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Teams of professional chefs compete to create elaborate patisserie and desserts.

Baking competition pitting teams of professional chefs against each other to create towering showpieces and multitudes of miniatures, under the scrutiny of two of the industry's top patissiers.

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Benoit Blin

Claire Clark

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Bake Off Creme de la Creme: Series 1: Episode 7

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The teams must build decorative chocolate structures to display different types of sweets.

The search for Britain's best team of pastry chefs. In the second semi-final, three teams must build large and decorative chocolate structures to display different types of sweets.

It's the second semi-final in the search for the creme de la creme of British pastry. Three teams are back to showcase their high-end skills, hoping to secure their place in the final.

Tom Kerridge welcomes back Stephen, Stefan and Nelson, the team from Leeds who won their heat with their exquisite chocolate skills. In the next kitchen are Christophe, Valeria and Josh, the team of European chefs who triumphed in the heats with their amazing flavours. In the third kitchen are cookery school teacher Mark and his two former pupils Sam and Helen. Despite making an edible model of the Lake District, they only scraped into the semis on a wildcard.

For the Miniatures test, the judges want the teams to make three different types of petits fours - bite-sized pastries which are often served with coffee at the end of a meal. The first is a biscuit with a chequerboard pattern called sable hollandaise. The second is a tiny fruit tart, and finally the chefs must make a Belgian cake called a miserable. To make it harder, the judges want 144 of them - half of each batch must be a classic version and half their own speciality.

For the Showpiece, the teams must build large and decorative chocolate structures to display three different types of sweets - calissons, marshmallows and moulded chocolates. The judges want 30 of each type, so that's 90 confectionery items to make in just three hours.

One team builds a tree of life, complete with chocolate flowers and sweets as fruit. Another makes a giant chocolate egg on a marble plinth with chocolate shelves, while the third team builds a city bank full of gold bars overrun by greedy mice hoping to escape in a hot air balloon.

Judging their professional skills and creativity are Benoit Blin, Claire Clark MBE and Cherish Finden.

Bake Off Creme de la Creme: Series 1

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Celebrated chef Tom Kerridge hosts the search for Britain's best team of pastry chefs.

Celebrated chef Tom Kerridge hosts the search for Britain's best team of pastry chefs. The teams must create elaborate patisserie and desserts for judges Benoit Blin, Claire Clark and Cherish Finden.

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