Who is Jasmine Mitchell? Everything you need to know about the Edinburgh-born Bake Off 2025 winner

Since entering the Bake Off tent, the 23-year-old amateur baker stood out from the crowd for her sheer consistency. Earning Star Baker five times, a record achieved by only one other contestant in the show’s history, she then set a new record by going on to win the overall competition.

Beating out her fellow finalists Aaron and Tom - both of whom shared their delight for Jasmine - she said she was “overjoyed” to be named this year’s winner.

She said: “When I was in the middle of exams and trying to bake while I was trying to learn all my stuff... it’s been so much. But I’ve done it and I’m just, like, so unbelievably happy.”

During the final of Bake Off, Paul Hollywood even told Jasmine: “There was not one week we thought, ‘She could go this week’. Not once. That’s unusual.

“And to win five Star Bakers and then win overall, that’s never happened before.”

With the coveted cake stand now in hand, here is everything you need to know about 2025 Bake Off winner Jasmine.

Jasmine is originally from Edinburgh

Having been born and raised in Edinburgh, Jasmine is the only Scottish contestant from the series 16 line-up.

Though she now lives in London, after moving in with her cousins to study, she has continuously been inspired by her home country throughout the show.

During the very first week of Bake Off, Cake Week, she created a Scottish Highland landscape cake. The following week, she created an “Our Favourite Scottish Summers” biscuit time capsule.

While Scotland provides inspiration for her creations, Jasmine credits her family with teaching her how to bake.

She has fond memories of learning the basics behind bread and cakes from her mum and aunts, as well as the time they spent together baking for family get togethers in the Highlands.

Speaking after her win, she said: “I hope that in winning Bake Off I have made my friends, family and Scotland proud. I miss being in Scotland a lot, I grew up in Edinburgh and it’s a big part of my heritage.

“I feel like the more time I spend in London, the more I long to be in the Scottish Highlands!”

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While on Bake Off, Jasmine has been studying medicine

Much like her fellow Scottish Bake Off contestant Peter Sawkins, who also went on to win the show in 2020, Jasmine is still in education.

Calling baking a “creative outlet”, she is a medical student in London. While filming the series, she had to juggle baking alongside her studies and hospital placements.

Jasmine has shared snippets from her life during Bake Off on Instagram, showing followers how she would finish up a busy day of placement only to go home and practice for the show.

The determined contestant even sat her end of year medical exams while filming, admitting it was “intense”.

Despite this, when speaking about her favourite moments on the show, she said: “Dancing with Alison (Hammond) 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.”

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She’s been using her platform to speak about her alopecia

During Bread Week, Jasmine opened up about having alopecia on the show. While braiding her loaf, she commented: “Ironic that I’m plaiting when I have no hair to plait myself.

“I had my own hair completely until I was 12, and the doctors didn’t really know why, no one really knows what causes alopecia. There was nothing that triggered it, I just started randomly losing my hair.”

Since then, Jasmine has been learning to live with alopecia, with her attitude towards it changing over time.

“If I had told myself three years ago that I would be going about my life without wearing a wig, with no hair, I would have laughed and said, ‘don’t be ridiculous’. I could never have imagined being on the Bake Off, let alone doing it with no hair.”

Speaking with BBC Radio Scotland about her experience with hair loss, she shared what it was like to go from wearing wigs to making the decision to stop.

“It definitely was hard coming back and re-meeting everyone that I knew previously, kind of always having hair, even if it wasn’t my own hair.

“It was hard at the start but I’m definitely, like genuinely, just learning to love it now. That’s been amazing to learn that being beautiful isn’t just being the same as everyone else and fitting in.

“It’s actually being you, as you are.”

Following her win, she added: “Having alopecia has (and is) changing my perception of what beauty is.”

Jasmine ‘grateful’ for those around her following Bake Off win

After ten intense weeks, Jasmine’s Great British Bake Off journey culminated in the bakers facing iced British finger buns, a tower of French madeleines and then the largest cake in Bake Off history, measuring in at 1.2m.

Despite a slight wobble during the technical when her madeleines failed to rise, her excellent signature and showstopper helped cement her as the 2025 winner.

Jasmine said: “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.

“I am so grateful for everyone around me who carried me through the process especially my boyfriend Theo, my housemates, my family and everyone at our church who unknowingly ate my practice bakes.”

She added: “I have a lot of love and admiration for my fellow finalists, Tom and Aaron. I don’t think I would have been able to do it without them being alongside me in the tent.”

As well as receiving two Hollywood handshakes, the judge told the cameras that Jasmine was the best Bake Off winner they had seen “for quite a while”.

His fellow judge, Dame Prue Leith, echoed his sentiments by describing Jasmine as “extraordinary”.

She said: “The thing about Jasmine is she has been steady the whole way through. Almost unheard of to be so consistent and so good.”

Jasmine shares snippets from her life - including the Great British Bake Off - on her Instagram which you can find here.

She will also join Jo Brand and Tom Allen - as well as all the other bakers - on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice on Friday, November 7 at 8pm on Channel 4.