Episodes (8)
Feb 14, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a renewed focus on baking, something not lost on the season 4 batch of contestants. This, the first week, is cake week, as the judges believe cakes will provide a good initial test to gauge the bakers' overall skill level. The signature challenge is to make an elevated version of a traditional bundt cake with a drizzle or glaze, it most defined by the intricate pattern of the pan - the cake served inverted to show off that pattern - with the hole in the center. The contestants have an hour and forty-five minutes to complete the ...
Feb 21, 2021
It's bread week meaning all things yeast, with the signature challenge, making a Tarte Tropézienne, perhaps seeming outside of the nature of bread by its very name. Named by Brigitte Bardot, this tarte is actually a brioche "cake" sandwich filled with pastry cream. Beyond the basics identifying it as a Tarte Tropézienne, the bakers are given free reign as to flavors and other embellishments. The bakers are given two and a half hours to complete the challenge. For the technical challenge, the judges want the bakers to make twelve pretzels accompanied by a cheese spread. What the ...
Feb 28, 2021
The signature bake for cookie week has the bakers making eighteen linzer cookies apiece in ninety minutes. Beyond the uniformity between the eighteen and the bake itself, the bakers have to ensure the rolling of the dough is even, the flavors of the cookie and its filling are complimentary - they able to go outside the traditional - the filling is distributed right to the edge of the cookie without overflowing, and that the filling reaches just to the top of the cookie in its distinctive "window". They have to make another sandwich cookie for the technical, the Dutch ...
Mar 07, 2021
For Italian week, the bakers will double the bake for their signature in having to make two dozen biscotti in two different flavors. Beyond the flavors, the judges are looking for a crispy exterior and an interior that is not rock hard. The bakers have ninety minutes for this challenge. For the technical challenge, the bakers are asked to make twelve cannoncini, better known in English as Italian cream horns. This challenge sets a record in the longest technical yet at three hours, fifteen minutes. The challenges with it are to make the puff pastry properly so that ...
Mar 14, 2021
The show does a first in having a Botanical Week, namely all things having to do with plants. For the signature, the bakers are required to make eight mini fruit tarts in two hours. Beyond the fact that the finished products need to be fruit forward and be tart sized, the bakers are given free reign on all other aspects. In Kyla's hint to keep green, the bakers learn that for the technical, they will each be making sixteen pan-fried herb garden dumplings - the dough and filling both with herbaceous elements - with a scallion sauce accompaniment in one and ...
Mar 21, 2021
It's the quarter-finals, the remaining bakers dealing with pastry this week, one of the generally more feared aspects of baking. For the signature for which they have two and half hours, they each have to make a strudel, sweet or savory, at least twelve inches in length. They have to be concerned about the lamination in the paper thin pastry and that the filling is not too moist to make the pastry soggy and that will set properly within the time restrictions. The next challenge, the technical, has the bakers each making a British classic, the bakewell tart, in two and...
Mar 28, 2021
It's the semi-finals, and one of the four remaining bakers will face the heartache of arguably the worst position of being eliminated at the conclusion of these three bakes, and thus not make it into the finals. For their fancy dessert signature, each baker will have three hours to make twelve entremets, which are all about getting each layer right, putting them all together right, with the final product coated professionally and neatly. In Bruno's parting words of "passionate but gentle", the bakers discover their fancy dessert technical is for each to make a passion...
Apr 04, 2021
The finale has arrived with the last three bakers standing being Tanner Davies, Mahathi Mundluru and Raufikat Oyawoye. They have two and a half hours for their third to last bake, an ice cream bomb which must contain at least a layer of cake and two different layers of homemade ice cream. On this hot day, the set of the ice creams may be the biggest challenge. Their penultimate bake, for which they have two and three-quarter hours, may be the most stressful in not having any preconceived notion of what they would be asked to do. That ask is to make a St. Honoré cake, a French classic with puff pastry, choux, ...
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The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 4 (2021) is released on Feb 14, 2021 and the latest season 6 of The Great Canadian Baking Show is released in 2022. Watch The Great Canadian Baking Show online - the English Reality-TV TV series from Canada. The Great Canadian Baking Show is directed by Dave Russell,Harbinder Singh and created by Amanda Armstrong with Bruno Feldeisen and Kyla Kennaley.
A group of amateur Canadian bakers are convened for a baking competition. There is a theme to each week's competition, generally in the vein of the type of goods the competitors are to bake (i.e. cakes, cookies, pastry, etc.). Each week, they are given a set amount of time to complete each of three challenges, their finished products which are evaluated by expert judges. The first weekly challenge is the signature bake, the competitors to bake something from their home recipes which are to signify who they are as bakers within the category. The second weekly challenge is the technical challenge, where each of the competitors are provided the same recipe, in large part of something they may have never heard of let alone baked before in their lives. This challenge is to see how knowledgeable the competitors are about general baking concepts. Their finished products are evaluated blind in that the judges have no idea who baked what. The third weekly challenge is the showstopper challenge, in which the competitors are to pull out all the stops to produce a baked good which overall grand appearance is as important as taste. At the end of the week based solely on the three challenges, the judges will name the best competitor star baker, and will send one competitor home, that person whose competition has come to an end. The final three competitors enter into the finale, the winner of that week who will be crowned the overall competition winner.
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