The Big Nailed It! Baking Challenge

The Big Nailed It! Baking Challenge is an American reality television series that premiered on August 4, 2023. The series is a spin-off of the Netflix series Nailed It! Like its predecessor, Baking Challenge features amateur bakers competing against each other for a cash prize; however, the bakers receive instruction from professional bakers to improve their baking skills with each challenge.

The Big Nailed It! Baking Challenge
Genre	Reality television
Presented by	Nicole Byer Jacques Torres
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Magical Elves
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	August 4, 2023 (2023-08-04) – present
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Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres returned as the show presenters. They are joined each episode by chefs Erin Jeanne McDowell and Robert Lucas, who teach the contestant the new skills during the Baking 101 challenges and provide additional instruction as they construct their cakes.^[1]

Premise

The series begins with ten amateurs bakers who lack in professional baking skills. In each episode, chefs Robert and Erin demonstrate a skill required to be a great baker while the contestants follow along and replicate the chefs' bakes in a challenge called Baking 101. A contestant will be named the winner of the episode's Baking 101 challenge and is given an advantage in the cake construction challenge; the advantages vary, including assistance such as first pick on ingredients, extra tools and instruction, or delays for their opponents (these delays are similar to the "extra help" options give to Nailed It! contestants who struggle during their first challenge). Each episode, a guest judge assists Byer and Torres in picking an episode winner. The results of the Baking 101 challenge do not impact the judging of the cake construction challenge.

In the second challenge, the contestants must complete a cake that requires the skill taught in the Baking 101 challenge. At the end of each episode, a winner is declared for the cake construction challenge, who is awarded $1,000 per challenge. The bottom baker is eliminated from the show, but is first given 60 seconds to grab any set items they would like to take home to continue their baking journey, which is called a Pantry Raid.

The season winner is awarded $100,000 after all other players are eliminated.^[1][2]

Contestant progress

Name	Ep. 1[3]		Ep. 2[3]		Ep. 3[3]		Ep. 4[3]		Ep. 5[3]		Ep. 6[3]		Ep. 7[3]		Ep. 8[3]		Ep. 9[3]		Ep. 10[3]
Ignoisco	SS	WIN	SS	HIGH	WIN	WIN	SS	N/A	N/A	HIGH	SS	SS	SS	WIN	SS	WIN	SS	WIN	WINNER
Georgina	DQ	LOW	WIN	SS	SS	SS	WIN	N/A	N/A	WIN	SS	WIN	WIN	SS	WIN	SS	SS	SS	RUNUP
Richard•	DQ	SS	SS	WIN	SS	HIGH	SS	N/A	N/A	SS	SS	LOW	SS	SS	SS	SS	WIN	Eliminated (Episode 9)
Frank	DQ	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	N/A	N/A	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	Eliminated (Episode 8)
Emily	DQ	SS	SS	SS	SS	LOW	SS	N/A	N/A	HIGH	SS	HIGH	SS	Eliminated (Episode 7)
Travis	DQ	SS	SS	HIGH	SS	SS	SS	N/A	N/A	SS	WIN	Eliminated (Episode 6)
Angie•	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	SS	N/A	N/A	Eliminated (Episode 5)
Cura	WIN	HIGH	SS	LOW	SS	Eliminated (Episode 3)
Jean	DQ	SS	SS	Eliminated (Episode 2)
Andy	DQ	Eliminated (Episode 1)

•Previous contestant on Nailed It! Holiday

  Won the round

  Recognized by the judges, high

  Considered for elimination, low

  Eliminated

 Disqualified from winning Baking 101 due to cake collapsing

 Round was skipped

  Series winner

  Series runner up