Amateur British bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, with each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.

Follow twelve amateur bakers as they don aprons and head for the tent in the British countryside, hoping to be named Britain's best. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood create challenges to test their baking prowess, creativity, and skill. Joined by hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, they search for the best all-around baker among the contestants.

Master baker Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ, is one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the country. Follow Buddy as he supervises a team that includes his mother, four older sisters, and three brothers-in-law in an effort to achieve his late father's dream of making the family-owned business a household name