Let's meet Minnesota local Jai Xiong, a pastry chef who appears on 'Spring Baking Championship' on the Food Network.
Minnesota native Jai Xiong is a contestant on Season Nine of Food Network's Spring Baking Championship. She hails from Amour Patisserie, and creates delights for patrons that come with strawberry shortcake, wedding muffins, and the entirety in between, in keeping with the bakery's Instagram account.
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Let's get to grasp the chief chef and owner of the bakery, who is competing against 11 gifted contestants to win the ultimate prize of $25,000, all whilst wowing audience with fantastic and drool-worthy confections we'd die to nibble on.
So, who's Jai Xiong of 'Spring Baking Championship'?
In June of 2021, Jai based Amour Patisserie in St. Paul, Minn. The bakery is described as that includes "Korean- and French-inspired custom luxury cakes and desserts" and the pictures online are making us crave sugar!
As Jai gushed on Instagram about her bakery, "This has been my dream ever since I was in high school and it has been such an incredible accomplishment to make it a reality. I still can’t believe that, as of today, I am a business owner!"
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Prior to launching her dream trade, Jai labored as an govt chef for a country membership. "After working in the hospitality industry for almost a decade, I was mentally exhausted [and] overworked, and [I] felt suffocated," she famous about the trade she felt in her heart "it was time for."
At the age of 19, Jai had attempted launching a home-based bakery trade, and Amour Patisserie is basically a rebrand of that original thought.
Jai shared together with her fans that her folks are her greatest inspiration for the industry. "I grew up helping my parents run their own food business for local Hmong festivals," she shared, adding, "Their dedication to their craft in perfecting every single recipes, fueled my passion for baking."
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Jai was once approached by the Food Network for 'Spring Baking Championship.'
Jai shared in February of 2023 that she used to be approached by way of the Food Network to be a contestant on Season 9 of Spring Baking Championship.
"I hope you all will join in watching me compete and have a good laugh at all my awkwardness and clumsiness," Jai joked in her post, including, "It was such an incredible journey that was both thrilling and challenging. I am grateful for the opportunity to have taken part in this with a fantastic group of talented chefs."
The new truth superstar is already successful lovers together with her infectious personality. As one viewer enthused on Twitter, "I would buy a cake from Jai." And that individual isn't alone in being group Jai the entire method.
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Jai is competing against chefs from Mississippi to South Carolina to Vermont and Florida. According to her bio at the Food Network site, and because the name of her bakery suggests, Jai "always bakes with love."
We want her the easiest of luck on Spring Baking Championship. New episodes air Mondays at 8 p.m. EST at the Food Network.
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