Amanda Faber: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Amanda Faber won her season of The Great American Baking Show.

Amanda Faber won the second season of The Great American Baking Show, the 2016 to 2017 run that dropped the "Holiday" from the show's original title but kept the Mary Berry and Johnny Iuzzini judging panel. Of the early American champions, she is the one who turned the win into a microphone rather than a storefront. Here is where the years took her.

The season 2 win

Faber, an Atlanta home baker living in the Grant Park neighborhood, took the title in the January 2017 finale with Stephanie Chen as runner-up. Her tent persona was the experimenter: press around her season noted her love of working natural ingredients and unexpected flavors into her bakes. Before kids, she had traveled the country as a flight attendant and worked as a retail manager; by the time she won, she was a stay-at-home mom of two who baked at a national-champion level. She is the second name in the full winners list.

The Flour Hour

Faber's most durable post-show project has been Flour Hour, a baking podcast she co-hosts with Jeremiah Duarte Bills, a fellow Great American Baking Show alum. The two struck up a friendship through the show's orbit and built the podcast around interviews and baking talk, becoming a fixture of the niche where reality baking alumni actually hang out. For fans of the franchise it is a treat: two people who have been inside the tent comparing notes with others who have too.

Where things stand now

Faber's public profile beyond the podcast has stayed intentionally domestic: baking, family, and her Instagram account, amandaefaber. She has done speaking appearances (she is listed with speakers bureaus) but has not, per the public record, opened a bakery or published a cookbook. That makes her the quiet middle chapter between the local-legend first winner, Lauren Katz, and the media-savvy champions of the streaming era.

The takeaway for fans

Season 2 is the last complete, untroubled season of the ABC era, since the following year's season was pulled mid-run, and Faber's win closes the show's innocent first act. If you enjoy her, the Flour Hour back catalog is the richest archive of franchise-alumni conversation you will find anywhere.