The Great British Baking Show Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - CakesThe judges have set the Signature Challenges as true home baker staples, so that they can immediately see the bakers’ personalities and their range of skills and ideas, setting them apart from each other. The first challenge? A sandwich cake. Simple. But with such a challenge comes a risk. Do the bakers go for the classic or push the boat out and be experimental? Do they make something tried and tested or go for ambitious flavours and ideas? What will impress and what will miss the mark?
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Episode 2 - BreadOne week down and the remaining 12 bakers have 9 weeks and 27 grueling challenges to get through before they can be crowned Winner of the Great British Baking Show. But having survived cake, this week 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.
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Episode 3 - DessertsIt’s week three, and the heat in the kitchen is already too much for some, as the remaining 11 bakers get ready to deal with desserts.... Mary and Paul are upping the ante. Having survived cake and bread, this is the first week we see the bakers having to multi-task across several different baking skills at the same time; a Signature Trifle combining biscuit, cake, jelly or custard in perfectly distinct layers; a technically difficult task of making perfectly Floating Islands, which result in various forms of unrecognizable landmass by the end of the bake, and a Showstopper that pulls out all the stops, getting the bakers to juggle 24 petit fours that the judges might finally deem acceptable.
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Episode 4 - Pies and TartsIt’s week four in the tent and the baking is getting serious, as the remaining bakers put on their pinnies to pimp up pies and tarts. From the country’s oldest known cookbook, we discover the almost 700 year old history of the English custard tart. It might once have been popular at the decadent court of King Richard II but it is now a technical challenge in the tent, one which causes more than the intended wobble for the bakers.
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Episode 5 - Biscuits and TraybakesAlmost half way through and the remaining eight bakers are faced with biscuits and traybakes. First up, a Signature Challenge that requires them to do something apparently simple; produce their favourite traybake. The bakers offer Mary and Paul their twists on everything from bakewells to banoffees and brownies...Next they face the thinnest Technical Challenge ever devised on the show; the French classic tuiles, biscuits formed into fragile rolls and decorated with delicate designs of piped chocolate.
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Episode 6 - Sweet DoughIt’s week six in the tent and time for sweet dough week – but will it prove bitter-sweet for the bakers? They kick off with a signature tea loaf. Most of the bakers choose to make something connected to home, so Mary and Paul are presented with everything from locally sourced loaves from Yorkshire and Oxford to Devonshire-inspired panettone and Welsh Bara Brith.
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Episode 7 - PastryWith only six bakers left in the tent the stakes are getting higher, and this week they face pastry. The remaining bakers bring the old fashioned suet pudding bang up to date; banishing nightmares of stodgy school dinners for good with their range of creative signature suet puds, from ‘Spotted dick with a kick’ to fig roll-y poly. Delving further into the history of suet takes us to the Isle of Mull, where the Clootie Dumpling has been at the heart of the community for centuries.
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Episode 8 - Quarter FinalIt’s the quarter final and there are just five bakers left... In the last seven weeks they have been tested on normal cakes, breads, pastries, pies and puddings so the judges are upping the ante; this week’s challenges test them on how they cope working with unconventional flours and unusual desserts which push their creativity to the max.
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Episode 9 - French WeekFor the Signature Challenge the bakers must make a loaf using non-traditional wheat flours, encouraged instead to use the rarer flours such as spelt, rye, potato or tapioca flours... And whilst the bakers get busy with their loaves, we explore the history of the National Loaf, borne out of necessity during World War Two, when the Ministry of Food developed a flour to make imports go further and keep the nation healthy in times of rationing.
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Episode 10 - The FinalIt's the final of The Great British Baking Show! 13,000 applicants were narrowed down to 13 of Britain's best amateur bakers, and the 13 became three. There are just three final challenges standing between the bakers and the title of WINNER of the Great British Baking Show. Mary and Paul have chosen the final challenges to test the bakers on the areas in which they wanted to see how far they had grown in skill and creativity.
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Episode 11 - The Great British Baking Show Christmas MasterclassGet ready for Christmas with Mary and Paul as they plan their Christmas in this special one-off festive Masterclass. They will share their favourite recipes for Christmas classics such as Stollen, Mincemeat Streusel, and a Gingerbread House that can be made with all the family, and some less well known bakes - Scottish Black Bun, Tunis Cake, and Paul’s Hand-raised Boxing Day Pie – the perfect way to use up all the trimmings from the day before. Mary and Paul will show you what will last and what can be made in advance, to keep the festive baking season as stress-free as possible. Merry Christmas from all at the Baking Show!
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Episode 12 - Class of 2013We 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.
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