Bake Off: The Professionals - Season 2

First aired: 4/30/2019 10 episodes

Hosted by Liam Charles and Tom Allen, the toughest Bake Off on TV welcomes teams from top hotels, restaurants and small businesses to do battle

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Episodes

1. Tarts and Red Velvet Cake

Aired: 4/30/2019

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.

2. Fruit Cake and Éclairs

Aired: 5/7/2019

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...

3. Asia Week

Aired: 5/14/2019

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

4. The Battenberg

Aired: 5/21/2019

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

5. Cheesecake Slices, Pear-shaped Desserts and Choux Buns

Aired: 5/28/2019

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.

6. Chocolate Week

Aired: 6/4/2019

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.

7. Holiday Week

Aired: 6/11/2019

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.

8. Quarter Final

Aired: 6/12/2019

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.

9. Semi Final

Aired: 6/13/2019

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.

10. The Final

Aired: 6/14/2019

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