Bake Squad Season 2 Review- A friendly baking competition

Episode Guide

Bar Mitzvah
Surprise Baby Announcement
Vow Renewal
80s Volunteer Appreciation Party
Double 75th Birthday
Varsity Gay League
Multicultural Wedding
Bring on the Heat!

Bake Squad is a Netflix original series that follows pastry chef Christina Tosi, who gets to pick four bakers to compete in a baking battle. The baker who wins gets to make a dessert chosen for a client’s extra special big day.

In season 2, Christina chooses Christophe, a pastry illusionist, and Maya-Camille who loves perfect flavours in her pastries. Gonzo, who loves to work with chocolate, and Ashley, the queen of cakes, are also picked. These bakers are experts in different areas of the pastry industry. One loves working with sugar, another with chocolate, another with flavours and another with cakes.

In this show, they battle it out to make someone’s day special as a surprise. They reimagine the clients’ orders to bring that extra oomph. As you may have guessed, the bakers are ready to go all out! The catch is they only have 72 hours to make the best cake and wow the clients.

The stage in which this happens has four places for the bakers, and each has everything a baker would ever want. Before each baking event, they must get into their creative zone, using different methods.

Christina is both encouraging and supportive, and should anything not go according to plan, she is ready to lend a hand and push the bakers forward. Christophe has a kind aura; for him, it looks like he is there to have fun and he brings a lightness to the group that is beautiful to watch.

Maya-Camille is confident and in her zone, but she feels threatened occasionally. Gonzo, the chocolate lover, is truly talented. He could literally make anything using chocolate from a baseball bat to a piano, and he really goes above and beyond. Ashley thrives in cakes, and she has a creative side that makes her finished products look like a work of art.

All eight episodes have different reimaginings, making for a really interesting watch. Sometimes the guys go big, but time runs out without them showing their full potential. I think the bakers should be given more time so that we can see their hard work.

For some of the bakers, it would have been beneficial if they had gone simple because simplicity, at times, is beautiful. The length of the episodes could have been better; a more prolonged reaction video, especially from the guests, would have sufficed. I wanted to see the bakers meet the rest of the family and friends and get an ovation for doing a job well done. At the same time though, the series does a great job depicting the teamwork shown.

Bake Squad is a heartwarming family-friendly show. It is not the best baking show out there but if you like pastries and dessert it is worth a watch.

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