Spring Baking Championship: Who Won Each Season?

Spoiler note: this post names the winner of every Spring Baking Championship season.

Spring Baking Championship is Food Network's pastel-and-flowers answer to the tent, running every spring since 2015, with challenges themed around Easter, garden parties, and warm-weather entertaining. Below is the complete list of champions, pulled from our Spring Baking Championship show record, where every winner is verified against a cited source.

Every Spring Baking Championship winner

A franchise that keeps casting north of the border

Two of the last two champions, Steven Tran and Priya Winsor, both came from Canada rather than the United States, a pattern that shows up across Food Network's whole baking championship lineup as casting has widened its net in recent seasons, the same trend that shows up in the Holiday Baking Championship's own most recent winner. Season 1 winner Andy Chlebana is also worth knowing: he came in as a trained pastry chef and instructor, and his win helped set the template for a franchise that regularly mixes credentialed professionals with talented amateurs in the same bracket.

Who runs the show

Nicole Weir has hosted Spring Baking Championship for the majority of its run, and the judging panel has centered on Nancy Fuller and Duff Goldman, both of whom also anchor the Holiday Baking Championship panel, giving the two shows a shared identity beyond the format alone. The third judging chair has rotated through several pastry professionals over the years, refreshing the panel's perspective season to season.

What the challenges actually look like

Spring Baking Championship leans into its season the way its siblings do into theirs. Preheat challenges tend to riff on Easter and Mother's Day themes early in a season's run, while main heat challenges push toward garden-party centerpieces, layered cakes with fresh floral decoration, and lighter, brighter flavor profiles than the show's autumn and winter counterparts ask for. Contestants are scored on the same two axes as the rest of the franchise, taste and technique, but the visual bar for a spring-themed showstopper tends to run higher than a typical weekly signature bake, since so much of the round's brief is built around presentation.

The prize

Like the rest of Food Network's baking championship franchise, Spring Baking Championship pays its winner $25,000 rather than the larger purses offered by some competing formats. The consistency of that prize figure across Holiday, Halloween, Kids, and Spring Baking Championship is one more sign of how tightly these four shows share a production template, right down to the trophy and the studio kitchen they're filmed in.

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Spring Baking Championship is one season in Food Network's larger baking-championship calendar. The winter counterpart crowns its own champions in the Holiday Baking Championship, the fright-themed sibling is covered in Halloween Baking Championship winners, and the youngest bakers get their own bracket in the Kids Baking Championship winners list. If the season's pastel showstoppers have you wanting to bake something of your own, a springform pan and a couple of well-shaped cake pans cover most of what the show's judges actually ask contestants to build.