Meet Sumera Syed, the Dallas-area baker making it on Food Network

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Meet Sumera Syed, the Dallas-area baker making it on Food Network
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Watch her on ‘Bake It ‘Til You Make It,’ which premieres Dec. 26, 2022.

in 2014. But she seems like she’s made for TV: Syed is a Dallas-area resident who grew up in an Indian-Pakistani household in England. She never went to pastry school and taught herself to bake.What’s more, she was originally more interested in cooking than baking — two culinary disciplines that TV chefs often say don’t overlap.

During one of the scenes in "Bake It 'Til You Make It," Sumera Syed enters the Fort Worth Cake Expo. On other parts of the Food Network show, Syed has to travel by plane with her desserts — a risk.cast member. Anything dessert-like would have been made on a stovetop or was deep fried in her home. “It wasn’t until my mum got a cookbook and it had pictures in there that showed Western baking,” she says. She remembers seeing a gingerbread house in a cookbook and wanting to make it.

“I just remember thinking, ‘Wow, why don’t we have anything like that?’” Today, the desserts she likes to make tend to use Persian flavors: saffron, pistachio, fennel seeds and the like. Having grown up in Muslim household in England, Syed’s family doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas. She began celebrating Christmas at age 18 and you can watch her cheerfully making desserts from her Dallas-area kitchen in an Instagram series she calls the 12 days of Christmas Cookies by

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