The Great British Bake Off 2025 winner crowned after ‘incredible’ final

The winner of The Great British Bake Off 2025 has been crowned following an amazingly tense final.

This year’s Channel 4 series has seen some terrible cakes and people lose their cool under enormous pressure as Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith judged 12 bakers across 30 challenges.

But after nine weeks, just three bakers were left as finalists, with Tom, Aaron and Jasmine battling it out to take home the iconic cake stand trophy.

Following a nail-biting finale, however, co-host Alison Hammond announced that medical student Jasmine was this year’s winner.

Speaking after her win, the 23-year-old, who grew up in Edinburgh but lives in London, said: ‘Oh my goodness I am just so overjoyed!  When I was in the middle of exams and trying to bake while I was trying to learn, it’s been so much.  

‘But I have done it and I am just so unbelievably happy and to have done it with such an awesome group of people.’

After making their way through Cake Week, Biscuit Week, Bread Week, Back to School Week, Chocolate Week, Pastry Week, Meringue Week, Dessert Week, Patisserie Week, the three finalists ended on a stunningly tense final.

For the signature challenge the bakers had to wow the judges with their flavours and techniques by creating the classic British iced finger bun. 

Next was a jaw dropping tower of French delights in the technical, and finally for their last ever bake the they were tasked with making the largest cake in Bake Off history.

From week one Jasmine hardly put a foot wrong, scooping up two handshakes and taking home a record-equalling five Star Baker wins.

Discussing her journey, Prue said: ‘The thing about Jasmine is that she has been steady all the way through, almost unheard of to be so consistent and so good. She is an extraordinary girl.’

Paul added: ‘There was not one week we thought she could go this week… not once.  

‘And that’s unusual, and to win 5 Star Bakers and then win overall that’s never happened before.  She has done an incredible job all the way through the Bake Off this year. 

‘She is a worthy winner and she is the best one we have seen for quite a while actually.’

Discussing her win, Jasmine continued: ‘When it was announced that I won, Aaron instantly picked me up and spun me around. My friends and family then ran over and completely surrounded me.

‘This felt like such a testament to my whole Bake Off journey. I feel very blessed to have been encouraged, held and supported by so many people throughout the competition, without whom I could never have got to where I did.’

For her final showstopper, Jasmine baked a 1.5m long cake, which took her four hours and 30 minutes.

Revealing her best moment in the tent, she said it was ‘dancing with Alison in the rain crying with relief after finishing one of the most intense weeks of my life: two massive Medicine exams and week 8 of the Bake Off’. 

Her worst moment, alternatively, was taking her meringue scallop shell out of the oven and hearing it go ‘crack’.

Discussing the challenge of studying and baking at the same time, she said: ‘Keeping the secret from the other medical students was really difficult at the time of filming.  

‘No one could understand why I kept disappearing off. Since going back to training in hospitals it’s a relief that it’s all out in the open now. I was expecting to have to resit all of my exams, but somehow I miraculously passed all of them. 

‘One day, if I ever grow up, I would love to learn how to spin all of the plates, and keep doctoring and baking going alongside each other.’

Jasmine, who has alopecia, also added that: ‘I could never have imagined being on the Bake Off, let alone doing it with no hair. Life with alopecia has definitely been challenging at times.

‘I am still very much in the process of learning to love it. But I am getting to the point where more days than not I am actually really enjoying looking a bit different. Having alopecia has, and is, changing my perception of what beauty is.

‘Being authentically yourself, the way you were made to be, is so much more beautiful than trying to look like everyone else around you.’

Jasmine will now join Jo Brand and Tom Allen along with all the other bakers on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice on Friday November 5 at 8pm on Channel 4.

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