Luckily, we have a new one to add to the mixture! FOX’s Crime Scene Kitchen premieres May 26, and features bakers trying to reverse engineer a dessert recipe successfully for the chance to win $100,000. If that has you hungry for more, watch the 30 best baking shows streaming right now.
30 Best Baking Shows
1. The Great British Baking Show
The Great British Baking Show is decadent and delightful from start to finish. The recipe for this British baking show is equal parts reality competition (thanks to judges Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith and in its earliest seasons Mary Berry) and comic relief (thanks to hosts Noel Fielding, Matt Lucas, in earlier seasons Sandi Toksvig and earlier seasons still, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins). When it comes to the best binge-watching material, TGBBS takes the cake, with eight seasons available on Netflix.
2. Zumbo’s Just Desserts
Adriano Zumbo is a renowned patissier—that’s a maker of pastries—known for his iconic kitchen Adriano Zumbo Desserts in Sydney, Australia. In this baking reality competition show, Zumbo gives the orders as 12 cooks try to make some of the most challenging and intricate dessert recipes that exist.
3. Cake Boss
One of the original baking shows that got people into baking shows was Cake Boss—a TLC reality show all about what goes on inside Buddy Valastro’s New Jersey bakery. Throughout all 13 seasons, you’ll witness some of the most elaborate desserts and cakes you’ve ever seen—from a 14-foot-long alligator to a 2,000-pound vanilla pound cake in the shape of Bumblebee from the movie Transformers.
4. Cupcake Wars
There are nine seasons of Cupcake Wars to work your way through and each episode will make you drool. If you’ve ever watched the Food Network show (now streaming on Discovery+), then you know the premise: four top cupcake bakers face off in three elimination challenges, competing for $10,000, and baking a total of 1,000 cupcakes.
5. Next Great Baker
Also known as Cake Boss: Next Great Baker, Valastro is back in this TLC show to host a reality baking competition in which contestants flex their best Buddy-esque baking and decorating skills. Available on Discovery+, there are four seasons to watch.
6. The American Baking Competition
Let the baking begin! The American Baking Competition only has one season but if you’re a sugarholic, it’s worth watching the 2013 series. It was an American spinoff of The Great British Baking Show and is available to stream on Hulu or Apple TV+.
7. Ultimate Cake Off
Just when you thought the cake decorating couldn’t get any more elaborate, there’s another TLC show all about cakes: Ultimate Cake Off. Cake artists go head-to-head in designing, baking and decorating cakes that are the size of the average person—five feet or taller.
8. Bakeaway Camp With Martha Stewart
Why go to sleepaway camp when you could go to Bakeaway Camp With Martha Stewart? Hosted by Martha Stewart and Jesse Palmer, this relatively new Food Network show features six amateur bakers (ahem, campers) who attend Martha’s baking camp, competing for one-on-one mentoring sessions with Martha throughout the rounds and ultimately $25,000.
9. Kids Baking Championship
Proving that kids are more than capable of getting their hands dirty in the kitchen is Kids Baking Championship, another classic Food Network baking show. Now available for streaming on Hulu and other platforms, it features eight talented child bakers competing for the title of Kids Baking Champion with hosts and judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman. It’s as emotionally sweet as it is literally.
10. Spring Baking Championship
With 44 tasty episodes to binge-watch, Spring Baking Championship on the Food Network is your standard reality baking competition show—but with a seasonal twist. Nine bakers go head-to-head baking cupcake flower arrangements, edible gardens and just about all other spring-related baked goods you could imagine.
11. Halloween Baking Championship
Another seasonal fave is Halloween Baking Championship, in which top bakers face off in a battle to create the spookiest Halloween-related treats—from pumpkin cakes to devilish desserts with unlikely toppings.
12. Worst Bakers in America
OK, so if you really love food or are a wiz of a baker yourself, you may not want to sip the Worst Bakers in America Kool-Aid. After all, it’s all about being bad. In this love-to-hate-it Food Network show—a spinoff of the original Worst Cooks in America—chefs Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale team up as hosts looking to find the most improved baker. In just six weeks, these terrible bakers have to go from drab to fab in the kitchen for the chance to win $25,000.
13. Nailed It!
Even if you can’t get on board with the extremely DIY-fail theme of Netflix’s Nailed It!, you should watch it—if only for the hilariousness that is host Nicole Byer. Notoriously bad bakers try to recreate masterpieces of dessert and whoever comes the closest also comes closest to the $10,000 prize. It’s a hot mess, but it’s hysterical.
14. Waffles + Mochi
Want to encourage your kids to get in the kitchen? Waffles + Mochi is a totally family-friendly cooking-slash-baking show featuring two unusual hosts: puppets named Waffles and Mochi. Together, Waffles and Mochi travel the world, learning about all the different ingredients in different cultures.
15. The Great British Baking Show Holidays
Just in case you needed more Paul Hollywood in your life, The Great British Baking Show also has an exceptional holiday edition.
16. Sweet Genius
Another Food Network show that takes the cake, Sweet Genius places America’s best pastry chefs in the hot plate, um, hot seat, as they face off in an inventive dessert competition.
17. Nadiya Bakes
If Nadiya Hussain of Nadiya Bakes looks familiar, it’s because you’re up-to-date on your reality TV baking competition shows! Spoiler: Hussain won the UK’s The Great British Bake Off in 2015 and thankfully, squeezed her own baking show out of her win. In this adorable series, Hussain travels Great Britian visiting the country’s most iconic bakeries and shares her all-time favorite dessert recipes.
18. Be Our Chef
Disney’s Be Our Chef can be found on Disney+ and appeals to both kids and adults alike. Hosted by Angela Kinsey and named for the iconic Beauty and the Beast number “Be Our Guest,” Be Our Chef brings five foodie families together to create Disney-inspired dishes.
19. Baketopia
Rosanna Pansino first made waves as a talented baker on YouTube and now, years later, she has her own baking show called Baketopia on HBO Max! In this reality baking series, bakers fill their carts with unique ingredients, then bake away for a shot at winning $10,000.
20. Crazy Delicious
Part-comedy, part-baking show, Netflix’s Crazy Delicious is so fun. For starters, bakers compete to win the coveted Golden Apple. And, for the main course, contestants don’t try to impress the “judges,” they try to impress the “food gods.”
21. Magnolia Table
Exclusive to Discovery+, Magnolia Table is Joanna Gaines’—of Fixer Upper fame—new cooking show. But don’t worry—with tons of dessert recipes, it’s a great fit for baking-loving viewers, too. Watch Gaines show her quirkier side without the help of her husband Chip Gaines (who normally steals the show) as she makes complicated dessert recipes like baklava, tiramisu and peanut butter brownies.
22. Nailed It! Holiday
What happens when Nailed It! makes a holiday-themed spinoff? The bakers get Scrooged! All jokes aside, the funny, quirky, and festive spinoff called Nailed It! Holiday is everything you love about the original: Nicole Byer (of course) and hilariously bad baking creations.
23. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell
Christine McConnell is both a baker and artist, so you can only imagine the amazing creations she crafts in the kitchen. Actually, you don’t have to imagine—just watch!
24. Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet
A fan-favorite baking show is SugarRush, also known as Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet. With three seasons to flip through, grownups and kids alike will love watching four teams of bakers pull out all the stops to bake the best confections possible—all in the hopes of $10,000.
25. Best Baker in America
Who will be named the Best Baker in America? As top bakers compete in Skills Challenges and Master Challenges, only one can be the winner. Judged by Jason Smith and Gesine Prado and hosted by Carla Hall, Best Baker in America is now streaming on Discovery+.
26. Nailed It! Mexico
Nailed It! made its way to Mexico in this beloved spinoff where the baking fails continue. Funny, sweet and appropriate for the whole family, this is the perfect series to binge-watch after the U.S. version of Nailed It! leaves you wanting more.
27. Sugar High
Have you ever heard of a sugar artist? Us either, until we watched Sugar High—the spinoff to Sugar Rushin which actual sugar artists make sculptures out of candy and sugar for a chance to win $10,000.
28. Holiday Baking Championship
Ready for another seasonal treat? Enter Holiday Baking Championship, a charming special series from the Food Network. Now on its seventh season, the show tends to premiere around November (as you can guess) but earlier seasons are still available to binge-watch on Discovery+.
29. Sugar Rush: Christmas
If you can’t get enough of Sugar Rush, there’s good news. The holiday-related spinoff of the show, Sugar Rush: Christmas has two very merry seasons on Netflix. It’s about to get festive in here.
30. Nailed It! Germany
And if you’re craving more Nailed It! still, there’s actually a second spinoff of the American series: Nailed It! Germany. Groß—that’s “great” in German. Next up, the best heart-healthy baking recipes.
