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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!

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This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone

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    The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 1 - Cake
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Cake

    S6:E1

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

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  2. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 4 - Desserts
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Desserts

    S6:E4

    Three baked cheesecakes make up the showstopper.

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  3. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 5 - Alternative Ingredients
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Alternative Ingredients

    S6:E5

    The remaining bakers must bake without sugar, gluten or dairy.

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  4. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 8 - Patisserie
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Patisserie

    S6:E8

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  5. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 9 - Chocolate
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Chocolate

    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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  6. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 12 - Masterclass 2
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Masterclass 2

    S6:E12

    Back in the Bake Off tent, Mary and Paul roll up their sleeves, baking the challenges that they set the bakers in Bread and Desserts weeks of the Great British Bake Off. Paul is in his element as he shows how to make soda bread in under an hour and then bakes baguettes, perhaps the most iconic of all French breads. Mary makes cappuccino creme brulees without a blow torch and creates the classic meringue cake which foxed the bakers in week 4 - the Spanische windtorte. Paul shows us how to decorate a pie and Mary reveals her tip for making a checkerboard cake before going on to bake a tiered white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake.

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  7. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 15 - Christmas Masterclass (2015)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Christmas Masterclass (2015)

    S6:E15

    After the drama and deliciousness of Bake Off, the much-missed Mary and Paul are back to bring a generous dollop of baking cheer to Christmas this year. Step by step, they take us through stunning recipes that all the family can make during the festive season. Mary kicks off with a pavlova wreath and Paul makes a Chelsea bun Christmas tree. Mary makes a decadent trifle layered with fruit compote and Paul puts leftovers to irresistible use with his turkey and ham pie. Mary makes a truly beautiful rosace a l'orange and Paul closes the show with his magnificent towering pandoro.

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  8. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 2 - Biscuits
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Biscuits

    S6:E2

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

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  9. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 3 - Bread
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Bread

    S6:E3

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

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  10. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 7 - Victorian
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Victorian

    S6:E7

    Season 6, Episode 7

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  11. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 10 - The Final
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Final

    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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  12. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 13 - Masterclass 3
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Masterclass 3

    S6:E13

    Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood make the challenges they set the bakers. Mary bakes her version of a sugar-free carrot cake and Paul makes a lime and passion fruit charlotte russe.

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  13. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 14 - Masterclass 4
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Masterclass 4

    S6:E14

    In the final masterclass of the series, Mary and Paul heat up the ovens and get out the mixing bowls one last time to create the signature, technical and showstopper challenges from the last part of the Great British Bake Off. Mary makes a tennis cake based on the 19th-century recipe that was the technical challenge from Victorian week. Paul makes two types of cream horns - the first filled with a mocha creme pat and the rest with a limoncello tutti frutti cream. Mary shows us how to be delicate, precise and perfect with her mokatines, and Paul gets to grips with an epic construction in choux pastry - le religieuse a l'ancienne.

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  14. The Great British Bake Off Season 6 Episode 16 - The Class of 2014
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Class of 2014

    S6:E16

    We catch up with last year's bakers, who have come a long way since their time in the tent. This programme looks back at the golden moments - and recurring nightmares - of the bakers dozen from last year, as they revisit their time in the tent and share their memories as the Class of 2014.

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  15. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 1 - Cake Week
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    #15 - Cake Week

    S1:E1

    This first show uncovers that Queen Victoria is responsible for Britain's wedding cake tradition, that the Puritans tried to ban cake because it was too pleasurable, and that cake baking contributed to women's liberation. The ten bakers tackle three increasingly difficult challenges as their cake-making ability is tested. They start with their signature bake – the cake they love that says something about them. Next up is the technical challenge – a blind recipe for Victoria sandwich that delivers drastically different results. Finally they tackle the ingredient even professionals fear – chocolate. Whose chocolate celebration cake will win the day? And which two bakers will leave the show at the end?

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  16. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 2 - Biscuits Week
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    #16 - Biscuits Week

    S1:E2

    Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins take the eight passionate home bakers who made it through the first round to Scone Palace near Perth to make biscuits and teatime treats. Judging their efforts are renowned baking writer Mary Berry and master baker Paul Hollywood. Over two days the home bakers are set three increasingly difficult challenges as they bake their signature biscuits, attempt many a baker's nemesis – scones – and finally a tower of petit fours with meringues, choux pastry and macaroons. As the bakers battle it out, Mel and Sue find out how the digestive became Britain's favourite biscuit; ask what's so Scottish about shortbread and discover why Sir Ranulph Fiennes has the world's most expensive biscuit. Which of the eight bakers will wow the judges with their originality and skill? And which two bakers will fail to make it through to the next round?

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  17. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 3 - Bread Week
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    #17 - Bread Week

    S1:E3

    It is week three of the competition and the six remaining bakers are making bread in Kent. If they found cakes and biscuits challenging, it’s bread that’s considered the real test of a baker’s mettle. In the shadow of Sarre Windmill, the bakers will be kneading, proving and knocking back their dough under the watchful eye of baking writer Mary Berry and master baker Paul Hollywood. And as they battle it out to produce the perfect loaf, Mel and Sue will be tasting Britain’s earliest bread roll, finding out what happened to bread during the Industrial Revolution and relating the hidden history of the sandwich. Making bread is an ancient skill. Which of the bakers will best cope with the pressure and who will be the one who has to leave the Bake Off?

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  18. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 4 - Puddings Week
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    #18 - Puddings Week

    S1:E4

    It’s week four of and the remaining five bakers have travelled to Bakewell in Derbyshire. This time the bakers are reinventing an often neglected British classic – the pudding. There will be sticky toffee puds, peach and blueberry "boy-bait", rhubarb and orange betty and a cherry queen of puddings. But the surprise bake set by judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry really tests the baker’s ability to cope with the pressure. Will the bakers rise to the occasion? As the puds go in the oven, Mel and Sue roam the country finding out how and why puddings changed from ‘meat’ to ‘sweet’, visiting the birthplace of school puddings and discovering how puddings helped change Britain’s image overseas.

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  19. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 5 - Pastry Week
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    #19 - Pastry Week

    S1:E5

    It’s the penultimate round and as the travelling marquee pitches up in the Cornish village of Mousehole, it’s time for the bakers to get to grips with the most difficult of all baking skills – pastry. They bake their own versions of hearty British pies, get down to details with exquisite pastry canapés, and take a crash-course in crimping for this week’s surprise bake. While they’re rubbing-in and rolling-out, Mel and Sue will be finding out that Britain’s earliest pies really were humble, how pastry became an art form and how pies used to have a more sinister side. Then judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood will decide who will be the final three to go through to the final.

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  20. The Great British Bake Off Season 1 Episode 6 - Tea Party
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    #20 - Tea Party

    S1:E6

    It's the Grand Final and the last three surviving contestants face their biggest challenge yet - baking for the Bake Off's Afternoon Tea Party. In order to be crowned the victor, they will need to bring together all of their skills, making cakes, bread and pastry.

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  21. The Great British Bake Off Season 2 Episode 1 - Cupcakes Week
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    #21 - Cupcakes Week

    S2:E1

    For their first challenge, the bakers were asked to bake 24 cupcakes in two hours. They were allowed to make two different types of cupcakes. For the technical challenge, the bakers were asked to bake a Coffee and Walnut Battenburg cake using Mary Berry's recipe in two hours. The cake needed to have the perfect sponge which held its form (perfect symmetry), distinguish flavours, and a smooth exterior. For the showstopper, the bakers were asked to bake a chocolate tiered celebration cake with elaborate, multi-layer design in five hours.

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  22. The Great British Bake Off Season 2 Episode 2 - Tarts Week
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    #22 - Tarts Week

    S2:E2

    The second round of The Great British Bake Off, hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, continues in the search for Britain's best amateur baker. Eleven bakers remain and this time their pastry skills are scrutinised as the bakers tackle tarts. Over two days the bakers will face three increasingly complicated challenges whilst trying to avoid a soggy bottom. Judged by acclaimed master baker Paul Hollywood and legendary cookery writer and baker Mary Berry, the bakers start with a signature bake: a quiche that says something about them. Next is the dreaded technical challenge where they are faced with baking a classic tarte au citron. Finally, our bakers have to deliver in bulk as they are asked to deliver 24 show-stopping sweet miniature tarts. The pressure of pastry proves too much for some. Who will be named Star Baker and whose Bake Off journey will be over?

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  23. The Great British Bake Off Season 2 Episode 3 - Bread Week
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    #23 - Bread Week

    S2:E3

    The contestants start this week with the signature bake, a free-form flavoured loaf that produces a variety of interesting results, including a combination of chocolate and onion. Next is the technical challenge - focaccia - that really separates the wheat from the chaff. Finally, a mammoth six-hour hour challenge requires the bakers to create a display bread basket that is filled with 24 bread rolls.

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  24. The Great British Bake Off Season 2 Episode 4 - Biscuits Week
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    #24 - Biscuits Week

    S2:E4

    The search for Britain's best amateur baker, with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, is now haf-way through. The bakers take on biscuits and these bite-sized, delicate delights prove too much for some. As always starting with the signature bake, the remaining eight must impress legendary cookery writer Mary Berry and artisan baker Paul Hollywood with their interpretation of a classic biscuit. Who will crumble when it comes to judging and whose ginger nuts are too hot to handle? Next up, the technical challenge, where following a Mary Berry recipe is not as simple as it would seem for our bakers, who start feeling the pressure when faced with brandy snaps. Finally, the toughest showstopper challenge yet as they attempt to bake and present a macaroon display that must taste as good as it looks. With five hours on the clock, every second counts. This is the last chance to impress the judges before someone's dream of becoming Britain's best amateur baker is over.

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  25. The Great British Bake Off Season 2 Episode 5 - Pies Week
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    #25 - Pies Week

    S2:E5

    The search for Britain's best amateur baker, with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, reaches the fifth round and everyone is out to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom as the seven remaining bakers face pies. The marquee is soon filled with the delicious aroma of fresh baking as the signature challenge has the bakers doing all they can to impress acclaimed master baker Paul Hollywood and legendary cookery writer and baker Mary Berry with their signature family pie. Topping their pie with either flaky or rough puff pastry, some decide to play it safe whilst others get more experimental. Next is the dreaded technical challenge where for lifelong vegetarian Jason delivering six individual, beautifully baked and seasoned pork pies to the judging table proves problematic. Finally, there is a sweet showstopper challenge in the shape of a meringue pie. The judges' expectations are high with hopes of crisp pastry bases and delicious custard and fruit fillings topped with a perfect meringue.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Cake" is the best rated episode of "The Great British Bake Off". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/5/2015. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Desserts".