Britain's Best Bakery - Episode Guide

Independent bakeries compete to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, beginning with a family-run patisserie firm in Dorset that boasts an unusual oven, and bakers in Bath who are keen on foraging. Each business offers its take on the Dorset apple cake, hoping to survive the first elimination and reach Friday's regional final.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit bakeries in Cornwall and Devon, where they encounter a flamboyant French pastry chef and a traditional Cornish outlet. Only one can go through to Friday's regional final, so the judges test their skills with a 'Rough Puff Pastry' challenge.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit three bakeries in London, where they encounter a vegan cupcake emporium, a Greek outlet and a typical British bakery.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell continue their search for perfect pastries, this time travelling to Kent, Essex and East Sussex, where they sample delights including beetroot bread, Kentish apple cake and a French-style salted caramel macaroon.

The four winning bakeries from this week's heats are back to battle once more in the southern regional final. Cooking side-by-side in the kitchen, each contestant must produce a five-item afternoon tea in just three hours and pull out all the stops to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell - who will decide who makes it through to the final.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit a deli in Norwich, a Brazilian bakery in Cambridge, and a bread-maker who shows off his unusual donker loaf. However, only one can progress to the next round.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell are in the West Midlands in Litchfield, Leamington Spa and Ludlow. An artisan bread maker, a chocaholic and a family bakery all go head to head - but only one can go through to the next round.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell are in the East Midlands and Staffordshire. Today's competitors are a bakers in Rutland in a disused power station, a mother and son in Stoke who took over their local bakery when it was threatened with closure, and a couple who left the rat race to run a local Derbyshire village bakery. They all have to make a classic sausage roll.

Wales is the setting for today's show as the search continues to find Britain's Best Bakery. Expert judges Mich Turner and leading bread baker and author Peter Sidwell have their work cut out trying everything from a traditional Welsh cake and a Barra Brith fruit cake to a spicy Kurdish pasty. The stakes couldn't be higher with only one place remaining in this week's regional final.

The four bakeries which have triumphed in this week's heats face off in today's Central regional final, all fighting for a place in the national finals week. All must produce their unique take on the afternoon tea and make a St Clement's roulade cake. As they are not working in their own kitchens and are using unfamiliar equipment, it is no easy task. Culinary calamities ensue as the contestants are determined to out-bake their rivals. But judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell can only pick two to progress - which of the contenders will make the grade?

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell head to the North West to view three bakeries including Dodgshons on the Wirral, Jewish bakery State Fayre in Manchester, and Bury's famous Slattery Patisserie. They must all try to create the perfect Lancashire courting cake.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell are in Yorkshire today where three bakers must attempt to make the perfect traditional Yorkshire parkin. Testing their baking skills are a brother and sister, a traditional village bakers, and a Marco Pierre White trained patisserie chef.

The Lake District is the location today for judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell who are on a quest to find baking perfection. The contenders are a couple who took over a bakery just two years ago, a single mum who runs a busy tearoom, and an artisan bakers frequented by Prince Charles.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell are north of the border to check out three Scottish bakers. A couple show off their award-winning pies, a bakers owned by 500 members of a local community make an elaborate dessert, and a German master baker displays his unusual cake making technique.

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell oversee the Northern regional finals as four bakers go head to head in two gruelling baking challenges - an afternoon tea followed by a strawberry chiffon cake. Who will survive to bake another day?

It's the first day of the final week and the six remaining bakeries are back to battle it out for the title of Britain's Best Bakery.

The four remaining bakeries return to do battle once more, challenged to supply high-quality items to spectators at Newmarket racecourse. They hope to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, who will decide which contenders have done enough to secure a place in the final three, and who will be sent home.

Judges Peter and Mich have chosen their top 3 bakeries. Today the 3 finalists will compete in bread special.

Peter Sidwell and Mich Turner send the three finalists back to their bakeries, where they are challenged to come up with an entirely new item that the judges hope could become synonymous with each of their home towns.

The best three bakeries of the competition battle it out in the grand final. With just two days to prepare, they must each design and cook a glorious wedding cake for three couples, and be sure to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, who will choose the winner of the ultimate baking trophy.

Mich and Peter travel to the north of England to the Yorkshire area to find three bakeries worthy of representing the area in the competition. Those three bakeries are: Jeanette's Cakery, The Angel's Share and The Sunflower Bakery. The Angel's Share are chosen as the winning bakery of this episode and they are moving on to the regional finals.

Mich and Peter travel to Scotland & the north east of England to the County Durham & Northumberland areas to find three bakeries worthy of representing the area in the competition. Those three bakeries are: Sweethart Bakery, Clervaux Artisan Bakery & Cafe and Original Bakehouse Artisan Bakery. The Sweethart Bakery is chosen as the winning bakery of this episode and they are moving on to the regional finals.

Mich and Peter travel to Scotland & the north east of England for the second time to the Staffordshire & Derbyshire areas to find three bakeries worthy of representing the area in the competition. Those three bakeries are: The Pudding Room, Spondon Bakery & Lawton's Famous Pies. The Pudding Room is chosen as the winning bakery of this episode and they are moving on to the regional finals.

Mich and Peter travel to Scotland & the north east region of England to Scotland to find three bakeries worthy of representing the area in the competition. Those three bakeries are: Garvald Bakery, Bakery Andante and Blair Atholl Watermill. The Blair Atholl Watermill is chosen as the winning bakery of this episode and they are moving on to the regional finals.

The week's winners go head to head in the Scottish and north-east of England regional final. Temperatures rise as the four bakeries do battle in the kitchen, with Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell scrutinising their every move. The aim is to create an afternoon tea to impress the judges, including a complicated layered hazelnut meringue gateau with hazelnut praline.

Three Devon-based bakeries try to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell as they compete for a place in the regional final. A former Navy chef presents rum babas, a self-taught artisan baker rustles up some fennel and spinach bread, and a cake specialist prepares puff pastry, before all are challenged to create fudge-frosted choux eclairs.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit three bakeries in Somerset and Dorset. Two artisan chefs hope their garlic sourdough will impress and a mother-and-daughter duo create caramelised upside-down apple tarts under the watchful eyes of the judges, while a traditional baker struggles when challenged to incorporate goat's cheese into his food.

Three Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire bakeries come under the scrutiny of judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, with two brothers rustling up lardy cakes, an artisan mother-and-son team attempting a Genoise sponge for the first time, and a French patissier taking on a British classic - sausage rolls.

Three bakeries from Hampshire and Wiltshire go head to head. A husband and wife team unleash their Danish pastries; a former Michelin starred chef hopes his chorizo tart will impress and a passionate Italian declares his newfound love for the gooseberry.

Four bakeries compete in the south-west England regional final. They will all be aiming to make their mark with a tasty afternoon tea, as they create a two-tiered coffee and walnut cake with buttercream icing against the clock before judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell decide who is the winner.

Britains Best Bakery is a national search for the best independent, family-run or community bakery. Bakeries from all over the UK compete in a series of baking challenges that put their skills to the test and make viewers' mouths water.

The competition arrives in Birmingham, where a Caribbean mother and daughter duo make jerk chicken, a pair of French brothers create a lemongrass dish and two community cupcake bakers cook up some empanadas. With judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell.

Britains Best Bakery is a national search for the best independent, family-run or community bakery. Bakeries from all over the UK compete in a series of baking challenges that put their skills to the test and make viewers' mouths water.

Contestants from the West Midlands compete for a place in the regional final. A house husband makes a smelly scone, a brother-and-sister team creates a cake using root vegetables and a traditional baker gets into a sticky situation when he rustles up caramel apple crumble tart.

The best of the contenders from Wales and central England battle it out, creating an afternoon tea with a mix of both sweet and savoury items, and attempting a layered lime and coconut cake, all against the clock. Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell must decide which baker goes through to National Finals week.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit three bakers in Lancashire and Merseyside, including a Parisian-inspired patisserie-maker who creates an elaborate fraisier, two pie manufacturers who struggle to produce tea cakes and a pair of cake-makers who are forced to bake their first bread loaf in years.

Britains Best Bakery is a national search for the best independent, family-run or community bakery. Bakeries from all over the UK compete in a series of baking challenges that put their skills to the test and make viewers' mouths water.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell challenge two cake-making mothers from Perthshire, a French-style Edinburgh boulangerie and a team of traditional family bakers to create a product that combines pistachio and meringue. They are then asked to prepare Arbroath smokie tarts side by side in the same kitchen.

Contestants push themselves to the limit in the hope of impressing judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell. A self-taught cake-maker competes against the owners of a traditional shop who have a passion for heritage baking and members of a family-run business from Carlisle. They must all make filo pastry, and then perfect their damson upside-down cakes.

The four bakeries in the Scotland and north-west England regional final go head to head, facing two tough tasks working side by side in the same kitchen. They attempt an innovative afternoon tea to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, followed by technically challenging flourless chocolate cake with ganache and berries. Three outfits are eliminated, leaving one to go through.

As the competition heads to the south-east of England, representatives of three bakeries from East Anglia - a worldly Australian, a Norfolk heritage bread baker, and a quirky pair of siblings - are put through their paces. They are challenged to get creative with enriched dough and spinach, and rustle up 13 lemon meringue pies against the clock.

Three diverse London establishments go head to head, as they are challenged to make piped orange Viennese biscuits for judges Peter Sidwell and Mich Turner. Taking part are a pair of flamboyant Americans, a Turkish Cypriot and a French pattissiere.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell oversee proceedings as contestants from the Home Counties enter the fray. A perfectionist baker brings precision to the competition, and a British traditionalist makes an impression with his bloomer loaf, while a pair of young cake-makers struggle with their shortcrust pastry.

Three bakeries from Kent and Sussex compete, including a father-and-son team who cook up some Italian food. A pair of bread gurus take inspiration from the classic dessert Black Forest gateau, and a cupcake-making couple feel the pressure when they are challenged to make some savoury cheese straws.

The heat winners take their place in the south-east England regional final, working side by side in the same kitchen to create an afternoon tea. The stakes are raised when Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell task the four bakeries with making a challenging orange chiffon cake with Swiss meringue butter cream - and only one can go through to the semi-final.

The five remaining bakeries create 200 sweet and savoury canapes in three hours, as required for the mass catering challenge. Their efforts are then served at a black tie reception for Henley Festival-goers, and for one hopeful the competition comes to an end.

The last four semi-finalists fight for the three remaining spots in the grand final. Today's Bespoke Bake challenge is to create an afternoon tea menu for special clients the Chelsea Pensioners - which must include a loaf, a fondant fancy and a Chelsea bun.

The first of a three-day grand final sees judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell upping the stakes for the remaining three bakeries with the Market Challenge. The establishments are challenged to create a range of goods to sell to lunchtime shoppers at London's historic Old Spitalfields Market.

The three remaining bakeries face the penultimate challenge - the iconic bake. The judges ask them to use all of their ingenuity and creativity to come up with a product that best represents their companies, and can put their regions on the map. However, not everything goes to plan when they are given the chance to shine.

The search for the champion bakery reaches its climax with the final, featuring the best three outfits from around the country. Their ultimate challenge is to create a wedding cake for a happy couple's special day. Each has proved a worthy contender, but only one can take the title.