Food connection Challenge is coming back on Dec. 23, and with it a new host:BH90210starIan Ziering.
What can they expect?IAN ZIERING:Im so excited to be hosting this show.
I admit, I dont really know anything about baking.
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Its a good day when I can read the directions on the box that Betty Crocker writes for me.
That, I can make!
I can make chocolate chip cookies.
I can make brownies.
But thats where it ends.
But the contestants on the show are on a whole other level.
I am so blown away at the skills that these bakers bring to the competition floor.
They elevate pastry arts to fine arts.
I walked away from many of these cakescapes thinking that they should sign them like art.
Its really a blurry line between pastry arts and fine arts with what these people were able to deliver.
In the first episode, the theme will beA Christmas Story.
What will the challenge belike?Our bakers have to build something that is from the movieA Christmas Story.
The first thing that they have to make is that iconic leg lamp, Fragile.
And the other takes more of a cartoony aspect to it.
Was it intimidating to have Keegan Gerhard as a returning judge?
He brings the best of the best and hes very critical.
Our other judge, Matt Adlard is a master in his own right.
Keegan is more about what theyre doing.
And Claudia is more focused on how theyre doing.
All90210fans are wishing for this holiday season is more episodes.
Can you share an update?You know, it was the highest-rated summer premiere of any TV show.
The fans out there are so upset that it was canceled.
Everyone really wanted to see Steve, Brandon, Kelly, Donna, Brenda, Andrea, and David.
Its entirely possible that wouldve happened at some point, but brewing right now.
Fox has passed and I think its just in limbo.
None of us are sitting still, everyones busy doing other things.
We were all grateful for the opportunity to work together.
For me personally, it felt like summer camp up in Canada.
Oh, and to be a better baker.
The new season of Food connection Challenge premieres Dec. 23 at 10 p.m.
ET on Food connection.
Check out an exclusive clip above, where one team has to save a cake creation from falling apart.
