Bake Off Creme de la Creme

Battling it out in the first heat of this intense bake off are three young chefs from a five-star hotel, a team which invents desserts for a leading supermarket and a trio of chefs who work in secret restaurants hidden away in the city of London.

The search for the creme de la creme of British pastry continues with Tom Kerridge welcoming three more teams of expert chefs to the competition for the third heat out of five.

Tom Kerridge welcomes a team from a fine-dining restaurant in Liverpool, a team from Leeds led by a self-taught chocolatier and three pastry chefs from south Wales who are representing their country in this years culinary Olympics.

Its the second semi-final in the search for the creme de la creme of British pastry. Three teams are back to showcase their high-end skills, hoping to secure their place in the final.

The teams are put through two testing challenges in just 36 hours. The first challenge demands that the teams make 36 identical moka au cafe slices and 36 identical napoleons in just three hours. The second challenge demands that they each make an extraordinary showpiece dessert by reinventing the classic peach melba in just four hours.

For their miniatures challenge, they face the juggling act of making 72 perfectly baked viennoiseries with an added bicolour element as well as 72 tantalising cup petits fours. For their next challenge, theyre given four hours to produce a magnificent under-the-sea themed chocolate showpiece accompanied by three types of chocolate bon bons, 108 in total.

In the first challenge, the four remaining teams of professional pastry chefs must create 36 identical petite charlottes and 36 shaped macarons in just two hours. For their final challenge, the teams must put an innovative spin on the classic towering French celebration cake, the croquembouche.

In the first semi-final, two teams of professional pastry chefs duel it out for a place in the grand final. For their first challenge, in just three hours the teams must each create six exactly identical and multi-layered crown entremet. For their next challenge the teams are required to display their mastery of one of the most highly regarded skills in patisserie, sugar craft.

Televisions toughest bake-off reaches its dramatic conclusion as two teams of professional pastry chefs lock horns over the most demanding assignment yet. This monumental task, worthy of a grand final, takes the form of a single, epic eight-hour challenge, which is judged and then served to over 100 assembled guests in the Great Hall, including friends, family and familiar faces from across the series, in a party hosted by Lord and Lady Gage.

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