Worth The Calories - A Great British Bake Off Podcast

2026 Episode 1 - Coffee and Walnut Cake and Self Portrait Cake

Welcome our new judge, new challenge variations, and new bakers. Come for the baking insights, stay for the controversial thoughts about an actual use for the Imperial sy

2025 Episode 10 - Madeleine Tower and Table Cake

A bake off final, a birthday, and a visit from the Ghost of Bake Offs Past on this week's Worth The Calories. Madeleine tower recipe Subscribe to our RSS feed here Sub

2025 Episode 9 - Framboisier and Macaron Centrepiece

Yes we did the sugar dome. We melted clingfilm. But other than that we also got to use our favourite piping gadget and our favourite cream substitute, so it's a good week

2025 Episode 8 - Upside Down Orange Puddings and Free Standing Trifle

This episode stands on its own and is full of gelatine. Upside Down Orange Pudding recipe Subscribe to our RSS feed here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here We're on Spo

2025 Episode 7 - Raspberry Soufflé and Vacherin Glacé

Raspberry soufflé - minimum ingredients, maximum effort! Find out how we get on making meringue pies and serving a soufflé that simply MUST be eaten as soon as it is bake

2025 Episode 6 - Gala Pie and Sculpted Tart

We're having a gala time enjoying savoury flavours and all types of pastry. Eggy / daddy / nostalgia pie and grumbles about arts & crafts challenges abound! Gala pie rec

2025 Episode 5 - White Chocolate Tart and Fondue Displays

Chocolate week and we're enjoying our tarts and keeping our tempers. Another change to a challenge (which we celebrate and welcome), a display of 'fondue' (the inverted c

2025 Episode 4 - School Cake and Fete Displays

We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh y

2025 Episode 3 - Glazed Doughnuts and Celebratory Sweet Bread

We might say it's a nothing week but we still have plenty to say about monkey bread, which obviously everyone knows, and glazed doughnuts of unspecified brand names. Oh y

2025 Episode 2 - Hob Nobs and Time Capsule Biscuits

We may say the word Capsule too many times in this episode, and struggle to contain the excitement over the arrival of the KING OF BISCUITS onto the Great British Bake Of

2025 Episode 1 - Fondant Fancies and Landscape Cake

Opening the 16th series of the Great British Bake Off and it's rocking with Swiss Roll, a fancy change to the repeated technical, and an arts and craft project for the sh

2024 Episodes 10 - Finale

A strong line up throughout this series left us with incredibly good bakers, come join us to discuss the eventual winners and our thoughts on each of the bakes. Stra

2024 Episodes 8 & 9 - The '70s and Patisserie

Disco bakes and delicate cakes are the order for the next two 2024 episodes, as we discuss wobbles, Queen, and brave decision making in the tent. Banoffee Pie Opera

2024 Episodes 7 - Desserts

Get ready to laugh your spots off with a rude technical, alongside some tasty puddings as we get into week 7 of the Great British Bake Off. Spotted Dick Subscri

2024 Episodes 5 and 6 - Pastry and Autumn

Double duty on episodes this week as we consider the pronunciations for frangipane and pecan; sweets from granny; the regionality of Parkin; and a split of feelings about

2024 Episode 4 - Caramel and Pear Tarte Tatin

Salty over caramel this week with a set solid attempt at home and some bulges in the tent for this week's Great British Bake Off. Pear Tarte Tatin Subscribe to

2024 Episode 3 - Bread and Seven Plaited Loaf

Bread week is here bringing savoury flavours, plaits, and horns. Lots of bread analysis for your hosts this week, and the never-ending debate over the impact of the techn

2024 Episode 1 & 2 - Cake, Biscuits, Battenberg, and Mint Cream Biscuits

We're back and we're bringing you chocolatey minty goodness. Covering the first two weeks of the 2024 season of the Great British Bake Off, prepare for reality show copyi

2023 Episode 10 - Final and Lardy Cake

Finally time for the final, and we have three bakers making eclairs, Lardy cake, and layer cake. What a lark! #WorthTheCalories Lardy Cake recipe Subscribe to o

2023 Episode 9 - Patisserie and Millefoglie

Apologies now for the accent attempts, and the noises made at the idea of greeny-blue mirror glaze. But delight at the interesting patisserie available this week! #WorthT