The Great British Baking Show

The season begins with baking a sandwich cake. Then, Mary’s first technical is for angel food cake, using a bare bones recipe leaving some bakers deflated. The Showstopper explores all things chocolate.

First, the bakers must bake 36 perfectly thin and crispy signature bread sticks, while the technical challenge is a tricky English Muffin. The showstopper features the most outrageous loaves of bread ever seen on television.

The bakers make a trifle combining cookies, cake, jelly or custard in perfectly distinct layers. Then they tackle perfect Floating Islands, followed by a showstopper that gets the bakers to juggle 24 petit fours.

The day begins with double-crusted fruit pies which should be a home baking staple. The bakers also tackle making filo pastry from scratch for their showstopper which is a filo pie centerpiece.

First up, the bakers must produce their favorite traybake. Next, they face the French classic tuiles, thin cookies formed into fragile rolls with piped chocolate. For the showstopper, the bakers make cookie towers.

The bakers make their signature tea loaves, and then move on to Paul’s most twisted technical challenge yet. Then, the showstopper draws on all of Europe for inspiration when bakers must create 36 sweet European buns.

View the competition to update suet puddings, create perfect religieuses and make puffed pastries.

The bakers must make a signature loaf using non-traditional wheat flours, while the technical sees the bakers challenged by a dacquoise. And for their final challenge, the bakers tackle novelty vegetable cakes which must also be dairy free.

The signature challenge tests the bakers with three different types of savory canape. The technical requires the bakers with the complex Charlotte Royale. Then the showstopper requires a truly iconic French patisserie, the opera cake.

The week begins as the bakers create a technically difficult savory picnic pie. Then the Technical has them making 12 perfectly shaped pretzels--six savory and six sweet. And for the very final challenge, the bakers take on wedding cakes.