Holiday Baking Championship Season 9

Photo - Food Network

The ninth season of Holiday Baking Championship airs on Monday nights at 8pm ET/PT on Food Network.  This season is once again hosted by Jesse Palmer and the judges are Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Carla Hall.  This year there are twelve bakers competing for a $25,000 prize and a feature in Food Network Magazine. Season nine of Holiday Baking Championship is eight episodes long. 

The bakers competing for the $25,000 prize on season nine are:

• Aaron Davis (cake decorator)— Surprise, AZ
• Christine Herelle-Lewis (pastry chef) — New York, NY
• Antoine Hopkins (pastry chef) — Philadelphia, PA
• RaChelle Hubsmith (home baker — Salt Lake City, UT
• Bill Makin (home baker) — Brooklyn, NY
• Aishia Martinez (pastry chef)— Union City, NJ
• Harshal Naik (pastry chef) — Bedford, PA
• Zakiya Newton (pastry chef) — Gotha, FL
• Sumera Syed (home baker) — Dallas, TX
• Dru Tevis (pastry chef) — Rehoboth Beach, DE
• Jessica Wang (pastry food stylist) — Los Angeles, CA
• Kristen Weidlein (pastry chef) — Staten Island

The Holiday Baking Championship season finale will air on Monday, December 19th and I will do another post about that episode before it airs.  Feel free to discuss season 9 of Holiday Baking Championship in the comments of this post. 

UPDATE - Here is the post for the finale.