Bake Squad

Bake Squad
Genre	Food Reality television
Presented by	Christina Tosi
Starring	Maya-Camille Broussard Ashley Holt Gonzo Jimenez Christophe Rull
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Yasmin Shackleton
Running time	35 minutes
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11) – present

Bake Squad is an American Netflix Original series which premiered on August 11, 2021, for a first season of eight episodes. It is presented by Christina Tosi, and features a returning group of four bakers who compete to make desserts for a different client each episode.

Format

The series is only lightly competitive, with no prizes or elimination-style elements. Instead, the focus is on creating elaborate desserts for a per-episode client—usually for a celebration, wedding, or birthday. The bakers typically have seven hours to produce their desserts before presenting them.

Bakers periodically request help from Tosi for equipment or decorative pieces, such as chocolate molds or a claw machine, to showcase enhance their creation. After the client chooses a dessert, Tosi takes a picture of the client(s) and the winning baker with an instant camera, which is placed on a bulletin board signifying the win. The episode finishes with scenes from the client's celebration.

The recurring competing bakers are:

• Ashley Holt – Cake Decorator
• Christophe Rull – Pastry Chef
• Maya-Camille Broussard – Pastry Chef
• Gonzo Jimenez – Chocolatier

Episodes

Bold indicates the baker(s) who produced the winning creation per-episode.

No.	Title	Original release date
1	"Brother Birthday Bash"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Kids birthday for a mother of two boys. Ashley: Three layer "pizza", "mac 'n cheese", and "spaghetti and meatball" cake. Christophe: Giant ice cream cones filled with cake, fruit compote, and Italian meringue. Maya-Camille: Sugar cookie house with marshmallow grass and edible miniatures. Gonzo: Giant chocolate reptile egg with strawberry and milk chocolate miniature eggs.
2	"Rock n' Roll Wedding"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Create a dessert for the wedding of the client's sister, using music, cats, and the outdoors as inspiration. Ashley: Sculpted cat cake; vanilla cake with cookies & cream, and chocolate chip cookie dough filling. Christophe: Life-sized chocolate drum-set with cheesecake, chocolate cake, and peanut candy bars. Maya-Camille: Four-tiered bread pudding cake consisting of lemon lavender crème brûlée, cinnamon pretzel, chocolate muffin, and apple pie bread puddings. Gonzo: Four-tiered chocolate wedding cake with caramelized hazelnuts and edible flowers.
3	"Sweet & Spicy Fiesta"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Create a dessert for a Mexican-inspired 60th birthday party for the client's father. Ashley: Sculpted hot sauce bottle pinata cake, filled with coconut cake and passionfruit buttercream, served with a mango cake sauce. Christophe: Chocolate bonbon tree with mango, passion fruit, lime, and Carolina Reaper ganaches. Maya-Camille: A cake in the shape of a six and a zero, made from coconut mango cheesecake, and churro-flavored flan. Gonzo: A sweet taco cart with florentine cookie tacos, mango and cinnamon ice cream, sweet salsas, and chapulines.
4	"Kicking Cancer Celebration"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: The client's daughter is having a family gathering to celebrate her recovery from cancer. Design inspirations include Cosmetology, nostalgic candy, cake pops, and pickles. Ashley: Candy claw machine containing violet, rum vanilla, and watermelon apple lollipops, gummy bears, and soft pretzels. Christophe: Two-hundred and sixty item edible beauty counter, consisting of mousse lipsticks, fruit coulis nail varnish, and marshmallow eyeshadows. Maya-Camille: Cake pop bouquet consisting of mango coconut macaroon, pineapple rum, dark chocolate ale, and platanos maduros & pretzel cake pops. Gonzo: Life-sized chocolate bust with a chocolate crown, sugar candies, and bonbons.
5	"A Magical Wedding"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Bakers work in teams of two. The client is seeking a dessert for a "royal winter wonderland" themed wedding. Ashley & Gonzo: Sculpted castle cake; vanilla cake with mixed berry compote and marble cake with chocolate ganache. Forty-pound carved chocolate base. Christophe & Maya-Camille: Throne room scene consisting of orange soda cakes with cranberry filling shaped as crown pillows, orange custard tarts, and decorative sugar showpiece.
6	"Supersize Smash Cake"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Birthday party for the first birthday of a rainbow baby. Inspirations include tropical fruit, rainbows, chocolate and cereal. Ashley: Edible life-sized ball pit with rice cereal walls, chocolate balls filled with mango and chocolate mouses, and a slide. Christophe: Cupcake rainbow arrangement with raspberry, orange, lemon, mint chocolate, and blueberry flavored cupcakes. Pot of gold "smash cake" filled with yogurt mousse and diced pineapple. Maya-Camille: Deep dish "smash pie" consisting of rainbow key lime pie blocks which spell out the client's name. Gonzo: Four feet tall chocolate sculpted unicorn with "smash cake" hooves, filled with chocolate ganache and vanilla wafers.
7	"Super Sweet 16"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Sweet sixteen birthday party for the clients' sister. Inspirations include the beach, Bohemian vintage, and thrifting. Ashley: Thirty-layer red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, shaped as a VW Bus. Served with edible spray paint. Christophe: Dessert pizzas – "meat lovers" pizza with streusel "pepperoni", Bavarian vanilla cream, as well as a "vegetarian" pizza with marshmallow fluff and meringue. Maya-Camille: Red velvet croissants, tie-dye macarons, and ombré red velvet crepe cake. Gonzo: Jello bundt-shaped flavored with apple, pear, fruit punch, and pineapple extracts. Used an injection technique to form flowers within the geletin.
8	"For the Love of Cake"	August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
Challenge: Client's parents' 34th wedding anniversary. Themes include travel, country chic, and Texas. Ashley: Vintage wedding cake, in the style of the client's parents' original wedding cake. Strawberry-vanilla cake with banana cream, candied pecans, and berry compote. Christophe: "Barbecue ribs" strawberry crème fraîche cake filled with crème brûlée, bananas foster ice cream "corn on the cob", and shaped sugar flames. Maya-Camille: "Texan sized" deep-dish pie assortment: German Chocolate pecan pie, purple sweet potato pie, peach cobbler pie, and apple and banana pudding pie. Gonzo: "Scientific S'mores". Pine-infused chocolate, banana flavored bourbon shots, and two types of s'mores: on skewers, and Texas-shaped sandwiches.