The nation's favourite baking contest is about to get a whole lot hotter in the kitchen, as it reaches the quarter-final stage, and just five amateur bakers remain. They've all impressed to various extents during Bread Week - at least sufficiently to make it through - but now their skills are thoroughly tested as they take on enriched doughs. They have a signature bake in which they must work with soft dough to create artful works, a technical that sees them recreate an Eastern European cross between bread and pastry, and a showstopper involving doughnuts.

The Great British Bake Off Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Cake
• s05e02 - Biscuits
• s05e03 - Bread
• s05e04 - Desserts
• s05e05 - Pies and Tarts
• s05e06 - European Cakes
• s05e07 - Pastry
• s05e08 - Advanced Dough
• s05e09 - Semi-final - Patisserie
• s05e10 - The Final
• s05e11 - Masterclass
• s05e12 - Masterclass 2
• s05e13 - Class of 2013
• s05e14 - Masterclass 3
• s05e15 - Masterclass 4
• s05e16 - Christmas Masterclass 2014

The Great British Bake Off Show Summary

The Great British Bake Off sees ten passionate home bakers take part in a bake-off to test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle to be crowned the Great British Bake Off's best amateur baker. Each week the nationwide tour sees keen bakers put through three challenges in a particular discipline.

The competition kicks off with cake in the Cotswolds, then moves to Scotland to tackle biscuit baking, then Sandwich in Kent for bread, Bakewell in Derbyshire for puddings, Mousehole in Cornwall for the pastry challenges, and London for the grand final.

Judging the baking are renowned baking writer Mary Berry and professional baker Paul Hollywood; presenting the show are Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, who trace the very particular history of British baking by visiting local baking landmarks and discovering why people bake what they bake today.