The Enchanted Christmas Cake! Can Erica Durance Find Her Grandmother's Secret Recipe and Save the Family's Bakery?

Author:
K.L. Connie Wang
Dec 14, 2021

Let's all admit one of the best things about the holidays is the food. The cookie exchanges, all the delicious side dishes to go along with turkey or ham or goose, even the oft-maligned fruitcake has its place at the dinner table. Do you have a family recipe, something that is made every holiday season? Something that marks the start of the holidays once that memorable scent wafts through the air? In Lifetime's newest yuletide movie, The Enchanted Christmas Cake, one baker struggles to recreate her grandmother's famed recipe. Here's what we know about the It's A Wonderful Lifetime movie, including a sneak peek!

What is The Enchanted Christmas Cake about?

After recently losing her grandmother, Gwen (Erica Durance) is struggling to run their bakery, regain the Christmas spirit and figure out her grandmother’s magical recipe for the town’s legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake. So, when a high-end chef comes to town to film a Christmas special, Gwen reluctantly agrees to help the producer Gavin (Robin Dunne) prepare for the shoot to help support the bakery. As sparks fly, will she discover that Gavin is the secret ingredient she was missing all along?

Who's in The Enchanted Christmas Cake cast?

Erica Durance

Erica Durance is best known for her role as Lois Lane opposite Tom Welling in Smallville and as Dr. Alex Reid in Saving Hope. She previously starred with Robin Dunne in SYFY's Beyond Sherwood Forest and UPtv's The Christmas Chalet.

Durance also serves as an executive producer on the film.

Robin Dunne

The Toronto actor is also a writer and co-authored the Roxy Hunter series for Nickelodeon, which he starred in. He previously starred in Sanctuary for SYFY and The Twelve Trees of Christmas on Lifetime. He serves as an executive producer and is also one of the co-writers of the film.