Bake Off: The Professionals

The teams channel all their patisserie experience into creating 24 identical battenberg cakes and 24 reinvented versions of the colourful classic. They then have five and a half hours to create a dramatic Shakespeare-inspired theatrical scene, complete with puddings based on the 16th-century dessert fruit fool. Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles follow their progress, while Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden taste their efforts.

The remaining teams take on the tantalising feast that is pastry. In their first challenge, the teams create 24 savoury laminated tarts and get creative with 24 cream buns. Their showpiece challenge demands precision and flair as they build modern landmarks solely out of biscuit, accompanied by impeccably shaped petit gâteaux, in a towering test of skill, structure and nerve.

Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles present as the teams make 24 identical tarte aux agrumes meringuée - or in simple terms, citrus tarts. But with no recipe to rely at their disposal, they must rely on pure skill, instinct and experience to achieve perfection. The second challenge sees them creating edible showpieces based on their childhood hobbies, hiding a classic within a chocolate fudge cake-inspired dessert that must serve 24 people.