ICING ON THE CAKE. BBC Lifestyle launches Love Baking season on the channel with delectable new TV shows.

BBC Lifestyle (DStv 180) is launching a "Love Baking" season with a cake and bake programming extravaganza for viewers including new shows such as The Great British Bake Off (described as MasterChef meets British cake cornucopia), the delectable new cooking show Baking Made Easy and the documentary series Choccywoccydoodah.


Besides Jamie Oliver's new show on BBC Lifestyle the channel is premiering the have-to-watch The Great British Bake Off with kitchen drama and extreme cake baking activity as British amateur cake makers and bakers try to outdo each other with their over creations.

The hot new Lorraine Pascale (right) is also making her exclusive debut appearance on South African television in Baking Made Easy.  Having left the modelling world to become a qualified chef, baker and pâtissier, the glamour girlshares delicious sweet and savoury recipes with her audiences. From quick and easy to daring, dazzling and inspiring dishes with a real wow factor, Baking Made Easy offers helpful shortcuts and professional kitchen secrets whilst offering large slices of glamour and baking know-how.

"I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new Love Baking season on BBC Lifestyle, and to continue to offer our viewers exclusive access to some of the best British talent and programming around," says Jon Farrar, the vice president for programming for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for BBC Worldwide Channels.

"Baking is currently one of the hottest global cooking trends, and as well as serving up some of the freshest new talent and television from Lorraine Pascale and The Great British Bake Off, we are delighted to offer our viewers the opportunity to get involved themselves by entering the Love Baking competition."

The Master Pâtissier Eric Lanlard.will be judging the Love Baking competition BBC Lifestyle will be running.

In The Great British Bake Off 10 British bakers have their baking skills put to the test through a series of challenges judged by Britain's finest professional bakers. Each week The Great British Bake Off will test the contestants on different baking disciplines and will head out on a nationwide tour of Britain to do it.  The bakers will see their cake, biscuit, bread and pastry skills carefully scrutinised to see if they've got what it takes to be crowned ''Great British Bake Off’s Best Amateur Baker".


The quirky 10 part documentary series Choccywoccydoodah will start on Sunday 18 June at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle. The series takes audiences behind the scenes of this internationally acclaimed Brighton based cake shop and provides access to the talented staff responsible for creating some of the most ambitious and technically demanding chocolate masterpieces ever seen.  With cakes ranging from £9 000 and a client base that boasts A list celebrities such as Madonna and Kylie, viewers will be kept captivated by the Choccywoccydoodah team and their spectacular creations.