The teams are challenged to recreate Benoit Blin's Le Café Crème, a dessert he has made at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons for the past 30 years. But to make it even harder, they have no recipe to follow. After this, they create a deceptive gardening-themed illusion showpiece that hides a vegetable cake-inspired dessert to serve 24. Liam Charles and Ellie Taylor follow their progress.

Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles welcome the chefs as they create 24 savoury pâté en croûte and get creative with 24 modern religieuse - choux buns said to resemble nuns. For the showpiece, judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden ask them to come up with a five-tier mille-feuille that would not look out of place at the most glamorous of wedding celebrations.

The teams channel all their patisserie experience into creating 24 identical fruit tarts and 24 of the French dessert petit Antoine. They then have five hours to create a showpiece inspired by a Japanese garden, adorned with roll cakes full of flavour. Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles follow their progress, while Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden taste their efforts

Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles welcome a fresh batch of professional pastry chefs to compete for the title. Judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin set the tasks, beginning with a secret challenge, which sees them working without a recipe to create one of Cherish's own creations, the Apple Tin. Then they serve up a food-and-drink-inspired showpiece with a hidden Victoria sandwich elevated to new heights, far from its humble beginnings.