Name: The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals
Released: 2016-03-29T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Liam Charles, Cherish Finden, Benoit Blin

TV Show · Reality

Professional pastry chefs compete in a series of baking challenges in teams. These contestants come from top hotels, restaurants, and businesses around the UK.

2016 · 46m

Starring Liam Charles, Cherish Finden, Benoit Blin

Director Emma Reynolds

EPISODE 1

s8 - 801

The new batch of chefs rely on their patisserie instincts for their first challenge, before transforming the classic banoffee pie. Whose opéra aux fruit will hit the high notes?
EPISODE 2

s8 - 802

The five remaining teams create 24 reimagined tarts and 24 peach melbas, before attempting a pièce montée of 160 individual choux buns, inspired by a mad science theme.
EPISODE 3

s8 - 803

The remaining teams create 24 savoury pâté en croûte; for the showpiece challenge, they need ultimate craft perfection as they take on a demanding pastry challenge; who will flake under the pressure, and who will earn a spot in the final six?
EPISODE 4

s8 - 804

The teams create judge Benoit's Le Café Crème and a gardening-themed illusion showpiece with a hidden vegetable cake-inspired dessert, but they are not given a proper recipe to follow.
EPISODE 5

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The remaining teams draw on their classical training as they produce 24 identical classic framboisiers; for their second challenge, they let their creativity run wild as they re-invent American camping favorite s'mores into a high-end pâtisserie.
EPISODE 6

s8 - 806

The teams make savory Paris-Brest and savarin, before creating a celebration St Honoré to serve 150 people in five hours; who has the patience of a saint to secure a spot in the final six?