Liam Charles and Tom Allen host the toughest Bake Off on TV, as teams of pastry chefs from top hotels, restaurants and small businesses compete to be crowned best patisserie team in Britain
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 10 2021: Liam Charles and Tom Allen present the grand final, which sees the remaining three teams pour all of their patisserie passion, prowess and precision into their last two challenges. For the first, they must produce hats made entirely of chocolate, and modelled by the teams themselves. But that’s not all. Alongside the headwear, …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 9 2021: Liam Charles and Tom Allen present the semi-final, which sees the four remaining pairs of patisserie chefs baking four batches of petit fours and a magical table scene inspired by the teddy bear’s picnic. At the heart of their piece must be jelly-based desserts and accompanying edible elements, to help bring their story …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 8 2021: The patisserie chefs face the quarter-final, and for their first challenge they serve up 24 Black Forest gateaux and 24 mini roulades. For the showpiece, the teams go back to the 1970s as they construct a disco-inspired showpiece, using a combination of sugar and chocolate, and incorporating desserts. Presented by Tom Allen and …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 7 2021: Tom Allen and Liam Charles bring together the three best teams from both sets of heats, whose first challenge is to create 24 perfectly identical almond pithivier pies and individual savoury brioche, all in just three and a half hours. Then, judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden ask them to produce …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 6 2021: It’s chocolate week and the four remaining teams in this heat tackle a secret challenge, before showing off their patisserie prowess in a house of horrors-themed showpiece The patisserie chefs face chocolate week, beginning with a sharing dessert using both chocolate and a favourite ingredient of judge Cherish Finden. For the …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 5 2021: The teams make 24 carrot-shaped desserts, which must taste of anything but, before creating a grand Religieuse a l’Ancienne showpiece with two different flavours of eclairs. Tom Allen and Liam Charles present as the pastry chefs create miniature cone-shaped and carrot-shaped desserts – 24 of each. For the second challenge they …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 4 2021: Six new teams enter the kitchen and for their first challenge they must produce two different types of miniature classics, the lemon meringue pie and the tiramisu – 24 perfect examples of each in three and a half hours. After that judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden ask them to take …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 3 2021: It’s chocolate week and the teams must master perfection in a surprise challenge, before constructing mechanical showpieces, complete with chocolate bons bons and a moving part Tom Allen and Liam Charles present as the pastry chefs take part in chocolate week. First they must combine chocolate and one of Benoit Blin’s …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 2 2021: The teams create magical, cube-shaped desserts that look exactly like mushrooms but taste of anything but, and a heroes and villains-themed occasion showpiece, adorned with 160 macarons. Tom Allen and Liam Charles present as the pastry chefs are challenged to make a cube-shaped dessert, with sharp edges from every angle, and …
Bake Off: The Professionals episode 1 2021: The teams tackle two miniature classics, Tarte Piémontaise and the Jaffa Cake, and strawberries and cream complete with towering edible showpiece sculptures. Pastry chefs from hotels, restaurants and small businesses in Cardiff, Bristol, Norfolk, Brighton and London compete to be crowned best patisserie team in Britain. The teams face testing challenges …