The Big Bake Season 5 Episode 1: Release Date, Preview & Recap

Baking is something almost everyone has tried and loved due to it feeling therapeutic, and a competing series titled “The Big Bake,” based on bakers, was released by Food Network for viewers to enjoy. A larger-than-life holiday baking competition is what The Big Bake is about. The series participants have to design holiday-themed baked goods.

The series format follows three professional baking teams with five hours to design, decorate, and bake a grand-scale cake based on a particular holiday theme. The participating bakers need to think out of the box and blow up the minds of the judges to win the competition.

The series works in a way that the team with the most delicious and beautifully baked cake gets a step closer to winning the ultimate price of $10,000. Directed by Ryan Shaw and Frank Samson, the series is one of the most loved baking series by viewers due to it having a unique twist of theme-based baking.

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Produced by Jennifer Pratt, Tanya Linton, and Mike Sheerin, the series cast stars Eddie Jackson, Brad Smith, and Harry Eastwood as celebrity judges. The baking competition series is filmed in Toronto, Canada, with Brad Smith serving as the host. Brad welcomes the three teams competing to win the ultimate prize of $10,000.

Any team of three bakers can apply to participate in the series if they can commit to being available for three consecutive days for the filming period. The bakers are required to bake at a professional level, and they must be 18 years old at minimum.

The series invites professional bakers to take a chance on their luck and attempt to win the prize money. Viewers have been hooked on the series since the day it was released on 7 October 2019. The series has run for five successful seasons, with each episode having a run time of 43 minutes.

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The Big Bake Season 4 Recap

The previous season of The Big Bake followed a similar format, with a team of three professional bakers baking an out-of-the-box cake on a holiday theme in an attempt to win the ultimate prize money.

The previous season of the series started with a Halloween-themed challenge for the professional bakers. The season starts with Hist Brad Smith daring the baking teams to scare Danni Rose, Ron Ben-Israel, and Eddie Jackson, the judges for the challenge. Professional bakers need to bring life to things with their cake that needs to be on the themes of Boogeymen, ghosts, and monsters.

The next challenge that Host Brad gave the baking teams was for them to juggle frightening and fun by creating creepy clown cakes.

The third challenge given to the baking teams is to bake a live-size deadly fun cake of young vampires at a summer cake. The teams are neck and neck in this phase of the competition, with each team trying their best to win the ultimate prize after impressing the celebrity judges.

Host Brad checks which is the top team in the game after they are given the next challenge to bake an out-of-the-box cake on a Zoombie theme. Brad checks the water with the teams after they are given the task of baking a wholesome cake that captures monsters on an open road for the judges to judge.

The teams of bakers need to bake an awesome cake that captures the essence of the afterlife on a haunted pirate ship for their next challenge to impress the judges. The team of bakers had to bake and serve scrumptious cakes that captured the essence of hungry skeletons in the mood for food to impress the viewers.

The next challenge the bakers get is to bake a cake with a holiday-inspired theme for the judges to sing their praises. The next challenge the baking team had to fulfill to get a step closer to the ultimate prize money was to bake a cake featuring the Santa of the animal kingdom.

The teams then need to capture the essence of the Santa Claus Parade in a life-sized cake to impress the judges. The next challenge the bakers have to face is to bake a cake capturing little elves in their naughty element. The last challenge the baking teams had to go through to win the ultimate prize was to bake a cake capturing Santa and his elements.

The Big Bake Season 5 Episode 1 Preview

The upcoming episode titled “Halloween: Scary Salon” will focus on a new team of bakers gearing up to bake new holiday-themed cakes to impress the judges and win the ultimate prize money. The episode will witness Host Brad welcoming three new teams of Bake veterans seeking redemption by creating cakes of the best boo-ticians in town and their creepy clientele for the judges to give a judgment.