Episodes
1. Tarts and Red Velvet Cake
April 30, 2019
45 min
The toughest Bake Off on TV returns, inviting teams from top hotels and restaurants to do battle. This time, six teams tackle Linzer tortes, Bakewell tarts, and a red velvet cake.
2. Fruit Cake and Éclairs
May 7, 2019
45 min
The five teams of pro pastry chefs make layered fruit cake slices, lemon-shaped desserts and an éclair tower. But one team's patisserie journey is about to come to an end...
3. Asia Week
May 14, 2019
45 min
Things are getting tougher for the teams with an unseen secret recipe challenge and a magnificent showpiece featuring moving parts
4. The Battenberg
May 21, 2019
45 min
The remaining teams bake two dozen gateaux Basques and tartes Tatin before reinventing teatime classic the Battenberg Cak, where only the extraordinary will do.
5. Cheesecake Slices, Pear-shaped Desserts and Choux Buns
May 28, 2019
45 min
The remaining teams feel the heat rising as they must produce pristine, perfect cheesecake slices, pear-shaped desserts, and a themed pièce montée with two different flavours of choux buns.
6. Chocolate Week
June 4, 2019
45 min
Chocolate Week features a secret recipe challenge, and a Showpiece in which the teams have five hours to produce a magnificent sun, sea and sky-themed extravaganza with three types of chocolates. Their creations must demonstrate a mastery of chocolate, consummate technical ability, artistic flair - and a moving part.
7. Holiday Week
June 11, 2019
45 min
The best six teams from both sets of heats are combined as they battle it out for a place in the quarter-final. For Holiday Week, the teams must create brioches polonaises, savoury Danish pastries and a jaw-dropping sugar Showpiece with fruit pastilles, fudge, and marshmallows.
8. Quarter Final
June 12, 2019
45 min
In the quarter-final of the competition, the teams are challenged to prepare 24 ice-creams and 24 doughnuts in just four hours, before creating a spectacular Showpiece incorporating confectionery, sugar work and chocolate. The lowest-ranking team must leave the competition, whilst the remaining four secure their place in the semi-final.
9. Semi Final
June 13, 2019
45 min
Just four teams remain for the semi-finals, with challenges including the creation of an impressive tower of tarts and a spectacular piece of gourmet theatre known as live plating. At the end of the challenge, the teams are given three minutes to transform their table - and their cake - into a gastronomic work of art, with three of them securing their places in the grand final.
