Britains Best Bakery is a national search for the best independent, family-run or community bakery. Bakeries from all over the UK compete in a series of baking challenges that put their skills to the test and make viewers' mouths water.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell challenge two cake-making mothers from Perthshire, a French-style Edinburgh boulangerie and a team of traditional family bakers to create a product that combines pistachio and meringue. They are then asked to prepare Arbroath smokie tarts side by side in the same kitchen.

Contestants push themselves to the limit in the hope of impressing judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell. A self-taught cake-maker competes against the owners of a traditional shop who have a passion for heritage baking and members of a family-run business from Carlisle. They must all make filo pastry, and then perfect their damson upside-down cakes.