Bake Off: Crème de la Crème
| Bake Off Crème de la Crème | |
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| Genre | Cookery Reality Competition |
| Directed by | Emma Reynolds |
| Presented by |
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| Judges | Benoit Blin Cherish Finden Claire Clark (2016) |
| Theme music composer | Tom Howe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Anna Beattie Richard Bowron Richard McKerrow |
| Producer(s) | Kate Baller, Laura Smith |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Love Productions |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 29 March 2016 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Great British Bake Off |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème is a British television baking competition on BBC Two featuring teams of professional pastry chefs pit against one another through two different challenges. It is a spin-off from The Great British Bake Off, and its first episode was screened on BBC Two on 29 March 2016. The eight-episode first series of the programme was presented by Tom Kerridge, with Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden and Claire Clark serving as judges. The second series is presented by Angus Deayton, but Claire Clark did not return as a judge.
The first series was won by the Squires Kitchen Cookery School team led by Mark Tilling, and the second by a team of military chefs led by Liam Grime.
The series is a competition between teams of professional pastry chefs from high-end hotels and restaurants, as well as supermarkets, armed forces and other companies and organisations. The competition aims to find the finest pastry chefs in the country, who can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary and can create desserts that have "stunning visual impact, phenomenal flavour, and texture." Teams of pastry chefs are chosen for the competition, with three pastry chefs in each team, one of them the team captain. In the heats, the three teams are given two challenges and are awarded marks from the three judges for each of their creations, the team with the best total score after both challenges is guaranteed a place in the semifinal. The team with the highest total score throughout the whole of the heats is also guaranteed a place within the semifinal.
The format changed between the first and second series. The first series started with 15 teams, three teams in each of the five heats, with the winning team each episode guaranteed a place in the semifinals, with one additional wild card from the heats. Three teams were selected from the two semifinals to compete in the final. The second series started with ten teams separated into two groups of five, with one team eliminated each episode over two sets of three heats before the semifinal. The two winners from the two semifinal then compete in the final.
The first series of the competition was filmed at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, It was presented by Tom Kerridge, and the competition was judged Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden and Claire Clark.
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