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The Great Australian Bake Off Season 9

The Great Australian Bake Off baking competition
Episodes
10
Premiere
Jul 29, 2025
Finale
Sep 30, 2025
Country
Australia

Complete season breakdown

Every episode and bake

Season nine spans cake, biscuits, pies, bread, tropical flavours, scale, Japanese baking, sustainability, and patisserie. The ten episodes culminate in a final built around top-forward cake, a milk-chocolate and raspberry entremet, and a large choux showpiece.

  1. Episode 1 · Cakes

    Cake Week

    The season starts with a patterned sponge roll, a layered nut torte, and a cake engineered to create a gravity-defying illusion.

    • Signature

      Imprime roll

      Create a rolled sponge with a clearly printed decorative pattern baked into its surface.

    • Technical

      Eszterhazy torte

      Reproduce Rachel Khoo's layered nut-and-buttercream torte with its characteristic glazed finish.

    • Showstopper

      Gravity-defying cake

      Build a stable cake that creates the illusion of part of the design floating or tipping against gravity.

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  2. Episode 2 · Biscuits

    Biscuit Week

    Biscuit week combines filled and decorated sandwiches, pistachio shortbread, and a miniature edible scene containing moving parts.

    • Signature

      Decorated sandwich biscuits

      Make matching filled sandwich biscuits and finish each with deliberate decoration.

    • Technical

      Pistachio shortbread

      Reproduce Darren Purchese's pistachio shortbread with a short crumb and even finish.

    • Showstopper

      Moving biscuit diorama

      Construct a detailed biscuit diorama that includes one or more movable edible parts.

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  3. Episode 3 · Pies

    Pie Week

    The bakers make party pies, a puff-pastry galette des rois, and a fruit pie whose decorated top is assembled from tangram shapes.

    • Signature

      12 party pies

      Bake a dozen individual party pies with consistent pastry, filling, and finish.

    • Technical

      Galette des rois

      Reproduce Rachel Khoo's galette des rois with crisp puff pastry and an even almond filling.

    • Showstopper

      Decorated fruity tangram pie

      Make a fruit-filled pie and decorate its surface with a recognizable design built from geometric tangram pieces.

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  4. Episode 4 · Bread

    Bread Week

    Bread week moves from miniature bagels to za'atar-topped Turkish bread before hiding a contrasting design inside a large reveal loaf.

    • Signature

      10 mini bagels

      Produce 10 evenly shaped miniature bagels with the baker's chosen flavour and finish.

    • Technical

      Turkish bread with za'atar

      Reproduce Darren Purchese's soft Turkish bread topped with za'atar.

    • Showstopper

      Hidden-design reveal bread

      Build a large loaf with a contrasting design concealed inside and revealed only when the bread is sliced.

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  5. Episode 5 · Tropical flavours

    Tropical Week

    Tropical fruit and savoury produce appear in small tarts and mille-feuille before the bakers enclose layered desserts inside three meringue bombs.

    • Signature

      Six individual tropical fruit tarts

      Make six individual tarts featuring tropical fruit in the filling and decoration.

    • Technical

      Tropical savoury mille-feuille

      Reproduce Rachel Khoo's savoury tropical mille-feuille with crisp pastry and clean layers.

    • Showstopper

      Three fruity meringue bombs

      Create three meringue-covered desserts with fruit-led interiors revealed when cut.

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  6. Episode 6 · Scale

    Little and Large Week

    Scale shifts from a tiny tiered cake to an oversized chocolate eclair, then expands into a shared city assembled one biscuit block at a time.

    • Signature

      Miniature tiered cake

      Build and decorate a fully tiered celebration cake at miniature scale.

    • Technical

      Giant chocolate eclair

      Reproduce Darren Purchese's oversized chocolate eclair with properly baked choux and balanced filling.

    • Showstopper

      Biscuit city block

      Design one detailed city block from biscuit so all bakers' structures can join into a larger edible city.

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  7. Episode 7 · Japanese baking

    Japan Week

    Japan week explores soft shokupan buns, a matcha-yuzu-black-sesame crepe roll, and the two-texture construction of double fromage cheesecake.

    • Signature

      12 shokupan buns

      Bake a dozen soft Japanese milk-bread buns with the baker's chosen flavour.

    • Technical

      Matcha, yuzu, and black sesame crepe roll

      Reproduce Rachel Khoo's rolled crepe dessert combining matcha, yuzu, and black sesame.

    • Showstopper

      Double fromage cheesecake

      Create a Japanese-style cheesecake with two distinct cheese layers and a refined finish.

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  8. Episode 8 · Low-waste baking

    Earth Week

    Earth week removes powered appliances for a raw cake, uses a whole beetroot in the technical, and turns cake and confectionery into a contained edible landscape.

    • Signature

      Raw cake without powered appliances

      Make an uncooked cake from scratch without using powered kitchen appliances.

    • Technical

      Whole-beetroot tart

      Reproduce Darren Purchese's beetroot tart while using the whole vegetable to minimize waste.

    • Showstopper

      Edible terrarium

      Create a self-contained terrarium scene in which the landscape and all visible details are edible.

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  9. Episode 9 · Patisserie

    Patisserie Week

    The semifinal wraps a complete dish in pastry, layers a spiced Charlotte Russe, and asks the bakers to give laminated viennoiserie a modern form.

    • Signature

      En croute

      Enclose the baker's chosen sweet or savoury preparation completely in decorative pastry.

    • Technical

      Spiced Charlotte Russe

      Reproduce a set Charlotte Russe with spiced filling, an even sponge lining, and a clean finish.

    • Showstopper

      Modern viennoiserie

      Present an ambitious collection or structure that reinterprets laminated viennoiserie in a modern style.

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  10. Episode 10 · Final

    Final

    The finalists tilt the presentation plane with top-forward cakes, reproduce a milk-chocolate and raspberry entremet, and finish with an elaborate choux centerpiece.

    • Signature

      Top-forward cake

      Create a cake designed to stand with its decorated top facing forward as the main presentation surface.

    • Technical

      Milk-chocolate and raspberry entremet

      Reproduce Darren Purchese's layered entremet balancing milk chocolate and raspberry.

    • Showstopper

      Choux stopper

      Build a large final showpiece from filled choux pastry with an original theme and stable construction.

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Inspired by the briefs

Bake it at home

These are original Baking Show Guide adaptations for a home kitchen. They are inspired by the challenge briefs, not the contestants' recipes or an official recipe from the show.

Whole-Beetroot and Goat Cheese Tart

Inspired by Episode 8

Whole-Beetroot and Goat Cheese Tart

A low-waste savoury tart using roasted beetroot in the filling and sauteed beet leaves in a crisp seeded pastry shell.

Time
1 hr 45 min
Makes
One 23 cm tart, 8 servings
Level
Intermediate
View ingredients and method

Ingredients

  • One 500 g bunch beetroot with leaves
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 220 g plain flour
  • 30 g sesame seeds
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 110 g cold unsalted butter, cubed
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons ice water
  • 1 small garlic clove, finely grated
  • 3 large eggs
  • 180 ml thickened cream
  • 120 g soft goat cheese
  • 1 teaspoon thyme leaves
  • 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
  • Salt and black pepper

Method

  1. Cut the leaves and stems from the beetroot. Scrub the roots, wrap them together in foil, and roast at 200 C, or 180 C fan, for 45 to 60 minutes until tender. Cool, peel, and cut into wedges.
  2. Mix the flour, sesame seeds, and salt. Rub in the butter, then add the yolk and enough ice water to form a dough. Flatten, wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
  3. Wash the beet leaves and stems thoroughly. Finely slice the stems and roughly chop the leaves. Cook the stems in the olive oil for 4 minutes, add the leaves and garlic, and cook until dry. Cool.
  4. Roll the pastry and line a 23 cm loose-bottom tart tin. Chill for 15 minutes. Line with baking paper and weights, bake at 190 C, or 170 C fan, for 15 minutes, then remove the weights and bake for 8 minutes more.
  5. Whisk the eggs, cream, 80 g goat cheese, thyme, balsamic vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and black pepper. Spread the cooked beet greens over the shell, arrange the beetroot wedges on top, and pour in the custard.
  6. Dot with the remaining goat cheese and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until the filling is just set. Rest for 15 minutes before removing from the tin and slicing.

This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation, not a contestant recipe or an official show recipe.

If beet leaves are unavailable, use 100 g chard, while noting that the tart will no longer use the whole beetroot bunch.

Roast the roots up to two days ahead and keep them covered in the refrigerator.

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Episode guide sources

Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. tvguide.com, en.wikipedia.org, foxtel.com.au.

Season result

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Reveal the Season 9 winner

Beth Hoy

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 9, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

The Great Australian Bake Off Season 9 cast
BakerAgeHometown
Anirban Chanda38n/a
Aysha Moulton32n/a
Beth Hoy37n/a
Brian Rooney51n/a
Erik Newcomb43n/a
Gregson Gastar44n/a
Jai Johns28n/a
Jess Synon31n/a
Kelarnie Whalen22n/a
Tatiana Markovic55n/a
Vanessa Furci34n/a
Wesley Mitton37n/a

Season fact sources

en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.