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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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Bake Off Creme de la Creme: Series 1

Tom Kerridge

Benoit Blin

Claire Clark

Cherish Finden

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Bake Off Creme de la Creme: Series 1: Episode 8

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The final teams must present a dessert banquet with enough desserts to feed 100 guests.

The search for Britain's best team of pastry chefs. The final three teams must present a fine-dining dessert banquet with enough desserts to feed 100 guests. Who will triumph?

The search for the best team of pastry chefs has reached the final. 15 teams started the competition but now just three remain, all hoping to be named the creme de la creme of British pastry.

Taking their place in the kitchens for the last time are Sajeela, Sam and James, a well-drilled unit from a five-star hotel, whose semi-final saw them triumph with their breakfast pastries and dress up as samurai warriors to present their stunning Japanese bureau. Competing against them are Mark, Helen and Sam, a tutor and his former pupils from an international cookery school. These masters of chocolate won their semi-final with a stunning chocolate egg sculpture, which earned high praise from all the judges. The third team is made up of Christophe, who runs a chain of patisserie shops in south London, and Josua and Valeria, who bring the baking traditions of Germany and Italy to their kitchen. Their metaphor for the banking crisis earned them a wildcard place as best runners-up from the semi-finals.

The challenge now facing the teams is to present a fine-dining dessert banquet with enough desserts to feed 100 guests. The teams have been asked to design their banquets to reflect their unique personalities. After what they've shown us so far in the competition, it promises to be a spectacular finale. One team uses the life of a pastry chef as inspiration, complete with the tools of the trade made from chocolate. Another builds a pastry funfair, with cupcake helter-skelter, chocolate ferris wheel and revolving carousel cake. The third themes their display around harmony, with the flavours of the world in their desserts, united around a towering croquembouche topped by a sugar swan.

Which of these jaw-dropping creations will score the most points and secure the trophy?

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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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