The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 9

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Every episode and bake

Season 9 delivers eight complete weeks, including first-time Carnival, Maple, Indulgence, and Fairy Tale themes. Its briefs range from compact lunchbox cakes and steamed buns to a maple brunch, an Egyptian lenza, and a madeleine-tree finale.

1. Episode 1 · Cake

   Cake Week

   Oct 5, 2025

   Small decorated Korean cakes introduce the bakers before a Brazilian carrot cake and a personal cake inspired by home broaden the first week.

   • Signature

     Korean lunchbox cake

     Make a single-serving layered cake in two hours, decorating it in the compact Korean lunchbox style and presenting it in a takeout container.

   • Technical

     Bolo de cenoura

     Bake a Brazilian-style carrot cake in two hours with pureed carrot, orange juice and zest, chocolate curls, and candied carrots.

   • Showstopper

     Homegrown cake

     Create a cake in four hours whose flavors and decoration express a place the baker considers home.

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2. Episode 2 · Bread

   Bread Week

   Oct 12, 2025

   Bread Week covers soft steamed buns, cardamom-custard school buns, and a giant layered sandwich whose homemade loaf must remain the focus.

   • Signature

     8 steamed buns

     Make eight fluffy steamed buns in two hours, adding a filling either before or after steaming.

   • Technical

     12 Norwegian school buns

     Bake twelve cardamom-enriched buns in two hours, filling them with vanilla custard and finishing them with icing and coconut.

   • Showstopper

     Muffuletta

     Create a large shareable muffuletta in four hours, baking the bread from scratch and showing clear layers of filling.

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3. Episode 3 · Carnival

   Carnival Week

   Oct 19, 2025

   The first Carnival Week combines personalized fried dough, a complex Maltese dome, and a large festival mask made from cookies.

   • Signature

     8 fried-dough treats

     Make eight servings of a carnival-style fried dough in two hours, adding personal flavors and garnishes.

   • Technical

     Prinjolata

     Build the Maltese carnival dessert in two hours and 15 minutes from lemon sponge, chocolate cookies, pine nuts, amaretto buttercream, and torched Italian meringue.

   • Showstopper

     Cookie carnival mask

     Create a colorful cookie mask in four hours, drawing its design from a carnival or festival.

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4. Episode 4 · Maple

   Maple Week

   Oct 26, 2025

   Maple flavors individual Quebec puddings, a mousse-and-fudge tart, and an extensive brunch platter containing three different kinds of bake.

   • Signature

     8 pouding chomeur

     Bake eight individual Quebec-style puddings in two hours, cooking cake batter in a rich maple sauce.

   • Technical

     Maple mousse tart

     Make a shortcrust tart in two hours and 15 minutes with maple mousse, maple-walnut fudge, and raspberry jam.

   • Showstopper

     Maple brunch platter

     Prepare six servings each of three maple bakes in four hours: one laminated pastry, one quick bread, and one baker's choice, including sweet and savory items.

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5. Episode 5 · Indulgence

   Indulgence Week

   Nov 2, 2025

   Rich miniature cheesecakes and stuffed triple-chocolate cookies lead into a layer cake enclosed by a flexible printed sponge.

   • Signature

     6 mini cheesecakes

     Make six matching, richly flavored miniature cheesecakes in two hours and 15 minutes.

   • Technical

     6 Dubai chocolate cookies

     Bake six cookies in two hours and 15 minutes using three chocolates and a filling of pistachio-tahini paste with crisp homemade kataifi.

   • Showstopper

     Cake-wrapped layer cake

     Create a layer cake in four hours and 15 minutes wrapped in a thin, flexible sponge carrying a detailed printed design.

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6. Episode 6 · Pastry

   Pastry Week

   Nov 9, 2025

   The quarterfinal asks for a celebratory pie, an Egyptian pressed-pastry tart, and a family-sized version of a famously layered French pastry.

   • Signature

     Birthday pie

     Bake a pie in two hours and 15 minutes whose flavors and decoration evoke a birthday celebration.

   • Technical

     Lenza

     Make the Egyptian tart in two hours and 15 minutes with cake-like pressed pastry, mahalabia milk custard, and a distinct layer of pomegranate jam.

   • Showstopper

     Family-sized mille-feuille

     Create a large shareable mille-feuille in four hours with crisp, even pastry layers and a polished finish.

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7. Episode 7 · Fairy tales

   Fairy Tale Week

   Nov 16, 2025

   The semifinal reimagines fairy bread as buns, turns sugar plums into sandwich cookies, and builds a working pop-up story from cake and cookies.

   • Signature

     8 fairy bread buns

     Reinvent fairy bread as eight matching buns in two and a half hours, including sprinkles made from scratch.

   • Technical

     10 sugar-plum cookies

     Make ten plum-shaped sandwich cookies in one hour and 45 minutes with plum jam, whipped ricotta, and a sparkling finish.

   • Showstopper

     Edible pop-up storybook

     Construct a pop-up book in four and a half hours from cake sponges and cookies, illustrating a fairy tale of the baker's choice.

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8. Episode 8 · Final

   Finale

   Nov 23, 2025

   The finalists combine two Dutch pastries, elevate a Filipino fruit-and-custard dessert, and assemble an edible tree from madeleines and another bake.

   • Signature

     Bossche bollen vlaai

     In two hours and 15 minutes, combine a yeasted Dutch vlaai base with cream-filled, chocolate-coated bossche bollen and freely chosen fillings or toppings.

   • Technical

     Crema de fruta

     Make the Filipino dessert in two hours and 15 minutes with calamansi chiffon, vanilla custard, whipped cream, graham crumbs, fruit cocktail, and pandan gelatin.

   • Showstopper

     Madeleine tree

     Build a madeleine tree in four and a half hours and pair the madeleines with one additional baked confection.

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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 4

Individual Maple Pouding Chomeur

Tender vanilla cakes baked in a bubbling maple-cream sauce for a simple home version of the Quebec dessert.

Time

44 min

Makes

6 individual puddings

Level

Easy

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Ingredients

• 180 ml pure maple syrup
• 120 ml double cream
• 30 g unsalted butter
• 120 g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
• 60 g unsalted butter, softened
• 80 g caster sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 80 ml whole milk

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan. Butter six 200 ml ramekins and set them on a rimmed baking sheet.
2. Bring the maple syrup, cream, and 30 g butter just to a simmer, stirring until smooth. Divide the hot sauce among the ramekins.
3. Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, beat the 60 g butter and sugar until pale, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
4. Fold in the dry ingredients in two additions, alternating with the milk, to make a soft batter.
5. Spoon the batter gently over the sauce without stirring. Bake for 22 to 24 minutes until the tops are golden and spring back lightly.
6. Rest for 8 minutes, then serve in the ramekins while the maple sauce remains warm beneath the cakes.

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

The sauce will look generous before baking but thickens as the puddings rest.

Place the ramekins on a rimmed sheet because the maple sauce can bubble near the edge.

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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 9, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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