#Sugar rush christmas season 2 full

“I forgot the sour cream,” he said, the sweat visible on his forehead. “We’re making an orange-zest vanilla cupcake,” explained Samantha as they worked, “with a cranberry compote filling and a cardamom, goat cheese and cream frosting.” For the decorations, Samantha thought to make fondant and isomalt seashells, because, well, who wouldn’t, right?Įverything seemed to be going swimmingly until her father pulled the cupcakes out of the oven and found that they were sunken. “My parents used to always take me to the beach on Christmas, so I thought we’d make a Christmas Beach Tree,” said Todd. While frantically mixing, stirring, whipping, rolling, cutting, baking and glazing, Samantha and Todd also had to narrate what they were doing when asked by the judges, one of whom was singer/songwriter Jordan Sparks. Any opportunity I have to use color in my work, I enjoy.” She recalled having made an Eiffel tower cake with her father one time, as well as interpreting cards that people write for cake orders to inspire a specific theme, motif or color scheme. “We’re always bouncing off one another, and enjoy coming up with new ideas for muffins and scones and cakes.

#Sugar rush christmas season 2 full

She and to co-workers share the responsibility of ensuring that The Bakery is full in the morning and that everything flows, she explained. Kardas, who now in her ninth month of pregnancy, has been creating cakes, cupcakes, cookies, muffins, scones and sinfully delicious pastries for the past six years there.

Her skills were good enough to get her in the door at The Bakery, a local institution that has been fueling New Paltz with roasted coffee, café-fresh delights and desserts for the past four decades. “Honestly, I think I learned more being around my dad than I did at the CIA, but that looks better on a résumé,” she said. Kardas also had formal training at the esteemed Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park. “When I was seven years old, my dad started taking me to work with him, and I grew up learning that art,” she said. Her father, Todd Kardas, is a pastry chef at a restaurant in New Jersey. “They found my dad, and then he brought me into it as his partner,” said Kardas about her presence on the popular high-pressured televised bake-off. Samantha Kardas, a baker at The Bakery in New Paltz, recently appeared on the Netflix baking show “Sugar Rush.” (Photo by Lauren Thomas)Īt the ripe old age of 29, Samantha Kardas found herself suddenly transported from the cozy confection kitchen of The Bakery in downtown New Paltz to the bright lights and big stage of Netflix’s popular new series, Sugar Rush Christmas, Season 2.