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A handful of celebs are bringing sugar, spice and everything nice to the latest Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday special.
The seasonal one-episode spin-off of The Great British Baking Show is back this holiday season with four stars: two-time NBA All-Star Baron Davis, Saturday Night Live alum Cheri Oteri, Rules of Engagement actor Oliver Hudson and Abbott Elementary’s Janelle James.
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The fourth year of the Roku Channel special, which aired Monday, Nov. 3, asks the amateur bakers to take on three holiday-themed challenges to present to GBBS royalty Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.
PEOPLE has a look at two of this year’s episode’s silliest moments, including a treat that took a tumble.
The first clip is Hundson presenting his cookie display to Leith and Hollywood. The star-shaped cookies are meant to be suspended by wire hooks to a tree to resemble ornaments but by the time that the judges arrive, all but a few confections are crumbled at the base.
“This is all on purpose, because they are snowflakes and they have fallen. And then I made some earrings for Prue,” the Nashville star joked.
Despite the disarray, the judges were impressed with the cookies. Leith even called them “elegant” and Hollywood echoed the sentiment, saying the cookies are “impressive.”
“The idea of this is if you do look through, you can see into your future,” Hudson suggested, but when Hollywood looked he said he saw, “absolutely nothing.” “I can see stars and shiny lights,” Leith proposed, causing her co-judge to grab her cookie and look for himself.
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Plus, under the watchful eyes of veteran host Casey Wilson and newbie Andrew Rannells, the jokes never stop in the tent, as seen in another clip.
The quick video sees the Girls star congratulating Hudson, saying, “Hey, you really pulled it out in that last round.”
“It felt good. Coming from a family of very famous people, I don’t get a lot of wins,” Hudson responded, referring to his beloved relatives like mom Goldie Hawn and sister Kate Hudson.
“You’re a winner to me, baby,” Rannells said.
“I can maybe rub it in their face ‘What do you got? Huh? Almost Famous?’” Oliver joked, comparing their acting accolades to the cake plate trophy that Baking Show champs win. “‘What’s an Oscar? What, a Golden Globe? You don’t have the plate.’”
The special is one of several Great American Baking Show celebrity editions in Roku’s lineup, including Halloween and Super Bowl-themed specials.
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday streams Nov. 3 exclusively on The Roku Channel, which is free to watch on Roku devices, TheRokuChannel.com, the Roku mobile app, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, and Google TV and other Android TV OS devices.
