Next Baking Master: Paris
Competitors showcase their skills in baking and pastry, focusing on technique, artistry, flavor, innovation, and inspiration.
- 2024-2024
- 1 season
- Food Network
- Game Show
Competitors showcase their skills in baking and pastry, focusing on technique, artistry, flavor, innovation, and inspiration.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
Cream Rises to the Top
Mon, May 6, 2024 63 mins
Ten bakers compete in Paris, creating desserts showcasing French techniques. At a hotel, they learn about cream and must bake a cake using it innovatively. Judges evaluate their skills and creations.
Episode 2
Sugar, Spice and Everything...
Mon, May 13, 2024 43 mins
Bakers use French sugar to create petit fours, visit Monsieur Caramel candy store, learn caramel artistry from Yohan Kim, and design caramel desserts inspired by French classics.
Episode 3
For the Love of Chocolate
Mon, May 20, 2024 43 mins
Hosts visit Parisian chocolatier for bonbon tutorial. Bakers craft bonbon box, then stroll along Seine for inspiration to create chocolate dessert using three techniques.
Episode 4
Going for Butter Gold
43 mins
Hosts Stephanie Boswell and Ludo Lefebvre,visit French Bastards Bakery, learn about "cruffin" mashup. Bakers create buttery mashups, craft dessert collections inspired by Parisian fashion.
Episode 5
Fresh and Forbidden Fruits
43 mins
In Paris, bakers create crepe cakes and unconventional desserts using fresh produce. Pastry chef Nina Metayer teaches them about ingredients. They compete in a farmers market-themed challenge featuring unusual dessert items.
Episode 6
Break an Egg
43 mins
Bakers tackle souffles, pate a choux dough for cream puffs/eclairs. They create large-format desserts showcasing eggs in three distinct ways, under guidance of hosts Stephanie Boswell, Ludo Lefebvre, and pastry chef Nesreen Mroueh.
Episode 7
Like a Fine Wine and Cheese
43 mins
Bakers visit a cheese shop, attend a wine and cheese pairing class on a river cruise, then create two desserts incorporating French wine/liqueur and cheese in the final competition round.
Episode 8
Let Them Eat Cake
Mon, Jun 24, 2024 43 mins
Stephanie Boswell and Ludo Lefebvre whisk the finalists away to Ladurée, where they sample Julien Alvarez's macarons.