The Great British Baking Show
Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.'s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds. Mary Berry, a leading cookbook writer, and Paul Hollywood, a top artisan baker, serve as judges. Together with hosts and comic foils Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, Berry and Hollywood search for the country's best amateur baker by testing the competitors' skills on cakes, breads, pastries and desserts, crowning a winner after 10 weeks of competition.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Christmas Masterclass (#215H) Duration: 56:31 STEREO TVPG
Mary and Paul share favorite recipes for Christmas classics like stollen, mincemeat streusel and a gingerbread house, and some lesser-known bakes: Scottish black bun, Tunis cake and Boxing Day pie-the perfect way to use trimmings from the day before.
Christmas Masterclass (#515H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Join judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood as they detail how to make perfect mince pies, Christmas pudding and Christmas cake, and introduce some tasty treats for the holiday season.
Masterclass 1 (#311H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Learn from Mary how to make classic Madeira cake and frosted walnut cake. Paul makes hazelnut and orange biscotti and technically tricky arlettes. Mary closes the show with the retro classic Black Forest gateau.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Dec 28, 2019 -- 6:00am Remind me
Masterclass 2 (#312H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Paul demonstrates how to make soda bread and then bakes baguettes. Mary makes cappuccino creme brulees and Spanische windtorte. Paul shows how to decorate a pie and Mary makes checkerboard cake and a tiered white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Dec 28, 2019 -- 7:00am Remind me
Masterclass 3 (#313H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Mary demonstrates her sugar-free carrot cake before making an apricot frangipane tart. Paul shows the correct way to make the Cypriot flaounas, and makes a game pie with hot water crust pastry followed by lime and passion fruit Charlotte Russe.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Dec 28, 2019 -- 8:00am Remind me
Masterclass 4 (#314H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Mary makes a tennis cake based on a Victorian recipe and Paul makes two types of cream horns. Mary shows how to be precise and perfect with mokatines and Paul comes to grips with an epic construction in choux pastry: Religieuse a l'Ancienne.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Dec 28, 2019 -- 9:00am Remind me
Christmas Masterclass (#315H) Duration: 56:31 STEREO TVPG
Watch Mary prepare a pavlova wreath, and Paul a Chelsea bun Christmas tree. Mary makes decadent trifle layered with fruit compote and a rosace a l'orange. Paul puts leftovers to use in turkey and ham pie and closes the show with a towering pandoro.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Dec 28, 2019 -- 10:00am Remind me
Cake (#401H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Meet the 12 bakers as they tackle a back-to-basics British classic, a popular cake with a fatless sponge and tricky chocolate work. The showstopper is sophisticated and high-end. With this cake, there's nowhere to hide.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 -- 6:00am Remind me
Biscuits (#402H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Follow the 11 remaining bakers tasked with making 24 elaborately decorated biscuits; a biscuit that requires perfect piping; and a biscuit structure that demands precision baking-and reveals a little more about each of the contenders.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 -- 7:00am Remind me
Bread (#403H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
See how the bakers tackle three of Paul's toughest challenges ever: preparing a sweet dough with a twist; avoiding a burnt bottom and a soggy top; and using three different flours to create a huge showstopper centerpiece.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 -- 8:00am Remind me
Batter (#404H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Join nine bakers for the first-ever batter week. They prepare a British favorite that demands a uniform bake across the batch; a technical challenge that requires a perfect pastry, sweet filling and delicate icing; and a showstopping Spanish classic.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 -- 9:00am Remind me
Pastry (#405H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
See how eight bakers handle three types of pastry. For the signature, it's breakfast time, Danish style. Then, the technical is a classic British tart. The bite-size showstopper is a pastry notoriously difficult to make and even trickier to bake.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 -- 10:00am Remind me
Botanical (#406H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Monitor the remaining seven as they strive to give their bakes maximum botanical taste. The signature demands sharp citrus flavors; the technical, a leafy challenge; and the final, three tiers of flavored sponges and stunning floral designs.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -- 6:00am Remind me
Desserts (#407H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Learn why sweet challenges mean a bitter end for one baker as the six battle for a spot in the quarter final. The signature has them rolling out their skills; the technical is a tricky French dessert; the showstopper is a bit of a mousse marathon.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -- 7:00am Remind me
Tudor Week (#408H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Follow the five remaining bakers as they attempt to re-create dishes fit for the Tudors. The signature is a savory stuffed pie; the technical is an unusual Tudor biscuit that has the bakers tied up in knots; the showstopper is a marzipan spectacle.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -- 8:00am Remind me
Patisserie (#409H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Join the four remaining bakers in the semi-final as they bash and fold pastry to achieve perfect lamination; make yeast cake with a fruity top and delicate chocolate work; and prepare a multiple mini-cake bake. Which three will go to the final?
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -- 9:00am Remind me
The Final (#410H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Find out who will be crowned the winner after the finalists wrestle with meringues, undertake a British classic with only one recipe instruction and no measurements, and tackle one of the most complex challenges ever seen on the series.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -- 10:00am Remind me
Cakes (#501H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Follow 12 bakers who tackle an upside down cake for the Signature bake. In the Technical, they undertake Paul's recipe for rum babas, baffling some of them. For the Showstopper, they attempt to produce a cake that reveals a hidden design when sliced.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 -- 6:00am Remind me
Bread (#502H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
See how 11 bakers make 24 flatbreads for the Signature bake. The Technical challenge has them in a twist as they attempt an eight-strand plaited loaf. To stay in the tent, they must produce 12 sweet and 12 savory bagels for the Showstopper.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 -- 7:00am Remind me
Tarts (#503H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Watch the remaining 10 bakers try to wow Paul and Mary with unusual flavor combinations in tartes tartins. A treacle tart in the Technical seems simple, but proves the downfall of some. Producing a Showstopper under the judges' gaze is no easy task.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 -- 8:00am Remind me
Desserts (#504H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
The bakers start off with an array of rich tortes in the Signature challenge. They then face the Technical, creme caramel; for some, there's more wobble than expected. The six-hour Showstopper is a mighty layered meringue.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 -- 9:00am Remind me
Pies (#505H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
In the Signature, the bakers must master a perfect Wellington. The fiendishly difficult Technical challenge, hand-raised pies, proves the downfall of many. American pies are the Showstopper feature. Who will be this week's star-spangled baker?
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 -- 10:00am Remind me
Puddings (#506H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
For their Signature challenge, the bakers go all out with two types of sponge puddings. In the Technical, they face Queen of Pudding, a recipe direct from the archives of Mary Berry. A Showstopper strudel stretches them to their limits.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 25, 2020 -- 6:00am Remind me
Sweet Dough (#507H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
Last week, after a food processor accident led to an unprecedented decision, there are seven bakers left to prepare regional buns in the Signature, jam doughnuts in the Technical and an enriched dough loaf in the Showstopper. TWO bakers must go.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 25, 2020 -- 7:00am Remind me
Biscuits (#508H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
It's the biscuit-based quarter final, and Paul and Mary are taking the challenges to another level. To one of the most arduous ever seen on the Baking Show. The signature bake sees the bakers' organizational and baking skills put to the test, as they attempt to deliver a huge batch of perfectly baked crispbreads. The bakers then throw away the baking rulebook, as time and temperature work against them to produce six perfectly tempered chocolate tea cakes for the technical challenge. A place in the semifinal will be hard earned, as the final challenge tests not only the quality of the bake, but how well it works as a building material.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 25, 2020 -- 8:00am Remind me
Patisserie (#509H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
There are only four bakers left vying for a place in the much sought after final of The Great British Baking Show, and the weight of the occasion is getting to even the most unflappable of the bakers. Each baker frantically works against the clock to deliver petits fours to Paul and Mary's exacting standards, and one of the hardest technical bakes ever seen on the Baking Show finds two of the bakers left watching their fraisier cakes collapse. It's possible to hear a pin drop in the kitchen as the bakers pull out the stops for their showstopping choux gateaus. Paul and Mary think they've seen it all, until they are presented with a tribute to the Tour de France.
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- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 25, 2020 -- 9:00am Remind me
The Final (#510H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
After weeks of pastries, cakes, and bread, three bakers have made it to the Final. But they face the last and most demanding of challenges yet as every aspect of their baking skill is scrutinized. To prove themselves to judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, the finalists attempt pastry perfection with a signature Pithivier. Then, on to one of the most intricate technical challenges ever devised - Fondant Fancies. It all comes down to their final ever Showstopper, creating a masterpiece with a notoriously difficult Chiffon sponge.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED Plus: Sat, Jan 25, 2020 -- 10:00am Remind me
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