Bake Off Brasil

Bake Off Brasil: Mão na Massa (English: Bake Off Brasil: Hands On), often referred to as simply Bake Off Brasil or Bake Off is a Brazilian reality television series based on the BBC baking competition The Great British Bake Off.

Bake Off Brasil
Genre	Cooking Baking Reality
Based on	The Great British Bake Off
Presented by	Nadja Haddad Ticiana Villas Boas Carol Fiorentino Chris Flores Fabiana Karla
Judges	Beca Milano Giuseppe Gerundino Carol Fiorentino Fabrizio Fasano Jr. Olivier Anquier Carole Crema André Mifano
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	159
Production
Production locations	São Paulo, São Paulo
Camera setup	Multiple-camera
Running time	60 minutes (2015–16) 120 minutes (2017–present)
Original release
Network	SBT Discovery Home & Health
Release	July 25, 2015 (2015-07-25) – present
Related
The Great British Bake Off

The series premiered on Saturday, 25 July 2015, at 9:30 p.m. (BRT / AMT) on SBT, aiming to find the best amateur baker in Brazil.

Cast

Host and judges

The first two seasons were presented by Ticiana Villas Boas and judged by Carol Fiorentino and Fabrizio Fasano Jr. However, following Ticiana's departure due to the leak of her husband's controversial bribery allegations with president Michel Temer, Carol took her place in season three, with Beca Milano replacing her in the judging panel.^[1][2]

Following production of the first season of Junior Bake Off Brasil, Carol and Fasano left the show over contract disputes.^[3] Carol was replaced by Nadja Haddad in season 4. Beca remained as judge and was joined by Olivier Anquier from seasons 4–7. Olivier left the show following production of the second season of Bake Off Celebridades, with Giuseppe Gerundino replace him starting on season 8.^[4]

Key

  Host

  Judge

Cast member	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
André Mifano
Beca Milano
Carol Fiorentino
Carole Crema
Chris Flores
Fabiana Karla
Fabrizio Fasano Jr.
Giuseppe Gerundino
Nadja Haddad
Olivier Anquier
Ticiana Villas Boas

Series overview

Season	No. of bakers	No. of weeks	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
1	12	13	Samira Ghannoum	Ayrton Bartoleti	Marilia Beznos
2	14	15	Camila Poli	Noemy Caangi	Marcos Souza
3	16	18	Dário Héberson	Johanna Aquino	José Negreiros
4			Ricardo Daudt	Nayane Capistrano	Núbia Moraes
5			Karoline Barbeirotti	João Francisco	João Silveira
6			Priscilla Grasso	Flávio Amoedo	Thais Macedo
7	18	21	Gileade Santana	Nathanael Santos	Julio Cepe
8		19	Camilo Lucas	Leonardo Anterio	Fabiano dos Santos
9			Marcel Toni	Fabiano Miranda	Luan Gomes
10			Eli Alencar	Danilo Guerini	Juliano Faller

Ratings and reception

Season	Timeslot (BRT)	Premiered		Ended		TV season	SP viewers (in points)	Source
		Date	Viewers (in points)	Date	Viewers (in points)
1	Saturday 9:30 p.m.	25 July 2015	6.9	17 October 2015	7.5	2015	6.92	[5] [6]
2		21 May 2016	8.5	27 August 2016	9.5	2016	8.54	[7] [8]
3		12 August 2017	7.6	16 December 2017	9.4	2017	8.17	[9] [10]
4	Saturday 10:30 p.m.	11 August 2018	10.9	15 December 2018	10.3	2018	10.30	[11] [12]
5		10 August 2019	9.7	14 December 2019	9.6	2019	8.93	[13] [14]
6		15 August 2020	6.6	12 December 2020	5.5	2020	6.23	[15] [16]
7		24 July 2021	5.8	18 December 2021	5.6	2021	5.20	[17] [18]
8		6 August 2022	5.1	17 December 2022	4.7	2022	4.88	[19] [20]
9		12 August 2023	3.7	23 December 2023	3.8	2023	3.90	[21] [22]
10	Saturday 8:45 p.m.	10 August 2024	5.8	28 December 2024	3.6	2024	3.90	[23] [24]

• Each point represents a specific number of households in São Paulo.
  • 2015: 67.000 households.
  • 2016: 69.000 households.
  • 2017: 70.500 households.
  • 2018: 71.855 households.
  • 2019: 73.015 households.
  • 2020: 74.987 households.
  • 2021: 76.577 households.
  • 2022: 74.666 households.
  • 2023: 76.953 households.
  • 2024: 73.279 households.

Spin-offs

Bake Off SBT

Bake Off SBT is a special holiday series featuring celebrities from SBT as contestants, aiming to find the best amateur celebrity baker from SBT. The series premiered on 23 December 2017.

Junior Bake Off Brasil

Junior Bake Off Brasil is a series featuring children from ages 8 to 13 as contestants, aiming to find the best junior baker in Brazil. The series premiered on 6 January 2018.

Bake Off Brasil: A Cereja do Bolo

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television, SBT pushed back the premiere of the new season of Fábrica de Casamentos to mid 2020 and opted to create Bake Off Brasil: A Cereja do Bolo (English: Bake Off Brasil: The Icing on the Cake) to fill the programming gap.^[25]

The series is a compilation show highlighting the most memorable moments of the franchise. The retrospectives are hosted by Nadja Haddad and also includes revisited recipes by judge Beca Milano, catch-ups with past contestants and appearances of celebrity guests Matheus Ceará and Juliana Oliveira. The series premiered on 2 May 2020. Ticiana Villas Boas replaced Nadja as the host on season 2.^[26] Beca Milano was joined by fellow Bake Off Brasil judge Olivier Anquier on season 2. Dony De Nuccio replaced Ticiana as the host on season 3.

Ratings and reception

Season	Timeslot (BRT)	Premiered		Ended		TV season	SP viewers (in points)	Source
		Date	Viewers (in points)	Date	Viewers (in points)
1	Saturday 10:30 p.m.	2 May 2020	7.1	20 June 2020	6.2	2020		[27] [28]
2	Saturday 9:30 p.m.	22 August 2020	4.5	19 December 2020	4.6			[29] [30]
3		4 September 2021	4.0	25 December 2021	5.0	2021		[31] [32]
4		27 August 2022	4.0	24 December 2022	1.9	2022		[33] [34]

Bake Off Celebridades

Bake Off Celebridades, is series featuring celebrities as contestants, aiming to find the best amateur celebrity baker in Brazil. However, unlike Bake Off SBT, it is a full celebrity series instead of a two-episode holiday special and the contestants are not necessarily employees of the network. The series premiered on 20 February 2021.^[35][36]