The WORST episodes of Junior Bake Off
Every episode of Junior Bake Off ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Junior Bake Off!
Cooks battle it out to be named Britain's best junior baker.
#1 - Episode 15
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/2021
It's the final, and the four remaining bakers create a themed afternoon tea, with entremets and pastries, and a showstopping tiered layer cake. Who will be crowned the winner?
#2 - Episode 6
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/17/2022
It's day one for the second heat of bakers as they take on a topsy-turvy cake in their first ever Technical, and express their wildest imaginings in 'Dream Come True' cakes.
#3 - Episode 5
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/2022
It's Pastry Day and the last chance for the first heat of bakers to go through to Finals Week. The bakers are asked to make a patisserie in the shape of Harry Hill, and transform their favourite takeaway into a pie filling.
#4 - Episode 13
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2024
It's Spooky Day as the bakers create Liam's slime-filled cauldrons and huge haunted gingerbread houses. Who'll stir up a graveyard smash and who'll get the shivers?
#5 - Episode 9
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2019
Harry Hill hosts the junior baking competition. It's Dessert Day and the Heat B bakers must produce delicious, sweet creations for judges Prue and Liam.
#6 - Episode 8
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/2024
It's Bread Day and the second heat of bakers rise to a hot cross bunny challenge and create bread-ucational centrepieces. Who will prove themselves worthy of being star baker?
#7 - Episode 2
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2023
It’s Biscuit Day. Can the young bakers make wafer unicorn horns and a biscuit diorama depicting their best Saturday?
#8 - The Final - Day 1
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/24/2016
The three finalists face two days of baking challenges before one of them is crowned Junior Bake Off Champion 2016. Today they must produce two different canapes made with rough puff pastry for their first ever signature challenge and whilst the bakes themselves aren't a surprise, the guests they are making them for are. Sam and Mark welcome vloggers Marcus Butler and Oli White to the tent to assist the judges in tasting the bakes and much to the delight of the finalists who are massive Marcus and Oli fans. After all that excitement, the judges really step up the pressure by giving the bakers their final and toughest technical challenge yet - a surprise recipe for chocolate passion fruit meringue pies.
#9 - Heat 7
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2016
Bakers Mia, Jamie, JJ and Maisie are tasked with making an identical batch of prune and carrot cupcakes, topped with beautifully uniform piped frosting. While one baker forgets an essential ingredient, another sends cream flying, making for an eventful technical challenge and the drama continues in the showstopper when the bakers produce 12 biscuit pops and one baker omits an essential part of the bake. But will it cost them a place in the quarter-finals?
#10 - Episode 5
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/6/2024
It's Dessert Day and the first heat of bakers are kept on their toes with ballet-themed meringues. But who will be roaring into Finals Week with their animal roulade?
#11 - Episode 3
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/2024
It's Bread Day and the first heat of bakers take on cinnamon snails and a desert-island-meal loaf. Who can prove themselves worthy of star baker and who'll be left high and dry?
#12 - Heat 2
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/2016
The country's best young bakers go head to head. The second batch of bakers to whip up a storm are Evie, Billy, Shriyana and Nigel. Their baking knowledge and skills are put to the test when they are asked to follow Nadiya's surprise recipe for shortbread peanut butter squares. The shortbread squares need to be perfectly uniform in size with even layers but which young baker will demonstrate the most precision to make it in to the top two? Then they are asked to bake from the heart with a show-stopper birthday cake for somebody they love. This bake brings out the best in the bakers as they have to think not just about the flavours and decoration their loved one would like but also what could win them a place in the quarter finals.
#13 - Episode 14
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/2024
It's all eyes on the skies for Rav's cloud cake Technical Challenge. And in the Showstopper, the bakers recreate their favourite holidays in the form of mini tartlets.
#14 - Episode 9
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2024
It's Pastry Day and the second heat of bakers take on an invisible filling pie challenge and pay pastry homage to their idols. Whose choux can get them through?
#15 - Episode 7
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/9/2024
It's Biscuit Day for the second heat of bakers as they take on a familiar Technical and create showstopping time capsules for their future selves to uncover in years to come.
#16 - Heat 4
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/10/2016
Junior Bake Off goes global as bakers, Millie, Mack, Zac and Rosie take on two internationally-themed challenges. Their surprise technical is for fruity French apricot clafoutis, and the judges are looking for a delicious puffed-up pudding with crispy edges and a berry ice cream on the side. Next the bakers take inspiration from their travels for show-stopper international cakes which transport the judges from Denmark, to Iran and via the Caribbean to Australia. With such exotic flavours tickling their taste buds how can Allegra and Nadiya possibly choose which young baker to put through to the quarter-finals?
#17 - The Semi-Final
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/18/2015
Sam and Mark host the semi-final as judges Allegra McEvedy and Graham Hornigold examine the bakers' knowledge with a series of tough technical tests.
#18 - Episode 4
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2024
It's Pastry Day and the first heat of bakers take on train-themed choux and pop star portraits. Who can stay on track to be named star baker, and who will be top of the flops?
#19 - Episode 9
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/20/2022
On Dessert Day, the second heat of bakers try to avoid a meltdown in an icy Technical challenge that defies logic, and create dessert imposters in an illusional Showstopper
#20 - Episode 1
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2023
Junior Bake Off is back! Harry Hill hosts as 16 young bakers take to the tent to battle it out in front of judges Liam Charles and Ranveet Gill. First up, it’s jam making.
#21 - Heat 8
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2016
Nadiya and Allegra give four more junior bakers, Lottie, Harry, Ffion and Mehdi, the chance to compete for just one place in the quarter-finals. The technical challenge is one of Allegra's recipes for pizzetta bianchi. Which baker will achieve pizza perfection with these thin, mini white pizzas? Next the bakers have to invent a dessert in show-stopping cake form. Expect blackberry crumbles, lemon meringue pies and even jelly and ice cream to be transformed into cake.
#22 - Episode 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2015
Sam and Mark host as four junior bakers compete for the quarter-finals. Euan, Lucy, Peter and Sienna attempt to make Indian rotis, a flatbread spiced with cumin and turmeric.
#23 - Episode 12
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/2024
The Technical gets tiny for Toy Day as the bakers tackle Rav's doll house challenge. And in the Showstopper, they recreate their favourite childhood toys in macaron form.
#24 - Episode 7
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2013
The remaining bakers face a tricky pastry test as they attempt to make James Martin's cheese straws, followed by a creation of their own design - a cake in the shape of a monster.
#25 - First Quarter-Final
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2016
It is the start of finals, where 40 bakers have been reduced to just ten and now the first five quarter-finalists enter the Bake Off tent, all targeting a place in the semi-finals. Judges Allegra McEvedy and Nadiya Hussain have shifted it up a gear in challenge difficulty with one of Nadiya's recipes for mini orange and chocolate hazelnut dacquoise and then, for the first time this year, the bakers face pastry and have to come up with show-stopping savoury galettes.