While the Food Network and the Cooking Channel have long been go-to places for cooking shows, Netflix has quickly risen to the top when it comes to unique and interesting sweet treat options. There are many cake shows on Netflix, but we’ve compiled a list of five of the best (plus a few seasonal spin-offs if you’re trying to get into the holiday spirit). Continue scrolling for our list (which is more of a guide than a ranking!)

Why should you watch cake shows on Netflix?

Do you want to try a new recipe or just look at some delicious food? Netflix has you covered with a diverse selection of superb cookery shows to satiate all of your cravings.

Cake shows on Netflix exist in a number of formats, including competitions and documentaries, among others. You can’t go wrong with any of the series on this list, no matter what you’re searching for. They’re all educational, entertaining, and chock-full of delectable foods. If you watch on an empty stomach, you might find yourself licking the screen.

Top 5 best cake shows on Netflix to stream now

1. Baking Impossible

Baking Impossible is a new cake show on Netflix in the United States that focuses on baking and engineering. Each episode confronts a group of contestants with a challenge that mixes baking and engineering, which is often referred to as “bakineering.” The first season of the show premiered on October 6, 2021, with judges Andrew Smyth (“bakineering”), Joanne Chang (“baking”), and Hakeem Oluseyi (“baking” specialist) (engineering specialist). Justin Willman is the host of the show.

The contestants compete in pairs for a $100,000 grand prize. One participant in each duo specializes in baking, while the other specializes in engineering. None of the contestant pairs have ever met before the show. Each episode allows contestants to work for up to 18 hours before the judges stress test and evaluate their projects. One pair is voted off at the end of each show. The episode’s winning team gains an advantage in the following episode, such as being able to preview the stress test before the other teams or attempting the stress test many times.

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2. Nadiya Bakes

Since winning the sixth series of GBBO, Nadiya Hussain (SPOILER ALERT) has been a regular on British cooking and baking shows. Nadiya Bakes (the title of one of her cookbooks) is her BBC programme, which is accessible on Netflix and is the only show on this list that isn’t a competition.

Nadiya shows a wide range of baking recipes that are simple enough for any home cook to try in the eight-episode series. Each episode of this Netflix cake show focuses on a different type of dessert, whether it’s decadent desserts, budget-friendly confections, or party-worthy sweet treats. If you want to find more baking content, you can read our article on the best baking shows on Hulu on Thecookingmovie.

 

3. Bake Squad

Bake Squad is an eight-episode first season of an American Netflix Original sitcom that aired on August 11, 2021. Christina Tosi hosts the show, which follows a group of four bakers as they compete to prepare sweets for a different client each episode.

There are no awards or elimination-style aspects to this cake show on Netflix, so it is merely mildly competitive. Instead, the emphasis is on crafting lavish desserts for a single episode’s client—usually for a party, wedding, or birthday. In most cases, bakers get seven hours to complete their sweets.

Bakers may come to Tosi for equipment or decorative components, such as chocolate molds or a claw machine, to help them showcase their work. Tosi uses an instant camera to take a picture of the client(s) and the winning baker, which is then displayed on a bulletin board to indicate the win. Scenes from the client’s celebration conclude the program.

4. The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off is a Netflix television baking competition hosted by Love Productions in which a group of amateur bakers compete in a number of rounds to impress a panel of judges with their baking abilities.

The show employs a weekly elimination process to determine the best all-around baker among the candidates, all of whom are amateurs. For the first series, ten participants were picked, then twelve for the next two, thirteen for the fourth and tenth, and twelve for series five through nine, and series eleven and beyond.

Each week, the amateur bakers are given three challenges: a trademark bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper, all based on the week’s theme. With the exception of Series 9, the opening week of the competition was always known as “Cake Week.” The participants are judged by the judges, who designate a “Star Baker” for the week (introduced in series 2) and a contestant is eliminated. Three bakers remain in the final round, and one of them is picked as the winner.

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5. Sugar Rush

Sugar Rush is a baking show on Netflix set in the United States that premiered on July 13, 2018. The show follows four professional two-person teams as they compete in a $10,000 baking competition. In three rounds, two-baker teams battle. Cupcakes are served in the first round, confections in the second, and cake in the third. Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet is the series’ first spin-off season, in which a team can pick between an extra 15 minutes in the final cake task or a $1,500 prize if they win either a cupcake or confection competition.

In this cookery contest, teams compete against the clock to produce the best-tasting desserts. In each episode, four teams of bakers demonstrate their culinary prowess by whipping up cakes and other confections in the hopes of winning the $10,000 grand prize. Candace Nelson and Adriano Zumbo, as well as a panel of guest judges that includes restaurateur Richard Blais and actor Colin Hanks, judge the bakers’ culinary masterpieces and decide who wins the cash prize at the end of each competition.

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