Plot Synopsis

Pastry chef Stephanie Boswell shares her years of experience and expertise with failing bakery owners to help save real struggling businesses. In each one-hour episode, Stephanie and her team focus on making over the business of one bakery. To stop these pastry shops from bleeding money, she must freshen up stale recipes and revamp dingy storefronts -- along with HGTV designers Lauren Makk and Breegan Jane -- to get customers back in the door. Stephanie does not sugarcoat the truth from the bakery owners as she diagnoses their problems. But with her sharp eyes, razor wit and loving compassion, Stephanie can transform these battered pastry shops and burnt-out bakeries to gleaming showrooms filled with delicious sweets and vibrant, eye-popping desserts.

In the series opener, Stephanie heads to Flint, MI to The Cookie Jar. Owner Teressa Morris has poured every penny she has into her bakery and is struggling to keep the lights on. Her Million Dollar Cookies are epic but one hit menu item is not enough to keep her in business. Stephanie teaches Teressa how to capitalize on her signature cookie to expand her menu and bring in new revenue streams. Stephanie restores more than just the bakery, as she instills confidence in Teressa to be a stronger leader.

Later in the season, the Los Angeles third-generation family-owned bakery, 27th Street Bakery, is in desperate need of Stephanie's help. Owner and Olympic gold medalist Jeanette Bolden Pickens and her family have been making mouthwatering pies for nearly 100 years, but for the bakery to survive, she needs to renovate the space and bring more flavor to the menu to entice walk-in customers. Stephanie also uses her expertise to help a crumbling Greek bakery owned by a molecular geneticist that is losing over $60,000 a year, and a cake shop whose one-off over-the-top celebrity cake orders can't sustain the business.
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On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT, Food Network premiered "Frozen Profits," the season finale of BAKE OR BREAK. Molecular geneticist Kostas thought that owning a bakery would be a breeze, but four years in, the old-school bakery he bought is still losing almost $60,000 a year. Faced with limited baking skills, a failing love life and a staff he doesn't trust, Kostas thinks he has six months until he'll have to pull the plug on his dreams of a Greek bakery. He needs pastry chef Stephanie Boswell's help to sort out a simple solution for revamping his menu and bringing life back into his dingy storefront.