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s16e10 · 2025-11-04
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The Great British Bake Off
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Over 10 weeks, 12 of the best amateur bakers in Britain will whisk, knead, ice, beat and bake their way through classic British cakes, perfect patisserie, Italian delights, sticky caramel constructions and elaborate layered puddings. All 12 will be hoping to impress with their skill, creativity, knowledge and passion to clinch the Bake Off Crown. Each of the 30 new challenges have been carefully designed by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith to reveal just who is a star baker.
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15 this season · 179 totals05e01 Cake 2014-08-06 19:00
Cake
As the 12 new bakers enter the tent for the very first time, their first Signature Challenge is to make a swiss roll. But with such a seemingly simple challenge comes a risk - who will have the tightest roll? Whose roll will split? Should the bakers go for the classic or push the boat out to impress?
s05e02 Biscuits 2014-08-13 19:00
Biscuits
The bakers cook biscuits for a cheese course, Mary's Florentines and finally a 3D biscuit scene showstopper.
s05e03 Bread 2014-08-20 19:00
Bread
Bread is on the menu, and the bakers must bake 12 perfect rye bread rolls, shaped in any way they like and using as much rye flour as they dare. Paul's technical challenge is his recipe for ciabatta loaves. But which bakers will listen to his words of wisdom and which ones will lose their nerve?
s05e04 Desserts 2014-08-27 19:00
Desserts
Having seen the bakers make cake, biscuits and bread, Mary and Paul up the ante - for the first time, we see how the bakers cope with multi-tasking across several baking skills at once. For their signature challenge, the bakers must bake saucy puds - delicate sponges hiding a gooey saucy filling or a saucy surprise at the bottom. Also in this show, Sue Perkins explores the origins of the Paignton pudding.
s05e05 Pies and Tarts 2014-09-03 19:00
Pies and Tarts
Almost halfway through the Bake Off and the remaining bakers are facing pies and tarts. Starting with a signature custard tart that gives more than one of them a wobble, the bakers must make sweet custard tarts of their own invention. After this, Paul sets the bakers mini pear pies; one of the more unusual technical challenges that the Bake Off has seen.
s05e06 European Cakes 2014-09-10 19:00
European Cakes
Past halfway in their baking marathon and the remaining six bakers face three European cakes. For their signature challenge the bakers are asked to bake yeast-leavened cakes, and Mary sets the bakers their most demanding technical challenge yet in which they must make a Swedish princess torte.
s05e07 Pastry 2014-09-17 19:00
Pastry
The remaining bakers are asked to make signature savoury parcels, ranging from pasties to wellingtons to samosas and even exploring the fame of the beloved cornish pasty which has spread much further than you would think - to Mexico. After this, the bakers must make show-stopping eclairs.
s05e08 Advanced Dough 2014-09-24 19:00
Advanced Dough
It's the quarter-finals of the Bake Off and only five bakers remain. Asked to make enriched sweet fruit loaves for their signature challenge, the bakers must work with soft dough to create works of art for Paul and Mary to critique. The technical challenge stretches them to the limit and finally, a show-stopper that takes the ordinary into the extraordinary.
s05e09 Semi-Final - Patisserie 2014-10-01 19:00
Semi-Final - Patisserie
It's semi-final time and the tension is palpable as the bakers begin Patisserie Week. The semi-finalists are challenged to make signature baklava - two different types of any flavour they like, but with the crisp flaky layers of perfectly pulled filo pastry. Next up is the penultimate technical challenge of the series, which sees the bakers make layers of a different kind.
s05e10 The Final 2014-10-08 19:00
The Final
It's the final...from thousands of applicants just 12 bakers made it to the tent, and now only three remain. Having fought their way through 27 baking challenges and proved they can master every baking discipline known to man, the remaining three bakers have just one more weekend of baking to tackle. Just three challenges lie between them and the trophy. Each one is worthy, but who will be crowned winner of the Great British Bake Off?