[5] The season was won by Syabira Yusoff, with Abdul Rehman Sharif and Nelsandro "Sandro" Farmhouse finishing as the runners-up.

For the technical challenge, set by Prue, the bakers were given one hour and forty-five minutes to bake twelve Garibaldi biscuits with feathered chocolate on top.

The technical challenge, set by Paul, was the baking of twelve pain aux raisins, to be completed in two hours and forty-five minutes.

For their signature challenge, the bakers were asked to make twelve individual Pan dulce ("sweet bread" pastries) in 2+1⁄2 hours.

The technical challenge set by Paul gave them two hours to produce eight toasted marshmallow and chocolate campfire snack S'mores.

Prue set a technical challenge giving two hours, forty-five minutes to make six cones filled with pistachio and praline ice cream.

Two specials were commissioned for the festive season: The Great Christmas Bake Off featured Channel 4 legends Miquita Oliver, Terry Christian, Tony Robinson, Gaby Roslin and Claire Sweeney.

The technical challenge, set by Paul, asked the bakers to make a tear and share, with Camembert, in the shape of a Christmas tree, with rough-puff pastry, in one hour and forty-five minutes.

The showstopper challenge tasked the bakers to make an edible wreath, made of choux pastry and/or meringue, which had to have a festive filling in three hours.

[21] Besides what fans noted, Nicola Austin of Digital Spy further criticised the series's Technical challenges as the production's intentions for amateur bakers "to fail", highlight one-step instruction, "Make a lemon meringue pie", for week five's (Dessert) "Lemon Meringue Pie"; and lack of instructions to properly use vegetarian gelatin for the finale's "Summer Pudding Bombe".

Austin further stated, "[M]uch of the judges' precise specifications, timings and presentation requirements now lean more towards professional standards," different from what Bake Off initially intended to be.