Disney's Foodtastic

The Hosts

The following personalities are the hosts, judges, and narrators for Disney's Foodtastic:

Keke Palmer (Host)
@keke

Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer and television personality. Known for playing leading and character roles in comedy-drama productions, she has received a Primetime Emmy Award, six NAACP Image Awards, and nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was included on Time magazine's list of most influential people in the world in 2019.

Chef Benny Rivera (Technical Food Art Expert)
@chefbennyrivera

Chef Rivera is a member of the Food Artist's Group and can be found teaching cake courses and methodologies around the world. He not only specializes in three dimensional sculpted cakes, pumpkins and chocolate, but also sugar paste flowers, buttercream, royal icing and creative fondant techniques. He was featured on The Rachael Ray Show as well as TLC's Fabulous Cakes and My Secret Wedding. He has also been a contestant on The Food Network Challenge, Sugar Dome and two seasons of Halloween Wars. His work has been featured in Brides Magazine, The Knot, New York Magazine, Traveler's Magazine and most recently on the cover of Cake Masters. Chef Benny absolutely loves working with couples, parents and clients to take their ideas for celebration cakes and absolutely bring them to edible life.

Amirah Kassem (Creative Food Art Expert)
@amirahkassem

Amirah specializes in sculpting custom cakes without the use of fondant and is also known for her "Explosion Cake." Her Cara the Unicorn Explosion Cake was featured as Instagram's most memorable trend of 2017. She is also the best-selling author of The Power of Sprinkles: A Cake Book and children's titles The Magical Land of Birthdays series and board-book Bake a Rainbow Cake!

Anthony Mendez (Narrator)
@anthonymendezvo

Anthony Mendez is best known as the narrator on the CW's Jane the Virgin for which he earned two Emmy® nominations (2015 and 2016) in the category of Outstanding Narrator. Anthony received a third Outstanding Narrator nomination (2019) for his work on PBS's three-part documentary series, Wonders of Mexico. 

Media References

• Show Overview - Disney Plus - https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/foodtastic
• PR Announcement - What's On Disney Plus - https://whatsondisneyplus.com/foodtastic-coming-to-disney-this-december/
• PR Announcement - We Got This Covered - https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/disney-plus-announces-foodtastic-the-show-where-people-make-giant-disney-ip-sculptures-out-of-food/

Contestants 

With 11 episodes pending release and each episode featuring teams of 3, we'd estimate that there are well-over 90 individuals participating in total across the series. 

From recent social media announcements, we can confirm a number of contestants:

• Jessica Scott - @jessicamfscott
• Sarah Myers & Shauna Shanks - @highfivecakes - https://www.highfivecakes.com/
• Annie Cooper - @oakcitysourdough - https://oakcitysourdough.com/
• Sono Jones - @sonojones - https://www.commonbondcafe.com/
• Jenna Smith - @smokyhollowbakingco - https://www.smokyhollowbakingco.com/
• Melanie Baker - @bakemeacakecali - https://www.bakemeacakecali.com/
• Miko - @mikokawhokuy
• Anek Karina - @anek_karina
• Liu Mei-Antonio - @lulu007
• Jonathan Elias - @pastryguru
• Tai Davis - @iofthetyler

Episodes

From IMDB we can confirm that the following Disney IP will be featured:

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Introducing Micro-Girl
• Star Wars: The Rebel Mechanic
• Toy Story: Toy Doctor to the Rescue
• Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Best Friend
• The Avengers: Sorceress by Day
• Cars: Back on the Track
• The Lion King: Queen of the Jungle
• Up: An Explorer's Adventure
• Wreck-It Ralph: Ralph's New Game
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Hunt for Barbosa
• The Muppets: A Chicken Day Miracle

The Results

Tune into Disney+ on December 15th to see which teams win each episode. We will summarize key results here after the airing date!