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Now, along with my co-creator and husband Kevin, I'm pursuing my lifelong dream of teaching people my trade and sharing my culinary adventures and Bold Baking secrets with other Bold Bakers everywhere. We currently live with our three-year-old son, George, and dog Waffles in the Los Angeles area.

Gemma Stafford | My husband Kevin and I made pancakes together using my Pancakes for Two recipe. Which pancake creation would you choose?

Now I live in sunny Los Angeles, California where I host and produce a baking show 'Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking' for the digital space, specializing in over the top bold creations with Irish flair.

Many protein mug cake recipes suffer from dryness because they don't contain enough fat. They use wheat or oat flour, protein powder, and no eggs or oils. Naturally, it's going to be very dry with these ingredients.

This is likely because your mug is too small, or you added too much baking powder. Measure accurately and make sure your mug is at least 10oz in volume. Why is my chocolate mug cake rubbery or dry? A rubbery mug cake is indicative of being overcooked, or incorrect measurements.

So for a single-serving mug cake, just skip the egg; a whole egg will overpower the small amount of batter (and it's pretty tough to divide an egg in quarters). Luckily, you don't need the egg—a pinch of baking powder is enough to help the batter rise up the sides of the mug.

Do They Stay at the House Where the Tent Is Located? No. The contestants stay at a nearby hotel during the weekends and travel to the tent via minibus during competition days before returning home during the week, Quinn told Cosmopolitan. The judges and hosts are put up in a hotel, though a different one.

Sally McKenney loves sprinkles—a passion she began sharing on her blog, Sally's Baking Addiction, in 2011. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she settled in the Baltimore area after earning her B.A. in Communication with a concentration in advertising and a minor in marketing.

Where does filming take place? Filming takes place in Toronto, Canada.

Walker says a casting director for the Big Bake reached out to her after seeing her cakes on social media, and the show filmed in Toronto. In keeping with the contest's “wreck the halls” theme, her team's design involved a leaning Christmas tree with several elves on the tree.