Loïc Fauteux-Goulet: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Loïc Fauteux-Goulet won his season of The Great Canadian Baking Show.

When Loïc Fauteux-Goulet won season 7 of The Great Canadian Baking Show in November 2023, the celebration was less Toronto media circuit and more small-town British Columbia: he is a high school teacher in Creston, a Kootenay town of a few thousand people, and the regional papers covered his win like a local sports championship. Here is his story since.

The season 7 win

Fauteux-Goulet, then 33, beat finalists Camila Garcia Hernandez of Toronto and Candice Riley of Brampton in the November 19, 2023 finale. The final gauntlet was a stiff one: a Torta Diplomatica signature, a passionfruit mille crepe cake technical, and an antigravity cake showstopper, the kind of structural challenge that sinks most home bakers. CBC's coverage framed him as the B.C. schoolteacher who quietly out-baked the big cities, and he took his place as the seventh name in the full run of champions.

Back to the classroom, on purpose

Asked after the win what came next, Fauteux-Goulet gave one of the most refreshingly honest answers a reality champion has offered: he really enjoyed doing TV and the media side of food, he would happily investigate future opportunities if they came along, and in the meantime it was back to school. He and his partner, he told local press, planned to put down roots in the Kootenays for good.

That is largely what the public record shows since: teaching in Creston, baking shared with an audience through his Instagram account, loicbakes, and the occasional appearance on baking podcasts such as Baking Scraps, where he was interviewed alongside Bake Off champion Peter Sawkins. No bakery, no cookbook, and no publicly documented television follow-up as of this writing.

Where things stand now

Fauteux-Goulet is the show's clearest case of a winner who valued the life he already had. A national title, a return to a classroom in a mountain town, and a standing openness to whatever comes: it is a very Canadian ending, and fans of the show's gentler values tend to cite him as proof the tent attracts the right people.

The takeaway for fans

Season 7 is one of the strongest recent seasons, and the finale's antigravity cake challenge is among the best closing episodes the Canadian edition has produced. Watch it knowing the winner graded homework the following Monday.