Bake Off: The Professionals (Season 8)

Teams of professional pastry chefs do battle in the kitchen.

Cherish's Apple Tin & Illusion Showpieces (Episode 1) 4.0
Air date: 2025-05-27
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles welcome a fresh batch of professional pastry chefs to compete for the title. Judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin set the tasks, beginning with a secret challenge, which sees them working without a recipe to create one of Cherish's own creations, the Apple Tin. Then they serve up a food-and-drink-inspired showpiece with a hidden Victoria sandwich elevated to new heights, far from its humble beginnings
Le Petit Antoine & Adorned Japanese Gardens (Episode 2) 4.0
Air date: 2025-06-03
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams channel all their patisserie experience into creating 24 identical fruit tarts and 24 of the French dessert petit Antoine. They then have five hours to create a showpiece inspired by a Japanese garden, adorned with roll cakes full of flavour. Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles follow their progress, while Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden taste their efforts
Pâté En Croute, Religieuse & Wedding Mille-Feuille (Episode 3) 3.5
Air date: 2025-06-10
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams create savoury pâté en croute, modern religieuse, and a glamorous wedding mille-feuille showpiece. But who will flake under the pressure and be leaving in tiers?
Le Café Crème & Garden Illusion Showpieces (Episode 4) 1.0
Air date: 2025-06-17
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams create judge Benoit's 'Le Café Crème' and a gardening-themed illusion showpiece with a hidden veg-inspired desserts. Whose patisserie prowess will blossom and who'll be bottom of the heap?
Framboisier and S'mores (Episode 5) 3.5
Air date: 2025-06-24
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams make identical framboisier and turn American camping favourite s'mores into a high-end patisserie. Who will leave the judges wanting s'more? And whose dreams will melt away?
Paris-Brest & St Honoré (Episode 6) 1.0
Air date: 2025-07-01
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams make savoury Paris-Brest and savarin, and create a celebration St Honoré to serve 150 people. Who has the patience of a saint to secure a spot in the final six?
Petit Gâteaux & Hanging Showpieces (Episode 7) 1.0
Air date: 2025-07-08
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: The teams create plant-based petit gâteaux and chocolate showpieces suspended from the ceiling. Who will reach dizzy new heights and be heading into the quarter-final?
Savoury Sweet Desserts & Extraterrestrial Showpieces (Episode 8) 1.0
Air date: 2025-07-15
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: It's the quarter-final and the teams create savoury sweet desserts and extraterrestrial showpieces with jelly art desserts. Who'll fly into the semi-final?
Wonka Chocolate Bars & Floating Cities (Episode 9) 4.0
Air date: 2025-07-22
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: It's the semi-final and the teams create Wonka-inspired chocolate bars fit for Hollywood and edible 'floating cities'. Who'll make a splash and float on cloud nine into the final?
The Final (Episode 10) 4.0
Air date: 2025-07-29
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: It's full steam ahead as the finalists create a banquet celebrating great train journeys, with towering desserts. Who can stay on track and be crowned the winner?