Sabrina Degni: Where Are They Now?

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

Sabrina Degni holds a distinction nobody can take from her: she was the first person ever to win The Great Canadian Baking Show, taking the season 1 title in December 2017. At 24, the Montrealer was also the youngest baker in that inaugural tent, a record of sorts that stood until later seasons brought in even younger competitors. Here is what her road after the cake stand has looked like.

The first Canadian champion

Season 1 aired on CBC in the fall of 2017, with Dan Levy and Julia Chan hosting and Bruno Feldeisen and Rochelle Adonis judging. Degni beat out the rest of the field to become the franchise's first Canadian winner, and CBC's finale coverage leaned hard on the charm of a young Montreal baker with Italian family roots taking the inaugural title. The season by season record of every champion who followed her is in every Great Canadian Baking Show winner.

Bakes by Sab

Like most winners of a show with no cash prize, Degni's reward was momentum, and she used it to chase a longstanding dream: her own baking business. She launched Bakes by Sab, a Montreal-based custom bake operation offering cakes and desserts for birthdays, bridal showers, weddings, and corporate events. For fans who had watched her in the tent, it was exactly the sequel you would hope for.

A quieter chapter

Here is the honest part, and it is worth saying plainly because this is common for Canadian winners: Degni has kept a fairly modest public footprint. Her Bakes by Sab site notes that she is not currently taking orders, and that outside of baking she works as a sales assistant and spends her time with family and friends. She has shared baking tips through the show's channels over the years, including chocolate pie pointers for CBC's audience, but she has not pursued the cookbook-and-television route that some other franchise winners have taken.

That is not a sad ending; it is the most common ending. The Canadian show's winners tend to fold the title into their real lives rather than rebuild their lives around it, and Degni, the woman who started the whole list, set that pattern early.

The takeaway for fans

If you are working through the show's history, Degni's season is the natural starting point, and it is a fun time capsule: Dan Levy hosting a baking show two years before Schitt's Creek swept the Emmys. Her win proved the Canadian edition could mint a champion with a genuinely warm story, and every winner since has followed the trail she blazed.