The Best Holiday Baking Shows to Watch 2020

The Great British Baking Show: Holidays

Everyone's favourite feel-good baking competition gets a holiday twist with a miniature all-stars competition for the holidays. A handful of favourite competitors from past seasons return to the tent for one-off holiday-themed episodes. 2018 and 2019 both had new editions, but there's no word yet on whether the show was able to film a 2020 edition.

Watch The Great British Baking Show: Holidays on Netflix.

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Holiday Baking Championship

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Over the course of several weeks, top-tier bakers compete in a series of holiday-themed challenges. Each episode usually consists of one smaller challenge that may give the winner an advantage in the next heat, then a "main" challenge that's much more in-depth, both in content and in presentation. Season seven began airing this year on Nov. 2.

Watch Holiday Baking Championship on Food Network.

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Nailed It! Holiday

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How can you improve on the hilarious results from the original Nailed It!? Add some holiday flair! For the holiday-themed special edition, six or seven episodes are devoted to the biggest, boldest, and most colourful holiday fails the show can come up with, sure to garner Santa-sized laughs. No word yet on whether a third season was filmed for the 2020 holiday season.

Watch Nailed It! Holiday on Netflix.

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Sugar Rush Christmas

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Just like the non-holiday edition, this special version of Sugar Rush features baking duos competing in a series of themed challenges to win a cash prize (and some serious bragging rights) from a panel of baking experts and celeb judges. You can catch the latest season on Netflix on Nov. 27!

Watch Sugar Rush Christmas on Netflix.

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Christmas Cookie Challenge

Christmas cookies are a holiday baking staple, so we love this show that's totally focussed on creative and yummy cookies packed with seasonal flavours and adorable decorations. This season will be a little different than years past, though: Variety reported in August that the upcoming fourth season will only be six episodes instead of eight, after production had to shut down due to a positive COVID-19 test on set.

Watch Christmas Cookie Challenge on Food Network.

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Holiday Gingerbread Showdown

It wouldn't be the holidays without gingerbread! This baking competition goes way beyond cute gingerbread people and gingerbread houses decorated with gumdrops — its bakers create the most incredible structures and tackle every new challenge to create legitimate masterpieces while competing for a cash prize and a magazine cover shoot.

Watch Holiday Gingerbread Showdown on Food Network.

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