s best baker’ and a sweet, sweet $100,000 (£76,000) prize.
This time we’re swapping out Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding for American Pie star Jason Biggs and food and lifestyle expert Sandra Lee (who’s also a judge).
Joining Sandra at the judging table – as the USA’s own Paul and Prue – are former White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and award-winning baker Bryan Ford.
The show, which launched on Netflix earlier this month, has already impressed fans – with many expressing the itch to scratch the Bake Off.
‘I’m a big fan of The Great British Baking Show and think The Blue Ribbon Baking Championship is the same quality, or at least close, Redditer rdv100 wrote.
‘I just love this and enjoy it. It’s quite different from GBBO which feels like its own show… It feels like a great series and a creative idea,’ Reddit user Competitive-Kick-481 added.
‘I just finished Blue Ribbon Baking Championship on Netflix and omgg it was so good!!,’ user X Phony agreed.
‘Just binge watching the blue ribbon baking championship with my mom and it’s so fun to watch! You never know who’s going to come out in each episode,’ user Olivia echoed.
Discussing what drew her to host the Blue Ribbon Baking Championship, cookbook author Sandra praised the ‘camaraderie and sense of family among the contestants.’
He continued to the Chicago Sun-Times: ‘They lift each other up. Many bakers will leave their station and help others. I don’t think the world sees who we really are as Americans.
‘They hear politics and they hear the kerfuffle on the news. I think that it will be amazing for viewers from other countries to watch us and to see what our exhibition looks like and our lifestyle and how nice people are.
‘And – unlike other competitive events – we shoot in real time. No one stops and takes it the next day. We take 18 hour days. No downtime or swap outs.’
Meanwhile, speaking to USA Today, 00s star Jason added: ‘I really want to host the world of food.
‘Of course, there was a wink to the camera and the audience with me as the host of the baking show. And whenever I can’t think of anything to say, I always have a pie joke in my back pocket that brings the house down.’
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