Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris ready, steady, bake!
Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson's cosy English village feels very far way as, thankfully, does her commitment-phobic ex, probably already kissing someone else under the mistletoe. But Rachel hasn't come to Paris to mope she's come to bake. Hard.
Because the search for Paris's next patisserie apprentice is about to begin! And super-chef judge Henri Salernes is an infamously tough cookie. But Rachel isn't about to let her confidence (or pastry) crumble. She's got one week, mounds of melt-in-the-mouth macaroons and towers of perfect profiteroles to prove that she really is a star baker.
As well as clouds of flour, and wafts of chocolate and cinnamon, there's definitely a touch of Christmas magic in the air Rachel hasn't come to Paris looking for a fairy-tale romance, but the city of love might gift-wrap her one anyway
Not even a dusting of icing sugar could make The Parisian Christmas Bake Off a more perfect Christmas treat!
Rachel's journey from a rural town to the romantic city of Paris is a comedy of life, filled with the best moments of self-discovery. As she bakes her way to the top, she finds that the small town girl within her is not lost, but has found a new family in the world of patisserie fiction.
For fans of Cathy Bramley (The Sunrise Sisterhood), Jo Thomas (Countdown to Christmas), Sarah Bennett (Where We Belong), Lisa Hobman (Coming Home to the Highlands), and Jill Steeples (Winter at the Dog & Duck).