The WORST episodes of Bake Off: The Professionals
Every episode of Bake Off: The Professionals ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Bake Off: The Professionals!
Teams of professional pastry chefs do battle in the kitchen. Channel 4's replacement for BBC's Bake Off Crème de la Crème.
#1 - The Semi-Final
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/19/2022
It’s the semi-final and the teams create a plated dessert for each of the judges, with no recipe to guide them, before recreating the Jurassic World in an edible table scene.
#2 - Brioche Feuilletée and Amphibian-Inspired Desserts
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/22/2023
It's a viennoiserie quarter-final, as the teams create puff pastries, brioche feuilletée and amphibian-inspired desserts. Who will be leapfrogging their way into the semi-final?
#3 - Plated Desserts and a Hanging Showpiece
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/15/2023
The teams take on a brand-new challenge: creating spectacular hanging showpieces delicately suspended from the ceiling, adorned with perfectly crafted petits fours.
#4 - Chocolate Week and a Safari Showpiece
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/8/2023
It's Chocolate Week, and the teams make desserts celebrating the delights of autumn. But who will conquer the safari-themed showpiece and whose adventure will come to an end?
#5 - Millefeuille, Pavlovas and Musical Religieuse
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/1/2023
The remaining teams tackle reimagined millefeuille and religieuse modelled on musical icons. Who'll be singing all the way to the next round, and who will face that final curtain?
#6 - Prinsesstårtas and Bread and Butter Pudding
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/25/2023
Six new teams produce perfect Prinsesstårtas and transform the humble bread and butter pudding. Whose fairy-tale ending will be cut short, and who will stay in the competition?
#7 - Chocolate Figurines and Totally-Nuts Desserts
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/18/2023
It's chocolate week and the four remaining teams take on chocolate-domed figurines and totally-nuts desserts, before creating archaeology-themed chocolate bars.
#8 - Tarts, Peach Melbas and a Pièce Montée
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2023
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.
#9 - Opéra Aux Fruit and Banoffee Pie
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/2023
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?
#10 - The Final
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/26/2022
The teams pour all of their patisserie passion into creating a window display of beautiful finger tarts and a day at the races banquet, before the winner is announced.
#11 - Plant-Based Masterpieces and Bûche Entremet
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/29/2023
It's the semi-final and the teams take on renowned pastry chef Philip Khoury's signature Dawn of a New Day dessert, before creating a wondrous Land of the Giants bûche entremet.
#12 - Illusion Desserts and a Singapore Ice Cream Sandwich
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/12/2022
It’s the quarter-final and the teams create illusion desserts and a Singapore ice cream sandwich, before they combine sugar and chocolate in a spectacular theme park showpiece.
#13 - Chaussons aux Pommes and a Viennoiserie Creation
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/5/2022
The best teams from both heats face new rivals, as they tackle chaussons aux pommes and a brand-new viennoiserie creation, before producing a garden paradise-themed showpiece.
#14 - Chocolate Week
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/28/2022
The remaining teams from this heat ooze into Chocolate Week as they conquer perfectly spherical desserts, before constructing mythical chocolate showpieces and 48 chocolate bars.
#15 - Mini Celebration Cakes, Les Misérables, Grand Pièce Montée
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/21/2022
The five best teams from last week tackle mini celebration cakes and a patisserie classic, the Les Misérables, before creating a grand pièce montée with two flavours of choux buns.
#16 - Mont Blancs, a Chocolate Amenity, Trifle Towering Sculptures
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/13/2022
Six new teams make Mont Blancs and a chocolate amenity, without any recipes to follow, before transforming the classic trifle into a fine-dining showpiece with towering sculptures.
#17 - Chocolate Cylindrical Desserts, Ancient Mythology Showpieces
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/6/2022
The best teams from last week take on chocolate week, as they create 24 cylindrical desserts, 24 puddings celebrating the honeybee and some ancient mythology-inspired showpieces.
#18 - Savoury Slices and Layered Crêpe Cakes
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2022
The teams race against the clock to create 24 perfect savoury slices, 24 layered crêpe cakes, and 160 choux buns for a Greatest Sporting Moments themed pièce montée.
#19 - Fraisiers and Towering Sculptures
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/24/2022
The teams are challenged to make 36 strawberry fraisiers, transform an ordinary dessert into a fine-dining experience, and create a treacle tart complete with towering edible showpiece sculptures.
#20 - The Final 2021
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/27/2021
The teams pour all of their patisserie passion and prowess into creating chocolate hats and a banquet fit for an awards ceremony. Who will be crowned the winner?
#21 - Caramel Desserts and Frozen Lollipops
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/2/2024
It's the quarter-final and the teams make desserts celebrating caramel and a Winter Wonderland-themed frozen lollipop display. Who'll crack under the pressure and be frozen out?
#22 - Petit Gâteaux & Hanging Showpieces
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/8/2025
Liam Charles and Ellie Taylor present as the best three teams from each set of heats come together. They start off with another secret challenge - six identical plant-based petit gâteaux that feature both chocolate and blood orange, with no recipe to hand. The baking wizards and witches then have to defy gravity as they produce hanging showpieces made entirely from chocolate, delicately suspended from the ceiling, and with two batches of macarons sitting within. Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden decide which pair have to go.
#23 - Paris-Brest, Savarin & St Honoré
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/1/2025
The teams make savoury Paris-Brest and delectable savarin, before creating a celebration St Honoré to serve 150 people. Who has the patience of a saint to secure a spot in the final six?
#24 - Framboisier & S'mores
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/24/2025
The teams make 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?
#25 - Le Café Crème & Garden Illusion Showpieces
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/17/2025
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?