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Based on a hugely popular UK concept, the series sees ten home baking enthusiasts put through a series of gruelling elimination challenges, baking a mouth-watering selection of cakes, pies, tarts, pastries, bread, biscuits and desserts, in the hope of being crowned Australia’s Best Home Baker.

Cake

Pies

Biscuits

Tarts

Breads

Desserts

Pastry

Finale

The first challenge for the bakers is a family-sized signature cake.

Cakes

The bakers are tasked with creating biscuits, including Matt's technical task, Italian cannoli.

For this challenge, the bakers work with choux pastry and create a Paris-Brest as well as a Gateau St. Honore.

Choux

The bakers are tasked with creating different pies, including savoury pies and a blood orange meringue pie.

The eight remaining bakers are tasked with baking with chocolate. They cook brownies and a Black Forest gateau.

Chocolate

The last six contestants are challenged by Dan Lepard's speciality: bread.

Bread

Desserts are the task this episode for the bakers. They make individual hot puddings and a dried apricot pavlova.

The remaining five bakers are tasked with cooking pastry. They make miniature savoury pastries and a strudel.

The theme for the bakers is classics. Classic doughnuts and a passionfruit tart are on the menu, and a High Tea show stopper pushes the bakers to new heights.

Classics

Only three bakers are left for the final challenge. This will test the bakers to their limits as they are asked to create a cornucopia cake and signature vanilla slices.

Final

What better way to kick off the series than with a Bake Off cake off! The bakers have two hours to bake one family sized signature cake. The bakers have to cook in an unfamiliar kitchen to a tight deadline under the watchful eyes of judges Maggie Beer and Matt Moran

This challenge is to bake one family-sized savoury quiche with a filling of their choice. The technical bake is a pistachio frangipane tart with roasted rhubarb and raspberries.

Pies & Tarts

The seven remaining bakers get baking some bread, including making savoury flat breads and knotted bread rolls.

The remaining bakers are tasked by Matt and Maggie to create their versions of two classic dishes, a Swiss roll and a Neenish tart.

Retro Week

Matt tasks the remaining amateur bakers with creating 12 bee stings, a traditional German sweet yeast cake.

Sweet Dough

The four semi-finalists remaining in the Bake Off Shed are tasked by Matt and Maggie to create a showstopper centred on an 'Around the World' theme.

International

Twelve bakers look to tackle some challenging bakes on their first week in the tent, as they show off their cake-making skills for Matt and Maggie.

The bakers must test their bread-making skills as they prepare classic pumpkin scones in a technical challenge, before assembling a showstopping bread centrepiece.

The remaining 10 bakers attempt to put their own twist on biscotti for their signature bakes. They also make jam drops and a biscuit jigsaw puzzle to impress the judges.

The bakers are tasked with the toughest technical challenge to date, as Maggie asks them to make her chicken pie. Showstopping pavlovas are also on the menu.

Family Favourites

The remaining bakers are given their hardest task yet for pastry week, to create a 3D animal sculpture out of choux pastry.

The remaining bakers are challenged by making all things batter, preparing wonderful waffles, an apple clafoutis, and a colossal crepe cake.

Batter

The bakers enter the shed for dessert week, where they are tasked with creating desserts that don't contain any gluten, sugar and dairy.

The bakers enter the shed prepared to take on British week, where they are faced with creating sponges, bakewell slices, and a pudding good enough for a queen.

British

Four bakers are left in the semi-final, and to celebrate their hard work, they make some fabulous creations with the theme of celebrations.

Celebrations

The bake off shed is transformed into a beautiful garden party as the three remaining fight to become Australia's greatest home baker.

Twelve bakers experience their first set of challenges where their cake-making skills are put to the test.

The bakers must rise to the challenge during bread week where they take on a rye and beetroot bread and add their own flair to the pretzel showstopper challenge.

The contestants must make a batch of chocolate biscuits, French arlettes and biscuit boxes full of surprises.

The bakers must take on the challenge of substituting butter, eggs and dairy to create some classic favourites and a tricky technical bake.

Vegan

The seven remaining bakers must bring their personal baking style and understanding of the basics and use them on some traditional favourites.

The bakers must display their pastry skills and showcase their imagination with decoration during patisserie week.

Patisserie

The bakers must make careful considerations with their flavours during spice week as they tackle maamoul biscuits and a baklava tower.

Spice

The bakers mix things up to create a fusion of favourites, croissants that look like muffins, doughnuts that aren't quite what they seem, and cakes made from anything but cake.

Hybrid

Matt and Maggie set a series of party-themed challenges that will help them select the bakers for the final.

Party

Our three finalists have three bakes that stand between them and the glory of becoming Australia's best amateur baker.

Twelve of Australia's best amateur bakers are back in the shed where they must tackle three tricky cake challenges: a signature sponge, cotton cheesecake, and a miniature world cake.

Cake Week

In Biscuit Week, our remaining amateur bakers face off in three exciting biscuit challenges: a Signature slice-and-bake, an alfajores Technical, and for the Show Stopper, they create a magical biscuit chandelier

Biscuit Week

In Bread Week, our remaining amateur bakers must compete to make 12 identical flavoured bread rolls, a tricky Swedish cinnamon and cardamom bread, and finally a delicious gardenscape focaccia.

Bread Week

In Nostalgia Week, our remaining bakers take a stroll down memory lane, baking Aussie pavlovas, a classic Maggie Beer steamed pudding, and inventing a nostalgic mash-up of their favourite childhood flavours.

Nostalgia Week

In Homegrown Week, our remaining amateur bakers celebrate traditional First Nations ingredients, baking open galettes, a layered trifle, and creating a bread sculpture based on Aussie nature.

Homegrown Week

In French Week, our remaining amateur bakers deep dive into classic French pastry, creating a mille-feuille, a brioche a tete, and a religieuse a l'ancienne, a traditional choux pastry tower in the shape of a nun.

French Week

Our remaining amateur bakers compete to show us their sweet tooth for Dessert Week. They must create silky baked custards, Matt Moran's gourmet raspberry tart, and finally, a dessert charcuterie board.

Dessert Week

Our remaining bakers compete to showcase healthy baking. They must create two kinds of savoury vegetable tarts, Maggie's delicious erbazzone pie, and a spectacular basket-weave cake.

Fruit & Veg Week

It's the semifinal, and our bakers must make patisserie creations worthy of a place in the finale: delicious breakfast pastries, a formidable gateau St Honore, and a gravity-defying biscuit chandelier.

Patisserie Week

In the grand finale, our amateur bakers face off to win the title of Australia's Best Amateur Baker, creating signature fondant fancies and a tricky technical torte, before baking and building their ultimate dream homes.

Twelve of Australia's best amateur bakers tackle three tricky cake challenges - a signature personal story cake, a tricky technical raspberry and black pepper curd cake, and a two-tiered layer cake.

Eleven amateur bakers bid to win a biscuit war with their signature fondant biscuits, delicious peanut and choc chip explosive wheels, and a spectacular biscuit game.

In Bread Week, our remaining amateur bakers compete to make a Sweet Loaf, a difficult Fougasse bread, and an eye-catching Bread Centrepiece.

In Winter Week, our remaining bakers tackle warming winter favourites - baking classic savoury pastries, a carrot and cumin tart, and creating a decorative pie with 3D art.

Winter Week

In Vintage Week, our remaining amateur bakers step back in time to bake filled profiteroles, a tasty beef wellington, and create a classic checkerboard cake.

Vintage Week

In Dessert Week, amateur bakers compete to create three delicious desserts: a family favourite, a beautiful layered Opera Cake with a twist, and a Showstopping fun-filled Ice Cream Cake Pop.

Our amateur bakers compete to show us a tangy tropical side to baking for Citrus Week, taking on Individual Citrus Tarts, a Gin and Tonic Roulade and a Citrus Meringue creation.

Citrus Week

The amateur bakers take a trip around the baking world with Signature Turkish pides, a steamed Rainbow Lapis from South-East Asia, and super-size the famous French macaron with a Jacked Macaron Stack.

International Week

Our remaining bakers must make chocolate creations - stunning decorated chocolate cakes, a combined Technical challenge from the judges, and two different types of individual mirror glazed cakes.

Chocolate Week

Our final bakers face off to win, creating their Signature high tea, a difficult Technical Terrine set by Bake Off royalty Maggie Beer, and for their final Showstopper a 3D Illusion Cake.

Twelve new bakers enter the shed kitchen to show off amazing cake creations. The first bake is a personal project followed by a challenging technical curd cake.

The amateur bakers aim to make the best loaves in bread week. They make signature bread sticks, a Zopf and showstopping scored and painted loaves.

In Back to Basics Week, our remaining amateur bakers compete to make their signature scones, a Chocolate Tart, and a towering Vertical Pie.

Back to Basics Week

In Biscuit Week, our remaining bakers make their biscuit creations - making Linzers, some Mocha Mochi Cookies and some spectacular Moving Biscuit Vehicles.

In Celebration week, our remaining amateur bakers make something for every occasion, making Layered Cakes, Christmas Ornaments and Spooky Blacklight Cakes.

Celebration Week

It's Cheese Week and our remaining amateur bakers create cheesy Tear and Shares, Three Cheese Pies and Floating Cheesecakes

Cheese Week

Things are heating up in The Shed for Spice Week. The remaining bakers make Spiced Filo Pasties, Crullers and 3D Biscuit Structures.

Spice Week

We're off to Italy with our remaining amateur bakers serving up Pizzas, Pesche Con Crema and Tiramisu centrepieces.

Italian Week

It's Patisserie Week as our remaining bakers complete for a spot in the finale, making Kouign Amanns, Strawberry Tarts and Petit Fours.

In the grand finale, our remaining bakers face off to win the title of Australia's Best Amateur Baker, making Botanical Cakes, Paris-Brests and a Showstopper of their choice.

Grand Finale

Baking enthusiasts are put through a series of grueling elimination challenges, baking a mouth-watering selection of cakes, pies, tarts, pastries, bread, biscuits and desserts, all in the hope of being crowned Australia's Best Home Baker.

The Best Seasons of The Great Australian Bake Off

The Best Seasons of The Great Australian Bake Off

Season 5

Season 7

Season 8

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 6