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The Best Episodes of The Great British Bake Off

Every episode of The Great British Bake Off ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Great British Bake Off!

Best episode
S4E12 Masterclass 1
8.338 votes
Worst episode
S2E11 Series 1 Revisited
6.229 votes
Top season
Season 5
7.8avg
Binge time
3d 16h
89 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Great British Bake Off Season 4 Episode 12 - Masterclass 1
    8.3/10(38 votes)

    S4:E12

    Mary and Paul take over the tent for the ultimate baking masterclass. Mary makes a whole orange cake and angel food cake, Paul makes breakfast muffins and olive bread sticks, and together they make a chocolate cake showstopper.

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  2. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 10 - The Final
    8.1/10(110 votes)

    S6:E10

    Only three of the original twelve bakers remain. They've made it to the final. Over 27 challenges, they've worked their way through every baking discipline Mary and Paul have thrown at them - from cakes to bread, pastry to puddings, and biscuits to chocolate. Along the way they have tackled recipes from the 70s and 80s, they've gone back to the Victorian era, they've made gluten-free bread, strange meringue concoctions, incredible constructions out of biscuits, bread and choux... They have all survived, and now they face their last three challenges. The signature challenge sees the finalists tackle enriched dough to create delicious filled iced buns. The technical requires them to conquer something they have all struggled with, and finally, for their last ever showstopper, they must make a classic British cake. Mary and Paul expect nothing short of perfection. So who will hold their nerve? Who will be crowned winner of The Great British Bake Off 2015? On your marks, get set... bake!

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  3. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 8 - Advanced Dough
    8.1/10(98 votes)

    S5:E8

    The nation's favourite baking contest is about to get a whole lot hotter in the kitchen, as it reaches the quarter-final stage, and just five amateur bakers remain. They've all impressed to various extents during Bread Week - at least sufficiently to make it through - but now their skills are thoroughly tested as they take on enriched doughs. They have a signature bake in which they must work with soft dough to create artful works, a technical that sees them recreate an Eastern European cross between bread and pastry, and a showstopper involving doughnuts.

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  4. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 10 - The Final
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    S5:E10

    The three finalists face a Signature Challenge in which they have just three hours to prove they have mastered a pastry technique that usually takes a whole day. They then have to tackle a Technical Challenge without the aid of a recipe, before rustling up a Showstopper that turns sponge, caramel, choux pastry and petits fours into a winning combination.

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  5. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 4 - Desserts
    8.0/10(106 votes)

    S5:E4

    As week four begins, the bakers must multitask across several baking skills at once.

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  6. The Great British Bake Off Season 3 Episode 1 - Cakes
    8.0/10(99 votes)

    S3:E1

    Signature Challenge: Upside-down Cake. Showstopper Challenge: A cake, when sliced reveals a hidden design. Technical Challenge: Rum Babas.

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  7. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 9 - Semi-final - Patisserie
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    S5:E9

    It's Patisserie Week, and the remaining four bakers will need to demonstrate that they have skills worthy enough to see them through to this year's final. The bakers are challenged to make a signature baklava - two types of any flavour they like, before the technical challenge demands they knock up a German Schichttorte, a cake cooked in stages under the grill to create 20 layers of different coloured sponge. Finally, the showstopper sees the semi-finalists baking non-stop to create two entremets in which they should demonstrate as many personal skills and techniques as they can.

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  8. The Great British Bake Off Season 7 Episode 1 - Cake Week
    7.9/10(112 votes)

    S7:E1

    Twelve new amateur bakers enter the iconic tent and take on three cake-making challenges.

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  9. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 2 - Biscuits
    7.9/10(106 votes)

    S5:E2

    The remaining 11 bakers are challenged to create three-dimensional biscuit scenes.

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  10. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 3 - Bread
    7.9/10(104 votes)

    S5:E3

    In week three, the remaining ten bakers get ready to brave bread.

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  11. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 7 - Pastry
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    S5:E7

    Presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins set the remaining contestants three tasks involving pastry, beginning by asking them to make signature savoury parcels. For the technical challenge, they must prepare a cake that hails from the Brittany region of France - the kouign amann, which none of the bakers has ever heard of - before creating two different types of eclair in the showstopper round. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood judge the hopefuls' efforts before deciding who is star baker and who is going home.

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  12. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 3 - Bread
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    S6:E3

    The ten remaining bakers tackle quick breads, baguettes and 3D bread sculptures.

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  13. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 6 - European Cakes
    7.9/10(99 votes)

    S5:E6

    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; a tricky cross between cake and bread that sees some of the bakers opting out of Europe... Mary sets the bakers their most demanding technical challenge yet in which they must make a Swedish princess torte. With 24 different stages and only two-and-a-quarter hours to do it in, the bakers have their work cut out for them, while Sue explores the events that led to the huge array of Danish cakes and pastries in the Danish cake table tradition. And finally, a showstopping finale that puts the hungry into Hungary... The bakers must make their own contemporary version of the dobos torte. Traditionally a multi-layered Hungarian cake, the bakers must go one step further and make a two-tiered dobos torte with an emphasis on all things caramel in every way they can imagine... but whose Bake Off will come to a sweet but sticky end? On your marks, get set... bake!

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  14. The Great British Bake Off Season 4 Episode 2 - Bread
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    S4:E2

    One week down and the remaining 12 bakers have 9 weeks and 27 gruelling challenges to get through before they can be crowned Winner of the Great British Bake Off. But having survived cake, now they battle bread. Knowing that Paul will be watching their every move and prove, they must bake 36 perfectly thin and crispy signature bread sticks, a technically tricky English muffin, and the most outrageous showstopping loaves of bread ever seen on television... from a Christmas wreath to a proud peacock and a psychic octopus. As the bakers try to perfect their breakfast muffins, we explore their rise in popularity in Georgian England, initially distributed by a network of muffin men, now immortalised in the famous nursery rhyme. Mel and Sue try to help but instead leave chaos in their wake, as Mary and Paul use the challenges to find out what type of bakers they are and exactly how far they can push their baking skills. They are looking for real talent and natural instinct, creativity and baking brilliance. At any time, two bakers might be asked to leave, making this year tougher than ever before... nobody is safe.

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  15. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 8 - Patisserie
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    S6:E8

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  16. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 9 - Chocolate
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    S6:E9

    The pressure is on, as the remaining bakers must get to grips with one of the most difficult ingredients, chocolate.

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  17. The Great British Bake Off Season 7 Episode 10 - The Final
    7.9/10(87 votes)

    S7:E10

    It is the final, and with just three of the original twelve bakers remaining. The theme for the final is a Royal Bake Off, as the tent plays host to three challenges to impress the Queen.

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  18. The Great British Bake Off Season 3 Episode 2 - Bread
    7.9/10(84 votes)

    S3:E2

    Signature Challenge: 24 Flatbreads. Showstopper Challenge: 12 sweet and 12 savoury Bagels. Technical Challenge: Eight-strand plaited loaf.

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  19. The Great British Bake Off Season 3 Episode 3 - Tarts
    7.9/10(83 votes)

    S3:E3

    Things are hotting up in the Bake Off tent as the remaining ten bakers do their best to wow Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry with some unusual flavour combinations for their tartes tatin.

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  20. The Great British Bake Off Season 4 Episode 9 - French Week
    7.9/10(81 votes)

    S4:E9

    It is the semi-final and there are just four bakers left. This time it is the French round, and the challenges include savoury canapes and opera cake.

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  21. The Great British Bake Off Season 3 Episode 9 - Patisserie
    7.9/10(74 votes)

    S3:E9

    The bakers seeking a place in the final have to frantically work against the clock to deliver petits fours to Paul and Mary's exacting standards.

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  22. The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episode 1 - Cake
    7.8/10(135 votes)

    S5:E1

    The baking challenge is back, welcoming the tent's youngest-ever baker and the oldest.

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  23. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 1 - Cake
    7.8/10(121 votes)

    S6:E1

    The 12 new bakers don their aprons and head for the iconic tent for cake week.

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  24. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 2 - Biscuits
    7.8/10(106 votes)

    S6:E2

    With cake week over, the remaining bakers must prove themselves with biscuits.

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  25. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 4 - Desserts
    7.8/10(100 votes)

    S6:E4

    Three baked cheesecakes make up the showstopper.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Masterclass 1" is the best rated episode of The Great British Bake Off. It scored 8.3/10 from 38 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 29, 2013. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Final".

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