Nataliia Shevchenko: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Nataliia Shevchenko won her season of The Great Canadian Baking Show.

When Nataliia Shevchenko won season 3 of The Great Canadian Baking Show in November 2019, she had been in Canada for barely two years. The Edmonton baker moved from Ukraine in 2017, carrying recipes learned at her mother's side, and turned them into one of the most dominant runs the Canadian tent has seen. Here is her story since.

A record-setting season

Shevchenko did not just win season 3; she ran through it, earning Star Baker three times (Cake Week, Biscuits Week, and Pie Week), which CBC noted as a record for the show at that point. Her signature was Eastern European technique: intricate breads and technically ambitious cakes rooted in the Ukrainian baking of her childhood. The win made her the third name on the list of Great Canadian Baking Show champions, and arguably the most technically decorated of the early winners.

Baking as heritage

After the season, Shevchenko's baking life stayed close to her roots. She presented a baking masterclass for the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in Alberta, teaching traditional techniques to a bake-along audience, and CBC's coverage of her win emphasized the family thread: she bakes for her nieces and her sister-in-law, who followed her to Canada. Her win was also a local news event in Edmonton, covered by CBC News as a hometown victory.

Where things stand now

Shevchenko took the common path for Canadian winners: real life first, baking woven through it. Public profiles describe her as working as a customer account administrator, with a steady stream of baking orders on the side that she shares through Instagram. She has not published a cookbook or launched a storefront, at least not publicly, and beyond her community teaching appearances her footprint has stayed modest. Given the events in Ukraine since her win, her role sharing Ukrainian baking culture in Canada reads as more meaningful now than it did in 2019.

The takeaway for fans

Season 3 is one of the strongest seasons to watch for pure technique, and Shevchenko's three Star Baker episodes are the highlights. Hers is also a classic Canadian-tent story: an immigrant baker, two years in the country, winning a national title with her mother's recipes. The show has never produced a better argument for its own existence.