The Nice British Bake Off Simply Introduced This Yr’s Line-Up – Meet The 12 New Bakers Categorical Occasions

The 12 new contestants heading for the Nice British Bake Off tent have been formally revealed.

The hit baking competitors returns for a model new sequence on Channel 4 subsequent week, as new presenter Alison Hammond joins co-host Noel Fielding and judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith to seek out Britain’s subsequent finest novice baker.

Forward of the primary episode, get to know the contestants all slightly higher beneath…

Occupation: Veg grower and supply driver

Official bio: “Yorkshire-born Abbi first discovered to bake alongside her mum, honing these early expertise throughout her teenagers, when she grew to become enthralled by the Victorian period and particularly the standard bakes of the time – steamed puddings, fruit desserts and extra. Now she takes her inspiration from her setting and the gorgeous English countryside round her residence.

“A lover of the good outside, she forages for seasonal components – the larger and bolder, the higher – and places her homegrown veg to good use.

“Abbi’s bakes intention to mix consolation and familiarity with a robust nod in the direction of nature, and a sense of making one thing magical – bakes with a contact of fairytale”

Occupation: Deli and grocery supervisor

Official bio: “Movie and theatre fanatic, theme-park lover and hospitality skilled, Amos grew up in Nottingham along with his mum and sister, however now lives and works in North London.

“As a baby, Amos was all the time amazed by his mum’s skill to whip up scrumptious bakes at a second’s discover – making her each the inspiration and the function mannequin for his personal dedication to some severe baking.

“Amos describes his bakes as a labour of affection – his fashion is vibrant and stylish with eager consideration to element, and he loves exploring totally different flavour profiles. He compares his baking fashion to the transformed church that he now lives in, calling each his fashion and residential ‘conventional with a contemporary twist’.”

Official bio: “Life with 4 kids signifies that, for Cristy, there all the time appears to be a birthday to bake for and an thrilling celebration to plan. She describes her baking fashion as enchanted and fairly – bakes that conjure up a way of childhood. Desserts are her speciality, and he or she attracts flavour inspiration from her personal Israeli heritage and from her husband’s Jamaican roots. She is a dab hand with ornament and will get a thrill out of creating positive the outcomes look excellent.

“When she’s not organising a celebration, you will discover her having an out of doors journey, letting her hair down along with her mates, or fixing a Rubik’s dice – in beneath 4 minutes!”

Occupation: Civil engineering useful resource planner

Official bio: “Dan’s curiosity in cooking started when he went travelling in South America in 2007. His specific loves are pies and puddings: earlier than he and his spouse purchased their first residence, they lived along with his in-laws, throughout which era his mother-in-law taught him the best way to make excellent shortcrust pastry. Subsequently, his ardour for pies has advanced right into a penchant for patisserie.

“Perfectionist Dan loves a baking problem and can typically discover the toughest bake in one among his many (greater than 300!) prepare dinner books and begin there, throwing every thing he’s obtained at making a masterpiece.

“When he’s not baking, he likes to play soccer along with his two younger sons, work out within the fitness center, or forage for edible treats within the countryside round his residence.”

Occupation: Database administrator

Official bio: “Dana’s ardour for baking began on the age of 16 when she recognized a spot in her household’s historically Indian culinary repertoire. As a self-professed untidy baker, Dana would keep away from stepping on her mum’s toes within the kitchen by catching the bus to her dad’s home to indulge her must experiment along with her bakes. Now she has a kitchen of her personal (and a cockapoo, Gracie, to scrub up after her), Dana has grow to be the household’s go-to celebration cake-maker.

“Her fashion is rustic and homely, however all the time pleasing to the attention. She loves a semi-naked cake with neat traces, fairly piping and minimalist ornament; and though she likes to maintain her flavours secure, Dana will typically incorporate a twist or two, including in acquainted spices related along with her Indian heritage.”

Occupation: Put up-doctoral analysis affiliate

Official bio: “Josh is a chemist by commerce and brings his scientist’s precision and keenness to experiment into the kitchen, taking cautious notes on every a part of the baking course of and perfecting all his strategies for beautiful outcomes. He likes to take his inspiration from outdated baking books, reinventing classics to present them a contemporary twist, typically by introducing different flavours and together with the seasonal fruit and greens from his kitchen backyard.

“Josh has been enjoying rugby for his native group for greater than 15 years, and as soon as a month he bakes plenty of treats to reward his teammates after a rigorous coaching session. He goals of getting his personal artisan bakery at some point.”

Occupation: Chartered accountant

Official bio: “Apple pies and fairy desserts – which he discovered to bake along with his mum – type the baking backdrop to Keith’s childhood, alongside along with his mum’s love for conventional dishes from her residence in Malta.

“Since these childhood, Keith has by no means stopped baking. Just lately, although, he has returned to the baking books of the early Nineteen Seventies to try recipes that have been as soon as ‘past’ him. He loves the problem of taking over extra complicated bakes and has grown in confidence with bread. His companion, Sue, has obtained very used to waking as much as the odor of a freshly baked loaf. They dwell with their poodle, Maisie, only a few steps from the ocean.”

Occupation: PE and science instructor

Official bio: “Matty is the kind of baker who swats up on on-line patisserie movies earlier than mattress. Irrespective of how good he will get, although, he strives to equal the impressiveness of the bake that first caught his creativeness: a teddy-bear cake that his late nan made him for his fourth birthday.

“Now the household’s designated baker, he all the time has a listing of cake requests for upcoming celebrations. He describes his fashion as rustic however neat, and his flavour preferences as fairly conventional – he significantly loves chocolate, citrus and nuts. As soon as his days within the tent are over, his subsequent – and even larger – problem can be to make his personal marriage ceremony cake, a particular fee from his fiancée, Lara.”

Occupation: West Midlands

Occupation: Retired cabin crew and volunteer

Official bio: “Nicky describes her baking as ‘like a pair of comfortable outdated slippers; little conventional bakes that evoke fond recollections’. For Nicky herself, these recollections are of her gran’s kitchen desk the place, as slightly lady, she would roll out pastries and enhance desserts – which she says was as a lot enjoyable then as all her baking is to her now.

“Her favorite bakes are nonetheless pastries, however she additionally loves making breads, and enjoyable birthday desserts for her niece and grandchildren.

“When she’s not baking, Nicky volunteers for a pet-therapy charity (alongside along with her canine, Bracken) and likes to ski, which she has been doing since she was solely three years outdated.”

Official bio: ”‘Go huge, or go residence’ is Rowan’s motto, and one which he has all the time utilized to his bakes. His earliest baking recollections are of scones, pork pies, shortbread and conventional jam tarts (which he claims as a Northern delicacy).

“A scholar of English literature, when he’s not writing up a storm, Rowan can also be a eager host, making use of his artistic eye to his cooking – he goals for clear traces and attention-grabbing ornament in his completed bakes.

“Similar to his much-admired, knock-out cocktail-making expertise, Rowan expresses his grand, opulent aspect in his bakes, wowing his uni mates along with his creations. He made his personal twenty first birthday cake – a three-tier, 12-layer extravaganza.”

Occupation: Intelligence analyst

Official bio: “Sri Lankan-born Saku locations the standard flavours of her heritage on the coronary heart of her baking – significantly the curry spices, which she claims make for the most effective pie fillings, whereas liberal sprinklings of cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg discover their approach into her sweeter bakes.

“At her household residence in Sri Lanka, Saku didn’t have an oven till she was 18, so she turned to baking solely when she moved along with her husband to the UK, in 2003, and significantly when she grew to become a mum – rustling up treats for her kids’s lunchboxes by replicating the snacks she noticed within the grocery store.

“Self-taught, she is now a dab hand with a whisk and relishes utilizing her homegrown components from her pleasure and pleasure – her vegetable patch.”

Occupation: Participation officer

Official bio: “One of the best factor Tasha remembers about baking as a baby was licking the sugar icing from the tops of the fairy desserts she, her mum and her grandma used to make. At secondary faculty, she made desserts for her mates and was quickly inspired by her Meals Expertise instructor to develop her expertise as a passion.

“Very like her perspective to life, Tasha’s baking is fearless. She makes use of it as a method to categorical herself creatively, typically embarking upon near-impossible designs – with spectacular outcomes.

“When she’s not baking, Tasha loves going to the theatre to see a West Finish present and he or she has a ardour for travelling the world.”

The Nice British Bake Off returns on Tuesday 26 September at 8pm on Channel 4.