Cooking and baking are both natural occupations or hobbies for romantic comedies to include. In cooking movies, characters can get to know one another while preparing a meal, competing in a culinary competition, or working together to build a restaurant or bakery. These movies about bakers are predictable, but they’re a warm and inviting mix of sweet and savory.

1. The Sweetest Christmas

Hallmark can’t get enough of a good gingerbread competition, which is why Lacey Chabert plays pastry chef Kylie Watson in The Sweetest Christmas, a participant who has advanced to the finals of the American Gingerbread Competition. Kylie is desperate to win the competition, but she is sidetracked by a proposal that never materialized. However, a dashing restaurant owner named Nick may be able to turn things around. You can watch more other movies about food on Thecookingmovie.

2. Truly, Madly, Sweetly

In Truly, Madly, Sweetly – one of the cozy bakery movies – Nikki Deloach is charming. She portrays a cupcake-focused food truck proprietor in San Francisco. Dylan Neal portrays Eric, a finance manager whose aunt dies. Eric’s aunt was a huge supporter and consumer of Natalie’s, which is why the aunt left a previous bakery to both Natalie and Eric. Because the property is historically significant, Eric and Natalie decide to work together to refurbish it. A growing romance, of course, gets in the way of business.

3. The Princess Switch

Vanessa Hudgens plays two parts in The Princess Switch, a Netflix Original. Stacy De Novo, a baker from Chicago, is her more grounded character. Lady Margaret Delacourt, the Duchess of Montenaro, is her more glamorous role. The twins decide to swap places, giving each of them the chance to find true love while walking a mile in the other’s shoes. Those who enjoy this film will want to see The Princess Switch: Switched Again, which is the sequel and other French films about food.

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4. Pizza My Heart

One of Freeform’s best romantic comedies is Pizza My Heart. For years, an Italian family has been feuding over pizza. The Prestolanis and the Montebello families are both proud of their successful businesses, but everything is threatened when Gina Prestolani (Shiri Appleby) and Joe Montebello (Eyal Podello) fall in love. Gina and Joe fall in love against their parents’ desires.

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5. A Gingerbread Romance

Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Duane Henry star in A Gingerbread Romance, a 2018 American television film directed by Richard Gabai and starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Richard Gabai. With Christmas only a few weeks away, Taylor’s employer enters her in a contest in which teams must design and build life-size gingerbread houses. Taylor will most likely be promoted to a post in another city after the competition.

Taylor is paired with Annabelle, a renowned French pastry chef with whom she immediately clashes. When Annabelle leaves, Taylor ends up in a neighborhood bakery, where she meets Adam, a baker and single father. Taylor persuades Adam to join her in the tournament out of desperation, claiming that winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed publicity.

Taylor has been hesitant to name any place ‘home’ for years, fearing that it will only be transient. But the time she spends with Adam and his daughter in their cozy house, decorating for the holidays and seeing the town over the holidays, makes her yearn for a place to call her own.

6. Bread, Love and Dreams

Yoon Shi-yoon, Eugene, Joo Won, and Lee Young-ah star in the 2010 South Korean television drama Bread, Love, and Dreams. This movie about bakers depicts the story of a dedicated teenage baker who overcomes numerous obstacles on his way to becoming Korea’s top baker. This story takes place between the 1970s and the 1990s, beginning with his conception and ending in his mid-twenties. The 30-episode series aired on KBS2 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) from June 9 to September 16, 2010.

With a final episode viewership rating of 50.9 percent, the series was one of the most-watched shows in South Korea in 2010, and it became the 25th best rated drama of all time. It is widely regarded as lead actor Yoon Shi-breakout yoon’s role, catapulting him to worldwide fame and garnering critical acclaim for his sincere acting.

7. The Secret Ingredient

In this movie about bakers, Kelly, a small-town baker, is surprised when she is invited to compete in a Valentine’s Day baking show in New York City – and even more surprised when she runs across her ex-fiancé. Kelly, the proprietor of a bakery, hasn’t given love a second thought since Andrew broke off their engagement to go to culinary school in Paris.

Now that he’s back, their chemistry has returned as well. Kelly is still hurt, and he won’t be able to see Andrew before he goes. But she has no idea that when she is chosen for the Valentine’s Day Bake-Off, Andrew will be there as well. In fact, until the final show, when only two finalists remain, none of the contestants will meet. Win or lose, Andrew’s departure for Paris will be bittersweet because he and Kelly have finally identified the key element for why he should stay – love.

These movies about bakers have a way of touching my heart while also making me hungry. What are your favorite cooking or baking-themed movies? Choose the one and enjoy your films. See more top lists of cooking movies and shows on Thecookingmovie.