Jasmin Bell: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Jasmin Bell won season three of Halloween Baking Championship.

Jasmin Bell took the third season of the Halloween Baking Championship in October 2017, winning the six-episode run as a pastry artist from Seattle, Washington. The 2017 season ran from the September 25 premiere through the October 30 finale, the show's first year at six episodes after two shorter opening seasons. Among the show's early champions, she is the clearest case of the win doing exactly what a win is supposed to do: powering up a business that was already good.

The light-up pumpkin cake

Bell sealed her title in the season finale with a light-up pumpkin cake, a showpiece that captured what the judges consistently reward on this show: real engineering in service of the Halloween theme, backed by pastry that tastes as good as it photographs. Season three was also the first year of the John Henson hosting era, with Carla Hall, Lorraine Pascale, and Zac Young on the panel, so Bell won in front of what became the show's classic judging core.

Bells Pastries

Bell's post-show story runs through her own business, Bells Pastries, based in the Seattle area. The shop's specialty is custom work with personality: colorful cookies, cakes, and macarons commissioned around themes from the reality show Survivor to Led Zeppelin, which is a fitting niche for someone whose title was won on themed showpieces. The business also runs baking classes, both private sessions and open group classes, making her one of the champions who turned television credibility into teaching as well as commissions.

Life updates

Two personal milestones are part of her public story: she married in 2018 and now goes by Jasmin Bell Smith, and she and her husband welcomed a daughter in early 2022. Her business Instagram, where she posts under the Bells Pastries name, is the best place to see her current work, and the Bells Pastries website carries her commission and class offerings.

The honest picture

Bell has not chased the television circuit since her win; there is no documented follow-up competition run or national media project. Instead the pattern is steady: a working pastry artist with a healthy custom-order business, classes, and a local reputation that a Food Network title only strengthened. In the where-are-they-now ledger, that counts as a clean success story, the small-business version rather than the celebrity version.

Season three's champion is also a good reminder of how deep the show's bench of winners runs; the full list, from the 2015 debut through the current era, is in every Halloween Baking Championship winner.