Bake Off: The Professionals (Season 2)

Teams of professional pastry chefs do battle in the kitchen.

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    Tarts and Red Velvet Cake (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2019-04-30

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Fruit Cake and Éclairs

    Fruit Cake and Éclairs (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2019-05-07

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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...

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    Asia Week (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2019-05-14

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: Things are getting tougher for the teams with an unseen secret recipe challenge and a magnificent showpiece featuring moving parts

  • Poster for The Battenberg

    The Battenberg (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2019-05-21

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: The remaining teams bake two dozen gateaux Basques and tartes Tatin before reinventing teatime classic the Battenberg Cak, where only the extraordinary will do.

  • Poster for Cheesecake Slices, Pear-shaped Desserts and Choux Buns

    Cheesecake Slices, Pear-shaped Desserts and Choux Buns (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2019-05-28

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Chocolate Week

    Chocolate Week (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2019-06-04

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Holiday Week

    Holiday Week (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2019-06-11

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Quarter Final (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2019-06-12

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Semi Final (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2019-06-13

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Final (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2019-06-14

    Runtime: 45 min

    Overview: Three teams fight to be crowned the winners of 2019 as they create a stunning afternoon tea and mind-blowing wedding feast.

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