On your marks, get set… Bake! The iconic white tent is ready to welcome the 12 newest amateur bakers as they whip, pipe, and proof their way through the competition. Beginning Sept. 29, the contestants will prove their talents in a series of challenges that range from bread and puddings to complex cakes.  

Much of Season 11 will be familiar — getting a Paul Hollywood Handshake and impressing Prue Leith with flavor will always be the ultimate goal. But there’s one new face that’s sure to liven up the tent: Alison Hammond, the TV personality and actor joining Noel Fielding as co-host.

So grab your apron and check for any soggy bottoms, because it’s time to take the newest culinary adventure out of the oven.

When will The Great British Baking Show Collection 11 be released?

Stream Episode 1 now. (It’s Cake Week!) New episodes will be released every Friday. 

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Who are the contestants in The Great British Baking Show Collection 11?

• Abbi, from Cumbria, is a vegetable farmer and a delivery driver. She’s been baking since she was a kid, when she’d make traditional English bakes, like steamed pudding. As an outdoor-loving adult, she incorporates homegrown ingredients into her bakes.
• Amos is a deli and grocery manager from London who loves to go to the theater. His mom (his role model) inspired him to start baking. He loves incorporating bright colors and interesting flavor combinations into his bakes. 
• Cristy is a mom and physician’s assistant from London who has plenty of experience baking birthday cakes for her four children. She describes her baking style, which is infused with flavors from her Israeli heritage and her husband’s Jamaican roots, as enchanted and pretty — the stuff that makes you nostalgic for childhood. 
• Dan, from Cheshire, is a civil engineering resource planner and a father of two. He was influenced to start baking when he visited South America years ago. His favorite bakes are pies and puddings, and he loves to try his hand at the most difficult recipes he can find. 
• Dana, a database administrator from Essex, started baking as a teen to accompany her family’s traditional Indian meals. Whenever her family needs a celebration cake, Dana’s there with bells on. She’s a super-tidy baker, and it shows — she loves minimalist decoration on her rustic bakes. 
• Josh from Leicestershire is a postdoctoral research associate who brings his chemist background to the kitchen. He loves to experiment with his bakes — reinventing recipes by adding unique flavors and farm-fresh ingredients. A rugby player, he often has his teammates taste-test his creations. 
• Keith, an accountant from the seaside town of Hampshire, grew up baking apple pies, fairy cakes, and traditional Maltese dishes with his mom. Now an avid bread maker, he’s revisiting some of those old recipes — namely, from the 1970s — so he can attempt the bakes he once thought were too difficult. 
• Matty, a science and phys ed teacher from Cambridgeshire, loves to up his game by studying patisserie-making videos online each night. His bakes often incorporate his favorite flavors — chocolate, citrus, and nuts — and he’s the go-to baker for all his family’s events. 
• Nicky, a former flight crew employee and current pet-therapy volunteer from West Midlands, loves to create bakes that instill fond childhood memories in those who eat them. As a girl, she baked pastries alongside her grandma — and pastries are still her favorite to make. Nicky loves testing out bakes on her niece and grandchildren.
• Rowan is a student from West Yorkshire whose baking motto is “go big or go home.” He grew up baking scones, pork pies, shortbreads, and jam tarts. Now, when he’s not studying English literature, he loves to have friends over to serve them opulent bakes and handmade cocktails.  
• Saku from Herefordshire is an intelligence analyst who loves to incorporate the flavors of her native Sri Lanka — especially curry, which she adds to pies. Saku taught herself to bake as an adult, as her childhood home didn’t have an oven. Now she re-creates her kids’ favorite grocery store sweets at home.
• Tasha, a participation officer from Bristol, fondly remembers licking sugar icing off fairy cakes she made with her mom and grandma. Since secondary school, she’s honed her baking skills, and now is quite the fearless baker. She’s hyper-focused on complicated, intricate designs. 

Who are the co-hosts and judges for The Great British Baking Show Collection 11?

Comedian Noel Fielding (Disenchantment, The Mighty Boosh) is back for his seventh season of co-hosting duties, while actor and TV host Alison Hammond (Strictly Come Dancing) makes her GBBS debut this season as Noel’s co-host. Judges and professional bakers Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood are back for on judging duties, too. 

On working with Alison for the first time, Paul told Netflix, “Alison’s so easygoing. We all got on really well, and that’ll show on camera straightaway. She’s quite cuddly, quite giggly… Alison got on really well with the bakers as well. It was great fun and very chilled out.”

Prue looks forward to Paul’s and Noel’s near-constant razzing. “We’ve been doing it for a very long time, so we’re now very old chums,” Prue told Netflix. “I just adore them both. Paul never ceases to tease me. His great line of teasing, which has got worse and worse, is that I’m this tottering old lady that needs to be helped. ‘Shall I get your Zimmer frame for you, dearie?’ and ‘Would you like a cup of tea?’ It drives me absolutely up the wall, but it is very funny.” 

New host Alison is looking forward to a delightful group of contestants. They’re “a very warm group of bakers who really are passionate about baking and took it really quite seriously, but had a beautiful light side as well,” Alison told Netflix. “It’s very magical. A classic year.” 

But who will dress the best? Noel? Prue? Paul?! “Well, I feel like Prue’s stylist has been looking at my stylist and now Prue’s doing me better than I do me,” Noel told Netflix. “She’s way transcended me. She wore one outfit this year that’s absolutely incredible. It looked like Elvis in Vegas. It was unbelievable.” 

Where does The Great British Baking Show Collection 11 take place?

It takes place under a large white tent somewhere in the English countryside.

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