Bake Off: The Professionals: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Bake Off: The Professionals Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Episode 1
May 24, 2022
The search for Britain's best patisserie team returns. Liam Charles and brand-new host Stacey Solomon welcome a new batch of pastry chefs, who tackle strawberry fraisiers and tower
Episode 2
May 31, 2022
The teams must create 24 perfect savoury slices and 24 layered crepe cakes in just three-and-a-half hours. In the second challenge, they only have five hours to make 160 choux buns
Episode 3
Jun 6, 2022
The bakers face yet another challenge when they have to come up with new ideas for Focaccia. They also have to design a new pattern for milk bread.
Episode 4
Jun 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.
Episode 5
Jun 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.
Episode 6
Jun 27, 2022
The four remaining teams from this heat ooze into Chocolate Week as they conquer perfectly spherical desserts, before constructing mythical chocolate showpieces and 48 chocolate ba
Episode 7
Jul 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 sugar showpiece
Episode 8
Jul 12, 2022
It's the quarter-final and the teams must create illusion desserts and a Singapore ice cream sandwich, before they combine sugar and chocolate in a spectacular theme park showpiece
Episode 9
Jul 18, 2022
At St George's, 70-year-old Jim has come to A&E with difficulty breathing. Savita and her five-year-old son have been hit by a car. And Terry has foot and knee pain after surgery.
The Final
Jul 26, 2022
In the first challenge, the finalists must produce a patisserie window display full of four different batches of the most beautiful finger tarts. In the final grand challenge, team