CHECKING IN WITH FOOD NETWORK CHAMPION JEN BARNEY!

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Jen Barney, owner of Stoddard’s Meringue Bakery, won Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship last year. This week, she returns to Food Network for the Holiday Baking Championship’s Homecoming Special. It will air Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and December 29th! More on the show from Food Network:

Six previous Holiday Baking Championship winners step back into the kitchen for a new competition judged by Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale. Competitors Maeve Rochford, Jason Smith, Jen Barney, Jordan Pilarski, Nacho Aguirre and Michelle Antonishek bring their very best for a shot at a second Holiday Baking Champion title. In the pre-heat, the bakers are teamed up to turn the lightest of all pastries — pate a choux — into eclair holiday light strings. For the main heat, the teams take on the metallic trend with stunning monochromatic gold and silver Christmas cakes.

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