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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Bread Week
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2024
The amateur bakers aim to make the best loaves in bread week. They make signature bread sticks, a Zopf and showstopping scored and painted loaves.
#3 - Cake Week
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2024
Twelve new bakers enter the shed kitchen to show off amazing cake creations. The first bake is a personal project followed by a challenging technical curd cake.
#4 - 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.
#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.
#6 - Italian Week
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/2024
We're off to Italy with our remaining amateur bakers serving up Pizzas, Pesche Con Crema and Tiramisu centrepieces.
#7 - Celebration Week
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2024
In Celebration week, our remaining amateur bakers make something for every occasion, making Layered Cakes, Christmas Ornaments and Spooky Blacklight Cakes.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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!
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Grand Finale
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/2024
In the grand finale, our remaining bakers face off to win the title of Australia's Best Amateur Baker, making Botanical Cakes, Paris-Brests and a Showstopper of their choice.
#16 - Biscuit Week
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2024
In Biscuit Week, our remaining bakers make their biscuit creations - making Linzers, some Mocha Mochi Cookies and some spectacular Moving Biscuit Vehicles.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Back to Basics Week
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2024
In Back to Basics Week, our remaining amateur bakers compete to make their signature scones, a Chocolate Tart, and a towering Vertical Pie.
#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.
#20 - Patisserie Week
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/2024
It's Patisserie Week as our remaining bakers complete for a spot in the finale, making Kouign Amanns, Strawberry Tarts and Petit Fours.
#21 - 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!
#22 - 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?
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.