Kim Goldfeder Clarke: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Kim Goldfeder Clarke won her season of The Great American Baking Show.

Kim Goldfeder Clarke won season 8 of The Great American Baking Show, which premiered on The Roku Channel on April 11, 2025 with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith judging. A Long Island theater kid turned home baking obsessive, she is one of the franchise's most colorful recent champions, and her first year with the title has been busy. Here is the story so far.

The season 8 win

Goldfeder Clarke, of Oceanside, New York, beat a field of eight, with Adela Mou and Daniel Freiburger as her fellow finalists. In the "celebration of spring" finale she produced a cinnamon carrot cake with a fondant bunny, a cherry rhubarb pie, and a rosemary focaccia, and told interviewers afterward that time stood still when her name was called. It was, she noted, her fourth year applying for the show, a persistence stat every aspiring contestant should bookmark. She is the eighth name in the full list of Great American Baking Show winners.

From the stage to the stand mixer

Her backstory is pure New York: born and raised on Long Island, a career that ran through acting and musical theater, then animal rescue advocacy, and a home life in Oceanside since 2002 with her husband Gerald, a retired NYPD officer, her mother, and two bulldogs. The bulldogs matter more than you would think; she is also the person behind Mr. Bentley's World, a popular bulldog social media page with tens of thousands of followers. Long Island press, from the Herald to Daily Voice, covered her win as a hometown triumph.

Ya Mom's in the Kitchen

Her baking lives under the gloriously Long Island brand name Ya Mom's in the Kitchen, which spans her website, Instagram, YouTube channel, and Facebook page. Since the win she has done the champion's media lap, including an appearance on NBC's Today Show in April 2025 sharing behind-the-scenes stories from the tent, plus interviews across reality TV outlets. As of this writing there is no announced cookbook or storefront; the public record shows a content-and-appearances champion, and an energetic one.

The takeaway for fans

Season 8 is a strong recent season, and Goldfeder Clarke is its heart: a four-time applicant in her Oceanside kitchen who simply refused to stop until the tent let her in. Watch the finale for the fondant bunny, then find the bulldogs; you will not regret either.