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Series 7 uses two five-day heats followed by Chocolate, Super Snack, Magical, and Fruit finals days and a grand final. Each episode has two challenges. This guide records all thirty briefs and adds one original peanut-caramel shortbread adaptation for a home kitchen.
Episode 1 · Cake
The first heat opens with miniature sponge rolls decorated as pigs and cakes representing moments that made the bakers proud.
Technical
Mini piggy rolls
Follow Ravneet Gill's reduced-instruction recipe for miniature filled sponge rolls finished to resemble pigs.
Showstopper
Proudest-moment cake
Build and decorate a cake depicting the baker's proudest moment.
Episode 2 · Biscuits
Biscuit Day layers peanut caramel and chocolate over shortbread before turning the creative round into edible pinatas.
Technical
Peanut millionaire's shortbread
Make layered shortbread with a peanut-caramel centre and chocolate topping from Liam Charles's reduced instructions.
Showstopper
Biscuit pinata
Construct a decorated hollow biscuit pinata with a concealed edible surprise.
Episode 3 · Bread
The first heat steams filled buns and then uses bread dough to model personal heroes.
Technical
Steamed buns
Shape, fill, prove, and steam buns using a bread technique that had not previously appeared in the Junior Bake Off tent.
Showstopper
Hero bread sculpture
Sculpt a recognisable personal hero in bread form.
Episode 4 · Dessert
Dessert Day pairs fragile fruit-shaped meringue bombes with cheesecakes inspired by dream holidays.
Technical
Exotic fruity meringue bombes
Make delicate fruit-filled meringue bombes shaped and decorated to resemble a pineapple.
Showstopper
Dream-holiday cheesecake
Create a cheesecake scene representing the baker's ideal holiday destination.
Episode 5 · Pastry
The first heat ends with a Harry Hill-shaped religieuse and decorated pies filled with flavours from favourite takeaways.
Technical
Harry Hill religieuse
Make the classic stacked choux pastry and decorate it to resemble host Harry Hill.
Showstopper
Takeaway-inspired decorated pie
Transform the flavours of a favourite takeaway into the filling for a fully decorated pie.
Episode 6 · Cake
The second heat starts by arranging fruit and sponge into an upside-down cake, then turns future ambitions into dream cakes.
Technical
Upside-down cake
Bake Liam Charles's fruit-topped upside-down sponge from reduced instructions.
Showstopper
Dreams-come-true cake
Create a cake showing what it would look like for one of the baker's dreams to come true.
Episode 7 · Biscuits
The bakers make wearable biscuit sunglasses and cubic biscuit self-portraits.
Technical
Biscuit sunglasses
Cut, bake, assemble, and decorate edible sunglasses designed to be worn.
Showstopper
About Me biscuit box
Build a cubic biscuit box and decorate its faces to reveal different parts of the baker's personality and life.
Episode 8 · Bread
Bread Day tests a spicy pull-apart bear loaf before asking for focaccia pictures of memorable days.
Technical
Bear and share bread
Shape a spiced tear-and-share loaf as a bear, keeping the individual bread portions distinct.
Showstopper
Best-day focaccia
Decorate a focaccia to picture the best day of the baker's life.
Episode 9 · Dessert
The second Dessert Day controls hot meringue around frozen layers, then disguises sweet desserts as savoury meals.
Technical
Rainbow baked Alaska
Assemble frozen dessert and sponge beneath meringue, then colour and finish it as a rainbow baked Alaska without melting the centre.
Showstopper
Savoury-meal dessert imposter
Bake and decorate a sweet dessert that convincingly looks like a savoury meal.
Episode 10 · Pastry
The last heat day turns cherry pies into decorated stars and family identities into colourful pastry crests.
Technical
Cherry pie pop stars
Make star-shaped shortcrust pastries with cherry pie filling and a decorated pop-star finish.
Showstopper
Family-crest pie
Design a family crest in pastry and use it to decorate a colourful filled pie.
Episode 11 · Chocolate
Finals Week begins with a sweet-salty miso caramel chocolate tart and individual mirror-glazed mousse cakes.
Technical
Miso caramel chocolate tart
Make a chocolate tart with a miso-seasoned caramel layer, balancing salt, sweetness, pastry, and chocolate.
Showstopper
Mini chocolate mousse mirror-glaze cakes
Create individual chocolate mousse cakes with a smooth reflective glaze and a polished finish.
Episode 12 · Super Snacks
Super Snack Day reinvents chicken and waffles as a sandwich and scales favourite sweets into giant bakes.
Technical
Chicken waffle sandwich
Make a savoury chicken-filled waffle sandwich from the supplied reduced recipe.
Showstopper
Giant favourite sweet treat
Bake an oversized version of a favourite confectionery or sweet snack.
Episode 13 · Magical
The quarterfinal disguises dessert as a washing-up sponge before using flowing icing effects in magical cakes.
Technical
Washing-up sponge illusion dessert
Construct a sweet illusion dessert that resembles a kitchen washing-up sponge.
Showstopper
Magical flowing cake
Create a magical-themed cake featuring an icing element designed to flow when released during judging.
Episode 14 · Fruit
The semifinal suspends lemon and elderflower jelly in clear globes and stacks fruit-topped meringues into celebration towers.
Technical
6 lemon and elderflower jelly snow globes
Make six clear jelly globes containing balanced lemon and elderflower elements.
Showstopper
Fruity meringue celebration tower
Build a colourful tower of cream-filled meringues decorated with seasonal fruit.
Episode 15 · Final
The finalists pair dessert jars with ice cream sandwiches, then build tiered cakes inspired by a funfair.
First Challenge
Dessert jars and ice cream sandwiches
Create a coordinated set of individual dessert jars and ice cream sandwiches in the baker's chosen flavours and designs.
Showstopper
Funfair cake
Build a celebratory funfair-themed cake as the final showpiece of the series.
Inspired by the briefs
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 2
A home-friendly tray of crisp shortbread, soft peanut caramel, and dark chocolate inspired by Biscuit Day's layered technical.
This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the challenge brief, not a contestant recipe or an official show recipe.
The adaptation uses one tin and a straightforward saucepan caramel; it does not attempt to reproduce the technical's exact quantities or decoration.
Cut while the chocolate is set but not refrigerator-hard to reduce cracking.
Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. tvmaze.com, primevideo.com, thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk, aggs.bright-futures.co.uk.
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Kezia
Everyone recorded for Season 7, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.
| Baker | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Kezia | n/a | n/a |