Baking Impossible Winners: What Rodolfo and Sara Do Now

Spoiler note: this post names the winning team of Baking Impossible season 1.

Baker Rodolfo Goncalves and engineer Sara Schonour won Baking Impossible together, ahead of runners-up Cindy Ngar and Taylor Tabb. Netflix's baker-and-engineer competition premiered on October 6, 2021. The two winners have continued working in cake design and lighting, and there are useful places to follow each of them beyond the show.

Rodolfo Goncalves: cake design in New York

Rodolfo's public cake portfolio is @rodolfocakedesigner, where he identifies himself as based in New York City. It is the most direct place to see his cake work and follow his own updates.

A June 2024 profile in The Cinemaholic described his Goloso cake brand and reported that he had become general manager of Berimbau Brazilian Kitchen in late 2023.

Sara Schonour: lighting design and education

Sara runs Luxsi, a practice offering lighting design, strategic consulting and education. Luxsi describes architectural lighting design, project management, workshops and speaking among its services.

She also uses her Baking Impossible experience in STE(A)M outreach. Her Luxsi biography describes school-age outreach programmes and chocolate creations for showrooms and trade shows, so baking remains part of her educational work as well as her television history.

Hear the winners discuss the show

In an October 2022 Society of Women Engineers interview, Sara and Rodolfo joined fellow contestants Jacob Swiezy and Brandi Romines, judge Andrew Smyth and SWE president Dayna Johnson. They discussed their time on Baking Impossible and plans to build an edible landscape and put it through a live stress test at WE22. Listen for their own account of working together.

Revisit their season

Our Baking Impossible show guide has the season dates, contestants and format.