The Great Canadian Baking Show (season 2)

The inaugural Signature Challenge had the bakers make an upside-down fruit cake with any ingredients of their choosing to put "on top," with two hours to create it. The Technical Challenge involved the bakers creating an orange chiffon cake - along with an orange glaze and candied orange toppings - in two hours. The Showstopper Challenge featured the bakers creating a birthday cake - with at least three layers and two different flavours - for anyone of their choosing, all within four hours.

For the Signature challenge, the bakers had to make 24 dessert bars with at least 3 distinct layers in two hours. For the Technical Challenge, bakers had to make 18 digestive biscuits topped with tempered chocolate in 1 hour 30 minutes. In the Showstopper Challenge, the bakers had 4 and a half hours to bake 36 identical cookies to be placed inside an edible and elaborate biscuit box.

For the Signature Challenge, the bakers had to produce two loaves (or 12 pieces) of a quick bread (a bread which does not use yeast) along with a homemade spread in one and a half hours. The Technical Challenge required to the bakers to create 20 uniform hot cross buns, including an apricot glaze, in two and a half hours. In the Showstopper Challenge, bakers had four and a half hours to create a sandwich cake, including decorations and a proper balance of bread and filling.

For the Showstopper Challenge, bakers had four hours to create a sculpture or diorama of at least two types of Italian cookies.

For the Signature Challenge, the bakers were asked to make a fruit-filled slab pie: a shallow pie that is rectangular rather than round, baked in a rimmed baking sheet pan or jelly roll pan, in two hours and 15 minutes. The Technical Challenge gave them two hours and 15 minutes to create two dozen palmiers, 12 sweet and 12 savoury, using rough puff pastry. For the Showstopper Challenge, bakers had four and a half hours to produce a basket of 18 breakfast pastries—six croissants, six Danish, and six sweet buns.

In the quarterfinal Signature Challenge, the bakers were given two hours to create a tart with tempered chocolate decorations. The tart itself could be any shape or flavour as long as chocolate was the "star" ingredient. The uniquely time-sensitive nature of the Technical Challenge, one hour and 45 minutes to bake a chocolate soufflé, required that the bakers' starting times be staggered and the judges taste each soufflé fresh from the oven. Finally, the Showstopper Challenge required the bakers to create a modern re-imagining of the Black Forest cake.

The Pâtisserie Signature Challenge had the bakers make a mille crêpes cake: a cake built of at least 25 layered crêpes with a sweet filling between the layers, in two hours. For the Technical Challenge, they had two hours, 15 minutes to make 12 miniature jocondes, a cake of layered and filled almond sponge and mousse. The Showstopper gave them four hours to produce 36 savoury canapés: 12 with puff pastry, 12 tartlets, and 12 finger sandwiches.

For the Signature challenge the finalists had two and a half hours to make 24 mini Swiss rolls, in two flavours. The Technical Challenge was to produce a Swedish Princess cake in two hours and 15 minutes. For the final showstopper, the bakers had to prepare a Choux pastry tower with at least three layers, and a minimum of two shapes of choux and three flavours of fillings, in four and a half hours; it was the hottest day of filming, handicapping the bakers in assembling their chocolate and cream towers.[5]