Blayre Wright: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Blayre Wright won her season of the Halloween Baking Championship.

Season 8 of the Halloween Baking Championship ran from September 12 to October 31, 2022, ending on Halloween night itself, and the last baker standing was Blayre Wright from the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. A trained pastry chef with her own cake studio, she has since built one of the more entrepreneurial post-win careers in the franchise. Here is where she is now.

The win

Wright took the season 8 title, the $25,000 prize, and one of the stranger bonus prizes in baking television: a trip to the ten most haunted hotels in America, which is thematically perfect and slightly menacing. Her hometown paper, LNP, interviewed her right after the finale, where she called the win surreal, and central Pennsylvania coverage treated the result as a local victory for the Lancaster baking scene.

Flouretta Sweet

Wright's business is Flouretta Sweet, a home-based luxury cake design studio specializing in custom wedding cakes and high-end celebration work. Unlike a storefront bakery, it is a deliberately boutique operation, and the championship title slotted neatly into its branding: her clients are hiring a Food Network champion by name. She has continued running the studio ever since, with reporting indicating a family relocation from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire in 2025, taking the business north with her.

Whisk Management

The most distinctive thing Wright did with her platform was start talking shop. In 2023 she launched Whisk Management, a podcast for what she calls cakers, bakers, and sweet entrepreneurs, focused on the unglamorous half of a cake business: pricing, client management, and actually making money from custom work. Episodes run twice a month with industry guest interviews, and the show has earned spots on lists of notable baking podcasts. It is a smart lane; plenty of winners teach decorating, but few teach the business underneath it.

Where things stand now

Wright's current chapter is a working one: the Flouretta Sweet studio, the podcast, and a growing profile as a baking business voice rather than a television personality. Of the franchise's recent champions, she has made the most deliberate pivot from "person who won a show" to "person other bakers learn from," and the podcast means her post-win story is unusually well documented in her own words.

She won the season after Renee Loranger and the year before Hollie Fraser, and every champion in the show's history is listed in our guide to Halloween Baking Championship winners. The full season record lives on the show hub.