Here's the whole thing you wish to have to know about Sarah Wallace, who is competing in Season 6 of Food Network's annual 'Holiday Baking Championship.'
Ever since Holiday Baking Championship ended final yr, we've got been counting down the days for Thanksgiving to roll around in order that we could come back to Food Network for extra deliciously festive bakes.
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But nobody is extra ready for the holiday season than the 10 contestants who're duking it out for the likelihood to win $25,000 and the identify of Holiday Baking Champion.
Fans are already taking to Boston-based Sarah Wallace, whose commitment to confections led her to thrust back her honeymoon so she could compete on the display.
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Who is Sarah from Holiday Baking Championship?
Sarah temporarily makes her mark amongst fanatics of Holiday Baking Championship when she wins the first pre-heat of the season, where contestants have to introduce themselves thru some edible position cards and a signature one-bite dish.
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She made beautiful pecan linzer cookies with pralines and the judges in reality favored her edible place card as well. Sarah additionally got an advantage when it came to picking substances for the main problem, which for sure came in to hand.
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But anyway, again to Sarah's private lifestyles. While she lives in Massachusetts now, this Rochester-born baker may be the common supervisor who helped open the famed Magnolia Bakery Boston location.
And whilst she may work around delicious chocolates year-round, the holidays are her absolute favourite season. So much in order that when she was once asked to compete in the Food Network's prestigious holiday challenge, she had to transfer her honeymoon to make it. "I just love Christmas and the holidays so much," she instructed Boston Magazine.
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What's extra, she credits her skills in the kitchen to the indisputable fact that nobody in her family "cooks or bakes anything ... to put it politely." She says that in highschool, she got "really into watching the Food Network," and after her perfect good friend's mother requested her to make her a marriage cake with simply a few years of novice enjoy, her career just about took off from there.
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"I would cook dinner or I would bake stuff for friends in high school," she recollects. But when her "best friend's mom remarried" all over Sarah's senior yr, issues got severe. "I was like, 'Oh my god, I can't make a wedding cake, I'm just high school. That's the big leagues!'" As she recollects it, "she said, 'No, Sarah, I trust you. You can do it.' I must have watched 1,000 YouTube videos on rolling fondant and making buttercream roses and stuff, but I made a wedding cake, and I've just loved it ever since."
Christmas in Sarah's home is "no joke." Here's how she prepares for the holidays.
Now that we are all gearing up for the season, Sarah shared her favorite issues about holiday baking. "I am all about the Christmas cut-out cookies," she said, explaining that she loves to "outdo myself every year with a more detailed shape."
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But pumpkin spice and eggnog flavors are two that she cannot do vacations without. "I think eggnog things, gingerbread things, those flavors immediately trigger every holiday memory throughout your whole life. Oh god."
We can not wait to get comfortable and watch as these bakers make spectacular vacation bakes that we will sooner or later aspire to from the comforts of our couches. We're cheering you on, Sarah!
Holiday Baking Championship airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on Food Network.
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