Common Sense Media Review
By Ashley Moulton
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Sugary sweet baking competition with tried and true format.
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Baketopia
What's the Story?
BAKETOPIA is a baking competition show featuring amazing confections and an equally sweet host, YouTuber Rosanna Pansino. Amateur and professional bakers cook up their version of viral-worthy baking trends. In the Tier One challenge, contestants make a smaller-scale dessert. In the Final Tier challenge, the bakers make highly technical works of art in cake form. Their work is judged based on taste, presentation, and creativity by the "Cake Council" (Pansino, and baking experts Donal Skehan and Timbo Sullivan). The winner takes home a grand prize of $10,000 and the colorful Baketopia trophy.
Is It Any Good?
Kid fans of Rosanna Pansino's wildly popular YouTube channel (or baking competition shows in general) will enjoy Baketopia. Kids will enjoy the incredible baking wonderland set, Pansino's outlandish outfits, and the beautiful cake creations the highly skilled contestants bake. Adults may find that the series falls a bit flat. It has all the ingredients of an enjoyable cooking show (popular host, amazing cakes), but its predictable format lacks a hook to keep viewers' interest. Pansino herself has the same over-excitable and friendly persona as her YouTube videos, but since her role is limited as a host, she's not enough to carry a whole show. Grown-ups will appreciate that the contestants and judges are very polite to each other. Besides the product placement throughout the set, there's little that's problematic in this show. Parents can feel good about letting their mini foodies watch Baketopia, but it may be too boring to watch together as a family.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the desserts featured on the show. Do you think you could try to recreate any of them in your own kitchen?
Did you notice logos for any products in the kitchen? How do you think they got there? How do the show's producers decide which brands to show and which to hide?
TV Details
- Premiere date : March 25, 2021
- Cast : Rosanna Pansino , Donal Skehan , Timbo Sullivan
- Network : Max
- Genre : Game Shows
- Topics : Cooking
- TV rating :
- Last updated : September 30, 2025
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