
“I could never do the thing where each week they eliminate somebody. “It’s a one-and-done type thing – not one of those that carries over from week to week, thank goodness,” says Ham. Teena Ham’s blue cabin gingerbread build from 2020. For Ham’s episode, titled “Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas,” the theme was Monster Christmas.

In each of the five episodes of Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown, which is hosted by Jesse Palmer of The Bachelor (season 5), three teams of the nation’s best gingerbread artists and their baking assistants face off, creating gingerbread builds and a surprise dessert based on a specific theme. Even though it’s been neat seeing myself on the commercials for the show, it really is stressful to see yourself on TV!”īut, let’s be honest: Compared to competing against two other teams with cameras filming your every move and celebrity judges critiquing you – and knowing that it’s all going to be aired on national television – watching the show will be a piece of cake. “Either way, I’ll be watching the TV peeking between my fingers. “At least if I get my tail kicked by the other amazing gingerbread extremists at nationals, I can just think, Well, I’ll just go watch me on TV, since this is over,” the training program coordinator in the College of Charleston Division of Information Technology laughed before the show aired.

Teena Ham’s 2020 gingerbread creation won the South Carolina Gingerbread Creation Contest and took Notable Builder Award in the Savannah Gingerbread Trail.
