Dru Tevis: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Dru Tevis won his season of the Holiday Baking Championship.

Dru Tevis won Holiday Baking Championship season 9, which ran from November 7 to December 19, 2022, as a professionally trained pastry chef out of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He arrived with real kitchen credentials and left with the title. Here is what the record shows about his run and where it leads.

The win

Tevis took the season 9 championship on the December 19, 2022 finale, earning the $25,000 grand prize. Coverage from Delaware outlets including the Cape Gazette and Delaware Live, along with national recaps, documented the final round, in which the last four bakers built cakes themed to popular holiday vacation destinations. His winning bakes included a margarita pie and a Swiss Alp cake. In a candid interview the day after the finale, picked up by ScreenRant, Tevis described how emotionally and physically spent the competition left him, a reminder that these holiday marathons are genuinely draining.

The baker behind the win

Tevis competed as a corporate pastry chef for SoDel Concepts, a well known restaurant group in coastal Delaware, and local reporting placed him in Rehoboth Beach. That professional footing is a common thread among Holiday champions, who often come in as working pastry chefs rather than home bakers. He was crowned as a chef with a company kitchen behind him, not as a hobbyist.

Where things stand now

The strongest verified facts remain his 2022 win, the prize, the winning cakes, and his role as a SoDel Concepts pastry chef in the Rehoboth Beach area at the time. Beyond that, detailed and independently confirmed updates on his current work are limited in the public record, so rather than assert a new venture the record does not clearly support, the honest statement is that his most recent well documented chapter is the championship and the Delaware pastry career surrounding it. Delaware and regional coverage from 2022 remains the clearest snapshot of who he was when he won.

To see where he sits among the other champions, our guide to every Holiday Baking Championship winner traces the full list, and Adam Monette, the season 8 winner right before him, offers a close parallel as another working professional who took the title.

The takeaway for fans

Tevis is a good example of the show's professional lane: a corporate pastry chef who steps out of a busy restaurant group kitchen, wins a national title, and lets the work speak for itself. The vacation themed cakes he built for the finale reward clean assembly and confident structure, and a set of dependable piping bags is part of the toolkit behind that kind of finish. For the full franchise, the Holiday Baking Championship hub gathers every season in one place.