The Secret Ingredient
Kelly gets a place on a baking show in New York, where she runs into her ex-fiancé.
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Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery
2016 · 85 min★ 6.9Small TownValentine's Day settingStory setting: BakeryHannah Swensen's Cookie Jar bakery faces a new rival when the Quinn sisters open a shop in Lake Eden. After one owner is murdered, the competition and the bakery's local standing feed Hannah's investigation.
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Hannah Swensen is chosen to judge Lake Eden's first dessert bake-off, then a fellow judge is found murdered. The competition provides the baking setting for her next investigation.
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The Secret Ingredient
2020 · 82 min★ 6.8Small TownA choice between past and futureValentine's Day settingSmall-town baker Kelly gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiancé.
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Hannah Swensen runs The Cookie Jar, where her chocolate chip cookies bring neighbors through the door. When her friend and delivery driver is found dead behind the shop, Hannah follows clues through the people she knows while Detective Mike Kingston urges her to leave the case alone. The bakery becomes a gathering place for both customers and the investigation.
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Casey and Sam inherit their mothers' feud and face off at Emeryville's pumpkin pie contest. Their rival bakeries and the contest keep baking at the center of the family conflict and romance.
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Radio host Lacey (Taylor Cole) is hosting a bachelor bake-off to raise money to save her radio station. When her star bachelor backs out, she enlists Zac (Tyler Hynes), a visiting businessman, to fill the spot.
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Two former schoolmates work together to sell his uncle's Mexican bakery, known for gingerbread cookies said to grant wishes. The bakery and its magical seasonal specialty are central to their plan.
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Hannah Swensen has been asked to teach a baking class at the college in town, but her equipment is tampered with causing an explosion that the fire department rules an accident. Soon, a colleague ends up dead and Hannah begins to put together the puzzle of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder. Hannah leans on her friends and family to collect the breadcrumbs of foul play and put them together, and meets a different side of law and order when Lake Eden's prosecuting attorney Chad Norton (Webster) enters her life.
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Maddie (Julie Gonzalo), who owns a cupcake business, gets help from an investment banker, but a potential new romance between them is complicated by the unexpected return of her first love, Nate.
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Natalie, a cupcake food truck owner has always dreamed of owning her own bakery. Eric has always wanted his own business. When an inheritance throws these two opposites together, neither could have imagined what fate had in store for them.
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A corporate agent is sent to a small town to buy a cookie company and shut down its factory. When she starts falling in love with the factory's owner, the town's Christmas spirit over takes her.
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Joy steps in to chair Christmas Valley's annual Cookie Crawl, where homeowners share holiday treats and compete for the Golden Wreath. The baking event becomes her responsibility while her aunt recovers.
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A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe
2022 · 84 min★ 6.4Small TownCareer versus family prioritiesChristmas settingAnnie Cooper has big shoes to fill when she takes over as CEO of her late grandmother's small-town cookie company.
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Pastry chef Kylie enters an American gingerbread competition and turns to an old culinary-school boyfriend when her oven breaks. Their late-night baking partnership puts her café plans, contest entry and rekindled romance together.
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An aspiring crafter working in her small town's bakery shows the new big-city CEO that it's people and not machines which make the business a success.
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The Baker's Son
2021 · 87 min★ 6.2When Matt's bread loses its magic, island locals turn to his childhood friend Annie for help. The community's concern over his baking brings the old friends together.
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Two schoolteachers take their rivalry to a new level, while they scramble to win a holiday baking contest and the affections of a handsome single father.
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Kaleigh is fired as popular column writer by the new editor at The Globe in NYC. She heads to her sister near Tahoe, CA, and helps in her bakery the weeks before Xmas. The single editor shows up - to right a wrong.
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Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so he asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of a restaurant, although they started off on the wrong foot, she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco's former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco's former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco's temper, will they be able to pull it off? During this time, Marco also finds himself attracted to her, but she already has a boyfriend.
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The Sweeter Side of Life
2013 · 81 min★ 5.7Small TownCareer versus family prioritiesWedding Anniversary settingA big-city housewife is dumped by her sleazy husband, and she finds herself having to adjust to small town life in her father's bakery.
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Architect Taylor partners with local baker Adam to design and build a life-size gingerbread house for a contest. The project could bring exposure to his bakery and affect her career plans.
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On leave from the U. S. Army, a man (Dean Cain) helps his wife (Kristy Swanson) run a bakery.
About this list
22 movies · Updated 2026-09-26
Baking, a baking business or a baking competition must shape the main story or a substantial subplot. A general cooking tag or shared meal does not qualify. Eligible films follow saved IMDb rating.
Baking gives these characters something to make, protect or compete over. A recipe, bakery or baking contest can change the work and relationships around it. These stories give baking a substantial role, beyond a passing kitchen scene.
Frequently asked questions
Does a cooking scene make a film a baking movie?
No. Baking, a bakery or a baking competition needs to shape the main story or a substantial subplot.