Series synopsis
Junior Bake Off is a British reality kids television series that premiered on CBBC on October 31, 2011. It stars Ravneet Gill, Harry Hill, Liam Charles and Prue Leith.
A spinoff of 'The Great British Bake Off', this show features children aged 9-13 competing to be ‘Junior Bake Off’ Champion by taking part in a series of Technical Bakes and Showstopper Challenges using their own original recipes
Premise
A spinoff of 'The Great British Bake Off', this show features children aged 9-13 competing to be ‘Junior Bake Off’ Champion by taking part in a series of Technical Bakes and Showstopper Challenges using their own original recipes
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Ravneet Gill as Self - Judge
- Harry Hill as Self
- Liam Charles as Self - Judge
- Prue Leith as Self - Judge
- Aaron Craze as Self
- Mary Berry as Self - Judge
- Paul Hollywood as Self - Judge
- James Martin as Self - Judge
Supporting cast
- Sam Nixon as Self
- Mark Rhodes as Self
- Allegra McEvedy as Self - Judge
- Nadiya Hussain as Self - Judge
- Graham Hornigold as Self - Judge
Guest cast
- Paul Hollywood as Self - Judge
- James Martin as Self - Judge
- Sam Nixon as Self
- Mark Rhodes as Self
- Allegra McEvedy as Self - Judge
- Nadiya Hussain as Self - Judge
- Graham Hornigold as Self - Judge
Episodes
This series spans 11 seasons with 163 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | October 31, 2011 | November 18, 2011 |
| Season 2 | 15 | November 11, 2013 | November 29, 2013 |
| Season 3 | 15 | November 2, 2015 | November 20, 2015 |
| Season 4 | 15 | November 7, 2016 | November 25, 2016 |
| Season 5 | 15 | November 4, 2019 | November 22, 2019 |
| Season 6 | 15 | January 11, 2021 | January 29, 2021 |
| Season 7 | 15 | January 10, 2022 | January 28, 2022 |
| Season 8 | 15 | January 16, 2023 | February 3, 2023 |
| Season 9 | 15 | January 2, 2024 | January 19, 2024 |
| Season 10 | 15 | January 6, 2025 | January 24, 2025 |
| Season 11 | 15 | January 5, 2026 | January 23, 2026 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Enthusiastic young cooks take part in a culinary competition to determine which of them is Britain's best junior baker. |
October 31, 2011 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Four more bakers are challenged to prepare jammy shortbread biscuits, before demonstrating their own recipes for a chocolate celebration cake. |
November 1, 2011 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 The contestants prepare carrot-cake muffins, and bake treats inspired by their favourite festivals. |
November 2, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Return of the programme in which enthusiastic young cooks take part in a culinary competition to determine which of them is Britain's best junior baker. In the first heat, four contestants follow a tricky recipe for biscotti and lemonade and create showstopping racing-themed cakes, before judges Mary Berry and James Martin pick one to go through to the semi-final. |
November 11, 2013 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 The bakers are challenged to master James's melt-in-the-middle chocolate fondant and make a cake inspired by the jungle. |
November 12, 2013 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 With a place in the semi-finals at stake, the bakers are tested on their know-how in the Technical Challenge, where they will try to master Mary Berry's recipe for marble cake. They must then make a splash in the Showstopper Challenges as they rustle up and present a selection of impressive under-the-sea-themed biscuits. |
November 13, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Four junior bakers, Alyth, Harrison, Kiah and Matthew, have their baking knowledge tested when they're asked to follow a surprise recipe for strawberry shortcake stacks. |
November 2, 2015 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Sam and Mark host as four new junior bakers compete for the quarter-finals. Farhaan, Hannah, Olivia and Tom try to follow a classic French recipe for patisserie madeleines. |
November 3, 2015 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Sam and Mark host as four junior bakers compete for the quarter-finals. Grainne, Isaac, Matilda and Will's baking knowledge is tested with a recipe for a chequerboard biscuit. |
November 4, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Heat 1 The first quartet of junior bakers enter the tent for two exciting baking challenges - and aiming for the first of 10 quarter-final places. Annabel, Harry, Tyrese and Abi have their baking knowledge and piping skills put to the test when they are asked to follow Allegra's surprise recipe for a US classic - red velvet whoopee pies. These stunning cookie sandwiches which ooze fluffy meringue filling prove themselves to be a tricky first technical challenge for the bakers. This is followed up with gravity-defying show-stoppers that require the bakers to demonstrate engineering, as well as baking skills. Expect spectacular bakes which take off into the sky and others which topple and fall. |
November 7, 2016 |
| 2 |
Heat 2 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 into the top two? Then they are asked to bake from the heart with a showstopper 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. |
November 8, 2016 |
| 3 |
Heat 3 The four bakers entering the third heat of Junior Bake Off have the mammoth task of flipping 12 uniform pancakes to produce a glossy chocolate-covered pancake cake. Ben, Francesca, Hannah and Oliver follow up this tricky technical challenge with a historic show-stopper when Allegra and Nadiya ask them to recreate a moment in history using biscuits. They not only have to bake robust and perfectly flavoured biscuits but they also need to construct their 'moment', if they are going to make history and make it into the quarter-finals. |
November 9, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day - Heat A The first 10 bakers enter the tent for Cake Day and two challenges. The bakers are asked to follow Prue's surprise recipe for a tea party classic, followed by impressive showstopper cakes on the theme of the baker's favourite school subjects. |
November 4, 2019 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day - Heat A It's biscuit day, and the bakers attempt one of new judge Liam's favourite biscuit recipes: a reinvention of a classic that tests the bakers' piping ability. They also create spectacular illusion biscuits made to look like their favourite foods. |
November 5, 2019 |
| 3 |
Bread Day - Heat A It's bread day, and the Heat A bakers have a lot to prove with a technical working with sticky swirls of dough. For the showstopper, the bakers are asked to demonstrate their 3D shaping skills with savoury centrepieces depicting their dream jobs. |
November 6, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day 1 Junior Bake Off returns for a new run, with Harry Hill, Liam Charles, new judge Ravneet Gill, and very talented young bakers. This episode features sponge, jelly and fantasy cakes. |
January 11, 2021 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day 1 The young bakers must create the near impossible in biscuit form, and a masterpiece biscuit canvas inspired by their favourite artist. |
January 12, 2021 |
| 3 |
Bread Day 1 The young bakers have a lot to prove on bread day, with tricky shaping techniques in the Technical and sculptural sweet bread mythical creatures for the Showstopper. |
January 13, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day 1 The first heat of the class of 2021 junior bakers enter the Bake Off tent for two exciting cake-based challenges. Harry Hill hosts, while guest judge Paul Hollywood joins Ravneet Gill. |
January 10, 2022 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day 1 It's Biscuit Day, and the first heat of bakers return to the Bake Off tent for two tricky challenges. The Technical brings a comforting British classic and for their Showstopper, the bakers are asked to painstakingly create beautiful biscuit piñatas. |
January 11, 2022 |
| 3 |
Bread Day 1 It's Bread Day, and the judges hope that the bakers can prove themselves in two tough challenges. In the Technical, Rav asks the bakers to make cute bread rolls, and in the Showstopper, the bakers dough-sculpt their heroes in bread form. |
January 12, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day 1 Eight junior bakers' sponge-baking and jam-making skills are put to the test in a tricky first Technical, followed by a Showstopper themed on what our bakers would do if they were PM! |
January 16, 2023 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day 1 It's Biscuit Day. Can the young bakers make wafer unicorn horns and a biscuit diorama depicting their best Saturday? |
January 17, 2023 |
| 3 |
Bread Day 1 The bakers have a lot to prove on Bread Day. There's a Technical with a feline twist, and can they create a historical figure in bread form for the Showstopper? |
January 18, 2023 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day 1 It's Cake Day and the first heat of bakers tackle a tricky cartoon Technical by turning a 3D cake into a 2D comic delight, before making time travel-themed cake creations |
January 2, 2024 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day 1 It's Biscuit Day and the first heat of bakers make monstrously creative cookies and what they think is the world's greatest invention in biscuit form. Whose daring dough will be star of the show? |
January 3, 2024 |
| 3 |
Bread Day 1 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? |
January 4, 2024 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day It's cake day as the first heat of bakers take on their first technical, where Ravneet asks them to create purr-fect cat cakes. And in the showstopper they reveal wishes in burn-away cakes |
January 6, 2025 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day It's Biscuit Day and the bakers use an egg-stra special ingredient in the Technical and recreate their favourite bedtime stories in biscuit form. Who'll make an egg-cellent impression? |
January 7, 2025 |
| 3 |
Bread Day It's Bread Day and the bakers take on Rav's skull and crossbones Technical and create the world's biggest baddie in bread. Who'll rise to the challenge? |
January 8, 2025 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Cake Day It's Cake Day, and the heat one bakers put a novelty twist on the classic Victoria sandwich and recreate their lucky mascot in cake form. |
January 5, 2026 |
| 2 |
Biscuit Day It's Biscuit Day... who'll knock the baseball-themed Technical out of the park? And whose time-travelling cookie launches them into Finals Week? |
January 6, 2026 |
| 3 |
Bread Day On Bread Day the bakers make pizza and create their 'roll' models. Who'll steal a pizza the judge's hearts? And whose 'roll' model will see them rise? |
January 7, 2026 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | CBBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 31, 2011 |
| Last aired | January 23, 2026 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | continue |
| Schedule | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 17:00:00 |