All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • November 4, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood is joined by Scotland's highest-qualified German pastry chef Falko Burkert as they celebrate the best of pies and puds. Falko shows Paul how to make the original exacting version of the classic apple strudel and Paul convinces Falko that his own school dinner staples of gypsy tart and corned beef hash are pretty good pies and puds too.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • November 5, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood takes afternoon tea at the Dorchester Hotel in London, his first visit there after being head baker 20 years ago. Claire O'Connell tests his skills at creating the hip new sensation 'cake pops' and Paul updates a Scandinavian classic with Scottish salmon to become his very own 'Hollywood's temptation'.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • November 6, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood is joined by chef Nigel Haworth as they celebrate the best of British hearty food. Nigel leaves behind his Michelin-starred cuisine and recreates his favourite childhood pie - mutton pudding with Lancashire black peas. Paul adds his own meat and two potato pie to the menu, along with the lightest milk panna cotta pudding.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • November 7, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood makes a Thai chicken pie with ingredients from Yorkshire, a pumpkin and ginger cheesecake from Kent, and creates charming English-flavoured turkish delight with Merle Moustafa, an artisan cook from Lewes in Sussex.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • November 8, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood raises the humble fish pie to the height of luxury he thinks all the best British pies and puddings deserve, complete with smoked langoustines and saffron. He also uncovers the flavours of summer for his little fruit pies and invites the Meringue Girls to fill his kitchen with colour.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • November 11, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood creates his favourite pies and puddings with a lovingly-crafted cheese from Botton in Yorkshire, lavender from Kent and a huge amount of perfect chocolate from chocolatier Paul A Young.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • November 12, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood's pies and puds pack a real punch in this episode, with a tart created from three types of onion, a delicate roulade pudding created with Britain's most traditional peppermint fragrance, and spiced biryani pies from Indian chef Manju Mali.

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    • November 13, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood uncovers the best of British pies and puddings with Scotland's world champion scotch pie maker Andrew Chisholm. Also on the menu is nearly as much beetroot as one baker can handle, and Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy and his delicious Iberian pies and puds.

  • S01E09 Episode 9

    • November 14, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates the best of British pies and puds with the Marshmallowists and their perfect accompaniments to his sticky toffee pudding. Also on the menu is his recipe for salted caramel coffee eclairs and tasty picnic empanadas.

  • S01E10 Episode 10

    • November 15, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates his favourite flavours as he rediscovers a recipe from Cumbria's sea-faring history, a cheese from Yorkshire that nearly got banned, and flavours from his years living in Cyprus he thought he would never taste again with cook Tonia Buxton.

  • S01E11 Episode 11

    • November 18, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates British home cooking when Michelin-starred pub grub chef Tom Kerridge shares his favourite pud with Paul - his mother's bread and butter pudding. Not to be outdone, Paul recreates his own mum's teatime treats and realises she had a better recipe for pastry than he has ever had. Historian Dr Alex Langlands joins him in overturning the theory behind the classic Sussex pond pudding and rewriting the history books.

  • S01E12 Episode 12

    • November 19, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood proves that Britain's pies and puddings are among the best in the world as he is joined by American baking boys Outsider Tart for a Great Transatlantic Bake Off. But when it comes to pies, Paul's Scottish buffalo steak pie wins the day, and Paul discovers the strawberry of the future down in Kent.

  • S01E13 Episode 13

    • November 20, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood gets his British pies and puddings spiced up with the irrepressible Levi Roots, before returning the favour with his own Caribbean banana tarte tatin. With his recipes returning to home shores, he picks up an unusual use for seaweed and creates choux puffs with home-grown mushrooms.

  • S01E14 Episode 14

    • November 21, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates British pies and puddings with the ladies of a Chippenham truck stop, and creates a bacon and egg pie inspired by their surprisingly healthy roadside fare. And Chinese chef Andrew Wong is won over by Paul's creation of something that could only exist in Britain - a Chinese chow mein pie.

  • S01E15 Episode 15

    • November 22, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood is joined by Rachel Allen as they celebrate the best of family pies and puddings. Rachel cooks her own children's favourite raspberry and coconut pudding, and Paul creates his family's treat of brie, cranberry and brioche pie. Out and about, Paul tries something new with a goatmeat pie and reinvents something old with his Scottish cranachan cheesecake.

  • S01E16 Episode 16

    • November 25, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates the best of British pies and puddings with Michelin-starred chef Glynn Purnell, who leaves fancy fine dining aside to celebrate the chicken curry pies he loves from his Saturday football matches. Paul is also a guest of Lord Hopetoun on his Scottish estate, where he uncovers the seasonal secrets of game pie, before updating the 70s classic Arctic roll.

  • S01E17 Episode 17

    • November 26, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood proves he has the best pies and puds for everyone. He joins the lads of the Clifton Chilli Club in eating some of Britain's hottest chillis for his cornbread pies, and creates delicate sugar flowers with Peggy Porschen to decorate his light strawberry mousse cake.

  • S01E18 Episode 18

    • November 27, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates the best of British pies and puddings with a luxurious black pudding sausage plait, a nostalgic pudding flavoured with black liquorice, and his take on the classic black forest trifle.

  • S01E19 Episode 19

    • November 28, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood uncovers the finest British pies and puddings as he gets an exclusive look at the drawings of William and Kate's wedding cake from master cake decorator Fiona Cairns. Out and about, the best Scottish heather honey and the most loved home-style fish curries get the Hollywood Pies and Puds magic.

  • S01E20 Episode 20

    • November 29, 2013
    • BBC One

    Paul Hollywood celebrates the best of British pies and puddings with cake decorator Adam Cox and a pina colada pudding topped with a miniature Paul Hollywood reclined under a palm tree. Out and about, Paul explores how pies bring flavours together like nothing else, with individual rabbit and pancetta pies and one great big Yorkshire classic apple and Wensleydale cheese pie.