The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 7

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Every episode and bake

Season 7 follows eight complete themed weeks, moving from cake, bread, and cookies into harvest, nostalgic, spice, and patisserie briefs before the final. This guide records all three challenges in every episode and includes one original home adaptation.

1. Episode 1 · Cake

   Cake Week

   Oct 1, 2023

   The opening week tests patterned sponge, a custard-filled classic, and a structural cake presented upright on its side.

   • Signature

     Patterned roll cake

     Bake a roll cake in two hours with a distinct decorative pattern baked directly into the sponge.

   • Technical

     Boston cream pie

     Make a Boston cream pie in one hour and 45 minutes, combining sponge, pastry cream, and a chocolate finish.

   • Showstopper

     Top-forward cake

     Create a decorated cake in three and a half hours that is turned onto its side and engineered to stand securely.

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2. Episode 2 · Bread

   Bread Week

   Oct 8, 2023

   Bread Week begins with flavored cornbread, continues with a festive Mexican ring, and ends with a two-flavor tower of buns.

   • Signature

     Cornbread loaf with condiment

     Bake a personally flavored cornbread loaf and a complementary homemade condiment in one hour and 45 minutes.

   • Technical

     Rosca de reyes

     Make the Mexican Three Kings Bread in two hours, crowning the ring with candied fruit and colored cookie-dough stripes.

   • Showstopper

     Festival of Buns

     Build a tower of 24 buns in four hours, making twelve buns in each of two flavors with two distinct appearances.

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3. Episode 3 · Cookies

   Cookie Week

   Oct 15, 2023

   Intricate piping, a filled Algerian ring cookie, and a tall layered cookie cake put precision and construction under pressure.

   • Signature

     12 embroidery cookies

     Bake and pipe twelve cookies in two hours, using royal icing to create detailed embroidery-style patterns.

   • Technical

     12 kaak nakache

     Make twelve Algerian ring cookies in 90 minutes, filling the orange-blossom and spice dough with date paste and crimping the surface.

   • Showstopper

     Cookie layer cake

     Build a cookie cake in three and a half hours with at least four alternating layers of cookie and filling.

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4. Episode 4 · Harvest

   Harvest Week

   Oct 22, 2023

   Vegetable-filled pide and taro mooncakes lead into a family tart decorated with a precise mosaic of fresh fruit.

   • Signature

     8 vegetable pide

     Make eight Turkish boat-shaped flatbreads with vegetable-based fillings in one hour and 45 minutes.

   • Technical

     12 thousand-layer taro mooncakes

     Produce twelve spiral-layer mooncakes in two hours and 15 minutes using two doughs around taro paste and salted duck egg yolk.

   • Showstopper

     Fruit tile tart

     Create a family-sized tart in three hours with two filling layers and an exact geometric pattern of fruit tiles.

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5. Episode 5 · Nostalgic bakes

   Old School Week

   Oct 29, 2023

   Nostalgia shapes elevated toaster pastries, the much older knafeh tradition, and exuberantly piped two-tier cakes.

   • Signature

     10 toaster pastries

     Bake ten matching filled toaster pastries in two hours, elevating the familiar breakfast treat with personal flavors.

   • Technical

     Knafeh

     Make knafeh in two and a half hours with shredded pastry, pistachios, akkawi cheese, and rose-water syrup.

   • Showstopper

     Two-tier kitsch cake

     Produce a two-tier cake in four hours with deliberately extravagant colors, decoration, and buttercream piping.

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6. Episode 6 · Spice

   Spice Week

   Nov 5, 2023

   Spice Week crosses cake, savory pastry, and architectural cookie work, requiring spice to remain central in every round.

   • Signature

     Ras malai cake slices

     Bake ras malai-inspired cake slices in two hours, using an eggless sponge, spiced milk, and chhena soaked in malai.

   • Technical

     12 Jamaican patties

     Make twelve flaky Jamaican patties with an aromatic meat filling in two hours.

   • Showstopper

     Spice-cookie architectural wonder

     Construct a recognizable architectural structure in four hours from two different spice-forward cookies.

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7. Episode 7 · Patisserie

   Patisserie Week

   Nov 12, 2023

   The semifinal demands matching choux pastries, a light Uruguayan layer cake, and two full sets of polished entremets.

   • Signature

     10 religieuse

     Make ten matching religieuse in two hours and 15 minutes, stacking filled choux buns and finishing them cleanly.

   • Technical

     Postre chaja

     Create the Uruguayan dessert in two hours and 15 minutes with syrup-soaked sponge, Chantilly cream, crisp meringue, and poached peaches.

   • Showstopper

     24 entremets

     Present an entremet display in four hours containing 24 individual desserts split evenly between two flavors.

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8. Episode 8 · Final

   Finale

   Nov 19, 2023

   The finalists combine puff pastry and cream, build an ombre crepe cake, and finish with cakes whose concealed supports create an anti-gravity illusion.

   • Signature

     Torta diplomatica

     Bake the Italian diplomatic cake in two hours, layering puff pastry, ladyfingers, and creme diplomat.

   • Technical

     Passion-fruit mille-crepes cake

     Build an ombre passion-fruit crepe cake in two hours with creme legere, a wrapping crepe, and a tempered white-chocolate collar.

   • Showstopper

     Anti-gravity cake

     Create a flavored and decorated illusion cake in four and a half hours that appears to hang or float through concealed structural support.

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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.

Inspired by Episode 1

Home-Kitchen Boston Cream Pie

A two-layer vanilla sponge filled with pastry cream and topped with a glossy dark chocolate glaze.

Time

1 hr 5 min

Makes

One 20 cm cake, serving 8

Level

Medium

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Ingredients

• 180 g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 115 g unsalted butter, softened
• 180 g caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 120 ml whole milk
• 300 ml whole milk, for the pastry cream
• 3 large egg yolks
• 60 g caster sugar, for the pastry cream
• 25 g cornflour
• 20 g unsalted butter, for the pastry cream
• 120 g dark chocolate, chopped
• 120 ml double cream

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan. Grease two 20 cm cake pans and line the bases with baking paper.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat the softened butter and 180 g sugar until pale, then beat in the eggs one at a time and add the vanilla.
3. Fold in the dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with the 120 ml milk. Divide between the pans and bake for 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely.
4. Heat the 300 ml milk until steaming. Whisk the yolks, 60 g sugar, and cornflour, then slowly whisk in the hot milk. Return to the pan and cook, whisking, until thick and bubbling.
5. Remove the pastry cream from the heat, stir in the 20 g butter, cover its surface, and chill until cold.
6. Place one sponge on a plate, spread the pastry cream evenly over it, and top with the second sponge.
7. Heat the double cream until steaming, pour it over the chocolate, rest for 2 minutes, and stir smooth. Cool until slightly thickened, then spread over the cake and let it drip just over the edge.

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

Chill the assembled cake for 20 minutes before glazing if the pastry cream feels soft.

Keep the cake refrigerated and serve within two days.

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Episode guide sources

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

Season result

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 7, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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