The seventh season of Holiday Baking Championship airs on Monday nights at 9pm ET/PT on Food Network. This season is hosted by Jesse Palmer and the judges are Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Carla Hall. The only difference is that Carla Hall replaced Lorraine Pascale as a judge this year. This year there are twelve bakers competing for a $25,000 prize and a feature on the Food Network app over seven episodes. Last year, there were ten bakers and eight episodes.
The bakers competing for the $25,000 prize on season seven are:
- Jon Buatti (bakery owner) — Auburn, NH
- Lorenzo Delgado (pastry chef) — Miami, FL
- Kess Eshun (pastry chef) — Frisco, TX
- Jeffrey Gray (home baker) — Atlanta, GA
- Julianna Jung (home baker) — Champaign, IL
- Jamaal Nettles (home baker) — Atlanta, GA
- Jonathan Peregrino (home baker) — Detroit, MI
- Eva Roberts (home baker) — Spokane, WA
- Megan Rountree (bakery owner) — Keller, TX
- Lashonda Sanford (bakery owner) — Newport News, VA
- Aubrey Shaffner (pastry chef) — Baltimore, MD
- Kristina Stephenson (pastry chef) — Spokane, WA
The Holiday Baking Championship season finale will air on Monday, December 21st and I will do another post about that episode before it airs. Feel free to discuss season 7 of Holiday Baking Championship in the comments of this post.