Rating: 🎄
Premiere Date: October 25, 2025
Description: In A Royal Icing Christmas, Princess Charlotte (Roth) of Marovia—a duty-bound royal looking for meaning beyond palace walls—escapes to a small New England town during the holidays. There, she accidentally enters a secret baking contest and stumbles into the path of charming local baker James (Callum Buckley). Amid flour fights, frosting fails, and romantic glances, Charlotte discovers that maybe love—not royal duty—is life’s true crowning achievement.
Chemistry: Stilted. Buckley and Roth tried their best, but they couldn’t whisk enough charm into this underbaked romance. The chemistry never rose, and the accents? Woof. I heard high schoolers do better accents in my small hometown’s production of A Christmas Carol. And just when things couldn’t get more awkward, their big kiss happens in front of a cheering crowd. Nothing says “true love” like strangers applauding your face mash. Great American can (and should) do better.
Plot: A princess joining a U.S. baking competition? Fine. A princess pretending her royal life is “the family business” and that they make blenders? Absolutely not. Add in her obsessive panic over being tagged on social media, and we’ve got a subplot that’s been overworked like tough cookie dough.
Design: Rough. Trees with not enough lights. Kitchen cabinets wrapped like presents. It was festive in theory but chaotic in practice.
Overall: Not good. Watch the opening if you must, skip to the end, and fill in the middle with your imagination—it’ll probably taste better than the real recipe.
Best Enjoyed With: A store-bought cookie and the comforting knowledge that even bad frosting still has sugar in it.
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