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Season 16

The Great British Bake Off

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Expect gooey glory, dough disasters and pastry pandemonium, as Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond welcome a fresh batch of bakers into the iconic white tent to face the judgement of Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.

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Episode 1: Cake Week 2025

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The bunting has been hung and the tent is up, which can only mean one thing - Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding are back to guide a new batch of amateur bakers through 10 weeks of challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. First up is cake week, in which the hopefuls must produce a Swiss roll with an inlay design, work out how to make fondant fancies in the technical and serve up a stunning landscape cake in the showstopper round

Review

Jane Rackham

We’ll get to know them better as the series goes on, but for now it’s a bit of a blur, as a fresh set of 12 home bakers enter the tent for the first time. There are people originally from Ukraine, Wales, Scotland and Hong Kong, fans of jujitsu, software engineers and hairdressers, all hoping to impress Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood.

Their first challenge is to make a patterned Swiss roll, which is hard enough — but then those sadistic programme-makers have added a twist to the gingham-shrouded technical challenge: the contestants are given additional ingredients to confuse them further. “I’ve had a ’mare,” says one.

There’s a disaster in the landscape showstopper round when someone’s cake slides off the stand, while another’s looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa… which is not what they were intending. With so much to judge, the critiques are (mercifully) short, if blunt.

Our previews never include the result, but I wouldn’t like to bet on which baker leaves the tent beaten rather than aerated. There’s an Extra Slice on Friday at 8pm.

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2025-09-02

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rolenamePresenterAlison HammondPresenterNoel FieldingJudgePrue LeithJudgePaul HollywoodSeries directorJeanette GoulbournSeries producerSophia ReidExecutive producerKieran Smith

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