I don’t think I will ever understand the Christmas movies where someone is looking for The Perfect Recipe for something. Food is subjective. What you think is Perfect might be Complete Trash to someone else. There is no The Perfect Recipe.

Julia (Cory Lee) is a celebrity pastry chef looking for the perfect gingerbread recipe for her newest cookbook. When she asks for submissions from the public, she gets a basket of cookies from a Wisconsin bakery owned by Kris (Yannick Bisson). His bakery isn’t doing so well financially so Julia offers to help him increase his sales in exchange for his gingerbread recipe.

There isn’t a lot to say about Baking All The Way. It is a fairly typical bakery movie, except that we don’t get to see any actual baking happening. We see them brainstorm some gingerbread-themed treats for their 12 Treats Of Christmas special but we never see them making any of them. (Well, we see him rolling out some dough. That’s it.) It would have been nice to see some actual baking happening in the bakery, even if it was a montage of screwing around in the kitchen.

Otherwise, Baking All The Way is a fine movie. There’s little to no chemistry between Lee and Bisson. They seem more like colleagues so the romance at the end is a little jarring. I would rate it as another movie to turn on while you do something else. But maybe you could get some recipe ideas despite not seeing any actual baking. That might be a plus.