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In the final, the remaining bakers prepare the ultimate glitzy event, each delivering 24 mini desserts and submitting the superlative Showstopper - a cake fit for a red carpet

It's the semi-final, and the junior bakers take on one of patisserie's toughest Technical challenges, before conquering the summit of Showstopper sophistication: the entremet

The hopefuls compete in the final challenge, preparing two of their own recipes to be judged by Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry before the winner is announced.

The first heat of the class of 2021 junior bakers enter the Bake Off tent for two exciting cake-based challenges. Harry Hill hosts, while guest judge Paul Hollywood joins Ravneet Gill.

It's Biscuit Day and the Heat B bakers are asked to create a 'biscuit picture of your best day ever' to show off their skills.

The challenges stack up as the bakers create a love-it-or-hate-it breakfast snack and face a nightmare multi-tasking pancake Showstopper. Who will end up top of the pile?

On Dessert Day, the bakers face the muckiest Technical ever seen in the tent, before leaving the school gates behind for a Showstopper depicting their dream school trip out of blondies.

It's Bread Day and the remaining junior bakers must rise to two tricky challenges. The bakers are tasked with making a BBQ classic as cute as can be. Then they must pay homage to their best friends by immortalising them in bread form.

It's Pastry Day, and the last chance for the first heat of bakers to make it through to Finals Week. But they've got their hands full making donuts and fruit tarts.

The four remaining bakers compete in the final. In the only Signature challenge of the series, the bakers create ice-cream sandwiches and dessert jars concurrently, ready to share with family and friends at a party. In their most important bake of the series, the finalists' last chance to impress comes in the form of the ultimate Showstopper - a finale fun fair cake.

The country's best young bakers go head to head. Sam and Mark host as four finalists face the final challenge - creating a tiered and layered cake.

Sam and Mark host as the second batch of quarter-finalists enter the Bake Off tent to face judges Graham Hornigold and Allegra McEvedy.

The contestants bake scones and shortbread fancies, aiming to impress Executive Pastry Chef of Harrods Markus Bohr and the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2012, John Whaite.

The contestants are challenged to make choux buns and coffee eclairs as they battle for a place in the semi-finals.

It’s the first slice of the bake-off final. The contestants take a masterclass with top pastry chef Cherish Finden, before preparing afternoon tea for special guest chef Michel Roux Jr and judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

The young cooks battle for a place in the semi-finals, demonstrating their technical skills by following a chocolate brownie recipe. They also prepare Halloween-themed biscuits. Presented by Aaron Craze, with judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry.

The remaining junior bakers' building skills are tested in Construction Day. For the technical challenge the bakers make a cake that's intentionally the wrong way up.

To celebrate the first day of Finals week, it's Chocolate Day. As the final 10 junior bakers return to the tent, they are faced with a delicious, indulgent technical challenge.

On day two of finals week, the remaining bakers make Japanese-inspired creations, complete with intricate pipe designs, and delicious tartlets that bring together two flavours.

The first 10 bakers enter the tent for Cake Day and two challenges. The bakers are asked to follow Prue's surprise recipe for a tea party classic, followed by impressive showstopper cakes on the theme of the baker's favourite school subjects.

The young bakers must create the near impossible in biscuit form, and a masterpiece biscuit canvas inspired by their favourite artist.

Dessert Day sees the bakers tasked to produce delicious, sweet creations for judges Liam Charles and Ravneet Gill. The bakers struggle to avoid meltdown in an icy Technical Challenge that defies logic, while in the illusional Showstopper they create dessert `imposters" - tasty sweet desserts, baked and decorated to look like savoury meals. At the end, one baker will prove themselves worthy of star baker and another will be leaving the competition.

The bakers make fashion-conscious wearable biscuits and an `About Me" biscuit box - an edible, cubic sculpture decorated to illustrate different aspects of their lives

The four finalists face the ultimate challenge in a last bid to impress Judges Mary Berry and James Martin, but only one of them can become Junior Bake Off Champion.

Four young cooks are challenged to bake cakes fit for a queen in a bid to impress judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

It's the semi-final, and the perfect time to test the remaining bakers' skills in some of the more challenging areas of patisserie

On day three of finals week, the six remaining bakers create tower-stacked illusion bakes that deceive the eye, and make fault line cakes revealing the flavours on the inside.

The cooks race to bake a lemon drizzle cake in one hour and create a recipe based on the theme of America. Meanwhile, Aaron Craze finds out about cupcakes.

The second heat of 10 junior bakers enter the Bake Off tent. It's Cake Day and the Heat B bakers take on multi-coloured batter.

It's pastry day: the last chance for the Heat A bakers to get into Finals week. To earn their place, the bakers need to impress judges with their pastry plaiting. For the showstopper, they must create choux pastry animals with delicious fillings.

It's the final, and from the 20 young bakers who entered the tent, only one can be crowned winner. The finalists prepare multiple bakes for a tea party, including inside-out biscuits and trophy cakes.

The four remaining contestants face the first day of the final with a tough challenge - preparing afternoon tea for Michel Roux Jr, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

The young cooks face an Invention Challenge in which they must prepare birthday cakes as a test of their imaginations.

It's the second day of Finals week and the remaining junior bakers must go global - having their skills tested in tricky international challenges. The pressure is on in the technical challenge.

he junior bakers combine two cult foods into one in the Technical, and their precision and imagination are put to the test by huge cookie layer cakes in the Showstopper

Today it's go big or go home! There's a fusion of two delicious street food staples in the Technical, and the junior bakers shape an overloaded mega-snack for the Showstopper.

In their first ever Technical, the new bakers take on a traditional cake pop with a twist, and create a Showstopper that, when sliced, reveals their hidden talents

The semi-final sees judges Liam Charles and Ravneet Gill go fruity for all the challenges. In the Technical, the bakers up against the clock setting layers of jelly and fruit with spectacular results. In the Showstopper, construction is key as the bakers are tasked with building magnificent meringue towers celebrating fresh fruit.

It's Pastry Day for the second heat of bakers and their last chance to win a place in Finals Week. Liam Charles sets an all-star Technical with delicious shortcrust pastry and cherry pie filling. Then the bakers must show originality and finesse when the judges ask them to design their own family crests in pastry to adorn a colourful and delicious pie.

It's the final, and the four remaining bakers create a themed afternoon tea, with entremets and pastries, and a showstopping tiered layer cake. Who will be crowned the winner?

It's Bread Day and the first heat of bakers take on cinnamon snails and a desert-island-meal loaf. Who can prove themselves worthy of star baker and who'll be left high and dry?

It's Pastry Day and the first heat of bakers take on train-themed choux and pop star portraits. Who can stay on track to be named star baker, and who will be top of the flops?

It's Dessert Day and the first heat of bakers are kept on their toes with ballet-themed meringues. But who will be roaring into Finals Week with their animal roulade?

It's Bread Day and the second heat of bakers rise to a hot cross bunny challenge and create bread-ucational centrepieces. Who will prove themselves worthy of being star baker?

It's Pastry Day and the second heat of bakers take on an invisible filling pie challenge and pay pastry homage to their idols. But whose choux can get them through?

It's Spooky Day as the bakers create Liam's slime-filled cauldrons and huge haunted gingerbread houses. Who'll stir up a graveyard smash and who'll get the shivers?

It's Cake Day and the first heat of bakers tackle a tricky cartoon Technical by turning a 3D cake into a 2D comic delight, before making time travel-themed cake creations

Judges Nadiya and Allegra are looking for another quarter-finalist, and bakers Mia, Jamie, JJ and Maisie are tasked with making an identical batch of prune and carrot cupcakes, topped with beautifully uniform piped frosting. Whilst one baker forgets an essential ingredient, another sends cream flying, making for an eventful technical challenge, and the drama continues in the show-stopper, when the bakers produce 12 biscuit pops and one baker omits an essential part of the bake. But will it cost them a place in next week's quarter-finals?

The three finalists face two days of baking challenges before one of them is crowned Junior Bake Off Champion 2016. Today, for their first ever signature challenge they must produce two different canapes made with rough puff pastry, and whilst the bakes themselves aren't a surprise, the guests they are making them for are. Sam and Mark welcome vloggers Marcus Butler and Oli White to the tent to assist the judges in tasting the bakes, much to the delight of the finalists, who are massive Marcus and Oli fans. After all that excitement, the judges really step up the pressure by giving the bakers their final and toughest technical challenge yet - a surprise recipe for chocolate passion fruit meringue pies.

It's Biscuit Day. Can the young bakers make wafer unicorn horns and a biscuit diorama depicting their best Saturday?

It's Cake Day for the second heat of bakers and there's strange goings-on, as they take on Liam's mad-alien madeleines and showcase their fantasy dream home in cake form

It's Biscuit Day for the second heat of bakers as they take on a familiar Technical and create showstopping time capsules for their future selves to uncover in years to come

It's Dessert Day and the second heat of bakers are sent into a spin with a crêpe roll. Who will taste sweet success with their meringue tart and make it through to Finals Week?

Finals Week begins with American Day. The bakers create red velvet whoopee pies shaped like American footballs, and showstopping Thanksgiving cakes.

It's all eyes on the skies for Rav's cloud cake Technical Challenge. And in the Showstopper, the bakers recreate their favourite holidays in the form of mini tartlets.

In the most regal final in Junior Bake Off history, the bakers take on Rav's Charlotte Royale and create cakes fit for a coronation. But who will be crowned the winner?

The second batch of bakers to whip up a storm are Evie, Billy, Shriyana and Nigel. Their baking knowledge and skills are put to the test when they are asked to follow Nadiya's surprise recipe for shortbread peanut butter squares. The shortbread squares need to be perfectly uniform in size with even layers, but which young baker will demonstrate the most precision to make it into the top two? Then they are asked to bake from the heart with a showstopper birthday cake for somebody they love. This bake brings out the best in the bakers as they have to think not just about the flavours and decoration their loved one would like, but also what could win them a place in the quarter-finals.

Sam and Mark host the semi-final as judges Allegra McEvedy and Graham Hornigold examine the bakers' knowledge with a series of tough technical tests.

Junior Bake Off goes global as bakers Millie, Mack, Zac and Rosie take on two internationally themed challenges. Their surprise technical is for fruity French apricot clafoutis, and the judges are looking for a delicious puffed-up pudding with crispy edges and a berry ice cream on the side. Next the bakers take inspiration from their travels for showstopper international cakes which transport the judges from Denmark, to Iran and via the Caribbean to Australia. With such exotic flavours tickling their taste buds how can Allegra and Nadiya possibly choose which young baker to put through to the quarter-finals?

The Technical gets tiny for Toy Day as the bakers tackle Rav's doll house challenge. And in the Showstopper, they recreate their favourite childhood toys in macaron form.

Sam and Mark host as four junior bakers compete for the quarter-finals. Euan, Lucy, Peter and Sienna attempt to make Indian rotis, a flatbread spiced with cumin and turmeric.

Nadiya and Allegra give four more junior bakers, Lottie, Harry, Ffion and Mehdi, the chance to compete for just one place in the quarter-finals. The technical challenge is one of Allegra's recipes for pizzetta bianchi. Which baker will achieve pizza perfection with these thin, mini white pizzas? Next the bakers have to invent a dessert in show-stopping cake form. Expect blackberry crumbles, lemon meringue pies and even jelly and ice cream to be transformed into cake.

Eight junior bakers' sponge-baking and jam-making skills are put to the test in a tricky first Technical, followed by a Showstopper themed on what our bakers would do if they were PM!

It's Biscuit Day and the first heat of bakers make monstrously creative cookies and what they think is the world's greatest invention in biscuit form. Whose daring dough will be star of the show?

The remaining bakers face a tricky pastry test as they attempt to make James Martin's cheese straws, followed by a creation of their own design - a cake in the shape of a monster.

It's the start of finals, where 40 bakers have been reduced to just ten and now the first five quarter-finalists enter the Bake Off tent, all targeting a place in the semi-finals. Judges Allegra McEvedy and Nadiya Hussain have shifted it up a gear in challenge difficulty with one of Nadiya's recipes for mini orange and chocolate hazelnut dacquoise and then, for the first time this year, the bakers face pastry and have to come up with show-stopping savoury galettes.

It's Pastry Day and the last chance for the first heat of bakers to go through to Finals Week. The bakers are asked to make a patisserie in the shape of Harry Hill, and transform their favourite takeaway into a pie filling.

It's Biscuit Day and judge Liam sets the second heat of bakers the muckiest Technical ever seen, before they bring a magical touch to their showstopping fairy-tale biscuit scenes.

It's dessert day, and judges Prue and Liam are expecting the bakers to produce the perfect finale to any meal, with a dessert that's very personal to Prue and an unusual showstopper in the form of `Franken-Desserts', a mash-up of two puddings.

Return of the programme in which enthusiastic young cooks take part in a culinary competition to determine which of them is Britain's best junior baker. In the first heat, four contestants follow a tricky recipe for biscotti and lemonade and create showstopping racing-themed cakes, before judges Mary Berry and James Martin pick one to go through to the semi-final.

The bakers are challenged to master James's melt-in-the-middle chocolate fondant and make a cake inspired by the jungle.

Four new bakers are ready to show off their skills in front of presenter Aaron Craze and the judges. Mary Berry sets the technical challenge in which they must create the perfect `melting moment' biscuits, and they get into the party mood as they make a showstopping cake fit for a carnival.

The challengers try their hand at making rock cakes and attempt to create jigsaw biscuits.

The cooks try to make delicate Welsh cakes for the technical challenge, before creating cakes inspired by fairy tales of their choice.

With a place in the semi-final at stake, the four young bakers face the technical challenge, featuring James Martin's new recipe for sticky toffee pudding.

The bakers are tasked with a tricky technical challenge recreating James Martin's butterfly cakes, and must create a showstopper that resembles a natural wonder of the world.

Four junior bakers, Alyth, Harrison, Kiah and Matthew, have their baking knowledge tested when they're asked to follow a surprise recipe for strawberry shortcake stacks.

Sam and Mark host as four junior bakers compete for the quarter-finals. Grainne, Isaac, Matilda and Will's baking knowledge is tested with a recipe for a chequerboard biscuit.