Junior Bake Off

Junior Bake Off (titled Junior Baking Show in the United States and Canada) is a British television baking competition in which young bakers aged 9 to 15 tackle a series of challenges involving baking cakes, biscuits, bread, and pastries, competing to be crowned Junior Bake Off Champion. The series debuted in the year 2011 as a spin-off from The Great British Bake Off and is also produced by Love Productions. Four series of Junior Bake Off were broadcast on CBBC from 2011 to 2016. Following its parent series' departure from the BBC in 2017, Junior Bake Off resumed with a fifth series on 4 November 2019 on Channel 4, with comedian Harry Hill as presenter and Prue Leith and Liam Charles as judges. The fifth series concluded on 22 November 2019. The show returned for a sixth series on 11 January 2021, with Ravneet Gill replacing Prue Leith. The sixth series concluded on 29 January 2021. A seventh series premiered on 10 January 2022 and concluded on 28 January 2022. On 16 January 2026, it was announced that Junior Bake Off was renewed for its twelfth series to air in 2027.