San Antonio chocolatier Nacho Aguirre proceeds Food stuff Community run with ‘Gingerbread Showdown’

“I’m so grateful that Meals Community retains supplying me alternatives,” Aguirre informed MySA during a recent interview. “It’s brain-blowing that all this is going on. It looks like individuals like to see me on Television, which is fantastic!”

Aguirre’s subsequent role as a culinary judge will start November 15 with the debut of Getaway Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown. As one of the 3 judges, Aguirre will evaluate the abilities of 3 teams of gingerbread artists (AKA gingerbreaders) as they assemble a series of getaway-themed creations.

The five-episode collection will element the rivals creating all the things from a vacation mild present to snow world settings – all out of gingerbread.

“Gingerbreaders are a different breed of bakers,” Aguirre stated. “They choose gingerbread so seriously. They are extremely very pleased of what they do. It’s a way of life.”

In advance of accepting the new gig, Aguirre preferred to make absolutely sure he was bringing anything to the judges’ desk that was essential. Fellow judge Kardea Brown was solid for her present-day Southern household cooking abilities, when interior designer Breegan Jane joined the sequence from HGTV’s Intense Makeover: Residence Edition. For Aguirre, who is at first from Torreón, Mexico, his baking experience and cultural track record were being fantastic for the new present.

“Food and desserts are trending in the way you can link them to your heritage and the flavors you can deliver to them,” he mentioned. “That is exactly where I suit in. My wife Susana and I are normally creating new recipes and attempting new flavors.”

Aguirre reported audiences are likely to be amazed with the style factors that are employed in the gingerbread creations. All the constructs will be lovely will work of art, but that is in no way stopped Aguirre from taking pleasure in the spoils of a baker’s labor. Absolutely nothing can be as well fairly to take in.

“I know the get the job done it will take to develop something quite quite,” Aguirre mentioned. “But the style of it and creating other individuals content is most essential. We want our foodstuff to be tasted simply because it is an extension of our craft.”

With the holidays proper all-around the corner, Aguirre is wanting forward to baking for his family members. Can you imagine what their dessert table is going to glimpse like on Thanksgiving?

“There’s an ongoing joke in my loved ones that whenever my children see a dessert or a cake at the property, the 1st question they question is irrespective of whether it is for sale or it is for them,” Aguirre explained. “It’s quite amusing. I never feel there are too quite a few homes that have that problem.”

Holiday getaway Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown premieres November 15 at 8 p.m. CT on Food Network. The series will also stream on Discovery+.