The WORST episodes of The Great Australian Bake Off

Every episode of The Great Australian Bake Off ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Great Australian Bake Off!

Baking enthusiasts are put through a series of grueling elimination challenges, baking a mouth-watering selection of cakes, pies, tarts, pastries, bread, biscuits and desserts, all in the hope of being crowned Australia's Best Home Baker.

Last Updated: 4/25/2024Network: LifeStyleStatus: Continuing

7.10

10 votes

#1 - Bread Week

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/2022

In Bread Week, our 10 remaining amateur bakers compete to make flavoured bread rolls, a Swedish bread, and their own focaccias.

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7.23

13 votes

#2 - Biscuit Week

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/20/2023

Eleven amateur bakers bid to win a biscuit war with their signature fondant biscuits, delicious peanut and choc chip explosive wheels, and a spectacular biscuit game.

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7.29

7 votes

#3 - Chocolate Week

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/2023

Our remaining bakers must make chocolate creations - stunning decorated chocolate cakes, a combined Technical challenge from the judges, and two different types of individual mirror glazed cakes.

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7.33

6 votes

#4 - Final

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2023

Our final bakers face off to win, creating their Signature high tea, a difficult Technical Terrine set by Bake Off royalty Maggie Beer, and for their final Showstopper a 3D Illusion Cake.

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7.44

9 votes

#5 - Citrus Week

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2023

Our amateur bakers compete to show us a tangy tropical side to baking for Citrus Week, taking on individual citrus tarts, a gin and tonic roulade and a citrus meringue creation.

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7.47

15 votes

#6 - Vegan

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2019

The Bake Off shed has gone vegan and our bakers are challenged to substitute butter, eggs and dairy to create some classic favourites and a tricky technical bake.

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7.50

10 votes

#7 - Hybrid

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2019

The bakers mix things up to create a fusion of favourites, croissants that look like muffins, doughnuts that aren't quite what they seem, and cakes made from anything but cake.

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7.51

37 votes

#8 - Choux

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/2015

Our top 10 bakers are up for the challenge that is choux pastry, making their best eclairs for the Signature challenge, a tough Paris Brest for the technical and a gorgeous Gateau St Honore for their end-of-show Showstopper. BAKE!

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7.54

13 votes

#9 - Bread Week

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/27/2023

In Bread Week, our 10 remaining amateur bakers compete to make a sweet loaf, a difficult fougasse bread, and an eye-catching bread centrepiece.

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7.55

22 votes

#10 - Cakes

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2019

Twelve new bakers take on their first challenges in the Bake Off shed in the hope of impressing Maggie and Matt and being named Star Baker. This week, the bakers' cake-making skills will be put to the test.

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7.57

42 votes

#11 - Pies & Tarts

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/2016

The bakers are given two hours to create a family sized quiche with a filling of their choice, before being tasked with baking a pistachio frangipane tart with roasted rhubarb and raspberries.

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7.59

32 votes

#12 - Cakes

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2015

Bake Off 2 is here! Over the next ten weeks, twelve wannabe master bakers will take on some challenging baking assignments and submit them for critiquing by new judges Maggie Beer and Matt Moran. On your marks, get set, BAKE!

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7.62

29 votes

#13 - Bread

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2015

Carb alert, it's bread week in Bake Off! Flat breads are the signature of the day, knotted bread rolls are this week's tricky technical and a showstopping stollen rounds off the weekend. Who will use their loaf and rise to the top? And who will roll over and leave the competition?

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7.63

32 votes

#14 - Chocolate

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/2015

Half way through Bake Off and we're baking with the three main food groups this week - milk, dark and white. It's chocolate week! This week, our intrepid bakers tackle brownies in the signature. A Black Forest gateau makes for a tricky test in the technical and a Showstopper chocolate medley proves to be triple trouble.

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7.63

46 votes

#15 - Cakes

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/2016

What better way to kick off the series than with a Bake Off cake off! The bakers have two hours to bake one family sized signature cake. The bakers have to cook in an unfamiliar kitchen to a tight deadline under the watchful eyes of judges Maggie Beer and Matt Moran.

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7.64

36 votes

#16 - Biscuits

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2018

The remaining 10 bakers attempt to put their own twist on biscotti for their signatures. They also make jam drops and a biscuit jigsaw puzzle.

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7.65

37 votes

#17 - Bread

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2016

The remaining eight bakers go carb crazy when they are tasked with creating six burger buns and fillings.

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7.66

32 votes

#18 - Pies

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2015

Our nine bakers turn piemakers this week! They are challenged to reinvent an Aussie icon in the humble Australian Pie. Their technical challenge this week is to make a perfect blood orange and chocolate meringue pie. And let's see how the show is stopped with their take on a deep dish fruit pie.

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7.67

9 votes

#19 - International Week

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/2023

The amateur bakers take a trip around the baking world with signature Turkish pides, a steamed rainbow lapis from Southeast Asia, and super-size the famous French macaron with a jacked macaron stack.

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7.67

9 votes

#20 - Vintage Week

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2023

In Vintage Week, our remaining amateur bakers step back in time to bake filled profiteroles, a tasty beef wellington, and create a classic checkerboard cake.

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7.67

64 votes

#21 - Cake

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/2013

The ultimate kitchen battle erupts as 10 contestants have their baking skills put to the test, in the hope of being crowned Australia's Best Home Baker. Hosted by Shane Jacobson and Anna Gare, together with judges Dan Lepard and Kerry Vincent.

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7.68

34 votes

#22 - Pastry

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2013

You can't have a bake-off without pastry. In the semifinal episode the final four contestants whip up three dishes in the hope of being crowned Australia's best home baker. Dan Lepard and Kerry Vincent return as judges.

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7.70

10 votes

#23 - Winter Week

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/4/2023

In Winter Week, our remaining bakers tackle warming winter favourites - baking classic savoury pastries, a carrot and cumin tart, and creating a decorative pie with 3D art.

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7.73

33 votes

#24 - Sweet Dough

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2016

Matt tasks the remaining amateur bakers with creating 12 bee stings, a traditional German sweet yeast cake.

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7.73

11 votes

#25 - Cake Week

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/13/2023

Twelve of Australia's best amateur bakers tackle three tricky cake challenges - a signature personal story cake, a tricky technical raspberry and black pepper curd cake, and a two-tiered layer cake.

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